Re: PSU For a Retro PC

Posted on 2024-03-08, 11:57

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by Half-Saint

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That EVGA PSU will be fine. PSU wattage just represent the maximum power available to your PC (very simplified). A relatively good analogy would be the top speed of a car. For example, your car has a top speed of 185 km/h but you only drive at max 130 km/h. No harm done, right? You could put a 1000W …

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Re: Why build the "fastest" Windows 98 system?

Posted on 2024-03-08, 06:17

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You guys have given me a lot of food for thought. My blue themed Pentium III build sounds good in theory but it will probably not be fast enough for XP and 512MB of RAM is also going to be a limiting factor. I don't have any spare space right now, my desk is barely big enough for my main PC. All of …

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Why build the "fastest" Windows 98 system?

Posted on 2024-03-07, 12:45

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This is targeted at people who tried to do something like the title suggests. What was your reasoning behind it? I'm thinking maybe to see what's the fastest system that can run Win98 and on top of that dual boot to XP. That would cover about 15 years worth of games. I'm currently considering …

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Blue themed socket 370 build proposal

Posted on 2024-03-06, 17:04

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Hey all, I am about to retire my super socket 7 build (running DOS and Windows 98SE right now) and am thinking of a replacement. I have this very nice blue Gigabyte GA-6OXT board with a Tualatin Celeron 1.3 GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. It occured to me that I could build a relatively good blue …

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Re: AT-8080 Memory Board - help needed

Posted on 2024-03-06, 16:49

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OK, will do, thanks 😀

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AT-8080 Memory Board - help needed

Posted on 2024-03-06, 08:42

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I obtained this board several years ago and only now got to playing with it again. The problem is, I don't see any memory increase when I type mem. How do I get this card to work? Does it need special drivers?

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Re: Faulty TMC PCI54PV (VER. 1.2A) motherboard - need help

Posted on 2023-11-09, 11:29

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I have an EEPROM programmer so maybe I'll use that to overwrite the original BIOS chip. I don't know why I haven't thought of that. Thanks for the idea :) Hey... real long shot, but I picked up one of these boards from a scrapper - purposely rescued it because it was such a cool/rare board... but …

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Re: How to test a lot of hard drives fast?

Posted on 2023-08-18, 06:35

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I forgot to mention these are all old IDE hard drives ranging from 40MB up to 80GB. When was SMART introduced? dominusprog wrote on 2023-08-17, 17:36: How fast? Try HDD Regenerator bootable ISO. It checks the entire disk for bad sectors and also fixes them if possible. A few days max.. I don't …

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How to test a lot of hard drives fast?

Posted on 2023-08-17, 09:20

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I have around 50-60 hard drives that I'd like to test. I can do it one by one but I'd like to test them faster. Is there any way I can do this? Are there any software tools that are capable of doing this? I thought of setting up four PCs and running mHDD on each one. This will be faster but it's …

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Re: Remastering games, is it really worth it?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 07:38

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My guess is that they're doing remasters mainly for the money. The target are mostly old gamers that buy them for nostalgia, not so much for gameplay. At the same time they also target younger players who don't find old pixel/low-poly graphics appealing.

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Re: WinFast A250 Ultra: help identifying a missing diode (?)

Posted on 2023-06-13, 08:49

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Doornkaat wrote on 2023-06-07, 12:12: I have a donor card somewhere. I can look for it and see if the part is still on there if you like. Yes, that would be great 😀

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WinFast A250 Ultra: help identifying a missing diode (?)

Posted on 2023-06-07, 06:48

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I'm looking to find out the type of a specific diode marked D615 on the back side of the card, in the corner near the label. It might work without this but I'd still like to fix it properly after I recap the card - all three 1000uF 6.3V caps have failed. The closest diode is marked L42 but I can't …

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Re: Voodoo 3 problem with 3D Mark 2000

Posted on 2023-06-07, 06:43

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Are you still using the P5A-B board? I think that one has only AGP 1X support, which the Banshee actually is. But the V3 is AGP 2X and there might be a conflict. I'd try the V3 cards in a faster Pentium 3 system. Also AmigaSport 3.0 seems to be one of the more stable drivers I've tested: https:// …

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Re: Voodoo 3 problem with 3D Mark 2000

Posted on 2023-05-10, 10:11

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Sorry for the necro but I'm having exactly the same problem... again. So, today I successfully ran benchmarks on two Creative Voodoo Banshee 16MB PCI cards in 3DMark2000. I tried to benchmark a Voodoo3 3000 AGP and it froze during the medieval town scene as previously described. Now this is a …

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Re: Which OS and video card for Pentium III class platform?

Posted on 2023-03-24, 12:26

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I would go with 98SE there are a few PCI sound cards that can provide usable support in DOS, and most are cheap as well. P3 really is only fast enough for early XP anyway. We have to remember that XP had a LONG life, and it's requirements changed and evolved a lot between 2001-2014. The disparity …

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Re: Which OS and video card for Pentium III class platform?

Posted on 2023-03-23, 11:04

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The problem is the service packs, those massively bump up the system requirements. You may say "I don't need those service packs for the games" and you'd be right but if you want to install software & drivers you may run into issues because the last available versions for Windows XP often depend on …

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Re: My second rig, a Wings no-name

Posted on 2023-03-23, 10:46

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... I'm guessing the CPU heatsink is from some big brand OEM originally? DUDE! wicked heat sink? does it work well? The Slot1 CPU was apparently originally in a Compaq server. I bought it used and it has served me well. I have no way of monitoring the temperatures but there have never been any …

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Re: Which OS and video card for Pentium III class platform?

Posted on 2023-03-23, 10:24

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XP and games requiring one might be too heavy for P3 Recommended system requirements for XP are surprisingly low. I reckon, since XP and Tualatin have the same release date of 2001, a fast Pentium 3 should be able to handle most XP stuff at least up to 2006 as someone already said. This is still …

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Re: Which OS and video card for Pentium III class platform?

Posted on 2023-03-23, 10:07

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Is the P3 a direct replacement for the K6 or do you have some games that require XP? Also do you have any dos games that need a faster PC then your 486? First thing I'd do a test install of XP and check if any of your games have compatibility issues with XP. If any game fails then I'd keep it …

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Which OS and video card for Pentium III class platform?

Posted on 2023-03-22, 20:11

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I'm considering early retirement for my Super Socket 7 K6-2+ system and replacing it with a Pentium III since I have all the parts already. I'm running DOS and Win98Se on the SS7 system. After so many years of meddling with PCs my memory is becoming a bit fuzzy. On top of that, back in the day I was …

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