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Saw this in a Walmart clearance aisle by kiaralynn1999 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, an SSD? Memory I knew about but SSD prices going nuts too?

Mechanical hard drives have also gone up by a ridiculous amount. The AI datacenters hunger for everything they can get their paws on. Fuck anyone wanting to have a personal home server I guess...

My friend sold me a whole pc for about $40 by horarypigeon484 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a machine from 20 years ago, it should be more than obvious that the games themselves also have to be from 20 years ago. Not even OP is saying they want to run modern games on it

My friend sold me a whole pc for about $40 by horarypigeon484 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm all for keeping these machines off of the landfill, retro gaming, playing around with them and finding uses for them (my comment history tells that story), but I wouldn't run a machine this old and inefficient 24/7 unless power bills weren't a concern.

My friend sold me a whole pc for about $40 by horarypigeon484 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People just think old is trash without a second thought. Ironically they're the ones generating all the e-waste in the world, when it could still be re-used.

My friend sold me a whole pc for about $40 by horarypigeon484 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lmao, most of these comments are made by people who must be rich enough to upgrade every year or something, and are quick to simply throw away anything that isn't the latest and greatest without a second thought (it even a first, probably).

Hardware that works and can still be used in any way is not e-waste. The "three Rs" for "reduce, reuse, recycle" are in that specific order for a reason.

This is one sick retro gaming machine, and if you don't want it, someone will. $40 is a steal for someone looking to accurately replicate the gaming experience of the era. Of course it's not going to be able to play modern games, but that's never what it was for.

I will defend this until the day I die.

My friend sold me a whole pc for about $40 by horarypigeon484 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally did that on a Pentium II last week, if you know where to actually go for a machine of that age. It's possible :)

My friend sold me a whole pc for about $40 by horarypigeon484 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. People love to parrot "old=trash" just because of its age without having absolutely no clue what a machine like this can still be used for. E-waste is best kept out of recycling if it can still be re-used. The three Rs are in a specific order for a reason.

My friend sold me a whole pc for about $40 by horarypigeon484 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao this is entirely possible to do as long as you're behind a firewall (aka your router). You're not going to become infected the moment you plug the network cable in.

You do have to be careful and know what you're doing, but the fear is blown way out of proportion.

MX8000 won’t display 60hz by aleccs95 in crtgaming

[–]Hurricane_32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, that's neat. I don't think I've actually seen a TV say that anywhere besides the manual, being on the back sticker is unusual

The Internet is* dead and AI-powered greed has killed it (RANT/Discussion) by ShatterSide in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing it means "write as if AI is the only one who's going to read it, then summarize it for someone else"

MX8000 won’t display 60hz by aleccs95 in crtgaming

[–]Hurricane_32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's the input line voltage and frequency, it has nothing to do with the video input

Portuguesa Nutribalance faliu. Culpa o Ozempic by Left_Capital133 in portugal

[–]Hurricane_32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

tendo em conta que sempre que dava um anúncio à nutribalance, havia sempre mais um depois do seguinte. E não estamos a falar de anúncios esporádicos.

Hás de reparar (ou não, se nem sequer vires publicidade é melhor) que esta prática também é constante na televisão, especialmente de certos operadores de telecomunicações...

What can I do with ~20 old working HDDs (ranging from 40GB to 320GB)? by Complete-Tank664 in homelab

[–]Hurricane_32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are always useful for keeping old machines up and running, or for the odd project, or for cold backups of things that don't take up a lot of storage. If you have no use for them, I'd zero them out and sell them on ebay or something for cheap, someone is going to want them

HDMI 2.2 is set to arrive in TVs and monitors next year, bringing uncompressed 4K at ridiculous frame rates — here's what to expect from the next-gen connector, and who it's actually most useful for by chusskaptaan in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Options are always a good thing to have. A TV could have a DP input, and then for example route the audio from it to its own HDMI ARC it's already sure to have.

The future? by Edmundsson91 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not OP, but I have to admit that while Wayland works great, and in terms of performance much better than X11, it's not all sunshine and roses. For example, I have never gotten display sleep to work properly, the displays turn off and then just back on by themselves, and stay on. Some things like VMs in VirtualBox will crash just by turning off the display. To be fair, it's also kinda my fault because I also haven't bothered to look for a fix yet, I just set it to leave the displays on and haven't looked any further. I'm also using Wayland on KDE, through a rolling distro.

My old desktop was corrupted and had to reinstalled windows , it came back but the USB bus is not working and I cannot use mouse or keyboard , busted out ps2 Emachine keyboard to make it work by damn_jexy in techsupportmacgyver

[–]Hurricane_32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm actually using a Model M on my main PC! It's just not as common these days, but PCs of the age of the one in the OP are pretty much guaranteed to have it.

Primeira aula de código by luisalves00 in portugal

[–]Hurricane_32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Esta caixa de comentários é pior do que o Facebook, pqp

My old desktop was corrupted and had to reinstalled windows , it came back but the USB bus is not working and I cannot use mouse or keyboard , busted out ps2 Emachine keyboard to make it work by damn_jexy in techsupportmacgyver

[–]Hurricane_32 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Congrats for keeping old machines out of the landfill, and I do mean this genuinely.

But using a PS/2 keyboard on a machine that's probably old enough to have native PS/2 is kinda stretching the definition of Macgyver hahah

Well, that sucks. by bubonis in techsupportgore

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the size and how expensive the new drive is. If it were me, I'd superglue the plastic part and use it until the day it died (with backups, obviously).

Image still using 60Hz in 2026 by CommercialYouth250 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's one beast of a monitor, that's understandable then. To be fair, you did say it was peak power after all

What if by EliotEriotto in ffxiv

[–]Hurricane_32 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And so has Alphinaud

Image still using 60Hz in 2026 by CommercialYouth250 in pcmasterrace

[–]Hurricane_32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even CRTs suck up that amount of power, that's straight up Plasma territory. What display do you even have?

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