Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)
Posted on 2016-08-11, 13:23
Oldskoolmaniac wrote: Have you tried submerging the cards in 99% Alcohol, instead of soapy water? Seems a bit too much of a fire hazard for my tastes 🤣
Re: Red Alert 2 & Age of Empires 2 LAN Parties; September 2016; NL
Posted on 2016-08-11, 09:36
Re: 486 Motherboards and components
Posted on 2016-08-10, 21:18
MasterKano wrote: I found a AOpen VI15G Socket 3 on Ebay for £25 minus, Take it or leave it? Same as the one LGR used in his build video, seemed somewhat stable. It's a nice board 😀
Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)
Posted on 2016-08-10, 19:44
@tetrium - I also have removed all the heastinks from my motherboards and sometimes even the CPU's. The only motherboards with a battery inside are the three completed builds 5x86, K6-2 and the PIII 550MHz . All are DURACELL CR2032. Anyway they will be checked once a year for leaks, but I've yet to …
Re: Bulding a DOS gaming box based on everyones suggestions here, what do you think
Posted on 2016-08-10, 19:18
98 games like say Unreal Tournament. ive read that a k6-3+ wont be able to handle the game very well. Where did you read this btw? Define "very well"? UT probably has only slightly higher system requirements compared to Unreal and it ran fine using a K6-III/400 and another system using a Mendocino …
Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2016-08-10, 19:07
I will be building an Asus PVI-486SP3 soon and have two CPU's at my disposal. Just waiting for parts to begin. The board supports 25mhz, 33mhz & 40mhz clock/fsb (no 50 :blah:) With the board set to 33mhz, the i486DX4 100mhz should read 100 (3x33mhz). Iirc, ASUS PVI-486SP3 had undocumented jumper …
Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino
Posted on 2016-08-10, 14:37
Im really shocked that this plays UT at playable frames I'm not really surprised, quite frankly. I've played the original Unreal on both Celeron-400 + TNT2 M64 and K6-III/400 + Voodoo 2 and it was very playable all the way. There might've been a little bit of slowdown at few specific parts in the …
Re: 1994-95 era rig
Posted on 2016-08-10, 14:32
Thinking about putting together a rig for this era but kinda foggy on what a "solid" system would be. Can anyone give some examples? Doesn't have to be a "screamer", middle of the road is fine. Mostly for playing DOS football titles for that period. If you're mostly looking at playing games from …
Re: 486 Motherboards and components
Posted on 2016-08-10, 14:25
I've had a look at a few Motherboards: PC Chips M918i for £30 Asus PVI-486SP3 for £160! (Seemed steep as I see someone got one from Austria for 5$) TMC PAT48PG4 for £50 Chaintech 486SPM for £90! Man....why didn't I just sell the board instead of trying to power it up lol! (Hint...loud bang). But …
Re: AT Power Supply |Need Halp|
Posted on 2016-08-10, 14:17
brostenen wrote: Just remember this saying: Red against red, and you are dead. The funny thing is, this saying literally translated into Dutch will work also 😁
Re: Custom Pentium Pro cooler
Posted on 2016-08-10, 12:31
They really dont need anything fancy. A better fan would be beneficial, but the chips don't get very warm anyway. I thought Pentium Pro chips were known for running hot. Then again, I'm probably getting them mixed up with Socket 4 Pentiums. :P They do run hot (around 50W or so? Socket 4 runs a lot …
Re: Best Socket 462 CPU on performance/power request
Posted on 2016-08-10, 12:29
Thank you for the answers! I considered the C3 some time ago but the fastest ones still are not that cheap and performances from graphs seems lower than I thought (even if I like the "alternative" choice they'd be). Actually I built this pc as main PC so SSE and/or some performance more would be …
Re: AT Power Supply |Need Halp|
Posted on 2016-08-10, 12:26
jesolo wrote: Just remember that, when you connect P8 & P9, the black wires must go together (in the middle next to each other). ^^Very important.
Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)
Posted on 2016-08-10, 09:58
There's a few threads on Vogons about storing stuff. The way you store your stuff is roughly similar to how I store my stuff, except maybe I had to do a bit more 'compression' when it comes to space-saving lol I also use sheets of cardboard to separate PCBs from each other. I'll store multiple …
Re: Look it's another Piii system.
Posted on 2016-08-10, 09:47
It has killed your PIII-S 1400? this is not really nice ...board dead...CPU dead. I know, but the tusl2 is a lot better board. Depends on how you look at it. A few of those 'special edition' boards was made, kinda like what the Black Pearl was. It's not about performance, I think it's a waste to …
Re: Compaq Deskpro PSU pinout
Posted on 2016-08-10, 09:12
I once was having some similar problem with me not knowing whether some s370 Compaq of mine did or did not use a standard ATX pin-out. I knew about the risks when trying a standard ATX PSU with a Compaq board that didn't support it, but I guess I kinda got impatient and decided to just get a bottle …
Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino
Posted on 2016-08-10, 09:00
I used to run a Mendocino 400MHz on a MS-6159 I think (µATX s370 without AGP port and with onboard sound). Ran it with a PCI TNT2-M64 16MB, 192MB SDRAM (PC-100 @ 66 cl2) and some smallish harddrive (less than 10GB iirc) and Windows ME and ran it for several years. It ran very well, especially since …
Re: Best Socket 462 CPU on performance/power request
Posted on 2016-08-10, 02:01
I've used A7V133 and A7V boards extensively years ago. Afaik CPU support depended a lot on the specific revision of the board (at the time I used these boards, 1.05 seemed to be considered a turning point for Palomino, which is still a 0.18 chip). I don't know if there are any tricks to use more …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2016-08-09, 23:35
Bought a boxed copy of Myst III Exile (smaller cardboard box), 4 CDROMs and a couple booklets were included and it seems in good condition. I never played any of these Myst games, but RPGs are no strange thing to me (and it was only like 75 cents anyway so why not lol!). Myst III: Exile! Easily my …
Re: Red Alert 2 & Age of Empires 2 LAN Parties; September 2016; NL
Posted on 2016-08-09, 23:29
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