Re: Smoke-Free Environments

Posted on 2018-03-18, 17:13

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Women's issues, just like men's, are only rightfully legislated by God, and the Bible is packed with instruction. No need for politicians or walking in high heels. I wholeheartedly agree and so many problems can be avoided if people would put away their pride and actually take the time to work …

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Re: Anyone collect socket 603/604 stuff?

Posted on 2018-03-18, 03:42

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604 era hardware was so common a few years ago that no one wanted it and look at it now as there hardly any of it around for sale, I once had a 603 system with the top of the line Xeons for that socket.

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Re: Intel X38 Express and Win98SE

Posted on 2018-03-18, 03:39

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It can and probably has been done for this chipset but it is not a simple process where one can just double click then reboot as it is an very much involved DIY process that even I can't do. You have to figure out hardware addresses on that board and manually get that into the os where the os …

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MBTI

Posted on 2018-03-18, 01:29

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After discovering this by accident for myself recently I am wondering how some here come up as on this personality test as it could shine some light on some of us here 🤣. There is some free tests online for those who didn't know anything like myself.

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Re: Smoke-Free Environments

Posted on 2018-03-15, 14:27

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I find this habit to be truly disgusting and may as well cover everything in dung because of just how foul it is. I can't stand being around when people smoke let alone end up with anything from there where it is as you put it.

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Re: Anyone else fans of 80's and 90's Smoothjazz?

Posted on 2018-03-13, 03:29

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Lol Naw don't worry I'm used to it. You gotta have thick skin to be a Packard Bell collector in a world filled with Mac lovers and Commodore fanboys. :P No kidding and it gets much worse in other areas of life where if you don't fit in what the world wants people will hate you. I like Packard Bells …

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Re: Unused Celeron system circa 2000

Posted on 2018-03-11, 17:52

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by nforce4max

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Fine wine, I would use the system because why not and I love the "new smell" of things.

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Re: P3 Xeon 900Mhz 2MB OEM part numbers

Posted on 2018-03-11, 17:50

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its a necro but why do you care about the xeon's voltage? ovbiously the core can't be using 5v/12v vcc, so the 5v/12v version must have its own integrated vrm to convert 5v/12v input to the core, just like the haswell. Don't blame some of us for not wanting to fry our hardware but just plugging …

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Re: Anyone else fans of 80's and 90's Smoothjazz?

Posted on 2018-03-11, 04:04

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Don't get stressed too much about some of the responses as some just don't consider tastes other people have when it those tastes down't agree with their own. Personally I enjoy this music as it is soothing 😀

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Re: Best Windows XP Drivers - GeForce 9800 GT SLI

Posted on 2018-03-11, 03:56

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My best bet that you are looking for something cerca 2009 through to maybe 2012 driver wise as the games that are enjoyable on that setup are from that period and older. Some newer games are ok but it can be hit or miss, I wouldn't bother with any driver from the 3xx era but that is my opinion.

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-03-11, 03:49

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All I can tell you is i have tested numerous drivers for the ti4400, tested a few via 4in1 drivers, manually installed the GART drivers, and the card still has major dips in fps with most games, I'm looking for a 440bx motherboard to rule out the via chipset as a performance issue I've always …

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Re: Phil drops a graphics card benchmarking bombshell!

Posted on 2018-03-11, 03:44

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I am not surprised but that said there is a lot of performance that is lost all the way up to the FX series and it shows that Nvidia's drivers are shit. Doesn't help that in all of that there were performance nerfs to drive sales of newer cards much like how they are doing now. It is probably not …

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Re: Macintosh instead of PC for retro gaming?

Posted on 2018-03-10, 23:00

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The worst of it is the build quality with the hardware isn't as good so there is no shortage of age related issues like capacitor rot and cmos barrels of cancer leaking or in some cases exploding all over the board. I am not fond of plastic cases as the plastics age they eventually become brittle, …

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Re: Phil drops a graphics card benchmarking bombshell!

Posted on 2018-03-10, 22:53

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I am not surprised but that said there is a lot of performance that is lost all the way up to the FX series and it shows that Nvidia's drivers are shit. Doesn't help that in all of that there were performance nerfs to drive sales of newer cards much like how they are doing now.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-08, 19:22

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The 9800XT I got for $25 is dead. Artifacts everywhere on startup. I'm so pissed. Everytime a top end part finds its way to my hands at a reasonable price ($25 is what it's worth, no video card from a decade ago is worth more. Not even a V5 5500 IMO) it seems to be dead. Off to demand my refund and …

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Re: RAM for PowerMac G5 1,8Ghz DP and some Questions..

Posted on 2018-03-05, 19:50

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OCZ Platinums have been a default choice amongst some in the ppc mac community but anything with good timings and automatically works at those timings is a good choice as you will get a little bit of extra bandwidth which does help.

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Re: Improvements for the next build...

Posted on 2018-03-04, 00:00

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I never liked the ram limitation of the 815 as the older BX handled 1GB just fine, 512 is generally accepted as the max limit of 98/me because having to spend $20 for a patch doesn't appeal very well to anyone.

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Re: Stuck on GPUs

Posted on 2018-03-03, 23:57

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You should consider building a gpu collection for this reason but that is gradually getting harder as demand increases with such a limited supply of select top tier cards as people snap them up either as spares or to horde up for later. GF3 and GF4 cards are pretty cool and there are still some …

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Re: When will Microsoft finally die?

Posted on 2018-03-02, 14:30

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Staying with win 7 till support for it completely dies and might consider doing osx but not on any modern crap that apple pushes on their customers these days.

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Re: Does a TDP=9W processor need a heat sink ?

Posted on 2018-03-02, 14:18

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Just put a heatsink on it /face palm 9w can produce a lot of heat should that heat be concentrated enough in a small spot as it can certainly destroy the device.

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