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

Posted on 2022-11-21, 18:08

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Yesterday I cleaned this card using Soap Water > Hair Dryer > Sun > a little bit of WD-40. Great job. I hope you did rinse the card with clear water. You don't want residues of the soap on you card. You can safe yourself some time and work, by drying hardware in the oven on low temperature. Keep …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-11-19, 12:49

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Now that the parcel is on the way to me, I can safely post the Ebay link. Didn't want anyone to interfere with the transaction. https://www.ebay.com/itm/113681854665 geht an = turns on kein Bild = no picture I really hope it's just some marginal. Broken GPU, CPU or RAM. Empty battery... Can't see …

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Re: Which video card is the best for my PC?

Posted on 2022-11-18, 16:07

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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The important stuff has been said already: Stay away from Matrox. These cards have a good 2D performance. That what they were famous for back in the day. But compatibility to older games is really shitty. Nobody cared about that back in the day. Today we care. You won't see many Matrox cards in use …

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Re: What modern gaming features do you prefer?

Posted on 2022-11-18, 03:16

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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1) Digital distribution - While there are pros and cons to modern digital distribution, for the most part the sheer convenience of downloading and installing games digitally outweighs other drawbacks. The biggest pro imho: The price. Remember when you bought older AAA titles for $1 back in the 90s? …

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Re: ECS K7S5A PRO people's thoughts?

Posted on 2022-11-17, 23:03

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Looks like a decent board for a test system. I have a similar board from ASrock, but with VIA chipset. Best CPU is an Athlon XP 2600+ Thorton. These are a bit expensive, but the 2400+ can be bought for cheap. That's what I'm using. With that much horsepower it's a really fast SDR tester. Plus it …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-11-17, 14:55

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I just bought an ASrock ALiveDual-eSATA2 for just 11€ (+ shipping). :o Reminder for those who don't actively follow this thread: That's the very last mainboard to feature an AGP slot. Auctioned off multiple times for ~150€ in recent times. It was sitting on Ebay for more than a year! Of course, it …

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Re: Pc Analyzer card

Posted on 2022-11-15, 22:31

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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I've been wanting one of these for some time now. Any recommendations?

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Re: Is this soundcard worth saving?

Posted on 2022-11-15, 22:22

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Do you think this soundcard is worth salvaging? Does anyone have any useful information about it? Or is it worthless junk and I should throw it away? If someone wants to rescue this card, please let me know. I'd be happy to send it to someone willing to fix it. That card has a real OPL3 chip on it. …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-11-15, 22:16

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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I've an AMD-K6-III+/400ATZ 1.6V (that's 9.5W TDP compared to 7.5W TDP of the AMD-K6-2+/350AUZ) running at 6x 83MHz and 1.65V, cooled by a passive Zalman chipset heatsink. It's blown by a low rev 80mm case fan from some distance. Not even getting hand warm. Could surely be run without the fan but …

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Re: Cheap but well performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-12, 03:58

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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i upgraded from a 133 to a 166 and overclocked it to 200 ... i looked for ages for a p200 chip .. it is pretty hard to find a p200 chip (non mmx, mmx is no good - wrong voltage) and they are expensive.. oh and even when i did run it at 200 it was only 8% faster, so dont even bother, put the money …

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Re: Cheap but we’ll performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-11, 14:58

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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3. Get yourself a S3 Trio64 for your Socket 7 system and use it for 2D only. Then look for a cheap AGP board and get yourself a cheap AGP GeForce. Easiest and fastest way. IMO that's the best answer :) Boards with i440BX and PIII >= 450 MHz would be preferable but If you want to go on cheap then …

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

Posted on 2022-11-11, 14:21

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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I tried testing a GUS PnP without any success. BIOS and Windows recognize it as "Gravis Ultrasound Plug'n'Pray". Apparently the previous owner has used EEPROM tools and that's why it got renamed to "Pray" instead of "Play"? Neither the drivers on the original disks nor the drivers on Vogonsdrivers …

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Re: Cheap but well performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-11, 13:42

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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So I think the options for a Pentium 133 are Voodoo 1, TNT, PCX2 and Rage 128/XL, not the Rage or the Rage II because they are very slow. Have you seen this chart? https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/ ATI is not so good for 2D compatibility. Does your board have split voltage? Or P54C only? So max …

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Re: Cheap but we’ll performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-11, 12:32

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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It seems to cover pretty much all the older pci gpus, even the newer unified shader pci gpus are affected. LOL, why the hell do people buy those cards? Boards who have the horsepower for these cards will always have a 16x PCIe slot. Might be like you say the sellers see pci and confuse it with pcie …

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Re: Feeding low end RAM to the scrappers?

Posted on 2022-11-11, 09:58

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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@Jo22 & Horun: You two are extremely off topic. Could you please open a new thread for your discussion or switch to PMs? I've sorted my RAM and noticed that I have less small DDR2 sticks than I thought I would have. 27x 2GB 26x 1GB 3x 512MB 3x 256MB I think I can safely throw the 256MB and 512MB …

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Re: Cheap but we’ll performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-11, 09:05

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Im not sure why but PCI GPUs on eBay have stupid prices usually way more than their AGP versions . Because of cases like in this thread. There simply aren't enough PCI TNT's and GeForces to populate all the Socket 7 boards. There are 3 solutions. 1. Look for a cheap PCI GeForce/TNT. Don't search …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-09, 11:17

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Ah, I see.. never really paid attention to agp voltages. Good to know. Good job I didn't try my voodoo3 2000 on this motherboard. It's been sitting in my 440bx board You wouldn't be able to insert it anyway, they are keyed differently. Exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-08, 23:34

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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gmaverick2k wrote on 2022-11-08, 21:13: Oh, I thought the higher the number, the better. KT400 boards are 1.5V AGP only. KT333 can run 1.5V and 3.3V AGP. But watch out! Some KT333 are actually downclocked KT400 and don't have universal AGP. Why is this important? Voodoo! They're all AGP 3.3V.

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Four SB16 Vibra - What's the difference between them?

Posted on 2022-11-08, 11:15

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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I now have four Soundblaster Vibra16. CT2260: [/u] This is easily the best of them. It's one of the older models without PnP but still with original OPL3 chip. It has a wavetable header, but suffers from hanging notes, like (almost) all the other Vibra cards. CT2960: [/u] This card already uses CQM …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-08, 09:48

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-11-08, 07:52: KT333 with Universal AGP is where it's at.. KT333 with Universal AGP AND integrated USB 2.0 you mean!

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