TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Doc41 · Oct 3, 2014

stinger608 said:
Ran across this from a fellow member on a different forum:

http://www.mywindowspage.com/download/os.htm

Awesome site to download old operating systems!!! I am including this link in the original post as well.

Niiiiice i've been looking for a copy of 98SE and another WinME for Dino, Thanks boss :respect:

btw age old debate; which is better long term 98SE or WinME?

micropage7 · Oct 3, 2014

debs3759 said:
I have a Win 2K disc as well if an image is needed. Pretty sure mine is a corporate edition (no reg code needed)

yep, but now my time is too tight i may install it when i have spare time
and its interesting where HP still open win 2000 driver on their website

JunkBear · Oct 3, 2014

debs3759 said:
I have a Win 2K disc as well if an image is needed. Pretty sure mine is a corporate edition (no reg code needed)

Could get it if you put online somewhere. Just send me the link please. I also have an image of WinXP corporate but in french only.

JunkBear · Oct 3, 2014

I don't know if it can be considered old hardware but I just got this from the street (garbage day).
I'm not the original owner of these pictures that I took on Ebay but it's the same model.
UsRobotics....propably for servers cases.

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stinger608 · Oct 3, 2014

Doc41 said:
Niiiiice i've been looking for a copy of 98SE and another WinME for Dino, Thanks boss

btw age old debate; which is better long term 98SE or WinME?

Oh hands down I think Win 98SE. ME was sooooo damn problematic where 98SE ended up being a very solid OS.

JunkBear said:
I don't know if it can be considered old hardware but I just got this from the street (garbage day).
I'm not the original owner of these pictures that I took on Ebay but it's the same model.
UsRobotics....propably for servers cases.

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Wow JunkBear, that is bada$$ man!! Niiiiiiiiiice score! :respect:

Random Murderer · Oct 3, 2014

stinger608 said:
Oh hands down I think Win 98SE. ME was sooooo damn problematic where 98SE ended up being a very solid OS.

Seriously though, I've never had so many compatibility headaches in my life as with ME. Vista wasn't even as bad as ME, by a long shot. ME had such bad compatibility issues, a lot of viruses weren't even compatible.
For your sanity, please, go with 98SE.

stinger608 · Oct 3, 2014

Random Murderer said:
Seriously though, I've never had so many compatibility headaches in my life as with ME. Vista wasn't even as bad as ME, by a long shot. ME had such bad compatibility issues, a lot of viruses weren't even compatible.
For your sanity, please, go with 98SE.

Thanks, I just spit coffee all over my desk when I read that. :roll:

Pretty bad when a virus isn't compatible.

Athlonite · Oct 3, 2014

Doc41 said:
Niiiiice i've been looking for a copy of 98SE and another WinME for Dino, Thanks boss

btw age old debate; which is better long term 98SE or WinME?

98SE hands down but to get a little faster and better defrag grab a copy of it from winME and paste it into the *:\windows\system folder

debs3759 · Oct 3, 2014

debs3759 said:
I have a Win 2K disc as well if an image is needed. Pretty sure mine is a corporate edition (no reg code needed)

JunkBear said:
Could get it if you put online somewhere. Just send me the link please. I also have an image of WinXP corporate but in french only.

Can someone point me to a safe site to upload it to? I'm assuming it is now considered abandonware, so I don't mind creating an ISO image to upload somewhere.

A public torrent site would be as good as anywhere else, but I only use one closed site where i don't have upload rights (my connection is too slow for them)

Peter1986C · Oct 3, 2014

If you tell me how large the .iso would become I can help a little more easily (I believe Mediafire has too tight file size restrictions). A torrent would certainly help too, just send me the .torrent file after creation and I will put it somewhere (or place an appropiate magnet link here).

GreiverBlade · Oct 3, 2014

Doc41 said:
Niiiiice i've been looking for a copy of 98SE and another WinME for Dino, Thanks boss

btw age old debate; which is better long term 98SE or WinME?

none.... eventually 98SE but surely not Me... you know the OS-Tan for windows ME is Me-Tan (quite a soundy naming : METHANE yep WinME=bag of gas )

debs3759 · Oct 4, 2014

Chevalr1c said:
If you tell me how large the .iso would become I can help a little more easily (I believe Mediafire has too tight file size restrictions). A torrent would certainly help too, just send me the .torrent file after creation and I will put it somewhere (or place an appropiate magnet link here).

I'll rip the disc tomorrow then post it's size. It's gone midnight here so don't feel much like hunting down the disc

JunkBear · Oct 4, 2014

debs3759 said:
Can someone point me to a safe site to upload it to? I'm assuming it is now considered abandonware, so I don't mind creating an ISO image to upload somewhere.

A public torrent site would be as good as anywhere else, but I only use one closed site where i don't have upload rights (my connection is too slow for them)

I dont use torrent because i never really learned to use it and i dont like the fact to share Peer2Peer whats inside my computer. So I suggest you do like me and you put it on Google Drive then share us the link to download it.

stinger608 · Oct 4, 2014

Yep, pretty much what JunkBear is stating. Google drive is like having a free ftp site. I would PM the link and password rather than posting if up for the world to see.

GreiverBlade · Oct 4, 2014

stinger608 said:
Yep, pretty much what JunkBear is stating. Google drive is like having a free ftp site. I would PM the link and password rather than posting if up for the world to see.

in Switzerland you can download anything you want legally, but you can't share anything, so peer to peer is illegal (unless you limite the upload in uTorrent for example)

Doc41 · Oct 4, 2014

thanks all for the replies, well 98 it is though i still want to figure out how to update the BIOS......... wait since it is a gigabyte and they have that program "@ BIOS" do you think if got win XP on it i could update the BIOS from the internet orr this is a stupid idea and i shouldn't waste time on it?

JunkBear · Oct 4, 2014

GreiverBlade said:
in Switzerland you can download anything you want legally, but you can't share anything, so peer to peer is illegal (unless you limite the upload in uTorrent for example)

Stupid half law. To download it there is someone who first uploaded it somewhere. In Canada we have this for prostitution. Its legal to hire a prostitute but illegal for her to propose her services.

Misaki · Oct 4, 2014

GreiverBlade said:
in Switzerland you can download anything you want legally, but you can't share anything, so peer to peer is illegal (unless you limite the upload in uTorrent for example)

In Poland we can download anything for personal use. Sharing (for example) music is a law violation. But no one had a problems after sharing in fact... This is Polish law

GreiverBlade · Oct 4, 2014

Misaki said:
In Poland we can download anything for personal use. Sharing (for example) music is a law violation. But no one had a problems after sharing in fact... This is Polish law

yep i never had any problems at sharing, too... xD your law is kinda the same as mine

oh well it's also the same for shipping and pricing... as long as it's under 62.50chf : no custom taxes (unless the custom officer is picky and take the "merchandise price" instead of the "declared price") IE: my Arima HDAMA-I dual 940 declared price: 31chf (shipping include) merchandise pricing (actual): 97.99$ (shipping include)

JunkBear · Oct 5, 2014

Here's the link for fan specs.
Each fan blowing a 110CFM so 990CFM of noisy cooling. I will probably put a dimmer switch on it to low down the volume of noise and air.

http://www.cwc-group.com/4715fs12tb50.html

JunkBear said:
I don't know if it can be considered old hardware but I just got this from the street (garbage day).
I'm not the original owner of these pictures that I took on Ebay but it's the same model.
UsRobotics....propably for servers cases.

View attachment 59482 View attachment 59483

JunkBear · Oct 8, 2014

I just got donated a HP Compaq DC7100. Will drop a P4-650 in it, 4gigs DDR400, probably a cheap graphic card and a ThermalTake Tr2 430 I also got from junked computers two days ago.

What is a good GPU that can fully use the potential of this setup without being overkill? Yeah know its old but still got some potential. Thx

kazz · Oct 10, 2014

JunkBear said:
What is a good GPU that can fully use the potential of this setup without being overkill? Yeah know its old but still got some potential. Thx

Well it depends what you are going to do with it. If you interested in to do some gaiming or benching as much it would be possible then there is no way to do overkill due there is not actually very powerful agp cards anyway, and take the best You can find (radeon 3850, 4650, 4670 etc)

If just for web browsing and other light 2D then... why not radeon 9600, 9800 or something from nvidia like 6600, 7600 or smt similar. However even for these activities it might be good to have powerful card as possible. For example I had geforce 7900GS with athlon xp 3200+ and it was not able to play youtube on 1080p, now with radeon 4670 and hardware acceleration enabled it is silky smooth

JunkBear · Oct 11, 2014

kazz said:
Well it depends what you are going to do with it. If you interested in to do some gaiming or benching as much it would be possible then there is no way to do overkill due there is not actually very powerful agp cards anyway, and take the best You can find (radeon 3850, 4650, 4670 etc)

If just for web browsing and other light 2D then... why not radeon 9600, 9800 or something from nvidia like 6600, 7600 or smt similar. However even for these activities it might be good to have powerful card as possible. For example I had geforce 7900GS with athlon xp 3200+ and it was not able to play youtube on 1080p, now with radeon 4670 and hardware acceleration enabled it is silky smooth

It's not an AGP slot on that motherboard

zsolt_93 · Oct 11, 2014

PCIE? HD5450 would go well. PCI , i have no idea.

kazz · Oct 11, 2014

JunkBear said:
It's not an AGP slot on that motherboard

umm.. okay, then i would go with something cheap and more modern like 6670 or similar

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Power Supply	FSP AURUM PT 850W
Mouse	Logitech G600
Keyboard	Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum
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Keyboard	Logitech Wave MK550 combo (K350)
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Keyboard	Logitech Wave MK550 combo (K350)
Software	Win_7_Pro-French
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Case	Corsair Air 540
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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Doc41

micropage7

JunkBear

JunkBear

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Random Murderer

The Anti-Midas

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Athlonite

debs3759

Peter1986C

GreiverBlade

debs3759

JunkBear

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

GreiverBlade

Doc41

JunkBear

Misaki

GreiverBlade

JunkBear

JunkBear

kazz

JunkBear

zsolt_93

kazz

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Power Supply	LEPA G1600-MA 1600W \| Corsair CX750M 750W
Software	Win 10 64
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Power Supply	EVGA 1000W G5 Gold
Mouse	Logitech G502 Proteus Core Wired
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