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

Posted on 2020-09-24, 01:28

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Cleaned an absolutely filthy (but cheap!) ASUS A7M266-D. Looked like its been up a chimney for a year or so. Soap and water then dried in oven (60-70C or so) for a few hours. Looks great now. Also recapped it while i was at it. Havn't tried it yet tho, giving it a few days in case there's some …

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

Posted on 2020-09-20, 08:40

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I managed most of the cabling within my general purpose 98SE/Late-DOS/W2k system, freeing up some extra resources that can eventually find their way in to a Pentium/S7 build I want to eventually do. I can still work a little more to make it completely clean, but I'm good for now. A little messy. …

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

Posted on 2020-09-19, 01:53

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A while back, I de-heatsinked my Voodoo5, and yesterday, I finally got some new heatsinks for it from China. https://i.imgur.com/jmA7sEHl.jpg While I don't have actual numbers to show the improvement they make temperature-wise, when I turned off my Pentium III-S machine it resides it after a few …

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

Posted on 2020-08-26, 20:40

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I have a banshee with a stock HSF that is dead...how easy was it to remove using the freeze spray? Really easy. Just spray the heatsink for like 15 seconds, take a flat-head, put something underneath the flat-head to protect the card just a tad , twist, and there you go. You shouldn't have to twist …

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

Posted on 2020-08-26, 16:43

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It's been a while since I've posted here. Thought this was interesting enough to post. Tired of the noisy and puny heatsinks on my Voodoo Banshee and V4, I have went ahead and de-heatsinked them with some freeze spray and replaced the stock heatsinks with these nice Titan TTC-CUV3AB VGA coolers and …

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Re: What's Underneath the X48 Chipset IHS?

Posted on 2020-07-11, 22:27

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Rumour has it that the X48 is actually a binned and rebranded X38 . So the answer to your question is likely an X38 . I heard that rumor before, but that doesn't necessarily answer my question. I know and I hope I did not offend. It answers the question in the literal sense, but does not provide …

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Re: What's Underneath the X48 Chipset IHS?

Posted on 2020-07-11, 21:29

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darry wrote on 2020-07-11, 20:10: Rumour has it that the X48 is actually a binned and rebranded X38 . So the answer to your question is likely an X38 . I heard that rumor before, but that doesn't necessarily answer my question.

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Re: What's Underneath the X48 Chipset IHS?

Posted on 2020-07-11, 18:15

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-07-08, 22:52: Hard to say, but knowing Intel, they probably never bothered to add indium on relatively cool chip. But guessing and knowing are two different things. There's got to be someone who knows the answer, or know who to talk to to get the answer.

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What's Underneath the X48 Chipset IHS?

Posted on 2020-07-08, 22:36

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Hello VOGONS. Recently, I got ahold of an Asus P5E Deluxe socket 775 motherboard to do some extreme overclocking of my QX9650 with it, and, as I usually do, I completely removed all of the heatsinks off of the board so I could give both the board and the heatsinks a good cleaning, and then reattach …

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2020-06-04, 21:25

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Interesting. I'm actually surprised this old thread of mine is getting so much attention as of late. 😁

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2020-06-04, 05:21

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Actually, StarTech sells a PCI gigabit Ethernet card on Amazon for really cheap. Has 9x drivers (I think 95, definitely 98SE and ME). Have one in my Pentium III-S system, and has worked wonderfully for me. Just a heads up - StarTech has a poor time understanding the concept of providing the user …

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2020-05-31, 17:29

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TechieDude wrote on 2020-05-30, 12:10: It still beats removing the HDD and connecting it to another PC anyway. And that's why you get a hot-swap bay. 😁

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Re: Modern PSU for Pentium 3 what 5V xxA ?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 22:21

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by the_ultra_code

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5V is mainly a concern for certain ISA cards and AMD Socket A CPU s. I don't see how you can say this about AMD Socket A CPUs given my Dual Socket A system maxes out +5 at 13.813 amps . All in all I feel the sensible solution is have at least one PSU that reports what currents are being used and …

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Re: Quake 1 no music?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 21:37

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Philscomputerlab has literally made a guide on installing and playing Quake 1 under modern Windows, and explains how to get music to work and sound right. https://youtu.be/eF4GSsffbSE

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Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows doesn't work

Posted on 2020-05-16, 21:35

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My two cents. I bought years ago a boxed-copy, still-shrink-rapped copy of TNFS:SE, and I have found it to be one hell of a game to get to work, even on older systems. First of all, the Windows version is worse than the DOS version in terms of performance. On my Pentium MMX 233 machine with a 3dfx …

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Re: Modern PSU for Pentium 3 what 5V xxA ?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 21:21

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Hello - Processor: PIII-S: 1.266 GHz, SL5QL. - Basic graphic card: GF4 MX440 or GF5 FX5600. Will a basic 550W Seasonic 5V 20A or a Corsair, Be quiet! 5V 25A work fine ? No need for 5V 30A ? - I also have this MSI K7N2 Delta-L (AMD Athlon motherboard) So with this I need 5V 30A power supply I'm …

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Re: Pentium 3 1.4ghz Tualatin value?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 21:11

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I can't speak to the value of the whole system, but the Pentium III-S 1.4Ghz is the fastest Socket 370 CPU out there. I'd personally sell the case + PSU, motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, RAM, drives, and expansion cards all separately. You are more likely to sell everything separately than all together …

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Re: i7-3770K Ultimate XP/Vista/7/8.1 Gaming Machine

Posted on 2020-05-16, 20:34

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I'd choose 2xxx CPU due to more possible problems with a paste under the cover. While the speed is almost the same. Yeah, Sandy Bridge is soldered, as opposed to Ivy Bridge up to Coffee Lake, which are pasted. 780 Ti Superclocked - higher temp cards as "Ti" may to have lesser working time, besides …

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i7-3770K Ultimate XP/Vista/7/8.1 Gaming Machine

Posted on 2020-05-16, 18:37

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https://i.imgur.com/p0mScEgl.jpg WARNING - THIS BUILD IS A BIT SILLY; I UNDERSTAND Intro Since starting my "retro" gaming hobby, I have always wanted to build stupidly over-powered machines for the OSes that I planned to use on them. If you take a look at my Pentium 4 build , you can kinda see that …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-04-20, 11:47

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Thank you for the results! Unfortunately they don't contain sensor data (you probably didn't open the Sensors window when you captured the reports), so I cannot check why the P-III machine is lacking the sensors. If you provide such files, I will check that in detail and see if there's anything to …

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