Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2017-12-25, 12:50

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What?? Boxed Voodoo5 5500 AGP sold for 481€ in an auction: https://www.ebay.de/itm/3dfx-Voodoo-5-5500-AGP-Grafikkarte-mit-Original-Karton/292372978350 Still better then Voodoo3 3000 PCI for 420€... https://www.ebay.com/itm/3DFX-Voodoo-3-3000-16MB-PCI-incl-original-box-and-manuals-Top-condition/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-21, 18:46

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Yeah, that's bad. All of my recent retro staff was well packed, but GPU in kitchen towel beats everything 🤣

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-21, 10:59

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agent_x007 wrote: ...and no DDR4 needed. Yeah, this was the reason, why I went for Skylake (and keep old DDR3L RAM modules) in my current main PC, when I was upgrading early this year. I do plan to go to Ryzen in the future, but not before RAM prices will drop at least a little bit.

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Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2017-12-19, 20:04

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Non-standard positioning of connectors on motherboards, and therefore often horrible experience of doing cable management (or even just trying to reach certain devices).

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Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win98/XP build

Posted on 2017-12-19, 15:40

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Cant believe you missed out on AGP though! although, I only moved up to PCI express 2 years ago. Yeah, what can I say? I vent from Voodoo 3 PCI (and I have that card some time after the launch, when AGP was already well established) to notebook, since I was traveling a lot for my girlfriend into …

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Re: Any Socket A mobos that have a PCI-E graphics slot?

Posted on 2017-12-18, 06:40

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There are a few late Socket 478 with PCIe support. Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots

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Re: Hunting for a 775 motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-13, 18:31

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Hi MII-333. I bought ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 for my "retro" overkill PC for 25$ include shipping. VIA chipset probably isn't best, but it completely supports Windows 98 (Windows XP obviously too), and it supports probably every LGA 775 CPU with FSB up to 1066MT/s (so even Core2Quad Q6x00, Wolfdale …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-10, 15:07

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martin939 wrote: ASUS M3A32-MVP-Deluxe-Wifi/AP. Second one is not so retro but couldn't resist it. It has those fancy RAM heatsinks, the fastest AM2 CPU (x2 6400BE) and the WiFi antenna on it. This is, what I called proper heat sinks, not that X299 "RGB-lid-block-of-aluminium" joke...

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Re: Program detect it's running inside DOSBox?

Posted on 2017-12-09, 20:25

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Could you please re-upload it, if you have it (the original upload is down)?

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2017-12-09, 18:22

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This was just test runs, will do complete runs, once I finish installation and configuration of whole build. Intel Q6600, 2GB RAM, ATi Radeon 9500 (stock, Catalyst 7.11) https://srandista.kirril.com/PC/4pipelines.png ...and same build, just with softmodded 9500@9700 https://srandista.kirril.com/PC/ …

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Re: 2004 build

Posted on 2017-12-07, 18:46

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PcBytes wrote: Took a photo of the build. Will do for now, more may come after the 17th, as I have another surprise. When I see this, I'm quite happy, how we can today cable manage our builds. And also quite surprised, that no one thought about that earlier.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-04, 06:00

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Pabloz i like the board because it supports 1.5gb of ram. the only sad thing is that its agp 2x and not 4x Looks nice, but floppy placement is horrible. Yeah, but on these old motherboards, it seems to be rather norm then exception. On my board, I have 20 pin for ATX power supply on similar place. …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2017-12-03, 17:44

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Nice LGA775 system! I did something similar lately, LGA775+AGP, but went all-out, total overkill regarding HW, and put it inside modern case :D I will be changing CPU tho, Pentium E6500K will be much more suited CPU for that kind of system, and it will be much more cooler. And incidentally, I also …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-29, 22:28

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Old raptors are really only useful if you pair a bunch together, single-drive they're kinda "Meh" vs modern drives today. I picked up a bunch recently but running 8 of em in raid-5 in my x99 gaming machine. They're great drives, with enough of em paired together to be useful. ^_^ Well, this is …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-29, 18:04

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Because this is much better suited topic, then retro one for parts like this, I will re-post it here. My first (Veloci)Raptor! It will end up in my "retro" PC, with Windows XP on it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-29, 18:02

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Hmm, I discover, that this topic is much better suited for hardware like I just bought. I will remember that, and try to post in more suited topic than this (if i don't forget :). It's just, that its not on front page as this one, so I missed it somehow.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-29, 15:11

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FesterBlatz: Well, that's the reason, why I use "retro" PC in quotes. I know, that my system has many so called modern parts, but its still running enough retro OS (Win98). And I suppose, that not many people are liking that build, since it's not period correct, But for me, it can get the job done, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-29, 12:11

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My first ever Raptor! Can't wait to put it in my "retro" PC and hear sound of drive spinning at 10000rpm 😈

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2017-11-25, 18:02

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You might want to seriously consider propping up the end of that gpu with something.. anything.. that already has terrible GPU sag, almost the whole PCB on the video card looks warped already. Yeah, its like this from day one. I do have a wooden skewer as a support :D I just didn't include it in …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2017-11-23, 14:35

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agent_x007: does the RAID 6.10 driver works on SATA2 model as well? I'm asking, because vetz in 1st post said, that SATA2 don't have Win98 drivers for its 3Gb/s controller.

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