Re: The Terrible Teenager Vista Build

Posted on 2020-03-04, 01:28

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by pentiumspeed

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Smart move on car first. Computers for youngins was like status, unless you seriously need one for school which teachers didn't have in mind so they didn't require them to have one, due to most students back then would not afford one unless someone was crazy enough to save up hot and fast, and some …

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Re: Tyan S1562 Dual Pentium MMX succes

Posted on 2020-03-04, 01:18

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by pentiumspeed

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Tyan brings bad memory back in the day, I helped guy purchase his nice setup using dual pentium tyan board, 420MB WD and installed win98se, new memory. Corrupts the win98 and crash. When we returned, seller is gone. :( I was not sure how good Tyan is ever since and I had not seen any Tyan boards …

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Re: ATI X1400 vs NVIDIA 6600

Posted on 2020-03-04, 00:51

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by pentiumspeed

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R60 boards is different than T60 series. And heatsinks is specific to R60, since I had R60 but it took too much restoration so I recycled R60 and kept T60. Mine is 4:3 T60, T7200 cpu, x1400 as well. Fastest CPU is T7600, 2.33GHz. Cheers,

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Re: Zenith 80286 IBF-2527-ET Z-200 / Z-248

Posted on 2020-03-02, 23:57

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by pentiumspeed

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Yes, XT. Be careful with these junky IC sockets. I once had this XT say parity error at random. Wrote all the error addresses on the paper and made a chart that would cluster around one address line and looked for it using a schematic and found 2 causes, One TTL IC had bent under pin just touching …

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Re: ATI X1400 vs NVIDIA 6600

Posted on 2020-03-02, 23:51

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by pentiumspeed

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How is the FPS? Really looks nice. I have T60 with x1400. Cheers,

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Re: Latest IDE CDROM Drive that supports CD-Rs

Posted on 2020-03-02, 23:42

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by pentiumspeed

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IDE optical drives I like the most is LG, I'm on lookout for them and buy them. Laser in these lives longest than anything I had. Cheers,

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Re: How to Turn my Pentium III Classic Gaming PC Into a *Quiet* Classic Gaming PC?

Posted on 2020-03-02, 23:34

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by pentiumspeed

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Buy brand names like Sanyo, San Ace, NMB, Delta etc and make PWM controller for PWM fans or make a voltage regulator card to slow them down. Finding speed adapters are hard to find these days. Back in the day, during Athlon XP days, had to resort to design and make adjustable voltage regulator …

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

Posted on 2020-03-02, 23:28

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by pentiumspeed

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I modified two hinged cases of this size back in the day, by drilling new mounting hole layout for standard large AT boards form factor and modified the L shaped PSUs by cutting away then rebend the metal sheet to clear the board's edge and extend out the AC socket input with pair of wide spacers …

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Re: ATI X1400 vs NVIDIA 6600

Posted on 2020-03-01, 19:54

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by pentiumspeed

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I have exact configuration T60 and it is nice for window XP, 2000 using 1TB or 2TB hard drive but x1400 is not that muscular for these games. Should had been x1700 but this far more harder to find in any notebooks. Cheers,

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Re: Pre-VESA Proprietary 32-bit Local Buses?

Posted on 2020-02-28, 23:41

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by pentiumspeed

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What about the 386SX boards ISA performs better since the address and data path is same as 286? (16bit datapath, 24bit address space). Cheers,

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-28, 23:36

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by pentiumspeed

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There are many kinds of GPU props out there that sits on bottom panel with a hook to hold one end of GPU up. Cheers,

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Re: What is your oldest working Brand name computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-02-28, 02:04

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by pentiumspeed

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Oh man, I forgot that I happen to have a PS/2 model 70 386DX, with memory card to get 16MB, motherboard (small type) modded from 16MHz to 20MHz, mostly restored (looks complete from outside currently), what leaves finding SCSI card and SCSI hard drive and modify the power to hook up the standard …

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64K x 8 SRAM aync cache chips 32 pin part numbers?

Posted on 2020-02-28, 01:50

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by pentiumspeed

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Other than the UMC commonly found on ebay? I have a Asus P/I-P55SP4 motherboard based on 3 piece SiS chipset with 256K configured, I would like to upgrade to 512K. Winbond SGS etc...? Cheers,

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Re: Zenith 80286 IBF-2527-ET Z-200 / Z-248

Posted on 2020-02-27, 01:26

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by pentiumspeed

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Talking about military zenith PC, wanted to add: I worked on one of zenith boxen that is based on passive slot board with voltage LED status and 8088 specific cards along with regular cards. It was encased in TEMPEST spec box in a box with power filters box with toroidal wound inductors for each …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-02-27, 01:16

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by pentiumspeed

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Big board is Compuadd, you need the rear panel for i/o which is missing with this board. I had compuadd 386 with cache motherboard and it was decent. Cheers,

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Re: Where can I find cap checked PSUs?

Posted on 2020-02-26, 01:33

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by pentiumspeed

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Secondly, PIII does not need 5V heavy at all, In early days was common to see 200 to 300W loosely based on baby AT PSU design adapted for ATX standard. Really, you don't need to worry much, get a new gold or bronze 80 Seasonic 550W with PFC PSU and it does have 20 pin plug which I use to test any …

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Re: Where can I find cap checked PSUs?

Posted on 2020-02-26, 01:31

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by pentiumspeed

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Get these rebuilt with good quality capacitors suggested by others and source them yourself and then if you have a local electronic repair shop, do it. That's the suggestion. These days no choice there really. Cheers,

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Re: Converting ATX Power Supply to DELL w/ Adapter (Safety Check!)

Posted on 2020-02-23, 21:46

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by pentiumspeed

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Use this tab as hinge-hook into slot then swing upright into, then plug in. Cheers,

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Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-02-23, 21:10

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by pentiumspeed

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Your blasterboard vs SB 2.0 what you learned about preventing noise that SB 2.0 had? I'm curious. Cheers,

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Re: What is your oldest working Brand name computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-02-23, 03:04

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by pentiumspeed

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My oldest that I have that works is Dell optiplex 780 tower using 760 tower chassis, that I built from parts years ago and was daily driver for nearly 6 years then restored to OEM quality when someone donated another 780 tower. This saved money and motherboard had a funny flaw that clock jumps …

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