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I have a walk in wardrobe that is now old PC storage!
Also slowly trying to move some bits on.. Listed a system on eBay last night for top dollar but will slowly reduce it until its gone. Then will do another.
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Perhaps a cheap cube here:
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Replacing the caps on the Chaintech 7AIA0 Socket A motherboard - Part 2
Had some spare time this afternoon, so proceeded to remove and replace the remaining 14 470uf Caps.
Replaced with Nichicons. I kinda like the colour of the Nichicon caps
While I had the Iron out i decided to add the Audio SPDIF header.
Hopefully should put another long stint into this board.
Had some spare time this afternoon, so proceeded to remove and replace the remaining 14 470uf Caps.
Replaced with Nichicons. I kinda like the colour of the Nichicon caps
While I had the Iron out i decided to add the Audio SPDIF header.
Hopefully should put another long stint into this board.
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Sellers pics. Its en-route to me now
Slot 1 AT board. Nice looking AT/ATX crossover case.
Integrated speakers in the CDRom bay like LGR showed recently.
Says it powers on but they couldnt get a VGA card to work. Could be a fun project. Hope it survives postage!
Did a quick video on this:
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What would be a nice age appropriate cpu pairing for a Voodoo 3 2000/3000? I'm thinking PIII... Pentium 4 and Athlon XP seem too new.
Yeah a P3 sounds right, I'd for a decent Tualatin personally
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Thanks! I have a nice Tualatin actually, Pentium III 1266S.Yeah a P3 sounds right, I'd for a decent Tualatin personally
Pretty sure none of my boards support it!
You know what that means then
Had a great day, got my old Dell XPS 1530 running Windows XP. Came with Vista originally and I upgraded it to Windows 8 some years ago it seems.
Not been on XP for years, loved this OS.
I replaced the old hard drive with an SSD and it had 3GB of RAM so I swapped out the 1GB stick for 2GB so it has 4GB now.
Just ran 3DMark2000, ahh the nostalgia vibes, the hours I must have spent on my old desktop rigs trying to get a few extra FPS
Not been on XP for years, loved this OS.
I replaced the old hard drive with an SSD and it had 3GB of RAM so I swapped out the 1GB stick for 2GB so it has 4GB now.
Just ran 3DMark2000, ahh the nostalgia vibes, the hours I must have spent on my old desktop rigs trying to get a few extra FPS
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Is that the Nvidia 8600GT version? I had one a few years back and ended up going with Windows 7, 4GB of RAM and upgrading the CPU to a moderately fast Core 2 Duo (no idea which one specifically). It was actually alright but I benchmarked the GPU against my Pentium Silver with Intel 605 graphics, in a netbook with no active cooling, and kt performed very similarly in DX9 games as the 8600GT lol
Yeah that's the one
, I want to build a proper XP desktop system but this will do for now. Am visiting my mum's next week and plan to dig through the loft to see what old gear I left there. Am hoping I can find my old Voodoo 3!
Caporegime
Took the Apple ][ PSU to have the capacitor replaced.
I found the most incredible gentleman locally who used to be an electrical design engineer who worked with BAE systems, MI6, the SAS, amongst other things.
I probably shouldn't repeat some of what he told me or showed me, but lets just say he is the real deal and some of the equipment he has and the stories he told were incredible, you just don't get people like that anymore.
He's in his late 70s or early 80s now and only has use of one hand, but he is one of those people who seems to be able to fix anything. His workshop had two walls of oscilloscopes and other equipment in a delightful well used muddle, and there must have been over 1500 of those plastic component drawers with everything you could imagine in them, as well as a couple of lathes and other miscellaneous things for personal projects.
I found the most incredible gentleman locally who used to be an electrical design engineer who worked with BAE systems, MI6, the SAS, amongst other things.
I probably shouldn't repeat some of what he told me or showed me, but lets just say he is the real deal and some of the equipment he has and the stories he told were incredible, you just don't get people like that anymore.
He's in his late 70s or early 80s now and only has use of one hand, but he is one of those people who seems to be able to fix anything. His workshop had two walls of oscilloscopes and other equipment in a delightful well used muddle, and there must have been over 1500 of those plastic component drawers with everything you could imagine in them, as well as a couple of lathes and other miscellaneous things for personal projects.
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Very true!! Struggling to loook through all the 370 boards just to check the chipset for support! And relatively cheap!You know what that means then
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Got the Acorn Electron off the wall today, for some Chuckie (Easter) Egg action
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One of the earliest games I remember playing
Its one game where the electron version is actually decent, and one of the best (along with BBC). I had a quick look on some random games that i used to play, and some are so bad, and just so slow. Anything by Acornsoft, program power / micropower. and a few from superior generally ran well.
Just had a look online and the ones I remember playing on our Acorn Electron are Chuckie Egg, Cybertron Mission, Bug Eyes, Bug Blaster, Starship Command, Hopper, Swag, Vindaloo, Rig Attack.....
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i played a bit of cybertron mission today as well..