Re: Additional memory for Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 VLB

Posted on 2020-11-02, 20:42

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by douglar

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I got a similar card. I successfully upgraded it with 2x HYB514171BJ-60 DRAM SOJ40 But yeah, as previous poster stated, unless you got a monitor that can display interlaced resolutions, (my LCD's will not) the upgrade is essentially cosmetic.

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Re: 3d printed Heatsink&Fan Mount for Socket 3/5/7 ?

Posted on 2020-11-02, 00:27

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by douglar

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Found something to start with -- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2459258

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3d printed Heatsink&Fan Mount for Socket 3/5/7 ?

Posted on 2020-11-01, 16:16

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by douglar

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Are there any good plans to for 3d models that let you stick a standard 50 mm fan on a generic cheapo heatsink ( say 50x50x20mm ) and then snaps onto socket 3 clips? The approximate glass transition temperature temperatures for common printable materials are: PLA: 60˚C PETG, high-temperature PLA: 95 …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-11-01, 13:54

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by douglar

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So what were you smoking and do you still have cats ? LOL. I have a sort of new one, a rescue cat from a construction site that someone dropped off or got lost about 4th of July a few years ago. Lived under the work trailer for about 6 months while I fed it and tried to show that I was not a threat …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-10-31, 14:27

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by douglar

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Things changed a lot that year. My friends and I started playing counter strike beta 2 that fall, so the upgrades came pretty fast and furious as the year ended. There were 4 working systems in my apartment by December-- Celeron 300a OC @ 400 w/ Viper 770 , 96MB Ram. I put this together in 1998 …

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Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 15:38

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by douglar

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Edited for clarification: Also, from my understanding, modern SSDs have better garbage collection features built in to the controller and can maintain themselves well enough to function acceptably without TRIM in light workloads... certainly those expected in a DOS\9x machine would qualify as " …

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Re: ATi Mach32 VLB VGA card, quick test

Posted on 2020-10-27, 19:40

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by douglar

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Thanks for the reply, I'm just starting out with this machine. I'll get a full idea what sort of Mach32 I've got though it looks like (from the BIOS at bootup) it's P/N 113-19500-100. Looks like you got the ramdac but only 1 DIP 28 chip there. P/N 113-19500-100 = EXM195 = Graphics Ultra Pro yes? …

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Re: Good PCI Ethernet Cards for Win98?

Posted on 2020-10-27, 02:43

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by douglar

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Just curious, what are you going to use the network card for? Lan gaming? File Transfers? Gestalt?

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Re: ATi Mach32 VLB VGA card, quick test

Posted on 2020-10-27, 02:13

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by douglar

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Ram upgrade was super easy, barely an inconvenience. Just took a half second to figure out where the 1 pins were. That all works great. However there's limits to how useful it is without the faster ramdac, and the ramdac upgrade is more problematic. I got an affordable TLC34075-135AFN TI PLCC-84 off …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-21, 16:14

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by douglar

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Kind of bare bones I suppose: Filename Photo Oct 21, 12 10 00 PM.jpg File size 124.47 KiB Views 1522 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-21, 16:00

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by douglar

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I got me one of these: https://i.postimg.cc/vZ1g346g/TL866-II-Pro.jpg Is it just me or is the software & driver that comes with the TL866-II scary as just about anything you can find on the internet short of products that promise you free money? The installer & drive really look like something that …

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Re: Alltronics has vintage computer parts cheap:

Posted on 2020-09-30, 17:17

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by douglar

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Lol! Alltronics has a product called "Bad Mother". Select the item and get a random 386 to Socket 7 motherboard for $20 that may or may not be functional. I might have called it "Motherboard Roulette", but both names have their charms.

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Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434

Posted on 2020-09-30, 01:23

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by douglar

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Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 (JQGD543XTPCI) - soft vertical lines, slightly more noticeable compared to your screenshots. Cirrus Logic CL-GD54M30 (JQGD54M3XPCI) - faint vertical lines, but much less pronounced. Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 (PixelView ProLink PV-CL544XP+) - very faint vertical lines, almost …

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Re: I'm happy i just got a fic 486-pvt-io with 486 dx4-75mhz, but i cant update bios

Posted on 2020-09-30, 00:38

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by douglar

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I purchased a roll of 10 "HYB514171BJ-60 256k x 16-Bit Dynamic RAM SOJ40" and upgraded all of my SOJ40 socketed video cards, including a Cirrus 5429 VLB card. It was easy. Just lined up the 1 pins, popped in the chips and it worked. Not sure it was particularly useful. The slow ramdacs of that …

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Re: FIC-486-VIP-IO Secondary IDE Interface

Posted on 2020-09-29, 13:32

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by douglar

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That integrated IDE controller is a PCI Busmaster, controller yes? Sounds like it is an early EIDE controller that might support as high as PIO 3, 4 & Multi-word DMA 1, 2 Wild guess here, but perhaps the drives drop to lowest common denominator ATA-0 when they are on the same channel but try and …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-09-28, 23:47

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by douglar

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Nice workshop, I think i would need somewhere a bit more comfortable for gaming, but that's just me. Thanks! The PC's on top of the right cabinet have additional monitors & keyboards on the ground floor, where the gaming happens. Putting your PC's in a different room eliminates the need for quiet …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-09-28, 18:06

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by douglar

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Starts with the kids remote school stations, then my work stations, then my retro-pc area, and then the old micro fun. Filename Photo Sep 28, 1 57 42 PM.jpg File size 848.32 KiB Views 1766 views

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Re: SSD with winxp and ide adapter

Posted on 2020-09-28, 15:26

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by douglar

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I don't understand why you'd want to use a IDE to SATA converter.... A PCI SATA controller should work a treat on your system. Just make sure it's the type of controller that allows booting, because some (like my Promise IDE/SATA controller) don't... Generally VIA chip based SATA controllers allow …

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Re: Good VLB card benchmark

Posted on 2020-09-26, 11:55

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by douglar

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Nice pictures and graphs! Nice collection of cards. NexGen NxVL motherboard with NexGen Nx586-P90 CPU and 32 MB RAM. Now that's an unexpected configuration. VL-Bus clocked at 41 MHz on this system. Cards used 0 wait-state configurations where possible. That's also an unusual set up. Did I miss the …

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Re: SSD with winxp and ide adapter

Posted on 2020-09-26, 01:42

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by douglar

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You are never going to see theoretical ATA133 raw throughput when you are connected to a PCI bus Once again - internal IDE ports were not connected to PCI bus since early 00s. They used proprietary buses like V-Link or MuTIOL. I had been talking about PCI. My bad. Maybe we agree on these points? …

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