Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2021-11-16, 19:06

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by BSA Starfire

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Xeon X5650 6 cores/12 threads. ASUS Sabertooth X58 12 GB Corsair XMS3 @ 1600 Nvidia GTX 760 SC (EVGA) Silverstone Fortress FT. Xigmatex Samurai 750 Watt PSU. Samsung 120 GB SSD. some spinning rust for storage. Windows 7, Linux Mint.

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Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 19:15

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by BSA Starfire

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No idea where your located, but CEX in the UK has FX CPU's much, much cheaper than ebay, might be worth a look. FX 8350 is £58. FX 8120 is £35 for example, they also have a 2 year warranty on all hardware.

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Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 19:03

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Yes, it's crazy right? I know my son(who is in his mid 20's) still uses his FX 8350 happily as his main gaming PC though. With 16 GB RAM, a decent mid/high range Radeon of last gen(I forgot the model TBH, but it was £180 in 2019 and has 8GB) and a Samsung 1TB SSD it does just fine for all his stuff. …

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Re: Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard Xeon CPU support

Posted on 2021-09-26, 16:37

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by BSA Starfire

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Thanks both. I've bought a Xeon X5650 from fleabay for a fiver delivered, tested and working(apparently). Done a bit of further digging and these will hit 4 GHz+ on reasonable air cooler all day(I have a fenrir titan). Heck of an upgrade for the price if all goes well. I'll report back when it …

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Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard Xeon CPU support

Posted on 2021-09-25, 12:55

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by BSA Starfire

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Hi all! I have a really nice ASUS Sabertooth X58(LGA 1366) based system that is currently running a i7 950 CPU, 12 GB RAM and a EVGA GTX 760 SC. I'd like to upgrade to a 6 core/12 thread Xeon if possible, preference would be a 32nm version. But honestly I'd be really interested in anything I can get …

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-22, 11:07

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I just got an AGP 6326 today (which is a development of the S3 Virge - for the guy who thought this was different, lol). It is a late production model and appears to have 16MB onboard. There can be issues with these cards in DOS apparently but a later driver release fixed most of the issues. I also …

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-14, 18:18

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by BSA Starfire

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Wow! I guess I'm a little slow on what's been going on, but just watched vlaskcz's excellent video on youtube covering the 6326 as part of his series of early 3D cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB9VVTJ48gE&t=924s It's really neat that another driver has been rediscovered recently for the card …

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Help getting Soundblaster Live! SB0220 working in Windows 7

Posted on 2021-07-03, 13:31

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by BSA Starfire

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Hiya, Need some assistance getting a sound card working in my HP Proliant ML-115 G5(Opteron 1354, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 3870), it's a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital (Dell OEM, SB0220). now I know what your thinking, why this card, well the HP only has PCI slot's with the 3.3v available, so …

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Re: Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-24, 18:02

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by BSA Starfire

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Thanks for the information, that's just what I wanted to know. Seems "nice code software" were incredibly prolific on NOAC/Famiclones. I agree these units are not for the purists of today(saying that I've been a Atari VCS 2600 gamer since 1981 and always owned one since that time), and I kinda get a …

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Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-21, 17:50

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by BSA Starfire

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I've been having a lot of fun playing some really old games recently and also some more modern recreations of old games that I expect many folk haven't played, these are reprogrammed/re-imagined Atari and Intellivision games running on NOAC systems, that's a Famicom/NES on a single IC. The two …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-21, 11:50

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HP z200 workstation rear.jpg HP z200 workstation.jpg Bought this today, a 2010 HP Z200 workstation, it has a Xeon X3450 CPU, 4 GB RAM and includes 3 caddy's for HD's. There is a GPU in there but no idea what until it arrives. I was short a machine as a friend needed a PC to replace a dead Toshiba …

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Re: What is your Favorite CPU and Why ?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 14:37

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I'm going to be weird as always, and old. The 6502 was the one for me, it powered my first ever interaction with a CRT in the Atari VCS/2600,this showed me the worlds that could exist inside a computer and that I could interact with, then my first ever computer the commodore VIC 20, this showed me I …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 12:43

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Munx wrote on 2021-04-25, 08:24: Got myself some fresh vynil - Strange Highways by Dio amd The Symbol Remains by Blue Oyster Cult. P_20210423_145743.jpg you my friend have very good taste! the sisters of mercy - floodland here today!

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Re: What is better: used HDD from a server or used HDD from a home computer?

Posted on 2021-06-13, 13:14

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by BSA Starfire

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I've got some old enterprise drives that have more than 8 years uptime on them that are still just fine, Seagate 500GB constellations mostly, 2 in the machine I'm typing this on now in fact, I've personally found these to be very strong compared to consumer drives, yes they are somewhat loud in …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-13, 12:49

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HP z200 workstation rear.jpg HP z200 workstation.jpg Bought this today, a 2010 HP Z200 workstation, it has a Xeon X3450 CPU, 4 GB RAM and includes 3 caddy's for HD's. There is a GPU in there but no idea what until it arrives. I was short a machine as a friend needed a PC to replace a dead Toshiba …

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Re: Community Socket 7: Choose my parts!

Posted on 2021-05-10, 13:20

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Left my thoughts on your survey. Have fun 😀

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Re: Good brands/models of early 90's PCs to collect?

Posted on 2021-03-27, 12:03

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by BSA Starfire

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An IBM PS/1 model 2133(386 SX 25) might be worth a look, it has ps/2 Kyb/mouse ports, built in Cirrus Logic VGA, standard IDE and FDD onboard, 72 pin RAM sockets, and uses a CR2032 coin cell for CMOS/time. Also the board uses standard AT PSU connectors. CMOS settings don't need a disk either. I'm …

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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-04, 19:35

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by BSA Starfire

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Interesting stuff, but Coppermine did not use copper interconnects, that was marketing fuzz from intel, AMD were first with that using the process they co developed with Motorola in 1998 and used in the Athlon. Intel were way behind in that party and the coppermine didn't use it despite the name. I …

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Re: What do you do with hardware equivalent PCs?

Posted on 2020-09-18, 13:22

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by BSA Starfire

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I've got 3 kinda similar machines, all are based around AMD K10 CPU's. These are my daily drivers. I love AMD K10 architecture. #1(2008) HP Proliant ML 115-G5 this is an old server/workstation from 2008,AMD Opteron 1354"Budapest" CPU(4 cores, 2.2 GHz, L2 512MB per core, L3 2MB), 8GB RAM, XFX Radeon …

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Re: dogs in video games

Posted on 2020-09-13, 09:55

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by BSA Starfire

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A few Nintendo Famicom games I can think of: Obake no Q-Taro: Wan Wan Panic. (Bandai. December 16th 1985) Onyanko Town. (Pony inc. November 21st 1985) A week of Garfield.(Towa Chiki April 7th 1989) Mother. And a couple of Famicom disk system games. Tama and Friends: 3-Choume Dai Bouken. (Bandai. …

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