Re: Worth Keeping early socket 7 Motherboards?

Posted on 2014-11-17, 09:01

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by smeezekitty

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King_Corduroy wrote: Yeah this recycling craze is horrible. It makes me sick to think these great old computers are being melted down and turned into shoddy things like Iphones with components too small to re-purpose or repair. I agree. I am a hoarder and people that throw working things out really …

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Re: If the world had to live with a single generation of PC, how far back could we go?

Posted on 2014-11-17, 09:00

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And that's the reason why I abandoned mainstream entertainment in the mid-1990's, I could see where it was going and just gave up. Computing in general (and retro-computing in particular) is my entertainment now, along with watching pre-1990's movies and TV series once in a while. Couldn't agree …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-17, 02:20

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From a quick search, it appears to be based on the ARK Logic 1000. It would probably be fine as a 2D controller for a Win3.x or 95 machine (if 95 drivers exist for it) paired with a Voodoo Graphics or something similar. It appears that it will have limited gaming capabilities on its own though. If …

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Re: Worth Keeping early socket 7 Motherboards?

Posted on 2014-11-17, 01:34

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Unknown_K wrote: There are millions of socket 7 boards around so even if you toss them no big deal. I would keep socket 5 boards, they are not that common. Yes there is still a lot of socket 7 stuff but it is starting to get rarer. Its worth at least trying to sell before tossing it.

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-16, 20:54

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This is an interesting thread indeed. My love is the Pentium 1 era, pre-AGP. So many things going on in hardware at the time and lots of new things happening in games. Not to mention the birth of USB, optical and magneto-optical drives. The 486 through Pentium 1 did have a lot going for it. Rise of …

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Re: Worth Keeping early socket 7 Motherboards?

Posted on 2014-11-16, 19:30

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by smeezekitty

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If you dont want them, better sell them to other people.. Iam also have these PCI boards here, but wouldnt never tossed them.. This

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-16, 19:20

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But that's it, later computers do not have that kind of mojo, imho... Couldn't agree more. P4...I kind of hate them Agree with this too. Hot, slow and more common than dirt. What is to like? Yeah... Hell slow... Just doing it for fun. I do stuff like this too. People don't get why. Like XP on a P2 …

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Re: 486SX won't boot DOS at 2MHz?

Posted on 2014-11-16, 17:14

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by smeezekitty

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Disk controller probably just needs more clock speed than 2MHz

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-16, 09:12

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I think a bad chip is out of the question, my laptop uses an original Core chip, that works for what it does but it's slow. I have a small desktop with a Core 2 Duo E-something, that one is garbage and it will not run stably. I used to use it for streaming to Twitch, but it was very slow and very …

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-16, 03:45

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Favorite Generation: Is between two, firstly I'd pick the early Athlon era, Desktop hardware was absolutely terrible and workstation/server hardware was awesome. It was a fun time watching AMD and Intel fight it out, watching the 3D graphics market mature and decent 3D Accelerators start appearing. …

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Re: PLEASE HELP ME FIND THIS CASE!!! :D

Posted on 2014-11-16, 02:23

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HighTreason wrote: Oh, great, now I want one of these; http://aiyamicro.com/legacy-products/pics/cases_computer_340series_translucent_cases.jpg […] Show full quote Oh, great, now I want one of these; Must have that!

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-15, 22:47

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Q9550 is still a respectable CPU. If you overclock it you can still put it well above a Haswell i3, even in not so well threaded applications, I think. You can probably run 2013/2014 games just fine if you put something like a 750TI (or AMD equivalent) and don't have some sort of OCD for setting …

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Re: IBM 5151 monitor repair

Posted on 2014-11-15, 19:28

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by smeezekitty

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How about using four of these? Or 2x5.6 + 1x6.8. I used the same types in my speaker crossovers too XD Those will be great. I also noticed something else: the flyback is a bit "leaky". The clamp that holds the ferrite core together is corroded, and it looks like it arced over into the dust from …

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-15, 19:11

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Performance-wise of course my favorite generation is the current one: great performance I don't even have a "modern" system.My main machine uses a Q9550. I still play games from 2010-2011 on it though. and we are going back to energy efficiency (unlike the "let's drain more and more!" philosophy of …

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Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-15, 08:50

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by smeezekitty

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As the title suggests. What is your favorite generation of hardware. Also you can post your favorite piece of hardware. For me, my favorites are the 486 and the Pentium 3. Why? Well my first computer that was my own was a 486 so I grew attached to it. P3 because it was the first generation to really …

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Re: IBM 5151 monitor repair

Posted on 2014-11-15, 03:50

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by smeezekitty

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I'd recommend replacing it with four 4.7µF 50V+ ceramic capacitors in parallel for lower total ESR and increased reliability compared to electrolytics. Or two beefy 10uf poly-film caps likes these: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ECQ-E1106KF/EF1106-ND/56416 Its worth the extra expense. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-15, 00:36

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Ive bought four of these floppy convertors, to convert new style 34 pin IDC connector, to old style card edge connector.. I know these things are all most Rare to find. (ideal for XT and 286 systems) http://i62.tinypic.com/2j5iccp.jpg If i can get my hands on these pcbs, maybe i can sell these self …

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-14, 22:04

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Nice vid smeeze, I like the idea of piping youtube-dl's output into mplayer. If you download and output straight to a file and read it from there is the framerate better or about the same? It is smoother when read from a file. Notably it doesn't do the occasional video freeze/audio loop. But the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-14, 20:33

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Very interesting, even though it seems to be similar to the ideia i previously gave, it's a bit more complicated. It's awesome to see a 486 still doing stuff even if the video was at 144p. By the way, can you go full screen (at that resolution) without lagging much? I found VLC to be FAR too slow …

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-14, 19:46

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I seen the video (it's available at this time). I'd like to know how you downloaded the vid prior to playing it, could come in handy :D I am using the windows build of the youtube-dl python script: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ I am actually directly piping the output of youtube-dl into the …

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