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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 46940 of 52354, by frankmonk

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Got a nice X58 Asus Rampage III extreme and i7-990x Extreme Edition for a good price.
It's finally time to set up a windows xp build despite having a bunch other projects...
What cooler would you guys recommend for LGA1366?

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Reply 46941 of 52354, by Socket3

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frankmonk wrote on 2022-11-03, 20:39:

What cooler would you guys recommend for LGA1366?

I'm using a thermalright hr02 (macho) on my x58 build (xeon x5680 / gigabyte x58-ud7) and I'm extremly happy with it.

Reply 46942 of 52354, by BetaC

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I picked up a cute little Lamp yesterday.

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It's old enough to be able to boot OS9 natively.

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Reply 46943 of 52354, by appiah4

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Sometimes posts like this tempt me to buy a few CRT monitors.. Then I realize I have no place to store them (my C1984S is handful enough) and I despair and give up..

I should get at least one good 800x600 LCD though..

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Reply 46944 of 52354, by crazii

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Bought a NEC versa s260:
Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.1GHz,
VT82C686B which probably has SB emulation.
Haven't tested it yet.

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The VIASBCFG and VIAFMTSR runs ok but games have no sound.

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Reply 46945 of 52354, by Socket3

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Part 2 of the CRT lot:

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15" Hyundai - very low hour - very bright and perfect geometry.

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This one is apparently also in great working order - or so my sister tells me. She nicked it to use for her retro PC.

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Found these at the scrap heap today. Went to deliver some scrap metal (assorted aluminum and steel car parts) as well as some dead car batteries - and saw this little guy sitting on top of a pile of CRT TVs in a corner of the yard. Asked if I could have it and if I can have a look around - and the owner agreed. Payed 5$ for the monitor and the speakers - and got 112$ for the scrap metal and batteries. It was a good day 😀

Reply 46946 of 52354, by mrfusion92

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BetaC wrote on 2022-11-04, 06:04:

I picked up a cute little Lamp yesterday.
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It's old enough to be able to boot OS9 natively.

Very nice! I bought an iBook G3 (it should be a late 2002 model) just yesterday for the same reason, Mac OS 9 native support.

Reply 46947 of 52354, by Shponglefan

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-11-04, 08:43:

Sometimes posts like this tempt me to buy a few CRT monitors.. Then I realize I have no place to store them (my C1984S is handful enough) and I despair and give up..

Storage is certainly one factor given the size and weight of CRT monitors.

Maintenance is another. I have maybe a dozen CRTs and at least half of them need some work performed (recapping, fixing buzzing, etc.).

The holy grail for CRTs would be finding NOS units. Those should be good for at least a few years until potentially needing repair.

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Reply 46948 of 52354, by MMaximus

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HanSolo wrote on 2022-11-02, 16:33:

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Then I finally found the case I've been looking for since quite some time: a Chieftec Dragon CS601. I still think it looks better than nearly all modern cases. Or maybe I'm just too old 😀
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Nice! Did you find a NOS one? I found one a few years ago and although it's not made by Chieftec it definitely looks like the exact same case

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Reply 46949 of 52354, by liqmat

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BetaC wrote on 2022-11-04, 06:04:

I picked up a cute little Lamp yesterday.
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It's old enough to be able to boot OS9 natively.

I am no Apple fan, but I always liked that design. I read somewhere it was quite the engineering challenge to fit everything into a small round dome. Especially the motherboard design. Anyway, I had no idea your "lamp"reference was a real thing. Someone makes lamps out of the chassis shell. Cute. Also, if you are ever bored and feel like a project this guy did some major upgrading on his.

Reply 46950 of 52354, by bearking

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Bought this pair of GPUs the other week. I know they are not so retro, but still I it's a nice find for me. The boxes and the contents are in like new condition, the cards also are in very good shape, just a little bit dusty.

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The packages are complete except one SLI bridge and both the TV-out cables are missing. Compared the package to the pics from a HotHardware review from April 2005...

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Not 100% consecutive serials, but pretty close, I would say 😀

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The cards will be a perfect fit for an SLI build based on the ASUS P8N-SLI Premium + Athlon 64 X2 4800+ combo I bought two years ago.

Reply 46951 of 52354, by candle_86

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Aopen AX34-II Motherboard with 3x512mb PC133, Pentium III 800
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Maxi Gamer Pheonix 3dfx Banshee
430VX board that needs a new dallas

Reply 46952 of 52354, by BetaC

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mrfusion92 wrote on 2022-11-04, 15:28:
BetaC wrote on 2022-11-04, 06:04:

I picked up a cute little Lamp yesterday.
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It's old enough to be able to boot OS9 natively.

Very nice! I bought an iBook G3 (it should be a late 2002 model) just yesterday for the same reason, Mac OS 9 native support.

For me it wasn't the biggest factor as I have a G3 iMac and PowerMac, which can also run OS9. Really, playing the Marathon 2 theme song using the Pro Speakers loudly as a joke is probably the biggest thing I'll do in OS9.

liqmat wrote on 2022-11-04, 16:26:
BetaC wrote on 2022-11-04, 06:04:

I picked up a cute little Lamp yesterday.
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It's old enough to be able to boot OS9 natively.

I am no Apple fan, but I always liked that design. I read somewhere it was quite the engineering challenge to fit everything into a small round dome. Especially the motherboard design. Anyway, I had no idea your "lamp"reference was a real thing. Someone makes lamps out of the chassis shell. Cute. Also, if you are ever bored and feel like a project this guy did some major upgrading on his.

Believe me, having torn two down in the process of getting one working model, they're hellish to work inside, especially in the late models where they had more going on.

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Reply 46953 of 52354, by HanSolo

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MMaximus wrote on 2022-11-04, 16:10:
HanSolo wrote on 2022-11-02, 16:33:

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Then I finally found the case I've been looking for since quite some time: a Chieftec Dragon CS601. I still think it looks better than nearly all modern cases. Or maybe I'm just too old 😀
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Nice! Did you find a NOS one? I found one a few years ago and although it's not made by Chieftec it definitely looks like the exact same case

It is used but in very good condition apart from one scratch. It popped up in local ads about 25km away from me. 6 years ago stupid me gave away this exact same case because I thought I'd never need it.
There are several variations of the design around including the front-USB of your case. I have another one with a fan-opening in the side door. But the design of your front-door is new to me.

Reply 46954 of 52354, by Shponglefan

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Got a couple Roland MIDI connector boxes for my LAPC-I and RAP-10 cards.

Though as I understand it, the MCB-10 can be used with any standard MIDI/joystick ports. I do wish it had at least one more MIDI out though. Looks like there is room on the box, so dunno why they didn't include that.

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Reply 46956 of 52354, by Kahenraz

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Shponglefan wrote on 2022-11-05, 16:29:

Got a couple Roland MIDI connector boxes for my LAPC-I and RAP-10 cards.

Though as I understand it, the MCB-10 can be used with any standard MIDI/joystick ports. I do wish it had at least one more MIDI out though. Looks like there is room on the box, so dunno why they didn't include that.

Oh, that's nice! I have a LAPC-I as well, but not the I/O box.

Reply 46957 of 52354, by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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My mainboards finally arrived.

FIC PT-2006 does POST.
CD drive gets detected, but I can neither boot Win98 nor UBCD. Tested different drives and cables.
Chipset is 430VX. My 430HX boards can boot from CD without issues. Am I missing something?
Battery is socketed, so dead Dallas isn't the issue.
CPU was a Pentium 75, jumpered to 2x66MHz. What a madman! 😁

FIC PT-2000 does not POST. No beeps.
It was missing all the jumpers. Studied the manual and am pretty sure that I did set the jumpers correctly.
Also no Dallas.

Asus PCI/I-486SP3 does also not POST. No beeps.
Maybe the Dallas is dead? I once had a board which also didn't post until the battery was replaced.

Took the opportunity to also test an Asus P/I-P55T2p4.
Board does POST but complains that the Dallas is empty. Can't boot from CD either, which it should be able to do. Maybe because of the Dallas?
After I swapped the CPU and put in a MMX233, it's shown as 225MHz. BIOS is pretty old (1996). Might that be the reason?
Board needs to cool down for a few minutes, before it can be started again. Looks like someone already replaced the 2 capacitors in the bottom right corner.

Reply 46958 of 52354, by Horun

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RaiderOfLostVoodoo wrote on 2022-11-06, 02:57:

Can't boot from CD either, which it should be able to do. Maybe because of the Dallas?

Curious why you are not test booting from a floppy drive. Booting from HD or CD would be a much later test for me for first testing an old motherboard... just saying 😀

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Reply 46959 of 52354, by BitWrangler

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CD boot was not a guaranteed feature, only becoming more and more common until it was nearly ubiquitous, I came across a 2000s board that didn't have a CD boot option and was rather amazed. Can't recall though which it was at the moment. That goes for motherboards as well as in era optical drives, though I think the drives were more ahead of the curve and got to be mostly bootable by 8x speed.

Though the 2006 does support it, but not as default option, has to be specifically enabled...

"Boot SequenceAllows the system BIOS to first try to boot the operating system from theselected disk drive.The options are: A, C (Default); C, A; C, CDROM, A;CDROM, C, A." in the BIOS Features menu.

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