Re: Sound Blaster Prototype on eBay

Posted on 2016-07-28, 15:17

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keenmaster486 wrote: Gee, I'm sorry you have to sell that... 🙁 One of our other Australian members should buy that and document it well, on YouTube or something. We want audio demos! Preferably some Australian person who has a whole lab available for retro-tinkering 😁

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Re: My "Ultimate" Tualatin Build!

Posted on 2016-07-28, 09:40

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Very nice! :D I never seen a CPU HSF like that, do you happen to have a pic or 2 of the CPU HSF itself? Your rig looks very well balanced and I like the case a lot. I have one of those myself, though mine is purple (was repainted from green by the previous owner and he did a good job at it too). I …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2016-07-28, 09:40

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I'm loving your eye for detail, though it is a bit overkill :D About your dead graphics cards: I've personally noticed that some graphics cards don't like being used in some motherboards. Whenever I test a graphics card as "possibly defective", I label it (along with in which motherboard I tried it …

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Re: VOGONS meetup

Posted on 2016-07-28, 00:37

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Given the extreme distances of members this will likely never materialize. US / AU / EU / CA / CN / MY / ZA / BR / UY / ID / RU. Far flung. Plus most are not wealthy / live in the 2nd or 3rd world so paying $2K for a trip is a lot to ask. Correct. But someone else mentioned something about national …

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Re: What parts do I need?

Posted on 2016-07-27, 23:12

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Oldskoolmaniac wrote: Yea 32 if he would reply back ***Edit**** Actually picking these up today, one of these cases witll look great with my year 99 build So how did this end up? 😀

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Re: Need a little help with my MMX build

Posted on 2016-07-27, 22:46

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Hello there fellow retro-gurus Well, I'm not really a guru since I need help but anyway...... :happy: My friend gave me his MMX-233 in this config: * Mainboard: Chaintech 5VLM M101 (if anyone has a manual for this since I only found 3 dead links so far) with 16MB RAM *EDIT* Just found some info on …

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Re: What are these extra six pins on my "Compaq Audio Feature Board"?

Posted on 2016-07-27, 22:38

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I remember having extracted one such ISA card with that 3rd little batch of pins and iirc it was indeed a Compaq. Never got around to test it though, but I did do some reading years ago as I was curious and just wanted to add that I "thought" at the time it might have something to do with the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-27, 21:37

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Today, I got a serious load from my brother..... First up, he gave me 1/2 of a complete set of PCB's from an old 70's NCR accounting machine. Beautifull cards, that are all crafted by hand. Traces layd out by hand and soldered by hand. There were some input and output modules/card's in this lot. …

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Re: AMD Athlon 1400MHz vs Intel Pentium III 1400MHz

Posted on 2016-07-11, 00:51

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mrau wrote: Tetrium wrote: One advantage of Thunderbird could be the pencil trick 😁 advantage? this just allows for dual cpu setup, no? You can unlock the multipliers that way.

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Re: Give me idea's

Posted on 2016-07-10, 20:12

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I was going to mention inproperly mounted CPU HSF :D Especially if it's a 3rd party cooler which is mounted using screws...remove the HSF, clean both CPU and HSF, reapply TIm and then reinstall the HSF, but don't fasten the mounting screws enough for the HSF to make good contact with the CPU. …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-10, 19:59

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Received my Zalman VF2000 LED hybrid GPU/CPU coolers about a week ago. I had ordered an extra one for a friend of mine, which he tried to mount on his HD6850 right away...and it seemed to fit! He didn't test this HSF with his HD6850 right away though, but instead mounted it on one of his AM3 rigs …

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Re: Ladies & Gentlemen I present to you BlackMagic

Posted on 2016-07-10, 19:28

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The Coolermaster Centurion 5...one of my most favorite ATX cases :) My main system is sitting here right next to me with its side panel removed, its insides look virtually identical too. Yours looks like another one of those semi-clone Centurion 5's (there was one on Vogons a while ago, also same …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2016-07-10, 19:12

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Interested in learning more about these Aztech sound cards. I have a few in storage (for years now) which kinda look like I just got to try them out in a build sooner or later 🤣!

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Re: AMD Athlon 1400MHz vs Intel Pentium III 1400MHz

Posted on 2016-07-10, 19:10

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it should be interesting a comparasion of: Athlon 1400 (FSB 200) Athlon 1400 (FSB 266) Pentium III 1400 Pentium III-S 1400 Celeron 1400 Duron 1400 Athlon XP 1600+ Athlon SFF 1600+ (basically an XP 1600+ with FSB 200) Pentium 4 1.4 GHz and maybe 2.0 Ghz due to their low IPC Has anyone actually seen …

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Re: What's the hardest part of building a retro rig for yourself?

Posted on 2016-07-10, 18:28

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Errius wrote: Old systems are flaky and fragile and once they work "well enough" you should leave them alone. The urge to constantly change things is more trouble than it's worth. ^this

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Re: Anyone here knows or owns a MEDION GEFORCE 4 ti4200?

Posted on 2016-07-10, 18:26

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I got recently a Geforce 4 MX 460, also Medion Branded. Manufactured by MSI (MS-8863). I bought it in a ebay auticon for 2 € (5 € shipping) This one is interesting in a way, as the GF4-MX 460 was seemingly discontinued quite rapidly. I have one too, but it doesn't have its original HSF anymore ( …

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Re: What is your biggest Pentium 4 Collection?

Posted on 2016-07-09, 11:53

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I got a couple ES's for s478, but I 'think' these are Celerons lol Never got around to test them, mostly because I spend very little time on any s478 hardware. I think you should test them someday, also it can be a P4, as i said before, some enginering samples does have the multi unlocked as well. …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2016-07-09, 11:37

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Absolutely amazing! You should team up with Artex! 😁 And I don't know where to comment 🤣, detailoverload indeed! 😁

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2016-07-09, 11:27

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Deflektor wrote: Hi! Being lurking here for some time, but now its time to reveal my Pentium-200mmx setup IMG_5297.JPG IMG_5298.JPG It looks very modest, but effective 😀 Welcome aboard 😁

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Re: UBCD98, where to download?

Posted on 2016-07-09, 11:21

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What about 98Lite? Can it generate a unattended installation CD? I remember using nLite to do so with a XP SP3... I think 98Lite was a totally different program (something to do with removing IE or something)? Though I'm not really sure. You can create your own, using msbatch (it's located on the …

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