Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-08-01, 20:55

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For better or for worse, the law is the law and if you meet a person who knows the law... you may end up in court for a second hand computer. Luckily I don't have my own experience, and I don't think something like this would happen frequently, but I understand that the outcome of a dispute of this …

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-08-01, 15:52

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Whenever I see the prices on Ebay for old hardware, it amuses me, and I think about the amount of hardware that I have thrown away over the years, working repairing computers; If not because it was useless for daily use, it was because it failed. So paying a large sum for old hardware is funny to me …

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Re: Chicony CH-498B voltage regulator mod help.

Posted on 2023-07-30, 11:37

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I no longer have the DX4 on that board. From what I see in the video, I would try what happens only with the graphics card, the rest of the cards out, since the next step to the memory count I think is to initialize the expansion cards. But, even if it worked for me at 5V without problems, nothing …

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Re: Chicony CH-498B voltage regulator mod help.

Posted on 2023-07-28, 14:12

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I had the DX4 100 running at 5v for a while and I didn't realize it was 3.3v because it had a heatsink on it and at that time I didn't have much experience with that platform and also, I have to say that it didn't give any problems to 5V. On the first page I already mentioned having used the …

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Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-07-25, 14:50

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In GOG I still have the "classic" version of Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics, I bought them at least 10 years ago now they are no longer sold, more "modern" versions are the ones available I guess, but I can still download my classic versions without problems, and they still work on XP and on …

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Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-07-24, 21:09

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In my case, I lost money on Steam, their reasons are their problem, not mine, I paid. In Square Enix too, I simply can't download the two games I had bought, possibly because they aren't available anymore. It could have been worse. Hopefully GOG doesn't go over to the dark side, There I have a lot …

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Re: Advice on broken Socket 7 Heatsink clip ASUS MS-5148

Posted on 2023-07-16, 21:30

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One more idea is to take that part of a socket 370 from a defective motherboard, much easier to find nowadays than a socket 7 as I did. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=86952&start=20 Edit: Your board MS-5148 (https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/msi-ms-5148-tx2) is MSI not ASUS. I have …

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Re: rather peroid correct pc to play ps1 multi plattform titel in best possible quality?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 09:06

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I played the PC versions of RE1/RE2/RE3 and Dino crisis 1/2 with a Matrox Mystique and a P200MMX at the time with no issues. After an upgrade to a GF2 MX I discovered the advantages of altialiasing. Any of those games with forced anti-aliasing through the drivers improves a lot if memory serves. I …

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Re: Clarification on definition of abandoneware on Vogons.

Posted on 2023-06-05, 20:07

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In the case of the drivers that are the necessary part for the hardware to work correctly and the software that accompanies them and that are only useful for the hardware for which they were created, it could be said that they are directly linked. That is to say, if you don't have, for example, a …

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Re: Fujitsu D3128-B25 BIOS

Posted on 2023-05-29, 21:03

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It's been quite a while, but in case someone ends up here in the future with this problem, the sensor error did have to do with the lack of the Intel Management Engine. I put the motherboard aside in a corner and forgot about it, after messing around with an X99 motherboard that is missing the BIOS …

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Re: Longevity of AIO Cooler in Storage

Posted on 2023-05-17, 07:34

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I have an Asetek 550LC mounted on a Phenom II 1100T since the first day an its still performing great, but... It has a type of tubes that I never seem since the first AIOs came to the market. I have a Cooler Master one with the same tipe of tubes also on a AM3 computer from the same era. I had to …

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Re: which All in Wonder would this be?

Posted on 2023-05-15, 06:15

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I think that DScaler was mainly focused on the popular BT878 and some Philips chips if my memory doesnt fail. I had very good results with DScaler even on Win7 with the BT878 based tuners. My best experiences capturing video under Win9X were with Windows movie Maker, I used WinMe for a few years …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-13, 15:17

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I think the same, from my experience, at the time it was rare for a PCI or AGP graphics card to fail, the usual failures started in the case of ATI with the high-end models of the 9000 series and in the case of Nvidia, with the high-end models of the FX series. Nowadays, just take a look at this …

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Re: Need air flow help in a minitower....

Posted on 2023-05-13, 14:37

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From my point of view, this case is quite different from the previous one because it is a Pentium III, you have a fairly large heatsink for a Pentium III, and there seems to be quite a distance between the power supply and the CPU fan. Without modifications to the case what I would do, would be to …

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Re: Help with 50 pin IDE

Posted on 2023-05-05, 10:21

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I have two motherboards from an Intel DOT station 2300 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sx26Yxt_r8) aka "pakito" M0810e that seems to be derived from the aforementioned D810EMO. I have one of these DOT stations, but I never tried to add the IDE CD-ROM to it, it seems that it is possible to do it …

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Re: Need air flow help in a minitower....

Posted on 2023-05-01, 09:31

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Do not trust 100% of the temperature readings because as I said the NTC is inside the Socket and does not even touch the CPU but Athlon socket 462 processors are not as hot as people love to say, not even when I was young and less experienced I had no problems with any of them even overclocking …

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Re: Slot Pentium III - Thermal restoration - confused

Posted on 2023-04-30, 16:42

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I just use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on everything, can’t be bothered to buy “lesser” paste for older kit, might as well just use one massive syringe for everything, retro or modern. Actually regarding Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, I usually hear too many bad things, like it damages the components and …

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Re: Slot Pentium III - Thermal restoration - confused

Posted on 2023-04-29, 19:58

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Clean the old thermal paste, that's usually hard because it's old, but with acetone it should become easier to clean. And as long as the cooler has enough pressure, you can use any kind of thermal interface you want, these CPUs had a low TDP and that heatsink looks fairly big. And yes, if you use …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-04-28, 01:20

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Well, this is the same as always, everyone spends their money on what they want, useful or not. I would not pay more than €20 for a sound card with such a specific use, having other alternatives. The fact that it is IBM does not tell me anything because it contributes little from my point of view. …

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Re: Need air flow help in a minitower....

Posted on 2023-04-28, 01:10

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Do you think that the following motherboard would have the same issue with this CPU? AsRock K7S41GX I don't think you'd have any luck in that regard either, that series of Asrock motherboards was very common around here at the end of Socket 462's life, we used them a lot to replace damaged …

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