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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-17, 08:20

in Milliways
It's time to build a new, dedicated Gaming PC - Gaming only, nothing else. No browsing, no productivity (which are being allocated to a laptop); nothing but games and the infrastructure to support them (such as VMware, DOSBox, PCem, etc.) Only games capable of a file-copy install with requirements …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-17, 08:17

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Had some extra $ and stopped by Best buy. RX6600 for the same price as Newegg and $80 cheaper than a 6600xt. R5 5600x on sale for $120. $350 and I have a complete system upgrade for my Step brother from his r5 2600. I was debating on the CPU after I'd already bought the GPU, but figured he can focus …

Re: AGP GPU to pair with 2.8Ghz P4 + 2GB PC133

Posted on 2023-06-02, 01:48

For cheap early 2000's gaming a Radeon 9600 (Id avoid the 9800's they seem to want to die) GeForce 4 ti 4200, Radeon x850, or GeForce 6600 would be a good pick. Your P4 will be pretty memory bandwidth starved being PC 133 anyways so something like a HD 3850 or GeForce 7000 series card would break …

Re: "modern" retro pc

Posted on 2023-05-02, 03:18

Motherboard: A55BM-K CPU: AMD A8-6600K (quad-core @3.9 GHz, OC to 4.2GHz) FM2 Socket RAM: 8GB dual-channel GPU: Gigabyte WindForce OC (with AMD R9 270 2GB @975Mhz). Motherboard/cpu/GPU from 2013, I might keep this as my retro pc until I die from now on. Because: Drivers aside, currently (and …

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

Posted on 2023-04-26, 02:45

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Upon setting up the XFX X58i in a case again it refuses to post. Get a 88 error code on the Debug led (which isnt listed in the manual, yay!) Going to bust it down to the bare basics and retest it, I have a feeling the force of having all the standoffs installed properly in the case is preventing it …

Re: socket 478 woes

Posted on 2023-04-20, 12:03

I kind of doubt it's the caps as they look fine and rarely go bad on late Asus s478 boards. In my experience BIOS (chip) issues like mentioned if the board powers on, shorted mosfet/mosfets in the CPU VRM circuit if it dosn't. If the boards powers on and you have already replaced/reflashed the BIOS …

Re: socket 478 woes

Posted on 2023-04-20, 02:26

Bet it is Bad Caps ! If you have a low end Celery try it. I had a P4 board that would not run that faster bus cpu's but would a 400 and 533. It was failing caps (higher speeds generally means more current) that could not handle the fast power hungry cpu's// Agreed with this. My capacitor knowledge …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-12, 02:41

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I have about 100 tabs and heavy web user, youtube and facebook. Well that explains. :sweat_smile: For almost three decades I've witnessed and assisted many people around me claiming "my computer/smartphone is slowing down and/or running out of storage space." Most situations were mixtures of …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-11, 06:17

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I picked up a stack of Windows 7-11 keys/DVD's along with a ASRock itx 6th/7th Gen intel board, a Pentium 2c/4t, 8gb of ddr4 a SSD + Zotac GTX 960 free. Used the GTX in a freebie i7 rig. Rest is getting used to swap out a A8 ITX Fm2+ setup, to then replace a 2nd gen i5 that a family member has so …

Re: Question about modern Radeon GFX

Posted on 2023-04-02, 14:15

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PD2JK wrote on 2023-04-02, 14:04: A GF 1650 has a typical TDP of 75 Watt, the exact amount of power a PCIe slot can deliver, so without need of an external power connector. Sadly the GTX 1650 is indeed the fastest PCIE power-less modern GPU available besides some workstation cards 🙁 absolutely …

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