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Slightly cursed XP build

Posted on 2024-02-25, 16:37

My project/retro PC desk at the moment has a chunky wallet sized computer running an 8 core Ryzen chip with 680M graphics . https://i.ibb.co/5c43d6G/IMG-0348.jpg The AMD ultra small PC I wanted to try my disk games on it so I installed XP on it I went about setting up a PC with my disk drive. As the …

Re: What PCI Express cards do you still use?

Posted on 2024-01-03, 08:06

In my main PC... none. Because all the PCI-e lanes are taken up by NVME drives. I have an ASUS Prime x470 Pro with two nvme slots and using both (with NVME rather than SATA) m.2 drives means I can't use any other PCI-e x1/4 slot. Also doesnt help the 6800XT in reality takes up the space of 4 slots …

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

Posted on 2023-11-21, 13:06

I bought a Minisforum EM680 a few weeks ago for £375. It has a ATI 6800U APU, 16GB DDR5 6400MHz dual channel RAM and 512GB SSD. it's about the size of folded wallet. https://i.ibb.co/mTP8p6x/IMG-0010.jpg It's both incredible and disappointing at the same time. It's completely fast enough for any day …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2023-06-03, 18:59

It seems the lower teir 4000 series are not selling great. Reviews for basically every card, Nvidia and AMD, have been pretty poor tbh, mostly based on value. Nvidia and AMD now pre-scalp the price for your convenience but seem to have forgotten they need a desirable product or a genuine fear of …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-06-01, 21:17

It seems that Ubisoft Connect has unceremoniously dropped Windows 7 too. Downloading the latest version (which it does even if you use an older setup exe) and it just comes up with a kernal error. It seems there is a work around but it's only that and won't stay up to date. What adds insult to …

Fallout 3

Posted on 2023-05-22, 16:48

I am trying to get Fallout 3 working on a Windows 7 machine. This is a well known crash-y game but weirdly I've never had any excessive crashing playing it over the years, whether an GfW disk version, Steam and then GoG... until now. I've tried it on a couple of platforms recently and it will crash …

Re: Ultimate Windows XP Build (Intel i7-3770k / GTX 980Ti / 24" Asus ProArt display / X-Fi Titanium)

Posted on 2023-05-09, 15:16

Ha I've got my XP build in that same case. I've managed to wear our the labelling on the front panel cables so I can never tell what is the power switch cable, reset switch cable etc! Currently got a Core 2 Duo E8500 but I'm tempted to drop in my 1155 Xeon 1240 (which is a i7 2600 basically) board …

Re: NUCs (and other really small PCs)

Posted on 2023-05-07, 10:47

What is the oldest operating system does it support? Does it support, say, Windows XP? I remember Phil discussed a lot about mini PCs that still support odd things like sound in pure DOS, Windows 98 support, or extra PCI slot that you can use a 3dx card in the said mini PC. I wonder if your NUC is …

NUCs (and other really small PCs)

Posted on 2023-05-06, 08:47

I replaced my Dad's old Windows 7 PC that I built for him probably over a decade ago (Phenom ii x2 based) with a new PC and originally I was just going to build a basic desktop as he couldn't be convinced to walk into Currys to buy some kind of prebuilt PC. I then came across Beelink who make NUCS …

Socket P Windows XP PC

Posted on 2023-04-20, 19:13

Felt like making a small XP PC so I bought an Aopen i45gmt-HR Socket P motherboard complete with Core 2 Duo T6600 (2.2GHz / 800FSB/3mb) and 4GB of RAM for £10. Crucially it came with the heatsink and fan, all ready to go. I put it in my small case along with a passive DDR2 9500GT of all things and …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-03-28, 07:17

my Windows 7 project PCs are getting more useless. First Spotify no longer works and now steam - the two programs I use the most. It was only a couple of months back that Spotify stopped working on XP! I am surprised that EA didn't take the opportunity to have their new EA App not support Windows 7 …

Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2023-03-24, 20:16

I'm listening to 2Advanced on youtube. They've slowed down or remixed, or something, a load of old Need for Speed songs. But more than just whacking it down to 0.8 in Windows Media Player (unless it was just me who did that with my MP3s!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNEm6pTybU&list= …

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