Re: Best bugs in video games ever.

Posted on 2013-09-20, 02:09

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This guy uses several funny game glitches ("magic" wall climbing and trespassing, crawl while falling to avoid damage, etc.) to set a speedrun record on Outcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZFYLy2PHE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxS3-VRYjRk

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Re: Anyone ever considered a liquid-cooled retro box?

Posted on 2013-09-20, 01:53

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Nah, Preshott's fieriness is overrated, just a bit of decent air cooling suffices to tame the beast.

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Re: Anyone ever considered a liquid-cooled retro box?

Posted on 2013-09-19, 01:09

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Its been tried before :) http://totl.net/Eunuch/Eunuch2.html :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Oil cooling works very good, but is extremely messy. Also for some reason almost everybody uses transparent plastic fish tanks for the container, which is an epic fail as plastic is a heat insulator and …

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-09-19, 00:39

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What a small wonder is the new Speedfan 4.49. With the Advanced Fan Control feature even an ancient P4P800 can fine control the fans like a modern mobo. Only the CPU_FAN header is able to vary RPM in the P4P800, so I've daisy chained the three fans (front 5.25 intake 120mm, 212 Evo heatsink 120mm, …

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-09-18, 10:22

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http://s17.postimg.org/bz1begprz/Necro.gif Managed to rotate 90º the 212 Evo, and chainsawed the rear panel to (barely) make room for a real exhaust fan (120mm). The Preshott flamethrower behaves now quite civilly above 4GHz. http://d.pictureupload.us/471858660523a398d33f89.png http://d. …

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Re: New member here, my K6-III system

Posted on 2013-09-14, 23:38

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Darkman wrote: ... 250W PSU ... ... 1) would the PSU be enough Way overkill, I have a similar SS7 system and the Kill-a-watt has never shown even a 100W draw from the wall (44W idling, 80W burning).

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Re: ECS Elitegroup P6BXT-A+ trouble with RAM

Posted on 2013-08-04, 21:01

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440BX boards are picky, depending on the number of chips and the internal organization of the modules some sticks will not work, see here.

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Re: windows8

Posted on 2013-07-23, 20:52

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Tom's Hardware - Bill Gates: Microsoft Bob to Make a Return (in Concept) ... Gates reassured Summit attendees that Microsoft Bob won't come back as an animated dog living in a virtual house, but instead as a disembodied voice from the cloud like Apple's Siri or Google Now. It will be wrapped in the …

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Re: Windows XP is now "old". What are you doing?

Posted on 2013-07-04, 11:47

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AMD/ATI just dropped support for graphics drivers on XP. False. Latest 13.4 is supporting Xp with all HD 5xxx-7xxx ... New AMD Beta Driver Drops Windows XP Support Part of the Xbone APU deal I guess. The herd refuses to go into the Tiles corral, so the shepherd wields the stick. As one commenter in …

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Re: talk some sense into my head

Posted on 2013-07-04, 00:47

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Also no digital, only 'steam-powered' cameras in 1977 :happy: : "... The Voyagers use vidicon cameras. They are modified versions of the slow scan vidicon camera designs that were used in the earlier Mariner flights. The design is a 25-mm diameter magnetic deflection vidicon, built by General …

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Re: talk some sense into my head

Posted on 2013-07-03, 17:38

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Got curious and googled into this: The CPUs of Spacecraft - Computers in Space Seems the 'fastest' is Curiosity's RAD750, a radiation-hardened PowerPC @ 200MHz. Costs $200,000 and withstands 1,000,000 rads 😳 .

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Re: windows8

Posted on 2013-07-03, 16:22

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I love the Start Button. There are people that hate the Start Button. This escapes my comprehension, however I respect choice and would never think on imposing and forcing the Start Button down the throats of people that want nothing of it. It's very old and simple and is called freedom of choice: ' …

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Re: windows8

Posted on 2013-07-03, 15:39

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A reasonably rational and balanced article on Tiles 8.1 (as opposed to the "Submit! Resistance is futile!" hogwash) : With Windows 8.1, can Microsoft get its mojo back? This line is homeric :lol: :lol: :lol: : ... So far, the most successful app developers for Windows 8 are those making Start menu …

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Re: windows8

Posted on 2013-07-01, 22:16

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(Found amongst the comments on this massive pile of hogwash)

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Re: Windows XP is now "old". What are you doing?

Posted on 2013-06-29, 20:49

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(Windows XP trembles in fear of the portentous threat posed by Windows Tiles) ....

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Re: Longest longetivity builds of the 90s

Posted on 2013-06-28, 09:35

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God, how can anyone say a 700 Mhz Pentium III is better than a Pentium 4? That's not far from the truth with the first Willamettes, that were just smoke and mirrors. My 440BX PIII Tualatin-S @ 1.6 beats a Northwood 2.8 in some tasks . That said, I have a 3.4HT Preshott that is quite faster than the …

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Re: Asus P4P800 Pentium M upgrade

Posted on 2013-06-24, 04:06

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... since it runs so cool any ways the top mounted fans work pretty well not even powered/hooked up to any thing. :lol: I plan on getting a fan to put in there and spin at low RPM or just leave the grill in there (no fan), and mount a front 5.25 bay fan (no top fan). If you keep that top front fan, …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2013-06-18, 06:38

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TELVM, can you run MemTest 86+ v4.20 for 24 hours without any errors on the 440BX at 133, 140, and 150 MHz? Sorry mate but I'm not going to torture this venerable dinosaur for 24 hours in the middle of spanish summer temps :dead: . Here's one hour @ 150 / 1575 : http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/ …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2013-06-18, 00:30

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Guess it's some tenacious glitch in the Aida64 Cache & Memory benchmark: http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/13343437/220/13343437.gif http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/13343438/220/13343438.gif The Memory Write only looks more realistic @ 279 MB/s : http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/13343442/img/ …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2013-06-18, 00:06

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... Is the 440BX stable at 133 MHz? ... @ 133 : http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/13343359/img/13343359.gif @ 140 : http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/13343362/img/13343362.gif @ 150 : http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/13343366/img/13343366.gif ... the 440BX was LEGENDARY for being stable at …

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