Rasperberry Pi, LattePanda and UpBoard (creditcard size computers) for retro gaming

Posted on 2016-11-06, 15:14

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by rick6

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Hi. I know that most people here are into oldschool hardware side of things most of the time, but lately i'm finding myself interested into making a really, really small retrogaming computer for retrogaming. And as for retrogaming i mean games and software from 1998 to 2004. A Rasperberry Pi, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-30, 12:26

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by rick6

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Will you do a video on this one? I alway wanted to mess around with one of these. Also, with which video cards are you planning to pair that motherboard? Just do a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz Willamette with a GTX 1060 and call it a day :D Nothing is set in stone yet, but likely one of the popular 8800GT …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-30, 11:15

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by rick6

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Bought this board from eBay: http://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/P4VM900-SATA2/ Not cheap at all, but I'd really like to have some PCIe results with 478 processors. I'm finding that the AGP options are just too limited for some of the faster processors. Asrock always delivers with "oddball" boards like …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-26, 11:24

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by rick6

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There is a registry hack that is still floating somewhere on the net that fools the driver into thinking you are using an sli certified board so you can enable sli on just about anything even older amd boards that would have only had crossfire support. But this card should work in a modern …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-25, 23:09

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by rick6

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TheAbandonwareGuy wrote: If you have any nForce 4/5/600 boards try those. Nope, i don't have any of those, but i believe it should at least work without any problem on the i3 2120. I also have a Celeron G1840 Haswell based system, i should try on that tomorrow. .

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-25, 23:07

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by rick6

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I'm afraid i just have a bad video card. Same symptoms on either a i3 2120 with a Asus motherboard or a Athlon 3200+ with a AsRock Dual SataII, windows 7 or 10. Video card either gives bluescreen, windows reports problems under hardware manager or no screen at all when it gets to windows after …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-25, 21:39

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by rick6

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Supposedly they only work in certain systems if you're using older ones. Modern systems they should work in all of em but if you're trying to put it in an older computer before 2008.. and it doesn't work.. don't think the thing is dead, try it in other things. All i can say is that i tested it on a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-25, 18:02

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by rick6

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Finally, a ebay seller that knows what a antistatic bag is for, and also finally i have one of these 😁 Now i just hoje it works flawlessly like advertised!

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Re: Barton 3200+ vs P4 3.0 with modern os?

Posted on 2016-10-18, 14:54

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by rick6

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I've similar config too, a Celeron 1300, 1GB ram and Geforce 6200 as media player (not hd). I didn' know about the VLC plugin, did it use some acceleration compared to the original html5 video? I could use it too. With the Barton and Lubuntu, I can see the original html5 pages up to 360p smooth (90 …

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Re: Barton 3200+ vs P4 3.0 with modern os?

Posted on 2016-10-18, 13:36

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by rick6

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I've tried to live with a my oldie but goodie athlon xp 2600+ in 2012 with 3 gb of ram, a SSD, 7800GS, Windows 7 and it did surprisingly well for what it was. The most extreme situation of this kind i have at the moment is the computer in my garage which i use to hear mp3 or view youtube videos and …

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Re: QX9770 + HD 3850 AGP vs. 3DMark's and Games :)

Posted on 2016-10-13, 14:53

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by rick6

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Still, i wish i had a QX9770 and a board supporting both this cpu and AGP so that i could redo all my benchmarks that i did with my Athlon X2 4200+. Let me help you with it :) http://i.imgur.com/WEB20Y8.png http://i.imgur.com/YBxspgL.png http://i.imgur.com/pEkeAqH.png I got all 3DMark's from '99 …

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Re: VGA card screen corruption :(

Posted on 2016-10-01, 15:19

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by rick6

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Those are some deep scratches, and for the looks of it at least two traces seem to be completly open. You should test the continuity with a multimeter and if it shows open circuit, try to fix them with some small wire, if you're handy with a soldering iron that is.

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Re: QX9770 + HD 3850 AGP vs. 3DMark's and Games :)

Posted on 2016-09-27, 15:29

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by rick6

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I seem a voodoo6k get a tick under 1k fps in quake 3 before..... Zoomed in at a wall. ah! That's what i did back in the day back in 1999 with unrealtournament while running it in software mode with my AMD-k6 in order to boost my damaged ego. Staring at a wall at 320x200 with low res textures. 45-50 …

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Re: QX9770 + HD 3850 AGP vs. 3DMark's and Games :)

Posted on 2016-09-26, 23:52

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by rick6

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Not a Phenom II X4 by any means but least it's better than nothing. Athlon X2 4200+ with DDR1 memory: http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah283/rick62008/Doom%203%20ultra_2_zpsjbpudtep.jpg And here a few more games and video cards tested http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=48709 EDIT: I just …

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Re: Which modern games can the Geforce 7 generation run?

Posted on 2016-09-22, 22:25

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by rick6

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So i guess DirectX compatibility "killed" the Geforce 7 generation chance of running any of todays games at all. Either way i've always saw the Geforce 7 as a glorified Geforce 6 that came out in 2004. A bit like the Geforce 4Ti was also a glorified Geforce 3 that couldn't run any games at all a few …

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Re: Which modern games can the Geforce 7 generation run?

Posted on 2016-09-21, 21:58

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by rick6

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Well, as for Portal i'm sure it will run because i've tried Portal 1 and 2, and even Left4Dead on a Pentium 4 1.7Ghz (sk423) and a Geforce 6800, and it did....drag. The newest game i ever played was UT3 on my very Geforce 7800GS until i retired it in 2008 or 2009. But all those games are way too " …

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Which modern games can the Geforce 7 generation run?

Posted on 2016-09-21, 21:28

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by rick6

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I've been following a few youtubers and gladly there seems to be a trend among them to build a retro machine and test "old" computer parts. When it comes to GPU they always seem to choose Geforce 8 or above and always say that Geforce 7 can't run any modern (known) games today, Modern as in the last …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2016-08-06, 10:51

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by rick6

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I have that same exact monitor in a computer at my garage. I use it mostly for ambient music, random videos and a bit of web browsing. It's a good CRT. Mine was a bit out of focus and one of the menu buttons was stuck, making the menus work all by it self. Both easly fixed.

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Re: Best GPU for Dual PIII 1Ghz?

Posted on 2016-08-06, 10:37

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by rick6

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I'm living the same exact "dilema". 1st world problems :D I'm also building a Dual Pentium 3 1GHz and i can't figure what should i put as a video card\cards. At the moment i have a Geforce 6800 and 2 x voodoo2 in sli for glide gaming, but i'm still not sure about this setup because everything the 2 …

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Re: Got my first ever SCSI controller, died next day :(

Posted on 2016-08-03, 13:48

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by rick6

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You might try pulling the ram from that card and see if it works. I did, also checked the bios battery and it was fine, and couldn't find any short in any capacitor (although it doesn't mean it's fine, but at least it should post something). I ended up buying the SCSI controller in the first link i …

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