Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-12, 20:49

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by kithylin

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I know that I had great results with Tekram DC-300B. It even ran an hard disk drive at 25MB/s in a K6 system. No, you can't. For DC-300 you limited to drive and to cache by 16-bit ISA speed, that cant be faster, than about 8 MB/s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bit_rates#Main_buses So …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-11, 16:58

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by kithylin

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Do you mean multiple PCX2s for a bigger performance gain? Or an combination of different cards with different drivers? Adding multiple for more performance. I was just curious. PCI or not we can add multiple voodoo2's for more performance.. I know these have no cross-connect interface like V2, but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-11, 03:03

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by kithylin

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Artex wrote: skitters wrote: Or is everything done through the motherboard slot? Yup, all over the PCI bus. Could multiple of these be used together in the same system?

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

Posted on 2015-07-10, 18:01

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by kithylin

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RAID drove me nuts. At my pinnacle I was running 28 fiber channel disks and another 28 SCSI disks with a quad port SmartArray controller and it ate so much damn power. Once I had the parts and time I filled and attached an IBM 3583 ultrium tape library to my server and dumped the RAID's. Now there …

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

Posted on 2015-07-10, 02:34

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by kithylin

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Yesterday I plugged my modern Thrustmaster T.16000M into my current Windows 98 machine and was surprised that it went ahead and installed drivers. Tried some games, and the stick works perfectly. I had no idea! Shame there is no way to use a modern USB stick for DOS games, that would be awesome. I …

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

Posted on 2015-07-09, 08:35

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by kithylin

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Really liking the art work on that box. Today's boxes just don't look as cool :lol: A little bit retro related. Sorted out my home networking / file server situation. Too many drives and USBs with stuff all over the place. Was looking for some redundancy, got a lot of drives, but really don't want …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-07, 22:02

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by kithylin

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I don't know what classifies as retro around here, but I got these yesterday free from craigslist. I just had to go to this guy's place and remove em from the racks and unhook their wires and haul em to my car. They're 2003-era Dell PowerEdge 1750's. They run on the Pentium4 Xeon platform, the early …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-03, 01:06

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by kithylin

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I have one of those 20GB WD models. It makes a high-pitched noise as soon as it is powered up, and it never wanes. It sounds like cicadas. I can't stand it for very long, so I use the drive to clone fresh installs only. A WD Protege 20GB remains the only desktop HDD I've ever seen fail in a system …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4 nearly beaten by single 1Ghz Coppermine?

Posted on 2015-07-02, 19:57

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by kithylin

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Even if you take the dual CPU factor out, its still rather odd that the 1Ghz Coppermine is nearly keeping uk with a Tualatin 1.4S , which is what is so odd about it The issue with these dual-socket motherboards is that if you try and run a single-threaded task on them (Some benchmarks like the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-02, 08:30

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by kithylin

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None of these sound anything like that. It reads like you're describing a hard drive with a very old (Failing) motor in yours.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-02, 04:00

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by kithylin

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http://www.outfoxed.net/WD-200's.jpg Bare drives in a plastic bin in the "warehouse" section of a thrift store over in Irving, TX. That's the price I paid written on top, $2.92 + tax each. Place also had a AT power supply on a shelf and I found a bin with some PC power cords in it. So... set up …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-01, 20:56

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havli wrote: Skyscraper wrote: That looks like a nice toy! Yeah, unfortunately I can't power it up at the moment - this board needs 8pin + 4pin 12V power connectors... and none of my PSU has it. use a 4-pin-to-8-pin adapter, or molex-to-8-pin-adapter, seen several, and I own a few. They're handy to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-01, 05:00

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by kithylin

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smeezekitty wrote: Am I imagining it or does that GPU have an LCD screen on the side? It also has "PDF" on the front. Probably to mean "Pretty Darn Fast"

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-29, 23:56

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by kithylin

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:) I just want to rebuild the first computer a bought myself ... i'm missing this piece. I'm not out of luck if you check what i found at the old guy basement ... the Adlib is just an artifact for me. :) So i've to find a voodoo2 and a awe32. Some day I would like to try and rebuild the packard …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-29, 23:03

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by kithylin

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Sorry for the confusion, a want to find a V2 and yeah the price on ebay is crazy ... Not always. Sometimes you'll find a bargain; I know mine didn't cost that much last year (would never have bought it otherwise; pretty sure it was in the single figures), and I've seen the SLI cable, which it came …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2015-06-29, 22:55

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by kithylin

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Windows 7 x64:

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

Posted on 2015-06-29, 02:39

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by kithylin

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Benchmarked my AthlonXP 3200+ Barton-400 CPU a lot today for the folks over in the 3dmark 2001 super-thread, still might do yet another run on it. The thread and the page with my most recent posts is over here, for those that don't know: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-29, 02:36

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by kithylin

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And here we go. Same system, except using Windows XP 32-bit, no service packs, and nvidia drivers 92.91 just like Skyscraper used, as a comparison against his intel systems. I may go back in a little while and re-do this with some newer 200.xx drivers and see if it makes any difference. I couldn't …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-28, 20:38

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by kithylin

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seems low for 2.5GHz barton and 6800; I would expect 15K+ on 2001se Like I said in the post... It's running win98se. Which really, really holds back performance. I'm trying to get WinXP on it and that should be full speed. This damn system really doesn't want to run with 2GB of ram installed. Looks …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-28, 20:10

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by kithylin

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And here is my results from this thing from win98se. This is the highest overclock I can get with this OS, being limited to 512MB ram so have to use my 2 x 256MB sticks of Samsung DDR-333 ram, that, surprisingly seems to run just fine up at 474 Mhz, but that's about as far as this ram goes. 1 mhz …

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