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

Posted on 2021-10-29, 02:05

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I caution to anyone, replacing failed components on a hard drive is dandy but many has firmware kept in a large chipset. Other than that, cannot open the internal guts where platters are. The data recovery vendors who do heads swap consider this data recovery only. Once done it is trashed. The …

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Re: Slowest Desktop Processor For Windows 10 (now for windows 11)

Posted on 2021-10-11, 18:03

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now its time for windows 11: it appears the slowest / oldest proccesor capable of running windows 11 its the Pentium 4 631 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0nYgME8knY

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Re: Dreamblaster S2 General MIDI Daughterboard Review

Posted on 2021-10-06, 17:26

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i already have an awe64 value, its worth adding a s2?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-23, 23:18

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I was in the market for a k6-3 but damn...they are crazy! https://www.ebay.com/itm/165081901080?mkevt=1&mkpid=2&emsid=e90001.m43.l3160&mkcid=8&bu=45187831921&osub=c5ad2a983189ce3c2ffdafb005d2691e%257ETE80101_T_AGM&segname=TE80101_T_AGM&crd=20210923100500&ch=osgood&trkId=0A0AD8DF-A7FC1C407B2- …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-09-11, 01:34

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about 8 years ago i moved to the place im right now so it was time to throw many useless things. Among that things was a complete Macintosh Performa 5260/120 with 64mb of ram Nice construction quality and in perfect shape but i didnt had any use for it and dont have any love for Apple product.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-30, 16:19

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debs3759 wrote on 2021-06-30, 15:24: I might source a waterblock and hook it up to my chiller. See if I can get even higher (guessing 660 is possible with the right cooling) overkill, a socket A cooler is more than enough, even at 600Mhz

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:13

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i will upgrade from windows 10 if they fix: bluetooth: sometimes is a nightmare to connect a headphone, i have a hard time with mi buds the constants popups: every time you connnect something with multiple partitions you have to close manually all the notifications one by one, they dont show all at …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-06-21, 14:33

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Back in the good old days when there was a nearby Ewaste facility that was so small that they let stuff overflow to an area by the front door, one of the things I rescued one night was an HP AIO Omni 120-1034. I brought it home and checked it out, saw that it was in perfect working order, and put …

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Re: were/are the Voodoo 4 and 5 even worth owning?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 11:39

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in 2000 there were better options than the v5 and v4, i didnt make sense to buy one, it was overpowered to run any glide game (voodoo 3 was more than enough) and underpowered to run almost any DX7 game from a retro stand point i think the voodoo 3 is the best all around voodoo card.

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Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-06-07, 00:39

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IDE controller is the one reason I had to retire my Luckytech P5MVP3. No matter what I'd do, Secondary channel would always show up with a exclamation sign, making the drive work in compatibility mode. I ended up replacing it (for now) with a Soyo 6BA+IV /P3 650MHz build but I'm hoping to switch it …

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Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-05-30, 17:10

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out of the box in general? the worst by far were the DFI motherboards, mainly because shitty BIOS and virtually no updates for them, it was an excercise of patience to get a fully working and stable computer with this motherboards. from a retro stand point and to use today? The Soyo 5EHM: very …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-25, 02:03

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for pure DOS you dont really need more than: 286 = 1mb 386 = 4mb almost all 486 = 8mb there is almost no programs that run OK with more memory on that processors

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-27, 01:16

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Good story. I bought a MSI FX5950U a while ago, paid a pretty price of ~$200 CAD shipped. While it's in transit, the seller sends me a message and includes this nugget of information: "I honestly do not think the card had ever been used. It was a replacement for a cad cam machine that was left over …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-08, 03:56

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1) i dont like graphic adventures, they are boring and force me to click to everything in order to advance some parts, also i got stuck many times and its super annoying (more 30 years ago without internet) also never played any SCUMM based game. maybe its because i dont give a damn about the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-28, 02:16

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but if the nforce 2 chipset was inherently unstable, motherboard manufacturers would have noticed. it was a mix bag Over 15 years ago the last 2 Socket A motherboards in my main system were Nforce 2 Ultra the first one was a MSI k7n2 delta2 platinum paired with an Athlon XP 3000+ Barton 400Mhz + 2 …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-15, 11:46

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Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-01-14, 15:39: Why compare a 4 core to a 6 core? because that's what fanboy's do

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-13, 16:37

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Core i7 980X - 6 cores 12 threads (first quarter of 2010) Xeon X7560 - 8 cores 16 threads (first quarter of 2010) Core i7 5960X - 8 cores 16 threads Xeon E5 2699 v3 - 18 cores 36 threads (third quarter of 2014) Core i7 6950X - 10 cores 20 threads none of them fit in an average consumer motherboard …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-13, 10:56

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Your petty little issue regarding a redundant two-generations-old processor is meaningless to me, and to everyone on the planet outside your little sphere of targeted irritation. Every large tech company has it's own little cadre of disgruntled haters on the internet who have run into "stupid …

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Re: CPU collectors: do you collect each and every revision or just one?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 10:18

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i dont see the point on buying and collecting. I only save some rare parts when i find them in computers i have to replace or fix (im in IT), i never buy things i dont have user for. someday ill have a display in the wall with that parts plus some others that are special to me (first mouse, sound …

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Microsoft Intellimouse 1.0 with Intellieye USB (1999)

Posted on 2021-01-10, 20:41

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i have this mouse but at some point like 15 years ago it stop working, it was the cable so i toss it in the garbage and kept the mouse. Now im trying to restore this mouse and i dont know what is the pinout for the usb. Im using the usb cable from a Logitech M90 but i dont know if is in the correct …

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