Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-12-08, 13:26

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Sometimes you still find treasures. I haven't found much this year. I found just 30 minutes ago a sound blaster in local recycling center that has a SCSI. Never seen a sound blaster with that before. I watched an idiot totally smoke the SCSI cable hooking it up backwards on CT1770. Wild seeing 45- …

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Re: Asus P5A-B death ?

Posted on 2018-12-08, 13:23

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Hi, Help,I recently buy a Asus P5A-B and it doesn't work When I push the power button ON, the fan of the cpu turn ON but I have nothing on screen, no beep on startup and no POST. The screen is blank. I have try with different RAM, PSU and CPU (AMD and Intel), I have the same result. The CPU seems …

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Re: Vintage hardware collectors heaven.

Posted on 2018-12-08, 13:19

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I'd definitely visit a store like that! :D I think it is interesting to watch it from a PoV from someone who doesn't know how to build a retro PC, but still having a certain respect for that. Obviously anyone would want to go through all that stuff, looking for jewels. Metal Jesus would be more an …

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Re: 2007 "retro" C2D XP PC

Posted on 2018-12-08, 12:41

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I think this is a nice no-frills rig :). I've build 'boring' spare-parts systems myself several times, depending from what I had laying around and what I wanted to try out next and the Intel C2D is quite legendary. In a way I prefer reading about these 'average' rigs instead of the ones that are …

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Re: New here

Posted on 2018-12-03, 02:15

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Not fun to be told to "jump in front of a running bus" because i'm doing the common Am5x86 overclock. It's not even a rare CPU and it's not being done on a rare board either (M919) No, of course not. That's just absurd :blah: I don't really mind this particular overclock. And as you already …

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Re: Asus MEB (So370 motherboard) - worth saving?

Posted on 2018-12-03, 01:56

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Cheers to all! So I got this motherboard a few days ago, it came with a Celeron-533 and some cooler (not pictured). There are a number of caps missing (broken off the board, their legs still dangling there), and a few more that are severely bent and with at least one leg pulled off. So in order to …

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Re: New here

Posted on 2018-12-02, 20:36

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That's nothing. I know there's a few OC shamers that would go ballistic over others running "vintage collectable CPUs" above stock. In the end it's their own stuff, but that play doh 'incident' is really the extreme end of shameless carelessness and it's just pointless. Often it's also pointless to …

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Re: 3DFX cards - too expensive

Posted on 2018-12-02, 20:23

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I have bought and sold a lot of 3dfx hardware the last years as i was very fortunate to beeing able to buy a lot of cards when prices were fairly low. My collection is fairly consistent now at around 55-60 cards.. i just love having a lot of spares for my systems as i know stuff will be harder and …

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Re: 3DFX cards - too expensive

Posted on 2018-12-02, 20:17

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I snagged a few Voodoos ages ago when nobody really cared about them. The 4500's were never that common even then. The only reason I have a 4500 was because it was in a junk PC somebody gave me. Guess my boxed 5500 AGP is worth what I paid for it new back in the day (which I find kind of funny). …

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Re: 486 100mhz motherboard build advice ?

Posted on 2018-12-01, 04:15

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I don't want to jump to conclusions I think this is the wisest thing for us to do and I'd prefer to not jump the gun. If he is a spammer, he should be dealt with and there are ways for this. If he is not a spammer...then just let him be. Unless he starts breaking some other rules or whatever. In …

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Re: 486 100mhz motherboard build advice ?

Posted on 2018-12-01, 04:10

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I have a 486dx4 VLB motherboard that can support up to 100mhz CPU. Purpose of build: A very good and stable 486 VLB computer without over-clocking. OS - DOS 6.2 / Win-3.11 What type RAM should I use ? You should use a type of RAM that will work with your board. Consult your motherboard manual or …

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Re: 486 100mhz motherboard build advice ?

Posted on 2018-12-01, 03:53

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im amazed you have 700+ posts for somebody that joined 6 months ago but they all always ask pretty much the same stuff I've been noticing this too. How many builds do you have now OP? I've been seeing these same threads for months and months now where you just post a bunch of short one line …

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Re: 486 100mhz motherboard build advice ?

Posted on 2018-12-01, 03:48

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Assuming the motherboard you liked to is the one you have, look on pages 10 and 17 of the motherboard manual you linked to. It's a Gigabyte GA-486vs. http://www.motherboards.org/files/manuals/47/486vs8a.pdf It looks to me like you need 72-pin SIMM going by your motherboard picture. The manual says …

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Re: Burned CD Roms load really slow

Posted on 2018-11-29, 01:50

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Many years ago, I've got that stuff obsessively nailed down, doing perfect burns, including perfect duplication of my copy protected originals without needing "no cd" cracks to play from the backups. The funny thing is, I now remember next to nothing other than 16x being best in most cases :dead: …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-29, 01:27

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The pic should have been obvious... It's a board with Intel's i820 Camino chipset that supports SDRAM using an MTH (Memory Translator Hub). Those things were awful by design, combining SDRAM's relatively low bandwidth with the Rambus interface's excessively high latencies. But the reality was worse …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-11-21, 01:48

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Right, here goes, first impression (no testing or disassembly, just what I could see): This is a really good haul! :D The Chaintech 6BTM0 is a board I worked with quite a lot. Some don't support Coppermine but some do, though I can't remember the details about which ones could and which ones …

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Re: Last cards to only support Win98?

Posted on 2018-10-29, 00:03

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Rendition Verité 2100 comes to mind. It may have Win2k drivers, I'm too lazy to look it up. We used to have trouble getting these to work on XP machines and back then people didn't even want 9x anymore because they considered it too old. Even if they got it for free 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-13, 22:54

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PcBytes wrote: Bought this little 430VX P200MMX machine for $5. Biostar mobo, 2 HDDs (IBM and Maxtor, Matrox MGA Millenium PCI, dead Toshiba CDROM, 200W PSU, 48MB EDO, 98SE. That's a nice looking case 😀 It has the option to slide the front thingy, right?

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Re: Pentium II Mods

Posted on 2018-10-13, 03:11

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Even if you find an unlocked PII (which were only made until about the first half of 1998 IIRC, they aren't exactly unlocked, but rather limited in multiplier ranges... with the default multiplier being the highest they can use. So an "unlocked" PII-400 will go up to 4x maximum AFAIK. They could …

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Re: Worst hacks or bodges you've perpetrated?

Posted on 2018-10-12, 19:41

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The worst? I don't know. But I used this cooling solution a couple of times. Worked flawlessly for years 😁 Filename DSC00709.jpg File size 380.68 KiB Views 1256 views

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