Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-09, 04:55

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Im unsure if you are angry at multicore shenanigans or happy about it, you can be a bit hard to read sometimes cause your posts can be a bit out there XD ..like a few other Canadians I know of who have a way with words. I guess it's sarcastically lambasting the marketing where they want to be …

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Re: PSA: FilePlanet now distributing malware

Posted on 2022-02-09, 04:04

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Suckage... hope Major Geeks and softpedia hold up.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-09, 03:53

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I think a lot of people still assume that CPUs are not power hungry when the opposite is true 12/24, 14/28, 16/32 core CPUs can and do use just as much power as any of the top end GPUs and are also able to spike much higher when turbo boosting, Alder Lake is one of the hottest running CPUs intel …

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Re: Plywood Power Mac G5 build

Posted on 2022-02-09, 03:30

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I was expecting that to be a Louis Rossman rant 😁

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Re: X10, '80s smart home tech, Radio Shack Plug'n'power etceteraaaa....

Posted on 2022-02-09, 02:21

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Bleeding from the eyeballs? Maybe it's ebola, maybe it's the X10 camera spam plague that afflicted the net for 5 years... occasionally you see the odd relic of that on archived sites.

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X10, '80s smart home tech, Radio Shack Plug'n'power etceteraaaa....

Posted on 2022-02-09, 02:00

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Hi folks, I finally collected together enough bits and pieces to have a rudimentary X10 setup, got an interface unit, 2 remotes, one appliance module and 3 light modules. I figure the tech is about mature enough that somebody would have noticed by now if it phones home to the NSA, so is safe to use …

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Re: Plywood Power Mac G5 build

Posted on 2022-02-09, 01:36

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You are not supposed to know, it's supposed to be an appliance, like a toaster, they give you a knob for an illusion of control but it burns the bread anyway.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-09, 01:08

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Watercooling has been a plug and play thing since 2005 at least, when cheaper sealed ready to go units were starting to price around what heavy and screamy aircoolers were. You could get a bit of peace by going to a 150mm slow turning radiator fan vs your 5000RPM 80mm on the monster sink. As early …

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

Posted on 2022-02-08, 22:02

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I've occasionally been known to use an actual comb on the first pass, when the whole lot are bent over and you don't know where to start. i.e. they're not mashed flat but are bent enough that you get a dependency chain of which one to straighten first because they're all in each others way. You can …

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Re: Early P5 + P54C (Socket 4 + Socket 5) mainboard

Posted on 2022-02-08, 19:13

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I"m on my ninth "damn that's crazy" and you're still finding stuff 🤣

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Re: Raspberry Pi gets 64-Bit OS support officially

Posted on 2022-02-08, 14:54

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How is the RAM consumption though? Do you really wanna upgrade a low RAM model?

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Re: Help with a PC Chips M519 board not recognizing the cd-rom.

Posted on 2022-02-08, 14:25

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Probably most 1993 and later games won't have a problem. ... and there's lots of games prior to that which will work. ... games that are super picky are maybe going to have speed problems also on a P166MMX

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Re: Micro8088 instability

Posted on 2022-02-08, 02:02

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Gotta respect the hours put in by Satan's tech department coming up with all this stuff that almost works, sending you round in circles and driving you mad for days 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-08, 01:36

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I was grinding away at aluminum in my concrete basement area, then a few weeks later I was grinding away at rust.... 10 mins into that it occurs to me, "Crap, I'm coating my basement floor in thermite*...".... so I decided I should sweep up .... and ever since it's been a semi annual tradition... …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-02-07, 23:59

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Starlance and Freelancer, I'll have to give those a go... I guess the sites I read weren't much into space sims... can't believe I missed them though.

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Re: Can any PC with ISA slots work with a TTL (MDA/CGA/EGA) graphics card, or are there other BIOS/driver requirements?

Posted on 2022-02-07, 23:46

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Odd... I have run mono/herc on several 486 boards* and at least one early pentium and not seen anything like that. So would tend to assume it's that particular example or the slot or motherboard that have a problem. *There was a short trans millennial era where mono monitors were practically free …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-02-07, 23:28

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There's one or two FirePro cards, like W4100 Dell OEM that are getting dumped and can be seen around $50, but they're not so great either. (All the cheap ones I've seen have mini display ports, ewww, okay if you've got a bunch of adapters kicking round) Picked up a miniDP adapter at a thrift on the …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-02-07, 23:13

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Not sure if everything available I've laid eyes on in the flesh in the last 2 years is half that amount, and most of that was yard sale and thrift stuff I bought, leaving a few winmodems and NICs behind... last freebie find was that C2 quad some months back. So yah, that's some going in a month. …

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

Posted on 2022-02-07, 19:46

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Spent the whole day restoring this beautiful butterfly: vacuuming, cleaning, setting up Mhz display, lubricating bearings, installing DOS, troubleshooting interrupts, setting up sound, cleaning again, etc... Did that case come with the U5S-40 or did you put that in? Jealous. I really want a U5S-40 …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-02-07, 19:26

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Modems, inspect any real old ones carefully, (Probably slower than 28k) might have an x86 embedded CPU I had no idea - were they using an NEC V30 or something? Do you know of an example off the top of your head? More likely the less "pluggable straight into a PC motherboard" types like V40,50 etc.. …

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