Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-10-23, 15:06

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by BSA Starfire

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Not exactly a retro activity, just watched this amazing video from Ardian's Digital Basement. One of his best videos IMO. it's about a very rare find. Adrian is so natural and sincere in his passion that makes one share all his emotions. https://youtu.be/ewtRCdwbTEw I watched this one too, it's …

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Re: the unofficial Vogons server centric thread

Posted on 2022-10-19, 14:58

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by BSA Starfire

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My main PC is a 2008 vintage HP ProLiant ML115 G5. CPU is AMD Opteron 1354, a quad core K10 @ 2.2 GHz(pretty much same as original Phenom x4). 8 GB or DDR2 RAM, it has a somewhat unusual Nvidia chipset motherboard with a Matrox G200 graphics embedded into the chipset. The second GPU is an Nvidia …

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SiS AGP cards, a new adventure in cheap and cheerful.

Posted on 2022-10-14, 15:35

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by BSA Starfire

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I've bought a little collection of the most maligned, ignored and downright unwanted AGP graphics cards known to humankind! As a follow up to a project that I fooled around with in 2020, Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=73746 I …

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Re: Does anyone have the Microsoft Internet Keyboard drivers CD?

Posted on 2022-10-09, 15:54

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have that exact keyboard, not much help, but all the fuctions work under latest Mint Linux 20.2 on my Athlon II X4 rig....

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Re: So many choices so little time - Hercules graphics card decision (cloned title :-))

Posted on 2022-10-09, 15:49

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by BSA Starfire

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Very compatible, runs everything I have tried and solid. the monitor is also very light and easy to handle.

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Re: So many choices so little time - Hercules graphics card decision (cloned title :-))

Posted on 2022-10-09, 15:45

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by BSA Starfire

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This is what I'm using for herc, a tiny little card and a Tiawan Royal paper white. Had for a few years now and VERY happy with both.

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2022-10-09, 15:12

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by BSA Starfire

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I also grabbed this card as it was only a fiver, another vanilla H0 6326 AGP.

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2022-10-09, 15:05

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by BSA Starfire

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sis 305 16mb.jpg Diamond sis 6326.jpg I have just purchased a pair of SiS AGP cards, so the journey will continue soon, sadly not on the old Cyrix box however as that does not have a AGP slot. For these two we will be testing with either a ASUS CUV/4X & Pentium III 933 or a DFi VIA KT133 and AMD …

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Re: Strange and simple SiS6326AGP for PCI

Posted on 2022-10-07, 15:50

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by BSA Starfire

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Well it's a H0 revision chip, so that is all good 😀

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2021-11-16, 19:06

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by BSA Starfire

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Xeon X5650 6 cores/12 threads. ASUS Sabertooth X58 12 GB Corsair XMS3 @ 1600 Nvidia GTX 760 SC (EVGA) Silverstone Fortress FT. Xigmatex Samurai 750 Watt PSU. Samsung 120 GB SSD. some spinning rust for storage. Windows 7, Linux Mint.

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Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 19:15

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by BSA Starfire

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No idea where your located, but CEX in the UK has FX CPU's much, much cheaper than ebay, might be worth a look. FX 8350 is £58. FX 8120 is £35 for example, they also have a 2 year warranty on all hardware.

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Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 19:03

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by BSA Starfire

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Yes, it's crazy right? I know my son(who is in his mid 20's) still uses his FX 8350 happily as his main gaming PC though. With 16 GB RAM, a decent mid/high range Radeon of last gen(I forgot the model TBH, but it was £180 in 2019 and has 8GB) and a Samsung 1TB SSD it does just fine for all his stuff. …

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Re: Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard Xeon CPU support

Posted on 2021-09-26, 16:37

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by BSA Starfire

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Thanks both. I've bought a Xeon X5650 from fleabay for a fiver delivered, tested and working(apparently). Done a bit of further digging and these will hit 4 GHz+ on reasonable air cooler all day(I have a fenrir titan). Heck of an upgrade for the price if all goes well. I'll report back when it …

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Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard Xeon CPU support

Posted on 2021-09-25, 12:55

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by BSA Starfire

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Hi all! I have a really nice ASUS Sabertooth X58(LGA 1366) based system that is currently running a i7 950 CPU, 12 GB RAM and a EVGA GTX 760 SC. I'd like to upgrade to a 6 core/12 thread Xeon if possible, preference would be a 32nm version. But honestly I'd be really interested in anything I can get …

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-22, 11:07

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by BSA Starfire

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I just got an AGP 6326 today (which is a development of the S3 Virge - for the guy who thought this was different, lol). It is a late production model and appears to have 16MB onboard. There can be issues with these cards in DOS apparently but a later driver release fixed most of the issues. I also …

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2021-09-14, 18:18

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by BSA Starfire

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Wow! I guess I'm a little slow on what's been going on, but just watched vlaskcz's excellent video on youtube covering the 6326 as part of his series of early 3D cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB9VVTJ48gE&t=924s It's really neat that another driver has been rediscovered recently for the card …

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Help getting Soundblaster Live! SB0220 working in Windows 7

Posted on 2021-07-03, 13:31

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by BSA Starfire

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Hiya, Need some assistance getting a sound card working in my HP Proliant ML-115 G5(Opteron 1354, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 3870), it's a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital (Dell OEM, SB0220). now I know what your thinking, why this card, well the HP only has PCI slot's with the 3.3v available, so …

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Re: Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-24, 18:02

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by BSA Starfire

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Thanks for the information, that's just what I wanted to know. Seems "nice code software" were incredibly prolific on NOAC/Famiclones. I agree these units are not for the purists of today(saying that I've been a Atari VCS 2600 gamer since 1981 and always owned one since that time), and I kinda get a …

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Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-21, 17:50

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by BSA Starfire

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I've been having a lot of fun playing some really old games recently and also some more modern recreations of old games that I expect many folk haven't played, these are reprogrammed/re-imagined Atari and Intellivision games running on NOAC systems, that's a Famicom/NES on a single IC. The two …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-21, 11:50

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by BSA Starfire

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HP z200 workstation rear.jpg HP z200 workstation.jpg Bought this today, a 2010 HP Z200 workstation, it has a Xeon X3450 CPU, 4 GB RAM and includes 3 caddy's for HD's. There is a GPU in there but no idea what until it arrives. I was short a machine as a friend needed a PC to replace a dead Toshiba …

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