Re: Vain efforts to make your furnace happy

Posted on 2014-11-05, 03:43

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by RacoonRider

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Thermal paste effectiveness varies less than internet sentiment leads one to believe . Great review! I share your opinion. The Russian reviews show that the Soviet КПТ-8 shows only slightly worse results than the top offerings, even though it is old as hills. By the way, I bought my tube in 2006 …

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Re: Vain efforts to make your furnace happy

Posted on 2014-11-04, 16:25

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by RacoonRider

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Wow! the thread suddenly went back to life :) Are you sure that's a copper core? I've had a few that look like that and upon closer examination the "copper" was actually just a dark stain to make it look copper. I'm pretty sure. It's got a hole on the other side, simplifies the technology, I beleive …

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Re: Tips for storing CPUs

Posted on 2014-11-03, 04:58

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by RacoonRider

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Thin pieces of foam plastic with a CPU pushed inside. Looks like a hamburger with ham being the CPU.

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Re: IBM PC-300PL - Diamond powered!

Posted on 2014-11-02, 05:04

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by RacoonRider

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Hey it actually looks kinda like the IBM 300GL I've just gotten Though the Voodoo 2 is glitching (Could it just be a dying card or is it just running too hot inside) Of course it does! Same generation 300GL and 300PL even share motherboard design, except that 300GL was marketed as a budget model. …

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Re: Vain efforts to make your furnace happy

Posted on 2014-11-01, 18:10

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by RacoonRider

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While I wouldn't say that copper core coolers are always better, if all things being equal, shouldn't a copper core cooler be more effective due to copper's ability to transfer heat better than aluminium? A fair comparison would be the Zerotherm BTF80 (Al) vs the BTF90 (Cu). The BTF90 outperformed …

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Vain efforts to make your furnace happy

Posted on 2014-11-01, 15:38

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by RacoonRider

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Everybody lies. - House M.D. I've been reading various articles and forum threads, both in Russian and in English, on the topic of optimizing budget CPU coolers for Socket 462. A lot of myths wander around the net. People who claim to have tried them usually state 3-5 degrees Celcium improvement in …

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Re: IBM PC-300PL - Diamond powered!

Posted on 2014-11-01, 14:11

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by RacoonRider

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I had the spaceOrb 360 and believeme, i couldnt find any game that took full advantage of that weird controller, it just felt akward the whole month i tried it... Well, I like to play descent on it, it's really cool once you get used to the ball. Yesterday I played dethkarz and I was pretty …

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Re: PC Chips 486 Motherboard dead?

Posted on 2014-11-01, 03:42

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by RacoonRider

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btw, check the CPU voltage jumpers, when set the wrong way, these things might prevent the CPU from receiving any power at all.

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

Posted on 2014-11-01, 03:39

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by RacoonRider

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133MHz, very impressive! I tend to strip the not working parts with a soldering iron and now I know of two more things worth keepig 😀

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

Posted on 2014-10-31, 05:26

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by RacoonRider

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Started digging up the parts for the builds that will go in Here's a tip for those dull, corroded expansion card back plates: a green sponge commonly used for scrubbing pots and pans works wonders to make them shiny again without being too abrasive. Not bad! At least easier than using a flap wheel …

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Re: PC Chips 486 Motherboard dead?

Posted on 2014-10-30, 16:03

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by RacoonRider

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Don't give up on it easily. It's PCchips, I would expect it to be tricky.

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Re: What is the memory "sweet spot" for a Pentium III Windows 98 SE retro-gaming system?

Posted on 2014-10-30, 07:49

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by RacoonRider

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I went from 256MB to 768MB on PII-450 Deschutes. Just because I can. No difference at all. No crashes either... Am I doing something wrong? Windows 98 SE + Unofficial service pack.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-30, 07:43

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by RacoonRider

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AidanExamineer wrote: Those low-profile heat spreaders always remind me of Rambus. Did that board come with a northbridge cooler on it, or is that a custom job? The cooler's got Abit logo on it...

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Re: A view on retro computing

Posted on 2014-10-30, 05:22

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by RacoonRider

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Great articles! You caught the very essence!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-28, 10:23

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by RacoonRider

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Great cooler! One thing more ultimate than a good copper Tualatin cooler is a good copper Athlon cooler (as I think you know, they are compatible with each other). There are a lot of great models, this one is currently on its road to my system: http://www.modthebox.com/reviews/coolermaster/aero7plus …

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

Posted on 2014-10-28, 07:59

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by RacoonRider

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Regressive XP's popularity is what kicked this very board into existence in the first place. I don't think that getting away from buggy DOS based Windows was regressive. But it did break some old programs. They could have done better with the compatibility. What's DOS based about Windows XP? The …

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Re: NFS Porsche problem

Posted on 2014-10-28, 03:08

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by RacoonRider

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Just play it on your main rig, it works great on Windows 7.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-10-26, 05:41

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by RacoonRider

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PeterLI wrote: Got an IBM PC 350 today. Wow! Just wow.

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Re: IBM PC-300PL - Diamond powered!

Posted on 2014-10-26, 05:17

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by RacoonRider

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OK, now that the heatsink plaster has solidified, I'm going to tell/show you, what this has been all about. Since the moment I installed 2 slot exhaust fans and one extra intake fan, I had to put Aureal Vortex 2 into a drawer and use the onboard Crystal sound chip. With most games it was OKish, but …

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

Posted on 2014-10-25, 18:16

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by RacoonRider

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Spent a quality evening with Mannie Calavera, also performed a heart surgery today if you know what I mean.

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