Re: Dos gaming PCI graphics card choice.

Posted on 2017-06-03, 22:33

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by Baoran

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How do bit more modern pci graphics cards do in dos gaming in the pentium pc that I talked about? There is couple of those for sale here locally. One is Voodoo 3 2000 PCI 16Mb and the other one is Nvidia TNT2 M64 PCI 32Mb. The voodoo card would cost about 30 euros and the TNT 2 card 25 euros. …

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Re: Machspeed VGA GUI 3000

Posted on 2017-06-03, 16:16

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Probably not very useful then because I have not really found much use for using windows in 486. I'll let someone else buy it.

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Re: Blind purchase (pretty much) Does anyone recognize?

Posted on 2017-06-01, 21:52

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by Baoran

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thanks. The reason I bought that so quickly was that my old 486 motherboard died recently without any warning and all the ebay prices for 486 motherboards were so high that I was willing to risk 6 euros not knowing if that motherboard will work or not.

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Re: Blind purchase (pretty much) Does anyone recognize?

Posted on 2017-06-01, 20:53

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After going through pictures online. I think I might have found the motherboard: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/D/DTK-COMPUTER-INC-486-PKM-0037S.html I have 486dx-33Mhz and 486dx2-80Mhz. It does not seem like that motherboard goes up to 80Mhz, but at least I will be able to put the 33Mhz …

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Re: Blind purchase (pretty much) Does anyone recognize?

Posted on 2017-06-01, 20:19

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Anyone has any idea if the motherboard supports faster 486 cpus?

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Blind purchase (pretty much) Does anyone recognize?

Posted on 2017-06-01, 19:41

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I saw someone selling some old hardware really cheap online. They did only cost 6 euros, so I decided to take a risk. I only know that there is a 486 motherboard and some isa cards, but I don't know anything else about them based on the low res picture that seller had posted. Now that I have bought …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-05-31, 15:02

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Filename 20170531_175749.jpg File size 2.88 MiB Views 2177 views

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

Posted on 2017-05-31, 10:21

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Someone had left a tower case in a dumpster with both side panels missing. There was a motherboard with dual cpus and a psu inside. The psu was dead when I tested, but the motherboard and cpus work fine. When I first saw the case in the dumpster my first thought was that it was a dual P2 system, but …

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Re: Machspeed VGA GUI 3000

Posted on 2017-05-31, 09:49

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When I passed the recycling center today, I went in and took a picture of the card. Filename 20170531_124214.jpg File size 4.18 MiB Views 684 views

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Machspeed VGA GUI 3000

Posted on 2017-05-30, 16:34

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I saw a VLB graphics card in a local recycling center that says Machspeed VGA GUI 3000 on the board. I wasn't able to find out any information about it by using google. They were selling the card for 10 euros in the recycling center. Is the card any good?

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Re: Pentium 133 question

Posted on 2017-05-30, 09:46

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This thread made me curious. My 100Mhz and 120Mhz pentium processors have never had their heatsink removed from the cpu, so that made me wonder. Did pentiums come originally with some sort of thermal compound between the cpu and the heatsink in prebuilt systems?

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Re: Dos gaming PCI graphics card choice.

Posted on 2017-05-28, 12:54

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I tested the virge GX card. VBE test says it has VBE 2.0 and 2mb of memory. I will most likely use it then. Thanks for the help.

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Re: Dos gaming PCI graphics card choice.

Posted on 2017-05-28, 10:59

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That leaves out the ATI card. All chips S3 Trio64, Virge and Vision864 in these cards seem to be quite equal when it comes to compatibility. Is there any reasons for choosing one of these S3 cards over others like speed or being able to use higher resolutions?

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Dos gaming PCI graphics card choice.

Posted on 2017-05-28, 10:41

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I went through my graphics card pile to see what kind of pci graphics cards I have that I could use with pentium 120Mhz dos gaming pc. I found these 5 cards: Filename 20170528_132359.jpg File size 4.71 MiB Views 1427 views Which one of these cards you think would work the best for dos gaming?

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Re: Does amount of cache matter?

Posted on 2017-05-25, 18:26

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I suppose even 64Mb is bit too much for a pentium system. I only had 16mb in my pentium system that I bought back in 1995 with win95. If I use 64Mb of ram, do I need 512Kb of cache for it?

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Re: Does amount of cache matter?

Posted on 2017-05-24, 23:58

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So what is the ram limit for 256kb cache or does it depend on the size of the tag chip? I could put either 64Mb or 96Mb of ram on the motherboard. I have 2x32Mb edo ram modules and 2x16Mb edo ram modules.

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Does amount of cache matter?

Posted on 2017-05-24, 22:59

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When it comes to pentium motherboards and pentium cpus in 100-120Mhz range, does it make a speed difference if you compare a motherboard with 256Kb of cache and 512Kb of cache? I have 2 pentium AT motherboards. One of them is socket 5 motherboard with 256Kb of on board cache and the other one is a …

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Re: Old PC refuses to write to floppies

Posted on 2017-05-24, 20:50

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by Baoran

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He already said that he had tried multiple floppy drives. Ampera wrote: I doubt it's any problem with the electronics. This just looks like dust or some mechanical failure.

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Re: Old PC refuses to write to floppies

Posted on 2017-05-24, 20:13

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by Baoran

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if you had an ISA card with a floppy controller and you could test if floppies work using that, it might help figuring out where the problem is.

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Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2017-05-24, 16:11

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by Baoran

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I have tried both my 100Mhz pentium and 120Mhz cpus with TR12 options and only option that seems to make much of a difference is L1DX which seems to do the same as "disable system cache" option in bios. gdjacobs wrote: The chip needs to support it. As far as I know, that's all you need.

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