Re: What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-17, 22:04

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True , so your saying the Compaq 1ghz is not good system, or what do you mean what part is not good? nforce4max wrote: Your friend needs to learn on his own anyhow. He will eventually learn that what he is building isn't going to be all that great.

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Re: What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-17, 19:54

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I could have not said it better myself! It really is madness. 🤣 Jorpho wrote: coppercitymt wrote: And want's it perord correct Leave your friend to his own devices. Down this path lies only madness. 😜

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Re: What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-17, 19:29

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This dude is driving me nuts ;-). He wants both glide and D3D, with no AGP slot I don't know I can pull that off! And want's it perord correct I ( and you) talked him down to a P-III 1ghz so that's what he will be using but still left with no AGP slot and on-board graphics. I think he wants to go …

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Re: Dell makes surprisingly good retro PC's

Posted on 2012-07-17, 17:05

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Proprietary or not I am partial to dells too, I like the older ribbed style case's. I am also a fan of the optiplex case's. On proprietary systems just id the parts and keep spares around, there is plenty floating around at e waste drives I've always been partial to the Dell GX cases. Too bad …

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Re: Dell makes surprisingly good retro PC's

Posted on 2012-07-17, 04:03

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I partly agree, I have two Dells a XPS D266 and a GX Pro 200Mhz both from late 1997. Both scream quality well built systemd. However I think anything from late 2000 and on was nothing but crap. My 4100 had more problems then you could shake a stick at. The OP's system looks like it might be made …

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Re: What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-17, 03:29

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I ( and you) talked him down to a P-III 1ghz so that's what he will be using but still left with no AGP slot and on-board graphics. I think he wants to go with one of those brand new Jaton PCI Geforce 2 MX PCI cards 64MB. Also what choice on the OS ME or 98?

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Re: What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-16, 03:21

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I am not worried about the pass though cable. I have a V2 in my PII 266 system and used one of those port saver cables. work's well. The biggest most demanding game he wants to run is "Microsoft Train Simulator" and Urban Chaos along with NFS 4. Thanks I can test a game or 2 if you tell me which …

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Re: What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-15, 23:48

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Thanks for all the feedback, We are a bit confused, What's the best graphics card choice for a 1ghz P III PCI? The system has integrated AGP graphics. COMPAQ PRESARIO 5012US Direct AGP 3D Graphics with up to 11 MB video memory • 64-bit hardware-accelerated 3D graphics • Compaq DVD player / Navigator …

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Re: Keeping Your Vintage System Cool

Posted on 2012-07-15, 17:04

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When I got the systems they never had a fan on the heat sink itself, the fan on the back of the case works but don't seem to do anything for the temp of the CPU. Unless they were removed at some point in time but I still don't see any headers to plug up a fan! Edit: The Service manual says …

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Keeping Your Vintage System Cool

Posted on 2012-07-15, 15:38

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I was playing Quake on my Dell GX pro 200Mhz and I happen to touch the heat sink and it was so hot it burned my hand. I don't know if that's that normal but I don't want my system running like that. So I installed some random P III CPU fan and tapped it to one of the molex plugs 5v side to help keep …

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What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-13, 14:38

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A buddy of mine wants to get his 1st retro gaming system! He has no desire to play any dos games, he will only be playing 1996 to 2000 titles. Now for the debate, he wants to go with a P4 like 2.x, and I say no go with a P III 1ghz or so. He says what a P III can do a P4 2.x can do faster! The ideal …

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Re: Pentium(PRO) 2 Overdrive 333 BEAST

Posted on 2012-07-12, 19:14

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Sounds like a cool setup, but honestly I have no ideal why you are trying to pump all that in to a dual CPU 200Mhz, in the end you only have 200/400mhz and that won't keep up with the modern internet let alone YouTube. I think you would be better off finding a P4 system for free or dirt cheap and …

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Dell Optiplex GXpro

Posted on 2012-07-11, 01:54

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I ended up with two working Dell Optiplex GXpro Pentium Pro 200Mhz systems. I have read the posts on here about those system's I have yet to try the on the fly 8mhz speed setting! I have few questions about these systems and the Ppro in general how much slower is it then say a P 166MMx on 16bit code …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2012-07-11, 01:36

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Thanks for the posts very cool reading them, I setup up a Dell PII 266Mhz with a Riva 128 and Voodoo 2 on Windows 95 should handle all late 90's games very well (I hope). Dell XPS D266 64MB Ram 7GB HDD Riva 128 Voodoo 2 Sound blaster - RivaTNT 16MB AGP - 3DFX Voodoo2 12MB I can remember struggling …

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Gaming on Laptops?

Posted on 2012-07-08, 13:18

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Something has been on my mind lately, vintage gaming on vintage laptops? I don't see much about it on here, dose anyone do it and have any success at it . Someone handed me a nice HP media laptop with a P4 1.6Ghz ATI GPU and best of all it only has like 200 hours on the system. I could save a lot of …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2012-07-04, 18:57

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Thanks for all the replays very cool to see what everyone was using. I guess it's only fair I chime in as well. I was using a 450Mhz P II ordered brand new in the fall of 1998, had DVD and all.

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what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2012-07-04, 04:20

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Title says it all, what hardware were you using in mid 1999? Would a PII 266Mhz still be considered a good PC for games in that time frame?

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2000 and newer PC's

Posted on 2012-06-28, 22:51

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Is it just me or are 2000 and newer PC's just crap! It seems like they not built as good as older PC's and are broke in some way or another. Every system made 1999 and older seems to be well built last forever and just plain works no matter what you throw at it. My two dells one is a Dimension 4100 …

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Re: Geforce 2 MX VS Geforce 3

Posted on 2012-06-13, 12:26

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The system is a 933Mhz P III 512 MB Ram with Windows ME. I think it is a TI 200 Ge-force 3!

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Geforce 2 MX VS Geforce 3

Posted on 2012-06-13, 01:12

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My system shipped with a Geforce 2 MX 32MB, I have some Gefroce 3's 64MB (Visontek I believe they have fans), laying around and am wondering if the Geforce 3 would give me any notable improvement.

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