Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-11, 09:06

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by Cyrix200+

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I can't really help you with the identification of the board. As others have said before me, this heatsink is not designed to be separated from the cpu. It is glued and the glue is very tough. If you would manage to remove it, it would be very hard to re-attach it properly. Leave it on! I would …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-07, 15:39

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The ZX chipset is very similar to the BX, supports only 2 memory slots. This board probably does not support Coppermine or Tualatin CPU voltages, so a classic Celeron is pretty much all you can use. I think the fastest one is 533MHz. Bit of a random purchase showed up today. Not knowing much about …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-07, 10:59

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Glad to hear that I'm not the only one who loves Slot A. It's pretty rare, I got lucky finding some hardware. I hope it works... :) Gold finger devices are STUPID rare. its annoys me a great deal, having a wonderful 1ghz slot-a cpu and a top-notch board and not have one of these devices. @brancho …

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

Posted on 2016-05-06, 16:09

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Re-capped my broken PAS Plus, no improvement and now I look closely, the software is having problems getting it to run properly when certain conditions are met. In short, I think the card is dead and I am very upset. ... Man, I'm so upset that I'm actually mad and want to start punching things.... …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-06, 14:46

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I also got another Pentium 4 system from work, I told them to keep all beige boxes for me instead of recycling them. This one's a Pentium 4 3.6GHz Asus P5P800 mainboard (Intel 865PE chipset, S775) Asus Radeon 9550 video (128MB) 2GB DDR RAM Okay Optical drives Decent PSU http://i.imgur.com/8CfBRXal. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-06, 13:47

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I have always loved Slot A hardware (don't ask me why... I don't know), so I really wanted to get some again. I noticed an ad for an Asus K7V mainboard and immediately bought it (9 euros). It even came with a CPU! After contact with the seller he would add some more stuff... Another CPU and a Gold …

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Re: Older mobos lower down than modern?

Posted on 2016-05-02, 14:07

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by Cyrix200+

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I agree with brassicgamer, probably an issue with the standoff height. They come in more than one size: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common … IMGP5029_wp.jpg

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

Posted on 2016-05-02, 07:26

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Put a Matrox Millenium G200 in my Pentium 166 build (replacing the S3 Virge) and ran 3DMark 99. I got 481 3DMarks! 😀

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

Posted on 2016-05-01, 12:44

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leileilol wrote: to keep it painless don't forget to terminate the ie4 installer! I did 😀 I also added USB via a PCI card, convinced Windows 95 to recognise it and then even found a driver that supported one of my USB Flash Drives. This makes life easier 😀

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

Posted on 2016-05-01, 10:48

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Installed Windows 95 C on my Pentium 166, fairly painless procedure! A lot of memories coming back! Thanks to Vogonsdrivers.com for some of the drivers!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-30, 12:36

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Finally found an Intel TX chipset mainboard locally, and a decent one too! Paid a bit more than I usually would (30 euros), but the whole set is similar to my old Socket 7 PC I want to rebuild (I had a Abit mainboard though, and a Cyrix 200+ 150MHz 6x86 CPU). Asus TX97-E with Pentium MMX 200MHz …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-24, 09:40

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brostenen wrote: Cool... Banshee for a K6-II setup and the rest for motherboard testing. Yeah. I'm getting too many of those 'uninteresting' cards. People just give them away usually. I'm not complaining!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-24, 09:39

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Final haul this week. Bought it for the 3Dfx cards, the rest came with it :) Voodoo 1 (SKY3D): http://i.imgur.com/oInY4Swl.jpg ATi ??? AR2TD-C3L/P1 (no idea on the specs yet): http://i.imgur.com/FbDHjgfl.jpg?1 GeForce2 MX400 64MB: http://i.imgur.com/F42aFJRl.jpg Diamond Savage 4 (Stealth III S540 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-24, 09:20

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Next up: somebody was cleaning up and sent me these video cards for just the shipping costs: Elsa S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP ???MB: http://i.imgur.com/GTH6P7hl.jpg Asus? TNT2 32MB: http://i.imgur.com/unBCOpyl.jpg?1 TNT2 Vanta 16MB: http://i.imgur.com/IE5s1M9l.jpg?1 TNT2 M64 16MB TV: http://i.imgur.com/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-24, 08:59

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I finalized a trade this week, some nice gear from my wishlist: Voodoo 3 2000 AGP: http://i.imgur.com/dQ6d7Xsl.jpg?1 Cirrus Logic VLB video card #1: http://i.imgur.com/Ze7SQBEl.jpg?1 Cirrus Logic VLB video card #2: http://i.imgur.com/KATEbH0l.jpg Asus COAST Cache Module: http://i.imgur.com/s0Y69rtl. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-22, 13:34

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These could aswell go in the dumpster find thread as I think the seller works at a recycling center in southern Europe but as I did pay for the items I'm posting the stuff here. Two weeks ago I posted the sellers picture of an XT clone motherboard I bought just to get the NEC V20 CPU. The shipping …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-21, 07:43

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... Just took her apart and cleaned her up a bit, not a spec of dust on the motherboard save for the ends of a few cables and some light dust on the fans. Freakishly, every single internal storage device is SCSI on it - the hard disk, the CD-ROM, the floppy drives, and apparently all of these parts …

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

Posted on 2016-04-20, 09:41

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Nice build! Classic choice of components for the era. Yeah optical drive is a tricky one - I don't think my first DVD-ROM game was UT2004 and I think there were about 5 games were available on that format in 1997. In terms of video card, the Virge is pretty much spot on - all you can really do is …

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

Posted on 2016-04-20, 07:04

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I actually built a system this weekend! No software on it yet though... Pentium 166 Asus P/I-P55TP4XE (430FX) 64 MB of EDO RAM S3 Virge/DX 4MB Sound Blaster AWE64 HDD & CDROM/DVD (CDROM/DVD is a bit to young, will have to change out for something more suitable) I want to build a period-correct …

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Re: Can't make it post - help needed

Posted on 2016-04-13, 17:50

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by Cyrix200+

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Do you have more than one power supply to test with? If you start the system without memory, do the keyboard leds also light up?

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