TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Greenslade]

Just an another 8MB one. Here's my cards and the silver one is my FreeMcBoot card

I will go for that then ,the magic gate is on one of thouse cards i was showing you.CEX have got a offical ps2 one for £4.I see in the reviews someone left all his saves in there he spent ten minutes deletting them, How many games can you save on a 8mb card?I I have got this lot of DVD ,s and a few games to exchange at CEX hopefully it will be around £15.The ones on top of my £1 PC. I have never traded in there before.I will have to check there prices on there site just. before i get round to doing it.

 

[Ruru]

I will go for that then ,the magic gate is on one of thouse cards i was showing you.CEX have got a offical ps2 one for £4.I see in the reviews someone left all his saves in there he spent ten minutes deletting them, How many games can you save on a 8mb card?

MagicGate is the encryption protocol that PS2 uses (as well other Sony memory cards). Depends of the game how many save files you can have there as others take more space than others.

 

[Greenslade]

MagicGate is the encryption protocol that PS2 uses (as well other Sony memory cards). Depends of the game how many save files you can have there as others take more space than others.

I get you thanks

MagicGate is the encryption protocol that PS2 uses (as well other Sony memory cards). Depends of the game how many save files you can have there as others take more space than others.

That lot only came to £13.90 Most of them 10p onesI have added this one to

WeSell for	£15.00
WeBuy for cash	£3.00
WeBuy for voucher	£7.00

make it over £20

 

[MaxiPro800]

In my search of ABIT mainboards, I've once again landed a nice hit:

(credit to Ryan Leech for the photo)

ABIT IP35 ProXE, C2Q Q6700, and 8GB worth of DDR2. Should be a nice base for the GTS250 I have. Also, non-standard HDD sizes rock (Samsung HD753GJ, 750GB/7200/32MB? Count me in!)

 

[Greenslade]

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MagicGate is the encryption protocol that PS2 uses (as well other Sony memory cards). Depends of the game how many save files you can have there as others take more space than others.

MagicGate is the encryption protocol that PS2 uses (as well other Sony memory cards). Depends of the game how many save files you can have there as others take more space than others.

I got three of them fot £10.50 Official Sony Playstation 2 PS2
8mb Memory Card.The seller has sold 629 wow

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I just came across this guys video ,i have not seen any of his videos for years

i thought i would look at the prices on eBay of the Trash can Mac.I see the prices have really come down now.
Mac Pro Xeon E5 3.5GHz
32GB 256GB AMD FirePro E500 Trash Can for as little as £350 i don,t soppose anyone has got one ,or even had onr back in the day. View attachment 303497

That Mac is really still pretty decent if you don’t need a ton of GPU grunt. The 12c/24t Xeon can be had for like $35, and replacing the CPU is really not as hard as people make it sound. I swapped it out in maybe 30 minutes, and cleaned stuff up along the way. Also, you can get a cheap adapter to use standard NVME drives, so that’s not a hard upgrade either. You’re stuck at Monterey, but that OS is still getting updates and feels pretty modern. The problem is if one of the GPUs goes out—not easy to find a replacement, certainly not for cheap. Use macsfancontrol to help push more air and help with temps and longevity.

 

[Ruru]

Need to check for some good early 2000s games as I got my old laptop from my parents. Pentium M 725 (1.6GHz Dothan), 2GB DDR-266, Radeon 9200 Mobility 32MB so it can run older titles.

 

[Greenslade]

That Mac is really still pretty decent if you don’t need a ton of GPU grunt. The 12c/24t Xeon can be had for like $35, and replacing the CPU is really not as hard as people make it sound. I swapped it out in maybe 30 minutes, and cleaned stuff up along the way. Also, you can get a cheap adapter to use standard NVME drives, so that’s not a hard upgrade either. You’re stuck at Monterey, but that OS is still getting updates and feels pretty modern. The problem is if one of the GPUs goes out—not easy to find a replacement, certainly not for cheap. Use macsfancontrol to help push more air and help with temps and longevity.

So you are another Mac user like myself.I have a I Mac 27 2017 ,you have to be a skilled person to get in there.And then there is the problem of getting the spare parts and like you say parts cost an arm and leg. But i do like the way Mac,s work.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

So you are another Mac user like myself.I have a I Mac 27 2017 ,you have to be a skilled person to get in there.And then there is the problem of getting the spare parts and like you say parts cost an arm and leg. But i do like the way Mac,s work.

I actually just sold my 2013, as I also have a 2010 Mac Pro with dual X5690s and an RX480 as my daily machine. I use OpenCore to run Monterey. It actually really isn’t that hard to swap the CPU on the 2013. iFixit has a guide, and you only need a couple different torx drivers, an spudger, and some new thermal paste. When I started it, I thought it was going to be really involved, but I was surprised at how quickly I got it done. 30 minutes might be a generous estimate. It’s actually a really well made machine—it’s the GPUs that really could have been better made.

 

[Ruru]

Well I'll be damned! I managed to get my Xeon X3230 (practically a Q6700) to work on that Asus P5B-VM. NOW I have a dream WinXP mATX build!

 

[Greenslade]

Well I'll be damned! I managed to get my Xeon X3230 (practically a Q6700) to work on that Asus P5B-VM. NOW I have a dream WinXP mATX build!

On user benchmatk they are very near each over the Q6700 has the evge over the x3230.

 

[Ruru]

On user benchmatk they are very near each over the Q6700 has the evge over the x3230.

Userbenchmark is a total lottery machine. I'd trust that shady guy on the back of an alley more than that "benchmark". They're the same chip, just with different names and Xeon has a slightly lower TDP: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=30797,30790

Also put a GTX 660 3GB (GK104, 1152 shaders) as a GPU. Should run everything XP-ish at 1080p60 maxed out.

 

[Greenslade]

Userbenchmark is a total lottery machine. I'd trust that shady guy on the back of an alley more than that "benchmark". They're the same chip, just with different names and Xeon has a slightly lower TDP: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=30797,30790

Also put a GTX 660 3GB (GK104, 1152 shaders) as a GPU. Should run everything XP-ish at 1080p60 maxed out.

I use it all the time ,it seems alright to me,to give me a rough idea how CPU,s compare. I just saw this case on FMP Retro clear case,I have never seen one like that beforeIt is £45 needless to say i want be buying it.It looks cool though

 

[68Olds]

Those clear cases look cool until you put an old school non-modular power supply in it. Completely clear means there is no place to hide extra cables & do wire management. IMHO, they look like a rat's nest with a system in them.

 

[Greenslade]

Those clear cases look cool until you put an old school non-modular power supply in it. Completely clear means there is no place to hide extra cables & do wire management. IMHO, they look like a rat's nest with a system in them.

I get your point there. I did not think of that.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Those clear cases look cool until you put an old school non-modular power supply in it. Completely clear means there is no place to hide extra cables & do wire management. IMHO, they look like a rat's nest with a system in them.

Yeah, they still need a place for cables. Sometimes you can neatly arrange things, but any spare connector that doesn't have a termination just sticks out like a sore thumb.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

I use it all the time ,it seems alright to me,to give me a rough idea how CPU,s compare.

As long as you don't compare between brands. They shill so hard it is embarrassing.

 

[Greenslade]

I collected my Deep cool Gammaxx 400 it looks new I am going to get better fans like this one for my other builds

 

[Ruru]

I collected my Deep cool Gammaxx 400 it looks new I am going to get better fans like this one for my other builds

Sucks though that it uses the Intel stock mounting system. It's fine for a stock cooler, but it sucks for anything else.

 

[Greenslade]

Sucks though that it uses the Intel stock mounting system. It's fine for a stock cooler, but it sucks for anything else.

Its for a AMD board.

 

[Ruru]

Its for a AMD board.

Alright, just checked that video thumbnail. Though it's kinda cool that some manufacturers (especially the Chinese one) has a bracket for Intel platforms which gives those an AMD-style mounting.

 

[MaxiPro800]

A bit of difficulty getting the IP35 ProXE, but in the end it's running and installing 10 IoT.

The GPU I used there is a 9800GT from the GTS250 lot. It's there mainly to test whether the fan gets detected whatsoever after driver install - it will be replaced by the GTS soon.

Also successfully RGH3'd two Xbox 360s (both phat, one is Falcon revision and the other is Jasper-16M) with the help of a RPi Pico. The Jasper unit needed some TLC as the GPU heatsink's copper (first revision of Jasper still had that copper-extended GPU heatsink) was too oxidized to be reused.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Gutted a 478 machine I got from the car boot sale today and these were inside:

- Epox EP-4PLAI-A (848P)
- Delux ATX-450W P4 PSU (solid 250W real power)
- Teac CD-W552E 52x CDRW drive
- BTC BDV-316B DVDROM

 

[Ruru]

Gutted a 478 machine I got from the car boot sale today and these were inside:

- Epox EP-4PLAI-A (848P)
- Delux ATX-450W P4 PSU (solid 250W real power)
- Teac CD-W552E 52x CDRW drive
- BTC BDV-316B DVDROM

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That Radeon 9550 "XT" is a dope card. Clocked higher than a 9600 Pro and will probably OC higher than a stock 9600 XT.

 

[68Olds]

That Radeon 9550 "XT" is a dope card. Clocked higher than a 9600 Pro and will probably OC higher than a stock 9600 XT.

Yeah, the 9550 I had years ago could be soft-modded into some model of 9600 or maybe even a 9700. I don't remember which anymore.