Re: What thermal paste stays wet the longest?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:51

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chrismeyer6 wrote on Yesterday, 20:43: KPX(KingPin Extreme) works really well And stays wet for a long time. AS5 ,mx-4 both work well. What application are you going to be using the thermal compound in? I'm guessing the modded K6-2+ chips 😋

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Re: What was the most surprising/odd thing you've found on an old computer?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:03

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the older a computer gets the more interesting the mundane business stuff seems to become, a peek into history. a few letters and a spreadsheet from 2010 seems a bit dull, but from 1995 and it suddenly feels like digital archaeology! I have actually thought about this and I wouldn't be surprised if …

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Re: What thermal paste stays wet the longest?

Posted on Yesterday, 14:16

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Ceramique was always my choice when Artic Silver 5 couldn't be trusted due to it's conductivity. Supposedly the Artic Silver 5 gets left in the dust these days compared to the likes of MX-5 and others. Ceramique didn't perform as well as AS5. That being said, you're probably better off getting some …

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Re: What thermal paste stays wet the longest?

Posted on Yesterday, 12:38

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MX-5 is less viscosity when freshly deposited and spread on. When clamped and put into use for one or twice, checked the viscosity get higher but still moist. Perfect type. Cheers, I'd reckon the newer pastes could perhaps be somewhat better suited for CPUs with IHSs where the TIMs with higher …

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Re: PC Case supply drying up?

Posted on Yesterday, 12:28

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I saw this problem coming some years ago and decided to stock up on a small number of brand new cases and have been scooping up any nice case I happen to come across locally or cheaply (it's how I got my HAF 932, 2 Chieftec Dragon cases and a couple Centurion 5 cases, just to name a few). I already …

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

Posted on 2022-05-19, 20:59

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post some pics when you do it ;) Can do! Gonna be a lot of pics though and I've got several other projects that need to be completed before that (mostly not to do with anything hardware related btw). Btw, how many boards do you have in total? If you have THAT many without a motherboard box I reckon …

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Re: What was the most surprising/odd thing you've found on an old computer?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 20:50

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the older a computer gets the more interesting the mundane business stuff seems to become, a peek into history. a few letters and a spreadsheet from 2010 seems a bit dull, but from 1995 and it suddenly feels like digital archaeology! I have actually thought about this and I wouldn't be surprised if …

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Re: What was the most surprising/odd thing you've found on an old computer?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 20:45

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I don't think I ever found anything interesting on a harddrive. The usual stuff like resumes, random data files, installed games and some holiday pics which were really completely uninteresting and bland as holiday pics could ever be. Thank god I never found anything illegal or something …

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Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 20:57

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Thbks @WJG6260 for your reply. In the mean time, I've upgraded the P11 to P18 BIOS and it does boot with the SL5FQ. So between P11 and P18, they've inserted the CPU microcode of that Coppermine revision. Same issue with my Slot 1-Tualatins (Upgradeware Slot-T, LinLin on Soltek and Powerleap iP3/T): …

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

Posted on 2022-05-18, 20:00

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Technically I did this the last weekend, anyways I checked pretty much all my non-in-box mainboards for bulged capacitors and did a re-organisation in the storage to make them more easy to identify Also found few CPUs I forgot in the socket who knows when :D Glad to see you taking good care of your …

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Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 19:56

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Sorry about the delay in replying to all those who have responded but thank you for your invaluable insight and efforts! flupke11, I really appreciate you taking the time to test your own board. I'm a bit bummed that it didn't work, but glad to now have an answer. I actually just received my VC820 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-18, 16:41

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Bought another random full system for €13 and basically hoping some nice parts were inside it. It's a little bit on the new side, but it's too old to be considered new. It turned out to contain an ASUS P5GC-MX/1333, which is one of the earlier LGA-775 boards that were compatible with Core2 (only …

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

Posted on 2022-05-18, 08:36

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Technically I did this the last weekend, anyways I checked pretty much all my non-in-box mainboards for bulged capacitors and did a re-organisation in the storage to make them more easy to identify Also found few CPUs I forgot in the socket who knows when :D Glad to see you taking good care of your …

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

Posted on 2022-05-18, 08:31

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That makes sense, but I'm sure most can be at least pinned down to a 5 year range. Almost all my cases are tower, even the AT cases. Will be keeping an eye out for a couple of desktop cases for pre-486. I just have no idea personally when it comes to cases - except that better airflow is usually …

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

Posted on 2022-05-18, 08:25

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Edited, too controversial. Cheers, It's not controversial, at least in my opinion, but its akin to telling someone with a broken leg to "walk it off". I understand you meant well with your comments and they are totally valid from your point of view. I feel more people need a bit of education when …

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Re: Retro PC freezes while gaming, repeats last audio.

Posted on 2022-05-17, 15:38

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Update, the CPU does not have a fan on it. It only has a heatsink and then the powersuply that hangs over the CPU has a fan pointed at the CPU. I measured that the heatsink can be about 35°C but then cools down. and heats back up. I think the CPU is probably fine. But you mentioned RAM, and these …

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Re: Retro PC freezes while gaming, repeats last audio.

Posted on 2022-05-17, 15:33

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It's not a issue in s single games but two games so far: Polda 2 (it has only a Windows release) - after playing for a while in one dialog the PC froze, Ctrl+Alt+Del did not thing at the point I had to shutdown the whole PC. and the second game is called Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan and …

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Re: Patching Award 4.51 bios with fixes - all modifications make it unbootable [Chaintech 6AIA2]

Posted on 2022-05-16, 21:17

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You could try modding the BIOS file using either AWDBEDIT or CBROM, then opening the modded file with MODBIOS, make some trivial change and see if MODBIOS can open + save the file. Then try that BIOS file if it worked. Just ftr, I have basically no experience using these programs (or it's been so …

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-16, 21:07

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I wasn't aware those 2*8 chipped PC-66 32MB SDRAMs had become so hard to come by. These weren't exactly rare back in the day. The 16MB modules (the ones which are basically half the 32MB PC-66 ones) were more uncommon. It's quite the limitation from the 430VX chipset. Back then I always saw it more …

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-16, 16:34

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Cache has diminishing returns moving from FPM RAM, to EDO, to SDRAM - with SDRAM, the burst speed is the same, but the cache delivers the start a few cycles quicker But it does always have some return, even with SDRAM. Why not go for 64MB SDRAM if you can - the max cacheable range of the VX chipset …

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