Re: Has this ever happened to you? Low priced ebay auctions not BIN'ed.
Posted on 2013-05-30, 01:50
Re: Has this ever happened to you? Low priced ebay auctions not BIN'ed.
Posted on 2013-05-29, 19:42
no. THE most annoying thing in ebay is this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/390601620898 Basically, something you would sell a kidney for, and its super cheap, but its the wrong item in the box. I have the WORST case of blue-balls right now, words cannot describe it.
Re: In your opinion: What is best hard drive and controller of all time?
Posted on 2013-05-24, 21:29
sliderider wrote: What is the best hard drive in for retro PC? 8086 era: ______ <--- Fill the best hard drive here No votes for the Seagate ST-506 or 412 for 8086/8088 systems? With an adaptec st-02 adapter, any scsi drive <1gb is possible. That said, the seagate 157 series was godly for its day.
Re: In your opinion: What is best hard drive and controller of all time?
Posted on 2013-05-24, 19:49
umm...99% of the sound cards I've had use the 220h for i/o, not 330h. In fact with scsi you GAIN irq 14 & 15 for free use.
Re: In your opinion: What is best hard drive and controller of all time?
Posted on 2013-05-24, 16:40
SCSI has ~ALWAYS~ been the fastest and most reliable choice for hard drives. Even the latest 15k-rpm SAS drives are awesome for spinning disks. the latest SSD drives are pretty nice now that they have most of the bugs worked out.
Re: ABit BP6
Posted on 2013-05-24, 06:07
actually, now that I think about it, most if not all celerons will NOT work in SMP. do you have a dummy plug for the 2nd socket so you can test it out using only 1 cpu? also: http://www.ebay.com/itm/170858649364 & http://www.ebay.com/itm/350699752467
Re: ABit BP6
Posted on 2013-05-24, 01:47
get one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/161028068342 They are worth their weight in gold. Which thankfully isn't that much to be honest...
Re: Old "servers" and DOS game.
Posted on 2013-05-23, 23:49
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150992667198 i'm not kidding when I say they HP Kayak series workstations were PIMP. The one above is reasonably priced, runs the awesome slot 2 xeon chips. (slot 1's on steroids basically) now that i'm looking I might just buy that one I linked... use it as my dos/mac file …
Re: ABit BP6
Posted on 2013-05-23, 22:52
My BP6 doesn't seem to work (CPU fans spin up but doesn't post). Which capacitors seem to be the problem on these boards? http://www.tnpcnewsletter.com/dan/Bulging_Capacitors/close-up.jpg rule of thumb, if you even suspect the motherboard has bad caps, (and you want to keep the board) then just …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-05-21, 21:30
its technically a high-speed microcontroller. in this case it adds 4 pci slots. ^.^ the i960 was the first ever pci-pci bridge chip. They were ALWAYS on multi-channel scsi raid cards, as they were EXCELLENT in making the ECC calculations that x86 cpus choked on. read all about it here: http://en. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-05-21, 20:51
I got REAL tired of having "BABY" AT motherboards around. So I FINALLY found a "FULL" AT board with dual cpus! Also, it looks NEW IN BOX! HUZZAH! http://www.ebay.com/itm/290915916896
Re: Building a new computer for RPG gaming - Skyrim etc
Posted on 2013-05-20, 05:19
If you're going to do something stupid like play games on a tv, you might as well just get a PS3 and play skyrim on that. You want to unleash shyrim? play on one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/160993969961 Mine is powered by an ati 7970, glorious card. great framerate even at 2560x1600 max …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-05-18, 01:23
I over paid like hell for it, but I got it today and it works flawlessly! http://i.imgur.com/CUSwFnsl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3lIYlYLl.jpg The alpha coolers I have for it will fit fine, except they were designed for lid-less 370/462 processors. So the retention clip will need to be "relaxed" a bit …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-05-17, 20:46
holy frankencard... sound, tseng 6100 2d AND power vr 3d?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-05-15, 01:54
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151038277331 I feel I paid a bit too much. That said, I only have maybe one motherboard left that I will "sell a kidney to have". The Asus P65UP8. I know it says "not working" but the guy didn't know the board requires 2 identical dimms before it will post. About an hour on …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2013-05-13, 04:20
just got around to watching the video. I LOVE text graphics games! Its what i'm going to specialize my old 8086 ibm for when I get it running. That said, this game reminded me of one I had a long time ago. it looked IDENTICAL except you were putting out forest fires. You should review that game next …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2013-05-12, 07:08
I use one of these: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-deathadder Its actually my 2nd one. Ever since the original boomslang... Its the 2nd one because I literally WORE IT OUT. I probably went through 10 mouse pads before the mouse pads wore out.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2013-05-12, 02:50
I'm just going to leave this here... http://www.oldapps.com/Paint_Shop_Pro.php
Re: Old "servers" and DOS game.
Posted on 2013-05-11, 16:55
not really. old server boards usually require special cases. The hp kayak series are NEAT looking boxes. I'd look for an non-oem board to be honest.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2013-05-10, 22:16
Just admit you've been playing a LOT of Skyrim. I'm personally on a binge right now. dropped like 75 hours into the game on this character...
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