Re: The AT cases with built-in stereo speakers thread!

Posted on 2022-03-20, 08:16

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rant about the general state of eBay: What really pisses me off: Sellers who actually manage (somehow, apparently by advanced stupidity) to put really specific info for a rare piece of hardware in the title, which triggers my search alert... but are actually selling something much inferior of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 23:04

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Be sure to add a tiny TO-220 to the GPU to keep it cool. Those things run hot. Its getting a nice heatsink and fan that I bought from China a while ago, bought 10 of them for 25 dollars, made out of AL with a clear fan with blue LED in it, looks nice when running. But a token TO-220 heatsink would …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 23:03

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I don't think baking a card is ever a good idea. You're subjecting parts of the card to a dry heat that were never designed for that kind of environment. This could affect the reliability of electrolytic capacitors and other components on the board. Quartz crystals are particularly vulnerable to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:54

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Have you repasted the card ? seems odd for it to get that hot. No, just gave it a good wash with water and dishwasher soap, after that I kept it in the oven for like half an hour @ 50 deg C to dry out... Really, I cannot keep my finger on the card, exactly under the GPU. But the card is working …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:53

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I ran across a Untested Riva 128ZX for 20 bucks which is a pretty good price since all the others are priced a hell of a lot higher. Be sure to add a tiny TO-220 to the GPU to keep it cool. Those things run hot. Its getting a nice heatsink and fan that I bought from China a while ago, bought 10 of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:44

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it may be a later revision of that card, I'm glad its alive and functioning, I guess the only way to be 100% sure is to run some 3dmark on it and let it get warm and see what it does. That caps might just be filtering/smoothing and so may not be needed or they could help with power delivery when …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:30

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Compatibility layers will always have an overhead. I disagree for the most part. Compatibility layers, as what I experienced is just a small tweak to the default experience. Windows doesn't usually emulate old programs in software, it just changes what is needes according to the situation. Its a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:26

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it may be a later revision of that card, I'm glad its alive and functioning, I guess the only way to be 100% sure is to run some 3dmark on it and let it get warm and see what it does. That caps might just be filtering/smoothing and so may not be needed or they could help with power delivery when …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:15

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Finally have all the parts for my Socket 7 DOS box, well all the parts except two fully compatible DOS GPUs, I could have shoved a S3 Virge or ET4000 in it but its a SS7 build and it deserves better than some 3 dollar Virge so during my eBay wanderings I ran across a Untested Riva 128ZX for 20 bucks …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-19, 21:34

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I may be in the minority but I actually like 11 Nar I'm confident that people who rage about windows are well and truly in the minority - it's just an OS and based on my experience, and the almost zero "support requests" I get from family members these days, it's managing to do its job and stay out …

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Re: what projects have you yet to get to?

Posted on 2022-03-19, 19:59

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Rebuild my 2600k on a rampage extreme board and find a purpose for it. Might need a new case for it too. Also have an Ezra T build to finish assembling eventually.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 11:46

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Technically this aint "Computer Hardware" but it is modern hardware and it is being used too ...uhh creatively fix Computer Hardware and it was a needed purchase. Dremel Lion.jpg Dremel Bits.jpg Got a couple of Dallas RTCs that need beheading and a case that needs a few "minor" modifications, after …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 07:34

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I think I bought my 9800 SE from this guy. I hope he's okay. I'm reminded of how I sold a motherboard on Ebay the day of the Camp Fire, and I had to message the buyer that I couldn't get to it, I didn't know when I would be able to get to it, and I might find that it (and everything else I owned) …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 22:54

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11 wasn't just incomplete but it's pretty broken for me too. Idk how but Safe Mode doesn't work, instead I get the following: did you try turning it off and then on again ? that tends to fix Windows, it doesnt like the dark. This problem has seen the new year even and I tried turning off and on, …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 21:36

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2022-03-18, 09:32: 11 wasn't just incomplete but it's pretty broken for me too. Idk how but Safe Mode doesn't work, instead I get the following: did you try turning it off and then on again ? that tends to fix Windows, it doesnt like the dark.

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 21:35

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The massive 'entropy' (read: number of possible states) present in broad-scale modern software is staggering. Just compare the numbers of lines of code in a large 1995 program compared with a large 2020 one. (then, for extra laughs, add "permanent network connection to the entire world" into that …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 21:34

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https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing People still use the Windows default file explorer ? For everyway MS fucks windows there is a way to unfuck it, is it a little bit of work . .sure, but if you hate adds and other unwanted crap then you can …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 09:12

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As for advertising on Windows 11 ...what advertising ? https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing People still use the Windows default file explorer ? For everyway MS fucks windows there is a way to unfuck it, is it a little bit of work . .sure, but …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 08:42

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Windows 11 is basically Windows 10 with a big annual update that screws up a lot of privacy options and sets up in-OS advertising in a way that would probably be too legally hairy to enforce without changing the product's name. The only tangible benefit is the new task scheduler if you have one of …

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Re: Why did they rush Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-03-18, 07:32

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Because Windows 11 is Windows 10 or did you think they just made an brand new OS >? They are one and the same and what applies to 10 also applies to 11, there is no need to update web sites for knowledge bases due to the fact they are the same OS. So they didn't rush Win11 they just did a normal …

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