I got this Hercules Prophet 3 Geforce 3 without a cooler yesterday. Slapped aliexpress heatsink on it and seems to work fine. Unfortunately someone has removed the original cooler with way too much force and damaged the traces. Any ideas what would be the correct way to "repair" this? It's visual …

I am pretty sure I have Athlon Thunderbird 1000C model with Abit KT7-Raid 100MHz bus. It is set 1GHz 10 x 100MHz and works fine. I cannot comment on performance differences though.

CPU upgrade was a success! Couple benchmarks before versus after below in pictures with top row e6300 and bottom e5800. 3Dmark 2001, 05 and 06 had a huge gain in going from e6300 @ 1.793ghz stock to e5800 3.214ghz. Memory was bios defaults 533mhz. GPU was G92 Asus 8800GTS. I seriously cannot …

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-14, 13:29: Normally you should set the BIOS to defaults before you flash it, yup it seems weird but well you just experienced the reason why 😁 Forgot to mention I did that aswell just before flashing. Default 3.10 BIOS and XP 32bit SP4 with no other programs open.

Has anyone encountered any weird behaviour after 775DUAL-VSTA Bios flash? I flashed from 3.10 to pctreiber 3.19a with AFUWIN 4.40 which is recommended way. I clicked the program all blocks and Destroy CMOS checksum like the guide said. The 1st boot said CMOS checksum error and BIOS menus load slower …

I have used Asus Riva TNT2 VIVO 32mb and it's been great with DOS / w98SE pairing. Better image quality than 2 cheaper oem tnt2 variants, one stock tnt2 and m64. Lacks in power for anything after 1999 in 3d. Using win xp system for newer games than that.

Today I stopped by a thrift store I've never been to before, and they had a tower for sale! It's an independent shop and whatever written or unwritten policy that causes St. Vincent DePaul and all of the other thrift stores around here to never sell such things isn't a policy they observe. So I got …

HWInfo works well with all systems I have used. https://www.hwinfo.com Working with win98 too: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Could try to look locally cheap old OEM units like FSP 250 - 350w. 5V rail on those usually has 22-28A.

I had the same board a while back in use with Sempron 2600+ and Athlon XP 2400+. Nice Universal AGP board. Actually had a similar booting problem but with latest BIOS. Board would give beep codes for no gpu signal or no ram installed and reseting cmos jumper would boot it sometimes. I solved it by …

How hot does the chipset get on these boards? My board didn't have basically thermal paste on it. Just white dried stuff on the sides. Also 2 spring loaded mounts are not optimal for so small chip. I had 2 corners cut on the chip from some time gotten hit from CPU cooler installation. I decided to …

Like most have said, they aren't anything special hardware wise. Your run of the mill p35 / P45 board with mediocre vrm and overclock. Pretty reliable and all solid caps so they aren't that difficult to find either. MSI made a bunch of interesting ddr2 / ddr3 combo boards though. Some had even the …

I can't recommend a particular driver version but Omega drivers are nice addition to all 9500, 9700SE, 9550, 9800SE owners. 9x00SE cards can unlock 4 Pixel Shaders/TMU/ROP which give a nice ~20% boost to a PRO card level. Same goes for a few 9500 / 9550 models with L-shaped memory config and 256bit …

That Zalman cooler is really cool looking with a windowed case. I hope it's enough for that i7 since they weren't the best in cooling. Build looks exactly like it's from 2009-2010. :D I can recommend getting 3rd 2gb ram to max out triple channel even if 32bit xp doesn't utilize the actual ram. Also …

Happy owner of a FX 5900 Ultra! 😁 Very nice addition for occasional use in an athlon xp multiboot system.

Bought a ti4200 locally for 20$ sight unseen but it turned out to be something a bit more awesome :D IMG_20220106_205448.jpg IMG_20220106_205454.jpg IMG_20220106_220847.jpg A Gainward ti 4600. Im unsure of the exact model because someone had peeled backside stickers off. 300 or 325mhz core and …

Bought a ti4200 locally for 20$ sight unseen but it turned out to be something a bit more awesome :D IMG_20220106_205448.jpg IMG_20220106_205454.jpg IMG_20220106_220847.jpg A Gainward ti 4600. Im unsure of the exact model because someone had peeled backside stickers off. 300 or 325mhz core and …