Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-24, 01:52

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It's a working list for acquisition, just keeping thoughts together, and refining and trimming and adding with more research on each category. Yes, I would like to get an Iwill XA100Plus board. Picked up a Diamong Monster Fusion, but lost out a SB AWE64 Gold today. It doesn't REALLY matter what …

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Re: How good is this? (New PC)

Posted on 2011-02-24, 01:46

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White ISA slots :D Looks pretty pretty hehe :P Anyway, whats wrong with the Banshee anyway? They aren't getting much love it seems. Maybe because they are (slightly) worse then the V2's and slower then the single card V3's? Maybe they are just problematic? I remember having tried an AGP one once and …

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Re: Memory parity error on 386 mobo. Memtest says that RAM is OK

Posted on 2011-02-23, 23:14

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I don't think they will be lasting very long though. It's a pretty good deal 😉

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Re: Damn SP1, it's driving me mad!!

Posted on 2011-02-23, 11:26

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If you skip on Sp1 you will most likely skip on some "silent security updates" as well . MS doesn't always give full disclosure on which security fixes come with the patches on patch tuesday (when recently asked by german computer magazine, their reasoning is that if a security hole similaror …

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Re: The mail man brings VLB goodness

Posted on 2011-02-23, 01:36

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PC Chips used fake cache memory chips. The best way to tell is to follow the traces and see if they actually connect up to anything. If there's no traces leading from the cache sockets to anything else on the motherboard or if the traces terminate before they come into contact with any other …

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Re: Damn SP1, it's driving me mad!!

Posted on 2011-02-23, 01:30

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The risks may be minimal, but the need to install the new SP is zero, so I won't install atm this time. Pure logic ;) I'll go ahead and install it when I actually need to do so. Oh, and in case you are wondering what it is about this ADDiCT guy, then I'd suggest you read some of his earlier stuff. …

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Re: New Celly 400 Rig

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:48

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Afaik they run a bit hotter, but realistically, it shouldn't be much of a problem, unless you build the drive in the case in such a way that it has no fresh air whatsoever.

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Re: Need Techie Advice

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:22

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Also, as far as replacing the fan, if it comes to that, you should be able to find a way to attach a regular case fan to the existing heatsink. Screws, zipties, something... I mean, it doesn't have to be pretty, just needs something blowing air on it. Seconded ;) It may not be pretty, but if it …

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Re: New Celly 400 Rig

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:20

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The Athlons were roughly equal to a PIII of the same clockspeed, a little faster in some things, little slower in others, but on the whole an Athlon 1200 is on par with a 1.2ghz Tualatin. Thats correct, except for 2 things: *Thunderbirds have no hardware support for SSE (useful for some things like …

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Re: Damn SP1, it's driving me mad!!

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:09

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Indeed. Going by that "logic" you wouldn't install any service packs at all, let alone any new OS, because bug-free software doesn't exist. Uhm, that doesn't make any sense?!?!? Waiting a little while until possible issues are google-able is completely different from never installing a new OS? …

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Re: Damn SP1, it's driving me mad!!

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:06

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Indeed. Going by that "logic" you wouldn't install any service packs at all, let alone any new OS, because bug-free software doesn't exist. Uhm, that doesn't make any sense?!?!? Waiting a little while until possible issues are google-able is completely different from never installing a new OS? …

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Re: Apocalypse 3DX complete in box

Posted on 2011-02-22, 23:02

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A now lost site with info was the Geocities thingy. It was all HTML user sites, but many of them had interesting info on stuff from the way old internet days. It also gave a very nice idea of what went on in the users minds in those days.

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-02-22, 22:54

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Are there any Intel chipset boards with T. Support AND ISA slot? Not that I know of, but that's not really strange:The i815 doesn't have any native support for ISA slots. However, it's possible in theory. I actually do have an i815 board with ISA slot! It's from a Fujitsu Siemens and I think it has …

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Re: The mail man brings VLB goodness

Posted on 2011-02-22, 22:46

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Hey, do I see a scorch mark over there? Kidding!! :P Anyway, what S3 card is that? Interesting looking board. I don't know much about VLB 486 mobos, but that looks like a PC Chips style board. There's just something about it, which reminds me of these types of board. If you look at the lettering …

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

Posted on 2011-02-22, 22:41

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You ´could´ try TH99, or download the full version and do a search for the exact chipset from Windows. It´s the best `full` collection of 486 data that I know of. That collection isn't searchable and chipsets aren't mentioned for the vast majority of the boards so even searching manually isn't …

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Re: New Celly 400 Rig

Posted on 2011-02-22, 22:38

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The cache on those Celerons is actually 128K ;) OMG you are right. I don't know how I mixed it up with Duron. I been shamed! Will punish myself later! Will reinstall Vista on a Willamette P4 or something!!! Lol! No need Lol! It's not like I'm never wrong! :P :P :P I think the early Celerons are …

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Re: Looking to build or buy a DOS ONLY gaming platform

Posted on 2011-02-22, 22:30

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The EPoX boards seem to be limited to 384MB, 3 128MB SDRAM. 256MB (double sided) to 768MB PC133 or PC100 non ECC SDRAM You should just try out the stick in your Epox board. I think it may simply work just like in LX boards. The LX (basically a 66Mhz BX) officially supports only 128MB DS SDRAM …

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Re: Damn SP1, it's driving me mad!!

Posted on 2011-02-22, 09:57

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I'll skip W7 SP1 (just calling it SP1 is kinda confusing, since theres so many out here in 2011, Lol!) until they iron the bugs out 😜

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Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!

Posted on 2011-02-22, 09:55

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If anyone of us would like to trade, theres always www.vintage-computer.com, right?

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Re: Just won an AMD K6 3/450 rig off ebay!

Posted on 2011-02-22, 09:54

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PeteUK, you didn´t mention what board you´re using :D And if you post a pic of the graphics card (from and back, detailed enough so we can read the printings), we might be able to figure out more info on your graphics card. Often you can even recognize the type of graphics chip by looking what the …

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