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Re: Why no love for Socket 5?

Posted on 2014-02-21, 15:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Iirc I only have a single Socket 5 board and it's an Intel one, which means the lowest FSB I think would be 50MHz? Also I "think" my particular board doesn't even have any cache on the motherboard, but I'm not sure about that as it's been a couple years since I last handled that board. And the board …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-21, 14:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wrote earlier that I got a bunch of stuff the last few weeks. Might as well post more about it now lol So far the last couple weeks I got a couple Athlon64 boards (with AGP, but still) including some memory modules and I think a crappy AGP card and CPU's for slightly over €10 each (excluding …

Re: "Load more" feature

Posted on 2014-02-21, 14:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

@ Stiletto: That's fantastic! 😁 (please don't make this a reality though! 😵 )

Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2014-02-21, 14:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

Not outrageous, but I was still surprised - Cyrix MII-400 sold for 30 EURO (approx. $41 USD for today's exchange rate). Prices are going up! http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22438 I looked it up and apparently I only paid $10 for one of mine (I have 2 of them, I thought I had 3 but …

Re: Anyone collecting older SLI/crossfire cards?

Posted on 2014-02-21, 09:32

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have very few motherboards with 2 or more PCI-E 16x slots (if any) and very few PCI-E graphics cards. Also the asking prices are still kinda high for many of these cards and boards. Thirdly I'm missing most of the other essential parts like CPU's and PSU's that will work with these heavy power …

Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-20, 22:31

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Personally the Ultra or "best" cards will always command a premium. I like the "value" cards or cards "for the masses" like the GF4 Ti 4200, 6600GT, 7600GT, 9600GT. They are much cheaper and easier to find and not far behind the top models. Who knows if they also last longer because the top cards …

Re: Kids can be creepy sometimes...

Posted on 2014-02-20, 13:39

in Milliways

in Milliways

The only thing is, it's been years since I had such a last dream ( was a kid when this happened and it hasn't happened again after this), so I guess for me the party is over lol Don't be so sure. I've had periods of inactivity with my own perceptive skills and I think the same thing, then I get a …

Re: Kids can be creepy sometimes...

Posted on 2014-02-20, 12:22

in Milliways

in Milliways

I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but hear me out... Me personally, ever since early childhood and usually about four or five times a year, I experience brief moments of extreme perception. My first memory of this happening dates back to around the age of 5 or 6 when I was playing with a …

Re: Redundant collecting (AKA hoarding)

Posted on 2014-02-20, 12:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

I do not really understand why people think parts are no longer available / hard to get. I see thousands of items on eBay and many go unsold. I personally do not think we are going to run out of stuff anytime soon to be honest. Well, money will buy you (almost) anything, but if you don't have the …

Re: ZEOS Gosling Motherboard Help

Posted on 2014-02-20, 10:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, that did it. Found a little baggie of ram that said "ZEOS FPM 4MB Modules" on it. The thing booted right up. I dug through the boxes of parts that came with all the machines I got in this haul and found an old WD Caviar 1gig drive and figured that'll do. Turned the machine on, checked the …

Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-02-20, 00:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm kinda asking again, what would be better to do with a CDROM full of drivers of all kinds? Upload them in parts? Or just upload the whole thing? And if I upload the whole thing, would it be possible to also upload a small textfile with the contents of the full upload? It doesn't appear that …

Re: Tualatin PIII 1400-S + Geforce FX5900 Ultra Windows 98 build

Posted on 2014-02-19, 19:51

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

@ Skyscraper: Excellent!! 😁

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-19, 19:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Voodoo 3 is probably the lamest Voodoo 3 1000 model. It depends. If it's the 8mb Bonesteel version then, yeah. If it's 16mb then you can still put a heatsink on those and overclock them. Some people have got those up to 3500 speeds. I'm sorry, I should've mentioned that it has no heatsink because I …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-02-19, 17:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

At a thrift store near me I got myself The Settlers and Settlers 2 for 75 Eurocents each 😁 I already had these, but having an extra copy of a game you like is never a bad idea...riiight? 😜

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-19, 17:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In a local thrift store I scored 5 old expansion cards (an unknown Voodoo 3 without heatsink, a TNT2, a Vortex soundcard and 2 of those older Intel NICs) @ 1 euro each, so no reason to not get these (it was full of older graphics cards, including Matrox's, Ati's and stuff like that) I also got …

Re: Kids can be creepy sometimes...

Posted on 2014-02-19, 17:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

I suggest reading the "Cases of the Reincarnation Type" series by Dr. Ian Stevenson. Anyway, anyone had imaginary friend when you were kid? I didn't, I never did. But if you did, please share your story here. No, I never had an imaginary friend. Even if I did, I knew it was just my imagination. I …

Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-02-19, 15:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm kinda asking again, what would be better to do with a CDROM full of drivers of all kinds? Upload them in parts? Or just upload the whole thing? And if I upload the whole thing, would it be possible to also upload a small textfile with the contents of the full upload? It doesn't appear that …

Re: Kids can be creepy sometimes...

Posted on 2014-02-19, 15:53

in Milliways

in Milliways

Kids can be wonderful at times...I'm glad I don't have any though 😜 But definitely weird stuff there

Re: Goldmine or old junk?

Posted on 2014-02-19, 13:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just to be clear, the TNT2's are NOT regular TNT2's. The cards you have are TNT2 model 64 cards which have a 64bit memory bus while the regular TNT2's have a 128bit memory bus. If I had to pick either the model 64's or the live's, I'd pick the lives. iirc the particular GF4MX mentioned is one of the …

Re: Which OS to use on new system?

Posted on 2014-02-18, 23:37

in Milliways

in Milliways

ME wasn't that bad though. It was way better then 98FE anyway :P And I like almost all aspects of the start menu. By scrolling through the list of programs I often see a program I forgot I had installed, giving me new ideas or perhaps making me remind I should uninstall said program. I really don't …

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