Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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appiah4 wrote on Today, 09:14: You all are having badwrongfun so stop please, please stop, I said stop why don't you stop goddamnit stop fucking stoooooopp! You are too right about this. Not worth it. Here is a POS low-end crap of a CPU I just bought. Just because. And /s of course.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 05:41

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Sorry, forgot 'niche garbage' :) This is so dumb, he already told you the reason: "then I came across this listed as faulty for about 10 bucks and I went for it." He bought it because it was cheap and a potential repair candidate and test bench. You know, for fun. Who tf cares if it was a bad, low …

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Re: Where is some disscussion about Vogons in general? You can only edit a limited number of posts at a time.. "feature"

Posted on 2023-05-30, 04:37

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You are lucky you can edit posts at all, editing posts to win an argument is one the oldest trolling tools on forums. If you are worried about your bad grammar and typos (shouldn't, nobody cares) then type your post in a word document first, spellcheck it THEN copypaste it here. Editing a post once …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 06:17

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That's a futile dream, a collection can never ever be complete. Museums care about milestones in history, not a huge and boring collection of cheap items made by Chinosium companies to get the biggest profits they can. The reality is that your collection is only valuable to you while you are still …

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Re: Are prices for retro hardware slowly coming down?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 14:05

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There isn't a fixed value for any of this, it's mostly just luck. On day one it's $30, day 2 it's $200, day 3 it's $5. There are many factors: do people start a dumb bidding war to satisfy their need to impulse buy something and defeat the other person? Are there scalpers in the house? Do we have …

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Re: Voodoo5 6000 (yes, the one from ebay $15k) on LinusTechTips

Posted on 2023-05-09, 10:14

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So what was the last valid bid? https://imgur.com/a/qBLu04H Also why didn't he offer it to the second or third guy for nearly $15K?

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

Posted on 2023-04-23, 06:58

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how many will actually use a Celeron D and 2x512MB of PC2-4200 DDR2 on Windows Vista (with a hard drive) to do it? I would think very very very few, aside from those that genuinely want to laugh at how bad some OEM PCs were at the time. - For me personally, the $250+ in scrap value and the space …

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Re: Asus P3V4X Motherboard repairs.

Posted on 2023-03-03, 12:40

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Slotket has one missing too.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-13, 03:39

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Boring.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-13, 03:27

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What I wouldn't give for a troll bid of $200k now and see them all panicking... 😁

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 13:37

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When I see these auctions I always consider bidding just for the fun of it. I'd be outbid anyway. But imagine what if I just happened to come out as the winner owing the price of a car or a house for a piece of plastic and silicon. I'm like 90% sure that some of those bidders are trolling and …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-06, 11:21

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I don't think someone with an annual wage of $100K will buy this when most people have less than $20K in savings. The average collector is crazy but not THAT crazy. $100K is not a big deal in most Western countries if you have a valuable degree but these people usually live larger so cost of living …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-02-06, 08:58

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How do you get a $15-20K card shipped? Hire armed guards in ESD suits to carry it to your house or let dimwits without any kind of work ethic throw it around in various warehouses with no heating? I'd be crazy nervous if it was anything other than local pickup after I've personally seen it in fully …

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Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 10:36

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All of them. I'm literally hoarding and preventing others to enter the hobby to use everything on a daily basis.

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Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-21, 07:24

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Prices are up, maybe we're looking at this from different time frames? What's the period over which you compare prices when you say they don't go up? Compare a scalper trying to grab all the newest graphics cards with a hoarder obsessed with aquiring the umc486-40 - which one do you think will run …

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Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-20, 20:24

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I can still complain about ebay-prices going through the ceiling :D For certain niché items for sure. Generally speaking not so much. I think you misunderstand Ebay BIN prices and sold prices. BIN doesn't mean they can actually sell those things at that price. Hell, I want to sell my house for $1m …

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Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-20, 11:37

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I agree there are more expensive hobbies, but the prices have definitely kicked up during the years. For me, the prices these days no longer stand in relation to what one actually get. Back in the day people pretty much begged you to grab their old computers as it was considered trash and having it …

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Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-19, 16:14

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Of course there's gatekeeping, it comes in the form of hoarding and monopolizing of various retro sources, one can observe it on this forum. A small amount of people keeping big collections of old gear is exactly what keeps it out of the hands of folks looking to get into the retro world. There are …

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Re: Video games are too heavily monetized these days

Posted on 2023-01-05, 19:04

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Edit: And it has to make lots of money, of course. Maximum profits, if possible. With maximum profits come the need for software companies to prevent transfer of license ownership to other users, that's what the EU torpedoed. In the EU the owner can sell the licence to anybody and it can be used to …

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Re: Video games are too heavily monetized these days

Posted on 2023-01-05, 10:28

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You have to understand that when you buy strictly online games you don't really own it, you just rent it for full price until the servers and services are working. Digital games work until you have your account but after that you are pretty much out of luck, not to mention that digital copies are …

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