Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-12, 18:33

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by kithylin

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64GB? What? Really? So, this is from, like, 2003 right? Rubbish. SSDs are the way forward, they just aren't ready yet. Furthermore (As to the OS), I don't have time to mess with things and why should I have to? It should work as advertised out of the box. It pisses me off the amount of third party …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-12, 17:18

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by kithylin

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SSDs are for pussies :P WD RE in RAID, the only way to go. I have always wondered how it is possible to actually make the operating system take up that much space. Your experience is not typical... I use windows 7 on a 64GB SSD here, and I actually know how to easily "strip down" windows 7 and get …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-10, 23:40

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by kithylin

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Nice!! I probably use my FX60 more than any of my other machines to this day. I love it. Blazing fast with mid-late 2000s stuff and it is still fine with modern web browsing and other programs. In my opinion the FX50/60 line is a true classic and should be in the CPU hall of fame. :blush: Thanks! I …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-08-05, 20:41

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by kithylin

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Had to push it over 30k in Windows 98 SE. Card: 7800 GTX @ 490MHz/1380MHz Driver: 81.98 (added 7800 GTX to .inf) LOD: really bad 3dmark_30420.png That's awesome man! I keep hearing about adjusting LOD to improve 3DMark01 performance, but I've never actually tried it (dreams of breaking 100K under …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-08-05, 17:15

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by kithylin

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Had to push it over 30k in Windows 98 SE. Card: 7800 GTX @ 490MHz/1380MHz Driver: 81.98 (added 7800 GTX to .inf) LOD: really bad 3dmark_30420.png So I'm curious how you got this working.. since no one writes drivers for pci-express-enabled-chipsets on motherboards with pci-express for win98se.. and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-04, 19:28

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by kithylin

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It looks a lot better when the original battery is removed and replaced. It should be removed anyway, otherwise the leaking original NI-CD's are damaging the mobo. Soldering a new leads with connectors to a CR2032 takes more time to finish ;) €8 / 6 = €1,33 battery (shipping included). Cheap enough …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-08-04, 17:18

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by kithylin

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Soldered some new batteries to 3 mainboards with a "CMOS Checksum error" error 6 batteries shipped from Hong Kong to Holland, total amount €8 Last weekend i soldered them to the printplates All errors gone! :D but the motherboard has the 4 pins to an external battery right there.. just stick in a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-24, 17:08

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by kithylin

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Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project. You know what works really well for straightening pins, especially when you have a lot of them to straighten? A metal straight edge of some kind. You can stand entire rows of pins back up at once and then finely tweak them with the needle nose …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-23, 19:40

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by kithylin

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Figuring out some issues with XP update. According to the internet if you install SP3 before IE8 it corrupts some registry files and you can not access MS update. Fun stuff! There's not much point anyway, microsoft doesn't issue new updates for XP anymore anyway. Tell that to the XP computer in the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-23, 17:23

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by kithylin

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ODwilly wrote: Figuring out some issues with XP update. According to the internet if you install SP3 before IE8 it corrupts some registry files and you can not access MS update. Fun stuff! There's not much point anyway, microsoft doesn't issue new updates for XP anymore anyway.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-22, 19:40

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by kithylin

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What surprised me the most is that one of the AT PSUs is really, really heavy. It's a 400W monster! I've never seen such a powerful AT PSU! 8-O https://133fsb.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/img_20150721_212759937.jpg?w=800 40 amps on the 5v Rail?! Goddamn, that's one heck of a 5v supply, I think the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-19, 17:07

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by kithylin

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Why would you need 1.75 kW of power for any i7-based system? If you've got that much power to burn, I'd be going with one of the Xeons with 14 to 18 cores. Those new ones with those cores are multiplier locked, can't overclock, and thus no good for gaming. And I'm not intending to actually use all …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-19, 09:33

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by kithylin

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Not really retro.. but I just finished up the testing phase after repairing a Corsair 750-watt Gold power supply. It was in my friend's computer and he brought it over after we determined the thing was "dead" supposedly. Turned out, for some stupid reason.. the fan's blades were getting stuck in the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-19, 09:29

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by kithylin

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Please show me your dual power supply adapter thing... I'm interested a lot in that. When I looked for it, I expected something really complicated, mini nuclear reactor style. But turns out it's just a little gadget :lol: Here is a eBay article link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/24-Pin-Main-Second-Dual- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-19, 08:59

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by kithylin

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Bought lots of stuff recently. All yet to arrive 3m and 2m flat HDMI cables in colours to make it easier when capturing with cable mess Dual PSU adapter. Allows using two Power supplies to spread the load. Gigabyte GTX 285 Diamond Viper V770 Fischer plastic box with 12 compartments. For sorting …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 17:40

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by kithylin

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Tested a 486 MOBO. It POSTs. I do not have a DIN/AT keyboard to test further. :evil: I also disassembled an IBM PS/ValuePoint 325T. The MOBO is fried because the machine behaved very erratically. The case was also cracked. I will use the extra SIMMs in my other 325T and the HDD in an IBM PS/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-14, 19:33

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by kithylin

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I've just bought on an Integraph TD-310 graphical workstation with a Pentium Pro 200 MHz (256 KB L2) procerssor, 128 MB FPM RAM, two SCSI HDDs (one with Windows NT 4, the other with Windows 2000 Workstation installed) and a Matrox Millenium II 8MB graphic card. If everything goes well, I'll pick it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-14, 06:32

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by kithylin

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Bought a Roland DV-7 with the controller, very cheap, for an obvious reason: no hdd included! dv7-front.jpg dv7c.jpg Hey wait a minute. I know that machine. In fact, I know who also owns that Sun and half built Beige box behind it. You live in Vancouver, don't you? ;) Vogons.. connecting people …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-12, 23:30

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by kithylin

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I went back and saw your photos for the post from a few days ago... they both look like VLB to me? Unless I'm missing something there? We are talking about this comment http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=17341&p=432936#p432847 Well.. now I look like an idiot. I thought y'all were discussing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-12, 21:28

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by kithylin

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Most IDE VLB controllers have software drivers you can load (TSR) during autoexec.bat or config.sys that enable the cards to use VLB 32-bit for hard drive I/O But DC-300 is an isa16 only scsi controller. They can't work faster, that isa itself. I went back and saw your photos for the post from a …

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