Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-06, 17:09

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by Radical Vision

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Got this ThinkPad T60 from trade (did give Cougar Speed mice pad).. It is with ATi Radeon x1400 and artifacts bonus.. Will gun down that crap artifacts with the heat gun, and see if will help... If not will use what i can to try to fix my 14 inch T60... Seems so far i have multiple laptops, and non …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-05, 19:36

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Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up. How the turn tables today. It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing: Great find VLB system + x2 high end/ exotic audio cards.. I wonder only how much did u pay, but my guess will be …

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

Posted on 2023-01-05, 10:11

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WELL i have a news for you, these 20/40 years old "junk" parts are computer history......... But after i did read junk, i dont think there can be made argument at all here, this is NOT even stupidity, it is INSANITY..... I know other computer enthusiasts, that also state, that scrappers, and people …

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

Posted on 2023-01-05, 09:57

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While one's family should usually take precedent over their hobbies, there's still not many excuses for them to wantonly damage your possessions. However, if it's mental illness, best for people not to judge someone else's situation or use it as reasoning to bring up redpill ideology. Not going to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-04, 11:00

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Maybe.. BUT Intel did make chipsets as well, so ATi could just go to Intel and make a deal for them to support Radeon and CrossFire... There was also AMD they did release some chipsets in the past so they could have go to them, or to VIA... So i dont think that was a big of a problem, specially if …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-04, 10:37

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Huh really... I remember ATi/ AMD being the very first to introduce new DX features and even DDR/ GDDR memory on their cards even nodes tooo... That was a trend with ATi for many time... I think with DX8, DX9, DX10, DX11 (not sure) and DX12 later on.... Nodes and memory Radeon cards was the first to …

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

Posted on 2023-01-04, 10:32

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20230104_120743 - Copy.jpg Went to test this new floppy, since i forgot, and was stored, but UNtested... Well when insert diskette, it did not want to read said insert diskette... Early on before to install it on the test bench, i heard something inside the floppy to hit the walls inside, like a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-04, 09:51

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Not many of them are still around. It's very significant card (HD2900) in ATIs history and probably the reason why they got absorbed by AMD . First unified shader architecture by ATI. I wouldnt say architecture was bad, they just messed up execution. Proof lies in HD3870 and HD4670 which had …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-04, 09:30

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Much price u payed for that AWE32 (from my point of view ofc, for ebay it is ok price..), but prob is on the mid of the prices or even lesser... That Siemens is nice, but is even more nice when u find some machine in mint condition, and there is no crap even on the paint job, but that is rare to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-03, 21:23

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Much price u payed for that AWE32 (from my point of view ofc, for ebay it is ok price..), but prob is on the mid of the prices or even lesser... That Siemens is nice, but is even more nice when u find some machine in mint condition, and there is no crap even on the paint job, but that is rare to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-03, 11:29

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Regarding 9800XT, this is my abonination of the Asus card: 20221012_101821.jpg 20221205_085522.jpg 20221205_085600.jpg I'd rather see them alive and kicking then original. Same for 9700Pro. I saw HD2900XT in a box on Amibay a month ago. It went for €60. Was sold quickly. Out of the exotic ones so …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-03, 09:52

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Bought a Radeon HD 2900XT for $70. Not a mind blowing price but these are genuinely rare (didn't sell well, super noncompetitive compared to say, 8800GTX). Took me 2 years to find my 2900GT for $55 so I'm glad to finally have the real deal. I think it's a fair price. It took me a long time too to …

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

Posted on 2023-01-02, 21:41

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I'm still using two hard drives with a few bad sectors. I have two more drives that also have bad sectors and still work, but they're a little too far gone for me to want to use regularly. One of the drives that I don't use (a 60GB Toshiba 2.5" drive) had several hundred bad sectors scattered …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-02, 21:11

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Finally a working Voodoo 1 card, and a couple of Radeon 9700 cards. 20230101_122605.jpg 20230101_122429.jpg Black one is Sapphire 9700 VIVO with 3.6ns Samsung chips, and red one is Club3D with 3.3ns Infineon and funny clocks: 325 core and 297 for memory ... almost 9700 Pro specs. After some …

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

Posted on 2023-01-01, 20:46

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Tested that 7300GT AGP, since the damn thing refused to output signal on my test system with the ECS mobo and VIA chipset (Radeon HD3650 did the same..), so i had to get another mobo in order to get signal.. Not sure why some GPUs wont post on some boards, the ( shit ty) wonders of PC HW i guess.. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-01, 10:37

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1997 Intel commercial Looks like a Clean Room suit. Video link: https://youtu.be/ilfRLJ97Lms Video Link: https://youtu.be/AIpYTcCn_yE Video link: https://youtu.be/paU16B-bZEA Video Link: https://youtu.be/5zyjSBSvqPc Nice links.. Did not know they called these suits Bunny lol... These days they are …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-31, 23:11

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More Intel Space Bunnies From Pentium ll MMX Era. ( Late 1990’s ) Bunnies the hell... Are not these a spaceMANs, not rabbits lol...Btw where do u find these in ebay ? Never saw even a single one these Intel SpaceMAN Humans locally.. But have seen them here, and other forums/ sites... What was the …

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

Posted on 2022-12-31, 23:05

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Yes 20-25 years ago was simple, people was simple the curse words was simple, and no one did get too offended.. These fucking days eveyone cry to the admins, and there is SS ofc, and u get banned... I got ofc many perma bans in many places, since i swear much, no matter that is just my style.. But i …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-31, 20:31

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by Radical Vision

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Got this lot today for dirt cheap 17 euros (SHITting included..). The seller did gut whole Win 95 system, and said he dont know if is still working, so he did sell it as is... Sadly he managed to trow to the garbage the case mouse and keyboard... I hope any of them was not anything good, like some …

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

Posted on 2022-12-31, 19:49

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Dude, you don't realize how funny you can get :) I mean it in the right way. I used to play TF2 and it was a swear fest when microphones became mainstream. Not mentioning italians and spanish. English is mostly f**k this and that, but once I heard a polish chap fully mad it made my day!!! I so much …

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