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

Posted on 2022-01-25, 21:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

More progress on the NetVista Socket AM2+ build. The ECS A780VM-M2 motherboard I bought, advertised as being in working complete condition had: - A dent on one edge that completely severed one lane - Swollen Teapo caps - One SATA port that was ripped off, revealing only pins - A CR2032 holder with a …

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

Posted on 2022-01-25, 10:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Steam no longer supports Vista though, right?

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

Posted on 2022-01-25, 07:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found a nonworking beige IBM Netvista Pentium 4 in my collection I completely forgot about. Considering removing the insides and using the case for some sort of generic matx build. Not sure what to build though.. Options: -MVP4 Socket7 + Banshee -PLE133T Socket370 + Banshee -KM266 Socket A + …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-23, 18:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

blurks wrote on 2022-01-23, 11:15: Is Artex still around? I sold him some stuff a while back and was expecting to see pictures... Hope not. When Artex posts I want to punch my screen and smash my keyboards to bits. The envy is too much to handle.

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-23, 08:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

Remember when 570s flooded the market during the prior crypto crash? Would be hillarious if 5000 series card had a huge dump on 2nd hand and 6500xt sold like shit 🤣

Re: PCB destroying adhesive found in my Roland Sound Canvas SC-55mkII (inspect your synthesizer!)

Posted on 2022-01-21, 09:34

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

That all sounds like such terrible design..

Re: My 'new' retro 3dfx msdos win98 pc.

Posted on 2022-01-21, 09:33

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Aebtdom wrote on 2022-01-20, 22:48: Another question I have though is: since this cpu has a 24W ish max power draw, would a larger socket 370 or 462 heatsink fit and be sufficient a cooling if I remove te fan? It would make the pc so much more quiet. You won't get away without a fan with anything …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-21, 09:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just bought an HD5750 for my Athlon II X4 640 second PC I use to play mostly XBOX 360 era games on. My HD6850 died and I looked online for a replacement, something like an HD5850/6850/7770 and fuck me, the prices.. You mean that box of 5850s I collected is worth something? 😆 Oh hell yeah..

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-21, 07:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just bought an HD5750 for my Athlon II X4 640 second PC I use to play mostly XBOX 360 era games on. My HD6850 died and I looked online for a replacement, something like an HD5850/6850/7770 and fuck me, the prices..

Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2022-01-20, 16:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

dreamblaster wrote on 2022-01-20, 16:18: New color scheme : beige/silver does it make sense? Best so far IMO

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-20, 11:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

You are grasping at straws, not only is 1400 AUD not even remotely close to 1,500 USD, but 1080ti MSRP was actually 700 USD. The fact is, RTX 3090 MSRP is 1,500 USD. This, 3 years ago, was a price point that did not exist. And before you bring in retail prices to the comparison, the 3090 actually …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-20, 10:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-01-20, 10:05: Yes a certain segment, in this case two Low Tier and Mid Tier which is what I said in my post, GPUs at the top end are selling for prices very similar to what they did 3 years ago. Excuse me, was there a $1,500 card in the market 3 years ago? Thought not.

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-01-20, 08:18

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Paadam wrote on 2022-01-20, 07:57: I used regular angle grinder with steel cutting disc (drilled holes in the corners beforehand to have nice rounded corners). Why tapping the holes? PSU has tapped screw holes already. Case is steel. Still hoping for photos 😀

Re: PCB destroying adhesive found in my Roland Sound Canvas SC-55mkII (inspect your synthesizer!)

Posted on 2022-01-20, 07:33

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Oh wow Roland.. *faceplam*

Re: My 'new' retro 3dfx msdos win98 pc.

Posted on 2022-01-20, 07:33

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

What is the motherboard here? Can it actually cache 128MB of RAM?

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-20, 06:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

Funnily its only a certain segment of the GPU market that has seen stupid price hikes .. No. A Radeon RX6500XT retails for 270-300 USD today. This is a card that is roughly on par with an RZ480 4GB released in 2016 for 200 USD. 6 years old, same performance, almost 50% markup. The ENTIRE product …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-19, 13:18

in Milliways

in Milliways

The Sub-300 USD GPU market is dead. The only thing you get in the 300-400 USD bracket these days is shit like RX6500XT that performs roughly on par with Polaris cards from 5 years ago. These "mainstream" cards will never again become available if nVidia and AMD have their way. The market has moved …

Re: Did I get ripped off? (Voodoo2 Diamond)

Posted on 2022-01-19, 07:39

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Windows 98 detected the card as before... what do you suggest with this line? Did windows ask for driver installation and you installed it? Else you could try removing the driver in safe mode and install it again by yourself manually. Well the old and new cards are functionally identical so I …

Re: USB Support in Windows 95?

Posted on 2022-01-19, 07:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wait, what? Shit, I'm an idiot.

Re: USB Support in Windows 95?

Posted on 2022-01-19, 07:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do a search on the forum and you'll find this: Windows 95 and USB flash drives But as Deksor pointed above this works flawlessly in my Win95 systems: http://lonecrusader.x10host.com/xusbsupp.html

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