Re: Capacitors (same rating but different sizes?)

Posted on 2018-08-25, 16:56

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by cyclone3d

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My observations: 1. Super crappy capacitor manufacturers WAAAAAAAAYYYYY overrate their capacitors. They are crap and don't last very long. 2. Quality capacitor manufacturers rate their capacitors properly. What is the brand of the capacitor on the motherboard? What is the brand of the capacitor on …

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Re: Anyone here got a KT7A-RAID motherboard?

Posted on 2018-08-25, 05:57

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by cyclone3d

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The KT7A/KT7A-RAID is about the best Socket 462 boards with an ISA slot. With a modified BIOS and wire-modding the socket, you can run a Barton Mobile at about 2.4Ghz. The caps will probably (most definitely) need to be replaced if they haven't been before. I bought a NOS KT7A board and the first …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-25, 02:00

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by cyclone3d

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Epay link: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F173290936277 its a small 486 under a keyboard. Its obviously borked, but I'm super confident I can get her to chooch again. Nice! I have been watching one but they want $35 for shipping.. bleh. https://www. …

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Re: High end agp card for a windows xp system?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 19:48

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by cyclone3d

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Holy crap you two. Filename that-escalated-quickly.jpg File size 47.82 KiB Views 179 views @emosun.... Pretty sure Crysis is period correct for HD3850/HD4670. Not like we are talking about running NEW games on either of these cards nor are we talking about running these cards with NEW hardware.

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Re: High end agp card for a windows xp system?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 18:29

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by cyclone3d

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But for an XP system, DX10 is a moot point. In any case, if I could actually get an AGP 4670 for a good price I would do a comparison myself since it is pretty much impossible to find any real review of the AGP 3850 vs AGP 4670.

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Re: Games that don't run properly on faster CPUs

Posted on 2018-08-24, 14:29

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by cyclone3d

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On the other hand, my 486DX2-66 is a little too fast for the game, because of the palette rotation on the water. Is palette rotation the only problem? If so, I wouldn't bother researching any alternatives. The map scrolling speed is also too high on a system which is too fast. I could deal with the …

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Re: High end agp card for a windows xp system?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 14:21

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by cyclone3d

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Hm ok. I decided to just get a sandy bridge motherboard and use that for xp instead. I guess I'll look for some gtx 750 card although even those are somewhat pricey it seems. Prices on the "newer" video cards are falling because of the recent crypto crash. Just keep an eye out and be patient. It …

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Re: High end agp card for a windows xp system?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 05:29

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by cyclone3d

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actually I would question the radeon HD 3850 as the fastes AGP card. The Radeon HD 4670 was also sold as an AGP card and I remember it being faster in most benchmarks. The memory bus is 128bit on the 4670. Finding actual benches on the AGP versions is kinda hard. Some of the 3850 vs 4670 reviews I …

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Re: High end agp card for a windows xp system?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 03:35

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by cyclone3d

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Well, the ATI 3850 is the fastest AGP ever made.. so there is that. And if you want to play older PhysX titles, you can always get a PCI PhysX card or a PCI nVidia card (430) and use that for PhysX. 6800GT is going to be pretty GPU limited.

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Re: ISA Modems.... should I keep any?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 02:08

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by cyclone3d

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@Jo22 I will not throw them out even if I do get rid of them. I'll check to see if any of the older ones are worth anything.

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Re: ISA Modems.... should I keep any?

Posted on 2018-08-24, 02:07

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by cyclone3d

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canthearu wrote: There is little point in keeping any POTS Modems in my opinion. In my area at least, POTS doesn't exist so they are kind of impossible to use. Maybe keep a couple, but beyond that, toss the rest IMO. We do have a Magic Jack. POTS phones/faxes/etc work with a Magic Jack.

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ISA Modems.... should I keep any?

Posted on 2018-08-23, 22:58

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by cyclone3d

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In the process of collecting hardware, I now pretty much have 3 boxes full of modems. I was planning on just going through and keeping a few of the hardware modems.... maybe. What about Win modems? The Lucent based 56k ones were really the only ones I could get to connect at close to rated speed. I …

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Re: VRAM to use as regular RAM?

Posted on 2018-08-23, 19:54

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by cyclone3d

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Well.. are there two or more ISA cards you have that there are cards available that combine those functions? If so, then you could add a board to expand the RAM.

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Re: Is there a Multiprocessing DOS driver/optimizer?

Posted on 2018-08-23, 15:05

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Yeah, FreeDOS would really be the only way to do this properly (multi-processor or hyper-threading) Could be possible to implement this is DOSBOX as well. Probably actually a lot easier. In regular old DOS, there are threading libraries available, but it is going to be slower than single threaded …

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Re: 1000 bucks for a SCSI adapter?

Posted on 2018-08-23, 14:37

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by cyclone3d

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Why post the priciest seller? Obviously they really don't care if they sell them or not. The cheapest one of that exact adapter I saw was $333. But why even get something that expensive? There is an ACARD IDE to 68-pin SCSI adapter for ONLY $170. Then you could get an "inexpensive" 68 to 50-pin SCSI …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-23, 03:30

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by cyclone3d

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Sweet find! Would have been even better if it was the dual OPL2 version. Still really cool that it is still around and you even have the box. As for me, I received a box of unknown ISA cards today and the only really good card in there was yet another TSENG ET4000AX card. The rest were all modems …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-21, 21:24

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by cyclone3d

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fan sounds a bit worse for wear) Clean it, peel the sticker off gently, and put a drop of sewing machine oil into the hole. Reseat the sticker, and wait an hour or two, then let the card run until it sounds ok. This works 9 out of 10 times for me, and will fix the fan for another year. Or simply …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-21, 14:34

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by cyclone3d

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I bought and received 2 NOS 486 coolers locally. Both with transparant plastic for fan and housing around the small heatsink. Did cost me a whopping €5,- for both :happy: Now I can finally finish my first 486 build with a decent cooler. Nice! 486 coolers are getting hard to find for a good price. …

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Re: EMM386 NOEMS Vs EMM386

Posted on 2018-08-20, 03:53

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by cyclone3d

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I did use MSD, but I am pretty sure I also had something different. I seem to remember a black background. Pretty sure it showed exactly what drivers and tsrs were loaded where. Ok, so it may have been TSR Utilities Version 3.5 https://www.pcorner.com/list/UTILITY/TSRCOM35.ZIP/INFO/ THE PROGRAMMER'S …

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Re: EMM386 NOEMS Vs EMM386

Posted on 2018-08-20, 01:17

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by cyclone3d

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Ok half of what everyone said I dont understand but maybe this question will help, what is it called when you have the "DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM AUTO" line in the config.sys is this extended or expanded memory and what is it called when the "RAM AUTO" part is removed and "NOEMS" is added is it …

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