Small dust collector or filter for cleaning old PCs?

Posted on 2017-11-02, 18:13

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by Ozzuneoj

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So, for as long as I've been messing with old computers I've had this dilemma... Currently my work space is in the 3rd floor of our home. My shop-vac is best kept in the garage unless needed for extended periods indoors. I live in a place that has very cold winters usually from November to April. So …

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Re: Putting a heat spreader on athlon xp

Posted on 2017-10-30, 16:54

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by Ozzuneoj

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If you have an old Socket A chip and K6-2 to experiment with, try taking the heat spreader off of the K6. It'll probably increase temps, but it'd be interesting to try. They look very similar without the IHS.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-30, 01:53

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by Ozzuneoj

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Wow... now that you mention it, one of the other systems is a custom "Micron Electronics" system running Win2K Pro with an Intel AN430TX ATX board and a Pentium 200MMX with all the cards removed (except the modem!). But it has Integrated ATI graphics and sound which is *OH HOLY CRAP*... I can't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-30, 01:29

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by Ozzuneoj

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... but this system has a Cyrix M2 266 ... ATX socket 7 systems and boards are getting increasingly rare, so I'd pick this up if you haven't already (and hopefully post internals photos later? :happy:). ATX and Cyrix, especially, seems like an unusual pairing. Even more unusual, it seems to be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-29, 20:58

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by Ozzuneoj

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I didn't technically buy this yet, but someone locally has some old computers they want to sell\get rid of. Most of what they had was pretty basic (a Pentium 133 system, a Pentium MMX 200, a Sempron) but this system has a Cyrix M2 266 and a sound card that I can't seem to identify from the very …

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Re: Asus rampage extreme 775 worth it?

Posted on 2017-10-28, 22:36

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by Ozzuneoj

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I'd recommend making a list of reasons for upgrading, to determine if its really worth it. Personally, I think $300 for a Socket 775 motherboard is crazy... but I'm poor. It's all relative... :) If having an absurdly expensive and powerful Socket 775 system is your thing and you have the money for …

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

Posted on 2017-10-28, 19:40

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by Ozzuneoj

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Today I made my DOS 7.10\98SE diagnostic setup just a little bit more awesome and it only took a couple minutes. I have a high speed 8GB CF card that I installed Windows 98SE on. Using some tips from the forums here, I changed a few things so that it boots directly to FAT32-compatible DOS 7.10 (but …

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Re: "Old" Capacitors

Posted on 2017-10-27, 03:53

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by Ozzuneoj

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If this forum supported polls I'd set up a poll to see how often people have instability problems with old parts in general, or how often parts with problems have been fixed by replacing otherwise decent looking capacitors. That's really my main reason for asking this question. I can't see why an …

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Re: "Old" Capacitors

Posted on 2017-10-26, 21:27

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by Ozzuneoj

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All I meant by "new old stock" is, not brand new from Mouser or Digi-Key. For example, a big bag of Sanyo WX capacitors 200 count for $20: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CAPACITOR-RARIAL-1500UF-6-3V-SANYO-6-3MV1500WX-10X20mm-LOT-OF-200-PCS/162717695765?hash=item25e2baff15:g:CvAAAOSwyP5Z57Xt New package, …

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Re: New SSD and HDD installed, now system reboots occasionally

Posted on 2017-10-26, 19:06

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by Ozzuneoj

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Check the motherboard and the PSU (be careful) for bad capacitors. 2008 was toward the end of the capacitor plague era, but I still see OEM boards (Socket 775 and AM2) from that time once in a while with swollen or leaky caps. I'd also test the power supply with a decent tester, even if it doesn't …

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"Old" Capacitors

Posted on 2017-10-26, 18:52

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by Ozzuneoj

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I have a question for everyone who tinkers with old hardware and on occasion has to replace capacitors. I am mainly talking about electrolytic caps. Its a basic question. If any of us can dig a 10-30 year old computer out of a scrap heap, power it on and NOT have capacitors explode or have the …

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Re: Aopen AX34-U mobo need help ident. capacitors

Posted on 2017-10-26, 18:07

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by Ozzuneoj

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Last year I got one of these boards, took a picture, removed all the bad caps and stored them in a baggy so I could replace them when I finally had time (and the caps). I actually FOUND the old caps today, and made up a basic schematic to show what went where. ax34u_badcaps2.jpg I would replace ALL …

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Re: hyper threading is only slower

Posted on 2017-10-26, 00:42

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by Ozzuneoj

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I used to swear by passmark but I have been seeing lots of situations lately where it is quite far off from real world performance. This is mostly with graphics cards, but CPUs can certainly be off as well. I'd recommend using something you see used on hardware review sites. Like Cinebench or …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2017-10-22, 04:55

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by Ozzuneoj

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Currently I use a Yamaha-ISA-Card (Audician32plus) for the old machines, that still have an ISA slot and did not knew that there also exist PCI-Cards with OPl3...that's really nice. I'll test one card in my P4-Mini-PC. I have the machine with D1321 board. Afaik it has no SB-Link . What Yamaha-PCI- …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2017-10-22, 04:15

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by Ozzuneoj

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You may need to try a different PCI slot. Do you have PnP OS enabled or disabled in BIOS? It really should work just fine without disabling anything on the board itself. I'll test on my Tyan S1854 and post back. It should behave very similarly to your board. Thanks for the input. I've tested all …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2017-10-22, 03:55

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by Ozzuneoj

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You may need to try a different PCI slot. Do you have PnP OS enabled or disabled in BIOS? It really should work just fine without disabling anything on the board itself. I'll test on my Tyan S1854 and post back. It should behave very similarly to your board. Thanks for the input. I've tested all …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2017-10-22, 02:33

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by Ozzuneoj

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Can you upload the patched version somewhere, I have been having a terrible time getting it to work for several weeks now? Here you go. Remember that it only makes any difference for systems using the VIA VT82C686A/B southbridge. I had to change the DMA mode to DDMA in the SETDUPDS utility and set …

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Re: Sending a Product Suggestion to Seasonic

Posted on 2017-10-21, 16:03

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by Ozzuneoj

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While a good name brand unit like a Seasonic would be infinitely better in the long run, I found a cheap ATX PSU that claims to have a 40A +5v rail. Someone put it in a horribly cobbled together computer which they SOLD to a friend of mine (X2 5000+ with no thermal paste, mismatched RAM, bad caps, …

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Re: 3x Athlon AM2 - IPC comparison

Posted on 2017-10-21, 15:49

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by Ozzuneoj

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Exactly the same platform, different CPU Cores - Windsor vs Kuma vs Regor @2600Mhz. Pretty interesting results (no, Athlon II isn't always the best, and Athlon X2 5200+ isn't always the worst ;) ) Athlon X2 5200+ vs Athlon 7750BE vs Athlon II Text still in polish (probably next article will be in …

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Re: old servers as gamming pc's

Posted on 2017-10-20, 22:39

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by Ozzuneoj

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I guess it depends how old you're talking. I used to use a Supermicro X7DCAL board with an Intel 5100 chipset and dual Core 2 based Harpertown processors and it worked fine for gaming and HTPC duties, but that was because it had one PCI-E 1.1 x16 slot. I had an older Gateway server years ago that …

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