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but I am also still committed to this compaq board if the RMA goes well. heck I could end up building multiple rigs
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okay so I have already purchased: wacky compaq motherboard wacky compaq psu dual 1000/133 p3s agp video card 4x 256mb Rambus sticks gonna need to reverse engineer the front panel pin out on the motherboard. and make an i/o shield. and get a wacky compaq vrm for the 2nd cpu. ami I missing anything obvious?
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Aug 5, 2016 19:34
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Well, storage and such - what are you going to do with that?
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ah yeah. turns out the mobo has 2 ide slots like a normal board so I'm gonna get a cf<>ide adapter. and then maybe a plextor CD burner was 2000 too early for dvd?
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Aug 5, 2016 19:51
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Silver Alicorn posted:ah yeah. turns out the mobo has 2 ide slots like a normal board so I'm gonna get a cf<>ide adapter. and then maybe a plextor CD burner too early for a burner, but DVD ROMs were definitely around
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Aug 5, 2016 19:54
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Silver Alicorn posted:was 2000 too early for dvd? i had a dvd-rom in 1999 (a 2-speed pos that locked up the machine if you enabled dma)
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Aug 5, 2016 19:56
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hmmmm... what about... DVD-RAM?
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Aug 6, 2016 04:42
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I got Rambus sticks and video card but I'm busy playoing DOTA now so I'll post in the morning
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Aug 6, 2016 04:44
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Silver Alicorn posted:okay so I have already purchased: You have assembled the most dogfuck stupid menageries of cast-off defect parts that I have ever seen. Please tell me you're doing this ironically
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Aug 6, 2016 05:00
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it's just for fun 
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Aug 6, 2016 05:35
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old compaqs are bad and not fun tho (dunno about new ones)
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Aug 6, 2016 05:40
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good luck
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Aug 6, 2016 05:41
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(all my old PCs are IBM  )
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will the wacky compaq board's holes even line up with atx holes? i also can't imagine a blanking plate exists, i remember the port holes being cut straight into the case on most OEM machines from back then
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Aug 6, 2016 06:49
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papa_november posted:will the wacky compaq board's holes even line up with atx holes? yes they will and also I'm gonna make an i/o shield up in eagle and get it cut out of pcb material
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Aug 6, 2016 07:06
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ata-133/sata combo PCI cards are dirt fuckin' cheap
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Aug 6, 2016 07:53
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RBC posted:the 1ghz athlon thunderbird was the definitive processor of y2k your p3 is a pos
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Aug 6, 2016 08:03
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nobody got fired for buying intel
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Aug 6, 2016 08:25
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third might have been definitive if you were Mr Moneybags some of us scrimped to get a Duron on an FIC motherboard
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I really crave a Super Socket 7 board and an AMD K6-III+ after seing this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAqRbFFQPU
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my first (family) computer was a 1GHz slotted P3, with rambus memory, and some nvidia graphics card or another. it ran windows ME and we didn't upgrade until XP, BSODs and the active desktop error are seared into my mind. it ended up running ut2k4 like a slideshow, but i still played it a lot. this is a really cool project, even with the possibly janky parts, have fun sega panda.
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error1 posted:I really crave a Super Socket 7 board and an AMD K6-III+ after seing this video god drat seeing the games in that video really makes me crave a voodoo card. wish i had the space for a period accurate crt. theres just something about that smooth / blurry look glide gives you you dont get anywhere else. also i think im nostalgic for colored lightning. im gonna go play incoming now
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Aix posted:god drat seeing the games in that video really makes me crave a voodoo card. wish i had the space for a period accurate crt. theres just something about that smooth / blurry look glide gives you you dont get anywhere else. also i think im nostalgic for colored lightning. im gonna go play incoming now quoting the poo poo out of this post 
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voodoo5 5500 is neat. it's got two fans
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atomicthumbs posted:voodoo5 5500 is neat. it's got two fans who's the other one
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Jonny 290 posted:who's the other one 
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Jonny 290 posted:who's the other one
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 The seller included two compaq-compatible VRMs, was not expecting that
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Why can't we go back to slot CPUs, they are the sexiest package I'm pretty happy with my p3-500 gaming rig, it has a voodoo 5500 and everything. Those tiny fans are noisy pieces of poo poo though so they had to go  
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chenming dragon spotted
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Not a dragon, it's some obscure model from ColorCase, maybe they were OEMed from chenming It looks kinda like a really bad powermac g4 ripoff 
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error1 posted:Why can't we go back to slot CPUs, they are the sexiest package it seems weird to me that PSUs and fans were so bad back then. like surely we always have know that a larger fan is quieter for the same cfm? and even a switching PSU isn't a recent innovation?
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~Coxy posted:it seems weird to me that PSUs and fans were so bad back then. like surely we always have know that a larger fan is quieter for the same cfm? and even a switching PSU isn't a recent innovation? so many things with old PCs were bad like that, especially cases. for the longest time it seemed like lian li was the only company putting even half a thought into their designs. no one gave a poo poo about fans, either. I remember nerds lusting after panaflo and pabst fans, which were really hard to find for whatever reason.
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yeah before about 2003 people didn't seem to mind that computers were noisy. a 50mm fan screaming away on your K6 or P2 was something you just put up with
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oh we definitely minded, there just weren't a lot of good answers I wanted to plumb in frigid air from the outside during the maine winters. keep the computer in a closet and feed it 15F air from outdoors. course it would have to be well sealed and also cutting holdes in walls 
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Sweevo posted:yeah before about 2003 people didn't seem to mind that computers were noisy. a 50mm fan screaming away on your K6 or P2 was something you just put up with ah the good old days of needing to spend 10x the money to solve a problem that could have been avoided with a tiny bit of extra effort from the manufacturers like i remember spending ages filing down and bending vanes on a zalman northbridge heatsink to make it fit because the default fan sounded like an agry wasp (lol nforce 2 what a piece of poo poo)
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these CPUs are passively cooled 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:ah the good old days of needing to spend 10x the money to solve a problem that could have been avoided with a tiny bit of extra effort from the manufacturers ugh christ the nforce chipsets ran so goddamn hot. at least some nforce2 boards were passively cooled. i had to put this ridiculous hunk of copper on my nforce 3 based board after the piece of poo poo fan started dying. chipset was in a terrible location, too, it's amazing this thing fit without hitting the video card (too much). not my pics, but this is what i had. swiftech, they made some really weird looking coolers iirc  
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Silver Alicorn posted:these CPUs are passively cooled  uhyou sure about that im thinking either the fans werent included, or they were designed for a case with active airflow hitting the CPUs
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