How many computers had an Arena named after them ? In the 1990’s HP was the largest computer company in California and World. They had facilities all over California. The HP Pavilion had to be the most popular computer in California family homes and possibly the entire USA. Just about everyone I …

ISA is provided via third-party bridge, but everything up to ICH5 south bridge should work with DMA access. May be still incompatible with some cards due to BIOS/bridge issues. I guess the only way to find out, is build it up... and try it. Appreciate the extra info! ibase PT-MB8000H. i prefer the …

Are you saying you can install NT 3.5 but after running though setup it does not boot? or that you are unable to even boot off the floppy to start the setup process? Also found this https://www.quora.com/Why-should-you-not-install-Windows-NT-3-51-on-a-Pentium-4-processor Relevant post below First …

Hey guys. I was wondering what your favorite piece of retro hardware is - be it in your collection or not - pictures are encouraged! For me it would be the Geforce 4 Ti4600 - specifically the Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD. The reason is probably pretty boring - it was in most tech and PC gaming …

Hey guys. I was wondering what your favorite piece of retro hardware is - be it in your collection or not - pictures are encouraged! For me it would be the Geforce 4 Ti4600 - specifically the Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD. The reason is probably pretty boring - it was in most tech and PC gaming …

Im running out of ideas, i cant boot my pc using windows nt 3.5, my bios is unknown from a gigabyte 8ig1000, boot process is the same for nt 3.5 and nt 4.0 right? Attached is the floppy disk image im using. Update1: double checked floppy disk drive, it is ok and working, also checked all my floppys, …

video just increases interest in old hardware I doubt that. Like I said, majority of interested people tend to pay more interest to game stuff an not ugly gray boxes from 90s. That also applies to old consoles. Because emulation is more convenient. Because it's the fastest P3 you can build? PIII …

I just got an nVIDIA 7900 GTX for my overpowered 98 machine. I'm using the 82.69 driver and everything is working fine except for the fact that my card has been down clocked into oblivion and I get this error message on boot: "The NVIDIA System Sentinel is reporting that the NVIDIA-powered graphics …

Sphere478 wrote on 2023-05-18, 02:54: Gumur.gurl wrote on 2023-05-18, 02:18: i used PARAGON GPT Loader years ago, really nice to use gpt on xp sp3 with no problems, OTB is the best i think. Do you have the software still? Hell yeah, i have a bunch of old cd´s with my retro programs, MP me and i …

i used PARAGON GPT Loader years ago, really nice to use gpt on xp sp3 with no problems, OTB is the best i think.

Hello All I have an old PC here that is in its twilight years... an HP corporate SFF with a C2D e6550 Win 10 runs ok but I was curious if a Q9300 would help breath a bit more life into it. They're fairly cheap on eBay. Thoughts? I have an amd e300 dual core, 4 times slower than that c2d, and im ok, …

PXL_20220922_014907267.jpg PXL_20220922_015024745.jpg PXL_20221121_031238071.jpg My computing area. Just moved into a new house. Can display my collection a little better now. Even had enough room in the closet of this room to set up a small tech station area that i have always wanted. F.E.a.R., …

lOL, RIGHT , they just glued a prescott to a 478 pin socket, also games of 2003 are great to play 20 years after with low end hardware of the time, in hl2 i get 20 fraps and call of duty 30-40 fps, EZTREME GRAPHICS 2 vga was such a monster card for its time, lmao. i Cant run cb15 because is 64 bit …

I'm sure there will be plenty of 32bit Windows XP benchmarking in the thread, not only because single core K8 CPUs are a bit too slow for Windows 6.x -x64 but also because the competition couldn't run a 64-bit OS. Ahem... a 478 SOCKET - 64 bit - pentium 4, exist. im running my benchmark and …

I'm sure there will be plenty of 32bit Windows XP benchmarking in the thread, not only because single core K8 CPUs are a bit too slow for Windows 6.x -x64 but also because the competition couldn't run a 64-bit OS. Ahem... a 478 SOCKET - 64 bit - pentium 4, exist. im running my benchmark and …

I was never hyped with Pentium 4´s, at the time circa ~2002, i had a pentium 3 system and a friend had a pentium 4 "willy" socket 423 - 1.7 ghz, and we spent a weekend in a lanparty benchmarking both systems, pentium 4 was very "meh", not disappointing, but meh, we didnt know nothing about SSE2, …