Re: 8 of my retro PC builds in all of the Lian Li cases

Posted on 2024-04-29, 11:00

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I have 10 Cooler Master cases but nothing by Lian Li. Brand loyalty is a funny thing. It is indeed, and especially when we form those kind of associations at a young age they can really stick with you. CM were first to the all aluminium case market of course and those early ones are really really …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-29, 10:52

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This is definitely some kind of Inwin S5xx branded as Systemax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Industrial_Company https://www.targetpc.com/hardware/cases/inwins500/Mechanical.jpg Oh nice find! Yes it looks like you're absolutely right, mine just has a different front panel. It looks like I …

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8 of my retro PC builds in all of the Lian Li cases

Posted on 2024-04-29, 07:55

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You could say that I'm a bit of a fan of the classic Lian Li cases from the early-to-mid 2000s. So much so that I've ended up with 8 of their silver aluminium cases (plus a 9th spare) and I've just about finished building them into complete systems. I've gone with fairly well balanced specs, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-29, 07:42

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I picked up this case today, a cheap local find on eBay for a change. Nothing too exciting but obviously finding good condition beige cases is getting difficult now. No yellowing on this one and it's very solid and heavy with nice thick steal. No plans for it at the moment :) This is definitely …

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

Posted on 2024-04-28, 08:50

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Swapped my Slot A build from a Lian Li PC-7 USB on the right, into a Lian Li PC-7 USB B2 on the left. The B2 is basically a second revision and gains a fan location in the roof, but trades the the larger HDD cage from the original for a smaller one, and loses two USB ports on the front. I'm trying …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-27, 20:00

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I picked up this case today, a cheap local find on eBay for a change. Nothing too exciting but obviously finding good condition beige cases is getting difficult now. No yellowing on this one and it's very solid and heavy with nice thick steal. No plans for it at the moment 😀

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Re: Rebuilding my First Voodoo computer. ( Made in USA )

Posted on 2024-04-27, 08:53

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Unknowing to myself I bought the Budget Voodoo Banshee. If I would have known its limitations I would have purchased the Voodoo-2 instead This made me chuckle. As a teenager at the time I also bought a Banshee, because it was newer than the Voodoo2 my mate had and I didn't need a 2D card as well, …

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Re: need some help to pick the right athlon cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 15:20

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I'd say, aim to pick up a 1200 / 1266 with 133/266 FSB .. it's away from the expensive hotspots like 1.4Ghz fastest or magic 1Ghz.... will be 9x or 9.5x then you can run it at 900/950 and most boards are quite comfortable at 115 if you want the Ghz. Then you know the CPU okay is to shoot the moon …

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 07:42

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far less exciting than most people i'm sure but i've been browsing around for case badges for various old windows OSes for a few machines i have kicking around. although i'm fairly confident in the places i've seen them being sold in/at are all -- y'know -- real stores and i'm not about to be …

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Re: need some help to pick the right athlon cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 07:40

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I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it to be honest. You'll have seen my benchmark results in the other thread comparing a Pluto 700MHz chip against a Thunderbird 700MHz chip in 3DMark (with a Voodoo3 3000), and while the Thunderbird is faster as I would expect, it's not a huge jump. If I recall, …

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Re: What are your thoughts about the Gigabyte GA-7IXE mainboard?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 11:01

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Yeah I think you'll be heading towards a multi-system approach very quickly!! I seem to remember reading the AMD750 chipset had issues even at 4x AGP, but that was possibly limited to earlier chip revisions. Best to do some reading on that if you can. But aside from the fact a 1400MHz Thunderbird …

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Re: What are your thoughts about the Gigabyte GA-7IXE mainboard?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 07:43

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Myself and at least one other here purchased one of these boards 'new' recently, and I'd imagine you're looking at the same seller. What I can say so far is the boards are not technically new - they have witness marks from the mounting holes where they've been installed in a case - but what the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-11, 14:35

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predator_085 wrote on 2024-04-11, 11:50: Just ordered the first 2 part of my future Dos /early win 98system that is going to be based on a a basement find ( a Gigabyte GA-5AA mainboard) K6-2 500 AFX Riva TNT 2 card from Creative Great spec 😀

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Re: Is it safe to connect to internet under Windows 95 or 98SE?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:05

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This topic came up recently, you should be able to find it with a search. There is no clear cut answer. It's down to your approach to the risks. Your ISP router should mitigate a lot of the issues that were relevant during the hey-day of Windows 98 and XP. But the usefulness of having the systems …

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Re: eBay Voodoo 2's (Project BRICK) Retro build

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:02

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Only you can answer that question! It comes down to what your time is worth, and/or if you have a strong desire to have a go at fixing it, and if the $12 part is an inconsequential extra cost. If it ends up needing more replacement parts then it's a case of how far down that road do you go... Weigh …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo Rush oldest drivers

Posted on 2024-04-09, 18:29

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-04-09, 16:07: It's possible that cover discs of PC magazines from that time may have even older drivers. Finding those might be a challenge though. That's a good tip, and quite a lot of those cover discs are on archive.org too.

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

Posted on 2024-04-09, 18:27

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Cut a hole in the top of a thin client to fit a 44-pin IDE cable and a 4-pin CD Audio cable through. This, paired with a PCI Solo-1 card gives OPL-3 sound (ESFM), SB Pro emulation and CD-ROM (IDE) access as well as CD-Audio access (analog) under DOS. The drive is a standard IDE laptop drive, the …

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Re: Help - Voodoo 2 SLI performance

Posted on 2024-04-08, 19:11

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I don't know how the VIA chip compares to a Coppermine P3, but I get approx. 2480 points in 3DMark2000 with a 700MHz Coppermine and V2 SLI, and that's with the default benchmark settings (1024x768x16 etc.). Same 3Dfx drivers as you, no tweaks.

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Re: RetroBox for late 90's to early 2000's games

Posted on 2024-04-07, 08:01

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-04-07, 07:07: I think NFS3 may have similar issues as well. In my experience on my LAN party machines NFS3 is fine with the 45.23 drivers on Windows 98, using Geforce 256 DDR, Geforce 2 GTS, Geforce 3, And Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB and 128MB 😀 Still looks better using Glide …

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

Posted on 2024-04-06, 18:35

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I made time to strip down and clean the most recent Lian Li case I picked up. It's only a PC-7 but boy oh boy, do these things ever clean up well. A bit unconventional maybe, especially doing it in the shower... but alloy wheel cleaner is acidic enough to take any tarnishing off the raw aluminium …

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