Great info everyone, thank you. This raised a few specific questions for me: - Would it be reasonable to say that Turions are the "mobile" version of Athlon64? - Were Turions available for regular desktop PC mainboards? - How do Turions stand among Athlon(64?) and Semprons regarding raw performance? …

Wow, thank you guy for sharing so much insight on the platform. I suspected there was much more going on for them than the vague impressions I had about them... Another itch starting to grow in me thanks to this forum 😜 ....

Hi! As the subject says, I am curious about what are the benefits you find in those Athlons an Turions as a retro platform. Not that I have anything against them, as I have personally used similar CPUs in their day, it ' s just that I think I understand why people chooses a Pentium I or a Core 2 Duo …

What is this forum doing to me?? Less than two months ago I wrote in my very first post : I realized I don't really have enough love for retro IBM PCs as I thought... I kinda remembered how bulky and heavy and noisy they are and any vague impulse for rebuilding one went down the drain... If it was …

GuillermoXT wrote on 2021-05-20, 14:46: Got this cute Mainboard today...can't wait for the weekend and build the system up 😁 IMG-20210520-WA0001.jpeg Ah! Gorgeous, so clean and simple.... Actually, lurking these forums is starting to drag me to the dark retro-side and I've been feeling an itch to …

Hi! Thanks for the feedback! I didn't know they existed in that format but yeah, that is the kind of thing I was wondering. But also (and I failed to mention this earlier) I was wondering if the 120 GB size (or above) could be problematic for the BIOS, although I reckon that for that era drives of …

Hi there, I what is a very unusual event I just spotted a ad for an HP T5565 Thin Client at a reasonable price (for these latitudes). I don' t even know if I will be able to make any use of it (too bad it doesn't have PCI nor DOS SB support :-( ) but I might still get it.... Does anyone know If I …

Given that you already covered many of the basics I will go for some odd possibilities : ¿Did yo try manually setting DNS servers of fast providers, i.e. Google's DNS? (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) ¿Have you checked your router's config to confirm there is no binding of you PC's MAC address to an IP address …

oh man! THIS is the kind of awesomeness that makes me regret having let got my 486 and K5 like 20 years ago : '( Kudos!

Great, so I think I'll start with XP first and see if something really forces me to something else. Thanks for all the feedback!

Hi guys! thank you for your warm and helpful replies! I do have an XP license and also a disk image of a clean install with the OS activated back in the day, that should be no problem. I also just started to get acquainted with DOSBox very recently so I could easily combine those two I believe. But …

Yeah, it is of course much more convenient, but I reckon that keeping, maintaining, refurbishing those old systems is a goal in itself and not a justa a meaning to use old software. And I admit to have some envy for those who have the time and dedication that it takes. ABD.

Hi there, I'm new to this forums and my searches didn't bring any relevant posts for this question, so I hope this is the right section for this. I am considering commissioning my former PC (Core i3 3rd. Gen, 8 GB RAM) to some gaming but unsure of which windows version would be best. As an example, …

Hey there, This os my very first post here and when I saw this thread I figured it would be nicer to start with a confession to introduce myself rather than a "help me" first post. So, I must confess that by browsing many of these threads ( ' been lurking for a while now... ) I realized I don't …