TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[peche]

Ok...but wtf is a 10m level mouse ...and... this in not a whinning department here for dying stuff. It's revival of older things

Trying to repair it.... one laser its died... rest of the mouse still works...

 

[STIG_ZA]

I really like these 754 like the one i have is snappy. I bought new mobo on ebay maybe 4years ago brand new.

Talking about it i would like to know if they ever made a pci firewire card that have header pins on it so you can plug the FireWire front case connector?

Yep, not a bad little system. He manged to play call of duty 4 quite well on it....but im sure with a different motherboard it would be faster, ecs boards aren't too great.

You can probably mod a firewire card so you can connect the front panel to it

 

[Random Murderer]

Chenming...

A LOT of Chenming cases had Firewire, my 601AE had two USB 2.0 ports and a Firewire port, and I know the 601's bigger brother, the 901, had the same.

 

[JunkBear]

A LOT of Chenming cases had Firewire, my 601AE had two USB 2.0 ports and a Firewire port, and I know the 601's bigger brother, the 901, had the same.

Ok but the cube i got is like that. Its the only chenming i owned in my life anyway.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

header pins on it so you can plug the FireWire front case connector?

Is it pins or a firewire socket?. Im sure ive got something like that but its a socket ill try and dig it out and post a pic or specs if you think it could be an option.

 

[agent00skid]

And finally, a look of the machine while assembled

And the specs:
MB: Freetech P8F154
RAM: 2*512MB Kingston DDR 266
CPU: Pentium 4 2,4GHz
HDD: Seagate 80GB
ODD: Plextor CD-drive

 

[JunkBear]

Is it pins or a firewire socket?. Im sure ive got something like that but its a socket ill try and dig it out and post a pic or specs if you think it could be an option.

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No it really pins i need on the card. Like when u plug usb connectors onto the motherboard. Same plug type so it needs to be pins header on the pci card.

 

[GreiverBlade]

Trying to repair it.... one laser its died... rest of the mouse still works...

weeeellll my Razer Naga (a total P.O.S like all of Razers product ) is the opposite ... laser fine, click died ... lateral thumbpad fine ... bwahaha

 

[Compgeke]

This here isn't quite a computer but it's audio gear (or hardware, if you prefer).


Harman/Kardon 330B. Looks amazing in the dark.

 

[Trekkie4]

Re-building one of my earlier builds, so I didn't bother with the new pics... Athlon XP 1800+, which used to run GeForce4 MX440 and a single 8mb Voodoo2 and WinXP, SP2.

Now it has a dual-boot, featuring both WinXP and Win98, AGP card is GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP8x, although mobo is 4X) and 2x 3dfx Voodoo2 1000 cards, both 12mb paired up in SLI What more could a hardcore gamer ask for?!

(pics below have been taken from the previous posts and pages, they're not fresh, therefore I apologize for using ImageBam as image hosting service. Once I take new ones, I'll probably switch to Tech PowerUp service)

 

[STIG_ZA]

Re-building one of my earlier builds, so I didn't bother with the new pics... Athlon XP 1800+, which used to run GeForce4 MX440 and a single 8mb Voodoo2 and WinXP, SP2.

Now it has a dual-boot, featuring both WinXP and Win98, AGP card is GeForce4 Ti 4200 (AGP8x, although mobo is 4X) and 2x 3dfx Voodoo2 1000 cards, both 12mb paired up in SLI What more could a hardcore gamer ask for?!

(pics below have been taken from the previous posts and pages, they're not fresh, therefore I apologize for using ImageBam as image hosting service. Once I take new ones, I'll probably switch to Tech PowerUp service)

Nice cable management there

Got a bunch of socket 775 parts the other day. The insides of two acer aspire t690's, with pentium D 925. Never had a pentium D, completely skipped that back in the day. Gaming performance is poor it seems, but runs windows 7 well enough

 

[Misaki]

Good times are back

 

[STIG_ZA]

Good times are back

Nice! Here in South Africa it seems really hard to find a nice skt775 board, been looking for months and all i find is G31 stuff........looking to build a nice 2009(ish) system.

 

[Misaki]

Nice! Here in South Africa it seems really hard to find a nice skt775 board, been looking for months and all i find is G31 stuff........looking to build a nice 2009(ish) system.

In Poland, about a 80% customers has socket 775
I have got this for free, customer bring 2 PCs to me and said "make one working, other one is yours"

So, I have this mobo, this 8600gt, e5200, wd green 500gb, seagate 40gb for free
And now I'm reviving ASUS P5B for this customer. Badly overheated, all capacitors exploded, dust everywhere. I must order only more capcaitors to the CPU section and it will work, with Core 2 Duo E6750, 2x 2GB Kingston 800MHz, HD6670

 

[Trekkie4]

I've been working hard for past couple of days on my Athlon Voodoo2 SLI/GeForce4 ultimate gaming rig, and I finally got some decent results to share with you guys

So, let's get on with it... I've been meaning to make a single unit which would cover approx. 10yrs of retro gaming, somewhere along the line between 1994 and 2004. This obviously includes some of the older, DOS-based titles such as Carmageddon & Carmageddon Splat Pack, Grand Theft Auto & Grand Theft Auto London 1969 & similar along with the more recent ones, such as Half Life 2 but there was a catch - As we all know, running all these games off a single platform would have been impossible, which is why I came up with Dual-Boot feature, to have the best of both worlds! Having a single 40GB HDD, I made 2x 20GB partitions & installed Windows 98 (SE) on one and WinXP Home (SP1) on the other one. Most ppl would think that's easy enough, right? Well, better guess again! The biggest challenge (at least for me, personally) was the driver issue, it's pretty difficult to have 3 video cards working together in pair, with 2 of them being from 1997 and 1 from 2003!

As a general rule with drivers & updates, everyone always recommends using the latest version, right? Once again, wrong! I've tried using the latest nVidia Forceware with my GeForce4 4200Ti but as you'd imagine, I've been having loads of weird problems with the older games. Games like Colin McRae Rally 1 & 2 for example and many other titles! So, I had to go back to the drawing board & tried with different version this time, 29.42 which kinda worked... Until I got to install Need for Speed 3, 4 & 5 (Porsche Unleashed), that's when all the hell broke loose. Game(s) randomly crashed, or even hanged with nothing but the black screen upon loading & similar. Eventually (after lots & lots of testing), I've settled for 45.23 from 09 October 2003. It seems to be a compromise between the old & new, right in the middle!

Technically speaking, we're looking at the system with 3 video cards, featuring previously mentioned nVidia GeForce4 4200Ti Titan series, hooked up to a pair of 3dfx Voodoo2 1000 cards (12mb), working in SLI. As most of you know, V2 cards had 3 processing units, which means this system has 7 in total! True, V2 cards had different kind of processors (as someone recently corrected me), but it STILL has 7 processing units all together, which I find seriously fascinating Motherboard is ASRock K7VT2 Socket A running AthlonXP 1800+ @ stock 1533MHz. It has 2x modules of 256MB DDR400 which is unfortunately running @ 266 due to motherboard limitation. Same thing with 4200Ti, the card itself is AGP8X, but it's only running at 4X... Cooling solution is pretty awesome (if I may say so), consisted of Cooler Master Jet7 CPU cooler which looks like jet engine (has a speed controller) and a single 120mm blue LED intake fan, blowing air across all 3 video cards. Of course, the fan is primarily here because of the Voodoo cards, as 4200Ti already has a fan of its own, along with hefty looking heatsink Case is also Cooler Master, midi-tower with front USB & audio ports (all working, of course), you may have already seen it in my previous posts. In fact, I even have mass-storage drivers for Win98, so that I can use flash drives & external hard drives!

If you take into consideration that Voodoo2 cards DO NOT work under AMD architecture (not without the special drivers, that is) and also the gaming time era, covered by the hardware inside this thing, I'm pretty happy with how the things turned out in the end 40GB of pure classics in all shapes & sizes! I'll be uploading pics shortly, but DO keep in mind that once again, I'll be going with Imagebam. I did try with alternative services, but unfortunately none of the other ones support multi-upload, sending all 68pics at once for example. (or if they do, I would need to register in order to use their services) Soooo, sorry guys. If you can recommend something better, I'm all ears!

 

[GreiverBlade]

posting for being ... updated ... damn TPU alert let me down ... snirfle ... NOT ON THE MOST AWESOME THREAD!

humpf .... i need to find some oldies to get a fix quick!

 

[Trekkie4]

Since you guys already saw the Cooler Master case & Jet7 CPU cooler, I'm not going to re-post those once again for the sake of spam control Check out my previous post(s) in case you've missed it...

Not sure if I have showed you these, however... Yes, I make my own Voodoo2 SLI cables



And of course, the most recent ones... So, let's get started:

First of all, couple of pics of my Voodoo cards... These pics have been taken before I got to install GeForce4 4200Ti (but you can see it on the last pic, with the pass-through cable)



The following pics are from Win98, various titles from my collection. As you guys already know, 1024x768 (with Z-Buffer) is only accessible in SLI mode The only 4200Ti exception among these pics was Harry Potter (Unreal Engine Mk1), which is currently running in 32-bit mode & doesn't support Voodoo2 accelerators.



Watch & drool!



Now we are heading to XP... This is where 4200Ti really takes over, as the XP comes with DirectX 9C support. Despite installing the XP drivers for Voodoo2 cards (with limited support, for Glide only) I've decided not to use it. I just don't see the point, since it has a whole bunch of problems of its own and doesn't support DirectX acceleration. Not only that, but it seems that SLI is not supported and/or recognized either.



There, so much for now... Please let me know what you think and if you'd like to see more screenshots from other game(s) under Win98 or XP

 

[micropage7]

oh yeah that flat out, my old flatout cd is broken, too bad

 

[debs3759]

There, so much for now... Please let me know what you think and if you'd like to see more screenshots from other game(s) under Win98 or XP

I love to see screenies of games that were designed for the hardware it is played on, especially if those games can be used for benchmark runs (I have lots of old graphics cards, over 200 possibly 300, that I will eventually be testing and hope to benchmark).

Looking forward to getting my test area set up so I can take decent pics and post test results

 

[JunkBear]

The Hot Wheels (and Barbie) computers have been steeped in controversy for years. Always a popular hit with kids when they come to the museum, the flame adorned PC and accompanying 15" monitor, mouse, mousepad, and speakers (and even steering wheel) really seem to be something the kids want to play.
The sad part is that due to some manufacturing flaws, most of these machines die and Patriot got stuck repairing and replacing so many of them that it drove them out of business. Worse, they took money and orders right up to the end and ended up not shipping thousands of units and failing to pay Mattel royalties.
Mattel, who didn't directly have anything to do with all this, offered customers that were burned a $100 voucher for their store.
The package came with Windows 98 and a great selection of software.

 

[kazz]

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The Hot Wheels (and Barbie) computers...

Poor kids anyway, that celeron 333 without any proper videocard mentioned.. was kinda terrible even if it was new. I had something similar as my first computer (celeron 333mhz and some 8mb integrated videocard) and it wasnt able to run new games correctly even when the year was 1999 and that pc with these specs wasnt yet cheap at all

 

[Trekkie4]

I would stick a 12mb Voodoo2 card in it & upgrade the RAM to at least 64mb

gotta love the small letters!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Whilst running on the spot like Homer J on RedBull


"check the mouse and mousemat......check the mouse and mousemat"

 

[JunkBear]

I would stick a 12mb Voodoo2 card in it & upgrade the RAM to at least 64mb

gotta love the small letters!

FPS@600x800 = Over 9000!!

 

[toastem2004]

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The Hot Wheels (and Barbie) computers have been steeped in controversy for years. Always a popular hit with kids when they come to the museum, the flame adorned PC and accompanying 15" monitor, mouse, mousepad, and speakers (and even steering wheel) really seem to be something the kids want to play.
The sad part is that due to some manufacturing flaws, most of these machines die and Patriot got stuck repairing and replacing so many of them that it drove them out of business. Worse, they took money and orders right up to the end and ended up not shipping thousands of units and failing to pay Mattel royalties.
Mattel, who didn't directly have anything to do with all this, offered customers that were burned a $100 voucher for their store.
The package came with Windows 98 and a great selection of software.

My little brother had one of those! They shipped his with a 433 Mhz processor, i was sooo jealous. I was rocking a Compaq with a cyrix piece of crap, and just getting into the emulator scene at the time. It was because of that flaming blue computer I learned about PC hardware and upgraded my Compaq I had. Found the BIOS to the consumer/retail version of the Gigabyte board compaq used, took a gamble and flashed it... BAM it worked! Got me a K6-3 475MHz off tigerdirect and upped my machine to 192MB of PC100! Woot Woot!

It was ultimately because of that machine, and not wanting to be one upped by my younger brother, I learned about PC hardware, OS's, the what and how it all works; thus began my hobby and eventually career with PC's....