Re: Voodoo 5 6000 Clone PCB
Posted on 2022-05-28, 19:15
It might be uncouth to ask, but what's the asking price of these?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-28, 12:34
These heatsinks are using the mounting holes for the GPU heatsink? Interesting. I'd take it these bridge chip heatsinks aren't just for show. Those bridge chips get stupid hot. I fixed a friend's card back in the day that had a weird instability but putting a heatsink on the bridge chip. After that …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2022-05-28, 07:11
Sphere478 wrote on 2022-05-28, 01:00: New tyan build I like that combination of a recent case and the old tech. What CPU are you running on the Tyan? I have a similar board (cache in COAST though, which I literally had to rig for it did not alwys made proper contact), and have two P233MMX running …
Re: Pentium MMX-233 DOS gamer dream machine.
Posted on 2022-05-28, 06:14
There is something off about his/her/their threads, but that's food for another, non-hardware related forum. With all the hardware OP claims to have stashed in a garage somewhere in the Cali desert, you'd think OP knows the difference between P5/P54 and wouldn't recommend a P5 to anyone as the …
Re: Pentium MMX-233 DOS gamer dream machine.
Posted on 2022-05-27, 21:25
Guys, if you haven’t tried DOS/Win3x on a 1st gen. Pentium computer you need to. This is the way Win3x was suppose to run. It performs so quick and responsive on a 1st gen. Pentium. And DOS games play great without stutter or hesitation. Win3x Networking is much quicker too. You really mean first …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-27, 14:33
I also found my first fully owned pair of loudspeakers! These were also my first loudspeakers, they came alongside my Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 - not sure if I had bought them separately or whether they were a bundle or what, but I would pay good money for a pair of these suckers today. And by suckers, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-27, 14:11
Soldiering on ..... 10.jpg One more to come.... Running XP on a mobile MMX must be a frustrating experience. Interesting collection of hardware, and I agree with your point on the "business". The global recession might push this hobby back to where it belongs, although the seas might have been …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-27, 13:47
I also found my first fully owned pair of loudspeakers!
Re: Pentium 4 RDRAM systems
Posted on 2022-05-27, 10:14
ODwilly wrote on 2022-05-27, 01:30: Are 512mb sticks of PC600 actually useful for any RDRAM systems? I refound a pair in my RDRAM box and recall them not working on a Intel 423 board at all. The 820-based P3 systems should take those.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-27, 07:25
This is a thin client with an ISA/PCI riser slot, a 3.5" floppy drive and a 44-pin IDE connector (originally it was for a Compact flash adapter that was accessible on the back. PXL_20220526_235127264~2.jpg Not going to divulge the brand/model until after I have a chance to actually do some testing …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-27, 07:12
Some last AGP-era gear (sellers pictures, but all arrived very well packed - still need to test everything): This is a seller who knows his stuff. All boards were recapped, the Core Dual Sata even has copper heatsinks on all vrm's. -Asrock 4 Core Dual Sata2, E7600, 2x2gb ram, fully recapped -Asrock …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-26, 15:49
SteveC wrote on 2022-05-26, 15:09: flupke11 wrote on 2022-05-26, 14:26: This is a seller who knows his stuff. I just had the opposite - I ordered a PCI S3 Trio and just received an AGP GeForce MX2 🙁 And you'll waste time on top of that, trying to explain that "no, they're not the same thing" in …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-26, 14:26
Some last AGP-era gear (sellers pictures, but all arrived very well packed - still need to test everything): This is a seller who knows his stuff. All boards were recapped, the Core Dual Sata even has copper heatsinks on all vrm's. -Asrock 4 Core Dual Sata2, E7600, 2x2gb ram, fully recapped -Asrock …
Re: 1994 AMD PC-net PCI II 10BaseT network card incompatible with my router?
Posted on 2022-05-24, 18:13
Are you sure the card is TCP/IP compatible on protocol? UTP is just a physical link, it needs to support IEEE 802.3 on the data link layer and TCP/IP on the layer above.
Re: Intel Pentium PRO 200 question
Posted on 2022-05-22, 19:51
The PPro I have in my old Compaq two-way compaq server has also that thin sheet on it. So it might be a pull from such a machine. What do you plan to do with it?
Re: Windows 95 Build Question
Posted on 2022-05-22, 17:36
I have a thing for Intel 740 cards. (I have a thing for weird stuff) Performances are Ok-ish but iirc some operations are not very well implemented (transparancy ? Filtering ?) But that's an original/unusual card that you can have for cheap. A bit off topic: Riva 128 or i740 was the staple AGP card …
Re: Help Setting MHz LED Display
Posted on 2022-05-21, 22:01
Wild guessing here, the bottom row probably is the 6 (7 segments, 6 of those are "on"). The first digit needs to be on the top row somewhere. I'm not sure whether the display has an option to show 2 different numbers based on the turbo status.
Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?
Posted on 2022-05-18, 21:06
Thbks @WJG6260 for your reply. In the mean time, I've upgraded the P11 to P18 BIOS and it does boot with the SL5FQ. So between P11 and P18, they've inserted the CPU microcode of that Coppermine revision. Same issue with my Slot 1-Tualatins (Upgradeware Slot-T, LinLin on Soltek and Powerleap iP3/T): …
Re: New guy find "Pentium 3 Slot 1 733"
Posted on 2022-05-18, 20:43
I guess the Apollo 133 is the better. Intel never really succeeded with pushing RD RAM. Real world performance SD RAM could keep up or even outperform RD Ram based systems so the extra cost was never justified. These days though where cost/performance isn't rally an issue (just get a faster PC if …
Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?
Posted on 2022-05-18, 20:25
Thbks @WJG6260 for your reply. In the mean time, I've upgraded the P11 to P18 BIOS and it does boot with the SL5FQ. So between P11 and P18, they've inserted the CPU microcode of that Coppermine revision. Same issue with my Slot 1-Tualatins (Upgradeware Slot-T, LinLin on Soltek and Powerleap iP3/T): …
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