I use similar fan mounts to keep my voodoo5 cool. I think even if the v5 fans fails those big fans will be enough. For all I know the HSD have already failed. Although my fan mount annoyingly takes up 2 PCI slots, but not fully (more like 1.2), leaving a gap across the second slot. How did you …

I had similar concerns with my Voodoo 3, and decided to buy this cheapo fan bracket from AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32973335117.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4d6KMD6s I paired it with a couple modern Arctic 92mm fans. Not really period correct, but it keeps the Voodoo3 very cool. …

Thanks for the tip. Yeah I figured a clean install would be the nuclear option. I'll give that a go. Do you know of any specific improvements in Daniel_K drivers over official? I went to his website and read the material... from what I can tell it's mostly a repackaging of Creative assets where it …

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble with a sound drivers and would be grateful for any insight you may have. I bought a used Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium (Fatal1ty), for use in a high powered Windows XP gaming rig. This is the PCI Express x1 card, model SB0880. When I remove the metal shield, the card …

In the same vein as above, I'd suggest the Dell u2410 (IPS panel). https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2410.htm It's the successor to the 2408/2407/2405. I have both the 2410 and 2408... in my experience the 2410 has much reduced input lag, better color, and less heat dissipation compared to …

The Athlon 64 X2 required a bit of work... I found all of the 6.3V VRM capacitors had either bulged or leaked. Also I opened the noname power supply to find a leaky cap as well. The system powered on but crashed frequently. A low quality power supply, capacitor plague era motherboard, and my 20% …

The fan bracket does indeed block 2 PCI slots... this was an inconvenience because several of my PCI slots share IRQs and I'm now effectively out of slots. Personally I never got into DOS... our family's first computer was a Macintosh (System 7) and we didn't get a PC until Windows 95 had become …

Hello everyone, first post... This is, for the most part, a re-assembly of the first computer I put together by myself ~20 years ago (I was in high school at the time). I rescued several old computers from my parents' house last year and decided, inspired in part by all of you, to re-live some …