Re: Is this worth anything?
Posted on 2024-02-03, 02:38
Should be worth something its rare dual GPU board but buggy for playing games.
Re: Getting a little annoyed by CF card spam, am I alone?
Posted on 2024-01-24, 07:12
Honestly, I never used a CF drive and only have one that was meant for a laptop, but the controller won't work in my model. Old spinning disks are fine for old systems with slow SCSI, MFM, or IDE drives. I prefer IDE drives in old laptops since they just work and are reliable and fast enough. My …
Re: Do you have a backup motherboard for your build.
Posted on 2023-12-19, 23:11
I keep spare duplicate machines and at least two similar chipset motherboards if cheap enough.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-10-27, 23:26
A friend of mine almost talked into buying a minidisk player for my component stereo in the late 90's but I passed. There are at the local BestBuy back then, I was more interested in the Technics 100+ CD disk changer (which I eventually purchased on ebay cheap because of a bad rubber belt). I used …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-10-10, 06:37
gmaverick2k wrote on 2023-10-10, 06:20: Logitech z623. Meh, klipsch promedia 2.1 pack a bigger punch I have a set of old Z680's wonder how they would compare.
Re: How about a new remake of old cases?
Posted on 2023-09-23, 12:45
Any newly built case will cost more than a retro NIB one that is still available.
Re: Fake painted Pentium CPUs
Posted on 2023-09-17, 21:32
I would think it was only worth faking common CPUs when they were still new since the prices varied quite a bit between speeds. These days people probably only fake high value rarities.
Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?
Posted on 2023-09-12, 20:22
the AMD 486 133 ran at 4x33 and I just bumped it to 4x40 for extra speed.
Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?
Posted on 2023-09-12, 20:11
Quake had something to do with younger people dumping 486's for Pentiums. Another Issue was Windows 95 where people needed more RAM than what you could stuff in most older 30 pin SIMM based 486 systems. The 90's were a time period where computers were going obsolete very quickly (dumping ISA for …
Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?
Posted on 2023-09-12, 18:22
[...] My recollection is that the first-gen Pentiums were just not that popular. The subsequent year's P54Cs were much better received... but even then, Pentiums remained quite expensive and a lot of people were still getting 486s... Indeed. The Socket 4 Pentiums were eye-wateringly expensive back …
Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?
Posted on 2023-09-11, 22:03
I have a couple P66 systems, and they are OEM (one Gateway2000 and one Packard Bell). Never had a retail socket 4 motherboard since they were pricey, and I probably was still using a 386 or 486 back then.
Re: I Felt Conflicted at a Yard Sale
Posted on 2023-09-11, 20:53
I don't do yard sales mostly because I never found anything interesting there. Back in the day before collecting computers was a thing people would post stuff on freecycle and when you went there, they would always try to load you up with other computer gear on the way out. One guy had a garage sale …
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2023-09-07, 21:00
K5's were the budget Pentium class chips and I purchased one for a spare motherboard I had to build a system so my friend could play C&C with me in the spare room. Most of the oddball K5, Winchip, 486sx/2, 3rd party 486 chips I have were found at a recycler that parted out very low budget retail …
Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?
Posted on 2023-09-06, 00:33
When I think of the first Pentiums like this I think more of Windows NT 3.51 and NT4 rather than Win2k. I have a dual P1 board like that and NT 3.51/4 is what you would normally run on it or some kind of supported UNIX OS. It's a perfect candidate for an old school PCI based CAD card or old analog …
Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions
Posted on 2023-09-06, 00:27
I have an early 1280x1024 LCD that ghosts like hell in FPS games (BENQ FP731 25ms late 2003 vintage). The monitor was free because it was broken (cheap and easy soldering job to fix) and I just used it for test bench video since it was lighter than a CRT to lug around. The first LCD I purchased …
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2023-07-25, 21:28
Listing is free so you can put a few hundred expensive auctions up a month and wait for a few to sell to make some money. I think people who list junk at $1 and have to ship tons of packages for little to no profit are kind of nuts. Most sellers do the in between when they feel like it. You forgot …
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2023-07-25, 05:40
Listing is free so you can put a few hundred expensive auctions up a month and wait for a few to sell to make some money. I think people who list junk at $1 and have to ship tons of packages for little to no profit are kind of nuts. Most sellers do the in between when they feel like it. NEC Versas …
Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft
Posted on 2023-07-25, 05:33
Somewhere down the line the only old games that will be playable will be ones with original media that didn't have crazy copy protections on the media, and pirated copies. This would only be for single player games as pretty much every online game will have the servers shut down. New games are all …
Re: Any hope of fixing an NEC 2x SCSI CD-ROM that won't read?
Posted on 2023-07-02, 08:26
The early CDROM drives were built fairly well compared to later IDE and SATA models (which is why they were expensive). Generally, I would bet some SMD capacitors are out of spec.
Re: What is the theoretical Success Chance of a brute force motherboard repair method? (Replacing every single component
Posted on 2023-07-02, 08:19
Motherboards are multilayer PCBs and sometimes there are shorts where you can't get to them, and the board is toast. I have seen videos of techs grinding a hole in a GPU ground plane to get rid of an internal short and it was not pretty, but they fixed it.
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