Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project
Posted on 2014-06-22, 01:18
Added two 386DX40s and a 486DX2-66 to the database! 😀 Tomorrow I will test 10-15 more combinations, ranging from 386SX-20 to Pentium III 750! 😁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-06-13, 09:21
Thanks – I like to play with people from time to time ;) But we know this now... :lol: Yes of course, I have got several of those ;) I had the fourth 3S but it went to Slaventus this year :D Those are 2 256MB versions, and 1 128MB version. The one with replaced capacitors is just a spare one left …
Re: Creating a new LED MHz indicator for my PC's front panel! [PROJECT]
Posted on 2014-06-13, 08:59
As for real time cpu freq, this project blog does it with Java and outputs it to serial. Then an arduino takes in serial and drives a character LCD to display the data. The work could be adapted for 7-segments. http://blog.workingsi.com/2013/07/lcd-system-monitor-for-pc-case-bling.html Thanks for …
Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 or ATI Rage 128?
Posted on 2014-06-12, 17:18
fportela wrote: If you need one with AGP bus VGA card, then you can go for S3 Savage 4 (and variants) ou Savage2000 chipset. Why not a Trio 3D or Trio 3D/2X ? 😀
Re: Creating a new LED MHz indicator for my PC's front panel! [PROJECT]
Posted on 2014-06-11, 16:51
With the cheapo type of 2-3 digit 7 segment display that is being sold on ebay, nope. For jumper setting the display you need independent inputs for each digit, something that the pin assignments on these displays don't offer. You can anyways combine 3 1digit 7 segment displays, but this would …
Re: My 486: Digital Equipment DECpc 433 MT
Posted on 2014-05-17, 23:19
I like the chassis! A few points: The HDD is overkill, plus I like the original sound of the old hard drives. For 1280x1024@8bit color you need 1,25MB vga framebuffer size, but you have only 0,5MB. So you are correctly limited to 800x600@8bit. Add the 4th simm. They are dirt cheap! Is the Opti card …
Re: Turtle Beach Tahiti any good?
Posted on 2014-05-04, 14:41
Currently I'm 519km away from the card, as I'm offering my obligatory military service to my country... So I'm afraid the earliest I can test it is around the beginning of August... 🙁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-04-28, 14:42
Is there any way to get them shipped from there to EU?
Re: OK...this is annoying....hmmm
Posted on 2014-04-28, 07:59
Oh it seems that the chip attacted my attention and I didn't see the pcb, which is in pretty bad shape... 😒
Re: What's your preferred parental PC setup?
Posted on 2014-04-28, 07:26
Re: OK...this is annoying....hmmm
Posted on 2014-04-28, 07:24
Are these ram chips (or equivalents) nowhere to be found? Can't somebody just buy one?
Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards
Posted on 2014-04-27, 18:48
gerwin wrote: This is the one I was talking about, Which served me well when attached to a SY-6BA+III i440BX Motherboard. A totally unremarkable piece of hardware... It's an old design, probably it was still compatible with PCI 2.1 back then.
Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards
Posted on 2014-04-27, 17:34
Just buy an ultra cheapie card from ebay that is guaranteed to have a nec chip. 😀
Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards
Posted on 2014-04-27, 10:10
What cards have you guys used that work reliably on old boards? I have a card with a VIA controller and it isn't even detected by 440BX or AMD 750. It does work on newer chipsets like KT266 though. You need a card with NEC chip, not VIA. Some old computers refused to boot with the card installed …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-04-26, 10:18
Yes of course, I opened the case just to install the brand new Dallas RTC and the hard disk. It's vga, you can connect any monitor to it, but unfortunately I don't have the original keyboard and mouse.
Re: Turtle Beach Tahiti any good?
Posted on 2014-04-26, 06:20
No flash at all, just radio from a pci card and web radio from ip. 😀 When I find time I will test both.
Re: Turtle Beach Tahiti any good?
Posted on 2014-04-25, 21:14
Will do! Thanks for all the info. One last question: this or the awe64 gold for sound quality? xD
Re: Turtle Beach Tahiti any good?
Posted on 2014-04-25, 21:03
Except from games, I guess its sound quality is pretty good and I may use it on a Windows 95 build for mp3s, pci radio card or online streaming... or am I expecting too much?
Turtle Beach Tahiti any good?
Posted on 2014-04-25, 12:58
Hello forum! I recently obtained an "unknown isa sound card". After some research, I found that it is a Turtle Beach Multisound Tahiti, with Motorola 56001 DSP (20MIPS). Until then, I wasn't even aware that a company named "Turtle Beach" existed! Is this card any good? And what's good for? I bet …
Re: Socket 3 cooler
Posted on 2014-04-24, 07:43
I personally dislike the "use arctic silver adhesive" method because there is a good chance that you scratch the CPU's top on cleaning it. So I stocked up 3-4 of these coolers --> http://www.ebay.com/itm/COMPUSA-486-CPU-COOLER-/380399530944?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58919433c0 when I got the …
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