Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-24, 07:51

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sliderider wrote: vlask wrote: Status update - added Cyrix and Sun. Btw should i highlight by color also 1st xx core cpus? (same as i do now 1st 8/16/32bit cpu). Like first dual/quad/8x core and so on cpus? I didn't see Nexgen in there. Same as many others. Noone said i did nexgen already.

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-22, 22:51

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Status update - added Cyrix and Sun. Btw should i highlight by color also 1st xx core cpus? (same as i do now 1st 8/16/32bit cpu). Like first dual/quad/8x core and so on cpus?

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Re: Quad-Monitor cards?

Posted on 2015-07-22, 07:58

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CelGen wrote: Now the hard part. Finding 16 monitors of matched brand, model and screen dimensions.....in 2015. That should be doable only by buying them at some company selling refurbished PC - they mostly have xx amount of same monitors and PCs.....

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Re: Quad-Monitor cards?

Posted on 2015-07-21, 17:58

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All of them i know are for PCI. PCie-1x are made by matrox, ati (firemv) and nvidia (Quadro NVS), but not sure how many monitors can drive - but these are expensive (too new). Depends on what OS you want to use. For older will be cheaper get PCI retro cards. Another problem might be drivers - all …

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-19, 16:28

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Another day gone, another cpu maker done 😉 This e-archeology starting to get more hardcore.... This time i did National Semiconductor and now i know who did 1st 16 and 32bit cpu.....

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-18, 09:38

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Status update - added Zilog and Motorola (without Power PC).

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 21:25

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I'm loving the tree but am a little confused why Pentium II Klamath isn't connected to Pentium Pro. :S unless this is a tree going by product lines and not CPU ancestry? would be one hell of a tangle to get P3 to PM to CoreDuo with all those P4/Celeron variants down there Well i realized that cpu …

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 15:23

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Hmm wiki says that this would be one of these missing modern embedded cpu's. Thx, will take a look at them. Edit: Updated with Geode, Elan and 286ZX/LX. Only missing any closer info about Elan SC500 (not sure it was released).

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 12:48

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Basic AMD tree done. Think im mising some modern Embeeded cpu's, but rest should be done (i hope). Now i have to move to something older and easier (zilog?, nextgen?). Not sure yet... Full image as always at http://vgamuseum.info/images/doc/cputree.png

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-14, 08:07

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Keep in mind that I'm talking about CPU history tree now, not Graphics card history instead. 😉 It is located here: http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-13, 18:21

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Basic intel CPU tree done, any corrections and info about missing CPU's are welcome. It is located here: http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu Full image link is - http://vgamuseum.info/images/doc/cputree.png

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-03, 18:45

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More minor note: GeForce FX 5800/5800 Ultra are 128MB, not 256MB. Hmm looks like its right. Someone then should edit wikipedia list of cards.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_FX_.285xxx.29_Series Updated Realizm cards too. In early versions i didnt …

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-06-30, 22:34

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Just to let you know. Started work on new wallpaper (so far 380cm wide) with CPU. Noone seemed to be so crazy to do it. Looking for help. So if you want to help with your favourite CPU maker, pls visit CPU-World forums. http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25419 . So far found volunteers …

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Re: MSI Master K7D problems

Posted on 2015-06-18, 11:50

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Anyone tried any 3Dlabs card with this MB? Not a single card from 3Dlabs isn't working for me. Oxygen GMX - not detected graphic card, only pc speaker beeps Oxygen GVX1 and VX1 - freeze at windows boot screen Wildcat VP560 and VP990 Pro - bios screen ok, but monitor turns off when have to show …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-11, 19:59

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alexanrs wrote: Did someone just sell a haul with a SB2.0 for 10 EUR??? Wow... I wish I knew people like that Actually i sended one for free at monday to local computer museum. Had two about 5 years and noone were interested in any sound card i have. So better donate them, than scrapping.

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Re: EISA VGA cards?

Posted on 2015-06-08, 15:58

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/COMPAQ-QVGA-EISA-MWW-1992-126654-001-QVISION-VGA-ISA-VIDEO-GRAPHICS-CARD-/320955125583?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item4aba6a8f4f what are those on opposite side of the E-ISA plug, are used for? Video decoder cards. Something like this - http://vgamuseum.info/images/vlask/ …

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Re: Guess the retro hardware!

Posted on 2015-06-08, 06:11

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Green dot on the back indicates it's a token ring card. 4 megabit? Yep, its IBM Token Ring (83X7488) MCA. Nice, never known that they got different dots on cards back.....Seen info about token ring only in IT books at highschool, but never seen real card or cables. This one i got as possible video …

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Re: Guess the retro hardware!

Posted on 2015-06-07, 19:48

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obobskivich wrote: I'm going to assume MCA graphics card, and guess that it's an IBM. Your guess is from 2/3 right. But one thing is wrong.

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Re: Guess the retro hardware!

Posted on 2015-06-07, 18:31

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Ok then, guess mine turn. Don't want exact card name (dont think its have one). Enough is exact type of card (sound, vga....) and company name (easy one). Had to delete card number from image (with it it would be too easy).

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Re: Guess the retro hardware!

Posted on 2015-06-07, 09:51

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SGI IrisVision? Id like to see more cards like that in mine collection. Profi cards are hard to get.

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