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When PCIE power connectors were new they used to throw molex --> PCIE adapters in the box

Not buying a new PSU when my existing PSU is brand new. They can either put a Y cable (8+8 to 12 or 8+6 to 12) adapter in the box with the card or yeah, I'll shop AMD.

Is the EHW 2.0 available for playing around with to us strong alpha beta testers?

Guess I should go check relevant thread

so much exercise

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The funny thing is that I did not play an awful lot of PS3 games specifically. I actually got the console originally for Metal Gear Solid 4 (being an MGS Fan), I know I did play some of the other Final Fantasy series which I enjoyed. However moreover I got the PS3 for playing some of the old skool classics as well.

I also bought the MGS bundle PS3 lol. Wish I had saved the box. Also a huge Metal Gear fan. I need scissors! 61!

I need to play MGS4 again, I haven't played it since before they added trophies.. one of these days I'll go ham and get the platinum in that game... unless there's online trophies which shouldn't be doable anymore.

486 is me. I'm 486.

Mellotrons are more retro than the 486 Mr. Jethro

We look forward to your build log. Video where you explain your wild contraptions optional but preferred

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Banned for making points

my 486 isn't fast enough to computertate points

no comprendo

Banned for being stuck in the past, the best low powered machines are SBCs, 486's are too old to be useful... or even fun shofhosdfghuosuoex

Too old to be useful but never too old to be a furgy memory funhouse!

also it can be useful, it can work as a gigantic integer calculator in a pinch!!!!! Floating point costs extra.

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Unicorn vomit is beautiful. You should see the upgrades I made to my "set".

Though I intend to tone that down.

Anxiety inducing news sent to your other place PM box

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Hehehe I see what you did there

that's one fly looking "retro" rig you got there

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Leo & Gus are willing to forgive and forget in exchange for classified evga cards

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Uh huh

yeeyah

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Ah good ole lead free solder and oven reflowing tactics.. I've heard lots of good things about more modern lead free solders though, so that type of crap will hopefully be a thing from the past unless some cheap newfangled soldering technique results in cold joints all over newer consoles..

I'm curious to know what some of your favorite PS3 games are..? Uncharted 2 and Demon's Souls are my prime excuses for never doing away with my PS3..

Ahh I didn't know you still played with PS3s. I still bang on my PS3s with rebug almost every night.. I've done the IHS removal quite a few times -- I use a painters knife kit I bought years ago specifically to delid CECHA01-E01 phats, which was pretty much the "official" way of doing it. Maybe one of these days I'll record my process after having done it so many times. I have destroyed a few myself, it's a tough delid...

For OG phats with the PS2 emotion engine on board, it's an absolute must for their survival. They'll just plain cook until YLOD without a delidding.. I cringe at people paying $100-200 for them on ebay knowing full well those systems won't live long.. definitely recommend buying like E did if you don't want to risk the delid.

I too use later model systems with rebug & PS2 ISOs... Really NO need for the OG phats anymore.. Much easier to just buy a PS2 at that point (FCMB + ISOs on those are super easy now, and 1080P upscaling is available ON REAL PS2s!!!)

I hate early 90nm systems minus the few bucks they make me from time to time delidding them so the fan doesn't run at 600%.. if you want PS3 phats just for the look of them, get a CECHL01

mmmmmm console rants

Thanks gents.

 

 

Re. the equipment being so old that it was covered in dust - well, six years or so for some of it is not short and dust-free. However, the Vaseline coating inside the socket (applied w/ a hair dryer and used to guard against condensation during freezing) made it much worse - it attracts and accumulates the dust. Once the top cover of the box was removed for whatever accidental reason and not replaced, time & dust started their relentless march...

Understandable.. Just hard for me to believe it's 2020 and the happenings of the last decade are already buried in dust. Makes me think of the Ferris Bueller movie.. "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while -- you could miss it!" (meanwhile that's 35 years old)

Re above post totally! Jack one of those up to a 9900K.. Not very retro!!

Banned cuz cloudflare is having some major malfunctions tonight

I spaced out. Rig activated .. lol

A fine tale indeed!

OP read like dramatic prose, love it ... The carpet knife duct taped to the desk lamp is my favorite "MacGyver"

Nice to see "old" (is this stuff really that old already that it would be covered in dust..?) instruments of HWBot lore being resurrected. A job well done!

Glad you didn't 'splode the 780Tis. I know a guy who probably would do such a thing

Yes because monitors are people too

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Banned cuz kitty is weird. Today I woke up to a weird purring sound and I think she was licking my hair.

Doggies came and told her to get her butt back in the window sill or else

in in in Serious_Don

Weird.. I used to buy so many games from these sales. Now I feel like there's nothing I want.

Would love a WW2 themed single player shooter like COD1 or 2 but I guess those aren't really done well anymore

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plz transfer ownarship of ehw to my dog

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What are you guys buying this year?

I'm getting Dusk... tossing up between Doom Eternal or Sekiro but that's really about it.

Banned cuz I'm moar tireder.. you'll hear all about it when you sign into the other place

I should have joined the shiny ram cool club too.. but eh

Hey @ENTERPRISE is your 3950x capable of 1900IF? I see you have it at 1866 right now assuming 1:1. I was running 1866 but latest bios for my board forced me down to 1833 (on my 3700x)