Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-12, 20:37

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M-audio Audiophile 2496 https://imgbbb.com/images/2019/12/12/IMG_20191212_094014276.md.jpg I keep seeing those pop up at eBay Classifieds, sometimes as cheap as 10€. Always wondered if I should get one... what do you guys think about this card? Edit: Nevermind, just saw that you already opened a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-06, 16:50

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After being on a business trip for a few days, I came back to the office to find that three packages had arrived :happy: Without going into further detail, all this stuff was very reasonably priced (~ 120€ for everything). Some of these cards will make for very nice additions to my systems, others …

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

Posted on 2019-11-23, 20:48

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Put together my Super Socket 7 build today. Tyan Trinity 100 AT, K6-2+ 550@600, Voodoo 3 3500 TV, AWE64 Gold, etc. Not 100% finished, especially the fans are still too loud, but I am already pretty pleased with how it worked out. Will open a dedicated system specs thread for this one later. Looking …

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

Posted on 2019-11-23, 19:05

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Put together my Super Socket 7 build today. Tyan Trinity 100 AT, K6-2+ 550@600, Voodoo 3 3500 TV, AWE64 Gold, etc. 2019-11-23 18.03.38.jpg Not 100% finished, especially the fans are still too loud, but I am already pretty pleased with how it worked out. Will open a dedicated system specs thread for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-20, 16:06

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I've been looking for an MSI KT3 Ultra for years now and finally my efforts have born fruit. It's not an Ultra, but rather an Ultra2 but aside from an updated southbridge they are the same. Universal AGP on a 333MHz DDR Bus with DDMA support.. Hopefully one day I will have a Voodoo 5 to use with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-20, 14:33

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Received one more lot of expansion cards and drives today that I bought off eBay last week for 10€ + 8€ shipping = 18€ . In the picture I saw that it had a few VGA and sound cards in it. Seller didn't respond to my question what cards exactly are in the lot, so I decided to give it a shot because …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-14, 21:54

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Now here's a picture of the whole lot: IMG_5044.JPG Rage Fury MAXX! Judging by the amount of dust on the heatsinks and fans, this thing has seen very little use. Great overall condition. IMG_5045.JPG The "mystery VGA card" turned out to be a SiS 6326. Somewhat interesting since I never owned such a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-14, 20:09

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I've been in a bit of a retro pc shopping frenzy lately... Still being on the hunt for a decent AT midi tower case for my Tyan Trinity based SS7 build, I came across a nearly complete system on eBay (seller's photo): s-l1600.jpg This thing has a working Commate S7AX mainboard with an AMD K6-2 333 …

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Re: best mb from epox, qdi, abit and dfi

Posted on 2019-11-14, 18:43

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The first PC that I built myself in 2001 had an Epox EP-8KTA3+ in it, which was home to a Duron 750 at first. That thing was great, I upgraded it several times, and when I finally replaced it with an Asus AM2 board around 2007, it was maxed out with some Athlon XP and a Radeon 9800 Pro. I still have …

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Re: Rendition Verite 2200 + Voodoo 1 + K62+ 450

Posted on 2019-11-13, 19:10

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Nice setup! I have the same board for my S7 Pentium 233 MMX build, gotta love those Tyan boards. Mine is running a Matrox Mystique, Diamond Voodoo 1, AWE 64 Value, Win95B + DOS. Maybe I'll replace the Matrox with a S3 soon for improved DOS games compatibility. Edit: I got that wrong before. I am …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-12, 12:22

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Another Sound Blaster 16.. What can I say, I'm a sucker for collecting different models of these cards (even though they are pretty bad cards..) I almost got a CT3900 (the original AWE32) for a mere 10€ yesterday. Dirty, dusty, bent pins on the IDE header, and the seller obviously didn't know its …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-10, 12:40

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Unfortunately all this Slot A stuff seems so ridiculously overpriced nowadays... at least on eBay etc. Really? If I look at sold Slot A stuff at eBay Germany (not overpriced "give me your money" buy-it-now offers), it sells so cheap that I'd even say Slot A stuff is almost worthless here. There are …

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Re: How do you cool your retro rig?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 23:50

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You will get different answers regarding "acceptable" temperatures. As a rule of thumb I'd say, try to keep your CPU below 55°C under full load and your GPU under 75°C under full load. Close the case, run some stress test, observe the temperatures and system stability. If temperatures stay below …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-09, 21:32

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Unfortunately all this Slot A stuff seems so ridiculously overpriced nowadays... at least on eBay etc. Can't stop facepalming over the fact that I literally dumped a complete, working Slot A system (700 MHz on an Asus board afair) about 10-12 years ago. What do you guys think would be a somewhat …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-09, 17:01

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Intel486dx33 wrote: In 2000 I was using an IBM T43 with Win-2000 at work. Tell me more about how you travelled five years forward in time, bought a T43 and travelled five years back 😉 IBM Thinkpad T43 was introduced in 2005.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-09, 16:23

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I saw an auction yesterday with some "PC parts", containing (amongst some rather boring optical drives, power supplies, floppy drives, PCI USB interface cards etc.) a pile of VGA cards: s-l1600.jpg Asked the seller for details and he sent this picture: s-l1600-6.jpg ATI Rage Fury MAXX :exclamation: …

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Re: Super Socket 7 Build 1

Posted on 2019-11-07, 21:10

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Seems like a nice build. Why are you using a K6 266 MHz? I would at least go for a K6-2 450 (450AFX), those are pretty cheap to get. And there's a Chinese seller on ebay.com who still has some K6-2+ 550 in stock, 27€ including shipping to Europe. I bought from him and everything went really well. A …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-07, 19:07

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Gex85 it could make a great 1998-1999 computer with some improved parts : 3D accelerator (3dfx ?), maybe improved sound, faster CPU (the fastest Mendocino celeron runs at 533MHz iirc. They only exist on socket 370 but a slotcket works pretty well. This would be a nice improvement over 300MHz, …

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Re: QDI Legend PlatiniX 2 drivers required for Win98

Posted on 2019-11-07, 13:01

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What drivers exactly are you looking for? Many files are still available at archive.org: BIOS --> https://web.archive.org/web/20050826104207/http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/support/d_Platinix2.htm Drivers --> https://web.archive.org/web/20051128015848/http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/support/d_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-07, 08:42

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Got a 1998 Celeron system yesterday. Seller said it wasn't working and put it up for 10€ + 8€ shipping. I bought it mainly because I need an AT case, but it turned out the case is really badly yellowed and of very cheap build quality, so I'm not sure if I really want to use it for my SS7 build. When …

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