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

Posted on 2018-06-18, 22:56

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Finally traced down the ultimate ISA video card: m64.jpg Now that I have it I am thinking about where to use it. Probably an overkill for a 386 system. For 486/Pentium systems VLB/PCI cards are suited better... This is a misfit. :confused: There are 486 boards with no VLB or PCI slots. I would …

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Re: 486 Cooling

Posted on 2018-06-18, 13:56

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If you have access to a 3d printer this could be interesting: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2459258 I use them myself and finding passive coolers that fit is quite easy. That's actually not a bad idea, but I don't have any 486 coolers compatible with this. I think I will just use chipset …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-18, 12:39

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[edit] Just looked closer at your pic of the back... definitely newer than the ones I had... maybe yours is as new as a PIII... looks like onboard video (Intel 740?) and only (3com?) network card add in. Yeah, looks like one of the PIII revisions.. I'm thinking it's probably an i810 with ISA slots, …

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Re: 486 Cooling

Posted on 2018-06-18, 10:58

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12 bucks for shipping one cooler is outrageous, and amazon doesn't ship here either. Sad face.. I will probably just use the Overdrive CPUs I have instead - would have liked to use the 3V chips though..

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-18, 09:37

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This Compaq Deskpro was for sale at a walking distance from where I live, it set me back only $10 so I grabbed it. Filename Compaq Deskpro.jpg File size 66.47 KiB Views 1723 views Filename Compaq Deskpro Back.jpg File size 84.28 KiB Views 1715 views No idea what to expect in it, or what the exact …

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486 Cooling

Posted on 2018-06-18, 09:12

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Other than getting a suitably sized chipset cooling and sticking it onto the CPU ceramic with thermal adhesive tape, what are my contemporary options for cooling 486 processors, DX2 onwards? I can' t seem to source any coolers, although new Socket 7 coolers are not that hard to come by.

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Re: PC cases by year

Posted on 2018-06-18, 09:04

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I'd say that black case might be a P4 era, early 2000s, made by K-Mouse/KMEX I was planning on using that for transferring my K6 build to a more era-correct looking, rounded, front door style case, but the peg for the floppy drive seems to have gone missing, which is a real shame.. It was a very …

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Re: PC cases by year

Posted on 2018-06-17, 11:14

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Anyone know or have a good guess as to what year these two cases are from?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-13, 21:25

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All these 486 boards remind me that I got this in the mail earlier in the month and forgot to post it: https://s5.postimg.cc/ymdepz4tf/PC_Partner_486_CV.jpg Apparently PCPartner 486CV, no idea if it's a good board or not, but I guess it will enable me to build a decent high end 486 if the VLB card I …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2018-06-13, 11:27

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This is why you should support GOG.

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Re: Which Audigy for EAX?

Posted on 2018-06-13, 11:26

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Doesn X-Fi have even better EAX support than Audigy 2 ZS? It should also have WinXp drivers.

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Re: 486 & P4, Monkey Island and Duke 3D

Posted on 2018-06-13, 11:24

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486 and Quake go together like water and oil.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-13, 09:27

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Related question, All these Presarios and Aptivas with K6-2's at the time seem to have been housed in small tower cases with curved outlines, front doors of some kind, which is really interesting.. They seem to have a lot of distinct character to them, probably something shared generally by cases …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-13, 05:53

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^I had a similar Presario a while back with a K6-2 @ 450MHz; it had a Gigabyte OEM mATX board with SiS 530 chipset (100MHz bus support), and PCI and ISA slots but no AGP slot. Nice to know, I was always curious whether my Socket 7 K6-2/400 build with no AGP slots was actually representative of a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-12, 21:24

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I need another PC like I need a hole in my head, but whatever, it was ten bucks. I like the design of these "bulged cap" systems anyway. Compaq Presario 5204, K6-2 350, unknown RAM as of now, 2 hard drives: WD Caviar 1.6gb and Seagate Medalist 6.5gb. Haven't gotten around to testing it yet. I've …

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Re: Pentium 3 restoration.

Posted on 2018-06-12, 11:09

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GeForce 2 GTS/Pro/Ti/Ultra is the obvious choice here.

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Re: Trash to Treasure side project: Voodoo 3 3000 Restoration

Posted on 2018-06-11, 23:37

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Right.. so.. All the components arrived in the mail last week, so the first order of business was to get the crystal oscillater soldered onto the PCB (please let me know whether my assumption that this has no polarity is true or not..) https://s5.postimg.cc/ccdmhem0j/3dfx_Voodoo_3_3000_TV-_Out_AGP …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-11, 13:52

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ES1868F is a very (SB Pro) compatible PnP ISA sound card with a great sounding FM Synth, one of my favorite cards for early ISA systems. Es1938 is a very (SB Pro) compatible PCI sound card with the same FM Synth. Food FM Synths and compatibility are rare in PCI sound cards so it's a nice card to …

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Re: S3 Savage Pro+ 32MB PCI

Posted on 2018-06-11, 09:12

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In other news, I am very much on the lookout for this exact card for my Socket 7 K6-2 build (because I have given up on finding a Banshee PCI) that is currently Running a Mystique 220 + Voodoo 2 SLI. I am hoping to move the Voodoo 2 SLI to my Dimension XPS D333 tha way. I do have a TNT2 M64 PCI I …

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Re: Was it common to use a hintbook in 90s?

Posted on 2018-06-11, 07:41

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Hint books were never common where I lived, however 'game reviews' in local magazines for things like Adventure games basically comprised of walkthroughs anyway. As these magazines were mostly aimed mostly at pirate copy users the reviews pretty much summarized the manual, key bindings and gameplay …

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