Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-08-10, 03:15
Fellow owners of hundreds of GPUs: Does anybody have a source for good, sturdys boxes that are about the right size for graphics cards? I need around 200.
Re: The GeForce4MX IGP tested in 3DMark2000 with different memory configurations
Posted on 2022-08-10, 03:07
Putas wrote on 2022-08-08, 13:12: Even CPU Marks remained the same, are you sure the dual channel is working? If you look they did move 7 points going to dual channel. There are also very small increases in IGP performance. I think its used, but in a very ineffective way. Or at least its not useful …
Re: The GeForce4MX IGP tested in 3DMark2000 with different memory configurations
Posted on 2022-08-08, 07:04
which means the GPU for some reason is likely limited to accessing a single channel of memory That was always the case. Athlon XP can't utilize dual channel memory, because K7 FSB is equal to DDR 64-bit. Additional channel was added for GeForce 2 MX IGP originally. Not saying your wrong but …
The GeForce4MX IGP tested in 3DMark2000 with different memory configurations
Posted on 2022-08-08, 06:41
So lately I was going through my stash and found this neat little nForce2 board, the Biostar M7NGC that has NVIDIA GeForce4MX integrated graphics. This motherboard also has AC97 sound with options in the BIOs to configure DOS sound resources AND it has USB 2.0 for fast file transfer speeds AND it …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-08-07, 17:45
Today some free stuff popped up on the selling site i frequently look through for pc parts. The parts were located in the town next to where i live, so i picked everything up as fast as possible. This weird and chonky aftermarket cooler for a graphics card... 2022-08-07 13.44.08.jpg And a Mainboard …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-08-07, 05:16
Here its nothing but flat open scrub land leading into a vegetated desert (Aussie deserts are weird till you get to the center of OZ). Im glad I dont have to deal with humidity, spent a few weeks up in the tropics of Australia and the humidity nearly killed me, Ill take dry heat any day of the year …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-08-07, 02:10
Seems someone spends alot on ebay... Nice cards.. I rarely buy things anywhere else. If I had your skills, connections, and if I wasn't lazy (haha..) maybe it would be different... I'm the same, Evilbay is really my only way of sourcing retro hardware, comes from being 4 1/2 from the nearest major …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-08-06, 22:32
Does anybody have a copy of the old FlashROM utility for flashing ATI AGP video cards? I can't find a copy of it anywhere, seems a newer program by the same name has replaced it, but that version doesn't appear to have any supports for flashing VGA bios. Nevermind, for anyone who has the same …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-08-06, 21:25
Does anybody have a copy of the old FlashROM utility for flashing ATI AGP video cards? I can't find a copy of it anywhere, seems a newer program by the same name has replaced it, but that version doesn't appear to have any supports for flashing VGA bios. Nevermind, for anyone who has the same …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-07-08, 18:26
Well, I tested the G4 MDD I acquired last week. The computer is dead, power supply is blown up. It had a Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition in it which someone had connected via a cheap molex splitter that decided to give up the ghost and took the power supply with it. https://i.imgur.com/Ee77qKq.jpg The …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-07-05, 06:51
Well, I tested the G4 MDD I acquired last week. The computer is dead, power supply is blown up. It had a Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition in it which someone had connected via a cheap molex splitter that decided to give up the ghost and took the power supply with it. https://i.imgur.com/Ee77qKq.jpg The …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-07-01, 06:17
The more I get into these 7th Day Adventist Cult TV Station PCs the more I am sort of glad the 3 bland ass Vectras from the listing had been misplaced and all this shit found. This stuff is FAR more interesting than 3 bland ass P90 Vectra VE5s. So far I have a 233MHZ P-MMX Dell GN1 that is restored …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-06-30, 07:07
The more I get into these 7th Day Adventist Cult TV Station PCs the more I am sort of glad the 3 bland ass Vectras from the listing had been misplaced and all this shit found. This stuff is FAR more interesting than 3 bland ass P90 Vectra VE5s. So far I have a 233MHZ P-MMX Dell GN1 that is restored …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-06-28, 03:19
If your CDROM is 8x or slower you also have to be questioning whether or not the drive itself is boot capable or not. It's kind of a sliding scale at 1:9 at the 1x end to 9:1 at the 8x end as the years went on for proportion of drives boot capable or not. Then there's been some latter day natural …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-06-27, 19:16
Does anybody know what the stock CD ROM on the Gateway 2000 DX4-66 LP1 was? I finally got the hard disk and floppy drives working (though it refuses to boot my Win95 diskette for some reason, DOS 6.22 works fine) but I cannot get the CD drive to detect. I'm wondering if this is even stock. When I …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-06-26, 16:21
Today activity is an attempted to repair Radeon HD2600 PRO but it failed. 😓 The card is running untill you install the drivers but than the OS will crash on boot. I found one missing elyt capacitor - replaced and replaced the other electrolytics but it did not help. Thinking if reflowing the chip …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-06-26, 16:19
I actually won a Diamond Stealth64 (S3 Vision 968) today, was curious about the IBM branded IC on it, would that be the DAC ? Yes it is. Rather nice looking GPU, even has the 2mb expansion module on it, also wondering what the Feature connector was used for? The feature connector was used for …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-06-26, 04:13
The new 2203 date coded Dallas RTC is on the way for the 1994 Gateway 486DX2-66 Desktop. This system is one of those odd 486's equipped with PCI slots. It also has a CT2800 OPL3 Vibra16S from the previous owner. Good taste in sound cards that one.... considering getting a MIDI daughter board for it. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-04-06, 18:25
I think I found out why the Dell Lattitude PPX won't turn on and just flashes its lights before shutting off. Its power regulation sub-board is missing a part. Can anybody tell what this is and take a guess at a suitable replacement? I marked the missing part with <<<<< https://i.imgur.com/CYlNoG3. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-04-06, 16:00
Dont even bother with the nForce boards. Something on them hasn't aged well. Caps I suspect. I've owned 2 680I SLIs from EVGA and a 780i from MSI and all 3 died. Only the 750i from ASUS that is all solid state caps still works and even it is finicky. Unless your willing to do a full work up on them …
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