I ran some 3DMarks, and the HD 6310 in the AMD E-350 APU (Jan 2011) is basically has the same level of performance as ATI Radeon 9700/9800 PRO (Aug 2022/Mar 2003) 😆

Good - I now have this 🤗 Bad - out of the box, there are two dead rows of pixels at the top 🤬

I find it interesting how, for example, early calculators with hardware bugs are valued more than later bug-free versions - like the HP-35. The same is true, to some extent, for CPUs, such as early Pentiums with the FDIV bug. But it doesn't work for sound cards like Sound Blaster and Vortex 🤔😆

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Lol, when installing Windows XP on a Zotac ZBOX AD10, I was getting this BSOD after the initial load of the drivers, no matter if AHCI was selected or Legacy for the SATA SSD, with or without the driver. Turns out, the external USB CD-ROM was connected to a USB 3.0 port, and this was causing BSOD 😆

Maybe it's the combination of Win11 and old 3dmarks, but I'm kinda not impressed 🙄

Cosmic fucking horror

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

I will continue with it later, but for now I'll just use another SSD... this one is also 'iffy'(read/write is only 250MB/s, although it has 99% life left 🫠), but good enough for WinXP 32 and AMD E-350 APU

something tells me this SSD is done...

like why there's no a failsafe for when the Cloudflare is down to let the request go directly to the web site?

Unusually warm for the middle of November 👌

LOL

Red Alert 3, PS3.

so 90s 😀

Half Life 2 (2004) is now as old as the Star Wars arcade game (1983) was when Half Life 2 came out.

“Working pull from a system I no longer have.”

boo Zotac, boo! for not keeping old drivers for old hardware on the site 🤬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jimP...

⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later. Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.

Hello everyone, friends, followers, and supporters of Ukraine I'm starting a new fundraiser for $120,000 to help Ukraine with engineering equipment, heavy trucks with cranes, and excavators Please watch the video and read to understand why this matters donation link www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

hmas is not a person, but natanyahu is 🫣 just fixing some logical discrepancies 🙄 also fuck anyone who disables replies

Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? - No arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Apple is so out of touch with the reality 🙈 youtu.be/OpwFvC5Rg0Q

Maybe someday I'll buy something similar but modern, and build a properly specced Steam Machine 😆

I thoroughly enjoy how this trailer for the inclusion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into Squad shows a Stugna-P slapping russian armour. Iconic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve3t...

Well, The K7S7AG is here. Seems like old new stock. Max CPU is a Athlon XP3000+ with 333fsb (400 is out os spec but kinda supported) so I have some on eBay watch. This might become a Win98, Win XP dual boot. I have a voodoo 2 without a permanent home at the moment, but this seems to be a good place

Blades of Time - a 2012 game, happily running on a 9800 GT in 1080p youtu.be/K9mFDQFw1II?...

when The Pirate Bay fails and Internet Archive wins 😅😆

The newest Card Battles video closes the chapter on the first generation of DirectX 9 GPUs. The GeForce FX 5950 Ultra versus the Radeon 9800XT Can the last and fastest FX Series flagship redeem NVIDIA's troubled architecture? www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3m...

I'm glad I kept this 12V PSU after it died. Replacing the output caps fixed it right up 👌 I also replaced some 100 uF 50V cap and checked the mains caps - fortunately, they were okay, as I don't have any in this size

In an era where public trust in medical institutions, regulators, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and public-health policy is under strain, this story provides a counter-narrative: one where evidence, medicine

this made me sad and angry: adding a fan to a closed side of a heatsink - is just fucking stupid 😵‍💫

some day we will see PICOSATA and PICONVME, and we will feel super old 😭 (and be old 😆)

why even bid on a 128 bit "9800 XT"?

Post a non-religious image you think of as holy

Probably the simplest way of getting clean 6V DC from a 2S Li-Ion battery: two 1N4007 diodes in series. (I got tired of recharging AA batteries every 3-4 hours 😆 and I keep it playing in the background way more than I expected)

With youtube AI running rampant deleting channels right and left, and constantly changing API so downloading videos with the help of yt-dlp is getting harder, it's time to resume downloading 😀 Downloading now: www.youtube.com/@valgear5525... Go give him a sub(it's not your typical guns channel 😉)

My fellow #radiation nerds, join me as we take a closer look at what is one of the most budget friendly scintillators out there, the Better Geiger Radiation Detector S2L! How good is it and is it really better #Geiger 😃 Let’s find out! youtu.be/Ct9hIIkeusM

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. I had to heat both halves, and now it freaking works. First, I heated the top half - it got rid of artifacts, but WinXP would restart. Then I heated the bottom, and now it boots and passes 3DMark06 🤯

Console players will hate this (or not) 😆 youtu.be/BSXI2gp7lVI?...

The sound of 2005 power ATI FireGL V7200 www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/fi...

Got some retro goodness

Added heatsinks to the VRM (as per tradition) and put it in my Shuttle SG31. I also replaced 2 x 2GB DDR2 800 6-6-6-18 with Geil 4-4-4-12 (the motherboard doesn't support DDR2 1066, and I don't want to OC on a 250W PSU😅)

anyway, I really love these Zotac 9800GT cards: - they are low power and don't need 6pin power - they are mostly quiet(if fan isn't cracked) and cool - they are single slot(fit small PCs like Shuttle) - they have audio input and HDMI output! - you can have hardware EAX audio and video in one cable!

Well, it survived the wash and drying 🫣

Polishing the turd - I added an external power connector, as per tradition, and I'm going to wash and dry the card, put it in my Core 2 Duo Shuttle PC, and see how long it will work 😅