zuldan wrote on 2023-11-19, 21:50:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 20:16:

A nice color-keyed, period correct-ish set of matching equipment - Asus P4T & V6800 (GeForce 256 DDR)

Wow, where did you get the GeForce 256 from?

eBay. It had an incomplete title. It was (relatively) cheap also; $53 shipped. It's cleaned up in the photos, but it didn't need much polishing. it looked barely used, and it still runs great!

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 21:01:

supercordo wrote on 2023-11-19, 20:49:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 20:16:

A nice color-keyed, period correct-ish set of matching equipment - Asus P4T & V6800 (GeForce 256 DDR)

Very Nice!!! I also have an Asus P4T on the way.

Thanks to your thread, I bought this one. I like this board and it may find a permanent home in a case. For now, it's waiting to be fired up again once I'm bumped out of #1 😁

For now everyone focussed on Nvidia. I will definitely give ATI a try while the s423 board is installed.
Since I mainly focussed on ATI in my collection it would be a shame to not try 😀

Bought a MOLEX to fan connector so I could test cooling fans without having them plugged on a motherboard.

The result: all fans could run but some were noisy and/or shaky.

acl wrote on 2023-11-19, 23:12:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 21:01:

supercordo wrote on 2023-11-19, 20:49:

Very Nice!!! I also have an Asus P4T on the way.

Thanks to your thread, I bought this one. I like this board and it may find a permanent home in a case. For now, it's waiting to be fired up again once I'm bumped out of #1 😁

For now everyone focussed on Nvidia. I will definitely give ATI a try while the s423 board is installed.
Since I mainly focussed on ATI in my collection it would be a shame to not try 😀

Sounds like a job for an 8500 (which I don't own...) 🙁 😁

zuldan wrote on 2023-11-19, 09:59:

I recently got into retro hardware and started looking at local waste centers. None of them allow you to purchase old computer hardware in case you injury yourself from an electrical fault and I live too far away from e-waste centers (who probably won't allow you to purchase computer hardware for the same reason).

Electrical fault? Guess they had this rule back in the days when people dismantling a CRT without great care could electrocute oneself; then they extended this rule to every electronic devices. Makes no sense but reduces their possible problems.

Anyways, it was a blessing in disguise. You got a GUS for just $5! 🤑

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 21:54:

eBay. It had an incomplete title. It was (relatively) cheap also; $53 shipped. It's cleaned up in the photos, but it didn't need much polishing. it looked barely used, and it still runs great!

Yeah I got a bargain the other day from an incomplete title. The machine had a TNT 2 Ultra and a AWE64!

dormcat wrote on 2023-11-19, 23:36:

Electrical fault? Guess they had this rule back in the days when people dismantling a CRT without great care could electrocute oneself; then they extended this rule to every electronic devices. Makes no sense but reduces their possible problems.

Anyways, it was a blessing in disguise. You got a GUS for just $5! 🤑

Yeah it's pretty silly.

Very happy with my purchase.

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 21:54:

zuldan wrote on 2023-11-19, 21:50:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 20:16:

A nice color-keyed, period correct-ish set of matching equipment - Asus P4T & V6800 (GeForce 256 DDR)

Wow, where did you get the GeForce 256 from?

eBay. It had an incomplete title. It was (relatively) cheap also; $53 shipped. It's cleaned up in the photos, but it didn't need much polishing. it looked barely used, and it still runs great!

Thats pretty much how I got mine.
He listed it as a Geforce 2, I bought a Geforce 2 and it turned out to be a 256...
I didnt know or care at the time, I felt I had been ripped off but it was so long from buying it to using it I couldnt send it back.

LTE Elite 4/75CX came in. I love this thing so far.

This one's in about as good operating shape as they come I think. Only fault is that the Citizen floppy drive has a bad belt (because of course it does). Screen looks great still. The battery even held a bit of charge - although it seems to have since crapped out on me. We'll see if I can get it to charge again. It's an aftermarket Energy+ pack that for whatever reason turned yellow, maybe from heat? The whole thing's yellow, not just the part exposed to UV.
Even the original NiCad CMOS battery somehow still held charge - 6 volts. I still removed it as I don't want any leaks, but dang that's impressive.
Set up with DOS+Windows 95 and my favorite games. Just need to get one of those OPL3-LPT parallel port sound cards and it will be perfect.

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 23:27:

acl wrote on 2023-11-19, 23:12:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-19, 21:01:

Thanks to your thread, I bought this one. I like this board and it may find a permanent home in a case. For now, it's waiting to be fired up again once I'm bumped out of #1 😁

For now everyone focussed on Nvidia. I will definitely give ATI a try while the s423 board is installed.
Since I mainly focussed on ATI in my collection it would be a shame to not try 😀

Sounds like a job for an 8500 (which I don't own...) 🙁 😁

That's what I have in mind but I'm almost certain that I won't be able to beat your score because iirc the 8500 can beat a ti500 only with a good CPU. (Might be wrong but that's what I remember)
And I don't have a faster CPU for that socket (only my 1.7)

I will also probably try 7200 DDR,7500 and 9700 pro.

digger wrote on 2023-11-17, 20:37:

I'm going to bring it to the office Monday, just for fun, to show it off to a co-worker who's really into keyboards, and as a bit of a social experiment to see how long my teammates will tolerate me noisily clicking away on it as I go about my daily work. Many of us have noise-cancelling headphones, so that will probably help. 😁

I have two and quite enjoy them; I used to have one of them at my office ("inhareted" from a colleague who changed job) with a PS2-USB converter. My collegue accross from me never realized how fast I typed until I used that keyboard - and not even a week had passed before my boss told me that I had to take that keyboard home or it would be thrown out...
Just a fair warning 😉

I've often wanted to try one of these keyboards again. I know that I used them years ago back when it was contemporary, but my memory is very faded. I'm not certain if it's just rose-tinted glasses, but I remember typing on these to be smooth as silk with a satisfying click and then a springing sound. The whole endeavor was very clackity-clickity. I would like to experience this again sometime, if I am fortunate enough to own or borrow one.

Finding a local store that sold old 1-4X CD-RW discs was impossible so I put up a marketplace ad looking for NOS discs.. and had a few locals hit me up within the hour. Should've tried that sooner, one of them had 10 Maxells that work flawlessly with older drives. Took me long enough.

Lutsoad wrote on 2023-11-20, 15:18:

Finding a local store that sold old 1-4X CD-RW discs was impossible so I put up a marketplace ad looking for NOS discs.. and had a few locals hit me up within the hour. Should've tried that sooner, one of them had 10 Maxells that work flawlessly with older drives. Took me long enough.

Nice. I've gotten a nice collection of NOS CD-RW and DVD-RW disks myself and today i feel totally safe that i can still play around with retro machines and optical drives even decades into the future.

GigAHerZ wrote on 2023-11-20, 16:23:

Nice. I've gotten a nice collection of NOS CD-RW and DVD-RW disks myself and today i feel totally safe that i can still play around with retro machines and optical drives even decades into the future.

Yeah, no joke, I thought finding legacy CD-RW discs is going to be super easy but nope, all gone, only 4-24X high or ultra speed available. Fair enough, why should retail stores have legacy media that was already obsolete 20 years ago? They were probably not too popular either due to their much higher price and I almost never used CD-RW back then because buying 5 pcs of CD-R instead of a single CD-RW made more sense to me. Also time is flying by so fast, I remember when the kid with the CD-writer was the most popular one in class.

PC@LIVE wrote on 2023-11-19, 16:03:

Shponglefan wrote on 2023-11-19, 15:00:

At minimum I would use a heatsink. Depending on case airflow, a fan might be a good idea as well. […]
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PC@LIVE wrote on 2023-11-18, 21:11:

I don't think there is a heatsink with fan, if I'm not mistaken the 486DX2 was required?

At minimum I would use a heatsink. Depending on case airflow, a fan might be a good idea as well.

There was some inconsistency around this time when some PC builders would use heatsinks and some would not.

But adding extra cooling never hurts.

In fact, I was actually thinking of adding one, taken from a P4 (the one with the chipset), and putting a small 4 cm fan on it. To fix it I could attach it with hot glue, or I could build a support myself, in plastic with two holes, to mount. under the CPU.

I'm not sure if you're considering attaching a heat sink directly to the cpu with hot glue? In that case, don't. Hot glue doesn't conduct heat at all, so you would actually make it even warmer.

dormcat wrote on 2023-11-19, 23:36:

zuldan wrote on 2023-11-19, 09:59:

I recently got into retro hardware and started looking at local waste centers. None of them allow you to purchase old computer hardware in case you injury yourself from an electrical fault and I live too far away from e-waste centers (who probably won't allow you to purchase computer hardware for the same reason).

Electrical fault? Guess they had this rule back in the days when people dismantling a CRT without great care could electrocute oneself; then they extended this rule to every electronic devices. Makes no sense but reduces their possible problems.

Anyways, it was a blessing in disguise. You got a GUS for just $5! 🤑

This is the same as the large UK university I have worked at for the last 20+ years - we pay for electronic waste disposal rather than donating end of life desktops etc to charity because of the risk of legal action in the case of electrical faults.

I understand it from one angle, but it really is completely crazy to pay for this stuff to be disposed... ...And a lot of it will probably get 'refurbished' and probably sold on again anyway!

Just received a gigabit Ethernet NIC for my Win98SE PC.

It is a brand new Trendnet PCI card, in its original package still in shrink wrap.

I paid twice as much for shipping than the price of the card.

Finally broke down and bought a diamond mx300. Had been eyeing an aureal vortex 2 for a while, finally bought it on a whim.

midicollector wrote on 2023-11-22, 20:02:

Finally broke down and bought a diamond mx300. Had been eyeing an aureal vortex 2 for a while, finally bought it on a whim.

Nice! It is, IMHO, the best Windows 9x sound card there is.