Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:48

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Hello, do you know this exact model of PSU? It's a 'decent' one? I've found it in the PC rescued today from the street: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=43144&p=488207#p488207 Many people don't like Chieftec PSUs from ~2002 or so, I do. In my experience they are bullet proof! It's always …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:47

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shiva2004 wrote: Wow, a Pentium D @ 4.8Ghz. I bet you can boil water with it 🤣 I'm betting you can melt sodium with it... almost.

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Re: VLB Mobo Went Bang - Salvageable?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:42

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Just remove the remains, the board will work without this cap. In case your soul can't rest without place a 10µF/25V tantalum cap. As long as it was old cap death and not reverse biased fun cap death (which appears to be the case here). I'll just reiterate here as elsewhere, I don't recommend …

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

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:41

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MMaximus wrote: I just noticed you removed the pic... but it still appears in gdjacobs post as he quoted your whole post, so you might want to delete the pic on postimg to make sure... 😉 Fixed on my end 😀

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Re: Ensoniq Audio PCI with a heatsink?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:34

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Interesting. Your card has a strong (for a sound card) power amp on board. 15 to 20 WPC. http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm1876.pdf This card has been encountered here before: Ensoniq Audio PCI 5100

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Re: How do you Rate Ebay Sellers when...

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:18

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Simple formula. Bad service, bad feedback.

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:16

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Hello, do you know this exact model of PSU? It's a 'decent' one? I've found it in the PC rescued today from the street: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=43144&p=488207#p488207 https://s5.postimg.org/8grxg7l8z/20160401_170258.jpg Model number looks like it's hidden under the side of the …

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Re: MechWarrior 2 "freezing" when mouse is moved

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:11

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Mech 2 was one of the earliest W95 games, so they could be doing things in ways that are less than standard and less than state of the art. Anyway, good luck fixing this. If someone else could help me, it would be great. Heh :D Don't forget to include stuff like your motherboard and DirectX version …

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Re: VLB Mobo Went Bang - Salvageable?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 21:59

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Thanks guys. When you say having a current limit, gdjacobs, how would that work specifically? I found this site , which suggests I'll get away with substituting the old 25v caps with newer 50v caps. I know anything but a direct replacement is a risk given it doesn't match the original spec of the …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 21:46

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Something like this. The red values are median results taken from Phil's chart. test.jpg Yeah, that should work nicely. As it's data for a real machine and not a composite mean value, you can also include specifics in a footnote. That way people can refer back to the appropriate entry on Phil's …

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Re: Which CPU: DOS vs. Windows 98 machine?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 21:35

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clueless1 wrote: Yeah, you beat my edit in the previous post. Sorry about that. No problem. I've been robo posting or else I would have moved the topic to your other thread. I'll pick it up there.

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

Posted on 2016-04-01, 21:32

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This morning, while I was cycling to work, I found in front of a house an entire PC, along with two CRT 15" monitors, all in good condition, after all. Once brought everything home with my car, in the afternoon, I could have a closer look at the 'loot': opened up the case, apparently in good …

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Re: Which CPU: DOS vs. Windows 98 machine?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 21:30

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Something like this. The red values are median results taken from Phil's chart. test.jpg Yeah, that should work nicely. As it's data for a real machine and not a composite mean value, you can also include specifics in a footnote. That way people can refer back to the appropriate entry on Phil's …

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Re: MechWarrior 2 "freezing" when mouse is moved

Posted on 2016-04-01, 21:21

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Mech 2 was one of the earliest W95 games, so they could be doing things in ways that are less than standard and less than state of the art. Anyway, good luck fixing this.

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Re: Multi-homing with more than one server?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 21:18

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I hear ya. That's why I use preexisting templates or copy and paste. As for NGINX, it's supposed to be leaner and meaner than Apache httpd with commensurate performance benefits. If you're using IIS 7, it seems it can do virtual hosting. If you know how to use it for transparent proxying, then I …

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Re: VLB Mobo Went Bang - Salvageable?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 20:52

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This is where having a current limit is useful, either using a light bulb or something more exotic.

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Re: Which CPU: DOS vs. Windows 98 machine?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 20:49

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Something like this. The red values are median results taken from Phil's chart. test.jpg Yeah, that should work nicely. As it's data for a real machine and not a composite mean value, you can also include specifics in a footnote. That way people can refer back to the appropriate entry on Phil's …

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Re: Multi-homing with more than one server?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 20:42

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I was just joking around, I know you weren't telling me what to run. The advice was valid anyway. I may have enough power to move to a later version of IIS, I will have to check the system requirements. Problem being I hate the interface in Windows Noob Server 2008 and despise the singular, static, …

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Re: Multi-homing with more than one server?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 20:33

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Hey, I'm not telling you to do anything. You can keep your syntactic sugar and clicky configuration wizards. I'm just suggesting you might have to configure proxying and confirming what I know works for DNS based multi homing. I know Apache can do this (in concert with IIS). I'm pretty sure NGINX …

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Re: Which CPU: DOS vs. Windows 98 machine?

Posted on 2016-04-01, 19:40

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Maybe you can fold your data and Phil's together. Cache tweaking seems like a logical extension, and this will keep those results in perspective.

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