Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-23, 19:08
Re: Is this video card anything interesting?
Posted on 2017-04-22, 03:13
$20 is great for a voodoo 3 in pci
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-20, 09:01
I bought either an i7 870 or a q6600, depending on the accuracy of the listing. For $15. Yay!
Re: What Radeon card for a 800 P3?
Posted on 2017-04-20, 02:59
Don't forget the all-in-wonder cards. You can usually find 32mb or 64mb 7000 or 8000 series cards for cheap. Just Google the memory specs for DDR vs SDR, as previously advised.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2017-04-14, 02:04
HT is also supported on Intel 865 series, 848P, some later 845 mobos (mostly 845PE/GE) and some later SiS 645DX and SiS 648 motherboards What is the S-Spec of the CPU? Since yours is an ES, it'll start with Q I have a SiS 645DX (Asus P4S533), but no HT support. Highest proc is 2.8/533 non-HT. I …
Re: Best browser on a P3?
Posted on 2017-04-13, 20:35
Never run IE8 on an XP machine. Security nighmare. And almost unusable. Last time I ran Firefox on a p3 it would run on non-ss2 processors but at a slower speed than sse2 chips. My suggestion would be to find the last version of Firefox that will run on it. It would still be years newer than an " …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-11, 01:44
gdjacobs wrote: Yeah, I have no idea. Never heard of "Theng". Ya just to be safe I think I'm going to go with the DTK Technologies 250 watt that I just found in my PSU stack. Weighs 5x more and has a temp controlled fan. Also looks like it may be thengx in the Athena.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-11, 00:48
The caps are all "Theng" branded
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-11, 00:29
gdjacobs wrote: Umm, what do the Athena PSUs have for caps? I'm guessing they're not Panasonic. Cheap Chinese. Difference is a manufacture date of 2013 vs 1995
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-10, 22:49
Well today I started tearing down one of the P100 machines apart. First thing was checking the now 22 year old Macase PSU. Good thing I did! Every cap is a fuhgyuu. Oddly enough no bulged secondaries. But the two primaries are bulged to hell O.o So if anyone wants a couple AT supplies to recap let …
Re: PSU - bust the myth
Posted on 2017-04-10, 21:52
You should be fine with a 700watter. Any modern 600+ should be able to handle that no problem. For budget supplies Iv been swearing by the EVGA units. They range from good to very good and tend to go on sale for low prices.
Re: Dual 5080 xeons, crazy insane or brilliant?
Posted on 2017-04-09, 04:13
This has to be one of the greatest systems known to mankind. I would love to see this attempt playing DOOM (the new one) and benchmark results. It would be epic to see how the "ultimate" Netbust machine can handle today's latest and greatest games.
Re: Replacing my pentium 2 cpu fan.
Posted on 2017-04-08, 06:05
One fun thing I have done with passive heatsinks like that is to identify where you want the fan, mark off where the fan screws would go, and using a pair of pliers to push the aluminum fins together, then screw the fan in. Seems to work pretty well and good threaded screws will score the aluminum …
Re: Video Card for a 933MHz PIII?
Posted on 2017-04-08, 00:12
+1 on the mx440
Re: Missing heatsink
Posted on 2017-04-07, 04:52
I second the suggestions for using adhesive with an existing spare heatsink. It is not like the TDP of the VIA Apollo chipset is very high, off the top of my head I would say it is 15 watts max? Well within the thermal design of any dead AGP card or other passive heatsink you may have on hand.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-07, 04:06
As long as you use 98se USB seems usable, vanilla 98 and 95 are a big pain however. What I ran into before was compatibility between the USB chipset and the motherboard chipset. Via chipset usb cards seem much more flakey than say an NEC one on older systems.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-07, 03:45
Bought a NIB 2 port usb 2.0 pci card at Goodwill from Iogear. Opened it up and peeled the brand sticker of the chipset, expecting a crappy Via card that would not play nice with older systems. Instead found an ALI chipset! I know this has good 98 drivers included, but if I could get it to work with …
Re: Phenom II gpu and Unigine tech demo
Posted on 2017-04-06, 14:24
The Phenom II chips lack an integrated video chipset, The HD4200 series is integrated on the Northbridge of your motherboard. Cant speak for your FPS results, but I do know that the HD4200 graphics chips are pretty dang slow.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-05, 03:04
. I actually have a 760es on hand with a toasted motherboard 😒 125mhz Pentium, 32mb of ram and a Zip100 drive. If you were local id offer it to ya for free pickup 😊
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-02, 04:34
It was all rusted and moldy anyway and taking up all the space in my car. Only have 1/2 a bedroom for storage at. Also scrapped a P2 compaq and a dimension 4100
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