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Reply 47840 of 52352, by BitWrangler

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Yes, outgoing memory tech gets a dead cat bounce as availability dries up while systems maxed out are still useful. DDR3 appears to be near the bottom of the curve at the moment, but in a year or two will go spendy for a while again, so stock up if you think you'll need it.

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Reply 47841 of 52352, by bestemor

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-01-31, 03:08:

Yes, outgoing memory tech gets a dead cat bounce as availability dries up while systems maxed out are still useful. DDR3 appears to be near the bottom of the curve at the moment, but in a year or two will go spendy for a while again, so stock up if you think you'll need it.

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Reply 47842 of 52352, by Nexxen

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-01-31, 03:08:

Yes, outgoing memory tech gets a dead cat bounce as availability dries up while systems maxed out are still useful. DDR3 appears to be near the bottom of the curve at the moment, but in a year or two will go spendy for a while again, so stock up if you think you'll need it.

In my area I can find lots of server DDR3, large capacities and amounts.
Cheap sometimes.

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Reply 47843 of 52352, by Shponglefan

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Took delivery of this Edirol (Roland) M-10MX mixer.

I'm going to pair this with my multimedia 286 build which has five sets of stereo audio outs.

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Reply 47844 of 52352, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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TrashPanda wrote on 2023-01-31, 01:56:
This board arrived today and on closer inspection well I'm not having much luck with Dual Tualatin boards ..now I have three boa […]
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This board arrived today and on closer inspection well I'm not having much luck with Dual Tualatin boards ..now I have three boards that need recaps...sigh

They all post and appear to work just fine, so I may just pick the best one of the three and recap that one and keep the other two as spares in my projects box.

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Hopefully I can find the caps I need from Mouser/Digikey, will likely make a thread on this board to get some advice on replacement caps. (The search engines on mouser/digikey are damn confusing to the uninitiated)

My rev 1.0 board still has all its original caps, still (seemingly) in good nick - mainly Rubycon ZL & MBZ plus some smaller others - but none are poly.

Reply 47845 of 52352, by TrashPanda

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2023-01-31, 04:36:
TrashPanda wrote on 2023-01-31, 01:56:
This board arrived today and on closer inspection well I'm not having much luck with Dual Tualatin boards ..now I have three boa […]
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This board arrived today and on closer inspection well I'm not having much luck with Dual Tualatin boards ..now I have three boards that need recaps...sigh

They all post and appear to work just fine, so I may just pick the best one of the three and recap that one and keep the other two as spares in my projects box.

Dual Tually.png

Hopefully I can find the caps I need from Mouser/Digikey, will likely make a thread on this board to get some advice on replacement caps. (The search engines on mouser/digikey are damn confusing to the uninitiated)

My rev 1.0 board still has all its original caps, still (seemingly) in good nick - mainly Rubycon ZL & MBZ plus some smaller others - but none are poly.

Mine has three that look like poly caps, I suspect it was partially recapped in the past, this round there appears to be at least 4 that need to be changed, the board does post so thats a good sign its worth recapping.

Reply 47846 of 52352, by debs3759

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TrashPanda wrote on 2023-01-31, 02:16:
Shponglefan wrote on 2023-01-31, 02:03:
TrashPanda wrote on 2023-01-31, 01:50:

Painting with a board brush is generally a bad idea

Especially when one takes law of averages into account. One person's bad experience might just be that: a bad experience. It may hardly be indicative of a product line or company as a whole.

ASUS is a good example of this..they have had a lot of stinkers but also a lot of award winners and I find that assessing each item on its own merits is better than just claiming every product from them is garbage. (I know at least one user here will disagree with me about ASUS)

I'm a fan of Asus motherboards, but have to agree - even the best manufacturers of anything have failures on the way to producing good products. For more modern systems (775 and later for Intel, AM2 and later for AMD) I favour the ROG line-up, as have never found a fault (yet!) with them, and those I have OCed do so with ease 😀

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Reply 47847 of 52352, by RetroPC_King

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Today I got this Samsung SpinPoint PL40 40GB 7200RPM 2MB cache IDE HDD, slimline. Opinion about it?

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Reply 47848 of 52352, by Tetrium

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RetroPC_King wrote on 2023-01-31, 12:22:

Today I got this Samsung SpinPoint PL40 40GB 7200RPM 2MB cache IDE HDD, slimline. Opinion about it?

I did like the later spinpoints as those were very silent (for a mechanical harddrive).
40GB is useable imo, but opinions will probably differ.

From doing a quick search, it appears to be a single platter, which is usually nice but I don't know any particulars about that drive model.

Not much else to tell you about it I guess.

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Reply 47850 of 52352, by ildonaldo

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Got this Silverstone MFP51 display (from 2007) for 5.25" drivebay yesterday.
I always wanted a display to show the system status.
... now I have to find out if it still works with my current Windows 10 PC (maybe with Aida64?) or if it is more of a vintage item for one of my retro-PCs ...

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Reply 47851 of 52352, by chrismeyer6

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ildonaldo wrote on 2023-01-31, 17:24:
Got this Silverstone MFP51 display (from 2007) for 5.25" drivebay yesterday. I always wanted a display to show the system status […]
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Got this Silverstone MFP51 display (from 2007) for 5.25" drivebay yesterday.
I always wanted a display to show the system status.
... now I have to find out if it still works with my current Windows 10 PC (maybe with Aida64?) or if it is more of a vintage item for one of my retro-PCs ...
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I've always wanted one of those nice find. I think you'll have an good shot of it still working under windows 10. My Logitech G15 and G19 keyboards are still supported by MSI Afterburner as well as HW Info.

Reply 47852 of 52352, by ODwilly

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RetroPC_King wrote on 2023-01-31, 12:22:

Today I got this Samsung SpinPoint PL40 40GB 7200RPM 2MB cache IDE HDD, slimline. Opinion about it?

I ran into an identical one in a HP P4 getting decommissioned ages ago. Reused it to clone a dying 10gb drive to in a work POS machine. Cool running, silent, and very fast for a 5400rpm IDE drive.

Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1

Reply 47853 of 52352, by PD2JK

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Finally.

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Reply 47855 of 52352, by Ozzuneoj

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PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-31, 18:35:

Finally.

Nice! Just to be clear, that's a 1Ghz Thunderbird, not the first gen Orion model, so you'll need a 1Ghz Thunderbird compatible motherboard... but you've got the beastliest Slot A CPU around right there. Awesome find. 😀

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Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 47856 of 52352, by PD2JK

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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-01-31, 19:23:
PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-31, 18:35:

Finally.

Nice! Just to be clear, that's a 1Ghz Thunderbird, not the first gen Orion model, so you'll need a Thunderbird capable motherboard... but you've got the beastliest Slot A CPU around right there. Awesome find. 😀

Works fine on my Gigabyte GA-7IXE. But now it thinks it's a 7IXE4 haha.

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Reply 47857 of 52352, by Ozzuneoj

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PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-31, 19:27:
Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-01-31, 19:23:
PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-31, 18:35:

Finally.

Nice! Just to be clear, that's a 1Ghz Thunderbird, not the first gen Orion model, so you'll need a Thunderbird capable motherboard... but you've got the beastliest Slot A CPU around right there. Awesome find. 😀

Works fine on my Gigabyte GA-7IXE. But now it thinks it's a 7IXE4 haha.

Good! Glad you found a board for it. 😁 EDIT: And with 2 ISA slots! Wow! 😮

The first "custom" PC I put together for myself (with my brother's help of course) used a Tyan Trinity K7 S2380 Slot A board with an Athlon (Orion) 750Mhz. Of all the PCs I managed to keep or get back over the years, that one is "The one that got away"... 🙁

I sold it to a friend back in ~2002 and I'm sure it's long gone by now.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 47859 of 52352, by S95Sedan

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Couple new purchases i made over the weeks;

- Sound Blaster Pro Boxed - CT1600
- Sound Blaster 16 EasyCD - CT2755 (Already had the CT2750 card but finally found the External module and drive that goes with it)

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