Re: SpechWarrior 2: 31st Century Squallbat.

Posted on 2011-11-30, 10:52

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by GXL750

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^ I'm not sure about prices on those things now but I remember a few years ago, around 2007 I think, Tualatins were pretty much a dime a dozen and easier to find than motherboards that supported them. The 1.266ghz PIII-S in my old Compaq box I remember getting in a lot of two matching chips for …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-11-22, 06:42

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That looks surprisingly modern. Much more so than my PIII box.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-11-11, 17:32

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Picked up a Palm TX at a thrift shop for $10 today. At Starbucks toying with it on this site right now. Pic when I get home I get home later. With wifi, the ability to play music and hardware powerful enough to run various emulators, this thing is like a gameboy on steroids. To increase usefulness, …

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Re: Socket 423 Build

Posted on 2011-11-08, 07:03

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I had an Athlon XP box in early 2003 that I enjoyed using. With a Radeon 9000 and 256mb PC133 and a 40gb hard drive, it wasn't high end but it ran pretty nice and I enjoyed use of it for a little while. Unfortunately, with a dated Via chipset that had been around since the Thunderbird days, PC133 …

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Re: Gateway P75

Posted on 2011-11-07, 22:32

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Pentium chips are pretty resilient. I remember having a Pentium box in which I accidentally broke off one of the tabs on the socket that holds the heatsink on so I literally just Elmer's glued the heatsink to the cpu (no fan either). I had it overclocked from 133 to 166mhz and never had a bit of …

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Re: Gateway P75

Posted on 2011-11-07, 16:47

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Typically, a Pentium 75 can easily overclock to 90mhz. Also, a lot of them have the FDIV bug that's more commonly associated with the 60 and 66mhz Socket 4 chips (I'm not sure exactly when the FDIV bug was fixed but it seems if the chip lacks a gold heat spreader, it's new enough to not have said …

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Re: 486 motherboard

Posted on 2011-11-07, 10:29

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It's not nationalistic attitude. Shipping overseas is a bitch.

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Re: Looking for an Intel Z68 based mainboard with floppy and IDE support

Posted on 2011-11-07, 08:00

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Wouldn't it be cheaper to just get new burners that use SATA or find an IDE pci card in that case? For floppy, a USB one should be fine. It'll boot just as most USB storage devices and typically, a USB drive will even copy and read a little faster than drives using traditional floppy interface.

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Re: Windows NT 4.0

Posted on 2011-11-06, 07:06

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NT4 can use either FAT16 or NTFS.

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Re: Gateway P75

Posted on 2011-11-03, 22:57

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I had a P5-75 tower that my neighbor gave me back in 2003. The case was definitely top notch; standard AT but heavy, gigantic and with plenty of room for expansion. I don't remember if the motherboard had any cache but the system ran Windows 98 pretty nicely. I even frequently usedthe internet on it …

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Re: Practice PC # 2 - retro PC - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-11-01, 12:08

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Any of those should fit your board.

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Re: Practice PC # 2 - retro PC - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-11-01, 12:02

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by GXL750

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The motherboard is a standard micro atx part so any ATX case should do.

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Re: Games that you would not want to see remake?

Posted on 2011-10-31, 07:05

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How about remakes gone horribly wrong... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_3D_Noah%27s_Ark

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Re: Anyone familiar w/ Asus P3C boards?

Posted on 2011-10-31, 05:21

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In my experience, the 820 is a lot nicer if you plan to run XP. The increased memory bandwidth helps a little and the lack of a 512mb ceiling makes the thing more practical. With 512 or 1gb memory and a 1ghz CPU, the 820 can still hold it's own. It seems like most of the negative remarks about the …

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Re: Vintage Build

Posted on 2011-10-28, 09:00

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Supposedly, the reason no motherboard ever had more than three VESA slots is because of electrical limitations. I assume your hard drive controller is VLB. If that's the case, I would recommend creating a backup image of the computer's hard drive before experimenting as an overloaded VESA bus can …

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Re: old pc xt cga graphic card to a cga monitor helpme please

Posted on 2011-10-28, 08:55

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It sounds like he has a DB9 cable he tried to use but he got an unstable image and wants to come up with a cable he's sure is correct. Not sure about the buttons though.

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Re: 486 motherboard

Posted on 2011-10-28, 01:43

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He has a few other desktop motherboards for sale. His newest one is his cheapest. In the middle is a Pentium board for $100. I suppose he's hoping his auctions will be seen by one of those people that supposedly exist who absolutely have to have a specific platform for something to run on and will …

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Re: crucial memory = cas3

Posted on 2011-10-27, 03:03

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It seems like all I have to do is ask around with my friends and I can usually wind up with something.

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Re: what is your computer "plan"

Posted on 2011-10-26, 23:25

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When I'm not getting stiff off ebay, I'm stroking keys. That's as much plan as I have. :) But seriously, my "computer plan" is to pray my venerable old Dell doesn't crap itself before I have some manner of disposable income again. I have a 1.2ghz Pentium III-s system that I play games on and use as …

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Re: Automatically starts when plugged in, power button does nothing, no video.

Posted on 2011-10-26, 23:24

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by GXL750

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Try removing cpu, ram, hard drive cables, anything that's made to be detachable and make sure there's no dust and then reseat everything to ensure all parts have a good connection. See if that helps. If that doesn't work, the immediate next step for me would be to try with different cpu, ram, psu.

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