Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-11, 06:17

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I picked up a stack of Windows 7-11 keys/DVD's along with a ASRock itx 6th/7th Gen intel board, a Pentium 2c/4t, 8gb of ddr4 a SSD + Zotac GTX 960 free. Used the GTX in a freebie i7 rig. Rest is getting used to swap out a A8 ITX Fm2+ setup, to then replace a 2nd gen i5 that a family member has so …

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Re: Old rusty power supply works, fancy new power supply does not.

Posted on 2023-04-08, 04:51

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Athena Power still makes some AT psu's. Not the greatest quality, but far better than your rusted one at least.

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Re: Question about modern Radeon GFX

Posted on 2023-04-02, 14:15

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PD2JK wrote on 2023-04-02, 14:04: A GF 1650 has a typical TDP of 75 Watt, the exact amount of power a PCIe slot can deliver, so without need of an external power connector. Sadly the GTX 1650 is indeed the fastest PCIE power-less modern GPU available besides some workstation cards 🙁 absolutely …

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Re: microATX and AGP

Posted on 2023-03-30, 04:52

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I gave up on the mATX thing. I want more slots to stick things in. Thanks for the "all in one build" suggestion. I'll look into it. But as I said, I'm not necessarily looking to get the cheapest thing possible. Consider that I'm thinking of things like Voodoos and MT-32s. :) Even started looking …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-29, 13:55

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Didn't buy this today but just happened to check prices and availability. The Zalmann USA store has it in stock for $32. https://zalmanusa.com/products/cnps9900-max Nice find! I see they also have the 9500 in stock which covers socket 939 and 775! Picked one up for my 939 build, thanks Awesome! Btw …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-28, 07:17

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Didn't buy this today but just happened to check prices and availability. The Zalmann USA store has it in stock for $32. https://zalmanusa.com/products/cnps9900-max

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Re: AMD socket 939 AGP build - mid 2004 - Windows XP

Posted on 2023-03-18, 04:36

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nice. look at how tidy that ribbon cable is. i couldve sworn that Antec had a very similar full tower from the early 2000s. Antex, Ultra, Chieftec and some more off shoots all seem to have had slightly customized versions of the same cases for awhile. Saw a Ultra Wizard, super similar to OP's case …

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Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.

Posted on 2023-03-17, 05:38

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I built a relative a pc out of a Lenovo Thinkcenter AM2 board, brand new 200gb IDE 133 Seagate, 1gb HD4650, 2gb of ddr2 and a Athlon 64x2 that had about 60 pins crushed and stuck to the stock heatsink that I spent hoooours straightening. Blew $30 on a Athlon 64 6000+ to replace it and a new 450watt …

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Re: XP Build - nForce 790i motherboard OR X58 classified intel board??

Posted on 2023-03-14, 04:23

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yup I'm with the others, that X58 Classified board is a true beast, but throw 980x or 990x onto it or grab the Xeon equivalent, the 6 core CPUs extend the longevity of that platform a bit and are just simply cool as hell CPUs to use. The 980X is still fairly cheap to get but the 990X can sell for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-13, 22:08

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I P4 PC in a decent looking case. IMG_20230313_185234.jpg It supposed to work, I don't care much if it does. I only bought it because of the case. It's only a little bigger than my W98BOX, which is very small, allows full-height expansion cards, has room for 2×2.5" + 2×3.5" + 1×5.25" drives. A …

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Re: XP Build - nForce 790i motherboard OR X58 classified intel board??

Posted on 2023-03-12, 23:41

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I suggest the X58, triple channel ddr3 FTW!

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Re: Motherboard with PCIe, PCI and AGP slots

Posted on 2023-03-09, 23:58

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Not necessarily, as I've seen when looking up the board, Foxconn made several different models, for example the 915PL7AE-8S is also one of them, but all of them referred to the "AGP" as FGE. What is this "FGE"? I never heard about this. So video cards with AGP will not work? I had one of these …

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

Posted on 2023-03-03, 10:48

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I always do a visual inspection of old power supply capacitors. They tend to be old, abused, and stuck in hot about environments. It's usually a good idea to open them up anyways, just to get some compressed air into them for cleaning. To back this up while fiddling with the 770 I found a half …

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

Posted on 2023-03-03, 07:32

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Fiddled with the poor IBM Thinkpad 770. I dont want to completely go down the rabbit hole of upgrading it, but so far it has 288mb of ram (still has the 32 pc66 in the hidden slot with a 128mb 100 + 128mb 133mhz chugging at 66mhz). Def have a 256mb stick somewhere and a 512mb 16 chip stick handy …

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

Posted on 2023-02-15, 04:25

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Iv been using the same 30g tube of Arctic Ceramique 2 for like 8 years now. Fancier pastes here or there, but when I repasted my RX 480 blower card temps dropped from 97c peak to 84c peak.

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Re: Will 533 MHz FSB CPUs work in an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS @ 533 MHz

Posted on 2023-02-10, 19:11

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by ODwilly

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Does anyone know if 533 MHz FSB CPUs will work in an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS motherboard @ 533 MHz please? Both the motherboard manual and Intel 82855GME chipset datasheet specify 400 MHz so I suspect not. From an old review it looks like a mobile chipset and it only uses 400 FSB Pentium-M's. The review …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-31, 17:48

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RetroPC_King wrote on 2023-01-31, 12:22: Today I got this Samsung SpinPoint PL40 40GB 7200RPM 2MB cache IDE HDD, slimline. Opinion about it? I ran into an identical one in a HP P4 getting decommissioned ages ago. Reused it to clone a dying 10gb drive to in a work POS machine. Cool running, silent, …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-24, 05:38

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by ODwilly

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Currently has 2x4gb of ram on it and posts. 16gb ddr2 800 Chinese ram is detected in the bios but I have to not be lazy and flash the latest bios for all 16gb to be detected and usable. Current bios is some crazy early bios. Phenom ii 920. Wont boot from USB at all but XP loaded up just fine. …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-23, 16:36

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by ODwilly

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Some Am2+/3 boards support 16gb of ddr2

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-17, 05:16

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by ODwilly

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I have a Asrock am2nf3-vsta. Nf3 with AGP. But all of you know that. I am running a Phenom II 955 overclocked at 4,0ghz at 1,45v. 4gb RAM ddr2 800mhz overclocked at 1066mhz with very high voltage setting. The video card is obviously a Radeon HD3850 512mb gddr3. I really want to make another …

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