Re: AGP for Super S7 with weak VRMS?

Posted on 2023-05-16, 15:19

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by Dmetsys

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i don't think that it's that simple. It varies from board to board. I've had some boards with MVP3 chips be perfectly easy, and i've had them be a nightmare. Same is true for ALi boards, sometimes they are joy to use and sometimes they are a headache. It's just early AGP in general to be honest, …

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Re: AGP for Super S7 with weak VRMS?

Posted on 2023-05-16, 15:02

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by Dmetsys

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I've never actually considered that I suppose. Voodoo cards are usually the only AGP cards that are rock solid in Super 7 motherboards. I would certainly recommend against a GeForce 256 or GeForce 2. Not because they would necessarily explode the board, but because they probably won't work stably …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-05-15, 02:13

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by Dmetsys

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It's already happening to me. In the last two years, I've acquired parts to build 3 towers. My K6-2 parts need another beige tower, but I'm not buying one for $150+ on FleaBay. Do you live in the US? I just acquired another beige tower I have no need for so I was planning to sell it. It doesn't …

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

Posted on 2023-05-14, 19:01

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by Dmetsys

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Attempting to acquire a Lucky Star LS-486E to rebuild my 486 system. My MLE 486VLB is now starting to show signs of instability. The documentation for it is worse than that of an assembly diagram for a Sears Barbecue.

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Re: Should I get a cooling fan for a Voodoo 3 2k?

Posted on 2023-05-13, 18:34

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by Dmetsys

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Seeing that the Banshee and 2000 came with a 40mm heatsink, a simple 40mm fan will suffice. You may have issues with 3-pin variants not having long enough cables to reach the 3-pin/PWM headers on your motherboard.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-13, 04:36

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That weird baby AT Slot 1 motherboard I bought a while ago arrived and it works! IMG_4489.jpg I'm used to worrying about fans clearing DIMMs on Slot 1 mobos but.. not usually with the GPU. Gotta wonder why the practice of putting DIMM sockets immediately below the AGP slot never caught on. And.. …

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Re: AGP for Super S7 with weak VRMS?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 02:46

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Yet, as I mentioned, it seems an AGP Voodoo might get damaged or cause damage in this mainboard, so that was my point actually, what could be a nice but safe option in this scenario. I've never actually considered that I suppose. Voodoo cards are usually the only AGP cards that are rock solid in …

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Re: Netwoking on a Windows 98 PC - Security concerns

Posted on 2023-05-08, 19:57

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by Dmetsys

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If your lan is behind a nat router, the stuff on the inside would not be available unless port forwarded on the router. I just run plain insecure smb1 straight because I tust my lan. (And I don’t have modern windows computers :) ) 100% this people blow this crap way out of proportion And people put …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-05-08, 00:55

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by Dmetsys

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It's already happening to me. In the last two years, I've acquired parts to build 3 towers. My K6-2 parts need another beige tower, but I'm not buying one for $150+ on FleaBay.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-07, 21:39

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by Dmetsys

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Bought two AGP cards and two sticks of 512 Mb SDR Ram. All untested. That ASUS 9600XT looks cool, hope it works for you, last real AGP flagship GPU ??? That would be the 9800XT. Nvidia's would have been the FX5900, before they started using bridge chips on their PCI-E offerings to sell AGP variants …

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Re: Netwoking on a Windows 98 PC - Security concerns

Posted on 2023-05-07, 19:00

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by Dmetsys

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Another way to tackle it is to use a Server 2000/2003 VM on a segregated network with the 98 machine. This way you are not compromising the Synology NAS and Windows 10 PC's. I would not allow a 98 system to be on the same subnet as the rest of my other systems.

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Re: What Voodoo 5 to buy?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 18:34

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by Dmetsys

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It would be nice to have a Voodoo5 in my collection. Practically, it would never be used. I moved onto TNT2 and GeForce from my Voodoo3 when more games started using OpenGL.

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Re: Identifying SiS Videocard

Posted on 2023-05-07, 17:52

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by Dmetsys

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SiS 6215 or 6326. There are numerous different types of PCB's using the 6215 and 6326, with no set standard. It's showing an MPEG-2 decoder chip as well, so I'm leaning more toward the 6326. Thank you. The problem with "6326" is that on the picture we have something like 3 digits below SiS logo on …

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Re: Identifying SiS Videocard

Posted on 2023-05-02, 03:09

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by Dmetsys

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It wouldn't be a 30x, as they were AGP 2x/4x. 6326 only came in AGP 2x.

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Re: Identifying SiS Videocard

Posted on 2023-05-02, 02:44

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by Dmetsys

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SiS 6215 or 6326. There are numerous different types of PCB's using the 6215 and 6326, with no set standard. It's showing an MPEG-2 decoder chip as well, so I'm leaning more toward the 6326.

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Re: Terabyte Plus

Posted on 2023-05-02, 02:41

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Sounds like a BIOS or FDISK issue to me. Have you tried using a FreeDOS boot disk to create the partitions? 98's FDISK has been known to be buggy. You can also try FDOS/FDisk - https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk to create the partitions using any DOS 3.3 disk and above.

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Re: Drivers and graphics card for autocad R12/R13 under DOS?

Posted on 2023-05-01, 20:49

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Can anyone recommend a graphics card for Autocad under DOS that has driver still available? I know the Matrox Mystique 220 and Millennium II did but the drivers appear no longer available from Matrox. I don't suppose anyone has a copy of these drivers or can point me at an alternative card? Thanks …

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Re: 440BX AGP experts, let's settle this once and for all.

Posted on 2020-12-29, 19:18

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by Dmetsys

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Everyone's gotta be a wiki and full of hearsay, hence why I don't post here that much. C'est la vie. If you are referring to my last comment about AGP voltage , I would like to point out that what I wrote is corroborated by http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html , which is the very link …

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Re: 440BX AGP experts, let's settle this once and for all.

Posted on 2020-12-29, 18:39

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by Dmetsys

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Everyone's gotta be a wiki and full of hearsay, hence why I don't post here that much. C'est la vie.

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Re: 440BX AGP experts, let's settle this once and for all.

Posted on 2020-12-29, 17:58

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by Dmetsys

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You're looking for a magical unicorn, and has probably been resolved multiple times over the years. As stated by others, keep the cards to a maximum of a GeForce 4, or Radeon 8500. If you want to play with newer graphics cards, invest in an i815 or newer motherboard. Radeon 95xx/9600/9700/9800's …

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