Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:50

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As you can see, it's a Highscreen case as well (the same one as Tetrium has). Actually, before I knew it was a Highscreen, I just called it the "Tonino" case (perhaps a couple other Dutch people here will know what I'm referring to :P). Shame really, I WANT people to put their computers on the …

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Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:47

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It's not as if the difference in numbers means anything, though... best I've been able to tell, there's no actual performance difference from having an FPU installed (except, of course, in FPU-enabled software, where it provides a benefit). It did get me a bit curious about something... does …

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Re: 3D Accelerators Compared

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:45

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We like Tualatins too, don't we? We most certainly do!!! :D They are, imo, the best cpu's available at their particular speed and "processing power" ;) They produce little heat, support SSE and are cheap (though somewhat it's harder to get the boards). Only drawback is it's memory bandwidth, …

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Re: Cyrix 5x86-133 Testing

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:33

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In an effort to create the most definitive 486, socket 3 benchmark comparison chart, I will be adding the following: CPUs: Cyrix 5x86-80 (Do these even exist/work? We'll find out soon!) Cyrix 5x86-133 w/ALL Enhancements OFF Cyrix 5x86-133 using a Biostar MB-8433UUD v3.0 Motherboard Intel DX2-66 ( …

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Re: Anybody Know Anything About this Graphics Card?

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:26

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Don't fret if you can't find a Diamond driver for this card. I've read through most (if not all) of Diamond's archived pages and can't find any info or manufacturer-specific drivers for this card, so it's quite possible that they intended this product purely for the OEM channel. Personally though, …

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Re: DVD hardware decoder cards

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:23

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"The World's Slowest 586." I think I may already have that dubious honour: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9151127/4mhz.JPG My recent entry into an underclocking competition :) Part of the requirements was a CPU-Z validated speed, unfortunately it appears to have some arbitrary lower limit so it wouldn't …

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Re: does anyone know the name of these cpu coolers?

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:13

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Spire made coolers that look rather similar also. I got 2 different Spire coolers, one all aluminium, and one with a copper base that's significantly heavier.

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Re: Interesting findings with simcity classic

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:10

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Good find! Maybe theres more (undocumented?) stuff like this for us to find out 😉

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:08

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bushwack wrote: Found a Hercules 3D Prophet 64mb. Mint shape, still has that new video card smell and the fan is remarkably silent. It better be, theres hardly anything else to cool it 😜 Anyway, nice find 😉

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-17, 09:34

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Nice pics, and you sure managed to cram it alright 😜 Only thing is, theres so much inside it, I can barely see anything of the mobo! What board are you using?

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Re: Anybody Know Anything About this Graphics Card?

Posted on 2011-04-17, 09:06

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I have one of these, also never could find any driver that Diamond ever released for it. I ran it with a OEM Trident diver. I have a couple old Diamond driver cd's somewhere which I noticed had drivers for a couple other cards on them. I'll go have a look and see what I find... Edit:Oh, will need …

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Re: Anybody Know Anything About this Graphics Card?

Posted on 2011-04-16, 15:23

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I have one of these, also never could find any driver that Diamond ever released for it. I ran it with a OEM Trident diver. I have a couple old Diamond driver cd's somewhere which I noticed had drivers for a couple other cards on them. I'll go have a look and see what I find... Edit:Oh, will need …

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Re: Vodka and old Computers.

Posted on 2011-04-16, 15:12

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So what brand Vodka was it? 😁

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Re: KGB Audio

Posted on 2011-04-16, 15:11

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K5-200? Don't you mean the K6-200? K5-200 is another one of those uncommon chips 😉

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Re: My first post: Bragging about my new retro computers!

Posted on 2011-04-16, 15:05

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GXL750 wrote: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2011-4/1365981/tn_micron_in.jpg […] Show full quote That sure is an odd cpu cooler you have

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Re: VGA VLB S3 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 86C801/805, basic info

Posted on 2011-04-14, 20:34

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Thanks a lot Tetrium, your idea of filming the BIOS POST screen enabled me to write all of that info down! Thanks for the complement! :D :D :D Just trying to make life easier for us Vogoners ;) Btw, is the card any good? I know the later S3's were good, but I know relatively little about their pre- …

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Re: Geforce 4 MX440SE or Radeon 7500LE??

Posted on 2011-04-14, 19:51

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OK, this is hard to believe, but there was once a chinese no-name OEM TNT2 pro under the name 'Eagle TNT2 pro'. That one had the best graphics quality of all NVIDIA video cards I have ever tested (on a CRT). And it had the most awesome anisotropic filtering ever - 3D quality was even comparable …

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Re: My first post: Bragging about my new retro computers!

Posted on 2011-04-14, 19:49

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Welcome to Vogons! 😉 And nice finds! 😀 I still haven't been able to get a GF1 (cheaply 😜)

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Re: Anybody Know Anything About this Graphics Card?

Posted on 2011-04-13, 23:27

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In my experience, Trident PCI cards were much more uncommon (though not rare) then the S3 PCI cards.

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Re: How do you back up a 3.5" driver installation floppy diskette?

Posted on 2011-04-13, 23:22

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I don't see why winimage is so expensive? I've been using it for free for many years :D One thing I like about winimage is it's availability to format 2.88MB floppies in XP, even though XP itself doesn't support formatting this format. And yes, ME was the 1st OS to support zip files out of the box. …

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