Re: Warcraft 2 won't run at all on Windows 98 PC

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:41

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Windows 98 SE, pentium 3 1000mhz, 640mb ram, 3dfx voodoo3, aureal vortex 2 and awe64 gold for dos games. I'll try that out, ty At a guess it doesnt like the amount of ram you are using lol, it'll likely see that much and throw a fit at it, DOS itself has issues over 64mb of ram and windows 98se …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:26

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Don't say it too loud, let them continue to think Whatever Terascale was at the time of DX10 era and early DX11, it doesn't for very long time now. Radeon 4xxx support was dropped rather quickly, unlike Nvidia Tesla family of chips. 5xxx/6xxx are only decent if you live in the past, otherwise GCN …

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Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:23

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chris2021 wrote on 2022-01-29, 19:18: It's a beast, the largest tower I've personally seen. The multiuser systems from back then are very crude looking inside. Typically an open frame power supply. Mine is a little on the rough side, paint peeling, etc. Sounds like it could do with a new enamel …

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Re: Retro laptop with W98 using WPA2 (Netgear MA401)

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:19

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been reading this thread ...I think if a 98/95 laptop had no RJ45 Ethernet port and couldn't use WPA2 but had a PCMCIA port I would be thinking if I wanted a migraine from trying to brute force the issue or if I wanted to simply plug in a PCMCIA Ethernet card and use that instead. yup .. I would be …

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Re: Warcraft 2 won't run at all on Windows 98 PC

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:06

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What's the PC you are trying to run in on spec wise ? The 2001 error means that the version of Dos4gw you are using is incompatible/too old with your machine and you'll need to find a newer version of it, if you have other games that use it you can try copying across the dos4gw executable from there …

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Re: New to me Dell D610

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:03

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Back then, I was given a D600 and does works ok for awhile but slows down so much with time as software versions got upgraded. Had to repair then later on, blew again, had to replace motherboard. Was running XP all throughout. In other words not so great notebooks. Compared to better thinkpads with …

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Re: New to me Dell D610

Posted on 2022-01-29, 18:40

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I own a number of that series, a D630, D620, D800 and two D830s and they are rock solid little laptops, I bought new batteries for them all so I cant speak to the old batteries but the new ones have never skipped a beat. I took one of my D830s and upgraded it as far as I could .. its now running a …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 18:26

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Exactly and nVidia wants to push TDP even further for Hopper ..they are likely to push stock power draw well past 600 watts per GPU since they are using MCM, we might have to start using AIO cooled GPUs, I know an AIB is making a 1kw 3090ti for overclocking. If that's true, what is wrong with …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 17:56

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AMD and nVidia do make hot GPUs, 3090 is one recent example the 3870x2, 4870x2, 5790, 6990, 7990 being others ..or the entire Fermi series if you want an entire generation of space heaters, the reference models from nVidia were particularly bad. Starting from G80 Nvidia GPUs are hot. The Fermi was …

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Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 17:53

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chris2021 wrote on 2022-01-29, 17:42: And no sooner does 1 appear (albeit in questionable condition): https://www.ebay.com/itm/224812272485 That's a nice case, really like the look of it.

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 17:37

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Never had any heat problems with my Gigabyte HD 6970(6950), it has a Gelid icy vision rev2 and never reached 60 degrees Celsius, my Saphire HD7970 died because one fan failed and my XFX RX580 needed to be undervolted and an aggressive fan curve to stay under 65 degrees Celsius, wile I have an 5870 …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 16:16

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Terascale was fucking great.. HD4850/5850/6850 - you can't go wrong with any of these. Amazing workhorse cards for their time.. Don't say it too loud, let them continue to think they were bad so that everyone wants an Nvidia, and so they are cheaper ;) Well because of this thread it occurred to me …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2022-01-29, 16:01

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I have an issue with the PS2 connector. Post halts at KBC error. Appeared after I used an external keyboard to avoid errors with problematic keys on the stock keyboard. Prior signs of repair are there. A couple of R22 read 0.09 and 0.14 instead of 0.22 ohm Sounds like its cracked the solder joints …

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Re: IDE to Compact Flash Comprehensive test / Is it durable?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 15:38

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The nand in modern CF is the same as in SSDs so in theory it should last a considerably long time with normal use under windows 9x, assuming you do the right thing and run the machine with more ram than it needs to avoid hitting swap file usage and turn the swap file off totally or move the swap …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 13:46

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I bought a brand new Sapphire Dual X 2gb HD6970 for $100 on a budget build in 2016 when driver support ended. It seemed to shred through everything up until 2016, not sure how much a better a slightly more expensive 750ti would have held up. Fallout 4 was new and relevant and was solid at least on …

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Re: (K6-2+/3+ OWNERS SEE THIS) possible Cheap k6 3+ 570 chips.

Posted on 2022-01-29, 13:25

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NostalgicAslinger wrote on 2022-01-29, 11:28: HERE are very high quality Die Shots of an AMD K6-III+ 400 ATZ and K6-2+ 500 ACR! They are for the most part the exact same die, like the 2+ simply has fused off cache.

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Re: new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-29, 05:10

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Remember when some people said that 486 would never become retro? Because it's so mass-produced it's just cheap junk it's not interesting/it's boring/low quality. You are absolutely right btw. P4 is a nice platform though. Perhaps not the best but it's definitely not completely boring :P There's at …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-28, 21:54

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Its not that they are in vogue ... Thinking about it though, in true "Perfect Storm" fashion, just as crypto demand peaked, plague disruption hit, guess who was getting big into PC gaming after it was almost looking like dying out... Gen Z... all that Fortnite, LoL, Rocket League type stuff. Now …

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Re: Sound Blaster CT1600 overheating

Posted on 2022-01-28, 21:15

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To be honest, I don't think all three are defective at once. It is possible but unlikely. There must be another reason. Especially since it also affects different types LS244 and LS245. The only thing that suggests that all three have a defect is that they appear to be from the same manufacturer. …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-28, 20:34

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I found a gpu that always seems to be in stock https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-nvidia-quadro-gv100-32gb-graphics-card/apd/490-benn/parts-upgrades?gacd=9646510-1025-5761040-266794296-0&dgc=st&ds_rl=1282786&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7avZzqDV9QIVgSCtBh0viQ--EAQYByABEgLqX_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&nclid=n_ …

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