Re: 440BX 133Mhz FSB 89Mhz AGP Video Card Compatibility?

Posted on 2016-05-28, 01:14

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The MX's are the low end Geforce 4s. The Ti's are higher end. The GF4MX's were filling the budget spots in the market when the GF4 (and GF3 kinda too) was for the more performance oriented segment. The GF4MX's weren't actually just cut-down GF4 cards though. And I was also referring to the GF2MX's, …

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Re: Fire GL2 AGP video card, who knows anything about these?

Posted on 2016-05-28, 00:59

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IMG_1123.JPG IMG_1122.JPG Sadly this was the mess that arrived at my door today :( Top heatsink knocked off, cracked chip, and a bent up end plate. Another part for digital heaven. I had a look at the die of the bare chip. Are you sure the die itself is cracked? It looks like it's the glue that's …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-28, 00:26

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Or simply pay for shipping This is the main problem that I'm facing. Shipping stuff to my country almost always costs around 3 times nore than the item itself. If I can find stuff locally then its just a couple euro or even free, but just finding old hardware here is really hard. I make around 450 …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-28, 00:12

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I don't know how long you've been busy collecting this retro stuff, but (and this kinda goes for most people who collect retro stuff, including software) most of us who for the first time start collecting retro computer stuff, will take at least a year or 2 before our collections start getting …

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Re: 440BX 133Mhz FSB 89Mhz AGP Video Card Compatibility?

Posted on 2016-05-28, 00:00

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Tertz wrote: Tetrium wrote: How about the MX's? I did not try them. Most probably will work. That would be good news, as I think the MX's are more performance correct.

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Re: Found a Foxconn NFPIK8AA-8EKRS. Have to silence it!

Posted on 2016-05-27, 14:27

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I've once experimented with cardboard to silence my 486 (ehh .....yeah I know 🤣!) and it actually worked a little bit! The difference was noticeable and it hasn't caught fire yet 😁

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Re: Did i break my ATI Rage II+ DVD ?

Posted on 2016-05-27, 14:22

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Since it doesn't go up in smoke, I reckon you could simply try it in 3D? Afaik, this particular card model isn't anything special or rare, is it? And depending on how much other parts you have laying around, you could perhaps designate this damaged card as a testing card. If you don't have a spare, …

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

Posted on 2016-05-27, 14:15

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Yesterday I've been dismantling my retro computer (yes, after all those tests till I found the perfect config for my purposes :lol: ). I'm starting a new and promising job in two weeks, but it's 800km ahead from home and I wanted to carry the whole case but there's no room for it in my car (only …

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Re: What is the +12V power consumption of an Ati Radeon 9600XT 256MB APG card

Posted on 2016-05-27, 14:11

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Ok: AC Input (50-60Hz): 100 - 127v~/ 6a 200 - 240v~/ 3a DC Output +5v --/22a +3.3v --/14a +5vFP --/2a +12v --/10a -12v --/1a +5v and +3.3v shall not exceed 135w max output power 200w My apologies for not getting back to you sooner. The PSU looks very minimal, but as you said (and as I've heard from …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-27, 13:17

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Ive posted ads in craigslist, facebook groups, etc. Ive yet to recieve one email or phone call. What am i suppose to do? Front myself as a recycler and just horde everything. Hey, thats not a half bad idea. lol Too bad i dont have a license (again expelled before i could get mine) prevents me from …

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-05-27, 13:11

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Btw, that shutdown thingy, that was more a 98SE thing "it is ok to shut down bla bla". This is not a 98SE thing. It's an AT thing. AT PSUs have a switch that stays on once you push it. The computer has no way to turn itself off if you don't cut the power off. :lol: Ah ok. I was thinking these were …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-27, 04:16

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If people would be willing to wise up they could do this just for kicks when they retire and make things easier money wise. People aren't dumb - if there was more money in re-selling individual components than scrapping them by the truckload, then they'd do that. Sorry but I been around a lot of …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-27, 03:58

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Otoh, if everybody were to know how much every bit of (old) hardware is worth, there'd be absolutely no way to ever find something for cheapz :depressed: If people would be willing to wise up they could do this just for kicks when they retire and make things easier money wise. People aren't dumb - …

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Re: Saying hello

Posted on 2016-05-27, 03:52

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I somehow missed this thread. First thing I noticed was the bend pins :( But holy shat, so many! lol Awesome! :D I saw a couple Pentium 2 chips which might have unlocked multipliers (400Mhz and 333MHz are the fastest which may have not fully locked multipliers). I dunno, but perhaps it would be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-27, 03:38

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I think most of us are are already stocked up with TNT cards :blush: They are still easy to find and affordable. Yep but newer people get turned off too quickly hearing horror stories about the M64 and the Vanta. I must be doing something wrong because all I end up when trying is the M64 or Vantas, …

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

Posted on 2016-05-27, 02:55

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I ventured into the attic with the intention of inventorying my motherboards and I decided to start with the "untested newly brought in stuff"-cabinet thingy and after 2 hours or so the entire cabinet thingy was tidied like is hasn't been for several years! and so far only 3 mobos inventoried 🤣.

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2016-05-27, 02:48

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This happened to me not a long time ago (taken from another thread) In another thread Phil and I were talking about V3-1000 and Velocity and I remembered I once saw some Voodoo 3 without it's heatsink in a thrift store, so I went up the attic and browsed through boxes of unrelated stuff (mostly just …

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Re: reclaimed K6-3

Posted on 2016-05-27, 02:40

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Cats are the ultimate ESD hardware nukedestructors, your buddy should've been aware of that 😜. But at least you still got your K6-3, which is nice to have and a bit easier to setup compared to a +.

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Re: What is the +12V power consumption of an Ati Radeon 9600XT 256MB APG card

Posted on 2016-05-27, 02:30

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by Tetrium

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Could you please post the rails of your PSU? The PSU I find has 14A on the 12v line while you mention yours has 10A Your P3 eats about 25W to 30W, all from the 5v line. I don't really know from the rest of your hardware, but usually GPU and CPU are the most significant power consumers.

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Re: What is the +12V power consumption of an Ati Radeon 9600XT 256MB APG card

Posted on 2016-05-27, 02:03

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What PSU do you intent to use in this build? 9600XT doesn't need a lot of power, but I'm not 100% positive this card uses only 12v (doesn't have a molex connector iirc). 200W isn't a lot, but it will also depend on the build quality of your PSU.

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