Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-08, 17:22

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by austinham

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It's getting hard for the average man with a 30k a year salary to keep up. Keep up? Seems like you had a quite strange attitude then. A hobby is for having fun (and wasting time), not to keep up with others. I don't give a shit about owning rare or expensive stuff. I get what I want to have in my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-08, 16:29

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by austinham

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Anyway I know it's probably the usual well known "how the market works" but some prices nowdays are becoming "ridicolous" for some components. I know that when things become more and more uncommon and rare people think they are selling "gold" but it's not always that way. I suppose it may be …

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Re: Save or recycle hardware.

Posted on 2020-06-08, 15:01

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by austinham

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Even with 462 boards becoming harder to find I don't thing this one is worth saving other then for a test bead system. I'm wondering how feasible it would be to repair the old 5v PSUs with the beefy 5v rails? Because this is one of the more major issues when dealing with sA boards these days. Still …

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Re: Save or recycle hardware.

Posted on 2020-06-08, 14:34

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by austinham

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Even with 462 boards becoming harder to find I don't thing this one is worth saving other then for a test bead system.

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-06-05, 15:18

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by austinham

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The build as it stands 6-5-20 sadly I have nothing to add. I have been taking a break from the PC, but I hope to get some if not all the rads installed this weekend.

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Re: My 15+ year adventure with the K8N Neo3 (MS-7135)

Posted on 2020-06-03, 14:16

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by austinham

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chinny22 wrote on 2020-06-02, 09:54: You have actually done really well getting that 7950! These are the last cards to support quad SLI in XP. you sure about that? I had 2 295's in xp.

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

Posted on 2020-06-03, 13:22

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by austinham

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Most scythe heat sinks will fit 775 like the mugen. http://www.scythe-eu.com/en/products/cpu-cooler/mugen-5-revb.html more scythe heat sinks. http://scythe-eu.com/en/products/cpu-cooler.html I saw posts at a local computer store ad that “Zalman” is still selling Spiral LED 755 Cooler. I really like …

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Re: Newer games that work on windows 98

Posted on 2020-06-01, 15:32

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by austinham

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Dawn of War - Soulstorm works if copied from a installer supported operating system. I can't remember at this very moment if the ripped game folder also needed KernelEx though. Perhaps. Thanks. Doom 3 works with KernelEx. It does not need KernelEx tho, as the EXE also can be hex edited into working …

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Newer games that work on windows 98

Posted on 2020-06-01, 14:42

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by austinham

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I thought it might a fun project to make a list of latter games that ether lack official 9x and can ether be make to work on 9x or works out of the box on 9x despite lack of official support. Resident evil 4, 2007 retail copy. No official win98 support. Works out of the box if all other requirements …

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Re: My 15+ year adventure with the K8N Neo3 (MS-7135)

Posted on 2020-06-01, 14:16

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by austinham

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Thanks, both of you! Well, for starters, I cheated. The template I found was for a round hole, and I knew trying to get a nice looking round shape would be difficult. I used the template to drill the fan's holes, screwed it in and then traced the fan's shape with a pencil. That shape is a lot …

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Re: My 15+ year adventure with the K8N Neo3 (MS-7135)

Posted on 2020-06-01, 13:37

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by austinham

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-01, 12:33: Excellent project looking forward to seeing the finished product. That hole you cut for the 120 fan looks very clean and we'll done. I second this, how did you pull that off with just a Dremel ?

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Re: Identify this ISA capture card

Posted on 2020-06-01, 13:23

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by austinham

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It's FCC number is HBY33A-V9. A bit of rummaging through Google using that FCC number (I didn't know it was an identifier or anything otherwise I would have done this originally!) also identifies the card as a Prime Time TV like mdog69's quote above. Stason's got me covered: https://stason.org/ …

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Re: Has USA ever looked worse internationally ?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 03:22

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by austinham

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Companies alone went to do business in China, nobody forced them to go there, they were not led by Chinese businessmen, so saying China stole the jobs is just silly. Also what about Apple, McDonalds, Starbucks, Microsoft and other companies what make billions there ? Why is Tesla building a factory …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-01, 02:26

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by austinham

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Just won this Asus P2B-DS auction with a Make Offer deal for $119. (including RAM and CPU's) Now I can build my dually tually with two Upgradeware Slot-T slocket adapters. Going to load the beta BIOS, do the multiplier and voltage mods, then it should be good to go. I only have to modify one of my …

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Re: Has USA ever looked worse internationally ?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 02:16

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by austinham

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First you got Trump who is controversial to say the least. Then USA regularly abandons many international treaties and organizations like UNESCO and now WHO, then various missile and nuclear arms treaties from Cold War era. Then the ongoing trade war with China that doesn't help anyone. what is …

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Re: Why didn't anyone tell me about the SGM v2.01 soundfount ?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 23:50

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by austinham

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But the bigger question, can it be used with the sound blaster soundfount bank manger in 98 on a live or Audigy? \ I'm afraid not, because SBLive! can't load SoundFonts larger than 64MB and SGM is ~240MB, so even with the Audigy you might have trouble, considering most people have 256MB of RAM on …

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Re: Case Slot Fans and the Voodoo 3

Posted on 2020-05-30, 03:20

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by austinham

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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 …

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-05-30, 03:19

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by austinham

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Very nice. Im looking forward to seeing the pictures Thanks. I really didn’t want to post the mods in progress as some here would likely object to the mods on an AT case, but once seeing them done they would likely be far more understanding. I can’t wait to get it done. But sadly I cant find the …

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Re: My Dream Pentium MMX Build

Posted on 2020-05-29, 17:06

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by austinham

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imi wrote on 2020-05-29, 16:52: starcube wrote on 2020-05-29, 16:51: So yes, I'm crazy well, you're in good company here then, aren't we all a bit crazy ^^ haha, some of us may be more then just a bit crazy. Crazy, insane even.

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Re: My Dream Pentium MMX Build

Posted on 2020-05-29, 16:45

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by austinham

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Their OPs photos, if want tot take them down he can. if anyone is butt hurt over that why not save them next time? I'm not trying to be rude here, but there are better things to get worked up over. Could not have said it better. Certain people seem to get easily offended at my decision to take down …

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