Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-01, 19:07

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought this lot with random unidentified junk for 20 euro + 30 euro shipping from Italy. Sold as used but working! If more than one of the motherboards are dead I will probably ask for a partial refund :P One of the motherboards is a i430FX motherboard, that board is the whole reason I bought the …

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Re: DirectX 9.0c build

Posted on 2015-10-01, 05:45

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ran across this by the way, haven't really looked into if the info was totally correct on driver versions for GTX 285. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/680653/what-is-latest-best-driver-for-gtx-285-/ Im using driver 186.18, I do not really remember why. Im the "if it isnt broken dont fix it …

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Re: Floppy Drive installation help needed.

Posted on 2015-09-30, 21:24

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Its not just Dell but probably mostly OEMs. I have both floppy drives, cables and motherboards where the rows have switched place so pin 1 is where pin 2 should be and so on. There are also IDE cables, and IDE interfaces on motherboards and expansion boards with the rows switched but those are at …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-30, 19:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting graphics card. I've never an ARK based card upgradable to 4 MB :exclamation: I had about 40 of those, no its not a typo... I threw away most of them ~2008 long before the retro bug bit me :dead:. The cards comes from a company I worked for 2001 -2004, they used them in all their "office …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-30, 17:49

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The CPUs which I was pretty sure would be 200MHz 256KB ones turned out to be 180MHz 256KB CPUs but I have two spare 200MHz CPUs so it dosnt matter. I have never heard of a 180Mhz CPU before. I thought it jumped from 166 to 200. So would that be a 60Mhz FSB? Yea the 180 MHz Pentium Pro runs at 3x60 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-30, 16:35

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I promised to report back to tell if the "untested, found in attic" Tyan S1662 dual Pentium Pro board I won last week worked or not. The bundle with random gear the seller "found in his/hers attic" arrived today :). I have no idea if the gear belonged to the sellers ex boyfriend, a former apartment …

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Re: It's 286 time!

Posted on 2015-09-29, 21:14

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I think its prefectly fine to target 286 machines the in the 16-20 MHz range with VGA + music demos, 16 MHz seems to be the most common of all 286 speeds and 20 MHz is at least not rare. If you would write VGA + music demos with an Intel 8-12 MHz 286 as the target I have a feeling that they would be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-27, 18:36

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I missed out on an ET4000 because I'm cheap. But then I'm interested to know who would pay €50 for one . Im looking at that exact same model of ET4000 on my test bench, I got mine with an ISA 486 motherboard, 8x4MB 30pin memory, a 486DX-33 CPU and an I/O-card... I paid 17.50 euro for the whole …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-27, 18:19

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I did NOT win the Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 yesterday that sold for 76 euro without CPU but I did win this Asus VL/I-486SVGOX4 today for 52 euro with an AMD 5x86 133 and 32MB memory. A different less known board goes for less money as people search for the exact models they read about. Correct me if Im …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-27, 17:54

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Thanks! I'm curious to see what you have! I have never seen that case again after we put it away. I have one or two cases like that. Will check when I get to my stash. I also have somehow different midi tower case that resembles this design - LCD and buttons look the same. I will also try to find …

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Re: Reasons to punch eBay sellers in the face

Posted on 2015-09-27, 16:21

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Worst thing ever is poor packaging. I've had computers shipped to me wrapped in nothing more than a cut up paper grocery bag tied up with twine. I've had CPU's shipped in nothing more than an envelope without even a piece of styrofoam to protect the pins. I've also had video cards shipped in …

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Re: Reasons to punch eBay sellers in the face

Posted on 2015-09-27, 10:24

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Worst thing ever is poor packaging. I've had computers shipped to me wrapped in nothing more than a cut up paper grocery bag tied up with twine. I've had CPU's shipped in nothing more than an envelope without even a piece of styrofoam to protect the pins. I've also had video cards shipped in …

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Re: DirectX 9.0c build

Posted on 2015-09-27, 09:05

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I'll admit, I had a dedicated XP gaming box not too long ago, an overclocked dual-core Opteron with a GTX 260 SP216 and X-Fi Ti. I still have the machine, but it's no longer used for DX9c gaming. I now play all of those games on my main computer. It's far from period correct, but having my entire …

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Re: DirectX 9.0c build

Posted on 2015-09-27, 07:10

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If one is a pureist both the Radeon x1950XTX and Geforce 7900GTX are very nice Nice are in games' recommended hardware. Where many XP games have higher. So for mythic purity you'd get real low fps or lack of normal picture quality. But if you are not going to be purist you can just as well pick up …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-26, 21:53

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At least they seem common enough, I have seen quite a few of them the last two years. Yes, but ebay prices for this boards was high. So, I'm looking for cheap one. I just diddnt have the need for a VLB board but now I have a Tekram IDE card with cache... Its no biggie, I will try out the Tekram …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-26, 21:31

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I got same mobo about a month ago (hunting for few months), only because it has fastest benchmarks on Phil Vga list :) And supported top (amd x5-133 and podp83) cpu's. At least they seem common enough, I have seen quite a few of them the last two years. I just diddnt have the need for a VLB board …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-26, 20:53

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I made a post about a motherboard I diddnt win, perhaps I also should make post about the lot I did win. I won this lot with random "good to have when the winter sets in" items. The price was ~24 euro + 9 euro shipping. Its the sellers pictures and they are kind of bad, the stuff is all suppsed to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-26, 20:16

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice case! Loving the vertical floppy drive. I also find the model really nice and not only because I had one 20 years ago :). Your new AT case is perhaps not a beauty but I have to say when considering the price you made a bargain! :) Here is an item I wanted but did NOT win! With all the talk …

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Re: Loving my new 486!!

Posted on 2015-09-26, 13:40

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i checked the manual just now and it looks like i have the least amount of cache possible.. 128k.. and that it can support 256k 512k + up to 1MB of cache is it worth my time+ effort + money to track down 1MB or 512k of cache for this board? If you only are going to use DOS and Windows 3.11 then …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-26, 12:38

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just bought this 286 system for 58 euro + 23 euro shipping. I diddnt buy it for the 286 system inside as I already have two 286 systems Im perfectly happy with. I built the first system I ever built on my own in exactly the same model of case in November or December 1994, the case wasnt new but …

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