Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-20, 19:57

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This kinda kept in the back of my mind ever since I read it. My guess is that it's part of how FSP penny-pinched: For some reason they seem to somehow know where to penny-pinch without it compromising like most of the other PSU manufacturers sometimes do or did. They never used pretty-pained LED- …

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Re: GOG installers vs ISOs

Posted on 2017-04-20, 19:34

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candle_86 wrote: but how do you get the GOG installer to work on 9x They just work fine, they are Win32 programs after all.

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What modern Linux distributions run on i586?

Posted on 2017-04-20, 19:34

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The only one I'm aware of is TinyCore. Is something a little more complete available for pre-i686 computers? Maybe a Slackware branch I'm not aware of? Most everything requires 256MB+ RAM and SSE2 these days it seems.

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-20, 17:54

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Didn't have time to order the PSU today so that means the hilarity of this comparison will probably be postponed to next week, my apologies. In the meantime I will open up a 15 year old Forton FSP 300W ATX PSU this weekend so that we may see how good it really was for a PSU that was basically the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-20, 16:13

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JLPedro wrote: Just received this, a very nice socket 462 motherboard, Abit AN7 Guru, like new in box. Not tested yet 😊, but for 5€ couldn't pass. I have the same board with a tbred 1700+ 😀

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Re: Flooded with old PCs

Posted on 2017-04-20, 13:53

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Currently I just keep one Katmai/Voodoo3 Win98SE system because that lets me play 99% of stuff I can't play on a modern Win7 PC. I'm also building a UMC 486S-33 box for older DOS games that break on faster hardware. The rest of my systems are in storage and built just for novelty and collection's …

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GOG installers vs ISOs

Posted on 2017-04-20, 10:46

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There are a lot of Win9x games from the 96-2000 period that came on CDs which I now own on GOG.com. Is there any particular reason to not use the GOG installers for these on older hardware and use ISOs/Daemon Tools instead? I wouldn't use the GOG installers for the DOS games obviously, but for Win9x …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-20, 09:16

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Bought this lot for $5 total (Seller's photo): https://img.letgo.com/images/ca/52/5a/36/ca525a361e8006abb1caa57650e48244.jpg Bought it mostly because I needed an ISA VGA.. The bottom card appears to be a Triden T9000 TVGA which I guess will do fine in my UMC 486S 33 system. The top card, I need for …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-20, 09:10

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Hmm... poor input filtering, output filtering, anemic capacitors. I'm not too good at identifying transistors by sight, but they're probably way overstretched as well. Good luck on this thing actually having any active thermal or overcurrent protection. I expected as much, the whole thing weighs …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-20, 08:25

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And here are the final two photos: Filename PSU06.jpg File size 767.28 KiB Views 1492 views Filename PSU07.jpg File size 768.04 KiB Views 1492 views

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-20, 08:24

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Here's what I'll do. Tonight I'll open up the PSU I'm thinking of replacing and post pictures of what it has (or lacks) inside. For shits and giggles. If it can't possibly be worse than a more silent conptemporary shitty PSU, I'll order the $8 300W model and open it up for Vogons to have a good …

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

Posted on 2017-04-19, 20:03

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I've upgraded my Pentium 3 (socket 370) machine to 1 GHz from 650 MHz. A chip that according to CPU World cost $990 on release in the year 2000. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium-III/Intel-Pentium%20III%201000%20-%20RB80526PZ001256%20(BX80526C1000256).html I'm currently wondering if it's …

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

Posted on 2017-04-19, 19:59

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Almoststew1990 wrote: I've never played any of these, and picked them up cheaply :) […] Show full quote I've never played any of these, and picked them up cheaply 😀 So I've been playing these over past few days on my PII whilst I decide what S370 board to purchase! UT is great fun. Every single one …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-19, 14:08

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Here's what I'll do. Tonight I'll open up the PSU I'm thinking of replacing and post pictures of what it has (or lacks) inside. For shits and giggles. If it can't possibly be worse than a more silent conptemporary shitty PSU, I'll order the $8 300W model and open it up for Vogons to have a good …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-19, 13:54

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I played Prince of Persia on an XT with monochrome graphics and an AT with Hercules graphics all the way back in the late 80s so I really don't think it should be too slow. Like, at all. It works flawlessly on a 7MHz 68000 on Amiga, Mac, several consoles etc.

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-19, 11:27

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gdjacobs wrote: The caps don't contain that much electrolyte. It's likely substandard adhesive caulking which can be cleaned with IPA. I suppose that using it isn't unsafe in this case? I'm not very comfortable with sticking an $8 PSU in a Celeron 1300/Radeon 8500 system..

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Is there any practical reason to dual boot MSDOS and Win98?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 10:45

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Considering Win98 can boot into MSDOS mode and all Win3.x applications I know run flawlessly under it, is there any reason to run an MSDOS dual boot on a Win98 machine? I'll be setting one up soon, so if I need to go through the hassle of setting that up, I want to prepare with MSDOS CDROM/Sound …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-19, 10:42

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Well, you can buy one and split it open and we'll try to contain our laughter (or our tears). Personally, I wouldn't trust such a cheap power supply further than I can throw it (which would be quite far, considering how light it probably is). I'll probably buy just one for now. for science. and for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-19, 09:51

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Bought a Matrox Millennium G200 G2+/DUALP-PL 16MB PCI video card + DMS-60 to dual VGA cable for it. I'm building an Optiplex GX1 and want to have MS-DOS 6.22/WfW 3.11 + 98SE so this card supports that and is a big upgrade from 4MB onboard ATI Rage I love Matrox cards.. Currently own a Mystique 220 …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-19, 09:41

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https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151086 Would $10 300W PSUs with 120MM bottom fans be terrible ideas to use with 100W P1/P2 systems? My main issue with old PSUs is noise and these will be guaranteed quieter, and I doubt they would be any less reliable than 20 year old 300W …

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