Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-26, 05:34

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

not today but some months ago will keep this till i die, when heavy gaming started for me with athlon xp. I can´t understand why some people say it is ugly thermaltake Xaser III ...pure aluminum http://i64.tinypic.com/11h5rn8.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/2v0fh3k.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/15ocpkg.jpg …

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

Posted on 2017-08-26, 01:24

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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This week I have bought and received two Radeon 9800 cards. . . and both had horrible artifacts and had to be returned. As I recall the same thing happened to the 9700 Pro I had over a decade ago. Is it just me or are they really bad for reliability? I've had a few 9800s, a couple were flakey, but …

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-08-25, 23:53

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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in Marvin \ Video

Am I the only one here with an ELSA Erazor X SDR?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-25, 22:48

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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A system with 2 6990s and a qx9650 with tons of overclocking. 8 10k rpm hdds daul d5 pumps and so on. You could probably get by with 1.2kv but on a system like that the overhead might be nice. Now dual 5990s would be another story.... With overclocking thats about 800-900w from the 6990s alone. The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-25, 21:12

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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A system with 2 6990s and a qx9650 with tons of overclocking. 8 10k rpm hdds daul d5 pumps and so on. You could probably get by with 1.2kv but on a system like that the overhead might be nice. Now dual 5990s would be another story.... Edit: NVM, I thought I read somewhere the 6xxx generation had no …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-25, 20:39

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Dohh I forgot about that, Wasn't there a bios mod for the evga board? I do know most 680i and 650i boards need a volt mod to get 45mn quads stable. Also got a NOS Asus silver DVD drive and a NOS Crucial ram cooler fan thingy. Ram fan I think they called them. I'll have to paint it silver as its …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-25, 13:39

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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680i only supports 65NM quads. I use the machine for light gaming (newish titles at Medium High or so) and for that even a low end quad is enough since modern games are heavily GPU bound. I need to install the chipset fan of my other (dead) 680i onto this one and swap in that ridiculous Zalmann …

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

Posted on 2017-08-25, 10:01

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yesterday, I tried sorting out my Power Mac 6500 floppy drive woes. It didn't go over well, but I learned some things. -Some of these floppies were bad, like "circular scratch marks from a head crash" bad, and then I noticed that they left some black stuff on the heads themselves that rendered them …

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

Posted on 2017-08-25, 06:19

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Modded my original Xbox with the UnleashX dashboard and upgraded the HDD to a 60GB Maxtor (the largest I had which supports the security features required by Xbox). So far all I've done is play Quake and it was quite glorious on my 27" RCA TruFlat. I really do need to figure out how to get into the …

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

Posted on 2017-08-25, 04:51

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Modded my original Xbox with the UnleashX dashboard and upgraded the HDD to a 60GB Maxtor (the largest I had which supports the security features required by Xbox). So far all I've done is play Quake and it was quite glorious on my 27" RCA TruFlat. I really do need to figure out how to get into the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-25, 04:21

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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wow! Anyway I recently got (not quite retro yet) a C0 (meh) QX9650 and a 8gb kit of ocz platinum ddr21066mhz 5-5-5-12 ram. I do also have a 2gb kit of OCZ 1200mhz 5-5-5-15 ddr2. That OCZ is absolute garbage on all but the latest LGA775 chipsets. For whatever reason my EVGA 680I SLI detects my kit …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-24, 21:01

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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wow! Anyway I recently got (not quite retro yet) a C0 (meh) QX9650 and a 8gb kit of ocz platinum ddr21066mhz 5-5-5-12 ram. I do also have a 2gb kit of OCZ 1200mhz 5-5-5-15 ddr2. That OCZ is absolute garbage on all but the latest LGA775 chipsets. For whatever reason my EVGA 680I SLI detects my kit …

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

Posted on 2017-08-24, 07:53

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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So, I found out the Amptron PM-8800A motherboard's BIOS version in one of the towers I have today has a bug where it refuses to detect any CD-ROM drive. I spent an hour or so googling and found a BIOS update, and lo and behold, it actually worked. The CD drive is detected now. Yay. :D Interestingly …

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

Posted on 2017-08-24, 00:16

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Heroes of Might and Magic I - III. RollerCoaster Tycoon.

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

Posted on 2017-08-23, 08:28

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Talked my 2002 Sony Vaio WinME laptop into playing DVDs. I had to hunt down CyberLink PowerDVD 3.0 in order to get a software decoder for InterActual 2.0 to use. Worked fine. Didn't look that bad either when watching a 4:3 movie on a 4:3 display. I actually got DVDs to play on my Celeron-433 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-23, 03:57

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Picked up a Tandy 1000SL for $20. need to clean it up before i try booting it. A bit dirty and missing a rubber foot (anyone know a good source for these?) but otherwise ok. Has another interesting hard card design inside. it's an 8086, so i wonder if the drive is ATA or XTA? hmmm IMG_20170811_ …

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

Posted on 2017-08-23, 02:56

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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cj_reha wrote: Doing an inventory of my parts and boxing em up. Nice collection. I need to go through mine and re-inventory to reflect recent changes. I have 50 some odd GPUs alone.

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

Posted on 2017-08-23, 01:18

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Where in NY are you? I got an NEC Multisync XP17 with BNC ports last year for free off Long Island craigslist. I'm on Long Island. Don't limit yourselves to craiglist though. There are other apps/services for local selling and I've had better luck with them, actually. 22" dang that's big, my 19" …

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

Posted on 2017-08-22, 19:51

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Talked my 2002 Sony Vaio WinME laptop into playing DVDs. I had to hunt down CyberLink PowerDVD 3.0 in order to get a software decoder for InterActual 2.0 to use. Worked fine. Didn't look that bad either when watching a 4:3 movie on a 4:3 display.

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

Posted on 2017-08-22, 19:18

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Nice CRT! 22" is huge! I had a 17" Gateway monitor, but it was getting pretty blurry and it was a PITA to switch around systems on. I don't have a lot of extra space either. Even though it's not "authentic" I'm preferring my $15 LCD these days, as it's so much easier to maneuver. Has built in …

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