Re: Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 09:18

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by bionicle_159

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candle_86 wrote on 2020-06-03, 03:42: The hyper 212 still does, and I know for a fact the tx3 Evo does as well, though avoid the tx2 it's also 775 compatabile but it's woefully useless, it's meant for 95w or cooler chips Thanks, gives me more options if the others don't work out

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Re: Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 22:37

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It's always fun contacting companies about long out of date products. My last few emails and calls were to Shuttle about my HOT-613 Dual Pentium Pro motherboard. They were actually really excited to hear I was still using something that old. lol I wish Shuttle would make a big comeback, they were …

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Re: Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 21:58

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CM Hyper 212 Black I just purchased 2 weeks ago does indeed have the 775 mounts and fits fine. Maybe they have different versions in other countries. They're next on my list to contact about compatibility. They'll probably think it's a wind-up call asking about 775, 10 years after it got phased out …

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Re: Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 21:46

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Ebay. There are 100's of listings for stock intel coolers, aftermarket coolers, and a wide range of "weapons grade chineseium". 775 was the start of the Intel era where very little differences were made in heatsinks. Go nuts. That's where I end up going to if the socket is ancient enough to warrant …

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Re: Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 21:09

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Edit, here's an example from my Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition manual. That's pretty interesting, makes me think that most brands would try to copy that, I like all the suggested offerings but they're a bit too much for what I'm prepared to pay for a system this old. Knowing Cooler Master, …

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Re: Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 20:06

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If you've got a cooler that supports 775 and newer Intel brackets, do they have a different mount or is it the same for both sockets?

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Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 14:56

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I'm trying to find a decent cooler for a q6600 online that's pretty quiet, all I can find from decent brands is the Arctic Freezer 7X and Cooler Master's Hyper 103. Has anyone tried these on LGA775, as I've looked on Arctic's website and can only find mounting hardware pertaining to 115x sockets …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-09, 09:44

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But this is something, what's strange to me. Since I tried that Portal and HL2 yesterday. And I don't see, how it can work for me, but not for you. I really just took my fully updated HL2 build from Steam folder on my main PC, copy it to XP machine and then loaded with shortcut and correct switch. …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-08, 22:05

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It's just about editing shortcuts. Hardly more difficult then your guide. I don't think you understand the issue with the Steam way, in cases like mine - it just doesn't work when installed via Steam to an install of XP. If it did then this post wouldn't be necessary, but for some reason my Steam …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-08, 12:07

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krcroft wrote on 2020-04-08, 04:08: Thanks for the post, and looking forward to getting it up and running again. No problem, I only wish I discovered the series years ago, I was a console gamer for the longest time before I got a decent PC to run games on 😀

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-08, 12:02

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I don't want to discourage the community from helping each other, but DosFreak does have a point here. Not only you can still play Source games under XP from Steam directly (and yes, you can still get Steam to work under XP despite Valve saying otherwise) like I just did with Portal, but you can …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-08, 01:57

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I'm with bionicle_159 on this one. You are being very rude to somebody that is trying to help other people. I've gotten a lot of help from this community, I'll listen to any advice as I'm still new to the forum - I could have just kept it to myself but I wanted to share a fix for a game that people …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-08, 01:22

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Sounds like either a corrupted copy or the game is using a steam emulator with no configuration file to specify the app id. You come in here posting a link to a website to download full versions of games with a bunch of BS in a post that no one can make sense of and I'm the one being rude? First …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-08, 00:41

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The version the # of days since Nov 7, 1998, not sure how the new versioning works for steampipe builds Any build of HL2 after v5135 only needs the switches to play the game. Versions before or equal to that version require Revolution Steam Emulator. v5377866 works fine without Steam using the …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-07, 23:29

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The below assumes build >v5135. Verified on XP 32bit 1/11/2020 When requesting the build version, the Steam release gave '5377866' and the GameTrex release gave '2257546'. Either I'm reading it wrong or you've got a really early build. I tried those commands when I installed my copies onto the …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-07, 22:22

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I had it installed on XP Steam before the Steampocalypse, and it still works fine (offline mode). New Steam builds have an offline cap of 2 weeks, this is just a different way of launching the game and not promoting piracy, there isn't any guide online or on Vogons from my research detailing how to …

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Re: How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-07, 22:12

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Link removed for obvious reasons. HL2 has always worked on XP and the game is DRM free as long as you use the switches with no file swapping required.. Not when I've tried it, what switches are you talking about? My Steam copy doesn't work with any commands I've found online. This method allows you …

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How to get your copy of Half-Life 2 AND THE EPISODES working on XP!

Posted on 2020-04-07, 18:27

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Hi, I'm pretty sure this hasn't been covered before on Vogons so here it is for the people who haven't seen this. I managed to get around the dumb DRM Valve put in for the HL2 episodes + lost coast by swapping around files from my own legit steam copy to the modified version of the base game. This …

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Re: ECS boards not posting

Posted on 2019-10-23, 23:02

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The seller was considerate enough to give me a full refund for the board. Since I’ve got a ton of stuff going on with college and getting stuff for birthdays I’m gonna set both boards aside for now, when I do return to them it will be a polymer recap of the board, especially around the VRMs, …

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Re: ECS boards not posting

Posted on 2019-10-19, 20:52

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Yeah you can try swapping the roms, make sure to also clear cmos again before powering up. AND as always: make sure you disconnect the atx power connector before doing the rom swap. AMI BIOS: 4 short beeps = System timer failure. Yeah, I don’t think I’m gonna be able to get them roms out with the …

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