Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!

Posted on 2011-02-14, 20:34

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When a moderator asks you to please stop selling/trading, then it sounds to me like he is warning people that this is no longer allowed. And it doesn't sound like it is open for debate. Yes I understand this, but I don't see where this is specifically mentioned as such. Mind you, not all of us are …

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Re: radeon 9600XT artefacts

Posted on 2011-02-14, 13:16

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I KNOW THIS! if you don't get it to work I'm fairly sure it's bad connection on the vram we see it fairly common at work. We have special soldering station with heating iron that can re flow solder it does wonders for cards that do this kinda of stuff. Seriously?? I'm interested to learn how this …

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Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!

Posted on 2011-02-14, 13:12

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dada wrote: edit: I'm still a little confused though. Is this just a warning to people who might want to buy or sell something or is it now policy that these topics won't be allowed? Same. I don't understand where we stand now 😕 Btw, whatever the rules will be, I'll stick to them.

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Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!

Posted on 2011-02-14, 03:45

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This is a bit tricky situation to handle. On one hand, we have to deal with those who wish to sell here, and on the other hand, our admins are not very happy about it, because, they are totally responsible for what's going on here. This topic is bound to happen in any type of related forums. Since …

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Re: What's the difference between the 3 Epox SS7 MVP3 mobos?

Posted on 2011-02-14, 01:29

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Ah, tremendous! And that ebay seller has literally hundreds of 'em! :happyhappy: I've bought a whole bunch of K6-3+'s from this seller and all the chips are NOS and all working when I tested them ;) I just went ahead and got a tray with 10 of these chips :D And don't worry about it's low voltage. …

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

Posted on 2011-02-14, 01:25

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Dear EscapeVelocity, if you don't actually enjoy working with hardware then I'd recommend to just use dosbox. For someone who only wants to build an old computer just so they can play their old games..it's really not worth it, if you ask me. Consider this before you actually start spending cash on …

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Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!

Posted on 2011-02-14, 01:19

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I've noticed, in every single forum that's about hardware discussion, sooner or later people will start trading. It's inevitable, but I agree it can also be risky. So far I've done 2 trades with members on this forum (I was the buyer both times) and am perfectly happy with the way the transactions …

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Re: What's the difference between the 3 Epox SS7 MVP3 mobos?

Posted on 2011-02-13, 20:32

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To minimize the risks, I just put ina high voltage chip (like a pentium) and underclock the rest the lowest I can go (50Mhz fsb and 1.5x or 2x multi) and start trying out voltages in a fixed order. Once you do it a while you start to notice that often the gaps are filled in the same way over and …

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Re: What's the difference between the 3 Epox SS7 MVP3 mobos?

Posted on 2011-02-13, 17:47

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The voltage options seem a little bit sparse: you get 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4, but the next option is 2.8, and the last is 3.2. This is normal. Chances are good it'll have some undocumented jumper settings, or that you can puzzle them out yourself (0000, 0001, 0010, 0011 etc). As for the differences, I …

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Re: radeon 9600XT artefacts

Posted on 2011-02-13, 10:30

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: sliderider wrote: What does that do? Won't that melt something? I believe what it does it cure solder joints that aren't 100%. Exactly that. It's one of those typical NV things 😜 (and yes, I'm an ATI fanboy 😜)

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Re: The ultimate Voodoo 2 machine on ebay

Posted on 2011-02-13, 10:29

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I bumped into a post made by Obi One kenobi (a Dutch guy who collects and knows a great deal about 3DFX cards) and he posted a picture of a very similar case. It was called a Mercury and was a dedicated commercially available Voodoo SLI Obsidian rig.

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Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-02-13, 10:27

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How long did you have to wait before you were able to play Crysis at those settings? Well currently I have use a "special" LCD for gaming. It's a 1366 x 768 LCD with 75Hz. Low resolution gaming FTW! It means all the latest games run find even on an average video card and I get insane FPS. Crysis is …

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

Posted on 2011-02-13, 10:25

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: "My High Powered Ram is not Included" Gah...good morning Tetrium!!! Wheres the coffee!!

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

Posted on 2011-02-13, 10:25

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That 386 is sweet, but yeah, Ill probably be working on 2 machines. A 486 Dos Box and a Pentium Win98. Or maybe I should just use DosBox? I guess I can build and then sell if I go DosBox. Itll be fun. BTW, Ive been having trouble trying to run DosBox. Ill work on it some more. Imo you should only …

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

Posted on 2011-02-13, 10:11

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There's a Hot433 motherboard on ebay right now but it's a regular auction and there will probably be a lot of VOGONers bidding for that one because they are popular for building fast 486 machines for speed runs as they have a lot of overclocking potential. http://cgi.ebay.com/Dumpster-Diving- …

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Re: This went for cheap.

Posted on 2011-02-13, 02:00

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Not me...

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Re: The ultimate Voodoo 2 machine on ebay

Posted on 2011-02-13, 01:38

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I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of those AAlchemy boards separately. You can probably tie together any 4 Voodoo 2 card via the SLi connectors using it and install it in any PC with 4 PCI slots. Can you imagine how they must scale? They'd probably still be scaling with a C2D processor. You …

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Re: The ultimate Voodoo 2 machine on ebay

Posted on 2011-02-12, 12:22

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What, no 3DFX logo on the case? meh... Though those Obsidian cards look impressive! But still, 2k and not even a harddrive? Not even tested?!? But at least it's a noble attempt, right?

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Re: FS: PC Chips 486 mobo and Almost Everything Else needed to Put Together a 486

Posted on 2011-02-12, 12:18

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However, looking at this info, the jumper info is not 100% correct for my board. There's a jumper on it that says jumper JP23 is on for 3.3V, or off for 4V. Oh dear, no 5V option then? However, there's another bank of 4 jumpers labelled 3.3V or 5V, so I'm not sure what that's all about. Perhaps …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-02-12, 02:18

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Nice! But I'm missing something 😒 I can't see any VGA ports? Weird... No idea why this is, but I'm pretty sure no company is stupid enough to "forget" to put a video port on it's own graphics card...😜

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