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Re: Retro computers and noise

Posted on 2018-03-24, 01:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whatever you do, don't get an old Globalwin fan for Socket A/370: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=684 My brother had one of those and I'm sure the performance was great but it was so loud you could hear it 3 rooms away. On top of that, the clip was so tight that he sheared the …

Centronics Parallel Printer cables... any other uses?

Posted on 2018-03-23, 21:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It seems every couple years I have to look this up again because I come across an abundance of what appear to be very high quality (and fairly long) centronics parallel cables. Is there ever a practical use for these cables anymore aside from running an old printer that uses this interface? Consumer …

Re: Best cooler for SECC processors (Slot A Athlon to be precize)

Posted on 2018-03-23, 01:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, I have one of those exact coolers on an old PII 266 and I was just looking at it today and thinking "Man, that's a beefy cooler for such a slow CPU."

Re: 80s oem PC.

Posted on 2018-03-21, 22:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One thing I will say is that some old computers were apparently made with very high quality components because they still work. My biggest concern with older systems is tantalum capacitors because I've had one explode on me, I've had one short out (no fireworks) and I've seen two in the past few …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-03-21, 18:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found another machine! Neat case, probably not going to keep it but it seem to be complete so I'm trying to get it to boot right now. Seems to have a Pentium 150 in it and it's running Windows 95. https://pre00.deviantart.net/efb5/th/pre/i/2018/075/5/3/untitled_by_mad_king_corduroy-dc627ul.jpg Just …

Re: uneven?

Posted on 2018-03-20, 03:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I acquired a matched triplet of GTX 280 cards and a GTX 275. My thought replace my 7900GTX's in my X2 4200 939 rig. Would this be worthwhile or total overkill When you say matched triplet, do you mean 3x GTX 280s? That definitely would be massively CPU bound, but I guess it depends what you're …

Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2018-03-18, 23:28

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks for doing all of those videos! If there is any possible way to get a copy of the 2.01 firmware from your MT-200, I'd love to get my hands on that.

Re: Parallel Port Compact Flash card reader for very old PCs

Posted on 2018-03-16, 23:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One more thing I wanted to mention... I had trouble reading the CF card in my IBM if it was formatted or partitioned on a different system (even when I used Minitool Partition Wizard to format it with FAT16 and 512byte sectors). I even tried running fdisk in DOS 3.3 and creating a partition and it …

Re: Parallel Port Compact Flash card reader for very old PCs

Posted on 2018-03-16, 20:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just wanted to report back with some additional findings. I won a pile of old CF cards on eBay that will be perfect for very old DOS systems (7 32MB cards and one 128MB) for less than $10. The 32MB cards are all Pretec model CFL032. When benching the new cards, unsurprisingly, checkit's disk …

Re: Something worth in this pile of cards ?

Posted on 2018-03-16, 20:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well I received the box, and this pile of "crap" was really worth !! :lol: Two Voodoo 5 A Voodoo Banshee A radeon 9500 A radeon 9200se (with the nice gold MSI heatsink) Several ATI Rage, geforce 2MX cards A Matrox card with a daughterboard attached to it A Sound blaster Live A Guillemot sound card …

Re: Voodoo 2 SLI graphics anomaly

Posted on 2018-03-15, 22:30

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I get these lines on my old Dell 19" flat screen with certain cards at certain resolutions as well. EDIT: Also, the message about overwriting a file that is newer is probably related to the riched20.dll file that is used for displaying text on the 3dfx settings window. I posted about this recently …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-14, 20:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card? No, not even close. Check the seller ratings and you get the right figure I believe (if you're that interested :confused: ) As long as you are happy, who am I to say anything, but at $4000 It must be nice to have more money than sense. Holy crap... I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-14, 17:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks! I would say 9 out of 10 are from eBay..Rarely something local. I see images are a bit off, may be something has changed. Need to fix those links later. did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card? https://www.ebay.com/itm/AdLib-Gold-1000-ISA-Sound-Card-Factory-Sealed-Ad-Lib-PC-DOS-1992- …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-03-14, 17:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1701 means there's no fixed disk (hard drive) present. Might be worth it to try the steps on this site: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150_5160/hdd/1701_possibilities.htm If there is no hard drive in the computer connected to the MFM interface, you may have to disable the MFM interface portion of …

Re: Slot1 Build Issues

Posted on 2018-03-13, 00:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What exactly are the symptoms? I've noticed a lot of times I've had to reseat Slot 1 CPUs to get them to work right. I'd check the "teeth" inside the slot on the board to be sure they are all aligned properly (you'll see how they move when a CPU is inserted... just like ISA\PCI cards). I'd also …

Re: XP Build CPU and GPU Questions

Posted on 2018-03-10, 03:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Only you can weigh the value of nostalgia or period-correctness and in my opinion, there would be absolutely no other reason to use a Core 2 over a Sandy Bridge for XP games. Per-thread performance is higher, compatibility should be the same and power consumption (and heat) are far lower. Anything …

Re: Vital MF002BR 8-bit sound card

Posted on 2018-03-09, 22:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ground loop isolators shouldn't usually be needed for most setups, even old noisy sound cards. I'd test the card in another system first. If it does it there too, test it on a board outside a case (no metal contact). If it still does it, it may be defective or need cleaning.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-08, 04:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 9800XT I got for $25 is dead. Everything you buy seems to be dead. Has to be frustrating... I've had a couple purchases over the past year that turned out to have more problems than expected. If it ends up happening constantly, I'd blame something else other than chance... maybe a bad power …

Re: XP Build CPU and GPU Questions

Posted on 2018-03-08, 02:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm jealous that you have a Sandy Bridge board to spare for an XP build, I'm still using an old HP with a Q6600 as a daily driver Windows 7 machine and I could certainly use a cheap upgrade. 8-O Why be jealous? You can get a used Lenovo M92P tower (a real tower, not an SFF system) with an Ivy …

Re: XP Build CPU and GPU Questions

Posted on 2018-03-08, 00:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would use the Sandy bridge option. More efficient, faster per thread and it's probably going to last longer. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1797&cmp[]=957&cmp[]=1039 I can't think of any specific reasons to use a Core 2 over anything somewhat newer for XP. Socket 775 is IMO a …

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