Re: Retro Hardware Collections

Posted on 2010-12-16, 17:44

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Edit7: Finally found the boxes! Decided to delete the rest as the post was becoming eligible for "most messy post of the year award" The ones I use are mainly these: http://www.oppyproduce.com/images/kiwi_packaging3.jpg And I got a couple of these also. Only difference is they are a bit higher. …

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Re: Post your list of (un)favorite motherboard manufacturers here!

Posted on 2010-12-16, 15:55

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-snip- nforce -snip- I never liked NForce boards. Never really understood why they were supposed to be so great. I have some vague feeling the post-XP NForces are prone to dying. I've always preferred VIA (Socket A DDR and later) since they worked for me. Frankly, I've read a lot negative posts …

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Re: Good AGP VGA

Posted on 2010-12-16, 15:45

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I have no idea what a Compiz is (if it's linux, it's Chinese to me), but if you have a GF MX or Radeon 9600 laying around, you could use those.

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Re: Retro Hardware Collections

Posted on 2010-12-16, 15:41

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I collect a whole lot of hardware, including motherboards, graphics cards and (to a lesser extend) sound cards. If you think you need professional help, then I must be far past the point of no return hehe! :P Last time I counted, I had 300+ cpu's, 100+ graphics cards and more then 85 motherboards. I …

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Re: 2d video cards

Posted on 2010-12-16, 15:27

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If you want good 2D (and the following is particularly true for cards made after, say, 1999), the more bandwidth the card has, the better it will perform in 2D

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-16, 13:13

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P3-1400? I just heard them today as I think the fastest P3s are 1000Mhz.. are they overclocked? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Tualatin Great chips, but they came out when the P4 was already around. So Intel didn't "push" them at all. The P3 DNA ended up flowing into the mobile chips ( …

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-16, 11:14

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I made a new topic solely for discussing mainboard manufacturers ;) http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=207467#207467 Your P4 isn't hot as, at 1.6Ghz and being a Northwood, it produces 'only' about 50W, which is about 50% more then a P3-1400, which happens to also be about 25% faster then your …

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Post your list of (un)favorite motherboard manufacturers here!

Posted on 2010-12-16, 11:10

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I branched it off of this topic: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=207461#207461 I'm sure every one's lists will differ a lot in details, which might result in an interesting read ;) There are many different motherboard manufacturers out there. Some good, some not so good and some good only …

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-16, 10:03

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Yes, Jetway and PC-Chips are in the low-end market, until now. I have ever used a PC-Chips S478 actually, which is quite reliable (running 24x7 for a week without any restarts, no bluescreens coming). Is there any converters so I can use later Pentium II/III on this board? Or should I stick with …

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-16, 02:01

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Imo Jetway isn't exactly a tier-1 mobo manufacturer. In my personal list of mobo manufacturers, Jetway lingers somewhere along the bottom (with the bottom position occupied by PC-Chips and it's 20 clones 🤣 ).

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Re: Un-unlockable Socket 7 Pentium

Posted on 2010-12-15, 17:08

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Brute force always wins LOL I pulled out a CPU once without moving the lever I had this happen on several occasions when trying to remove only the heatsink. The heatsink would be stuck to the cpu by hardened cooling goo and pull the cpu right out, even though I tried twitching the heatsink a bit. …

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-15, 16:54

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This is the oem one, but it doesn't come with the same onboard audio so I don't think this is yours. http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/pegasus.htm Edit: Please disregard the written above, it's the older SiS chipset and NOT Super 7! Edit2: This is the correct one, with SiS 530 chipset. But again, …

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Re: Un-unlockable Socket 7 Pentium

Posted on 2010-12-15, 16:51

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Sometimes even on perfectly fine motherboards the cpu will conly come loose if you apply power to the lever when lifting up (after you moved it sideways a bit so it doesn't hit the lil plastic thingy). Many Socket 3 sockets seem to work that way. And anyway, since the mobo is toast, you might as …

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Re: Data Expert EXP4044 and PC Partner VX

Posted on 2010-12-15, 12:50

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: Uhm such a battery will start leaking whenever it wants, even when not conected. ugh -_-. Well I'd better flip the board upside down then haha 😜

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-15, 12:39

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Chipset is SiS. If it has "530" printed on a (presumably green) heatsink, it's a Super 7 ;) It sounds a lot like those oem Packard Bell boards. Is your board mATX? Does it look something like this?: http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/epox/S7-530A.htm Couldn't find any with 3 USB on the i/o thingy though …

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-15, 12:15

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What is actually the difference between Socket 7 and Super Socket 7? I have a Socket 7 motherboard with no manufacturer identity, but it is manufactured in 1999. (I inherited that board new from my friend, in a plain box). It comes with Intel Pentium 133 (non-MMX). Is it a Super Socket 7? What kind …

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Re: Data Expert EXP4044 and PC Partner VX

Posted on 2010-12-15, 12:01

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Also, do you think it's possible to combine 30-pin and 72-pin RAM on it? While this shouldn't not work, there might be some limitations. Sorry for not having read the manual. I once tested mixing both types of memory on another board which has both types of memory slots and found out the following: …

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Re: PC freezes easily after Windows reinstall

Posted on 2010-12-13, 17:50

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You might as well dispense with such old hardware entirely. Anything that runs smoothly in Windows 2000 can probably be run easily on a much faster computer than a P200. While this is obviously true, the whole point of this forum is for people to discuss using older computers :P MB, what -exactly- …

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Re: Vista vs SB Live, Again (CTHelper problems)

Posted on 2010-12-12, 22:57

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Yup, SB Live!'s aren't officially supported...so everyone's selling them dirt cheap now, so go get 'em! ;D

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Re: 486 mobo + 586 chip

Posted on 2010-12-12, 13:03

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^ In his hardware set up description, he mentions an "AMx586 160 @ 200 MHz" processor, and the screenshot shows "AMD-X5-S CPU". I wonder - is this an AMD chip that runs at a stock speed of 160 MHz, which has been OC'd by 40 MHz, to reach an operating speed of 200 MHz? What is an X5 chip? Maybe this …

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