Re: Best Slot 1 CPU for a Voodoo 1

Posted on 2014-11-14, 08:54

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I don't think it matters much which of those 2 CPU's you pick. I'd say just pick the one you happen to have available and if you have both, just pick the one closest to your hands after opening your box of Slot 1 CPU's :P Edit: On second thought, the P2-450 does have a "coolness" factor that the …

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Re: Things you regret giving or throwing away?

Posted on 2014-11-14, 08:51

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I have some. Back when I had just started collecting (I already had quite a lot by that time) I dismantled an AT case with LED display and all and threw it out, with it's power supply. It was really good looking for a small AT tower and I had no particular reason to ditch it except for being a n00b …

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Re: K8V-X SE having trouble powering devices

Posted on 2014-11-14, 00:44

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Well, I hope it's not a design flaw as iirc I have the same board in a rig of mine (doesn't have any such issue though). I don't use it for gaming anymore though, it's been relegated to my bedroom for watching DVD's 😁

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite x86 vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-11-13, 16:33

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I'm going to be completly unpopular and say the Netburst Pentium 4/Celeron/Celeron D,Pentium D yeah i know it is not the best, but it is now a long dead end, really cheap, has a ton of variety and covers loads of the bases for reto computing, loads of games and apps were optimized for it in it's …

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

Posted on 2014-11-13, 15:37

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jwt27 wrote: Designed my first ISA card, and placed a manufacturing order. Pretty excited to see how they'll turn out 😀 This line of text burned right onto my retina, what card is it? 😁

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Re: Lian Li PC-A05 PIII Tualatin build

Posted on 2014-11-13, 15:36

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Sutekh94 wrote: Seeing this makes me really want to do a Tualatin build some day. 😜 They are very nice, a Coppermine on steroids 😀 And the Tualatin was basically the last desktop single core CPU with low power requirement (afterwards it was Athlon (XP) and Netburst)

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo 1 cards

Posted on 2014-11-12, 11:18

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@ HighTreason: If you don't like the card, you could (should?) sell it, theres probably enough people out there wanting one :) It's not about wanting something of everything, people always prefer one thing over another and in the end it doesn't really matter why :P Edit: About the (un)reliability of …

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Re: Asus A7x8x-x chipset drivers

Posted on 2014-11-11, 08:26

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I do have the A7V8X-X, thanks for the info 😀

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Re: Seagate ATA Harddisks - Strange Label

Posted on 2014-11-10, 23:48

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Barracuda is misspelled as Baracuda (one "r" less) and the 1TB and 2TB sizes look fishy to me

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Re: Raven - Pentium 4 yet again

Posted on 2014-11-10, 14:34

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nforce4max wrote: Good that you got a better case, you can find pin outs for usb board headers online but personally if the cable from the case is in lose pins I don't bother. Same 🤣

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Re: Do you keep all your really retro machines set up?

Posted on 2014-11-09, 15:42

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I simply don't have the room to set all my retrorigs up, so I have them either in a closet or stacked up somewhere, until I want to use any of them. Then I basically switch the cables from another computer to the retropc (usually I just put the retro pc case on top of one of the other units).

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

Posted on 2014-11-07, 11:26

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Well, I decided to do a little chore that had been stuck in my head for years. Looking up all my GF MX cards one by one and this time instead of writing all info down on a sheet of paper that's gonna get lost half a year down the road, I decided to write the stats (GF2 MX 200 64bit etc) on the …

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Re: What are you using as a Wallpaper on your vintage system?

Posted on 2014-11-06, 18:07

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I typically use landscapes and/or fantasy wallpapers that aren't a pain when looking at it. Every single rig I build gets it's own unique wallpaper, it adds to the personality of a build 😀

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Re: PLEASE HELP ME FIND THIS CASE!!! :D

Posted on 2014-11-06, 18:05

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I don't think I ever seen this case where I live, and I've seen lots of them (AT cases that is), sorry. And suppose you find someone who does have this case, shipping isn't gonna be cheap if it has to come from across an ocean, but good luck nonetheless with your endeavor 😀

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Re: YouTube Randomly Cracking Down on Monetized Video Game Footage

Posted on 2014-11-05, 23:01

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Any idea why they are doing this?

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Re: momentary switch

Posted on 2014-11-05, 14:32

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It is a switch that only changes state once you press it, but that state is only changed for as long as you hold it like that. Once you let go it changes to starting state. (Like on those chinese laser pointers) Yep. It's an electrical thing, has nothing to do with the mechanical position of the …

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Re: Vain efforts to make your furnace happy

Posted on 2014-11-04, 09:15

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Maybe I'm just easily satisfied, but for me anything better and quieter then the stock sA coolers were good enough for me (particularly of they are/were cheap). The Athlon XP stock coolers I typically replace with a Copper Silent 3-something (it has this fan suspended above the HS) as it cooled my …

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Re: Tips for storing CPUs

Posted on 2014-11-03, 11:25

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Thin pieces of foam plastic with a CPU pushed inside. Looks like a hamburger with ham being the CPU. It's years back but I remember (iirc it was cpu-world.com) that some types of foam corrode the CPU pins, so I try to avoid using any foam for long term CPU storage since I can't tell the difference …

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Re: Tips for storing CPUs

Posted on 2014-11-03, 00:41

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I agree, plastic CPU trays are the best :) But I have made some CPU tray-like thingies myself (using small planks with the edges made of cut stripes of cardboard so the chips don't slide off the wood plank, kinda odd to explain, but still plastic trays are better (and less work) I also store some of …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-11-02, 21:31

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My Rigs are Win/DOS Main Retro rig 2x Intel Pentium III 800MHZ SLOT1 Asus P2B-DS Beta BIOS 3DFX Voodoo 4 4500 AGP 32MB Soundblaster AWE64 32MB EDO SIMCONN Windows ME Custom Service pack/ MS-DOS 7.1 / Windows XP SP3 120GB EIDE WD WinME.DOS 80GB EIDE Seagate HDD for ISO's and Installers Pure DOS Rig …

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