Re: Help me build a Period correct computer ?

Posted on 2020-01-19, 18:22

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Fastest thing Period would of been Athlon 64 X2 and it destroyed intels offerings at the time. Fastest thing from Intel would of been cedarmill P4 or Pentium D, Unless you want to go down the AOPEN 479 route. 6 months later you would have regret ever building that computer becasue Conroe launched …

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Re: ECS P6EXP-Me CPU Support?

Posted on 2020-01-19, 18:12

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Fastest celeron you can run in that is 433. thats also probably the fastest cpu that will run without some kind of mods or adapters. Your board is 66mhz http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/Intel-Celeron%20433%20-%20FV80524RX433128%20(FV524RX433%20128).html Also here is bios. https://web.archive. …

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Re: October 2002 "best you could get" P4 32-bit Rdram

Posted on 2020-01-19, 04:18

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kolderman wrote on 2020-01-19, 03:14: If by best you mean evil, sure. best is always subjective, assuming that you could build that in 2002 it would of been very close to best for a few months anyways. I decided to skip Pentium 4 and won't be doing a p4 build. I will be doing a 479 build though.

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Re: October 2002 "best you could get" P4 32-bit Rdram

Posted on 2020-01-19, 03:01

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would of thought that your thread would have got more responses. 2002 Intel had the top performance. 2003 AMD64 of course took the crown away with the Athlon 64 for anyone who was paying attention. So for this very sliver of time you might of had close to top performance if that's what you were …

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Re: MS-DOS/Win3.1x CD/DVD Burning Software

Posted on 2020-01-17, 03:22

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Well back in the day I tried this. It has a mouse driven GUI https://web.archive.org/web/20120110121310/ht … oast/index.html I never used these https://web.archive.org/web/20110816081450/ht … om/freeware.htm

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Re: Printing with retro PCs to modern printers

Posted on 2020-01-16, 06:53

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pretty sure you share a printer using an earlier version of windows like 9x or nt, then install msclient on the dos computer and map the shared printer using net use. net logon net use \\PC_name\Printer_name That will map the LP1 to your network print queue. Then once you have it mapped, you can use …

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Re: Reflashing the BIOS of a bricked Adaptec 29160?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 08:25

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in my server i have 2 different sas cards. when booting, it only loads the rom from 1 of the cards. you could just try loading both cards in your system. it should only load 1 of the roms. you might have switch them around to get the good rom to load. exactly my experience. some boards can do more …

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Re: Reflashing the BIOS of a bricked Adaptec 29160?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 05:35

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one of my favorite cards there, I luff them. It is the perfect scsi card for just a normal pci slot. An idea might be, a bios can only have enough memory for so many option roms. So you might try to slot a bunch of cards that have option roms, until the memory is too full to have anymore. So like …

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Re: Retrobrighting

Posted on 2020-01-14, 03:47

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Glass that is transparent to visible light absorbs nearly all UVB. So even if something is behind glass its not getting direct sunlight.

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Re: Retrobrighting

Posted on 2020-01-11, 05:50

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I can't recommend sun exposure. I don't question that it works, but UV damages plastic. ] Most Children's toys are not made of ABS Plastic. The yellowing of the ABS in vintage computers is not really becasue of direct sunlight. It's becasue of the bromine content reacting to UV-A, and florescent …

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-11, 05:11

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well like I sugested earlyer, You already have a socket 370 pentium III, so you can just buy a socket 370 motherboard and use that in it. You could also use the ram you already have, hard drive, cd rom whatever and save a lot of money that way. Something like a Gigabyte GZ-6VXE7 motherboard might be …

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Re: I'd like to build a VLB system

Posted on 2020-01-11, 04:21

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I know where you can get a ARK Logic ARK1000VL VLB probably for pretty cheap, I am not the seller. But I know someone who has like 100 of them.

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-11, 04:17

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k62+ is too weak to play warcraft III, might play it on ultralow settings and still lag. No point in discussing that.

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-10, 17:42

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what does the old case look like?

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-10, 05:01

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His mainboard doesn't have ISA or AGP expansion slots, so he can't use those. Dochartaigh you cannot install a ISA sound card or a AGP card in that computer. If you are dead set on using this mainboard you can try to get a Geforce FX 5500 PCI You could try to get a Nvidia PCI FX5500 and maybe a A3D …

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Re: Xbox 360 USB controller under DOS?

Posted on 2020-01-10, 02:17

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Probably not. Theres no USB joystick drivers that I am aware of. But even if there was one, you would need some kind of TSR shim to emulate the USB driver as a game port, that also doesn't exist. There maybe some USB to game port adapter that exists, but they are for connecting gameport joysticks to …

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Re: Retrobrighting

Posted on 2020-01-09, 15:02

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I also disagree with xjas. Brittleness is caused by material degradation on a molecular level, due to temperature. Overtime what really is happening is the molecules in the plastic do to degradation become to short or too long. This has nothing to do with UV light, it is caused by temperature change …

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

Posted on 2020-01-03, 18:34

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Intergraph, everything else is the stuff that you see everyday. 386 was launched in 1985. i wouldn't consider it early 90s even if you could still buy one. Really early 90s is more of 486 came out in 1989, and 1st Pentium 1993 Id consider Pentium overdirves in 486 motherboards to be the sweet spot …

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Re: What HDD do you use? (1GB to 10GB)

Posted on 2020-01-03, 04:39

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ok wow lol if we are going to get all anal about vintage hard drives, it's pretty much scsi or go home. Otherwise I personally I don't put shitty hard drives in my computers just because it fits some obsession that I have that my hard drive must be made the same hour or the same day of the same year …

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

Posted on 2020-01-03, 04:06

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Intergraph, everything else is the stuff that you see everyday. 386 was launched in 1985. i wouldn't consider it early 90s even if you could still buy one. Really early 90s is more of 486 came out in 1989, and 1st Pentium 1993 Id consider Pentium overdirves in 486 motherboards to be the sweet spot …

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