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Re: Buy a Tseng ET4000AX or a Cirrus Logic GD 5422?

Posted on 2020-10-26, 01:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Grzyb wrote on 2020-10-26, 00:43: debs3759 wrote on 2020-10-26, 00:10: Neither has an integrated RAMDAC. Wrong. All Cirrus 54xx chips have integrated RAMDAC. I've not seen any info on an integrated RAMDAC prior to the GD5462 . Do you know any links with details, so I can add the info to a future …

Re: Buy a Tseng ET4000AX or a Cirrus Logic GD 5422?

Posted on 2020-10-26, 00:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Both have a 32-bit memory bus. Neither has an integrated RAMDAC. The GD5422 has a reference clock speed of 80 MHz, compared to only 65MHz on the ET4000. So, on paper the GD5422 is about 23% faster.

Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-25, 22:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Both those boards support the Athlon XP, so both are suitable for your CPU. Not sure that they will be suitable for the later XP CPUs though as they are an early chipset.

Re: Some questions about a Hercules card

Posted on 2020-10-24, 15:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

M/C = MonoChrome P = ? TR = ? CG = CGA EMU = (Hercules?) EMUlation It's not a Hercules card, it is a Hercules Emulator

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

Posted on 2020-10-24, 15:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally I wouldn't recommend building a Media Centre PC/HTPC with any kind of stock cooler, it will be much too loud. Also, is the Blu-Ray drive just for data usage? As I think you'll have problems playing back actual Blu-Ray movie discs on Windows XP, Windows 7 would probably be better for that …

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

Posted on 2020-10-24, 15:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It'll probably be the cheapest option for transferring rips, but I didn't know XP wouldn't offer good BD playback. Unfortunately I have never seen a pre-activated copy of 7, and I'm not sure I want to trust keys off ebay to activate. Yes, ripping them would probably be the easiest option. The …

Re: Motherboard clear out time but which should I keep?

Posted on 2020-10-22, 13:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3 boards and it's too many? I have so many that I lost count at 100 😀 If you only have to get rid of, just think which you will miss least. I would see if there is one you can't find drivers with - possibly the OEM

Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-20, 21:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I do tend to average 350 purchases a year though , anything from £1 and up 😀

Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-20, 21:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm pretty sure they can't see it, but I must admit I do get offers for things I watch that way. I think that's just how ebay works though, as I sometimes get offers for items I have only viewed as well.

Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-20, 21:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pan069 wrote on 2020-10-20, 20:49: I "watched" an item on eBay the other day. 30 mins later the price was raised by $30. 🤔 That's why I prefer to add things to my basket. Sellers can't see that, and if I am interested in multiple items from the same seller, they are grouped together and can be paid …

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

Posted on 2020-10-20, 20:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

debs3759 wrote on 2020-10-20, 19:27: Unfortunately I have never seen a pre-activated copy of 7, 🤣, hadn't searched in quite some time, but just found one with all updates.

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

Posted on 2020-10-20, 19:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dug out a G41 chipset board this afternoon to make a media centre PC for a friend. Turns out the clips are broken on the heatsink - and she's not getting one of my Noctua NH-D14 :) At least she gets a Q8300 I had laying around. Guess that project is on hold for a few days until the stock cooler I …

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

Posted on 2020-10-20, 17:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dug out a G41 chipset board this afternoon to make a media centre PC for a friend. Turns out the clips are broken on the heatsink - and she's not getting one of my Noctua NH-D14 :) At least she gets a Q8300 I had laying around. Guess that project is on hold for a few days until the stock cooler I …

Re: Should I build multiple PCs to play different era pc games or just one?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 15:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't care how many PCs it takes to do everything I want to do. I need enough to test every generation of CPU, socket and graphics card, just because. I also need another room to store them all in 😀 Got pretty much everything to achieve this, just no longer got room to set them all up 😀

Re: Ageing plastic on PC hardware - safe way to take care of it?

Posted on 2020-10-19, 09:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Only solution I can think of is to talk to someone with a 3D printer and the skills to design a replacement. Beyond my skill set though, and I would have no space for the printer, so easier said than done.

Re: Varta Cure

Posted on 2020-10-19, 09:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ML2032 is rechargeable as well

Re: Recently dug out one of my childhood PCs, how good is it for 9x gaming and is it worth upgrading?

Posted on 2020-10-19, 01:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That will be better for gaming. Integrated graphics are usually pretty low end. I don't know the 810 graphics personally, but I'm sure someone will be along later who does.

Re: Recently dug out one of my childhood PCs, how good is it for 9x gaming and is it worth upgrading?

Posted on 2020-10-19, 01:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

600 MHz celery and 64MB RAM should be OK for Win 95, depending on what support hardware you have. What is the integrated graphics? Would you be willing to add a graphics card if need be?

Re: Varta Cure

Posted on 2020-10-19, 01:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have any pics to give an idea of what your implementation involves? Personally I'm looking at either ML2032 + socket or a Lithium ion battery when I replace batteries, but am interested to know more. I can't produce PCBs myself, and am too old to start getting into it (although I do know how, …

Re: ISA card identification

Posted on 2020-10-18, 23:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Errius wrote on 2020-10-18, 11:22: What do people use for scanning books? I haven't scanned any books, but the Canon CanoScan 5600F can scan things that aren't flat. I'll be using one to scan graphics cards until I get the head extender for my camera tripod.

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