There were some SiS chipsets with AGP, but nobody wants those. They actually got good reviews (I even saw some early 2000s forum posts where SiS chipsets were recommended over VIA for systems with heavy PCI bus utilization), but SiS was seen as the bottom of the barrel to most people.
It's possible, but I thought people in their 20s would have been too young to understand what they were looking at. Maybe something made around 2000 or 2001 would be memorable....
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I don't think many people in their 20s who grew up using Windows 98 would want to go back. They would have most likely been horribly outdated school computers (complete with CRT monitors that were totally worn out) than anything interesting. One of my younger coworkers had that experience.
However, the middle school I went to still had an Apple IIgs lab in 2007 (and probably later - that was just the year I finished middle school and started high school), so I doubt that many people can beat that.
Celerons had so much less cache than P4s that you couldn't...Last edited by lti; 06-09-2025, 09:22 PM.Leave a comment:
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I see that multi-quote doesn't work anymore.
It's much faster in Linux (but still not as fast as the synthetic benchmarks like Passmark say it should be), but I never tried compiling anything from Linux. I can only guess that the Windows drivers were totally broken in ways that made it look like the CPU was stuck at its minimum clock speed of 800MHz, but it was definitely running at the full 2.2GHz (with the associated heat, fan noise, and the bizarre throttling behavior - it suddenly drops to 800MHz for a second before going back to 2.2GHz, and for some reason, the...Last edited by lti; 06-08-2025, 12:01 PM.Leave a comment:
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That's the problem with a distro that compiles every update on the user's PC. My old i3-2330M was strangely slow at compiling C++ (only slightly faster than a low-clocked Thoroughbred Athlon XP, even with a multi-threaded compiler), so I'm definitely running a more "normal" OS on it.Leave a comment:
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I had to look that species up. I missed when that distro was popular and got serious with Linux in the Ubuntu/Arch era.
I'm somehow still on EndeavourOS. I don't like doing a lot of manual configuration on my main system, but in this case, it helps with my stupid hardware choices. Aside from that, Lubuntu is still my choice for old computers that are still capable of running modern browsers (the latest Firefox or a fork like Librewolf), but it also needs some manual configuration to enable Vsync in the compositor on some graphics drivers. Hell, I've been wondering if the 4GB RAM systems...Leave a comment:
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I would also recommend running Memtest86+ first.
If you think it's a heat problem, the quick way to check is to open the case and have some kind of house fan blowing into it. Almost all down-blowing heatsinks still in production are either extremely thin (1U height) or so large that they hang over the RAM slots, so finding a replacement won't be easy. Maybe you could remove the stupid lights from a Wraith Prism (it still uses the old-style clip, so it will fit on anything socket 754 or newer).Leave a comment:
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I went crazy a little over a month ago and bought new bleeding-edge hardware to run Linux as my main system. Amazingly, it actually works.
CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X
Motherboard: MSI Pro X870-P WiFi (the cheapest thing available with a PCIe x4 slot and the amount of USB ports I wanted, and it's still almost $300
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RAM: 64GB DDR5-5600 (Crucial base model - JEDEC and XMP timings are identical
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GPU: Integrated (yes, really)
Storage: 2TB WD SN850X, 8TB HDD pulled from the other system, LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive (I haven't loaded that custom firmware yet...Leave a comment:
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I've settled into running EndeavourOS now. I haven't had it on my old desktop long enough to see if it's stable, but aside from Firefox having most of its hardware acceleration "force disabled by glxInfo" (a common thing in Arch), it performs well. It even runs good on bleeding-edge hardware (which is why I said "old desktop").Leave a comment:
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Kemet and Wurth have kits, but the values in the kits don't always make sense.
I haven't seen many Elna caps since Taiyo Yuden bought them.Leave a comment:
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On the Abit, it looks like the two closest to the AGP slot are connected to 5V from the PSU. FR would also work there. Depending on what the original caps were, they might even work for all six locations.Leave a comment:
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I'm on Windows 10 primarily. I wanted to be on Linux by now, but every distro I've tried seems to be broken in different ways on my main desktop. They all work fine on other computers, so I don't know what's going on. The last one was Mint 22, which locks up randomly (requiring me to hold down the power button to shut it off). I really don't want Windows 11, so I'm going to have to figure out what's wrong or "just buy a new one" (which will never see Microsoft software). My plan now is to run Linux on my main desktop and have my laptop dual-boot Linux and Windows 10 (maybe 11 if I need...Last edited by lti; 01-04-2025, 10:22 AM.Leave a comment:
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I haven't seen them either, but I have seen fake "Cat6" cables that weren't twisted pair. The ISP-provided cables are at least legitimate Cat5e and have no problem handling gigabit. I wouldn't be surprised if there were Amazon scammers selling cables with only two pairs and four dummy wires (empty plastic tubes to fill the RJ45 connectors for looks) labeled "Cat8" or something else that doesn't exist.Leave a comment:
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There's a lot of cool stuff here. I haven't had a chance to mess around with computer stuff for a while. I would need to buy more stuff (starting with a spare power supply for testing), find a place to store it, and answer questions from people who just want to scrap everything that won't officially run Windows 11.
I see some damage on the side of the Voodoo 3 chip, so it's good that it still works....Leave a comment:
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I've heard that lower-power CPUs are also affected (even the "35W TDP" parts ending in T - note that they temporarily run at higher clocks and higher power).
I've already made posts about 12th-gen parts feeling a little off (primarily random 1-2 second freezes - I initially thought it was just my work laptop, but I've found other computers with the same weird quirk). Even then, I thought that if I suddenly needed a new computer, I would get a Ryzen. Today, I'm glad that my newest computer is from 2020.Last edited by lti; 08-04-2024, 05:44 PM.Leave a comment:
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I had Linux installed on the new drive (the failing one still had Windows on it), and only one distro showed any problems. Mint and Lubuntu were fine, and booting Windows off the failing drive was also fine.Leave a comment:
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I did that (by putting the original failing SSD in the second M.2 slot for Windows and installing Linux on the new drive). It's just that I picked a bad distro. I'm in Windows now on the second drive (or third since I also have an 8TB HDD), but since that old SSD is still counting up bad blocks, I'm going to put Windows back on the new SSD and buy a cheap new one for Linux (and probably go back to Lubuntu, even though this computer doesn't need a lightweight distro).
Also, Gigabyte sucks at BIOSes, so installing two NVMe drives makes the video error LED light up after the OS has successfully...Leave a comment:
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I've confirmed that the flash drive works in Lubuntu and Mint. Between that and the weird instability, I see why MX Linux has so few users.
I feel like going back to Windows temporarily (by cloning the failing SSD onto the new one) until I figure out what's wrong with Mint (or just use Lubuntu, even though this computer doesn't need a lightweight distro). Also, I forgot about the rest of the video software that I use. I need to find something to replace Avisynth and VirtualDub. I do too much stuff on this computer.
As long as I still have time to edit, I will add that...Last edited by lti; 07-15-2024, 10:54 PM.Leave a comment:
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I found this thread again while I was looking for something else, and I was already thinking of installing Linux on my main computer. Then I noticed the number of bad blocks on my SSD climbing, so I got a new SSD and installed Linux. I used MX Linux, and it feels a little flaky. I've already seen random background stuff segfault (only visible when I was looking through dmesg for something unrelated). Unfortunately, Linux Mint ran poorly (at least when booted from random cheap flash drives - I didn't try installing it). Video was really choppy, even when simply moving windows around. I checked...Leave a comment:
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That's how I adjusted them this time, and I used a plastic screwdriver both times. This was a different pair of receiving headphones (she impulse bought a replacement when the power switch failed instead of having me replace the switch), so I guess the original headphones were tuned a little off....Leave a comment:
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I finally got to look at these. The static was only in the right channel, and the problem was my fault. When I did the original LED bypass hack, I messed with those two coils. However, I marked their original positions, and turning the 2.8MHz coil back to its original position got rid of the static. The 2.3MHz actually had slightly shorter range with the coil in its factory setting, so I adjusted it slightly from factory. I guess I don't need new LEDs, but it would be nice to fix it right. There's currently a 100 ohm resistor bridged across the bad LED (which still lights, but it has high internal...
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