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

Posted on 2024-04-09, 18:27

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by Shadzilla

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Cut a hole in the top of a thin client to fit a 44-pin IDE cable and a 4-pin CD Audio cable through. This, paired with a PCI Solo-1 card gives OPL-3 sound (ESFM), SB Pro emulation and CD-ROM (IDE) access as well as CD-Audio access (analog) under DOS. The drive is a standard IDE laptop drive, the …

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Re: Help - Voodoo 2 SLI performance

Posted on 2024-04-08, 19:11

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by Shadzilla

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I don't know how the VIA chip compares to a Coppermine P3, but I get approx. 2480 points in 3DMark2000 with a 700MHz Coppermine and V2 SLI, and that's with the default benchmark settings (1024x768x16 etc.). Same 3Dfx drivers as you, no tweaks.

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Re: RetroBox for late 90's to early 2000's games

Posted on 2024-04-07, 08:01

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-04-07, 07:07: I think NFS3 may have similar issues as well. In my experience on my LAN party machines NFS3 is fine with the 45.23 drivers on Windows 98, using Geforce 256 DDR, Geforce 2 GTS, Geforce 3, And Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB and 128MB 😀 Still looks better using Glide …

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

Posted on 2024-04-06, 18:35

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by Shadzilla

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I made time to strip down and clean the most recent Lian Li case I picked up. It's only a PC-7 but boy oh boy, do these things ever clean up well. A bit unconventional maybe, especially doing it in the shower... but alloy wheel cleaner is acidic enough to take any tarnishing off the raw aluminium …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2024-04-06, 08:05

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Superb work restoring that case, very nice job. Great build!

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Re: Thunderbird 1400 period correct psu and cooler

Posted on 2024-04-06, 07:59

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by Shadzilla

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I used an Enermax PSU with mine back in the day so you're on the right track there, although I don't see them for sale very often now. There are several FSP power supplies that have strong 5v rails as you mention, 300-350W. For my T'Bird 1400 system I'm using a Cooler Master SP5-6G31C which is …

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Re: Replacement 50mm fan for Slot A cooler?

Posted on 2024-04-05, 20:09

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by Shadzilla

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Ooo that looks ideal! Thank you, I'll give that a go 😀

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Re: Replacement 50mm fan for Slot A cooler?

Posted on 2024-04-05, 19:30

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by Shadzilla

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paradigital wrote on 2024-04-05, 18:30: The exact fan (Delta AFB0512HB) still seem to be available from the likes of DigiKey and Farnell. Ah, I should've specified the 'A-F00' bit at the end of the model number. Those fans that DigiKey and Farnell are selling are much lower CFM, and also only 2 …

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Re: Replacement 50mm fan for Slot A cooler?

Posted on 2024-04-05, 18:27

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by Shadzilla

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What do you mean by "pretty dead"? Have you tried re-lubricating it first? Yes I've disassembled it and cleaned and lubricated it, which has helped - it's mostly ok once it's warmed up - but it's still bad from cold. See if you can get something like a 2" to 2.5" pvc, ABS etc plumbing 45 degree …

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Replacement 50mm fan for Slot A cooler?

Posted on 2024-04-05, 17:13

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by Shadzilla

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Does anyone have any suggestions for a replacement fan for a pair of Coolermaster Slot A coolers? I have two heatsinks and one fan, and that fan is pretty dead. It's a 3 pin Delta AFB0512HB which runs at 6300 RPM and pushes 18 CFM: https://www.delta-fan.com/products/afb0512hb-af00.html I've found …

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

Posted on 2024-04-04, 19:27

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by Shadzilla

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Two things I was waiting on arrived today, a Slot A Athlon and a Voodoo3. It meant I could finally test my 'new old stock' Gigabyte motherboard, as well as the new arrivals. Looking good so far!!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-04, 19:24

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Nothing too exciting from me today, just this cute little Voodoo3 3000 AGP that arrived from a nice chap in Finland, that will be going into a Slot A Athlon build soon. I've never played with a Voodoo3 before and it joins my Banshee and Voodoo2 SLI 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-02, 16:54

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Kahenraz wrote on 2024-04-02, 13:13: Shadzilla wrote on 2024-04-02, 12:29: Looking forward to building my first Slot A system 😀 I've heard that these AMD systems need a very strong 5V rail, which doesn't seem to be a common feature in modern power supplies. If the system is unstable, this might be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-02, 12:29

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Picked this up today, Gigabyte GA-7IXE. Sold as new, although I believe it's from unsold pre-built computers (the seller has a bunch of these). There's some slight wear on the mounting holes that would support that. But it smells brand new, no dust, has no other signs of use. Just £50. I've got a …

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Re: Voodoo 2 and artifacts

Posted on 2024-04-01, 16:44

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by Shadzilla

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Which driver were you using before that was causing issues?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-01, 16:40

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by Shadzilla

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Very nice! I love this board, it was my first proper PC upgrade that I did, also with a K6-2 500. I bought myself a brand spanking new GA-5AA 3.2 last year :D Very nice!. A brand new one must have cost a fortune. Very lucky to get that. It was a bit expensive, but I wouldn't say outrageous for one …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-01, 10:16

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by Shadzilla

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Grabbed this Super socket 7 board Gigabyte GA-5AA Rev 3.2 with a K6-2 500 today. I have a Rev 1.1 (still need to upload this revision to retroweb) so excited to get this Rev 3.2. Hopefully it’s posting ok. 2C7EB5E3-0E3A-4050-A842-A844137F3ADA.jpeg Very nice! I love this board, it was my first …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-03-28, 07:45

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The Voodoo3 is going to get you more performance (the 3000 is about the same as V2 SLI), but I believe it's not quite as good for game compatibility. If you went the V2 route it would give you the opportunity to go SLI in the future which is always fun. If you really want 32bit support then the V2 …

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Re: Win98 Graphics Card Not Found

Posted on 2024-03-21, 08:46

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by Shadzilla

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Try the 45.23 drivers, and yes as above avoid any unofficial service packs (were there even any official service packs for Windows 98?!).

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Re: Son of Fat Bstd...a multi win OS PC

Posted on 2024-03-20, 08:32

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by Shadzilla

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IIRC Windows XP and Office XP are still legitimately activatable until today via the phone option. So I bet Win7 is also still activatable via that route at least... For Windows XP at least that might be country/region specific now. In the UK you can't activate XP online or by phone. But the …

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