Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-17, 15:12

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if the CPU is a bottleneck that's it for the whole game, while with a graphics card you can often use game video options to amend requirements downwards a little however that's only a concern for games that really should have more than a p3 500

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-05-17, 15:10

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However IMHO this combination (EVGA nForce 680i SLI + Q6600 + 8800 GTS) is far more suitable for an excellent WinXP build instead of an okay, but far from great, Win7 build. You're definitely right - my current intention was to update the BIOS of that nForce board to its latest revision, and use my …

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-17, 15:06

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I enjoy my retro hobby, I really do. But I hope that in my twilight years I have better and more poignant things to reminisce over. yes indeed, part of the fondness of memories is the people we remember, and the shared things we had - a small but significant part of that is our shared experiences. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-17, 14:23

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amadeus777999 wrote on 2023-05-17, 10:18: Got two nice cases - both containing Pentium era hardware(S7 & SS7). these look good! planning to keep as S7 era?

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2023-05-17, 14:22

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Dimitris1980 wrote on 2023-05-16, 16:43: This is right now the playroom on the house i grew up. From the left: Atari 1040STF, Amiga 1200, Macintosh LC475. i like the seating - one for each machine and 2 as a 'waiting room' for those eagerly awaiting their turn 😀

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-17, 14:16

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If ai were to compose a song on the fly that I would think is awesome, there'd be no way to ever hear it again unless I recorded it >.< yes that's a possible 'feature' of generative AI - things will be individualised at the moment some people may think that an AI song might be produced and becomes …

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Re: Salt Lake 2002 - not enough memory/crashes to desktop after starting error (Windows 7)

Posted on 2023-05-16, 09:57

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this level of dedication to getting a relatively forgotten older game (with "generally unfavorable reviews" no less) running on a newer OS is vogons gold! 😀

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-16, 09:50

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2050, so ~25 years from now. Judging by the expectations of people in 1985 for 2000 vs reality, there's always a chance that vogons stills exists and someone necroposts in this thread using their beige computer, because beige has become the new black. Heck, I'll add a google calendar notification …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-13, 20:06

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if there is an SSD and enough spare ram (depends on how much the board can take) then the e6550 is pretty good imo, but would suspect the quad might give you a little spare processing capacity, perhaps more noticeable if going online when there can be extra threads happening i had recent experience …

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Re: Trying to read data out from old floppy disks

Posted on 2023-05-13, 19:55

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Good points ! Possible the heads are slightly out of alignment so cannot read the disks written by a different floppy drive. I would try a another floppy drive to see if the issue is the same. I've encountered that before, the 'unique' floppy drive which can read/write disks it has formatted, but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-13, 19:53

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Found this kit today at the flea market 20230513_095812.jpg Asus P/I-P55T2P4 rev 3.0, P233 MMX + cooler, 2x32 MB EDO RAM, 512 KB cache module and an S3 Trio64 DX PCI. Everything works just great except the S3, so I'm pretty happy :) that's excellent, all the power of that 233mmx with the EDO ram, …

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-10, 17:41

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I suppose it's somewhat like visiting a "living museum" Say a medieval castle, pioneer village, etc. It may give of a somewhat similar feeling, but if nothing else hygiene dictates you can't have the open sewers, people will be much cleaner and healthier therefore the whole experience will be much …

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-10, 17:34

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That reminds me of a documentary about how to treat old dying people on their death beds. That documentary created a fictional scenario in which actors came into the room, all pretending to be family members of the dying person. A daughter, a son, the grand children.. The idea was to let the person …

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-10, 17:28

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Pretty much this is how TV and films are already, interesting observation, that a lot of human 'creative' output is indeed mediocre and mundane, dressed up in the current cultural lens. that makes a challenge for AI - could it really make a 90' movie if it has been trained on audiences with …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2023-05-10, 17:24

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My year 1998-2004 home lab. We were in the Development region of Silicon Valley where we first had High speed cable modems. When it first rolled out there was NO to little network security. You could go on Microsoft Network neighborhood and see all the computers in your neighborhood, Share printers …

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Re: Athlon 64 X2 939 Build - "Seeing Green" 2005

Posted on 2023-05-10, 17:21

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i've got an athlon x2 4450e in a board i can't quite remember the spec of - but it would be an am2 with pcie so really not the same as yours, its all a bit 2008 - but still, inspiring me to build something with it as i enjoyed reading through your post 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-09, 14:20

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I was totally dumbfounded the first time I figured that out. So I went back through my container of non-working motherboards and trying new batteries had 15 suddenly spring to life. I did as a control pull the battery and try again and sure enough they all played dead. So it's one of my go-to …

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Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-09, 14:12

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let's imagine someone in 2050 remembering their far away youth in the late 1990's They want to relive the past, revisit and re-experience it a little to the AI interface that is permanently present they say "I want to experience the late 1990's again, the movies and songs but especially the computer …

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Re: Modern Retro PC cases, whats your favourites?

Posted on 2023-05-08, 17:27

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Shall we stretch definiton of a "case" a bit? test bench types are sort of cases, more gaps and more cost usually i'm always interested in what people do when they don't have a case at hand, i tend to just have a carboard/wood box type housing while testing and then put into a real case later …

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 19:19

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Planescape Torment, but I'm not giving up on it just yet. This is probably one of my favourite games ever made but you need to get deeply invested in it to really appreciate it. i can see that with some games and will likely try this at some point, as i like the ideas around it . . a more general …

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