Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-02, 12:55

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Edit: @Markk:The PSU in your ATX case looks kinda cheap though. You might wanna replace it with a better one if you can get your hands on one for cheap ;) You're absolutely right. A couple of weeks ago, one of the two hard disks stopped working. I thought it was dead. And then I changed the power …

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Re: Found some hardware today

Posted on 2011-04-02, 12:50

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The pics ;) Pic 1: 3 Intel s370 Pentium 3's together, front view. The left one is a Tualatin, the middle is a Coppermine-t and the right a Coppermine (to be exact, a 1400, 1000 and 1000). Notice how from the top the Coppermine-t looks almost the same as the Tualatin. From the top you can distinguish …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-04-02, 12:43

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Heres the pics of my super duper mega omni awesome l337 rippah soundblaster box. It has a real nice "vintage" feel to it hehe :P It's almost ready to be sticky taped together! http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad254/inteltetrium/DSC00511.jpg http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad254/inteltetrium/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-04-02, 12:39

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Yea it's in amazingly good condition. I have an issue with Prince and Persia. I had this before and one day it just worked. It's regarding the Game Blaster mode which you launch through prince.exe gblast It plays FM music and PC speaker effects. And I don't know how it solved itself the last time. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-04-02, 11:34

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http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4716/img0155gl.jpg http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1852/img0156yy.jpg http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/848/img0158z.jpg http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/2996/img0160gx.jpg http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/1552/img0162um.jpg http://img806.imageshack.us/ …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:51

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Voodoo2 is an add-on card, and that's its main advantage. You can have whatever primary card you prefer, and then add a Voodoo2 as secondary. Why is this better than having a standard, more powerful PCI card (Voodoo3/4/5)? Because Voodoo 1 & 2 never will hang the whole system when a game freezes. …

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Re: UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options?

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:46

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@Tetrium We'd need to test both 3.6V and 3.7V varieties at various voltages to really determine what's up.[/b] This may be a problem, good luck finding both these chips :blah: Anyway, I might test it when I get it, but I'm in no hurry. I might test it along with a whole batch of other 486 CPU's I …

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Re: VLB 486 recommendation required please

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:38

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BTW, I increased the P75's multi from 3 to 4, so that the system was running at "4x & 50 = 200" and attempted to run Windows 98. The desktop would not appear. I tried setting the BIOS timings to their slowest values, but this did not help. I wonder if "4x & 50 = 200, Windows 98" would work on an …

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Re: How good are trackball mice?

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:29

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My favorite ball mouse of ALL TIME :D was the Razer Boomslang 1000 DPI. USB, long mouse cord and I actually preferred it over optical mice until my boomslang started getting problems I couldn't fix anymore due to old age. I used it until it was basically used up and even then I still got that …

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Re: Geforce 4 MX440SE or Radeon 7500LE??

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:26

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I decided to use a Radeon 8500 in the end (Hercules 3D Prophet 8500 - 128mb DDR).... So far so good and the performace/visual quality is actually pretty good :) I'll just get rid of the Geforce 4 MX440 and Radeon 7500 as i'll never use them :pppt: The GF4MX is a great testing card though. AGP 4x …

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Re: Found some hardware today

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:19

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I had a successful day at uni yesterday again :) I got a GA-5AX Motherboard AMDK6-2 500 (with an Intel PIII Cooler so I was completely confused when I first looked at it) 3 x 128MB RAM 1 x 64MB RAM 4 x 100Mbps NIC (intel, realtek, admtek, d-link) PCI S3 Virge/DX (what I assume are extra video ram …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:08

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I've tried a couple of SL6BY CPUs, but I can't get DOS to boot up @ 166 FSB any more. I can't remember where I bought these SL6BY CPUs. They have a Compaq sticker on them. This ebay advert looks familiar. What does this seller mean? "ONLY SUPPORT 815T SHIPSET MOTHERBOARD !!!!" The mobos I am …

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Re: Batch file help.

Posted on 2011-04-02, 10:03

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Okay, I have a file needs user input (1 through 5) how do I restrict the user input. Say if someone typed "r" or another character other than 1 through 5 how would I block that input because when I input an unexpected character is crashes the program instead of ingoing it. I'm not exactly a DOS or …

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Re: Pentium overdrive 83 MHz - overclocking options?

Posted on 2011-04-02, 09:58

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I have a MSI MS-4144. It's a SiS 496 PCI board. It use it with a 33 or 40 MHz FSB. The Voodoo3 just worked, but I had to use old drivers or it would blue screen probably because the later drivers require Pentium instructions (the POD stopped the blue screens). I used it with the POD, Cx5x86 and …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-02, 09:50

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This a picture of my current work in progress: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_V72Y4sGK4ts/TZUlLb8dUdI/AAAAAAAAAE4/3C8HoAkonV0/IMG_0333.JPG Some stuff is not correct for the targeted year. It will be a Q1-1999 machine. Right stuff for the time: Asus P2B Motherboard Intel PIII 500MHz Asus AGP …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-04-02, 09:33

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Amigaz wrote: I've had troubles with 80-wire IDE cables in older system like the one you have in that caddy, I think it'll "magically" work with an old-school 40-wire cable 😉 What kind of troubles did you have?

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-03-31, 21:50

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I'll post a couple more of my rigs later. Just beware...there is a story attached to every single one of them :P Please do, and don't spare us any detail. It's the stories that make the thread interesting. Without which, it'll just be a collection of pictures of outdated electronic appliances. …

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Re: UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options?

Posted on 2011-03-31, 21:34

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@Tetrium thanks - I will be waiting for info from you. I have to admit you are very patient. If I were you I would request shipping immediately. ^^ I wonder if this cpu is good overclocker - I would expect overclocking to150MHz without need to increase voltage above 4V. (; I doubt these CPU's are …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-03-31, 21:26

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.... but otherwise I just play around with old buggy worthless useless gimpy hardware because it's somewhat fascinating. Same here lol :P I build 2 systems basically because I wanted to play through the Unreal campaign twice, once at normal on one computer and once on hard on another computer with …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-31, 21:19

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Interesting that unmei220 mentions HDD corruption. I tried to install 3DMark 2001 today, and it freezes on part of the installation - to do with texture decompression. I have reinstalled Windows 98 to retest this, but don't have the time right now to retest it. I'm doing a massive retro junk tidy …

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