Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-08, 19:00

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I just won this very nice SUPERMICRO S2DG2 dual Slot-2 board. :) The price ended up ~11 Euro + rather expensive 20 euro shipping from the UK but I think 31 euro total still is reasonable if not cheap. I have never owned a Slot-2 system so its a new platform for me. :) The sellers image of the …

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Re: VLB VESA card recommendations (with links to many)

Posted on 2015-10-08, 06:55

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Im no expert when it comes to VLB cards but the first two (Tseng and S3) should both be good, if they are cheap buy both, test them and use the one you find the best. When it comes to DOS S3 cards are among the best choices but later during the Windows 9x era they fell behind.

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Re: What PC to look for?

Posted on 2015-10-08, 05:57

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by the way, I see locally sold parts, sometimes really cheap. 486DX 2 66 mhz for 4 euro, for instance. Is that too fast for some games, or should it be OK? I think having a 286-16 and a 486-DX2-66 would be a great combination, if you can get the DX-2 for 4 euro buy it at once! :) The games that run …

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Re: DirectX 9.0c Build, Stealth - Large Pics

Posted on 2015-10-07, 10:11

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More pics will follow soon but I wanted to talk about the hardware a little bit. I will talk about software later. I'm not really going into depth here because you guys know more than me lol. Audigy 2 SB0350 sound card It is easy on drivers, sounds good, EAX, has front panel audio connector (if you …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-07, 06:26

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I made an useful investment :) I have two working dual Pentium Pro boards which should support 1MB cache CPUs, One ATX "AIR P6NDI" and one AT "Tyan S1662 Titan Pro". I also have a finished NT4 system with a PR440FX ATX board but it officially only supports 512KB cache CPUs which it already runs …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-06, 05:52

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More stuff from the bundle with random stuff I bought. I need help identifying this one, IBM video card. Unidentified_IBM_video_card.JPG What a curious board. Two different types of memory expansion, SLT chips and headers for a paddleboard. I think it's MCAmafia who has a great little utility you …

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Re: A scad of 486s on Ebay

Posted on 2015-10-05, 21:10

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My tip if you do not want to pay much for a motherboard, memory and CPU bundle, go for a "5V CPU only" VLB motherboard bundle, they often go really cheap. I just bought a nice VLB motherboard with memory and a DX2 CPU on Ebay 10 minuts ago, the price was £25.99 = 35 euro add a video card (10-15 euro …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-05, 20:17

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More stuff from the bundle with random stuff I bought. AWE32 CT2760 AWE32_CT2760.JPG Hercules Dynamite ET4000/W32i ISA video card. Hercules_Dynamite_ET4000W32i.JPG 4x S3 Trio64 PCI cards 4xS3Trio64.JPG I need help identifying this one, IBM video card. Unidentified_IBM_video_card.JPG

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-05, 19:52

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I got 3 packages today :) The first package I opened only had one small item inside :) Evergreen.JPG The second package had two items inside. The first item was an untested 486 board, I have bought an untested board from this seller before and it diddnt work, this one diddnt work either. The price …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-04, 20:13

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Got this beauty from a flea market for 10e. I vowed never to touch these ICL's, but the price was too tempting. It's a 486DX2-66/12Mb/430Mb/Vibra16. It also has this really weird card that gives 6V for the riser card. What the hell?! :confused: That seems like a nice deal, I think that ICL case …

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

Posted on 2015-10-04, 10:13

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I just tried the floppy version of MS Publisher 95 I bought, disk one read fine disk two not so much so I diddnt even try the rest. But according to my practically minded approach to copyright I now own MS Publisher 95 (Im pretty sure I already did but I could not find the disc) so I quickly solved …

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Re: 286 enough to play games?

Posted on 2015-10-04, 09:24

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As its a 16MHz 286 its fast enough to play some games 😀 With a VGA video card you can expect to be able to play the same games as you would be able to play on a 386SX-16. Most games from 1988 - 1991 and some games from 1992 - 1993 will run well.

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Re: Really, how much RAM you need a 486 dx66 ???

Posted on 2015-10-03, 18:10

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For Windows 3.1/3.11 16 MB as others have suggested is enough and 32MB is enough for running Windows 95 without the IE4 Windows Desktop Update.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-03, 15:15

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Does anyone know what the ISA card is? Is it a very early SCSI card or is it something other interesting or something totally useless? :) Lot_with_random_stuff.JPG Looks a lot like an ISA version of the multiport serial card that's in my PS/2 model 80. That ceramic chip is probably an 80186 but the …

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Re: P2/P3 VS K6-3+ - A Great Battle Commences

Posted on 2015-10-03, 08:49

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From these results, the overclocked Intel Celeron Mendocino 300A at 450 MHz is fairly well matched to the significantly more expensive Intel Pentium II at 400 MHz, with a slight edge towards the Mendocino. Would a Mendocino work in a dual Slot 1 motherboard with a second Mendocino onboard? [EDIT: …

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Re: New high end Win98se build. Renamed "The Beast"

Posted on 2015-10-03, 07:03

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philscomputerlab wrote: Just realised, 99 used 640x480 as default resolution and 800x600 IS the default for 2000 😊 Not on my systems 😀 Im pretty sure 800*600 is the default setting in 3dmark99 Max and 1024*768 in 3dmark2000

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Re: Pin modding a 1000MHz Tualeron - need advice

Posted on 2015-10-02, 22:05

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kanecvr wrote: yup. On Coppermine CPUs voltage reading is normal. My 1.75V 1GHz PIII-B works at the correct 1.75V. Maybe your VRM only goes down to 1.5V and your are trying to pin mod the CPU to 1.45V. I would try to pin mod to 1.65V which is a good overclocking voltage and totally safe.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-02, 20:38

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I made an useful investment :) I have two working dual Pentium Pro boards which should support 1MB cache CPUs, One ATX "AIR P6NDI" and one AT "Tyan S1662 Titan Pro". I also have a finished NT4 system with a PR440FX ATX board but it officially only supports 512KB cache CPUs which it already runs …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-02, 17:43

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Creative Geforce 3 Ti500 (MS-8853) arrived today :happy: Managed to find one, plenty of Ti200s out there. If something is marked "MS-xxxx VER:xxx" then its probably a card made by MicroStar card and not Creative? not that it matters at all :) Perhaps Creative bought Microstar cards and relabled …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-02, 17:30

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Creative Geforce 3 Ti500 (MS-8853) arrived today :happy: Managed to find one, plenty of Ti200s out there. If something is marked "MS-xxxx VER:xxx" then its probably a card made by MicroStar and not Creative? not that it matters at all :) Perhaps Creative bought Microstar cards and relabled them, I …

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