Re: microATX and AGP

Posted on 2023-03-30, 04:52

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by ODwilly

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I gave up on the mATX thing. I want more slots to stick things in. Thanks for the "all in one build" suggestion. I'll look into it. But as I said, I'm not necessarily looking to get the cheapest thing possible. Consider that I'm thinking of things like Voodoos and MT-32s. :) Even started looking …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-29, 13:55

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by ODwilly

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Didn't buy this today but just happened to check prices and availability. The Zalmann USA store has it in stock for $32. https://zalmanusa.com/products/cnps9900-max Nice find! I see they also have the 9500 in stock which covers socket 939 and 775! Picked one up for my 939 build, thanks Awesome! Btw …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-28, 07:17

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by ODwilly

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Didn't buy this today but just happened to check prices and availability. The Zalmann USA store has it in stock for $32. https://zalmanusa.com/products/cnps9900-max

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Re: AMD socket 939 AGP build - mid 2004 - Windows XP

Posted on 2023-03-18, 04:36

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by ODwilly

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nice. look at how tidy that ribbon cable is. i couldve sworn that Antec had a very similar full tower from the early 2000s. Antex, Ultra, Chieftec and some more off shoots all seem to have had slightly customized versions of the same cases for awhile. Saw a Ultra Wizard, super similar to OP's case …

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Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.

Posted on 2023-03-17, 05:38

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by ODwilly

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I built a relative a pc out of a Lenovo Thinkcenter AM2 board, brand new 200gb IDE 133 Seagate, 1gb HD4650, 2gb of ddr2 and a Athlon 64x2 that had about 60 pins crushed and stuck to the stock heatsink that I spent hoooours straightening. Blew $30 on a Athlon 64 6000+ to replace it and a new 450watt …

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Re: XP Build - nForce 790i motherboard OR X58 classified intel board??

Posted on 2023-03-14, 04:23

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by ODwilly

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yup I'm with the others, that X58 Classified board is a true beast, but throw 980x or 990x onto it or grab the Xeon equivalent, the 6 core CPUs extend the longevity of that platform a bit and are just simply cool as hell CPUs to use. The 980X is still fairly cheap to get but the 990X can sell for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-13, 22:08

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by ODwilly

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I P4 PC in a decent looking case. IMG_20230313_185234.jpg It supposed to work, I don't care much if it does. I only bought it because of the case. It's only a little bigger than my W98BOX, which is very small, allows full-height expansion cards, has room for 2×2.5" + 2×3.5" + 1×5.25" drives. A …

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Re: XP Build - nForce 790i motherboard OR X58 classified intel board??

Posted on 2023-03-12, 23:41

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by ODwilly

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I suggest the X58, triple channel ddr3 FTW!

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Re: Motherboard with PCIe, PCI and AGP slots

Posted on 2023-03-09, 23:58

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by ODwilly

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Not necessarily, as I've seen when looking up the board, Foxconn made several different models, for example the 915PL7AE-8S is also one of them, but all of them referred to the "AGP" as FGE. What is this "FGE"? I never heard about this. So video cards with AGP will not work? I had one of these …

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

Posted on 2023-03-03, 10:48

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by ODwilly

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I always do a visual inspection of old power supply capacitors. They tend to be old, abused, and stuck in hot about environments. It's usually a good idea to open them up anyways, just to get some compressed air into them for cleaning. To back this up while fiddling with the 770 I found a half …

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

Posted on 2023-03-03, 07:32

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by ODwilly

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Fiddled with the poor IBM Thinkpad 770. I dont want to completely go down the rabbit hole of upgrading it, but so far it has 288mb of ram (still has the 32 pc66 in the hidden slot with a 128mb 100 + 128mb 133mhz chugging at 66mhz). Def have a 256mb stick somewhere and a 512mb 16 chip stick handy …

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

Posted on 2023-02-15, 04:25

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by ODwilly

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Iv been using the same 30g tube of Arctic Ceramique 2 for like 8 years now. Fancier pastes here or there, but when I repasted my RX 480 blower card temps dropped from 97c peak to 84c peak.

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Re: Will 533 MHz FSB CPUs work in an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS @ 533 MHz

Posted on 2023-02-10, 19:11

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by ODwilly

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Does anyone know if 533 MHz FSB CPUs will work in an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS motherboard @ 533 MHz please? Both the motherboard manual and Intel 82855GME chipset datasheet specify 400 MHz so I suspect not. From an old review it looks like a mobile chipset and it only uses 400 FSB Pentium-M's. The review …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-31, 17:48

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by ODwilly

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RetroPC_King wrote on 2023-01-31, 12:22: Today I got this Samsung SpinPoint PL40 40GB 7200RPM 2MB cache IDE HDD, slimline. Opinion about it? I ran into an identical one in a HP P4 getting decommissioned ages ago. Reused it to clone a dying 10gb drive to in a work POS machine. Cool running, silent, …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-24, 05:38

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by ODwilly

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Currently has 2x4gb of ram on it and posts. 16gb ddr2 800 Chinese ram is detected in the bios but I have to not be lazy and flash the latest bios for all 16gb to be detected and usable. Current bios is some crazy early bios. Phenom ii 920. Wont boot from USB at all but XP loaded up just fine. …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-23, 16:36

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by ODwilly

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Some Am2+/3 boards support 16gb of ddr2

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-17, 05:16

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by ODwilly

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I have a Asrock am2nf3-vsta. Nf3 with AGP. But all of you know that. I am running a Phenom II 955 overclocked at 4,0ghz at 1,45v. 4gb RAM ddr2 800mhz overclocked at 1066mhz with very high voltage setting. The video card is obviously a Radeon HD3850 512mb gddr3. I really want to make another …

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Re: GPU suggestion for my P4 setup

Posted on 2023-01-14, 10:17

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by ODwilly

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in Marvin \ System Specs

If you want a cheap, more compatible pcie XP card for your P4 check out the x300 and x600 ati cards. Better, more power efficient versions of the Radeon 9550 and 9600 in pcie flavor, and dirt cheap as used OEM cards.

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

Posted on 2023-01-04, 01:56

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by ODwilly

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Picked up a Sony Vaio Ivy Bridge i5 laptop for $20 to replace my dad's Dell Latitude E5510 1st gen i3. The 720p display is soooo much nicer, and each laptop had a 4gb stick of ram so the Sony is sitting at 8gb now.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-30, 02:51

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by ODwilly

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got these 2 cards for dirt cheap (as usual for me), in good condition. The cards work, but that damn 7300GT refuses to post on the test system (an early on Radeon HD3650 AGP did the same shit on me on that test system), seems some of these AGP bridge cards just hate the damn VIA chipset or …

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