Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime
Posted on 2012-07-26, 20:49
did you get those pictures of my xg-dls?
Re: The Hilariously Misidentified Hardware Thread
Posted on 2012-07-26, 01:23
wow, a 650 in a crappy oem board... this should also be posted under the "hilariously overpriced auctions" thread as well.... However, i SPECIFICALLY look for these kinds of auctions. The person obviously doesn't know what he has, normal ebayers cant find it, and i get it for CHEAP. Thats how I got …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2012-07-26, 00:07
I dont fully understand the fascination with boxed hardware and NOT opening it. When i get sealed games, I just L-O-V-E to open it and enjoy it! The people that build box-forts out of sealed boxes just seems strange. 🙁
Re: Calling on all CPU's for the Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2012-07-24, 23:24
If I had a nice socket 4 board, I would sit up and watch it all night... I havent even seen on on ePay for a while now. At least not one that is 10x overpriced from that a-hole in canada. you know the one. ANYWHO... I jsut god done writing a term paper for my sister so I should start benchmarking …
Re: to buy or not to buy
Posted on 2012-07-24, 20:52
its a shame, i have a board that can use one... those cards will only work in media bus slots. that said, the video card will most likely work. the sound card part wont.
Re: What do you recommend for avi to mpeg1 converter under dos(box)?
Posted on 2012-07-24, 08:41
and exactly what the point of watching video in dosbox when it works fine in windows?
Re: Calling on all CPU's for the Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2012-07-24, 08:34
Dibbs on the pentium pro testing. I have a pci matrox g200 as well. ^.^ In addition, because i'm awesome, I will also do the 1mb cache version AND the overdrive. ^.^
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2012-07-23, 22:18
$60 incl shipping? Thats a hell of a sweet deal in my book. grats!
Re: RAMdrive for DOS/Win3.1
Posted on 2012-07-23, 20:46
the only issue with a ram disk is the cpu overhead. Even on new systems. its faster than a floppy and hard disk, but if you play a game that continuously loads from the disk, you may have stuttering issues.
Re: Dual 1.4ghz Pentium 3
Posted on 2012-07-23, 19:06
Unreal based games (like deus ex) Also games based off the half-life engine (counterstrike) supports the 3d sound provided by the mx300. It also supports the microsoft 3d as well. and If my memory is correct, creative diddnt do that until the audigy series. I remember having an mx300 when …
Re: Dual 1.4ghz Pentium 3
Posted on 2012-07-22, 21:44
the MX300 is THE soundcard for the era. if not that card, then the first audigy. If you have a A2-zs then just use that. while its a little new to be period correct, it was probably the best pci sound card until the x-fi. And even that is debatable. The differences between 2000 and xp are negligable …
Re: [SOLVED] "Upgraded" GPU, now recent bouts of stutter, help?
Posted on 2012-07-19, 04:36
you sir have more patience with windows 98 than I do! I probably would have set the damn thing on fire by now!
Re: "Upgraded" GPU, now recent bouts of stutter, help?
Posted on 2012-07-18, 16:08
I had a p3b-f back when it was new, and I remember something about the ps/2 mouse causing issues. Switch to a usb model and disable ps/2 and see what happens. I dont remember what the problem was exactly, just that there was one.
Re: "Upgraded" GPU, now recent bouts of stutter, help?
Posted on 2012-07-18, 12:52
what brand network card? I had issues with a realtek 8129, (i think) changed to a 3com905c issues disappeared. 905B actually. The plain 905 cards (rev A) i've always been told have weird issues in 98. Never experienced it myself, but that was mostly because I always went for rev B cards. I've only …
Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories
Posted on 2012-07-18, 07:51
I have the P4 xeon version of the board you have. I run it in a lian li pc-v2000. The case is now almost TEN years old. looks brand new. http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product0 … s_index=138&g=f buy it!
Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories
Posted on 2012-07-18, 06:51
the P3TDE6 is a standard EATX board. so any case that claims it can accept EATX cases will do. Lian-Li are my favorite!
DAY-Z anyone play it?
Posted on 2012-07-18, 02:37
I've been playing the DAy-Z mod for a game called Arma2 for the past month. So much so, its been eating all my spare time. It all started with a guy named paul soares jr. he made the original minecraft tutorial videos. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL419743EA97E8BCDF&feature=plcp ANYWAY he …
Re: anyone remember tape backup?
Posted on 2012-07-15, 05:02
I knew a place that use VHS tapes for backup. 😜 Quite a novel idea if I do say so myself.
Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories
Posted on 2012-07-12, 23:58
If you want a kickass P3 server chipset, the serverworks he-sl is king. I know they also made P4 chipsets, but intel pulled their head out of their arse and got thing right when they went ddr on p4's. 😜
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2012-07-12, 23:31
100Mbit on ISA was NOT very common! Nice find!
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