Re: What is this ISA card (it looks like a network card)

Posted on 2011-06-16, 19:48

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by Tetrium

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Iirc networking different versions of Windows can have it's own set of troubles. Anyway, for networking, I'd advice to do a little reading. I've found networking can be as easy as setting up a computer for the internet, but with more cables involved... IF there aren't any problems. And if you do get …

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Re: Help with 286 board

Posted on 2011-06-16, 12:45

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This has given me an idea. Is it possible to buy any ATX PC case, and drill your own holes in to its base area, and then push these plastic standoffs in to them, so it can hold an AT mobo in place? I mean, the drilling precision required for the holes wouldn't be too high I guess, because there is …

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Re: Help with 286 board

Posted on 2011-06-16, 08:58

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hi you may possibly be able to hack together a replacement tray with a suitable thickness of plywood? This is tricky to pull off, the thickness would needs to be exactly right, one mm might mean expansion cards will either not slide in fully (loosing contact when turned on may result in a lot " …

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Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?

Posted on 2011-06-16, 08:45

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What do you want? Fast or quiet? ANYTHING spinning at 10k or 15k RPM is going to make noise. In light of how slow and clunky vintage IDE hard drives are, I'd rather put a SCSI drive in a vintage rig even if it is louder. I want quiet. Fast, although an important factor, is of lesser importance to …

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2011-06-15, 23:15

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@feipoa i think that the "Ultimate Socket 7 Benchmark" should be with the processors: AMD K6 AMD K6-2 AMD K6-2+ AMD K6-3 Cyrix 6x86 Cyrix 6x86MX or MII Intel Pentium MMX Intel Pentium PRO but... first we must overclock this processors up to the highest frequency Pentium Pro is a Socket 8 CPU. Also, …

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Re: List your K6-III desktop parts here

Posted on 2011-06-15, 23:10

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hi i have an AMD-K6-III/450AHX 2.4V CORE/3.3V I/O here in an ECS p5vp-a+ which I know works but i have never got around to setting up. this picture comes complete with hair unfortunately: http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6769/k63k.th.jpg there is also some kind of k6 in a cobalt raq4 i have which …

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Re: Connecting a 5.25" floppy drive through IDE

Posted on 2011-06-15, 21:23

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by Tetrium

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Please don't mix the 40p IDE with the 34p Floppy interface. They are totally different!

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Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 21:22

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Price! :shocked: SCSI is ear deafening...nty lol Really? So you think a 7k RPM IDE drive any quieter than a 7k RPM SCSI drive? They both have the same mechanical parts, just the interface is different. Eh...that's actually a good point lol! But I understood that SCSI drives were always 1 rpm notch …

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Re: Asus PVI 486SP3 vs. Voodoo4 PCI

Posted on 2011-06-15, 20:05

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ok, both cards do also not work in my K6... I have checked the bios, there is no setting like "init display first: pci/agp" Have you tried cleaning the contacts? That often turns out to be a problem judging from my own experience. You can clean them with paper cloth+rubbing alcohol or a pencil …

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Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 20:01

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retro games 100 wrote: Price! 😳 SCSI is ear deafening...nty 🤣

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Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 18:03

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Drive released somewhere in mid-2007. I really like laptop drives. their only drawback is they tend to be slower. Unless you're comparing a 2007 laptop drive with a 2000 desktop drive :P I've recently bought a whole batch of 20GB laptop drives, haven't had the chance to try them out though but as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-06-15, 18:02

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by Tetrium

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How much did that PS2-Serial adapter set you back? And it works with mice, is that an affirmative? 😉

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Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 17:57

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by Tetrium

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Could you give us the model number of your 80GB laptop drive? Btw, laptop drives are "cool", hehe ;D

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Re: What other retro computing forums do you frequent?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 15:53

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Yeah, I used to frequent cpu-museum.de myself a lot years ago and saw spammers completely overtook that forum. What a waste...

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What other retro computing forums do you frequent?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 15:14

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Earlier today I visited a link someone posted here I believe which lead to an Australian overclocking forum and to my surprise saw a couple familiar names posting there! :D (One of em had like 11k posts!!). The posts were a very good read actually and I'm kinda sorry I didn't find this earlier, even …

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Re: Info on slot1-s370 adapter

Posted on 2011-06-15, 14:35

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by Tetrium

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To add to what Old Trashbarg already said, the jumpers on the slotket basically "send the motherboard a binary number". On the slotket it may say a particular "binary number" results in a certain voltage, but theres no guarantee that the motherboard itself will interpret that "binary number" as the …

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Re: Info on slot1-s370 adapter

Posted on 2011-06-15, 11:13

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It could be that either the higher-end CPU's were simply too much for those old boards to handle (many were made when P2 was still around) or the extra length of the electrical traces from the CPU to the rest of the system was causing the instabilities. Or...the slotkets were simply made of lesser …

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Re: Socket 754 mobo recommendation required please

Posted on 2011-06-15, 10:13

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s754 came first, with s939 hot on it's tail ;) The only significant difference between the 2 is that s939 supports dual channel DDR1 and s754 doesn't. And of course the 2 Sockets are not pin-compatible :P s754 was more for Semprons while s939 was more the high-end solution, but Athlon64's were …

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Re: Socket 754 mobo recommendation required please

Posted on 2011-06-15, 09:19

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Sorry I can't be any more specific, but there were so many A64 DDR boards made and I don't think anyone here has tried like 5 or more of those... Lmao, I'm going to recommend you another forum where I think you may find a good answer to your particular question ;D http://classicplatforms.com/forum/ …

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 09:16

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I liked Phantom Menace though, but I liked II and III more I think. II and III and quite spectacular and the visual effects were fabulous! 😁

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