Re: What's in the box? Has 3 manufacturers on it.

Posted on 2017-02-27, 16:38

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by rein_ein

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Ok here's da party pooper and his unwanted pics. Box itself pretty thin and small(so no v5k or gf6800u inside),have same print on both sides and no particular info,anyway inside mine was this,so i bet u purchased same:

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Re: What's in the box? Has 3 manufacturers on it.

Posted on 2017-02-27, 09:02

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by rein_ein

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I have this "boxed" card in my storage and all i can say - box is universal for low-end cards,made by chinese,i have pci ati rage xl inside and drivers disk,can take picture later.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-02-25, 14:10

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by rein_ein

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My newish build,doubling from "activity today": http://i.imgur.com/PanwBI2l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iHN6bkul.png Tualeron 1400 256mb sdram Asus TUSC 80gb seagate hdd Audigy with front panel Case and such seems from reference "ASUS Terminator Tualatin" Temporary untill i decide installed win xp sp3 …

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

Posted on 2017-02-25, 14:02

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by rein_ein

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Today i came across some neat little system at local electronic scrap yard,hard bargain with the seller and got it for 7.5$. I found it interesting formfactor after i saw whats inside. So for the start it was dirty as ass,had no ram no hdd and dead cmos battery ofc,seller said it has dead psu. On …

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

Posted on 2017-02-16, 19:53

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by rein_ein

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Found this crapware yesterday,an Asus P5S800-VM and Gainward 6600GT. Mobo visible have some bulged caps,non tested yet,video card have noisy fan but works.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-12, 18:32

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by rein_ein

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Time to get a VGA adapter so you can use it on the same monitor as your retro computers. :happy: Ye,i thought so before as it save me pretty damn space nearby but still not decided yet which better should i get one for vga or one for hdmi. never ending story ... new schrott knocking at my door * …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-12, 16:32

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by rein_ein

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Well not bought but traded my Panasonic CD drive which was pcmcia to scsi for Dreamcast with controller. Kinda hardware,my consoles collection keeps growing. Pic taken after i washed it,it was from smokers house.

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Re: Need help identifying an old ISA sound card.

Posted on 2017-02-11, 15:45

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by rein_ein

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Hello,this card looks familiar with card in this thread probably other revision or such,check out Help needed: identify an ISA sound card

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-11, 14:41

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by rein_ein

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Is this retro enough for this thread? Anyway i bought Nintendo DS Lite for 25$ together with 6 games and charger.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-04, 16:03

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I came across 50$ Xeon E3-1220 and bought it as upgrade for my cube server,beside this my precious controller finally arrived:

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-15, 06:27

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by rein_ein

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Picked and Audigy from goldscraper but something wrong here: http://i.imgur.com/dMqHGIrl.jpg Ah i see,its shorter,have no firewire and do have midi output.Here's size comparison with usual Audigy. Model number SB0160 http://i.imgur.com/ftWPxecl.jpg Working,sounds more or less fine,test system …

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Re: Bought these (server and networking) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-08, 09:35

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by rein_ein

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gdjacobs wrote: What type of PSU? Something nice like a Zippy or Delta? Yup,dead one is Zippy.Gonna open it later to see what actually broken.

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Re: Bought these (server and networking) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-07, 11:22

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by rein_ein

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Ok,lil update,the mobo is Tyan Thunder K8S and it works,even better that it works with pair Opteron 275 obtained earlier. Psu dead,hdds not tested yet.

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Re: Bought these (server and networking) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-07, 10:01

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by rein_ein

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This year finds started by dual opteron server,inside i found: 2x opteron 240 skt940 1x thermaltake hsf temporary undefined dual skt940 board pci-x scsi controller no ram hdds: 2x36gb scsi 2x72gb scsi 1x80gb ide 1x80gb sata some "emacs" branded 460w psu dyed white 4u case dvd-rom and streamer for 8$ …

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Re: Show off your tiny PCs

Posted on 2016-12-24, 21:03

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by rein_ein

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Some nice tiny systems you have here. Here's my "band": Compact cube file server,Via based thin client,Lenovo Thinkpad X200 and most cool toy - Asus R2H. http://i.imgur.com/ls9Bdhvl.jpg Most strange thing here is R2H - its Celeron M based UMPC. Cpu is 900mhz M353 but it has no l2 cache. Base ram …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-17, 19:41

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by rein_ein

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Probably my most expensive purchase in this year An ultrawide LG 29UM68-P Ips,29" and have freesync as soon as i got DP cable gonna test how's it works,so far everything is pretty exciting,and better than pair of tn+film monitors 😊

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-17, 19:32

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by rein_ein

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Picked this week: GF2 Mx400 pci 32mb Some ES1688F based sound card And an Audigy SE

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-12, 17:58

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by rein_ein

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On topic: scored P4 651 today for free,so far it's my highest clocked pentium except D945

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-12, 17:54

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by rein_ein

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Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook for my thinkpad x200 *snap* Lemme guess; PCMCIA? Looks like Expresscard to me the successor to PCMCIA. Yup,correct,expresscard 54 goodness,i had pcmcia audigy 2 zs before,but it passed out together with samsung notebook. http://i.imgur.com/kSFe0m5l.jpg im using …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-11, 13:53

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by rein_ein

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Gotek floppy emulator finally arrived! Also last week i got: dirtyass Ps 1 Fat Manli GTX 285 Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook for my thinkpad x200

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