Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2016-08-09, 23:29

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My AGP GPU collection (15 cards) : LINK What's missing ? Pretty much everything older than GeForce 2 Ti/Ultra... GeForce DDR, TNT2 (not "M64"), Voodoo 3, etc. Why ? Can't find them, or are out of my reach (Poland...), or prices are waaaay too high :( Wow...your collection of cards newer than GF2 is …

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Re: Best Socket 462 CPU on performance/power request

Posted on 2016-08-09, 22:43

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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 …

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Re: Replacing Geforce 6800 Fan(Not the Entire Cooler)

Posted on 2016-08-09, 20:42

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You could try simply removing the plastic cover and fan from the heatsink and mount a casefan onto it? It's what I did with one of my own 6800s and it worked flawlessly like that for years. There's a pic of the card while installed in one of my rigs here http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t= …

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Re: Custom Pentium Pro cooler

Posted on 2016-08-09, 20:37

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I was contemplating the same thing a couple years ago, but I ended up wanting to try making my own from leftover stock s754/s939 heatsinks. They have the right dimensions, but iirc they kinda needed to be installed with a quarter turn and it needed some work with the metal of the heatsink. I ended …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-30, 22:04

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: ISA slots are already on the picture and most of us should know them 😉 True. But the more pics the better 😁

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Re: Motherboard Asus P2B with coppermine or tualatin cpu?

Posted on 2016-07-30, 18:13

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Hello, I found an old Asus P2B REV 1.10. with US3007CW voltage chip. Can I use a slot1 adapter with a coppermine or tualatin cpu? I found several information about this board and officially, 1.10 revision is not compatible with these cpu. But my board have a US3007CW voltage regulator who can …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-30, 17:52

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Bought this cute 386 board for £10.50! Didn't realise how small it was until it arrived :-) DSC_0227.JPG DSC_0228.JPG You sure got some amazingly huge coal shovels for hands...the board looks totally cute! :D Could you make another pic of it next to some piece of hardware most of us knows, like a …

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Re: I can't decide. Graphics card(s) for K6-2/500 DOS/W98 Machine...

Posted on 2016-07-30, 07:49

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P.S. Kill your SiS6326 ... with fire! Calling it "average" would be a gross overstatement. I know, I had one. :D And as for the SiS card, before I tested it this afternoon I thought it was dead as a Norwegian Blue, but no it lives! Nah, he should keep it. It's hardly possible to find anything …

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Re: New 486 Build

Posted on 2016-07-30, 07:47

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Yes, it has the gold. I am going to use an Intel 486 DX2 66 MHz. It had a 486 DX 33 MHz in the board when I got it. From looking at the jumper settings I found that I did not have to change any of them for this CPU. I hope that is right, I guess I will find out when I am able to fire this sucker up …

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

Posted on 2016-07-30, 07:33

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Been browsing somewhat randomly on Ebay, found some listing of some Compaq s370 boards (I was originally looking for K6-3), then started looking on google for this particular board "Compaq 240762-001" as I was curious if it supported Tualatin. And to my big surprise I found this page http://www. …

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Re: Do you care about cluster size when partitioning FAT32?

Posted on 2016-07-30, 06:39

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I usually also split up the drive into several partitions. C usually becomes an OS-only partition and D I use for programs. E is for games and anything beyond that is for whatever I need for that particular rig. Concerning cluster size: I usually don't care much, but have a slight preference to …

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Re: My classic gaming retro system specs

Posted on 2016-07-30, 06:26

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You certainly have late dos sound covered! P2 is good choice as well, Plenty of power in reserve for even the most demanding games. Few pics will be nice :) Thank you! :) I will definitely try to see if I can find the photo I have of the front exterior, unfortunately, don't really have any pix …

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Re: New 486 Build

Posted on 2016-07-29, 21:37

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You have the Acer/AOpen Vi15g right? Each 72pin SIMM slot on that board is an entire bank, so it's not necessary to install SIMMs in pairs. Regarding the amount of memory, either 16 or 32 MB will be fine if you are running MS-DOS games and applications. Assuming you have 256KB of cache, 32MB should …

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Re: Please Help identify this board

Posted on 2016-07-29, 21:21

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VX gets a bad rap IMHO. Everyone always compared it to HX, but no one needs HX unless they want lots of RAM or multiple processors. VX is perfectly adequate for pretty much all domestic / gaming purposes. Plus it supports SDRAM, which is easier to get hold of than pairs of 72 pin SIMMS for most …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-29, 21:15

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Looks like you got the entire TH99 inventory here :D Just save everything. And do remove those barrel batteries. And heck, never seen RAM slots fitted in between ISA slots before...or anything like it. And that Peanut ISA VGA card...does it actually have 2 VGA connectors? edit: The last pic (the …

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Re: I can't decide.... Graphics card(s) for K6-2/500 DOS/W98 Machine... And more!

Posted on 2016-07-29, 20:57

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melbar wrote: By the way, i have also a K6-2 500 system (DOS/Win95) with sockel7 (VIA MVP3). I use a RivaTNT (32Mb) and 64Mb RAM only... TNT1 had 16MB max afaicr, you're referring to a TNT2 variant perhaps?

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Re: Dual Tualatin Server Build

Posted on 2016-07-29, 20:53

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May I ask how you handled the drivers of your motherboard? I have a couple ASUS boards which look similar (only support up to Coppermine though), but have no experience with this chipset or with PCI-X, so to me any advice will be a useful one 😀

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Re: My classic gaming retro system specs

Posted on 2016-07-29, 20:38

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Where are the pics! :D And your P2-333 might be an interesting part. Soms of these have their multiplier unlocked from x6 downward to almost 1. If this is the case, you should definitely keep it! :D And nice to see a fellow WinME user here :) edit: Or was it the P2-400MHz part? But still a nice P2, …

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

Posted on 2016-07-29, 18:21

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Went through my boxes of SDRAM in search for PC-133 32MB DIMMs, but alas I didn't find any. I did however find a SDRAM DIMM with only 16MB, that might possibly be the smallest amount of SDRAM ever to be put on a SDRAM DIMM 🤣

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Re: Need a little help with my MMX build

Posted on 2016-07-29, 17:31

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Also, I might be wrong, but almost all 32MB SDRAM sticks are PC-100 or PC-133, so you can't really go wrong there. Actually most of 32MB SDRAM sticks were rated @66MHz. I'll refrain from stating that 133MHz 32MB modules don't even exist in case I'm totally wrong with this, but I was working in the …

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