Re: Do you leave empty slots between cards?
Posted on 2015-10-18, 21:57
This is not a coincidence. My concern about this subject started when I installed a TV card and the PC took triple the normal time to boot.
Re: Do you leave empty slots between cards?
Posted on 2015-10-18, 09:31
I usually put the soundcard on the last isa or pci slot, in order to reduce interference from rest of components inside the case,I remember reading an article back in a magazine back in the 90. Yes, I do this too because I read that it must be as far from the cpu as possible, or it would pickup …
Re: Do you leave empty slots between cards?
Posted on 2015-10-18, 09:27
I did a quick search about SLI before I installed the Voodoos and it seems it can work, however i did not tested because I don't have the SLI cable. This is what it reads at http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/voodoo2/faq/#Q32 : "Yes, Voodoo2 will function in SLI mode in non-contiguous PCI slots as long …
Do you leave empty slots between cards?
Posted on 2015-10-17, 23:08
Here is another project of mine, you can have some idea as how the cards are installed inside. http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/telepacman/ovo_zpsxu8ngms9.jpg I have a card in the AGP slot, then an empty space a card in a pci slot, then an empty space another pci card then an empty space that …
Re: Show us your retro computer cases
Posted on 2015-10-17, 17:25
y2k se wrote: InWin A500. […] Show full quote InWin A500. Hey, have one of those! Above the average wouldn't you say? The sliding motherboard tray!
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2015-10-15, 09:56
Excellent use of the space, you removed the door, and also the upside-down taped speakers, very nice! Is that the entire Soldout collection?
Re: What PC for these games?
Posted on 2015-10-15, 09:27
So, i ended up building this one very quickly with parts I had lying: around, following some of your ideas. Right now playing descent 3, go figure. Anyway here are the specs: - motherboard Asus P4S800 with some SiS chipset, don't know, don't care. - Prescott 3.0GHz 1MB cache, 90W TPD: ther is a …
Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx
Posted on 2015-10-15, 09:08
PeterLI wrote: (...) I tried a Voodoo2 recently but it is a PITA IMO. Just too much work to get it to work.(...) feipoa wrote: (...) It seems that for pre-1999 games and with pre-PII systems, a Voodoo card really simplifies playability.
Re: What PC for these games?
Posted on 2015-10-10, 18:58
I don't feel like giving up my retrojunk yet, allthough it's something I've been thinking about recently due to dosbox, gog and, to some extent, steam (but i dislike their offline mode). So... what kind of top of the high end w98 where you thinking about? Thanks for the mcrae patch! I'm Dug!
What PC for these games?
Posted on 2015-10-10, 18:32
Hello folks, What kind of system should I build to play these games: Red Faction, Mafia, Max Payne, Half.Life, Carmaggedon 2, Colin Mcrae and Diablo II ?
Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx
Posted on 2015-10-08, 15:11
RacoonRider wrote: I managed to survive with no computer at all. Lucky you, that's what I say 😁 That's amazing for someone who wasn't born yet.
Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx
Posted on 2015-10-01, 00:47
I'm quite surprised, thought I was the black sheep with my g200 without opengl
Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx
Posted on 2015-09-29, 07:03
Matrox Millenium G200 8MB AGP for me and with all the early drivers bugs, I managed to survive 😐 How about you? Did anyone here managed with some TNT/TNT2 or G200/G400, maybe Rage? Savage? What were you stuck with? And how did it went? Thanks.
Re: identify this case , never seen one
Posted on 2015-08-13, 00:45
I've seen them cases before, IIRC they were used by the Tsunami brand in Portugal, early 2000's stuff like P4
Re: The Forgotten Noire of Internet Cafés
Posted on 2015-07-30, 15:43
(...) But I can tell you, I would pay a pretty penny just to once again be able to sit in a room full of computers and random people and experience the feeling of sharing the awesomeness of the internet with them. There was nothing like it before and there hasn't been anything like it since. (Well, …
Re: Logitech Rebranding itself as "Logi" with a very early 90's / late 80's feeling commercial
Posted on 2015-07-10, 22:56
RacoonRider wrote: King_Corduroy wrote: That's a very colourful computer in your avatar! What is it a Sun system? No, it's just a painted 486:) Eh eh, Racoon rider had me fooled too King Corduroy 😁
Re: Logitech Rebranding itself as "Logi" with a very early 90's / late 80's feeling commercial
Posted on 2015-07-08, 22:36
Sorry man, in this case the 80's are in the eyes of the beholder 😉 It's just some acid colours.
Re: Showing-off my 486 :-)
Posted on 2015-06-30, 01:49
Nope, talking about high res, on a 1995 Vectra VE with 486 WBack DX2 66MHz 16MB RAM S3 TRIO 64...
Re: Need advice for network tech learning.
Posted on 2015-06-27, 01:44
Bring it on! (thanks for the link)
Need advice for network tech learning.
Posted on 2015-06-27, 00:39
Hello, Due to a new job I took, I need to learn quickly about xDSL and GPON technology (FTTx ,DSLAM, BBRAS, RADIUS, OLT, ODF, routers and ONTs too, EWSD and S12). This is all new to me, but I'm willing to learn. Do you have some good reading recomendations, preferably online and free? Thank you 😄
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