Re: Iomega ZIP drives

Posted on 2014-10-24, 17:50

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I try to find a use for them, I think they're fun in a way. They can still be useful for transferring files across. And the disks I got dirt cheap anyway. The handiest ones I found to be my 250MB USB ZIP drives (the nice looking blue ones, smaller then the parallel ones).

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-10-24, 11:14

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Just finished a 2001 era rig: - Pentium 4 1.7Ghz socket 423 - 640 mb of ram Rambus memory (800 mhz) - Creative Geforce 3 TI500 64MB - Creative SoundBlaster 5.1 - 2x 80GB HDD for dual boot Win98\WinXP Just installed a few old steam games on the XP partition. Quite a trip to the year 2001 :) Nice rig …

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Re: My Voodoo 2 SLI Retro Gaming Rig Build!

Posted on 2014-10-23, 12:27

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Still I think he did a great job especially considering he hasn't build a new rig in such a long time, cheers Tek! 😁

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Re: 1gb SDRam detected as 384mb?

Posted on 2014-10-21, 09:27

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Sorry if I'm stating the obvious borgie83, but you might as well give up and source some low density, double sided sdram for the Gigabyte board, otherwise you're just fighting a losing battle - the GA-6BX7+ simply doesn't like single sided sdram and is acting up because of it (the weirdness with …

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Re: Hello!

Posted on 2014-10-17, 15:54

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Welcome aboard! 😀 And don't forget that us Vogoners are addicted to pics of hardware pr0n, the more the better! 😁

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Re: What updates do you consider critical for Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2014-10-14, 08:59

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I am not a fan of unofficial *packs* as I simply do not trust them. Usually that's a sensible stance to take, but with Windows 98 it really is the most convenient option, and it's widely enough used that anything untrustowrthy would have been spotted by now. Same, I use one of the unofficial …

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Re: FOSS Games and old hardware

Posted on 2014-10-13, 22:04

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If with Spring you mean the engine that runs, for instance, Balanced Annihilation, put in a couple bots and it will even make dual cores slow down. I can't imagine Balanced Annihilation running well (with bots that is) on anything that isn't a dual core or more. And "tanks" for mentioning scorched3d …

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Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)

Posted on 2014-10-10, 22:50

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Didn't the GF7 family have issues with the ball solder-something joints though? If so, then that could be the reason why nobody wants them

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Re: Voodoo3 Cooling Alternatives

Posted on 2014-10-08, 08:26

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Addition: You can see a picture of how I mounted a case fan using tie ribs on a Geforce 6800 in this post (scroll down a bit to see a thumb of the pic) New rigs! (first ones of a bunch)

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Re: Voodoo3 Cooling Alternatives

Posted on 2014-10-08, 08:04

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I've used those tie-ribs (small metal wires covered in plastic) before to mount fans on stock heatsinks of AGP Geforce 6 cards before, though those cards have much larger heatsinks. It's worked perfectly for as long as I used that computer regularly. I'm not a fan of using glue though others on …

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Re: Did I get a good deal?

Posted on 2014-10-07, 09:07

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My motherboard supports both AGP 2x and 4x, does this make a difference? EDIT: The card is AGP x2 so wouldn't it work? The board has to support 3.3V AGP in order for the card to work. Look at how the card is keyed - does that match with your board? If it will not physically fit, it isn't supported; …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-10-06, 22:24

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Started playing Rome Total War again a couple days ago..war on all fronts! Man, does that ai hate you 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-06, 07:15

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I just discovered this forum, and it seems like the best place for retro stuff. I picked up this HP Server tc3100 on craigslist for $50. I thought it was interesting because it has two Pentium III sockets, and a max memory of 4gb!?! I dunno, that is impressive to me for that time period. Came with …

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Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-03, 20:53

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wow that hurts (sorry) - the start button is back since 8.1 (even if its not opening a classic start menu) - it is 100% sure that the button stays and the "classic" start menu comes back (a bit altered though) - why not try it in a virtual machine? windows 8 hat hyper-v integrated... oh sorry :-D …

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Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-03, 13:56

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Try to stay on topic people My apologies, will do :) On topic: I don't think I'm going to bother with the preview of 10 (and why not 9 lol ), I don't even have a spare rig to try it on and I'm definitely not gonna sacrifice one of my faster rigs for it :) Lets see if they bring the startbutton back …

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Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-03, 12:03

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Try to stay on topic people My apologies, will do :) On topic: I don't think I'm going to bother with the preview of 10 (and why not 9 lol ), I don't even have a spare rig to try it on and I'm definitely not gonna sacrifice one of my faster rigs for it :) Lets see if they bring the startbutton back …

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Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-03, 11:53

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yeah might be but it should be dead :-) Why say that? Personally Windows ME worked better for me then 98SE and 98FE was a BSoD-disaster when I had it. you don't have the stability of win2000 and you're also missing the flexibility of win98se in terms of dos gaming. there are driver incompatibilites …

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Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-03, 11:36

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nemail wrote: Tetrium wrote: Windows ME isn't dead though 😀 yeah might be but it should be dead 😀 Why say that? Personally Windows ME worked better for me then 98SE and 98FE was a BSoD-disaster when I had it.

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Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-03, 11:12

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Windows ME isn't dead though 😀

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Re: Don't laugh... Anyone have any love for Packard Bell?

Posted on 2014-10-01, 11:55

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by Tetrium

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I like some of their old boards ((super) socket 7 comes to mind)), though I don't like their cases.

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