Re: Worth trying to sell? - Pentium MMX

Posted on 2023-06-06, 10:26

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some people do like whole retro, systems, i see quite a few over the months and they all go for fairly good prices - thats 486, pentiums, pentium 2 era machines. let us know what happened after 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-06, 10:23

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The journey to get a nice retro rig is interesting and it can in many unexpected ways lol. I came too late to grab the HP Vectra VL set which already had lower specs than my original plan and now I ended up with something even lower spec. Got Pentium 2 400 MHz with an Asus Mainboard and Riva TNT 2. …

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Re: Motherboard recap : Partial or full ?

Posted on 2023-06-06, 10:10

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Hi, I recently bought a dual Socket 604 (P4 Xeon) workstation motherboard. Quite a deal for 20€ with two 2.8Ghz Xeon, matching aftermarket coolers, 4Gb of DDR, a PCI SCSI controller and a GeForce MX... Unfortunately, with problems and some bad caps (no boot, beeps) Screenshot from 2023-06-06 09-37- …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 19:13

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i'm not so up to speed on new games but the new system shock seems to have moderate tech requirements in comparison with most games? or perhaps its average the download is multi GB, certainly bigger than any drive from when the original was released :) anyway, if its effectively an all new game with …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2023-06-04, 19:11

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you have produced consistent output all these years, just a nod of appreciation for the dedicated efforts 😀 it's interesting to see just how much is out there from back in the day

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2023-06-04, 19:08

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bloodem wrote on 2023-06-04, 14:10: They are complete platforms (motherboard + CPU + RAM)... and 27 of them are fully assembled PCs. I have a lot more individual CPUs, GPUs, sound cards, etc... Yes, I'm crazy, don't judge me. 😜 seems perfectly reasonable to me! 😀

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Re: 386DX-33 build video and notes

Posted on 2023-06-02, 09:47

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---Video link here--- I've wondered what it's like to use an actual 386 for quite a while, and my curiosity got the best of me, so here we are. System specs: 80386DX-33 CPU 80387-33 FPU 8 MB RAM WD Paradise VGA Sound Blaster 16 WD Caviar 244 MB HDD 3Com 3C509 Ethernet Overall I think it's a well …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-06-02, 09:40

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i'm unintentionally playing half life again.... really just started it up to take a quick look at something and have ended up playing through again it's still magical, that bizarre and vast complex (with its at times equally bizarre layout that handily forms puzzles - eg the rocket test motor fuel …

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Re: What Files Should be Backup from OEM 95/98 OS Before Clean Install

Posted on 2023-06-02, 08:27

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by gerry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i'd guess drivers and any software that had been installed that you still want - other than that its not really necessary also win98se does a fairly good job of both recognising and having drivers for various hardware of the time and thankfully there are often plenty of drivers still around

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Re: Random 775 - a scrap-tacular 775 build

Posted on 2023-06-01, 14:03

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Your scrap build is better then mine. CPU: Intel Dual Core E5200 2.50 Ghz RAM: 4GB Corsair Value Select DDR2 667 GPU: Radeon HD3450 256MB HDD: 256GB SATA (WD2500-JS) DVD+RW Case: In Win C583 OS: WinXP Front.jpg Graphics card is definitely holding it back but played a good number of my games ok It's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 07:44

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Something nobody here will ever admit is that you can get 99 percent of the fun with like 10 percent of the work. If I actually played games as opposed to building absolutely unhinged "perfect for *insert activity*" builds, I'd legit throw a GeForce 6600 PCIe onto a late LGA775 board (mostly for …

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Re: Computer hardware 20 years ago.

Posted on 2023-06-01, 07:35

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Hardly anyone had such cards at the beginning of 2003. I wonder how Doom 3 works, for example, on a P4 2000(Willamette), 2200/2400(Northwood) with a GF 5200/5500/5600 graphics card. Performance will probably be very poor. I found results with shadows on and off.. https://web.archive.org/web/ …

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

Posted on 2023-06-01, 07:29

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Yesterday I noticed the prices of 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 have only gone up on ebay since the last time I checked, some lunatic has even paid 200€ for one! As I own both V3 2000 and 3000 greed started to creep in and I figured I could sell the 3k and keep the other as in my use I don't need the extra …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 07:26

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When it rains, it pours. I always wanted more AT/286 era systems and a horizontal AT case. Managed to save these from getting scrapped, cost me about 15 bucks each. Olivetti has a NIC I can use to add XT-IDE, and the noname one comes with a Hercules adapter which I wanted. Double plus good. that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-30, 10:25

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I got today a Cassiopeia Fiva 101 and oh my god it is hands down one of the worst retro laptop pcs i have ever tried! I'm regretting buying it so much. I love the screen though. in addition it had windows ME in japanese installed and i don't know if it is a windows me thing but i cannot change the …

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Re: Small Project: Installing a Socket 479 cooler on a Geforce 3

Posted on 2023-05-30, 08:09

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by gerry

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an interesting account, thanks for posting. re-using and adapting existing coolers is an interesting area in the hobby, this one is well done ( i've also seen some more amusing attempts )

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-30, 08:01

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For me, it's because some of the low end stuff seems to have the survival potential of cockroaches, where some higher end stuff dies in mysterious ways that eternally confound fixing. Besides, as mature PC users we can step out of the "utterest piece of crap in the known universe and gave my gerbil …

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Re: My new favorite Retro System...

Posted on 2023-05-30, 07:53

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It is not the fastest... It certainly is not the lightest... But darn this thing turned out sweet! Asus Tower with P2B Motherboard P3 1.1 GHz Coppermine in an MSI Socket 370 to SLot 1 converter 512 MB RAM Compact Flash Reader IDE Drive Bay AGP GeForce Ti4200 Voodoo 2 Soundblaster Live Platinum …

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Re: GloriousCow's PC Emulation Blog

Posted on 2023-05-30, 07:49

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just another note of appreciation, and great that its on a regular website that will be searched by google and other search engines, enabling folk to find it readily

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Re: Card recommendations for windows 98 gaming rig

Posted on 2023-05-30, 07:45

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by gerry

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After finally getting the first part of upcoming win 98 gaming pc I need some specific card recommendations. I decided to get myself a socket 754 Gigabyte K8VT800M. The "hunt" for the processor has not finished yet but i am getting either a sempron 3100 one of the athlon 64s. GPU wise I want a …

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