Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-10-01, 09:52

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Picked up this very nice boxed FX5500 in pristine condition from Ebay for 35$ + shipping. Looks almost like new! PXL_20241001_000934799.jpg PXL_20241001_000957156.jpg Except.... It's not a FX5500 inside lol...! PXL_20241001_001403950.jpg It's a full 64MB GeForce 256 DDR with DVI! 🤣 Wow! PXL_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-26, 19:38

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Not sure on the production date, ill have to look at the back of the card, when I get home. I do believe its early 2000. It does have standard clocks, 120Mhz Gpu, 150Mhz Ram. Posted a 3D Mark 2001 SE 3,501 Score. Very nice card. I only have 32MB versions. Still looking for a 64MB :) But.... i have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-26, 17:21

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Not sure on the production date, ill have to look at the back of the card, when I get home. I do believe its early 2000. It does have standard clocks, 120Mhz Gpu, 150Mhz Ram. Posted a 3D Mark 2001 SE 3,501 Score. Very nice card. I only have 32MB versions. Still looking for a 64MB :) But.... i have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-25, 06:25

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Picked up a quite rare version of the GeForce 256. A 3rd party vendor (not dell oem) non agp pro, Asus 64MB DDR Version. I haven't seen many in the wild like this. PXL_20240922_152457055.webp Nice card. Do you have some production date ? (Or bios date ?) Must be a late version. 64MB was a lot in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-21, 09:53

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I just got my hands on a 286 system. Schneider AT286 System 201 Loved the look of those Schneider PC's at the time. They were trying to differntiate themselves from Amstrad I think... Yes it looks very modern. Far less bulky than some contemporary designs. The external 5.25 floppy drive have the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-20, 19:07

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Two more hot AGP pickups! MSI GeForce Ti 4800 SE, and Matrix G400 Max. :) PXL_20240917_012652870.jpg PXL_20240917_003124507~3.jpg I really like the G400 Max. A really underrated card. Performances are close to that of TNT2 ultra and Voodoo3 3000. I found it very difficult to get in France. I don't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-18, 07:34

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I just got my hands on a 286 system. Schneider AT286 System 201 I traded it with a local collector. Apparently the PSU have some problems . There is one 3.5 inch floppy drive. The other bay is empty. There is also a 40MB hard drive. The MB format seem proprietary but have some free ISA slots. The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-16, 09:25

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One "trick" I started practicing lately when testing PCI-E video cards is to put them in one of those coin miner risers (PCI-E 16x slots that are electrically only a 1x slot). That way, if there are any faulty lanes, this increases the chance that the faulty ones may not be used, thus end up not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-13, 07:15

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Got another ECS p6s5at today, This one has a small bit of damage to the AGP slot but the board has been tested ...not that I fully believe that. Board will get a full test when it arrives, Tualatin and DDR support makes for a fun little board to OC with. ECS p6s5at.jpg I have a PCChips M700 version …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-11, 18:23

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Thats the single PCB one. I've got a 295 dual pcb too..... and that doesn't work. One day maybe I'll try to figure out whats wrong with it. The 2 PCB version is very painful to disassemble and clean. Similar in design to the 9800GX2. It's also painted with a soft touch paint, the kind that become …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-06, 12:25

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I had a Volcano cooler on my 1.2 GHz Tbird back in the day, not the ones you have, it was probably the Volcano II. Let me tell you, it was LOUD! Had a 25mm thick fan on top and spins at like 4500 RPM. I ended up connecting it to a fan controller so I could turn it down. Hopefully yours really are " …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-04, 07:42

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/591255283607666693/1280598617727701074/20240903_123354.jpg?ex=66d8a9e6&is=66d75866&hm=f6cff13a04997ec1d547f27c266b4967cd69aad54ca371ec4ae03b516ee8fe0f& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/591255283607666693/1280598619296370758/20240901_124847.jpg?ex= …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-03, 15:43

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Won a classified for this beauty :) https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=200493 MB: MSI 850 Pro 5 (MS-6545) Ver:1 Cpu: Intel 1,8 Ghz RAM: 2 buc. x Samsung 256Mb/16ECC 800-45 RDRAM Rambus RIMM Terminators RIMM x 2 Wow ! It looks awesome in red ! I have a "Pro 2" (which is for s423 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-02, 14:47

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Found this strange card, CTS-10, as well. Has the manuals/floppies (probably not usable, heavily warped) seemed like a good bit of screwing around, so I grabbed it (free, huzzah). 20240901_092850.jpg Wow, that's so futuristic!! Can you imagine never having to manually set your computer's time and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-31, 19:38

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I've bought more games than hardware recently but I'm waiting for two parcels. An upgrade for my top 2005 system : A8N32-SLI deluxe (currently using a non 32 model). For 20€... i would have bough the motherboard alone for that price but it also comes with an Athlon64 X2 (3800+ i think), a GeForce …

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Re: Why so many Katmais (and Deschutes)?

Posted on 2024-08-29, 07:30

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And I've noticed one odd trend - there seem to be lots of big OEM systems (Dell, Gateway, etc) with Katmai 450/500/550 PIIIs, and some Deschutes PIIs, but very, very few Coppermine systems, or at least slot 1 Coppermines (there are more socket 370 Coppermines like Dell Dimension 4100s, but those …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-28, 07:03

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It seems like that would have been a pretty huge oversight in the design, but they may have had other good reasons to make the connector this way. Maybe they did this to manage the force required to insert or remove cards? If half the pins are at different depths then it would require half the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-27, 08:11

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Got this nice clean ASRock 939Dual Sata2 for a good price, seems like the perfect board for the 4800+ or an Opteron 180, they are essentially the same CPU just depends on which one I can dig out of the CPU box first. 939Dual Sata2.jpg ASRock 939Dual Sata2.jpg Comes with everything except the manual …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-22, 13:32

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Just got my own one of these Soltek SL-75KAV boards, its been recapped already too, might try out that Barton bios with the 3000 XP-M. Curious to know where you got that 3000 XP-M from? They seem pretty rare. There is also a K8 based 3000+ XP-M on socket 754 that are absolutely not a K7 Athlons but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-21, 12:20

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Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-21, 10:39: So I told them to go ahead and refund the order, Im now looking at other suitable options and may go with the tried and true Abit NF7-S 2.0 which were also pretty solid boards. Too bad. But maybe an opportunity to get an Athlon XP-M instead and overclock it …

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