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

Posted on 2024-07-28, 12:34

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by Minutemanqvs

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oldhighgerman wrote on 2024-07-27, 11:50: Am I hallucinating or do I have a similar green heatsinked 486 that says IBM? They are the same CPU, it might well be the case. The IBM ones are usually blue instead of green.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-28, 12:30

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Nice, I still have my Opteron 175 which I delidded soon after I got it and dropped the load temps by 20c. I have yet to fully test the CPU (apart from booting) i have a zalman 9500 on it now (as did absolutely everyone back in the days of S939) temps seem ok idle but curious about load temps. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-09, 09:44

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So yes or no on dish soap? I'm using that for years with a soft toothbrush and never broke anything. The PCBs come out as clean as new. Just rince it in clean water once your are done and dry it as good as you can afterwards, especially in the PCI/ISA slots where water can get trapped. Then wait …

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

Posted on 2024-05-30, 15:34

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I like it. I do have a question: is the printer port disabled in the CMOS settings? I recently had an issue installing Windows 2000 on a board with a BIOS from 2002 and it blue screened because the BIOS wasn't ACPI compliant. I did a search, and it turned out that disabling the printer port caused …

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

Posted on 2024-05-23, 19:24

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In the last couple of days I configured my Slot A machine. It's based on a Gigabyte GA-7IXE and an Athlon 750 Thunderbird. At first I wanted to use a Matrox Parhelia but the fan was too loud to my taste, so a Radeon 9200 (with 128-bit bus) replaced it instead. The rest of the system consists of a …

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

Posted on 2024-05-23, 06:15

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In the last couple of days I configured my Slot A machine. It's based on a Gigabyte GA-7IXE and an Athlon 750 Thunderbird. At first I wanted to use a Matrox Parhelia but the fan was too loud to my taste, so a Radeon 9200 (with 128-bit bus) replaced it instead. The rest of the system consists of a …

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

Posted on 2024-05-22, 17:16

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Alright, so I simply bridged the soldering pads, but the drive won't spin. Then I soldered a 4.7uF cap in its place and the drive slowly spins up. After a few seconds you'd expect a moving actuator for initialization of the heads and so on, but the drive spins down a bit and tries two more times. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-22, 17:12

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I am starting to suspect the eBay search engine no longer does not do what you tell it. I have been manually bringing out things that should have come top in keyword/lowest-price searches, but did not even appear on the first page. I think it's gone to profit optimisation over customer service. …

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Re: Most powerful Mainboard with Floppy + IDE

Posted on 2024-05-18, 15:05

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Just for my understanding, why do you need an IDE port in such a recent computer? To transfer files easily to old HDDs?

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Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-13, 10:53

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From what I see in servers that I'm around since 20 years, running usually up to 6-7 years you often encounter Nidec and Delta fans. I have not seen a single Nidec fan fail, ever: https://www.nidec.com/en/product/search/categ … B101/M111/S100/

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 12:15

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The only "amazing" thing about these Celerons was the overclocking capability compared to the price back then. Looking at it from 2024, just get a Pentium 2/3 if you after pure performance. The celeron is of interest if your goal is to play with overclocking for the sake of it, that's about it.

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Re: Motherboard recapping question

Posted on 2024-04-29, 14:22

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Particularly regarding ESR (equivalent series resistor), some circuits rely on specific values (or close to them) and you have absolutely no idea what your specific circuit design does or requires if it was badly designed. So for this one, try to be as close as possible to the original.

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Re: My retro computer system log

Posted on 2024-04-29, 12:59

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These are lots of Radeon 9x00 waiting to die! I really liked these Chieftech(?) cases that you have on the last system! I had a green one; they look so huge compared to modern day standards.

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Re: PSU for a retro PC

Posted on 2024-04-29, 09:01

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I had a Willamette 1700 as family pc for years and, although it came with a crappy GF2 MX with 64bit memory bus, I then replaced it for a FX5600XT. Almost all XTs can be overclocked to 5600 levels, as they are basically the same. It let me play most games of that era 'reasonably' well, and now they …

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

Posted on 2024-04-26, 05:42

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I recently started an unorthodox backup strategy that I hope will be a good balance between mitigating data loss and staying on a budget. I currently have terabytes of data that I want backed up, but I haven't found a backup solution within my budget. Cloud storage is expensive, especially after …

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Re: Help needed in fixing a graphics card

Posted on 2024-04-25, 19:42

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Considering the card it is, from an economical standpoint just buy a new one. Now from a challenge standpoint, it’s probably a bad RAM chip from what I have seen in youtube videos.

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Re: 1997 period correct retro PC build

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:52

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You could technically do both. The Riva 128 is a 2D/3D card. I tried to look for Riva 128 in PCI flavour (AFAIK there was no AGP on 1997 MBs). It was scarce and too expensive. I already invested in Voodoo2 anyways. $210 AUD damn :) Wait, what? Are these the prices now? (Edit: ah, AUD, then it's …

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Re: Clonezilla not work

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:43

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Is there a version of this software that will work on hardware this old? I've used Clonezilla successfully on newer hardware, but when I wanted to clone my Socket 7 machine I gave up and used Norton's Ghost instead. A version of Clonezilla that would work on such old hardware would be great. They …

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Re: Plastic gotten sticky around laptop keyboard.

Posted on 2024-04-24, 09:53

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This plastic degradation happens on lots of items after their expected service life...had the same happen on Saitek X52 joysticks and similar items, on Canon cameras and so on. I guess it will at some point affect any "soft touch" plastic.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-23, 18:41

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You still need a special cable to connect it to VGA, it's a stupid connector competitor to DVI that didn't catch on. This one specifically works for Voodoo 3 3500: https://www.ebay.ch/itm/282632475628 See https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Voodoo_3_3500_VGA Its not a standard 3500 but rather a …

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