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

Posted on 2023-05-23, 05:59

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Well, I'm up to 122 working GPUs. Assuming there aren't anymore that have managed to evade my 4 years in progress records keeping attempt. Which there probably are. Oh yeah and I grabbed a GTX 480 for $28 shipped. Fermi seems to have hit the bottom of its depreciation curve. Not a bad price for a …

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Re: New build - would like some input - pictures will follow once I decide on my parts

Posted on 2023-05-23, 00:53

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I am not nearly as much of an expert as others here but I have some experience with the Slot 1 platform (440BX and ZX). For the SD card I would recommend 64 GB or more for XP, only because you may find yourself installing a lot of games and running low on space. Much easier to just start with more …

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

Posted on 2023-05-22, 03:50

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I spent the afternoon testing ATX power supplies, found three that failed, two 600watt P4 era PSUs and a nice Cooler master 500watt that failed badly, the CM500 had massive over voltage on the +5v rail. The two 600watts that failed one was making a loud squealing noise that wasn't the fan, pretty …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-20, 15:58

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Looks like my Voodoo 3 3000 PCI is “only” a 2000, but it was still cheap at £50. The ones on eBay are all mentally priced! Arrived tested and working, which is nice. IMG_1938.jpeg IMG_1939.jpeg The PCI Voodoo 3, 4 and 5 cards go for a large premium over their AGP brothers, if you only paid 50 quid …

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Re: Voodoo 3 and Geforce 4 combined, how bad is it?

Posted on 2023-05-20, 12:07

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Which one gets used is determined in the BIOS, since the system has AGP that card is the default boot card, the only way to change this is to set the BIOS to default to the PCI GPU. So you'll have to boot using the AGP card first, go into the BIOS and set it to use the PCI GPU then reboot and switch …

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Re: Intel publishes a white paper on x86S, a 64-bit only architecture

Posted on 2023-05-20, 11:29

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-05-20, 10:20: Itanium's back? 😁 I hope Intel hasn't decided to move into necromancy, that corpse has been dead and buried for years now. Funnily enough I do have an Itanium CPU on my display shelf, cant remember how I got it but it sure does look pretty sitting up there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-20, 07:37

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Got this little socket 7 TX board a Shuttle Hot 569A Rev 1.3 with a Pentium 166 MMX and 16Mb of ram, might make a nice Voodoo1 build with a 233 MMX in there. Not sure how good this board is compared to other TX boards, what was considered the best of the TX boards ? Shuttle Hot 569A.jpg 569A Post. …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-17, 01:56

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Tiny11 has just been released, only need 2gb of ram and will run on pretty much a toaster, its really just a continuation of Tiny10.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-16, 14:00

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I got confused, as I thought DDR+423. That's 462... :) Silly mistake. There are 478 boards that support DDR2 but I'm not sure if they support Willamette core. They would support the 478 Willamette CPUs of which there were a whole range, only difference between the 423 and 478 versions was that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-16, 11:48

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There is no reason to avoid RDRAM if SDRAM is the alternative. It was insanely expensive back in the day, but it's very cheap now on the used market. I got confused, as I thought DDR+423. That's 462... :) Silly mistake. There are 478 boards that support DDR2 but I'm not sure if they support …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-16, 11:40

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We all love a nice deal on a nice bit of kit and I bought two motherboards recently both with CPUs. A Gigabyte 990FXA board with a Phenom II 1100T BE and 8gb of ram and cooler for 50 AUD (33.50 USD), I thought I would get outbid on this one since the CPU alone is worth more than 30 USD and the 990FX …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-05-14, 13:26

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I have a s478 ---> s423 adapter that works with Northwood CPUs. My adapter is an "Upgradeware". I'm not confident that the motherboard actually needs a BIOS that supports Northwood but that depends on how the motherboard and BIOS handles unsupported CPUs. :D The Asus P4T-E seems like a safe bet, …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-05-14, 08:43

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Prices may be coming down as inflation pressures dry up the pool of people who have a large disposable income to throw at retro parts, prices are falling in Australia for local parts but import costs and exchange rates have made international buying stupidly expensive off setting any savings from …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-05-14, 02:05

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I do have a rather cool Socket 478 to 423 interposer that lets me use a 2.6Ghz Northwood on a 423 board, it works really well even with the reduced bus speed of the 423 motherboard. I'm considering throwing some high res images of the interposer up here on Vogons for anyone who might be interested …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-13, 14:06

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Mentioned in another thread I had a 478 to 423 interposer and today I found a second one in new condition, really only wanted this one as it comes with the original mounting bracket for it. 478 to 423.jpg 478 to 423 back.jpg Adapter bracket.jpg Might end up using this one and keeping the other one …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-13, 09:15

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Don't forget that you'd probably have to change the heatsink as well, which bumps up the cost. It'd have to fit inside the case of the HP too. At stock clocks you might get away with the stock HP cooler, it wont be amazing and will run a little hotter but it should be fine, I wouldn't do this with …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-13, 09:10

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As product out-of-the-box, Velocity was worse than M64/Vanta. Probably true, but did anyone ever use it without unlocking the second TMU? 3dfx didn't exactly make it hard to do. I dont think there were too many in use outside of OEM systems, I have one in the collection for curiosity and its one of …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-13, 09:03

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All my ISA cards still work and they would be easy to fix if they some how stopped working. It’s NOT a secret that PCI video cards were plagued with poor design, bad SMB soldering and manufacturing process. Cheap components like capacitors. That why so many PCI video cards stopped working or …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-13, 07:52

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You’d be losing a bit of L2 cache per core going to the q9300. It might depend on the workload but my experience with the lga775 processors is L2 cache is king. You might be faster going to an E8600 or one of the quads with 6mb like the q9450 or q9550.. At a guess with the C2D that's in this board …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-13, 03:35

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Hello All I have an old PC here that is in its twilight years... an HP corporate SFF with a C2D e6550 Win 10 runs ok but I was curious if a Q9300 would help breath a bit more life into it. They're fairly cheap on eBay. Thoughts? More Ram and a SSD would likely speed it up more than a Q9300 would, …

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