Re: Intel Pentium PRO 200 question
Posted on Yesterday, 20:58
https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/S/S … Pro-SL-60A.html any working Socket 8 board is a good board in my book 😀
Re: Best LGA 775 Motherboard with AGP and DDR400?
Posted on 2022-05-20, 00:16
a_h_adl wrote on 2022-05-19, 09:24: FiIosofia wrote on 2021-08-04, 21:14: bnice7 wrote on 2021-08-04, 16:45: No support for Core2 though 🙁 I run a dual core 3.4Ghz and its pretty decent. Tops out at 2GB ram though. It would be great to know which CPU exactly, the official Gigabyte page doesn't show …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-09, 21:44
Helped a buddy price out a Ryzen 5 5500 B550 setup for his wife. He is going for a Radeon 6600XT, 16gb of ddr4 3600 and a 1tb ssd
Re: Socket 478 cooler recommendations
Posted on 2022-05-08, 10:17
Oem Compaq/HP units had some great aluminum, sometimes copper core heatsinks with the backplate + screw in design. If you fan find a full Dell kit with the bracket, backplate, + weird green plastic clips they have alot of potential, especially the heat piped XPS coolers. Stock 478 Intel Prescott …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-05, 05:03
Does the Titan post? Because if it's working you should be able to find a dead one with a intact HSF on Evilbay. Worse case you have a second complete card that maybe will fair better to attempted efforts to revive it.
Re: Bethesda Launcher shutting down
Posted on 2022-04-29, 22:05
I might actually reinstall Fallout 76 🤣. Horrible game, but last time I played it was before NPC's existed and stash size limits made it impossible to keep enough scrap to even keep 1 weapon functioning.
Re: Last PCI video card with AGP gpu?
Posted on 2022-04-24, 06:39
Just a note it seems like 256mb 6200 cards appear to be compatible with older drivers than the later gen 512mb+ chips. Also really early cards can be unlocked to a Geforce 6600 apparently. Edit: A2 chips are unlockable and A4 chips are hardware locked.
Re: Windows 98SE: Pentium III or Athlon 64?
Posted on 2022-04-24, 05:01
That Athlon 64 rig definitely deserves to keep her current epic XP setup 😀 and that Tualatin is a perfect 98se rig. Anything that could really benefit from a faster CPU would run under XP. If anything it's the 286-486 class compatibility that people end up making a P1 or K6 machine for.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-23, 06:42
I almost bought a 14" inch 800x600 Compaq CRT for $20. Resisted urge. Bought a $20 Thermaltake ATX case instead to house and get rid of some more "modern" parts and cut down on my extra PC parts. The purge is slow, but burning bright.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-23, 03:57
Not sure how retro this is, but just got in an ASUS Sabertooth X58 with i7-980x and 12GB DDR3-1333. Is the 870x better then equivalent 6 core XEONs? The 870x is the consumer grade CPU and the boards and CPU only support dual channel RAM while the 980x supports triple channel RAM. Get some nice high …
Re: crappy old power supplies
Posted on 2022-04-22, 00:50
psu might still be for sale on amazon. i especially like the title of the sole customer review. https://www.amazon.com/Clever-Power-Supply-SPS-500-Silent/dp/B00PE692ZO it was a fantastic power supply for more than a decade. i finally took it out of service because all the fans would continue to …
Re: crappy old power supplies
Posted on 2022-04-22, 00:48
psu might still be for sale on amazon. i especially like the title of the sole customer review. https://www.amazon.com/Clever-Power-Supply-SPS-500-Silent/dp/B00PE692ZO it was a fantastic power supply for more than a decade. i finally took it out of service because all the fans would continue to …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-21, 23:44
After letting the Thinkpad R51 dry out after rescue it is dead. Not boops, doots, just a slow sizziling power noise. EDIT: After further testing it now is fully working and the battery briefly charged enough to not die in the bios if my hand moves from the tiny micro position the charger will charge …
Re: Socket 5 umc board is it any good?
Posted on 2022-04-21, 11:00
The RTC is socketed which is nice (optional cr 2032 holder you could possibly populate) maybe a upgradable voltage regulator/hestsink? It appears to have a COAST socket, and onboard ide/floppy all of which aren't anything special for a Socket5/7 build but nice to have. Make a fantastic vanilla AT …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-20, 07:42
Modded an ABSOLUTELY NO-NAME slotket I got for free. Would only run Mendocino-based Celerons and nothing else. 15 minutes, a wire and lots of patience later, I am running a 1GHz P3 Coppermine (1000/256/133) on my BE6-II with no issues. Here's some photos. I applied some tape on the back to insulate …
Re: What is this miniature ATX PSU connector called?
Posted on 2022-04-20, 01:20
Is it the Asus HP 479 board? If you search for the motherboard model # or HP name it should come up with an adapter on ebay. I bought one a few years ago.
Re: Applying thermal paste to die
Posted on 2022-04-18, 11:15
Remove the thermal pad with IPA, make sure the cache chips make contact with the heatsink, small gap use thermal pads. Flush use paste. Repaste a well spread pea on the cpu die of non-conductive paste, add a 40mm fan or good case airflow and it'll work like new unless it's damaged or other issues 😀 …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-18, 10:14
My dad spent mass money on 4 300-450 p2/3 rigs with whatever poop GPU's (integrated Rage ii on the Compaq) tnt 2 m64, ect. Back when "we cant go to 1ghz and slots are the new sockets" were the slogans. Later bought a bunch of open box AIW Radeon 7200's in 2001 as they were getting phased out, and …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-18, 08:55
Won an ABIT BE6-II for aprox. $50 (225RON, to be exact) which ships tomorrow. Just the mobo, nothing else. Now to decide what path should I go with it. Either 400MHz Deschutes, either a 500 or a 550 Katmai. And a recap is in order, of course. Oooh 550 Katmai has my vote. Such a killer little sweet …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-18, 08:15
Got this for a possible future Socket AM2/3 Windows XP Build. I recently tried making this happen as a sleeper PC in a Netvista case but finding a low power CPU turned out to be a big deal so I grabbed one for the future, just in case. If you find a am2-am3+ board with the core unlocker find a $5 1 …
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