Re: Thriftstore Compaq Evo Find

Posted on 2017-02-13, 18:35

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by Trank

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Yeah that too, either way it needs a fan in my opinion. Yeah these were used in schools eh? Sadly my district was one of those all in one G3 mac schools back in the day. I guess im going to either rebuy a Geforce 6200 or find something else. As long as it has S-Video and is low profile ill buy it.

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Re: Thriftstore Compaq Evo Find

Posted on 2017-02-13, 17:16

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by Trank

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Oh cool, yeah the size is perfect. I was thinking of upgrading the RAM too not sure if i care much for the CPU. When i got home with this PC i actually looked it up and saw that video, pretty cool.

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Thriftstore Compaq Evo Find

Posted on 2017-02-13, 15:14

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by Trank

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I ended stopping by a local Thrift store yesterday and picked up this Evo 510 for only 12 bucks. It came with a Pentium 4 2ghz, 1gb Ram, and a "broken" AGP Geforce 6200. I only tried to use it in this system so far, but it would cause blue screens, and when drivers were installed the Monitors …

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Re: Possibel ram bug with the computer?

Posted on 2016-12-27, 16:04

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by Trank

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32mb runs Win95 decent to be honest. 64mb to 128mb is the sweet spot.

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Re: Possibel ram bug with the computer?

Posted on 2016-12-27, 03:28

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by Trank

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SC2000 only needs 8mb. It performs beyond great with 64mb even.

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Re: Dualshock 4 and Windows 98SE? It works! Other controllers tested as well.

Posted on 2016-12-24, 14:59

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by Trank

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http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/119841-xbox36 … iver-for-win98/ I think i got it from here. Not sure if the links are working though. So i just uploaded it here.

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Re: Dualshock 4 and Windows 98SE? It works! Other controllers tested as well.

Posted on 2016-12-24, 04:01

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by Trank

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Just buy a DS4 controller.

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Re: Dualshock 4 and Windows 98SE? It works! Other controllers tested as well.

Posted on 2016-12-23, 21:38

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by Trank

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Thats really cool. Glad to hear a DS4 works. I use the fan made drivers for the X360 controller and it works great. You can change any of the input settings and all. Amazing drivers.

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Re: Floppy disk archaeology

Posted on 2016-12-16, 11:10

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by Trank

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Yeah i will go through them for sure. If its something random like the car photo you found i may share. But if its something really out there i would never share just delete it. Though i may take a peek. Its like going through lost treasure.

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Re: Trinity

Posted on 2016-12-07, 21:42

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by Trank

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Classic build. Geforce 3/P3. Also you should try an older set of nVdia drivers to see if you get better performance. Maybe 28.32 or lower?

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Re: How much vram was needed to display a desktop at maximum crt resolution, e.g 2048x1536?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 09:48

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by Trank

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I think by the GF3 era most gfx cards were supporting 2048x1536. So it must be way under 64mb even. Ive use my GF4 4400 Ti in 1920x1080 actually it surprised me in how good it worked. On the desktop only of course.

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 09:42

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by Trank

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The only GF2 and 4 PCI cards are the MX ones. And they arent good for high end gaming.

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-11-29, 04:51

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by Trank

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Geforce FX 5500

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Re: Zenith Z-320/SX Restore

Posted on 2016-11-28, 00:51

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by Trank

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Great cleaning on the case. Looks nice. You going to upgrade this system?

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Re: Quake I/II Glide vs OpenGL

Posted on 2016-11-23, 09:55

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by Trank

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Oh true, its actually just another version of opengl.

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Re: Quake I/II Glide vs OpenGL

Posted on 2016-11-23, 09:36

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by Trank

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For these two games i would say Glide is not only faster and has the same level of image quality. The only thing you lose is being in True 32bit mode.

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Re: building a network of old gaming pcs

Posted on 2016-11-22, 08:51

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by Trank

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My sound blaster live! works great in dark forces or even any DOS game for a matter of fact. They are incredibly cheap and easy to buy that is my go to sound card if you need some cheap and good for its price. But if you have an older Creative card that is PCI go for it. Just put them in and see …

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Re: Replace 8800GTS 512 with GTX 480?

Posted on 2016-11-21, 22:59

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by Trank

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Would be interesting to see how much of a performance gain it would be. Also how much GTX 480 would be bottlenecked.

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Re: Tomb Raider on a Voodoo2 hangs, but only in MSDOS6.22?

Posted on 2016-11-18, 17:01

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by Trank

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I would just honestly run in windows only then.

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Re: Windows Server 2008 on old PCs

Posted on 2016-11-11, 09:24

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by Trank

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Why do you need those backed up files on a Server 2008 PC? Cant you get those files on another Vista or newer PC? I would think if you really needed it you would rename such files even though its a pain. I know everyone is saying the same thing and all. But it would save you lots of pain in the …

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