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

Posted on 2022-08-14, 12:51

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Revived the BC-21e printhead on this trash picked Canon BJC-4200. Good memories printing homework on the smaller BJC-255SP back in the day! Check out the spelling mistake on the demo page hahh

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Re: CD-ROM drives that "lose the strength" to open

Posted on 2022-08-12, 03:52

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Tiny amount of CRC Belt Grip gets most working and keeps them going for ages. But the real solution was always a pack of assorted tape deck belts from AliExpress. But I always liked the gear driven Lite-on drives..

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

Posted on 2022-08-11, 11:58

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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-08-11, 05:48: I find it easier to dunk it under the faucet and use a nylon brush with some mild detergent. There are way too many tiny crevices to try and clean each individually with a flower fan. Already done that... the copper and aluminium were very heavily oxidised.. I …

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

Posted on 2022-08-11, 03:22

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Polishing the fins on a Zalman Socket 462 cooler...

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-08-08, 07:47

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Trash picked this CoolerMaster WaveMaster case... Perfect condition. Dates to about 2004... All aluminium... Everything! Power buttons, motherboard tray, drive bay covers. Quality seems great. Need to decide what system to put in it..

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-07-17, 06:59

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Its local hard rubbish time... Gigabyte GA-Z87 with i5 4670K HUGE Phanteks Enthoo Primo Ultimate case... I looked up the PC CaseGear price in 2014 and it was $429AU!! Other things.. WD Raptor HDDs XFX 8800GTX ADI Microscan CRT Need to decide what to do with the case... maybe reverse sleeper or …

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

Posted on 2022-07-14, 12:14

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Many years ago I purchaced an Amaze HD3650 AGP Brand New on clearance from MSY Clayton (local parts chain shop). Australians will know MSY from their parts.pdf pricelist I haven't ever used the card in a build, but decided to do a Fast AGP build with a Sempron 2800+ Socket 754. After the AGP Hotfix …

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

Posted on 2022-07-12, 12:10

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Messing around with Abit NF7-S with a 9600XT, took ages to find memory modules that would work with decent stability...

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

Posted on 2022-06-21, 12:02

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Getting this Tyan Tsunami BX board up an running... What a clean layout for this board.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-05-02, 15:38

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BitWrangler wrote on 2022-05-02, 15:29: Heh, just struck me they sound like AM radio stations... HOT-591 is probably the pop charts station and Intel-740 the news channel 🤣 Only the HOTtest hitz from DJ Shuttle VIA radio network MPV3 brought to you thanks to our sponsors AGP 😉

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-05-02, 15:17

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Also, Intel had the nerve to forget some L2 cache in the first gen Celerons. :D Back probably in 1998 the parents of a friend had just bought him a new computer with a Celeron 300A and Voodoo II. I was pretty jealous of it at the time. But he didn't overclock it. I saved up during that year and …

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Re: Win98SE Pentium 4 Project

Posted on 2022-05-01, 13:43

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They do make great 98 machines. I mean back in the day i was all about AthlonXP, especially for the price... but I've come to appreciate P4. Its probably a combination of factors like aging Athlon motherboards, and new power supplies that aren't the best with AthlonXPs requirements, but I do …

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Re: ThinkCentre SFF office PC to nForce2 showcase build

Posted on 2022-05-01, 13:20

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I know the onboard sound on the later Nforce boards was actually quite good. Using it as a htpc is a fantastic use case for it and that case should fit right in with other A/V equipment Oh nForce 3? I think Soundstorm APU was gone by then, although Realtek like ALC650 was still using Sensaura API …

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Re: ThinkCentre SFF office PC to nForce2 showcase build

Posted on 2022-05-01, 12:35

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That's a neat setup. Any fun plans for the build? I was always a fan of the Nforce chipsets and honestly i kinda miss them. Going to get it linked up to my 00's Onkyo AV Reciever via optical or coax. Waiting for an optical backplate to arrive from china. That will be the first test Then Dolby …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-05-01, 12:08

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I have a few S7 boards by PCChips and its underwhelming, but serviceable. M571 is very stable with the Cyrix M2 in my useage. The M571 also has quite a decent 'fan' made support page http://m571.com/m571/ ... In this case with the M747... hmmm the Celery has some problems with not always booting, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-01, 11:56

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Sorry mate, but 2 bucks for a conventional joystick is not a bargain, it's basically double the usual price. :( Even if every modern PC came with an IBM game port, no one would be using these any more. Have a look at how their sampling works: They're not even the equivalent of ball mice - ball mice …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-05-01, 08:06

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May be suited to a Voodoo II build, that and the fact that it's BabyAT board may be the only two redeeming features..

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-01, 07:31

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$2 SideWinder Unsure if i should remove the sticker of leave it on for the reminder of the bargain hahh

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-05-01, 06:29

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"Be Competitive" - ly disappointed... PCChips with Celery 333 and SiS 6326 onboard

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-21, 15:00

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The ones I saw were ~30$ shipped. Not exactly cheap but not outrageous either. Might as well grab a couple tough, as well as another FX5500 PCI since the seller had some too. They had something that really caught my eye - new Radeon 7500 PCI - from the pics they looked like high quality cards, …

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