Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-18, 04:40

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Is there any advantage to the 7800GS over the 6000 series? I skipped the whole 7000 series, as I felt that the 6800 GT was good enough for everything I wanted to throw at it until the 8800 GT rolled around. Not really, there are a lot of other issues that would make you not want one but that also …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-18, 04:28

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Well I just bought 3 Quadro 3500s (GeForce 7900GS) for $5 each. SHIPPED. Going to try to figure out how to flash them to GeForce cards. Seller has at least 10 more: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266132993924 (I think this is one time an exception to the eBay link rule would fit? Pretty unambiguously a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-17, 16:43

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Well I just bought 3 Quadro 3500s (GeForce 7900GS) for $5 each. SHIPPED. Going to try to figure out how to flash them to GeForce cards. Seller has at least 10 more: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266132993924 (I think this is one time an exception to the eBay link rule would fit? Pretty unambiguously a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-17, 15:44

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Well I just bought 3 Quadro 3500s (GeForce 7900GS) for $5 each. SHIPPED. Going to try to figure out how to flash them to GeForce cards. Seller has at least 10 more: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266132993924 (I think this is one time an exception to the eBay link rule would fit? Pretty unambiguously a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-17, 15:29

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Well I just bought 3 Quadro 3500s (GeForce 7900GS) for $5 each. SHIPPED. Going to try to figure out how to flash them to GeForce cards. Seller has at least 10 more: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266132993924 (I think this is one time an exception to the eBay link rule would fit? Pretty unambiguously a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-17, 15:19

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Well I just bought 3 Quadro 3500s (GeForce 7900GS) for $5 each. SHIPPED. Going to try to figure out how to flash them to GeForce cards. Seller has at least 10 more: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266132993924 (I think this is one time an exception to the eBay link rule would fit? Pretty unambiguously a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-17, 12:27

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Why couldn't AMD just put the model designation on there? I don't know why they did that with some of their chips. Makes it such a mess to decipher unless you're an AM3 collector already. Dont even get me started on that ..fuck their stupidly huge range of AM2/AM3 CPUs that all fucking overlap each …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-17, 11:40

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Some might see these as not retro enough but they are old enough, Grabbed a few nice AMD CPUs for the collection. Athlon 64 4000+.jpg Pretty sure this is the top single core Athlon for 939, grabbed it for 98se Use. (Ignoring the FX 55/57 chips which are unobtanium or are stupidly priced) Phenom II …

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Re: Radeon 9700 Pro on the way out?

Posted on 2023-03-17, 11:14

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stef80 wrote on 2023-03-17, 10:19: On NOS cards it goes off easily. On used cards it's 1+ hour job with chemicals, heat, toothpicks and razor blade. Never really had that issue even with used cards, no .. Ive had one card be a bitch about it and it was a Geforce 4 Ti that looked like it had been …

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Re: Radeon 9700 Pro on the way out?

Posted on 2023-03-17, 09:20

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stef80 wrote on 2023-03-17, 09:13: That thermal adhesive is pure evil 😉. That's the first thing I deal with when refurbing R300 card. Freeze spray or 30 mins in the freezer fixes the adhesive if its epoxy based, used that method on a few cards now !

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-17, 07:41

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kolderman wrote on 2023-03-17, 07:14: What's so special about it? Rarity really, nothing more its not significantly more powerful than the PR166.

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Re: Philosophical question - Better damaged NOS or opened and repaired.

Posted on 2023-03-17, 00:43

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I prefer known working, including recapped, over NOS but likely dead. Got to get my head around recapping, but at 60 years old and no soldering experience in the last 30 years, I lack confidence more than skill :) Same here I want a board that has been used and is confirmed to be working, recapped …

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Re: Modern retro-comptible monitor?

Posted on 2023-03-16, 15:04

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You can't compete with CRT motion sharpness on middle-tones transitions ( not on high contrast ones though ), at the cost of eye strain. Everything else is subjective or outright inferior to modern display technologies. I have a few CRTs, I cant use them for very long before my brain wants to kill …

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Re: Socket 939 XP project

Posted on 2023-03-16, 08:08

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-03-16, 06:57: Is that the correct memory slot occupation for dual channel operation? depends on the board honestly, but it looks correct. Just looked up the manual. Filename Screenshot 2023-03-16 184123.png File size 79.99 KiB Views 1141 views File comment Memory config

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-16, 07:52

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You're right. I can confirm this quote. I didn't recall that the Creature demo used the per-pixel lighting feature. It's great at we do have at least one demo. Here is a link to the article I was thinking of previously. Does anyone know if the example image is from a demo or a game? https://web. …

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Re: Radeon HD 3450 running in Win 98?

Posted on 2023-03-16, 06:50

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Hi, me again. A mate gave me his old AGP Radeon HD 3450 and I was wondering if it would be possible to get it to run under Windows 98? With it being an AGP card rather than PCI-E... So, do you guys know of any ATI (Catalyst or whatever) driver version that would make this gpu work under Win 98? …

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Re: Modern retro-comptible monitor?

Posted on 2023-03-16, 04:17

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ptr1ck wrote on 2023-03-15, 23:42: There are no monitors made that do what you want. If so, all of us geeks would buy them up. There are external VGA > HDMI hardware scalers that could handle that task, might be a bit expensive for the better ones.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-16, 03:18

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So fun fact GeForce2MX (Along with all other GF2s) and ATI Radeon both support pixel shaders 1.0a, but neither fully supports Vertex shaders (Radeon has some quasi Vertex capabilities via ATI specific OGL extensions that almost nothing supports, GeForce has zero Vertex support). Thus both are …

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Re: XP Build - nForce 790i motherboard OR X58 classified intel board??

Posted on 2023-03-15, 13:25

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X58 also supports SLI, on some boards at least. But you need GPU driver new enough to recognise the X58 chipset and then allow SLI. Old drivers for GF6/7/8 for instance only work on nForce chipsets. IIRC X58 supports it by default, X58 was Intel's response to nVidia bending the knee and agreeing to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-15, 13:15

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IIRC the 295 also had a dual board model, I might be wrong but I swear I remember there being one that used the 285 dies and had 4gb of shared memory instead of the 280 ones. (Possibly one of the crazy ASUS Mars models) The original 295 was 2 boards. After they had issues with that one, they went …

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