Re: Athlon MP Dual CPU build. What case would I be in?

Posted on 2024-02-21, 00:25

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My friend’s started life in a reused Lian Li mid tower—probably something along the lines of a PC-60—though it was upgraded to a full tower sometime later. It definitely struggled with heat during long renders. I’m pretty sure he moved it to a V2000 but that wouldn’t have been something that was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-06-16, 03:02

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I picked up a Male to Female PS/2 adapter, male to male PS/2 adapter, a round ATA100 connector, and a round floppy connector from a local thrift store today. All were new in packing and think about $2 each. Not sure I needed the M-M PS/2 cable but the other will likely be modded to use with an AT …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-06-14, 19:45

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Still been looking for a PS/2 capable mouse that I know I had around the house. I did pull out another complete system I picked up awhile back to take a closer look inside. It's a whitebox Baby AT tower case. The main parts included an Epox EP-68LXR motherboard with a Pentium II 266, Diamond Riva …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-06-07, 04:55

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I went looking for one of my two mice I should have around that has a USB to PS/2 adapter so I could finally get around to testing an HP desktop I bought at a thrift store so long ago. I couldn't find either of them but I did come across an AT to PS/2 adapter for a keyboard. I guess worst case I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-06-06, 19:25

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I went looking for one of my two mice I should have around that has a USB to PS/2 adapter so I could finally get around to testing an HP desktop I bought at a thrift store so long ago. I couldn't find either of them but I did come across an AT to PS/2 adapter for a keyboard. I guess worst case I may …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-19, 18:47

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I'm getting a couple notebooks and a Socket 478 Dell desktop ready to hopefully donate this week. All past their uses for me, and not in eras I'm interested in for retro activities. I thought I was going to have to take them to Goodwill but think I found another a charity that just started up its …

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Re: New Gaming Computer! Yippeeeee!

Posted on 2013-11-23, 04:32

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While I run an i7 CPU because I got it used with the motherboard for a really fair deal, I'm not completely convinced it's worth it over an i5. I'd also caution against ASUS motherboards. At least here in the States, they are becoming even more notorious with their RMA service. Once again I bought …

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What do you do with broken hardware?

Posted on 2013-11-23, 04:08

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Well I got some time to start going through some of a larger lot I picked up a couple weeks ago. I knew a few of the motherboards had busted barrel batteries. I was going to use them to brush up on my soldering and desoldering skills, as well as use them to learn how to clean up battery acid. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-11-12, 23:33

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Canopus Pure 3D Found it on eBay. This is a 6MB version of a 3dfx Voodoo card. Most vendors used the standard 4MB. It came with the manual, driver CD, and the 9 pin VGA pass through cable. Also found the decal sitting in one of the pages of the manual! would you mind measuring the canopus vga-loop …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-11-07, 21:01

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Well today I saved quite a few things from going to the scrappers. No idea on working conditions yet. The guy I got them from buys storage units at auction. He said the unit these came from was somebody who had owned a computer repair store, and had the storage unit for over 10 years. These were all …

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Re: Late 90s gaming (and other uses) machine build - Voodoo2

Posted on 2013-10-28, 21:21

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I had one small issue when loading the CD-ROM drivers when booting from the startup disk. The system would hang. I disconnected the slave CD-ROM and everything worked. When booting the computer I could see that the drive I disconnected would identify it self as "CD-RJ $OPEN" instead of "CD-RW AOPEN …

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Re: What new console will you be buying this holiday season?

Posted on 2013-10-28, 20:53

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None of the above. I bought an Xbox 360 shortly after its release, and while it got some fair use out of it in the first few years, it hasn't been used for playing games regularly for about 5 years. I only have a PS3 because it was bundled with a TV I bought 3 years ago, and I have failed to play …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-10-26, 18:48

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I also have a lead on a relatively cheap desktop from the same era that should be usable for the PSU, drives, and other random needs in putting it together that I hope to pickup this weekend. I did get this desktop for next to nothing a few days ago. It's a Gateway LP Mini UD3 Performance 700 or …

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Re: a good motherboard/CPU for windows XP

Posted on 2013-10-26, 18:29

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For CPU all you need to remember is Q6600 SLACR. It can be overclocked to ridiculous levels on air alone. Grab one before they become collectible and prices soar. I do not think the Q6600 prices will soar simply because of the availability of the Q9xxx CPUs, and even the more budget-friendly …

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-10-26, 17:11

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I have a Sony PVM 14M2U that I picked up awhile back to use with older consoles. Right now the only console I have that outputs RGB, and have a SCART cable for, is my modded SNES Jr. It makes me so jealous that Europeans had easy RGB access all these years after seeing the difference. Now to try to …

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Re: a good motherboard/CPU for windows XP

Posted on 2013-10-25, 20:24

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I'm not sure I would recommend Socket A for Windows XP as later stuff can, and does, take advantage of multi-cores. If you wanted to stay with an AMD-based system I would suggest at a minimum starting with Socket 939, probably on an nForce 4, as that was highly popular during it's time. I'd imagine …

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Re: Most ridiculous thing I have seen recently

Posted on 2013-10-22, 04:53

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The motherboard, CPU, 4 graphics cards, along with their waterblocks and backplates, would set you back around $6,000 USD. Those SSDs are pretty pricey each, along with the other watercooling parts that add up. I don't have time to look everything up but it's probably close to a fair price. There's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-10-19, 00:22

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I got these two packages this week that will really get me going into building a system: First package: ASUS P3B-F Rev. 1.04 2 ISA Slots Pentium II 450MHz 64MB SDRAM PC-100 Second Package: Canopus Spectra 2500 Canopus Pure3D II SLI Canopus Pure3D Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA WD 40GB Hard Drive I also …

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Re: N64 modding

Posted on 2013-10-19, 00:05

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I had an N64 that was suitable for RGB modding that I sold a few weeks ago. I had the realization that there weren't enough N64 games I would want to play again to justify keeping it. For US consoles it's suppose to be only that the serial number starts with NS-1 but I'm not sure about Canadian …

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Re: Found some stuff in the wild; any suggestions on use?

Posted on 2013-09-25, 16:59

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Okay so I did find out the model of the HP board. It's made by Trigem and HP calls it the FresnoCognac. It was used in Pavilion XT963 systems. So unfortunately no flashing of an ASUS BIOS. :( It was probably a bust as far as something useful to use in the long term. Haven't came across anything else …

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