Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-11, 09:22

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I would point out this same question has been floating around repeatedly for the last 30~ years or so and the answer remains the same: the everyday user doesn't and hasn't ever needed much: word processing, email, Solitaire and now Netflix, etc, while the class-leading creative professional in their …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-06, 05:37

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Those old MSI boards have a special place in my heart A couple of years later I had a K8N Neo2 Platinum which I swear was one of the best socket 939 boards out at the time, unfortunately overshadowed by Abit, Asus and DFI, but nonetheless a very stable overclocker. I paired mine first with a 3000+ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-06, 05:36

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Those old MSI boards have a special place in my heart A coupon of years later I had a K8N Neo2 Platinum which I swear was one of the best socket 939 boards out at the time, unfortunately overshadowed by Abit, Asus and DFI, but nonetheless a very stable overclocker. I paired mine first with a 3000+ …

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Re: Compaq armada 1750

Posted on 2021-11-06, 00:26

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I just picked up one of these (14” with s-video out) off eBay for $60 to add to my growing collection of Pentium laptops. Naturally, it’s missing it’s caddy and power ‘supply’ but I assume its only missing the cable 😉

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Re: The Imaginary "It's All About The Pentiums" Build

Posted on 2021-11-05, 07:29

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We're in danger of going off-topic here. I'm specifically talking about VGA + 3D accelerator cards to go with a Pentium III Xeon build - the Pixar reference was more of a 'how high would that bar have been in 1999?' kinda reference. That said, I'm duckduckgoing 'Hawking PC' as we speak 😉

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-05, 06:31

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An ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (oh, hallowed graphics king of 2002 whom I could never afford!) and an IBM Port Replicator II for a Thinkpad A22m - which conveniently doubles up as a dock for an A31p I’ve been eyeing up… Now if only they had a Thinkpad dock that could fit a PCI Voodoo2…

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Re: The Imaginary "It's All About The Pentiums" Build

Posted on 2021-11-05, 06:25

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I’m also thinking I didn’t aim high enough - what would a game designer / motion graphics / animator have been using in their studio workstation in mid-1999? Surely that would be top of the line unaffordable to the masses kind of stuff. For reference, the team at Pixar would have been completing Toy …

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Re: The Imaginary "It's All About The Pentiums" Build

Posted on 2021-11-05, 04:51

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Subscribed. Assume we are looking at a TNT2 Ultra for VGA duties with some kind of (throwing it out there) multi-3dfx Voodoo2 or Voodoo3-based Quantum3D Obsidian? Too early for the GeForce 256 DDR or ATI Rage Fury Maxx…

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Re: Adapting the E3 2002 Pre-Alpha demo of Far Cry to run on other cards rather than nVidia only

Posted on 2021-11-05, 04:38

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Out of curiosity, what are your sources for all this info?

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Re: Generic Win98SE Installation & Setup Guide

Posted on 2021-11-05, 04:36

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This is awesome and super helpful. I must have installed Win98 about 15 times over the last two months, experimenting with clean installs and also making use of the aforementioned Microsoft update CD - for sure this is a ‘click and accept all’ option and for a pure gaming machine, I wouldn’t …

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Re: Adapting the E3 2002 Pre-Alpha demo of Far Cry to run on other cards rather than nVidia only

Posted on 2021-11-04, 14:22

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Interesting. How much original content is estimated to have been cut?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-04, 13:51

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I bought this RAM card for my IBM 5162, since this can actually fit in the case... Anyone know what board it is? Would be nice with jumper settings :D Nice card, but with just 2 or 3 jumpers I don't think the settings sheet is really necessary :D My guess is it will be fairly similar to this one: …

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Re: Your Retrogaming laptop/portable machine megathread (recommendations, tips, minutae)

Posted on 2021-11-04, 10:57

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I have an alienware m11x r1 Nice, I had my eye on one of these for a while but ended up going for an M17x R2 - something about a big, chonky bastard of an Alienware - and dual GPU to boot - gets me going at times ;) Specs are: CPU: i7-820 RAM: 12GB GPU: Dual ATI Mobility 5870 1GB Crossfire SSD: …

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Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2021-11-04, 10:42

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I'm glad I can tell my wife I'm one of the sane ones. Just fyi. 😉

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Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 dual Deschutes build I never had

Posted on 2021-10-31, 23:17

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-10-31, 23:10: Dual 440fx has entered the chat 🤪

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Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 dual Deschutes build I never had

Posted on 2021-10-31, 23:05

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And the near completed build is ready. Excuse the poor lighting and lack of a case badge or stickers, I’m still waiting on them to arrive. Overall, I’m really happy with it - and my first vintage / retro rebuild, though it wasn’t cheap. It’s quirky and unconventional even for its time and that’s one …

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Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 dual Deschutes build I never had

Posted on 2021-10-31, 22:56

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I seem to remember some weird paddle-blade cooler that might have been for that area of the case (or maybe it was for a front bay!?) If you really feel the need just use a couple more of those slot coolers screwed thru the vent holes / back plates with some self-tappers (of course, you'll need to …

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Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2021-10-31, 14:25

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Wow. Just wow. I haven’t even heard of maybe half of those third party brands…truly impressive collection. I’ll be sure to bookmark this and send to my wife the next time she brings up my ‘collection’.

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Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 dual Deschutes build I never had

Posted on 2021-10-31, 14:23

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I’m probably over obsessing but has anyone found an exhaust fan shroud / L-bracket that screws into the ventilation hole area of the back panel? Right now, I’ve got a Noctua A12x25 as intake with the Seasonic PSU fan and the dinky StarTech expansion slot as sole exhaust fans - clearly inadequate but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-31, 14:19

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Great find, congrats! Afaik there are no drivers that work reliably for Win2k or Win XP, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I have one of these cards in my collection as well. A bit of a glutton for dual-chip VGA / GPUs - no matter how much they struggled at the time. There’s something haphazard …

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