Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-05, 07:03

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-- IMAGES REMOVED IN QUOTE -- Cheap, brand new case, but looks pretty retro :) Should be perfect for a DOS Box. ATX though, not AT, but that's fine, there's some nice ATX socket 7 motherboards I can use Fine choice! Same case I’m using for my 1997(ish) gaming build! :D pics of it all finished later …

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Re: PIII gaming PC - Tualatin + Voodoo5 - all done!

Posted on 2018-06-30, 08:03

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KCompRoom2000 wrote: Wow, that's a beautiful looking system. 😲 Thanks 😀 moved slightly away from the whole “budget system thrown together” theme but I’m very happy with how it’s turned out, it looks nicer than my main PC!

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Re: PIII gaming PC - Tualatin + Voodoo5

Posted on 2018-06-29, 20:41

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https://i.imgur.com/JTrPc61.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oxyFY04.jpg https://i.imgur.com/z4Csf7A.jpg Here she is all finished :) almost every part is different to what I started out with... Final specs are: 1.4GHz PIII-S Tualatin @1.58GHz ECS P6IPAT motherboard 512MB PC133 Voodoo5 5500 Sound Blaster …

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Re: Questions about this Dell Optiplex MB

Posted on 2018-06-29, 08:17

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I have one of those GX260s in my shed at the moment as part of a job lot I picked up... haven’t tested it yet but I can have a look at the wiring inside and see if that reveals anything if that helps at all? A higher wattage power supply is fine but as pointed out above... a 500w el cheapo special …

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Cooling a Voodoo5

Posted on 2018-06-28, 17:46

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I’ve just added a small fan to the heatsink of my Voodoo3 2000 and got some fantastic results out of it - seems 100% stable at the 183mhz clock speed of the 3500 and I haven’t tried pushing it any further yet. 3Dmark scores are up by around 1/3 which is pretty crazy. This has got me thinking about …

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Re: Tualatin or Thunderbird 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2018-06-28, 07:38

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Apparently the board I have will take a 266MHz Barton no problem so much more scope for CPU upgrades than the other board. However I’ve got a spare Palomino I’ve tried in there and either the board doesn’t support it or the CPU is dead. The T-bird isnt a great overclocker either, even with a voltage …

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Re: Tualatin or Thunderbird 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2018-06-28, 07:11

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Yes the SSE thing is something to consider... I guess the only way to find out is to get the T-bird overclocked and run some benchmarks :) I’m fully aware any difference between the two is extremely unlikely to be at all noticeable or maybe even measurable but if there’s a couple of percentage …

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Re: Tualatin or Thunderbird 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2018-06-27, 23:10

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Tualatin is multiplier-locked - no pencils here. Not that it makes a huge difference - in the case of Tualatin the FSB of the motherboard is the limiting factor anyway. If you can do 150MHz FSB you're doing well in any event. TBH I wouldn't be too concerned about exact benchmark results. Compared …

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Re: Tualatin or Thunderbird 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2018-06-27, 22:24

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Interesting challenge. I suspect the Tbird will win, but in a close race. Build both and compare, I'd say. The motherboards are more interesting. Not sure where you heard that the A7A266 was highly regarded. It was possibly the best ALi Magik1 board, but that chipset was a piece of crap, performing …

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Tualatin or Thunderbird 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2018-06-27, 20:59

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I’m making a Voodoo5 build at the moment and have 2 board/CPU combinations to choose from, both from around 2001-2002. The first combo is an ECS P6IPAT board and 1.4ghz Tualatin combo - runs great at 1.58ghz but doesn’t have the option to go any higher than 150FSB. PC133 RAM. Second combo is an ASUS …

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Re: PIII gaming PC - Tualatin + Voodoo5

Posted on 2018-06-26, 14:28

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So a quick update on this - I’ve found a Tualatin board now so (unfortunately) this Slot 1 board is now running a Pentium II 233 in my Voodoo1 build. New board in this is an ECS P6IPAT. The PIII-S runs quite happily at 1.58ghz, the Voodoo5 at 180mhz, but only for benchmarks, I keep it at stock the …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI "what was I missing back then?" build

Posted on 2018-06-24, 19:52

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I had to install jumpers manually with a soldering iron once while trying to repair someone's old system a few years back. I ended up soldering parts of a thin paper clip to use as jumper header pins and made sure they were a solid connection. Worked like a charm, but man was I nervous about …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-24, 19:04

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I bought a V5 5500 today, not a bargain but the low end of what they seem to go for these days. Can’t wait to test it out :D Also recently a huge job lot of computers, CRTs and parts I’ve yet to fully test but so far I’ve got: A huge pile of useful PCI graphics and sound cards - including an …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI "what was I missing back then?" build

Posted on 2018-06-24, 14:51

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vandymachine wrote: The spot on the motherboard where the jumpers would be is empty. I’ve had luck just soldering in the jumpers on boards like this - not sure if it works on all of them though especially OEM boards which might have other components missing as well

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Re: New Voodoo2 SLI build - complete!

Posted on 2018-06-24, 08:39

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Kamerat wrote: Nice build, you got the little brother of the case I used in my early '98 PC. 😀 So it is! 😀 cool to see the larger version in action. Not a bad case really, although being the smaller size the PSU gets in the way of almost everything.

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Re: New Voodoo2 SLI build - complete!

Posted on 2018-06-23, 10:13

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So this build is 100% finished now :) I decided to come change the focus of it as originally it was a brand new old stock PC I found in a house clearance in the box - it had a Celeron 500, el cheapo sound card, Rage Pro Turbo and 64mb RAM. The first configuration I decided on was to replace the …

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Re: CRT “crack” sound + picture flicker

Posted on 2018-06-23, 09:19

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So as far as I can figure out, the 7 Compaq CRT monitors (2 unbranded) went with the 4 Deskpros in the lot I bought from a barn. They’re all the same model Compaq screens. I believe these were part of a much bigger fleet of machines used by a school, and that for whatever reason these particular …

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Re: 1997 (ish) gaming build

Posted on 2018-06-22, 18:31

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FFXIhealer wrote: I tell ya what, I kinda wish I had a case exactly like that for my S7 Win95 build. It's horizontal and has that old-school PC feel from the early '90s. Yeah, I love the case, bargain at £15 new but then nearly as much again for shipping even within the UK 😒

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Re: CRT “crack” sound + picture flicker

Posted on 2018-06-22, 18:15

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I won’t shareware I got them from, I’m keygen it quiet (Sorry, that was really clutching at straws)

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Re: Sound card works in one PC but not another

Posted on 2018-06-22, 15:49

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Thanks guys!! I just had a look at the PSUs and the one I’m using in the Win98 system doesn’t do -5v! The card you pictured is identical to mine except the wave table space is populated on yours. I’ve got so much to learn about this old hardware it’s crazy, every time I think I’m getting good at it …

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