Re: Voodoo3 and the VSA-100

Posted on 2016-10-28, 08:50

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Voodoo 3 wasn't for sale at the time I got my Deschutes 350 and I didn't really feel like getting 1 or 2 extra Voodoo 2s, so I ended up with a Viper550 (a Riva TNT). It also had 32 bit, which was so much slower, I ended up using only 16 bit for the rest of its lifetime.

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Re: My SS7 Build "The Cheese block"

Posted on 2016-10-28, 08:42

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luckybob wrote: I hate that enlight case SO VERY MUCH. 🙁 It is that cutting edge?

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Re: Voodoo3 and the VSA-100

Posted on 2016-10-28, 00:56

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Rampage was their first new architecture since Voodoo1. I recall reading that the project was a mess of feature creep and was originally planned to be released much sooner (without D3D 8 features). VSA-100 was a stop gap to have something new-ish to sell in the meantime, another extension of the …

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Re: The time has come :(

Posted on 2016-10-28, 00:47

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Thanks Phil. It's difficult to know which parts are an investment. I am slightly out of touch as I stopped collecting a few years ago. Since then only things that have fallen into my lap have made their way into the storage room. eBay is not an option for me, after someone tried to scam me out of …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2016-10-27, 23:48

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Was browsing the members list, 2 virtually identical names, both with different locations but same external linkspam. http://www.vogons.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=24817 http://www.vogons.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=24032 I'd say it's suspect, 1 post across both accounts. edit: …

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Re: Well, should I ask this girl to coffee or not?

Posted on 2016-10-27, 10:54

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kixs wrote: Act like it never happened, like she is just another girl in your class. ^^Exactly this. It releases any possible tensions and it's very human, so probably things can go as smooth as they went before you asked her.

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Re: Are Geforce 256s rare or hard to find?

Posted on 2016-10-27, 10:50

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I only ever found ONE in the wild and regretfully I couldn't afford it at the time :depressed: In The Netherlands, GF2 always seemed to be way more common, even Rendition 2x00 was more common in NL than GF, so I regretfully don't even have a single one. But GF2MX is roughly the same in performance, …

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Re: LS-120 drive (and using in Windows 10)

Posted on 2016-10-27, 08:57

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I'm sorry to not be of more use to you, but in WinXP, with the help of WinImage, I did get full support for 2.88MB floppies and its drive. I have no idea about how WinImage behaves in newer versions of Windows with odd formats.

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Re: Need info on motherboard

Posted on 2016-10-27, 03:54

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Well...looking at the pic of the conversation you posted, to me it seems like the seller knew. Or he flatout lies or is, as you already said, a scumball.

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Re: Need info on motherboard

Posted on 2016-10-27, 01:11

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Jade Falcon wrote: It was sold to me as being 100% clean and working. Jade Falcon wrote: Seller told me that he did not see any corrosion. 😕 This might not end well. 😠 Well at least you were told it was working. I hope you do get it working. Have you managed to clean up the board?

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

Posted on 2016-10-27, 00:46

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Thanks all! I never see anything like this where I live either lol It is only the second time in my entire life I find something on the sidecurb that's actually better than the best I actually own at the time (the last time this happened, I found a 1GHz Coppermine s370 system while my then-fastest …

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Re: My SS7 Build "The Cheese block"

Posted on 2016-10-26, 21:17

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Very nice build! Looks very clean, seems balanced (no memory left uncached I presume), well done! If you intent to remove the front panel sound thingy and don't have any matching front bezel thingies (these aren't usually very standard, so the plastic front bezel thingies from other cases will …

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

Posted on 2016-10-26, 21:03

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I couldn't believe my luck when I saw this at the trash after having gotten groceries, but taking this home was a nobrainer. dumpsterfind1.jpg dumpsterfind2.jpg dumpsterfind3.jpg dumpsterfind4.jpg I took it apart after taking these pics but I haven't tested any of this stuff, the board has a couple …

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Re: How to fix your dead on-board floppy controller

Posted on 2016-10-26, 20:47

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This touches a nerve. I recently killed the floppy controller on a nice old mobo after pulling out and reseating the memory modules. There was no need to do this, I just wanted to see if a particular module worked (it did). But just doing this killed the floppy controller, probably due to flexing …

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Re: Why 478 and not 775?

Posted on 2016-10-26, 20:27

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Strangely the P4 era especially Socket 423 and Socket 478 are a dead generation to me, Athlon XP covered that era just fine. Sure those Socket 775 Dual Core P4 were beasts, but they were also power hungry. I would use Athlon XP for a fast 98SE machine all the way. PS. I played Doom 3 on a fast …

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Re: Preventing bad caps

Posted on 2016-10-26, 14:32

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ODwilly wrote: Dude that is true, but Iv yet to experience their failure. Not meaning that it will not happen, but when it does they pop and you just need to swap em out. It's like a fire cracker, scared the shit outa me! 😲

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Re: Retro system log

Posted on 2016-10-26, 08:51

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Could you post a pic of the CPU cooler you intend to use with your 3200+? Those chips ran quite hot, even with that copper stock AMD HSF! (especially if the top of the fins started getting dusty) If you're still in need of a common but good sA HSF, I'd recommend an Arctic Cooling Copper Lite 3/ …

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Re: WIP 1: Ezra-T slow-down machine, S370 industrial build...

Posted on 2016-10-26, 08:42

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I wonder about the VIA C3 Samuel 1 (known as VIA Cyrix III) which is even slower than Samuel 2, but extremenly rare The Samuel 1 is not that rare, but the cancelled VIA C3 Joshua core is. The Joshua was an actual Cyrix design. This is what I thought. I did have some difficulty getting one of mine …

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Re: Cooling Needed for 486 DX2 66Mhz

Posted on 2016-10-26, 08:07

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I've never liked AS5, it was messy, difficult to clean, to me it wasn't nearly worth the fuzz it got. I simply used some MX-2 or so? I also got some cheaper stuff which is perfectly fine for quick tests and very old chips like P1 and earlier. My DX4 got one of those taller passive spiky HSs along …

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Re: Claustrophobia feeling from having too much stuff?

Posted on 2016-10-26, 07:59

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I only wanted the builds that I once had or wanted. The rest would be in the boxes. Some years later I don't have any complete system that I once had or wanted but have tons of stuff in boxes ;) When I go search for something I'm almost always amazed what's in the boxes. I noticed that once I …

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