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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-15, 12:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On that little board however, only the top PCI slot would be inaccessible in an mATX case, and generally you won't use more than 1 or 2 PCI slots on a 486. But I believe some customizations will be required for the standoffs and the keyboard connector as those probably won't line up. Fair enough, I …

Re: Are there any silent AT PSUs?

Posted on 2020-09-15, 05:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why not use an ATX power supply with an AT adapter? Those 25 year old AT power supplies are bombs waiting to go off.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-15, 05:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know, it's perfection. lol I love small motherboards for some reason. I should be able to put this in a small mATX case. I've been wanting to do a reverse sleeper 486 DX4 build in a nice Lian Li or Silverstone case. Unfortunately I think you'll find that AT boards don't fit in mATX cases very …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-15, 05:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can't believe I Stole this. Are people so caught up on cubx hype that they don't know how good this board is? https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-BX-Master-MS-6163-Pro-Intel-440BX-Slot-1-/164376024259?hash=item26459314c3%3Ag%3AdtoAAOSw6JlfWQnn&autorefresh=true&nma=true&si=bs2yVlMhWcwiu4r2lkU3MlNj374%253D& …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-09-12, 22:53

in Milliways

in Milliways

Wolfus wrote on 2020-09-11, 18:31: Still playing Heroes of Might and Magic III. It is probably the best game ever released. Great game, but 2 will always be my favorite.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-12, 22:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pan069 wrote on 2020-09-12, 21:10: Whats going on with the board in the bottom right corner? Are those memory slots placed diagonal? PS: That's a nice 386 board. I'm certain I've seen that model of motherboard in person before, I'd say it's a P4 board that was used in either HP or Compaq machines.

Re: Asus P2-99B - Attempted repair and failure

Posted on 2020-09-08, 00:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A quick list of suggestions, of course there's more you can do but this comes to mind right now: If one cap was blown, more could be bad without showing any signs. Careful when replacing, Asus usually have the markings in reverse (big white stripe is the + not the -, fortunately the + is also …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-09-07, 21:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

Thanks! I wasn't sure how far I could go with the patches and I figured they probably dropped Win9x support somewhere along the way. I do have LoD as well, and the plan is to re-create the character that I used back when I first got the expansion - an assassin named Buffy. :D Tremendous! Have fun. …

Asus P2-99B - Attempted repair and failure

Posted on 2020-09-07, 21:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I said in another thread I'd make a post about my repair attempt so here it is. I got this board a few weeks back with a blown capacitor, over the weekend I replaced it with a new one ordered from digikey but unfortunately the board still doesn't work. I used some solder braid on the back to clean …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-09-07, 20:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

Excellent one!, finished it with 4 characters back in the day. I believe I played it on a Celeron 333mhz Mendocino, SIS6326 + Voodoo 2 based system, it felt good enough as I recall it. I was playing Turok and Rollcage just yesterday. Good stuff! I think I had a celeron system at the time but I …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-09-07, 18:42

in Milliways

in Milliways

Playing through Diablo 2 and then the expansion on my P3 1.4/CUBX-E machine, it's really fun. I haven't played this game since it was new and back then my computer ran it ver poorly.

Re: Asus CUBX-E + Tualatin CPU

Posted on 2020-08-22, 16:04

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

As a result you can say PIII-S cpu is faster... But with 22% - 24% speed increase in your 3d mark benches, it is very result :-) I have also a tualeron, but the smallest one, the 1000A. I have a clock range of 667MHz to 1.4GHz. Higher than 140 fsb i would not go... Yes a good result for sure, I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-22, 01:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't need any more PCs, but this one grabbed me with its combination of affordable price and distinctive case. Plus hey, it's Socket A and I love Socket A. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computer-AMD-Duron-1-3GHz-512MB-Ram-Windows-XP-Keyboard-Mouse-Upgradable/363065895225?ssPageName=STRK% …

Re: Asus CUBX-E + Tualatin CPU

Posted on 2020-08-21, 17:19

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Replaced the chipset cooler today, the original green one is a bit smaller and had no thermal paste under it. EDIT: I've also switched over to using the Geforce 6800XT with nglide for NFS2 and whatever other glide games I can find. The V3 just isn't fast enough when I run something like UT.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-21, 14:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Two freebies I picked up today from the same guy that gave me all the other free stuff recently: Asus TX97-XE Promise FastTrak TX2000

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-16, 16:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

vellu wrote on 2020-08-16, 13:10: New old stock Zalman GPU coolers. Those were the days. 20 euros together incl. shipping That's a good score!

Re: Asus CUBX-E + Tualatin CPU

Posted on 2020-08-15, 18:25

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Super satisfied with this build, it really ticks all the nostalgia boxes for me. Attached is a pic of the final build. I'm going to be using the Voodoo 3 3000 as it's day to day graphics card.

Re: Asus CUBX-E + Tualatin CPU

Posted on 2020-08-15, 16:21

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Synthetic benchmarks: Voodoo 3 3dmark 99 6790 - 1.4ghz Pentium 3 6790 - 1.6ghz Celeron 3dmark 2000 3266 - 1.2ghz Celeron 3414 - 1.4ghz Pentium 3 3416 - 1.6ghz Celeron 6800XT Aquamark 27700 - 1.4ghz Pentium 3 3dmark 99 8209 - 1.2ghz Celeron (16883 - CPU Marks) 10860- 1.4ghz Pentium 3 (21770 - CPU …

Re: Asus CUBX-E + Tualatin CPU

Posted on 2020-08-15, 06:24

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Celeron overlocking = GREAT SUCCESS The first 1.2 Celeron I put in this board is running nicely at 1600mhz with a voltage bump to 1.7v. Tomorrow I'll likely test the other two and see what happens. In my VIA based socket 370 boards this CPU will post at 1600mhz but the keyboard input stops working …

Re: Asus CUBX-E + Tualatin CPU

Posted on 2020-08-15, 04:09

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Did you previously find out if your Voodoo3 is going to be happy at 89MHz? Been running various benchmarks, 3dmark 99, 2000, Quake 3 and it's rock stable with the P3 1.4 and 89mhz agp speed so far. I figured I'd start with the P3 because I know that it's 100% stable at stock speed instead of an …

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