What retro things have you done today?

phatboy · 30 Nov 2022 at 15:47

Guest2 said:
£1400 for Blood big box edition on eBay now! Jesus. I'm sure I had that at my parents house years ago.

I might even have just the big box left.......wonder what that's worth lol

Guest2 · 30 Nov 2022 at 16:22

phatboy said:
I might even have just the big box left.......wonder what that's worth lol

Sell the box to @NinjaCool
A cool £1000 for an empty game box

manisses · 30 Nov 2022 at 17:04

almoststew1990 said:
Those are not a million miles from me but a starting bid of £100 is beyond what I am willing to spend on retro stuff these days! The Brighton one though is interesting given it comes with quite a lot of stuff.

I'm thinking of pulling together a fast-ish 98 PC and I am not sure if I want to go for socket 754 or 478. I've used both in the past and they've both been fine. It wouldn't be a high end 754 chip so I wouldn't be too worried by my modern power supply not keeping up. What's peoples preference?

I would go with Socket 754 or even 939, you can still find cheap motherboards and CPUs, great choice for heatsinks too. Socket 478 is a pain to get heatsinks and higher speed CPUs now, getting more and more expensive.
Talking about Socket 754, I just managed to get the 3700+, I've been looking for one for a couple of years, but back then I considered them too expensive and after that they were gone for good from Ebay.

LewisRaz · 30 Nov 2022 at 18:22

Couple months ago I chucked my SW60XG on ebay for a hefty price and it actually sold. Which I quickly began to regret.

It seems I am quite lucky as I managed to get another one for £20

almoststew1990 · 1 Dec 2022 at 16:12

In the end I saw an MSI 478 board that is quite old with a 533MHz bus, which suits me for my Windows 98 usage. I got it for £8 plus £3.50 postage. Comes with a cooler and I've got a 2GHz Willamette (I think it is) to go in it but I might spend a couple of £ on a ubiquitous 2.4B GHz Northwood.

phatboy · 1 Dec 2022 at 16:33

almoststew1990 said:
In the end I saw an MSI 478 board that is quite old with a 533MHz bus, which suits me for my Windows 98 usage. I got it for £8 plus £3.50 postage. Comes with a cooler and I've got a 2GHz Willamette (I think it is) to go in it but I might spend a couple of £ on a ubiquitous 2.4B GHz Northwood.

Haha was that the one on ebay with £11 or best offer? I went to go buy that and it had gone......SWINE!

almoststew1990 · 1 Dec 2022 at 16:54

Nah it was an auction £8 starting price ending at like 2.30pm and I was the only bidder. It's from an advent I think but for that money it just needs to boot up really!

Cyber-Mav · 1 Dec 2022 at 18:43

are pentium 4's in high demand? i got some dell machines lying around lol one mans trash is truly another mans treasure lol

LewisRaz · 1 Dec 2022 at 19:38

Cyber-Mav said:
are pentium 4's in high demand? i got some dell machines lying around lol one mans trash is truly another mans treasure lol

Install windows 98 and get some sort of rudimentary dos soundcard drivers going and list on ebay for £100.
Title it RETRO GAMING PC **LOOK**
Include a screenshot of it running doom.

Profit

phatboy · 1 Dec 2022 at 19:50

LewisRaz said:
Install windows 98 and get some sort of rudimentary dos soundcard drivers going and list on ebay for £100.
Title it RETRO GAMING PC **LOOK**
Include a screenshot of it running doom.

Profit

It's amazingly how bizarrely true it is!

I was contemplating an old dimension 4000 to build a sleeper in, did it years ago and was great fun...you can fit a 9800GX2 in them

. Problem is they are now worth a fortune if you are an ebay seller

LewisRaz · 1 Dec 2022 at 20:14

phatboy said:
It's amazingly how bizarrely true it is!

I was contemplating an old dimension 4000 to build a sleeper in, did it years ago and was great fun...you can fit a 9800GX2 in them . Problem is they are now worth a fortune if you are an ebay seller

eBay is full of those types of sales and they do seem to sell too which I find odd. I guess some people just see it running doom and think yep I can relive my youth on that.

You should do it!

Im having real trouble doing the ATX mod on my dell so might repurpose the case as a sleeper

Cyber-Mav · 2 Dec 2022 at 11:14

how would quake run on a pentium 4, 2ghz single core?

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 11:16

Cyber-Mav said:
how would quake run on a pentium 4, 2ghz single core?

The first Quake? I imagine it would be butter smooth tbh with you depending what GPU you are using

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 11:18

Wonderful news for a friday, my 7600GT AGP works beautifully! SO SO Chuffed

Cyber-Mav · 2 Dec 2022 at 12:56

Agp the good old days.
Just checked its an optiplex gx620. Has integrated graphics but its gonna be flop

LewisRaz · 2 Dec 2022 at 13:27

Cyber-Mav said:
how would quake run on a pentium 4, 2ghz single core?

probably get 1000fps. It runs on a pentium 1 100mhz...

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 14:10

P4 Northwood CPU has just arrived in the post too

so that is CPU, RAM, motherboard, Case, PSU and a 9800 Pro 128MB ready to go.......just need a heatsink so I can test the swine!

Impressed in what good condition the board is in for £9, caps all look happy which is nice

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 14:13

Cyber-Mav said:
Agp the good old days.
Just checked its an optiplex gx620. Has integrated graphics but its gonna be flop

Have you got a GPU to go in it? assuming you need half height and PCI?

Cyber-Mav · 2 Dec 2022 at 15:11

phatboy said:
Have you got a GPU to go in it? assuming you need half height and PCI?

ahh yes i have a half height one, nvidia A2000 lol may be too much for it, but do have various other low profile quadro cards. will see what igpu can do, maybe it can do quake with opengl?

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 15:22

Cyber-Mav said:
ahh yes i have a half height one, nvidia A2000 lol may be too much for it, but do have various other low profile quadro cards. will see what igpu can do, maybe it can do quake with opengl?

Not sure what OS you were looking at using but I have a half height X1550 PCI (Non e) sat doing nothing in the garage if that was to become of help to you