Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on Yesterday, 17:59
Does anyone else think this thread has gotten COMPLETELY derailed?
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-22, 04:39
not on a 10mb card. thats the bottleneck
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 02:25
Knowing the strength of the parts I 3D print in PLA, I wouldn't dare using that kind of adapter to be honest . I mean, yes... but I think it is more designed for the Intel oem P4 heatsink. just run a test print for fitment - then make a solid one out of ABS. Should be fine if you arent going to …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-20, 09:29
I see some cooling discussion here, so I'm just going to add a link to a Socket 478 adapter that would help if you got access to a 3D printer: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6109363 Ok... that's cool. *RIMSHOT* I am 100% going to try that. I have an xp-120 that would look so stupid on such an …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-20, 01:13
I would even go as far as to call this VivienM's Law of Collectible Items: the last and greatest item to have the ability to do something will become the most collectible and therefore, over time, the highest priced. That's totally fair, I've paid a premium for "the best" piece to a build, many …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 23:56
I mean... I wouldn't call it a "good" reason. It's 100% rose tinted goggles and weapons grade copium. Credit where it's due, V1 & V2 were blazing stars of awesome. Then the company just shit the bed for a myriad of reasons. The V4 & V5 were junk compared to the competition. The GeForce 256 ate …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 20:39
Imho, the discussion about what is "faster" is purely academic. These chips are 30y old now almost. If you want something faster, you can just get something faster. The only right answer is to which is "better" is whatever blows your skirt up, little girl. Daddy likes gold, and for the longest time, …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 20:22
You could also get socket 370 adapters for socket 8. Limited to celeron, but still. Imho, the ppro is just a beta version of the pentium 2/3 line.
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 14:22
yea, you gotta jury-rig the clamp, but its a 35W chip. you don't need heat pipes and 20 pounds of copper to do the job.
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 14:00
On a side note, are there any available heatsinks for the Pentium Pros still available or is it even more painful to find than mainboards/CPUs? I still have 2 black PPro 1MB around....had a dual-socket Iwill DP6NS system for years. Shoot me a PM - I have some OEM dual-fan ones knocking about. But I …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-18, 22:14
I obtained an intel pentium pro from a random assorted box of cpus i bought a while back and ever since i got the processor it has just been sitting on my shelf as a shelf piece. i was wondering if anyone here has had any experience using these processors, is it worth spending the money on a socket …
Re: Pentium Pro multiplier options
Posted on 2024-04-18, 19:05
Without voltage, I never did.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-18, 04:21
Imho the base unit TI99 is common, even boxed. I think most people got bored with them, and put them back in the box, only to never touch them again. To use a crude analogy, it was a really polarized "console". You loved it and went balls deep into the ecosystem, or it was that "experiment" thing …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-18, 01:24
PcBytes wrote on 2024-04-18, 00:59: Media Vision Thunderboard? The sticker and I/O placement look similar to it. That's what I thought too. Took me a while, but what I found out was very very frightening.
Re: SCSI Ultra adapters (Like SATA to IDE, but for SCSI)
Posted on 2024-04-17, 19:14
K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid. SCSI notoriously doesn't play nice with adapters. Double so with cheap adapters. This is coming from someone with a literal bookshelf stacked with hard drives, and an entire shelf dedicated to SCSI. If a sata card is an option, it's going to be the cheapest and …
Re: SCSI Ultra adapters (Like SATA to IDE, but for SCSI)
Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:35
Adapters exist that let you put sata drives on SCSI. case in point: http://www.acard.com/index.files/Page385.htm Several years ago, they were in the realm of affordable. Then suddenly something happened and ebay prices went from affordable to "nucking futs". Why? I presume someone realized if they …
Re: Supermicro P6DNE - Eaten by Varta´s barrel bomb -> back from the dead
Posted on 2024-04-15, 20:16
well, its not the brand, persay. But those 1/2 AA cells can just nuke a board: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/kpqaof Maxell and Varta are the big offenders, but they all have a chance to leak over decades. I dont trust any brand. I dont leave ANY battery in a computer once it goes to storage.
Re: Supermicro P6DNE - Eaten by Varta´s barrel bomb -> back from the dead
Posted on 2024-04-14, 17:54
Yea... those cells are even worse. The upshot is, its easy to remove and slightly better voltage than a 2032. So long as you remember to disarm the grenade before putting it back in storage....
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-11, 21:48
I finally finished my read-only drive interface. I saw one of these 5.25 drive bay devices on a random CathodeRayDude video - and the ability to hot-plug in SCSI is something that really doesnt come up often. The USB/SCSI adapters are all terrible. So the only roadblock was finding a nice external …
Re: Supermicro P6DNE - Eaten by Varta´s barrel bomb -> back from the dead
Posted on 2024-04-01, 16:49
There is a part of me that wants to put that card into my p65up8, and then use some socket8/slot 1 adapters just for the giggles. I really should do some tests with that card. see how Celeron chips work, etc.
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