Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-29, 08:53

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by HangarAte2nds!

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I replaced the optical drive in my 2013 vintage IVB i7 Vaio laptop. Somehow I managed to get a working BD-RE drive for $13 on Amazon. Used, of course, though it hardly looked used. I am going to try installing XP on it but I am skeptical whether that drive will work in XP. But the DGPU is a …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-10-28, 07:56

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I am trying to get through the original version of Mafia. I thought it would be fun to play the original after having played the definitive edition. In some ways I like the original better. and in some ways I like the new version. The main thing that surprised me was how good the graphics actually …

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

Posted on 2021-10-28, 07:14

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by HangarAte2nds!

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A few weeks ago, I bought a USB floppy drive and was dismayed to find that the VST floppy is not supported under Windows 10. I actually built a Windows 7 rig primarily because I needed it to both access the modern internet and write stuff to floppy for older machines. Plus I had like 2 other use …

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

Posted on 2021-10-25, 09:19

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Another week, another P3 found at the dump... As the big sticker on the back of the system indicates, this is a P3-667. It had no RAM or HDD when I got it, but slapping a 256MB PC133 stick in it brought it back to life. Gonna have to look through my box of HDDs to see what I can dig up for this …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-17, 04:35

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Since I don't need this run-of-the-mill locked Pentium 2, nothing special Pentium 3, and I haven't used my Voodoo 3 in a year, I mounted them all on a wall. image0.jpg I have three shadowboxes of processors like this, backlit (one is adjustable RGB) I'm going to do another one just for 386s, and I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-17, 03:43

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Finally completely finished my Windows 7 retro build! Dell Opltiplex 780 Xeon X3220 @3GHz 6GB DDR3 1333 MHz Dell OEM Radeon R7 250 SB Audigy 2 USB 3 PCIe card 128GB SATA SSD (Boot) 128GB Micro SD via USB 3 adapter 1TB Seagate Barracuda SATA 6GB/s 7200RPM HDD TSST Super-Multi Optical Drive VST USB …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-17, 01:32

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Since I don't need this run-of-the-mill locked Pentium 2, nothing special Pentium 3, and I haven't used my Voodoo 3 in a year, I mounted them all on a wall. image0.jpg I am planning to do the same with some of the vintage hardware I have. I have some Socket 7, 478 and 775 CPUs I will never use in a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-17, 01:23

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by HangarAte2nds!

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I put some heatsinks on the R7 250 I use in my Win 7 rig on which I play many XP titles and some Vista/Win7 titles. The previous one I had quit on me and I suspect a bad VRM. Though the cooler works pretty well to cool the GPU, it doesn't cool anything else on the board. Since I will often run the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-17, 01:09

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by HangarAte2nds!

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It was free but I opened up 4 curb picked vintage machines today: 2xP450 on intel SE440 BX2 MBs, 2xP750 on intel CC820 MBs. 4xAntec tower cases and PSUs. 2x Seagate Medalist 3210 3.2GB, 1xSeagate U8 13GB. 2x3dLabs Oxygen V1 32MB AGP, 1xDiamond Stealth II S220 4MB PCI. 2xSB Vibra 16 CT4170 ISA, …

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-25, 10:32

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by HangarAte2nds!

in Marvin \ Video

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Maybe I got my wires crossed on the S3 thing. I tried to find the reference but gave up after 3 minutes because it is easier to just delete a line in my post. They literally take RTX dies which have defects in either the RT and/or Tensor cores but have enough good cuda cores to make a 1650 and just …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-09-25, 10:27

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by HangarAte2nds!

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I started up a Toshiba 430CDT that hadn't run in a year or so. The battery charged up just fine. I am not sure how much of a charge it will hold but I ran it on battery for a couple minutes and it still said 100% so not even close to being dead. Charge time of 4 hours was what would be expected …

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Re: "New" old stock CRT monitors

Posted on 2021-09-25, 10:07

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Hey all, As I'm tinkering with vintage builds, I thought it would be nice to add a CRT monitor to my stable of hardware. Currently, I'm using a couple LCD's but none of them are quite like the experience of using a CRT for certain games or software titles. I've been searching around and found a …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2021-09-25, 09:45

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Sometimes it's just a matter of re-living a past experience. For OS/2 Warp and late 90s early 2000s Linux, that is the case for me. I tried OS/2 Warp 4 when it was released. My thoughts were pretty meh. But I just found something called ArcaOS which is OS/2 Warp based that will run on a Pentium pro …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-09-25, 09:19

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Interesting. I built a P4 650 HT with a 7800GT for XP gaming. It never occurred to me that it might run 98. But calling it a "Windows 98 Gaming PC" is a bit spurious since it is total overkill for 98 and isn't really a machine that is likely to have originally had 98 running on it. I have 2 other …

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Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!

Posted on 2021-09-25, 08:47

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Why buy an AMD K6-II 450 or PII 233 when an overclocked MMX will work just about the same? The K6-II was weak and the PII still used a 66MHz bus speed. The P5A is a good board but it wasn't a particularly expensive board originally. That ASUS motherboard can handle K6-2 CPUs without any issues and …

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-25, 08:26

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by HangarAte2nds!

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I just got an AGP 6326 today (which is a development of the S3 Virge - for the guy who thought this was different, lol). It is a late production model and appears to have 16MB onboard. There can be issues with these cards in DOS apparently but a later driver release fixed most of the issues. I also …

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-25, 08:05

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-09-25, 07:57

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by HangarAte2nds!

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Here's my current work in progress I've finally found a nice case for my Pentium VLB, the current specs are:.. That's a neat rig! I like the colorful speed display. Nothing screams out "1995" as much as a computer that likes to brag about CPU speed. The VLB - no I/O thing caught me out recently …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT

Posted on 2021-09-25, 06:58

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by HangarAte2nds!

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i got a 330cdt from my grandad, i used to play heretic and red alert on this back in 1998 at the time running w95, i wiped the hdd couple of years ago and found the laser unit doesnt move position, replacement drives were easy to find on ebay at the time, now nothing, any ideas for a fix? or any …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT

Posted on 2021-09-24, 04:48

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by HangarAte2nds!

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I got a 430 last year as part of a lot of junk computers. I did start it up to verify it worked but haven't done anything with it yet. Surprisingly, the battery is not swollen and it did take a charge of some kind last year. I ran games on a similar Satellite Pro with a 486DX4-100 back in the day …

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