Vintage computer

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    Question Unsure if thermal paste needed on machine from the turn of the millenium

    I am wondering if I need to put thermal paste on the GPU for this system? If so, I assume that I can just use standard thermal paste like e.g. Arctic MX4? CPU: AMD Athlon 700MHz (looks different from normal CPUs, almost like a card but it has quite a big heatsink so I assume the thermal paste...
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    Question Vintage Computer Not Booting - Gateway Performance 650 TB3

    I thought a fun Christmas project would be the resurrection of the the old family computer, a ‘Gateway Performance AS 650 tb3’. To give some back story, about a year ago I dusted off the internal components, when I put the computer back together it booted fine but crashed a few seconds latter...
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    Question CTX Windows 95 PC Pentium 100MHz 16MB EDO RAM 1GB Hard Drive

    Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this, but I've been looking for this computer a long time. It was the first PC I ever owned. It was a beige minitower with a blue front bezel. Every time I look for Win95 machines it's either a Gateway or Packerd Bell, but CTX I cannot find. Any Ideas...
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    Question Atari XC1411

    Hello everyone, recently I purchased a bundle to play around /fix up some Atari and Commodore computers, and among them there was an Atari XC1411 monitor. This is a rare prototype "sample" monitor that supposedly was for show at CES Las Vegas in 1985 (no clue why it's all the way nearly on the...
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    Question Prebuilt Nostalgia

    Hi y'all, im after a prebuilt system i had years and years ago that i don't know of the brand but i do remember what it did look like. so i was hoping that the internet could help me out here. it was a green case that was aluminium and a small dragon logo on the side, it was not tempered or...
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    my new build stutters

    I have just built a new pc and recently its been stuttering on the desktop and browser and unusually long load times. i tried seeing if it was just me or if it was really happening. i opened a game and got extremely low frame rates. i planned to get a GTX 1070 to replace the 770. These are my...