Re: 486 motherboard

Posted on 2011-11-07, 23:13

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It's not nationalistic attitude. Shipping overseas is a bitch. But if the buyer is willing to cover the costs of international shipping - which is exactly what you commit to when you bid - then why not ship overseas? I've bought a lot of items in the past from American sellers who do ship worldwide …

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Star Wars Republic Commando tip

Posted on 2011-11-07, 23:05

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After you boot it go to Options and set Bump Mapping to low if you are experiencing the crash to desktop bug. I don't know if this is a software or hardware bug but it is the only way that I have found to correct this issue. What usually happens if it is set to anything else is when you try to start …

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Re: what is your computer "plan"

Posted on 2011-11-07, 22:59

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My plan is to buy all the good stuff before the rest of you get it. Muahahahahahaha!

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Re: Gateway P75

Posted on 2011-11-07, 19:43

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

About a year ago, I'd been experimenting using a P75. If I remember correctly, it was able to run up to 133MHz, with no problems. Then sometime I accidentally placed it on a board, which was set for a 233MMX, without a heatsink just for a few seconds, and a burning smell came. But it still works …

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Re: Gateway P75

Posted on 2011-11-07, 15:30

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The slowest socket 5/7 Pentium I've felt-up in person, and in its natural habitat, was a P100 back in ~1994, and again in 1998. It seems like the P75 came out after the P90/100/120 CPU line to grab the interest of budget shoppers. It was probably an Intel effort to compete with the high-end 486 …

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Re: Gateway P75

Posted on 2011-11-07, 12:39

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I've got a P120 right now but never saw a P75 in the flesh.

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Re: Best DOS video card?

Posted on 2011-11-07, 12:20

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I just wonder: have anyone tried Tseng Labs ET6000 for DOS games? Haven't tried those either, but I remember reading a November 1996 issue of Computer Gaming World (the article was about early 3D cards like Matrox Mystique and S3 Virge) that the ET6000 was still the fastest DOS VGA card around. …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2011-11-07, 12:10

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Well if you had bought a fresh one of those you'd have a limited OEM Incoming, a Nuclear Strike demo, Monster Truck Madness 2 and Battlezone with that one :P ahh the good old days when hardware was bundled with actual decent games (Sound Blaster Live 5.1 was the last good one) Free games was the …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2011-11-07, 12:02

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Got some Star Wars games $3 each at Toys R Us Republic Commando Jedi Knight II Galactic Battlegrounds Saga Battlefront

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-11-06, 12:39

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I found a GF4 MX 460 for a reasonable price. Got it for half of what the last few that I saw were listed for. Figured I better grab it because another might not come along at that price for a long time. Was like $13.50 shipped instead of the $25-$30 I usually see them being listed for. Of course now …

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Re: Anyone with a K6 w/ XP

Posted on 2011-11-05, 18:28

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

swaaye wrote: sliderider wrote: K5 PR200 is almost impossible to find. 🙁 I lucked out by stumbling on a CPUWorld group buy years ago. But it's only 16MHz faster than the PR166 so really the rarity is all that's special. I read about a guy who found one in a vintage PC he grabbed from a dumpster. 😮

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Re: Anyone with a K6 w/ XP

Posted on 2011-11-04, 11:09

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swaaye wrote: Studies show that real AMD fans run K5 PR200. Can it run Crysis? You better believe it. There mustn't be many real AMD fans, then, since that chip is almost impossible to find. 🙁

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Re: What is this Twister thingy?

Posted on 2011-11-04, 11:07

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MaxWar wrote: not 3DFX Voodoo That seller is awesome 🤣 That's called keyword spamming and is against ebay rules as it clutters up people's searches with items that have nothing to do with what they were searching for.

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Re: What is this Twister thingy?

Posted on 2011-11-04, 11:06

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A search on PN133T reveals that this is a VIA ProSavage DDR northbridge. It's a Pentium 3 chipset. No real answers please, we all can use search engines here. :happyhappy: You should learn to appreciate not getting the usual, condescending, "Google it" answer that most people give around here …

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Re: So you want a Cyrix 5x86-133?

Posted on 2011-11-04, 11:01

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GOOD NEWS FOR ALL - CYRIX 5X86-120/133 UPDATE Well, all this talk about running a Cyrix 5x86-120 at 133 MHz made me do it again. I've established some stable settings for this configuration, and they are as follows (btw, I am posting from this system): MOTHERBOARD: MB8433-UUD v3.0 BIOS: AWARD …

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Re: Vintage (sort-of) Hybrid PC

Posted on 2011-11-03, 21:28

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In going through some of my older cast-off stuff, last night, I came upon an old "hybrid" PC I built back in the mid-2000's. I was doing a lot of freelance 3d modeling and FEA at the time, and wanted a new PC but couldn't afford TWO new PC's, so I put together a 3D hybrid PC, at least that's what I …

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Re: upgrading a 775 box

Posted on 2011-11-03, 21:19

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I'm thinking of upgrading my son's box but I'm not sure what would give the best bang for the bucks. System is: asrock 4coredual-sata2 e4300 2gb stick of ddr2 [so single channel] 7950gx2 running xp pro Mostly the box is used for: social networking web browsing minecraft a little video processing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-11-03, 21:14

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Two retro video cards. Radeon 9100 PCI 128mb (finally!) and BFGTech GeForce 6200 PCI OC 256mb $37 shipped for the pair. Would have preferred the 6200 had 512mb, but for the price I really can't complain and with a card as slow as the 6200, even factory overclocked, the benefit of more memory is …

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Re: Fastest AGP and PCI video cards with Win98SE support

Posted on 2011-10-24, 14:46

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I have an ATI FireGL 8800- basically an 8500 in different clothes. Much slower and poorer image quality than a 4xxx series card. But all things considered, for it's time period, when most people were gaming on MX400s and stuff, it was a bangin' card. FireGL is optimized differently from Radeon even …

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Re: Fastest AGP and PCI video cards with Win98SE support

Posted on 2011-10-24, 14:43

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6200 will only be faster then fx5700 in ps 2.0 performance. In PCI the only 5700 is the 5700 LE and that is slower in everything than a 6200. The 6200 supports SM 3.0, so is more useful than a 5700 for running later games. If you're using an AGP motherboard, then you should be using a 6800 which …

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