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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-21, 13:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I won a motherboard with a 1 euro bid some time ago. The motherboard was sold as "Mainboard Intel PBA 634468-807 Socket 5 Motherboard" but the picture showed a 486 VLB board with memory and cache. I thought that the seller just diddnt know what he was selling. I still let the motherboard be but it …

Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-20, 14:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With Atari you copy the game to a floppy with your modern PC and runs it using any Motorola 68k Atari. *Ducks and runs for cover* 😁

Re: Roland SCC-1 MIDI in/out cables

Posted on 2016-04-20, 10:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you link the Creative mini DIN ---> DIN MIDI cables you bought (if there are more of them), the ones I find always seem to be $17 - $20 for a single cable, with expensive US or Canadian shipping. Sorry I just got lucky, the seller doesn't seem to have any more. You could ask though I guess, …

Re: Roland SCC-1 MIDI in/out cables

Posted on 2016-04-20, 09:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fantastic! Thanks for going to the trouble to confirm and thumbs up for the beautiful illustration! I've just bought 2 of them for 9 bucks :cool: Can you link the Creative mini DIN ---> DIN MIDI cables you bought (if there are more of them), the ones I find always seem to be $17 - $20 for a single …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-19, 23:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That is indeed a nice find! 😀

Re: What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 20:59

in Milliways

in Milliways

Specs like these, RMS Power Output (THD<0.1) : 2 x 200 W (4 ohm), 2 x 100 W (8 ohm) with a coin sized transformer FTW! :lol: If that coin sized transformer can deliver enough juice the specs seem more or less correct but thats a big IF. The DC supply on this unit is switch mode, so it can make due …

Re: Don't buy Asus X99 boards

Posted on 2016-04-19, 20:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never had any motherboards die on me that were connected to an UPS, except my EVGA SR-2 which my Corsair cooler leaked on. Now I'm suddenly happy I never got to water cooling my main SR-2 system although I bought water cooling gear for it back in 2011! I hope you took that Corsair cheap piece …

Re: What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 18:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

it's a Christmas miracle... in April! The winter 2007-2008 I bought a not very expensive integrated amplifier to use with my computer. I have other amplifiers but I wanted something that could sit under the 16:10 Samsung LCD i used back then. I bought this amp mostly because it was cheap but also …

Re: Don't buy Asus X99 boards

Posted on 2016-04-19, 13:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't think Asus is any better or worse than most other hardware manufacturers, they all make cheap crap most of the time. Kanecvr seems to have had a bit of bad luck with his P6T Deluxe motherboards. Some early boards were indeed bad because of Asus failing quality control and there were also …

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-04-18, 22:29

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Here are the results with the Prescott 570. :) Unlike the Pentium 4 EE 3.46 the Prescott 570 performed better overclocked than I would have guessed, the Fatal1ty AA8XE seems to like Prescotts better with the v1.2 BIOS. Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE + Pentium 4 570 + Geforce 6800 Ultra. Stock settings P4_570_ …

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-04-18, 21:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Edit 5 Q: Why U didn't simply switched CPU's ? I would have sooner or later but remounting the TR Ultra 120 and wasting new thermal paste twice is more work than shouting at the computer! :) It's late here and I'm tired!! Now I'm back on track though. I think Im going with 4400 MHz and the default …

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-04-18, 17:13

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

With the v1.5 BIOS the motherboard posted with the Prescott 570 but the performance is still on the level of a P3 800. I need to find some other BIOS! :P Edit It seems the SATA support for my Seagate Barracuda ST3750640NS is totally broken with the v1.5 BIOS. The drive works in AHCI mode but doesn't …

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-04-18, 17:10

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I tested P4EE 3,46GHz @ 4GHz and I have a 6800 Ultra PCI-e lying around, BUT MB I'm using is P5WD2 Premium (with 955X chipset), so it's "a no go" on period correct hardware (MB is from 2005) :( Here's video of it running Crysis @4k (with help from GTX 780 Ti) :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= …

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-04-18, 16:56

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Nice results Skyscraper, early 2004 LGA 775 is not that common! I'm probably going to go back to my overclocked Prescott. My 3.2EE can't overclock very much (I got 3.6ghz using 1.8v) and at that voltage I started to see speedstep kicking in to protect the CPU. At a 3.4ghz overclock I couldn't reach …

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-04-18, 16:40

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Yesterday I tried to run a Prescott 570 on my Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE i925XE motherboard, it would not even post with the release BIOS :). I then tested a S775 Gallatin P4 EE 3.46GHz and the board posted at once. Here is how the Gallatin performed, at stock it's slower than vetz S478 Gallatin 3.2GHz and …

Re: Final Days of XP Build

Posted on 2016-04-18, 11:34

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

So in other words, if I picked up a 1366 board and a Xeon, that could be a cheap upgrade path for my main rig. As it is I'm sort of stuck on a dead-end platform, and while the 860k is good enough for most tasks, it doesn't quite have the amount of raw CPU grunt I'd like for running things like PCem …

Re: Final Days of XP Build

Posted on 2016-04-18, 11:10

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

So in other words, if I picked up a 1366 board and a Xeon, that could be a cheap upgrade path for my main rig. As it is I'm sort of stuck on a dead-end platform, and while the 860k is good enough for most tasks, it doesn't quite have the amount of raw CPU grunt I'd like for running things like PCem …

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

Posted on 2016-04-18, 10:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 486 DX3 was a 486 CPU with 2.5x multiplier, it was never released but replaced with the DX4 with 3x multiplier, totally logical! 😀 It's a bit strange with references to a 486 DX3 in a Pentium BIOS though if its not a very early Opti or SiS Pentium chipset or the like.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-18, 10:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Probably. I think this retro hobby is in large part driven by the desire to build the largest and most powerful nostalgia bomb possible. But each one has his own bomb. I think this is right on the spot. Personally I have little interest in anything pre-486 and my main focus is 1996 and forward. …

Re: Final Days of XP Build

Posted on 2016-04-18, 10:26

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

How would such a system compare to my Athlon 860k rig? I know the LGA1366 platform is a fair bit older, but I've always wanted to build a rig around it. A Socket-1366 system with a CPU clocked at 4GHz or more should run circles around an Athlon 860k. :) Old standards such as SATA 2.0, USB 2.0 and …

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