Re: Case Slot Fans and the Voodoo 3

Posted on 2020-05-14, 13:28

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They are exhaust. I have found you can usually get almost any fan on with just 2 screws of the right size that can jam in the fins of the heatsink. Or cable ties. I only installed a small 40mm case fan on both of my voodoo 3 cards. One of them is made by stb systems and one is 3dfx interactive card …

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Re: Case Slot Fans and the Voodoo 3

Posted on 2020-05-14, 13:23

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What you want is the Zalman FB123: https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-eqrlbki/products/5093/images/8730/FANZMFB123_m__93794.1443106333.1280.1280.jpg?c=2 https://www.quietpc.com/images/products/fb123installed.gif Its made for blowing air over the Zalman flower heatsinks, but since you can add fans …

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Re: Using a turbo button to "switch" CPUs

Posted on 2020-05-14, 02:53

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I can't speak to dual CPU motherboards, but I use the turbo switch to change the FSB speed on my FIC VA-503+ (MVP3). At full speed (100MHz FSB), it is 550 MHz, and with a 66 MHz bus, it runs at 366 MHz. From there, I can use SETMUL to tweak the multiplier and cache settings, meaning that I don't …

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Re: Using a turbo button to "switch" CPUs

Posted on 2020-05-14, 00:51

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I can't speak to dual CPU motherboards, but I use the turbo switch to change the FSB speed on my FIC VA-503+ (MVP3). At full speed (100MHz FSB), it is 550 MHz, and with a 66 MHz bus, it runs at 366 MHz. From there, I can use SETMUL to tweak the multiplier and cache settings, meaning that I don't …

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Re: Universal PnP Sound Card Enabler for DOS v0.70c (UNISOUND)

Posted on 2020-05-13, 13:43

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Somehow I missed this thread until I saw Phil's video yesterday. Thank you for such a great resource. Right now, I have have 30 different DOS directories and 30 different autoexec.bat/config.sys combos for my sound card chipsets. I'll try it out with some of the more difficult cards like the Aztech …

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Re: Old equivalent of GPU-Z

Posted on 2020-05-13, 03:35

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I can't even get GPU-Z to run on XP SP2. Latest version or 2.2. Nothing happens when I double click the .EXE.

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Re: Case Slot Fans and the Voodoo 3

Posted on 2020-05-12, 19:51

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I was trying to solve this problem last week too - I made some fan adapters to fit a 92mm or 80mm fan to the card. It's about the same as zip tieing a fan to it, but attaches securely to the board holes with some 10mm (2000) or 15mm (3000) "m3 hex spacers". I've attached the STL files if anyone …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-12, 19:35

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YES... FINALLY. I have been looking for one for the last 5 years. At a reasonable price that is. And today I bought it for 33 Euro and 3 kilometers walk with it in my arms. It is an 20 inch Dell 2001-fp monitor. It is from 2004. This means 15khz signal for my Amiga's and because it has VGA, DVI, …

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Re: Case Slot Fans and the Voodoo 3

Posted on 2020-05-12, 16:40

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Most I seen like the one you posted blow air out the back. A better idea would be something like this. https://www.amazon.com/JXSZ-Side-Blown-Graphics-Cooling-Bracket/dp/B074G2HXGL You could bend a pci slot cover and dill a hole or two in it to hold a fan if you want to save a little. That looks …

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Re: Case Slot Fans and the Voodoo 3

Posted on 2020-05-12, 16:38

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Thanks for the insights. I'll investigate a different solution then. I don't know whether this would add to longevity either. But at least I'll know I tried and won't second guess myself later.

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Case Slot Fans and the Voodoo 3

Posted on 2020-05-12, 15:52

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So I'm in full Voodoo 3 preservation mode now because I've run across some bad cards and want to protect the ones that are still functional. A little while ago, I posted a picture of a quick-and-dirty mod where I zip tied a fan to the V3 heatsink. It still works pretty well. I was running loops of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-12, 15:28

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I bought this NOS ASUS MediaBus VGA/Audio card without even owning a MediaBus motherboard. It's just so strange that I had to have it for my collection: S3 Vision868 and Creative Vibra16 (and OPL3) on the same card. Maybe one day I'll build a system around it. IMG_9347.jpg I was digging through my …

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Re: Speedsys Video Card Identification

Posted on 2020-05-10, 22:09

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kixs wrote on 2020-05-10, 21:57: Alternatively just read the label on the biggest chip 🤣 Old cards didn't have any heatsinks... For better ID use NSSI instead of SpeedSYS. I didn't know about NSSI -- will try it out, thanks!

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Re: Speedsys Video Card Identification

Posted on 2020-05-10, 21:41

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There is no detection. I think speedsys just prints info returned by VESA VBE (vendor, product and memory). it is usually fine but you wont get any details about configuration, gpu/mem clock, etc. Thanks -- that's what I figured. I don't need more info than that for making this spreadsheet, so …

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Speedsys Video Card Identification

Posted on 2020-05-10, 21:21

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I'm sorting through a bunch of old ISA and PCI video cards and would like to label them properly. Is the Speedsys identification reliable? Is it just reading the name of the card off the card's BIOS? And is this what GPU-Z would do? Using Speedsys would be easier because I could use my DOS test …

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Re: MediaMagic ISP32 (OPTi930A+QS700) - wavetable drivers etc

Posted on 2020-05-09, 23:32

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I wonder if the Opti 82C941 is a rebranded QS700 . I could only find the Opti 82C941 datasheet . http://www.bitsavers.org/components/opti/dataSheets/82C941.pdf Yes, I think they are the same synth. I don't even think it is a rebrand. Opti and AdMOS must have had some kind of business relationship …

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Re: MediaMagic ISP32 (OPTi930A+QS700) - wavetable drivers etc

Posted on 2020-05-09, 23:00

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Try these: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=05783628481504944808 - DOS/Win 3.1 http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=81187709405881788202 - Win 95 Thanks for these. I have this Opti 82c930a card with Opti 82c941 wavetable daughtercard that I couldn't locate a driver for. I could …

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Re: I accidentally bought a PC Chips M919

Posted on 2020-05-09, 22:17

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I'm glad you were able to get this board up and running I'm looking forward to seeing your finished build!! Thanks for your help and encouragement! I bought this board as a backup to this great SiS-based 486 VLB/PCI board that is my DOS test bench, but now I might have to retire another VLB board …

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Re: First graphic card with passive / active cooling

Posted on 2020-05-09, 21:33

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Some models of the Riva 128ZX have a funny-looking undersized heatsink. My first active-cooled GPU was a Diamond OEM Banshee.

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Re: I accidentally bought a PC Chips M919

Posted on 2020-05-09, 21:18

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All looks fine. Cachechk... numbers tell you what is the access time. Lower is better. You can see when access time increases and that means it went from faster to slower cache/memory. Your Intel DX4-100 has 16KB L1 cache and this is the fastest cache available - see the SpeedSYS numbers - it has …

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