Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 17:46
I bet a lot of us had really crappy speakers back then that really didn't warrant any better sound cards x3
Re: Old Midi devices with Headphones?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 17:19
they are line level outputs, so unless you want to listen to really silent music or potentially risk a lot of clipping I would suggest so, yeah :p
Re: Which one of you was it?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 17:10
:( I think I just lost an auction to a recycler even though I put in a bid waaaay above what I usually would... sad to see all those nice cards go. I even went the Predator99 route (:p) and offered the seller upfront for a selection of them and they would have agreed to it too, but it took them a …
Re: Hackers, Hackers, Hackers !....
Posted on 2020-04-15, 15:36
that's not hackers that is simply bots, and everyone that is connected to the internet will get port scans eventually, that's just life in the internet and the reason why you have a layer in between your home network and the outside world.
Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 15:01
even the most barebone budget boards have spdif headers at least or a combo jack more often than not. maybe a lot of people simply don't know they have spdif on board because there's no dedicated connector on the rear I/O. I think spdif might become obsolete eventually though as people are switching …
Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 14:40
curious for what reasons people use sound cards for digital output Not my reason (I don't use spdif output), but a lot of motherboards just don't have spdif. well, that would be valid reason, but every motherboard I had since socket A days had spdif, are there really any modern consumer …
Re: Hackers, Hackers, Hackers !....
Posted on 2020-04-15, 13:00
most likely! have you checked your ipad? maybe they just thought they were doing you a favor by moving all the data there.
Re: Adapter for old CHS ("small") IDE drives
Posted on 2020-04-15, 12:09
maybe this helps: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?690 … -a-New-Computer they're mentioning a marvell 88SE9128 controller
Re: Hackers, Hackers, Hackers !....
Posted on 2020-04-15, 09:30
Re: Video card picture comes and goes, looses sync randomly
Posted on 2020-04-15, 09:13
why did you remove it in the first place? it's also easy to break solder connections on removing the heatsink if it was glued on. so it didn't work with the heatsink on either?
Re: Video card picture comes and goes, looses sync randomly
Posted on 2020-04-15, 01:02
PLEASE PUT A HEATSINK ON IT! before it breaks completely... Voodoo3 absolutely needs to be cooled. the heat stresses might very well break the solder connection between the chip and the PCB or just cook the chip. you might get away with having a strong fan blow directly on the chip, but I wouldn't …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-15, 00:53
looks like a Diamond Stealth 64 VLB with S3 Vision964 and I'm jelly x3
Re: What vintage PC hardware is considered highly collectible or ordinary and unwanted?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 00:26
Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-04-15, 00:24: 486 computer and slower. They are just too old , slow and loud for good quality DOS game play. Not worth investing your money on […] Show full quote 486 computer and slower. They are just too old , slow and loud for good quality DOS game play. Not worth …
Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?
Posted on 2020-04-14, 20:52
curious for what reasons people use sound cards for digital output, the only reason I got the Xonar D2 was because my onboard sound back then did not support DTS connect.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-14, 20:11
oh yeah I think that's the exact same motherboard I'll be getting ^^ also I love those toshiba drives :3
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-14, 19:25
very nice, my PC pickups are somehow never this clean x3 This one's a Dell board too. Not sure if it has regular ATX or weird Dell PSU pinout. Doesn't really matter though as I found the matching PSU in the lot too :) oh yeah, it has the weird dell pinout probably with an extra aux plug, not sure if …
Re: XT IDE CF card
Posted on 2020-04-14, 17:17
there are always plenty on ebay... and I'm sure there's shops selling them too.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-14, 16:44
including an SE440BX with Yamaha sound. nice :3 so far I only had a Chaintech 440LX board with YMF740C and an Intel AL440LX with OPL3/OPL4 but I got a Dell with a broken case recently that is still on its way with an Intel 440BX board in it as far as I can tell that should have a YMF724F edit: the …
Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?
Posted on 2020-04-14, 14:22
Gigabyte GA-6BXE Pentium II 300Mhz upgraded to a 400Mhz in 1999 64MB SDR Matrox G200 8MB + Creative Voodoo2 8MB (upgrade to Creative TNT2 Ultra 32MB was later than 1999 I think) Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4520 IBM DHEA-36480 6,4GB might have upgraded my case to an In-Win S500 in 1999 or …
Re: COVID 19 and being pent up
Posted on 2020-04-14, 09:51
Pent up due to COVID 19 has hit me harder than I would like ... so I ripped open an old HP with the crummy ASUS MBV-VM Socket 370 motherboard. It's been living up to it's crapics chipset name because the only card it seems friendly with is an old Voodoo 3 2000 PCI ... but the Sound Blaster Live! …
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