Re: Benchmarking, need advice.

Posted on 2014-02-27, 21:53

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::waves-pompoms-in-the-air:: A good week, I got two Dell U2412M monitors :D Now I need a male to female vga cable and a new harddrive for storing all the videos (that'll take another month or two). That *should* be all the hardware I need. Then it's on to set up my initial benchmarking system; …

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Re: At long last...... the finish line appears

Posted on 2014-02-27, 14:03

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I once remember back when I had only my Pentium 2, I was running out of disk space on my C partition (but then again, who wasn't running out of disk space in that time lol ). So I used Partition Magic I think and enlarged the C partition by 500MB. Took several hours, but in the end it seemed to work …

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Re: Ultimate DirectX-9 Setup

Posted on 2014-02-27, 11:08

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I was going to speculate you were crazy, but now you left us with nothing to discuss lol Anyway, your system looks pretty mindblowing! I'm not sure, but from several forums I've learned that if you want backwards compatibility for games, then Nvidia was the way to go. Don't even the current Nvidia …

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Re: Exploring Socket A

Posted on 2014-02-27, 04:45

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With my 2GHz P4 I don't remember noticing any major sluggishness under XP as long as I keep SP3 and heavy anti-virus/spyware/etc stuff off of it. I've got its latest hardware iteration back together and will be reloading the OS soon - will certainly re-assess that situation once it's done. But I'm …

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Re: Exploring Socket A

Posted on 2014-02-27, 03:24

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It's kinda hard to think of a really suitable system that sits between a Windows 9x P3 and a Windows XP fast Athlon XP or P4 because there isn't really an OS that sits between XP and 9x. You'll either get a very quick 9x (but will have to limit memory or somehow deal with 9x's memory limitations) or …

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Re: Confessions of a compulsive hoarder...

Posted on 2014-02-26, 23:45

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I used to do that as well. At first everything was for free as people were dumping their old and obsolete computers on the streets. I took everything home with me. At some point I decided I would best stick to standard AT 386 and up because that way I would have many parts that were interchangeable. …

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Re: Ebay blocks computer games and other items from buyer's search result - apparently to strongarm sellers to join GSP

Posted on 2014-02-26, 23:32

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I started doing business on eBay in 2004 and it was difficult for me because I wasn't able to accept Paypal until 2007-ish. Had to receive payment in CASH or cheques which cost me a whoping 4€ to cash per cheque! After I finally got PayPal it was certainly easier to buy and sell stuff but PayPal …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-26, 20:27

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Getting the board with ISA and case and CRT seems to be tough... Do you have any suggestion for them? I am going to use 2 256MB SDRAM rather than 1GB(http://www.ebay.com/itm/271211377925). CRT I cannot help you with. Best is to find one locally. If you can't find a board with ISA, then you have at …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-26, 17:15

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1 gig of RAM for 98SE is kinda problematic. And at any rate, 512MB is more then you'll probably need anyway (even 256MB should be enough, you can always go for 512MB later). Err... Why Via Apollo Pro 133 A ? Try to find Via Apollo Pro 133T motherboard. The full Coppermines and not-modded Tualatins …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-26, 16:43

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Here's the board that it is compatible with Tualatin CPU. http://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-OEM-Gigabyte-GA-6VX7-4X-Socket-370-Motherboard-P3-CPU-/261389315934?pt=Motherboards&hash=item3cdc046f5e http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gigabyte-GA-6VXC7-4X-P-Rev-5-0-Socket-370-ATX-Motherboard-/131106308362?pt=UK_ …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-26, 14:19

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My goodness, all of the links are dead in this site. Is there any link for it? The ebay advertisement where you found the pinmodded Tualatin, this page on the bottom somewhere has a compatibility list. You should see which boards you selected are in that list. If a board is not in that list, then …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-26, 14:10

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For 694X, I am not sure that Tualatin is compatible on these boarads. Links: http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/gigabyte/GA-6VX7-4X-AP.htm, http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/gigabyte/GA-6VXC7-4X-P.htm, http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/soyo/SY-7VCA.htm, http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/soyo/SY-7VCA2.htm, http://www. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-26, 14:07

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Hi everyone, new user here :) I have been "thumbing" through Vogons for a while now, and my appetite is thoroughly whet for a bit of retro hardware action (oo err). This thread in particular, which I've been looking at for about 3 weeks has got me thinking/remembering. I have a collection of stuff …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-26, 13:51

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Then, do you have any idea for boards that supports p3-S tualatin with ISA slots? Because of stupid imorted charges and shipping fees, that makes me mad though :angry: But still, it's cheaper than my modern rig plan (since it is made for computing practice and high-end gaming, the cost might be $ …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-26, 12:00

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Then, do you have any idea for boards that supports p3-S tualatin with ISA slots? Because of stupid imorted charges and shipping fees, that makes me mad though :angry: But still, it's cheaper than my modern rig plan (since it is made for computing practice and high-end gaming, the cost might be $ …

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Re: 486-VIP-I02 Motherboard Cryix 5x86 100mhz

Posted on 2014-02-26, 09:59

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I never found a PCI floppy controller myself either. I'm pretty sure they exist because I've read about them (their name escapes me for now). Do you happen to have an ISA floppy controller? Those were usually multi-i/o cards

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-25, 16:32

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Buy list 3: http://cart.payments.ebay.com/sc/rfc (Choose board and PSU on my list) For the third time, I don't see your list. It asks me to log in and the only thing I see is that expensive 98SE. Please just paste the individual links here if you want to ask us if the parts you chose are any good.

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-25, 15:26

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The Serpant Rider wrote: There is the link for Win 98 SE -snip- (Is it trustworthy? If not, plz give a link for English version) I'm not sure, but I'm not touching that link! Call me paranoid, but I'd rather be safe then sorry. Here is the "official" download page, I got this page via msfn.org

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-25, 14:21

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I think so. I'm also able to save more money if I find this legacy cd in my house. I agree with you though. One thing that I'm worrying about is will the unofficial SPs be compatible with Korean OS :dead:. P.S. I am going to tell some stories about my market. The imported ones are ridiculously …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-25, 12:48

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The Serpant Rider wrote: I have a infroformation from a local store for Win 98 SE DSP version that sells only $10 but it is not English edition (Korean edition) 🤣. I'd say, why not get that one? It seems like a good start anyway. You can always get the English version at a later moment, right??

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