Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2023-01-24, 12:09

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by Irinikus

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I received the Voodoo5 5500 PCI today and it's now slotted onto the machine! https://i.imgur.com/8565d9Z.jpg https://i.imgur.com/stQFyBN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kPrhaiW.jpg Here's the initial Quake III performance: (Just bear in mind that the RAM is still a bottleneck as I'm currently only running …

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2023-01-23, 03:26

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by Irinikus

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Don’t worry about the RAM, as that’s going next month and will be replaced with 6x identical 128MB SIMMs! I received this RAM with the motherboard, hence I’ve been running it like this for now! The modem’s already out of the machine to give the Voodoo5 proper ventilation! I’m unfortunately not going …

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2023-01-21, 14:18

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by Irinikus

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Here are the upgrades I still need to perform on this machine: (The items in red still need to be purchased!) https://i.imgur.com/DiV1IDM.jpg The Voodoo5's on its way from the UK and the card reader's on its way from the US: https://i.imgur.com/1qOLCNo.jpg I'd like to have both the Gravis Ultrasound …

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Re: Building a 486 DX-4: the Compatibility Machine

Posted on 2023-01-21, 13:23

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by Irinikus

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Very neat build! 😀 Very neat looking motherboard!!!

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2023-01-20, 18:31

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by Irinikus

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Very interesting! Please post a pic of its internals when you can!

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2023-01-14, 21:37

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by Irinikus

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https://siliconimage.irixnet.org/index.php/User-Albums/Irinikus Did you know this is broken? It reports "Dang... Something went wrong! We tried really hard, but it's broken.Talk to your Gallery administrator for help fixing this!" Thanks for the heads up! I've informed IRIX Network of the problem!

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2023-01-10, 10:06

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by Irinikus

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Wow, XP on a socket 8 rig, you must have an awful lot of patience. I found even 2000 to be nearly unusably slow on my PPro rig when I still had it, and it was a 1meg black-top chip running overclocked to 233MHz. I know you've got the PIIOD there, but even at 333MHz I'd think XP wouldn't be a fun …

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Olivetti M280

Posted on 2022-12-28, 14:27

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by Irinikus

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I have this machine sitting at my home in Cape Town. (I still haven't taken a look at it yet) https://i.imgur.com/qpLvER4.jpg It's missing it's hard drive, as I acquired it from the DOD, so they wouldn't let it go with the drive in the machine. (So I'm going to have to get one of these bad-boys for …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-12-23, 10:24

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by Irinikus

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That OS Desktop on the SGI looks suspiciously similar to OS/2 Warp 4.. The operating systems SGI's version of the unix v operating system called IRIX! It's one of the most solid OS's that I've used! Its only current weak-point in my opinion is that there isn't an up to date web browser available …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-12-23, 10:22

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by Irinikus

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So glad to see people preserving SGI systems. My wife worked on SGI systems throughout the 1990s when she was in animation/film school. She had a good laugh one time when they tried to convince students to buy SGI workstations for 8K a pop so they could work from home. Like students can afford that …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-12-22, 18:55

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by Irinikus

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I'm currently installing software on my custom painted Silicon Graphics Onyx2 Infinite Reality 4 system (The best graphics system that SGI produced, the graphics system alone costing somewhere in the region of $200,000 in 2003!!!) I know it's not a PC (It's a graphical super computer), but just …

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-19, 07:02

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by Irinikus

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-12-19, 06:56: sheesh. you wouldn't happen to have a k6-3+ you could bench it on would you? super curious about performance on one of those systems vs a radeon 7500 I unfortunately don't have one at this point!

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-19, 06:55

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by Irinikus

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-12-19, 06:43: Dang, I wish I had one of those. How much did that set you back? It's going to be costing me £1,176.70 including shipping and taxes!

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-18, 17:15

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by Irinikus

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igna78 wrote on 2022-12-18, 17:12: First of all congratulations for the build..a really nice build 😀 Congratulations on the Voodoo5500 PCI MacEdition with bios mod: the DVI output is really an interesting element 😀 Thanks Man! 😀

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-18, 15:28

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by Irinikus

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I've just committed to purchasing this MAC Voodoo5 5500 PCI, which is flashed for PC for this system:

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-18, 14:21

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by Irinikus

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Thanks for the info! I'll experiment with it in due course! So the SIMMconn's back in the system!!!

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-18, 07:54

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by Irinikus

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I've neatened up the wiring in the system a bit, but I still beed to fit two more drives, so this will change a bit in the future. https://i.imgur.com/8CaGP0y.jpg I've also removed the SIMMconn from the AWE64 Gold, as it serves no purpose in Windows XP. (Makes space for the routing of the SCSI …

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-11, 15:49

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by Irinikus

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-12-10, 18:44: What model of these Hitachi hard drives? Cheers, 36 GB Hitachi Ultrastar 15K73 series, model DK32EK-36NW / HUS157336EL3600

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-11, 06:18

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by Irinikus

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That's pretty cool!

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2022-12-09, 15:43

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by Irinikus

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I managed to find an answer which satisfies me: (The Voodoo5 5500 PCI tested on a Celeron 433) https://i.imgur.com/XO4p7oS.png The Voodoo 3 does perform better, but is only 16-Bit colour capable. (I want 32-Bit colour!!!) https://i.imgur.com/O2jQAyu.png So it can run on a system that doesn't feature …

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