Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !
Posted on 2020-03-19, 13:19
Awesome work - THX!
Re: Pentium 66 MHz socket 4 system
Posted on 2020-03-17, 12:44
Sweet system - fine as heck components! I had a ceramic P60 in my Vobis system. All other Pentiums I have come across thus far are gold top. As already stated the P66 parts are pretty rare. p.s.: thanks again for helping out with the BIOS image.
Re: Pentium 200 Mmx With 256kb External Cache And Pentium 200 With 512kb External Cache
Posted on 2020-03-17, 12:34
One of the strengths that the PMMX has over the older core is an improved method for branch prediction. But for practical purposes(no matter how much cache) using the older core won't make that much of a difference since you're using "486 era" software. The original P200 is also more rare than the …
Re: The millenial troll PC - A Socket 423 Rambus build
Posted on 2020-03-04, 15:08
If speed was important, we wouldn't be on Vogons. The P4 S423 was sheer madness, which is a perfectly good reason on its own to build it now. Same reason I rebuilt my 32-bit rdram system, uncommon, frightfully expensive at the time, and out-of-date before the week was out. So I applaud this build! …
Re: Your friends dads 486 build
Posted on 2020-02-23, 12:29
Total beauty - a big CRT would be a nice upgrade.
Re: 486 Motherboard
Posted on 2020-02-20, 14:12
For ease of use I recommend a PCI based board with an UM888x or SiS49x chipset. The boards I found good were the LuckyStar LS486E and the GA-486AM/S. A great board but more finicky is the Shuttle HOT433 which was even slightly faster then the GA-486 AM/S. I had one 4DPS which was nice but would not …
Re: Bought 2 motherboards, both do exactly the same (nothing)
Posted on 2020-02-20, 14:03
Connect a speaker & use a diagnose card.
Re: Arrived ISA 8 bit RTVGA boards
Posted on 2020-02-19, 12:27
Awesome work!
Re: Green thinking still companies change computers every 3 years.
Posted on 2020-02-19, 12:24
At the end of the day everything's business - most likely "global warming" too.
Re: Testing of SRAM cache chips
Posted on 2020-02-14, 11:58
How many valid writes in a row would it take to deem the sram capable of running at a certain speed - is there an industry standard describing required functionality?
Re: To find the right projects and retro computers AKA what should I build or focus on? (486,Pentium 1-4?)
Posted on 2020-02-14, 10:13
You're pretty much set with a socket5/7 board for older stuff unless you want a really slow machine in which case you can turn off the chaches and see if this yields the "performance" you want. Concerning the more modern 2D cards - always go for the one with the best picture quality. For me …
Re: My cool 486 EISA tower
Posted on 2020-02-13, 16:08
Nice looking tower and classic company - great memories. I remember Escom being critizised in the magazines for glueing some of the components to the chassis.
Re: Shuttle HOT-613 (Single vs Dual - Pentium Pro)
Posted on 2020-02-13, 10:14
Looking forward to an update - very interesting!
Re: Converting an SB-AWE-64 into an AWE-64-Gold ?
Posted on 2020-02-13, 09:09
Most likely not worth it unless you're very skilled and it's a labor of love. The RCA connectors on the Gold are super neat but I was pretty pissed when I wanted to test the card for the first time and had to patch together a RCA -> "mini-jack" cable.
Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).
Posted on 2020-02-12, 14:52
One swell system - the ram prices of yesteryear were something to behold. I remember cruising along with 8MiB in 1995.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2020-02-11, 16:56
yawetaG wrote on 2020-02-11, 06:37: At least most older hardware is usually build to last, completely opposite today's "planned obsolescence" (whether it is by design like a lot of IoT products or by using the cheapest production option possible in terms of quality). The dire truth regarding many …
Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build
Posted on 2020-02-11, 16:55
The card I had success with at 50mhz and 0 waitstates was an AvanceLogic / ALG2228 on an GA-486VS.
Re: Upgrading Socket 4 L2 cache to 2048k (ECS SI5PI MB)
Posted on 2020-02-11, 15:34
That's awesome - I have the same board. The upgrade to 2MiB cache will be an interesting project. I use 16KiB 12ns tags for my board and 32KiB srams for the banks resulting in 0.5MiB - all BIOS settings max'd out.
Re: Is ST486DX2-80GS cpu a cyrix cpu?
Posted on 2020-02-11, 15:21
I remember it being a hair slower than the i486 in non fpu based apps. They were able to outperform i486 and am486 regarding memory transfers though.
Re: My Amigas
Posted on 2020-02-11, 14:43
The black one looks awesome. The modern cards available are pretty impressive - guess with the superclocked versions the Doom / Quake ports start making sense.
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