Re: ideal sound card for early win xp system for 2000-2002 games?

Posted on 2024-03-27, 07:56

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by Unknown_K

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A full Audigy card (not the budget ones that don't do hardware accelerated EAX). Aureal was the king of audio in W98 era but was dying by the time Win2k came around with half assed drivers and dead when XP was around.

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Re: GeForce4 4200 ti with a Busted Memory Leg - Repairable?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 07:32

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First off get the rest of that pin off the pin next to it and see if those 2 are shorting out something important.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-14, 05:15

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by Unknown_K

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I think I have a HD2600 based AGP card and the cooler was nothing special. The HD2900 XT was a 200W+TDP (6 pin and 8 pin power connector and massive blower) card that was slower than a Geforce 9600 released half a year later with under 100W TDP.

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Re: Ct3670 eye candy

Posted on 2024-03-14, 04:56

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by Unknown_K

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Not my town we had one store that had overpriced accessories and sold pirated copies of Windows and Office, and an Electronic Boutique that sold overpriced games and crappy video cards. Now that I think of it the pirated software got them sued out of existence I used to order tons of computers and …

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Re: new laptop hard drive

Posted on 2024-03-09, 09:38

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by Unknown_K

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I would use a NVME drive (or if not available a SATA SSD) for main OS and a large spinning disk for downloads, movies, and misc. files.

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Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?

Posted on 2024-02-28, 09:38

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by Unknown_K

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I think I went from an ATI 9000 AGP in an Athlon XP systems to a Geforce 9400 PCIE.

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Re: eBay sellers can effortlessly delete their negative feedback

Posted on 2024-02-23, 08:52

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by Unknown_K

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I sold a couple items on ebay over a few years ago and don't think any of the buyers even left me feedback. Also, you only get 1 feedback for multiple items shipped using combined shipping. Do feedbacks expire over time? Anyway, why would random date codes be an issue to you? Were the parts actually …

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Re: Project Vishera: High-End AM3+ Workstation Hypervisor

Posted on 2024-02-10, 05:18

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ System Specs

From what I remember OC'ing an 8350 to 4.5ghz+ didn't show that much increase in benchmarks, the design was tapped out. I purchased my boxed 8350 when Newegg was ditching them years back, so I assume it was a later production unit.

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Re: Are retro towers really now $150-300?

Posted on 2024-02-08, 01:59

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think beige cases will age better then black ones with polycarbonate side panels. You are better of buying broken clunkers for the case with any working parts being a bonus.

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Re: Is this worth anything?

Posted on 2024-02-03, 02:38

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Should be worth something its rare dual GPU board but buggy for playing games.

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Re: Getting a little annoyed by CF card spam, am I alone?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 07:12

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by Unknown_K

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Honestly, I never used a CF drive and only have one that was meant for a laptop, but the controller won't work in my model. Old spinning disks are fine for old systems with slow SCSI, MFM, or IDE drives. I prefer IDE drives in old laptops since they just work and are reliable and fast enough. My …

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Re: Do you have a backup motherboard for your build.

Posted on 2023-12-19, 23:11

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I keep spare duplicate machines and at least two similar chipset motherboards if cheap enough.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-27, 23:26

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by Unknown_K

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A friend of mine almost talked into buying a minidisk player for my component stereo in the late 90's but I passed. There are at the local BestBuy back then, I was more interested in the Technics 100+ CD disk changer (which I eventually purchased on ebay cheap because of a bad rubber belt). I used …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-10, 06:37

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by Unknown_K

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gmaverick2k wrote on 2023-10-10, 06:20: Logitech z623. Meh, klipsch promedia 2.1 pack a bigger punch I have a set of old Z680's wonder how they would compare.

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Re: How about a new remake of old cases?

Posted on 2023-09-23, 12:45

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Any newly built case will cost more than a retro NIB one that is still available.

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Re: Fake painted Pentium CPUs

Posted on 2023-09-17, 21:32

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would think it was only worth faking common CPUs when they were still new since the prices varied quite a bit between speeds. These days people probably only fake high value rarities.

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Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?

Posted on 2023-09-12, 20:22

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the AMD 486 133 ran at 4x33 and I just bumped it to 4x40 for extra speed.

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Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?

Posted on 2023-09-12, 20:11

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Quake had something to do with younger people dumping 486's for Pentiums. Another Issue was Windows 95 where people needed more RAM than what you could stuff in most older 30 pin SIMM based 486 systems. The 90's were a time period where computers were going obsolete very quickly (dumping ISA for …

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Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?

Posted on 2023-09-12, 18:22

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

[...] My recollection is that the first-gen Pentiums were just not that popular. The subsequent year's P54Cs were much better received... but even then, Pentiums remained quite expensive and a lot of people were still getting 486s... Indeed. The Socket 4 Pentiums were eye-wateringly expensive back …

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Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?

Posted on 2023-09-11, 22:03

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by Unknown_K

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a couple P66 systems, and they are OEM (one Gateway2000 and one Packard Bell). Never had a retail socket 4 motherboard since they were pricey, and I probably was still using a 386 or 486 back then.

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