Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-08, 13:19

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I was looking for a slot 1 BX board to replace the Via one i was using. I found this lot for 9€+4€ shipping : Filename IMG_20240308_134801.jpg File size 1.87 MiB Views 535 views Abit BE6 and BH6. Boards are untested but said to be unused. Super clean, caps looks ok. I'm optimistic. Will use one of …

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Re: Computers based on the 80188 processor

Posted on 2024-03-08, 07:40

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https://i.postimg.cc/8jPWnMfj/proc.png Please tell which computers were produced with an 80188 processors. https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80188/index.html Hi. Not a very common CPU. There is a list of systems using it on the wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186 I don't think …

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Re: Some kind of record price?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 13:29

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I was fantasizing about adding this to vgamuseum.info but there was no way I could hide 5000 $CAD missing from my wife and our joint bank account. So this unreleased video card sold for 3,750.00$; a working BitBoys Pyramid3D. I guess there was someone that would and could pay that price for a piece …

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Re: Motherboards with AGP and PCIe

Posted on 2024-03-05, 13:24

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I have both 939Dual-Sata2 and 4CoreDual-Sata2 Well... they are not as versatile as you could imagine. I wanted to use them as a "universal" test system... but it turns out that the 939Dual-Sata2 is just hit or miss with some cards. Some just won't POST while being 100% functional on other systems. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-25, 12:21

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Excellent find :) Good graphics and a cool running CPU make for a great little system. These Pentium M systems with good graphics cards (where the graphics chips haven't failed) are really excellent little systems, especially now there's SBEMU for DOS games. I've got an Acer Travelmate 8000 for a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-24, 15:07

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My mistake, it's a different model. CMX512-3200XLPT 2,2,2,5 timings Filename IMG_20240224_160327.jpg File size 1.01 MiB Views 639 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-24, 12:32

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New. Old. Stock. You love to see it :D And my nForce2/Athlon XP build will love it too. I bought those exact sticks from Newegg in 2002 for my Athlon XP build and I had to RMA them because they wouln't hit CAS2 for me. Newegg sent me a matched pair that said TwinX on them, which worked fine. Funny …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-23, 16:37

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Aldi has their own knock-off Biscoff range now; they do both the biscuits (I'm no huge fan of Lotus biscuits, but from the few 'originals' that I've tried, these are pretty close, imo) and a spread which looks like a very thin, smooth peanut butter. We've had the biscuits a couple of times and …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-23, 00:39

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Speaking of food I always have a challenge getting stuff in the uk cuz it’s not popular to British taste It quite funny as I shared stuff I got for st Nicolas with my colleagues and they asked me how I could eat this stuff. (Speculas, brok speculas, taai taai, pepernoten and kruid noten. Spéculoos …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-22, 20:09

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Please, more about food, traditions, beautiful places and not politics, wars and XXX against YYY This topic is on a slippery slope and we'only on page 3

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-21, 11:27

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Not sure there are a lot of French here. I can tell you about the riots, strikes and food.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-16, 13:36

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It came up in my "Vintage Computer" search, I filter by Australia Only and Newly Listed, it had only just gone up and I just jumped at it because of how clean it looked and I needed a nice AT keyboard for the 486. I too have a lot of saved searches, I find switching between the US and AU ebay with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-15, 18:36

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And i quite like the case You can have it if you want, just pop over to the UK! But really it's pretty beaten up, the top panel has scratches and light rust, front panel is scratched up with bits missing... I'd have no guilt scrapping this one. Thanks but i try to limit myself to 4 or 5 systems in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-15, 08:57

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Picked up this 'mystery box' last night for next to nothing. The ad didn't have any specs, just a few not great photos, but I could see a graphics card in there with VGA and DVI, PCI slots, and what I thought looked like a P4 cooler. So I took a punt. It's turned out to be an AGP FX5200 card, 768MB …

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Re: [Advice wanted] Pentium 3 450mhz budget soundcard + GPU for DOS / Win98 games

Posted on 2024-02-13, 18:41

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All I'm asking: What GPU and Soundcard combo can I get for a good price that would give me great compatibility for both DOS and Win98 games? Assuming you have AGP: Geforce 2 MX400 or Geforce 4 MX440 or Geforce MX460 These are affordable, accessible and compatible. ISA, for DOS: ESS AudioDrive …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-13, 17:59

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MSI did a ti200 128MB too that I know of, got one, turns out 128MB wasn't really worth it until 2 gens later. I have a 256MB version of Matrox Parhelia. That's also an unusual amount for 2002 Amount in line wih your avatar... for a clean and sharp image! Yes, even on three monitors ! I don't even …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-13, 13:40

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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-02-13, 04:26: MSI did a ti200 128MB too that I know of, got one, turns out 128MB wasn't really worth it until 2 gens later. I have a 256MB version of Matrox Parhelia. That's also an unusual amount for 2002

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Re: "Windows95man" - Finland Eurovision Song Contest entry 2024

Posted on 2024-02-11, 20:27

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Not sure if it's true but i've heard that the winning country must host the event the year after. And some suggests that counties are loosing on purpose to avoid paying for that. If there was money to win, I'm sure France would have sent the Daft Punk, David Guetta or Justice. Back in 2014, Denmark …

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Re: "Windows95man" - Finland Eurovision Song Contest entry 2024

Posted on 2024-02-11, 19:21

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Not sure if it's true but i've heard that the winning country must host the event the year after. And some suggests that counties are loosing on purpose to avoid paying for that. If there was money to win, I'm sure France would have sent the Daft Punk, David Guetta or Justice.

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Re: Changing jumper setting while the system is running

Posted on 2024-02-09, 13:40

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Dorunkāku wrote on 2024-02-07, 10:41: I just found out: A Gigabyte GA 586HX can switch FSB while it is running. The key combo Crtl+ALT+Numpad[-] switches to 50Mhz FSB. Ctrl+ALT+Numpad[+] switches back to the jumpered FSB. Nice ! Not sure if it is a widespread feature but i will try that just i case …

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