Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2015-05-25, 20:49

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My main system was more or less put together over 5 years ago yet is still running strong! It is a rock solid machine and still fast. I don't think I've had one crash/issue since I build it. The specs are as follows: Gigabyte MA785G-UDH3 board AMD Phenom II x4 975 3.6Ghz @3.8 Ghz (originally a 945 …

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Re: fiancee has given me a limit

Posted on 2015-05-23, 16:49

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The P4 is gone, here is what is happening with the rest Pentium 3 is going to my buddy, he is comming by today to hand me 100 bucks for it, he wants to play his old games, and that system will work great for him, he is just going to toss his Radeon 9600 into it that Visiontek states will support …

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Re: Dual Athlon vs Prescott

Posted on 2015-05-18, 23:05

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Skyscraper wrote: The Dual Athlon XP/MP system is more fun but for actual use I would choose the Prescott. As an owner of a dual Athlon board with 2 2800+ CPUs as well, as much as I really enjoy this system and am glad I put it together, I still have to agree with this statement.

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Re: Asus P2B-DS Build

Posted on 2015-05-18, 22:47

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I like it!

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2015-05-18, 22:40

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ASUS A7M266-D Dual Athlon motherboard 2x Athlon MP 2800+ 2 GB PC2100 ECC Kingston RAM AGP ATI HD3850 40GB WD Hard Drive Snazzy Cooler Master Elite 360 Case Nice system, buts thats a Elite 361 and not a 360. Thats case has so much room for modding too. I have one myself. You are correct! Thanks for …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2015-05-16, 21:43

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ASUS A7M266-D Dual Athlon motherboard 2x Athlon MP 2800+ 2 GB PC2100 ECC Kingston RAM AGP ATI HD3850 40GB WD Hard Drive Snazzy Cooler Master Elite 361 Case

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-16, 01:40

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Got a Slot-A 750 with a Thunderbird core! Time for another old skool rig build with some Voodoo 2 SLI lovin!

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Re: ATX Pentium i430HX Build in Modern Case

Posted on 2015-04-23, 01:56

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Nice build! And as others have said that is a cool case. I think I may just get one myself 😉

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Re: Dual Pentium Pro Build Thread

Posted on 2015-04-17, 02:57

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Great story...thanks for sharing!

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Re: What would you build?

Posted on 2015-04-12, 02:20

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luckybob wrote: http://imgur.com/gallery/EEdKeXN Hilarious!

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Re: PCI GPU for a Pentium 200MMX

Posted on 2015-04-07, 22:16

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My first thought was a banshee as well

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Re: What is your favorite vintage Video Card?

Posted on 2015-04-06, 21:56

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Voodoo banshee Voodoo 3 GeForce 4 ti series 9800pro

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Re: Found a Dell Precision T3400 in the trash

Posted on 2015-04-06, 21:50

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Awesome! Nice find...I'd be pretty stoked too. I found a nice core 2duo in the trash last year. It was a custom build on a really nice SLI asus board. No ram or hd and the case was in bad shape but the board, cpu and psu worked perfectly. It amazes me what people will pitch!!!

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite x86 vintage processor?

Posted on 2015-04-03, 19:02

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It's hard to pick one! AMD 5x86 133: not my first CPU but I learned the most about computers with this chip so it has a soft spot for me. AMD K6-3+ :I couldn't afford a P3 build but the this CPU was at least as fast if not faster with integer operations. Fast and snappy for its time. AMD Athlon XP: …

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Re: What would you build?

Posted on 2015-04-01, 20:03

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Well Everything is up and running! I actually went ahead and built both setups - the duallie I put in a case since I was leaning towards running that setup, the XP3200+ I simply put it together to try it out. As expected, the 3200+ is definitely a smidge better in the few games I've tried - probably …

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Re: New (to me) K5 box

Posted on 2015-04-01, 19:49

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oerk wrote: I do have a P200, P200 MMX and a K6-200 laying around, but the K5 is much cooler 😎 Agreed! Nice system!

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Re: What would you build?

Posted on 2015-03-31, 22:19

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Well I finally received the PCI SATA card and am in the process of putting things together. Decided to take a few pics of the bits and pieces 😊 Here are the evil twins! Filename IMG_0914.JPG File size 519.6 KiB Views 2157 views Their future home... Filename IMG_0917.JPG File size 1.08 MiB Views …

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Re: What would you build?

Posted on 2015-03-27, 18:18

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Great...thank you again for your input! I'll let you know how things progress and put up some pics!

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Re: What would you build?

Posted on 2015-03-27, 17:01

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Thank you all for the comments and advice! The games I would most likely be playing are Q3, UT2003, Morrowind, possibly Oblivion if it runs decently, some of the older NFS games like Porsche Unleashed, Age of Empires 2/Age of Mythology, Deus Ex, Splinter Cell and a few others. I have no illusions of …

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What would you build?

Posted on 2015-03-27, 04:04

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Hi folks and happy spring! I've been looking to build a rig to handle some older games circa 1999-2006. I have two choices as far as processor/board combo. The other components would be the same. The two choices are as follows: 1: Athlon XP 3200+ on MSI K7N2Platinum 2: 2x Athlon MP 2800+ on ASUS …

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