Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-05-22, 13:51

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Because the popularity of x64 software (OS, drivers, apps) lagged several years behind the hardware in the consumer market: ClawHammer Athlon 64, the first x64 CPU for consumer market, debuted in September 2003; Windows had no dedicated x64 version until WinXP Pro x64 edition in April 2005, which …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-05-18, 23:01

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you ppl forget or dont take in account where i live. In a 3rd world country its harder to find high end stuff because not many ppl buy it in the 1st place.

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-04-18, 19:26

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I cannot believe it took me 27 years to find a Pentium 150Mhz passively while removing an hdd from an old client's pc. First time i see one even im working in IT and repaired tens of thousands computers I have seen tons of pentiums ranging from 75 to 233mhz but never a 150Mhz That just left the gold …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-03-24, 10:53

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Hmm... are those actually rare? I have one exactly like that. AXDA2200DKV3C AIUGA No idea if it works though. I remember my brother had a Thoroughbred A 2100+ back in the day... I think it's long gone now though. EDIT: Did you look them up on ebay? Because there are lots of similar ones on there …

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

Posted on 2022-04-13, 13:01

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I tend to be very optimistic when it comes to computer hardware, but I find that early Atom processors to be almost useless for almost any application. I have two netbooks with an Intel Atom N270 and they can barely run DOSBox on Linux. Some older games will work (possibly with slowdowns) but many …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-03-14, 22:25

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neither trash or retro. Still usable for everyday task with 8gb and an SSD still have many clients running am2

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

Posted on 2022-02-25, 12:28

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I've found that tiny CF cards operating in PIO mode are generally more compatible than the larger ones that use ATA and DMA. But it's true that some cards simply don't work right in computers for whatever reason. Previously i been using for a year an adaptor from ide to CF with a 16GB Sandisk CF ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-07, 18:39

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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-07, 10:38: Living wrote on 2022-02-07, 10:33: kolmio wrote on 2022-02-07, 07:19: Zida Tomato TX-100 with Pentium 200 MMX in this AT case which I really don't like and would be happy to sell fake pentium mmx 200 How can you tell? Fake painted Pentium CPUs just sand the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-07, 10:33

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kolmio wrote on 2022-02-07, 07:19: Zida Tomato TX-100 with Pentium 200 MMX in this AT case which I really don't like and would be happy to sell fake pentium mmx 200

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-06, 21:03

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I wouldn't go bashing on Biostar. When I worked at a computer store in 2000-2001, we were buying motherboards directly from Biostar. We sold many more times Biostar boards than all other brands combined and had fewer bad Biostar boards than any other single brand. i had the same experience here in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-25, 11:22

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yes but there are always cheaper and better alternatives that often get the same result or even better its really hard to justify even my actual k6-2 with voodoo 3 2000. I got the parts for free over a span of 15 years just because i repair computers. If that wasnt the case im sure would have end up …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-25, 11:04

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i get the concept of thinkering with parts but i just stick with 2 pcs: my main rig (5600x), the retro pc (k6-2 500) and a box with spare parts wich are dirt cheap even today like slot 1 and socket 370 . i dont get how ppl even in here pay above 100USD for any part, its just insane to me

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Re: K6-III / VIA MVP3 / Voodoo 3 AGP poor performance

Posted on 2022-01-18, 23:30

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I learn long time ago about MVP3. USB buggy, use a PCI card. IDE buggy, use a pci card. AGP buggy use a Voodoo. Nothing on these boards work except the CPU. Still then not all have proper vrm, or multipliers. I disable USB free up irqs. Everything I copy over network. problem solved. i have to use …

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Re: Problematic Windows games list

Posted on 2022-01-07, 15:44

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i need to know how to run NFS II SE in Windows XP with LAN support

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Re: Retrolan - Sad experience

Posted on 2022-01-07, 00:32

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Hirsch wrote on 2022-01-06, 20:15: Setting up the LAN always was a challenge back then. It always took a half day to find out who had the defective tee connector or terminator. you need to own all the computers, that is the only way to not waste time

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

Posted on 2022-01-06, 16:04

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Retrolan - Sad experience does a retro lan count as a retro activity?

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Retrolan - Sad experience

Posted on 2022-01-06, 00:01

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Summer here in Argentina, time to host the annual Retrolan. https://i.ibb.co/CJVqTxJ/Whats-App-Image-2022-01-04-at-10-34-33-1.jpg https://i.ibb.co/WFMcqZ7/Whats-App-Image-2022-01-04-at-10-34-33.jpg https://i.ibb.co/7449vVM/Whats-App-Image-2022-01-05-at-07-59-01.jpg Let alone Covid, its getting …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-12-30, 02:02

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badmojo wrote on 2021-12-27, 02:44: I confess that I never get a floppy drive's cable plugged in correctly the first time, ever. you monster!

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Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-11-19, 11:24

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add 1 more vote for the AX59 Pro, it was my daily driver back in 2000 with a k6-2 500Mhz and a Aopen PA3000 AGP (tnt2 m64 32mb), it was the fastest k6-2 computer i have ever seen easily beating my current k6-2 500 retro computer for a solid 15-20% (Soyo 5EHM V1.3, CF 16GB, Voodoo 3 2000 16MB PCI) …

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

Posted on 2021-10-29, 02:05

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I caution to anyone, replacing failed components on a hard drive is dandy but many has firmware kept in a large chipset. Other than that, cannot open the internal guts where platters are. The data recovery vendors who do heads swap consider this data recovery only. Once done it is trashed. The …

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