Re: IBM APTIVA 2144-M63 BUILD - BIG UPGRADES

Posted on 2023-01-05, 23:55

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Probably the cleanest IBM setup I've seen, what games you play on it? Thank you. Right now it’s been Star Wars dark forces. Just before that I tried to get through rise of the triads. Always return to sim city 2000. What resolutions do you reach?. I have the same ibm with the same monitor, and …

---

Re: IBM APTIVA 2144-M63 BUILD - BIG UPGRADES

Posted on 2022-04-17, 23:52

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

KSHIRZA1 wrote on 2022-02-03, 00:32: ... I have a question about your monitor... I have an G40 too, How do yo see the image at 800x600?. In my case i can see the imagen goodly sharp at 640x480, but at 800x600 the picture is blurry, Does it something to do with the integrated VGA card? (i have not …

---

Re: How much cpu usually a sound card uses?

Posted on 2022-04-15, 20:18

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hm. Sorry to hear. But the SB32 and AWEs had the EMU-8000, which was an excellent synthesizer chip by EMU Systems. Some games may support it for mixing or wavetable music. Some MOD trackers like Impulse Tracker can use that chip. I tried that in the past myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ …

---

Re: How much cpu usually a sound card uses?

Posted on 2022-04-15, 18:17

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Does it have an ASP/CSP chip? The SB16, which the AWE was based on, sometimes had it installed. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=60488 Thank you for the replying, i'm reading it. Taking a look to my sound card, it doesn't appear to be any "ASP/CSP chip on it, How can i recognize it?. edit: …

---

How much cpu usually a sound card uses?

Posted on 2022-04-07, 14:13

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I own an AWE64 gold, and i recently have known that the gravis ultrasound were no dependants of the cpu's, so, the obligated question is, How much cpu is used by a sound card like mine, or similars?.

---

Re: IBM APTIVA 2144-M63 BUILD - BIG UPGRADES

Posted on 2021-07-15, 20:19

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I used a startech fanp1003ld for my normal 233 MMX (You can still buy them new very easily). They are a little large, but they cool very good for socket 7. As KSHIRZA1 pointed out, the overdrive comes with it's own fan and heatsink. Changing the voltage on the motherboard isn't a jumper setting, …

---

Re: Stuttering and/or lagged scroll in old MS-DOS games

Posted on 2021-07-15, 19:50

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

What are your system specs? Some graphics cards have issues with certain DOS games. See this compatibility chart for more details. Also, using DVI instead of VGA can cause problems since some cards force 60 Hz over DVI while most DOS games run at 70 Hz natively. So, in some cases the graphics card …

---

Re: IBM APTIVA 2144-M63 BUILD - BIG UPGRADES

Posted on 2021-07-13, 19:14

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

My aptiva doesn't let me upgrade teh cpu until 200mhz MMX, only at 200mhz, without MMX. I imagine it depends of the number of the build, right?, Where must i search to find the build of mine pc?. This is the reason I went with the overdrive cpu. 200 mmx no problem and easy install without fiddling …

---

Stuttering and/or lagged scroll in old MS-DOS games

Posted on 2021-07-13, 18:42

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Surely all of you would remember all of those games that ran with stuttering, or abrupt scroll. One example is "raptor: call of shadows", in wich the stuttering of the background is so strong that breaks the scroll in various parts. https://youtu.be/grXkzisSEM4?t=529 By then, one could thought that …

---

Re: IBM APTIVA 2144-M63 BUILD - BIG UPGRADES

Posted on 2021-07-12, 19:46

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

My aptiva doesn't let me upgrade teh cpu until 200mhz MMX, only at 200mhz, without MMX. I imagine it depends of the number of the build, right?, Where must i search to find the build of mine pc?.

---

Re: I recently bought an IBM APTIVA, and i need some tips...

Posted on 2021-07-11, 17:28

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

.

---

Re: I recently bought an IBM APTIVA, and i need some tips...

Posted on 2021-07-11, 10:45

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm looking for a L2 cache module for my 2134-440 model. Where did you find that info about the connectors, etc? I didn't find it on my manual! Thanks! Sorry for taking so much time to answer, i've not even mount my aptiva with the new componets yet. Fortunately, when i bought the pc it came with …

---

Re: Pentium II Upgrade Problems

Posted on 2019-07-20, 12:13

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

moawkwrd wrote: Señor Ventura wrote: Try to format the HDD, it shouldn't have any sense, but in this way you could start to discard options. Won't get that far, it crashes in the BIOS trying to check the CPU temperature (39 degrees). Do it only crashes when you check the temperature?, What more …

---

Re: Pentium II Upgrade Problems

Posted on 2019-07-20, 12:04

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try to format the HDD, it shouldn't have any sense, but in this way you could start to discard options.

---

What is the difference in terms of perfomance between 256KB L2 cache for 32 or 64 MB of RAM?

Posted on 2019-07-20, 11:58

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, i don't know if i did correctly the question, but i'm trying to determine the perfomance difference between 32MB or 64MB of RAM if having only 256KB of memory cache L2. 256KB backs 32MB of RAM, but, What happens if i put 64MB of RAM with only 256KB of L2 cache?, How much potential it will …

---

Re: 386 SX-40 - Is this CPU actually good for anything?

Posted on 2019-07-19, 20:14

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

386 DX 40mhz vs 486 SX 25mhz in DOOM: https://youtu.be/3fcPxAO1FeU?t=130

---

Re: I recently bought an IBM APTIVA, and i need some tips...

Posted on 2019-07-14, 01:15

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thank you, i go for it! 😀

---

Re: I recently bought an IBM APTIVA, and i need some tips... (almost completed)

Posted on 2019-07-14, 00:56

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I already have: -Sound Blaster AWE64 gold -Voodoo 1 4MB (texas instgruments DAC version 8) ) -S3 trio64v+ (stealth 64) -256KB of L2 cache It remains to get: -64MB of RAM (4x16) -Pentium 200mhz -Power supply ...so, about the microprocessor, it is supossed to be correct choosing this cpu for my …

---

Re: Difference of qualities by manufacturer (VOODOO 1)

Posted on 2019-07-10, 02:14

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I would typically say go for Diamond, but the 1st card really caught my attention. It has TVP3409-170CFN DAC, which was originally from Texas Instrument. All Voodoo1 that I had come across all used ICS GENDAC. This one is really special. Ti DACs are famous for superb analog quality, Matrox used the …

---

Re: Difference of qualities by manufacturer (VOODOO 1)

Posted on 2019-07-09, 23:22

by

by Señor Ventura

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

This thread might be of interest to you: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=41369 Diamond is really the reference AIB, but I don't know enough about them to say which one is of better quality. I guess you could plug both in and see which gives you the most clean picture. I meant about …

---