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2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Get a modern PSU, those old ones are really awful even the good old ones. My antique Antec 550W is 72% efficient at full load,that's just terrible by modern standards! Other parameters like hold up time and the quality of the voltage were also lack luster back then. 

You have no idea how badly I'd want to do this for my XP rig (the ol RV350 is old enough and inefficient enough that the power draw of the system turned off makes the PSU warm) but none of the PSUs I have actually have the aux power connector which I need, and I'm not about to drop retardo amounts of money on one that does.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Ienien77 said:

It's evolution and it's good :) 

Better, faster, cheaper!

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1 minute ago, flibberdipper said:

You have no idea how badly I'd want to do this for my XP rig (the ol RV350 is old enough and inefficient enough that the power draw of the system turned off makes the PSU warm) but none of the PSUs I have actually have the aux power connector which I need, and I'm not about to drop retardo amounts of money on one that does.

What connector? The old flat 6 pin or the 4 pin "P4" ATX12V one? If you have a pin out of the connector and it's not proprietary should be easy to hack it onto a modern unit.

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1 minute ago, Bitter said:

What connector? The old flat 6 pin or the 4 pin "P4" ATX12V one? If you have a pin out of the connector and it's not proprietary should be easy to hack it onto a modern unit.

The good 'ol annoying ass flat six. I suppose that while I could always hack up a few cables to get the right voltages and whatknot, it really would be more of a PITA than it's worth. Guess I just don't fully see the point in replacing something that isn't broken. Suppose we also can't forget that older PCs generally slam 5v more than 12v, and modern PSUs don't do so hot with that kind of load.

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Just now, flibberdipper said:

The good 'ol annoying ass flat six. I suppose that while I could always hack up a few cables to get the right voltages and whatknot, it really would be more of a PITA than it's worth. Guess I just don't fully see the point in replacing something that isn't broken. Suppose we also can't forget that older PCs generally slam 5v more than 12v, and modern PSUs don't do so hot with that kind of load.

Das Tru. Need dat 5 volts.

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Just now, Vomanman802 said:

I have a lot more retro pc parts more to come

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wait ... this motherboard doesn't have sata ports ?

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13 minutes ago, Ienien77 said:

wait ... this motherboard doesn't have sata ports ?

Not exactly unusual...

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Just now, Ienien77 said:

is it a graphic card box ?

it's a old BFG TECH Phys-x card

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wait what ? lmfao are you still valid that's it I'm calling NVIDIA about my life time Warranty lol

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Just now, Ienien77 said:

Maybe lifetime of the GPU ?

lmfao right  I love this i'm glad I can share the nostalgia 

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21 minutes ago, Ienien77 said:

I love orange Asus card lol

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this is cool

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2 minutes ago, Vomanman802 said:

this is cool

But the fan is not working ... it's stuck and move when we touch it

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Just now, Ienien77 said:

But the fan is not working ... it's stuck and move when we touch it

that sucks but hey still a great piece to share thank you 

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I also have this ASUS motherboard but i guess she is not working anymore because ... well it doesn't start.

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2 minutes ago, Ienien77 said:

I also have this ASUS motherboard but i guess she is not working anymore because ... well it doesn't start.

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my god that's sad but very beautiful tech 

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