If i have more time i can do.. Because its really a mess here with every hardware thing laying around..
First i want to have finished most of my systems, and trying testing that other hardware and reagange those.

smeezekitty, crack it open and check the caps before you go any further. I wouldn't want to take a risk with old hardware to get a proper test with a 12V rail that low.

Robin4 wrote:

If i have more time i can do.. Because its really a mess here with every hardware thing laying around..
First i want to have finished most of my systems, and trying testing that other hardware and reagange those.

No problem at all 😉

Lukeno94 wrote:

smeezekitty, crack it open and check the caps before you go any further. I wouldn't want to take a risk with old hardware to get a proper test with a 12V rail that low.

Ok. Will do.

I will be careful not to get zapped too.

The Razer card arrived, in probably the biggest box I've ever seen for a soundcard (honestly I don't remember my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum having such a big box):

It did include the breakout connector, CD, some of the books; I'm not sure if there's other accessories missing, but the packaging material doesn't seem to have space for anything else - it's not like there's cutouts that aren't filled.

I did a bit more research on this card - Razer claims that it supports A3D and EAX, but I haven't found specification as to what levels it supports. A MaximumPC article seems to think it's based on a C-Media processor, which would make it similar to the Asus cards in more than just looks. 😊 If I remember right the Asus cards provide some sort of emulation for A3D/EAX so maybe this one does something similar. It also does, as you can see on the box, all sorts of digital encoding features that many cards don't support (like DTS, Dolby, Dolby Headphone, DTS Neo, etc).

obobskivich wrote:

Novelty aside, I'm not actually sure if this thing has any real application - I know back in '01 the P4 this card is installed in did not have anything beyond a GF2 MX, and it played DVDs just fine, and I'm guessing that other machines from around that era would be equally OK. The box says it requires something like a 400MHz CPU to work (I don't know if that could handle DVD playback or not), so I doubt it'd be useful to help out an MMX or PPro with DVD either. Still, a fun little gadget to setup, and it seems to not cause any trouble for my graphics cards, so I figure it can stay with no problems. 😎

Actually the CPU requirements for DVD playback were something like 500 MHz without support from the video card, much lower (200-300 MHz) with a "nice" video card like a Rage 128 or Radeon, and below 200 MHz with an MPEG2 decoder card like yours. An MMX or PPro would be exactly the sweet spot for the card.

idspispopd wrote:

Actually the CPU requirements for DVD playback were something like 500 MHz without support from the video card, much lower (200-300 MHz) with a "nice" video card like a Rage 128 or Radeon, and below 200 MHz with an MPEG2 decoder card like yours. An MMX or PPro would be exactly the sweet spot for the card.

From the box: 400MHz Pentium II, 32MB RAM, and SVGA graphics as the minimum requirements. 😵 My guess is the player software is what drives that up, and as far as I know you have to use the associated software to get the hardware benefits from the card (but that could be entirely wrong - I'm basing everything off of the included instructions and documentation, which may or may not tell us the whole story). I can tell you it has no problems with a 2GHz P4... 🤣

This little buddy arrived in the mail today. I got the Artex bug, but I couldn't resist this one, it was 10 euros shipped! Would have set me back about 180Euros back in 2004 😀.

A boxed S478 Preshott? Researching on the net gave me the general consensus to choose Northwood if on S478 and Prescott if on LGA775 due to motherboard VRM capability issues, heatsink choices and other concerns mostly regarding heat/power.

Zenn wrote:

A boxed S478 Preshott? Researching on the net gave me the general consensus to choose Northwood if on S478 and Prescott if on LGA775 due to motherboard VRM capability issues, heatsink choices and other concerns mostly regarding heat/power.

Prescotts on (late) socket 478 boards work fine as long as you run at stock speed.
Asus and Abit i875P and i865PE boards can handle overclocking Prescotts while MSI boards (and many others) cant.

Oh no, I'm not using it. I've got an Intel board (D875PBZ) running a Northwood 3.0 at 3120MHz and I'm mighty happy with it. Later Pentium 4 doesn't interest me that much, if you're going socket 775, might as well go Core 2 Duo 😉.

This is merely for displaying it on my shelves. It is a piece of important PC history, regardless of whether it was a huge hit back then. It reminds me of older days and I just couldn't resist grabbing one 😀.

F2bnp wrote:

Oh no, I'm not using it. I've got an Intel board (D875PBZ) running a Northwood 3.0 at 3120MHz and I'm mighty happy with it. Later Pentium 4 doesn't interest me that much, if you're going socket 775, might as well go Core 2 Duo 😉.

This is merely for displaying it on my shelves. It is a piece of important PC history, regardless of whether it was a huge hit back then. It reminds me of older days and I just couldn't resist grabbing one 😀.

That's the spirit!

I learned from the best 🤣 .

F2bnp wrote:

I learned from the best 🤣 .

Lol

Skyscraper wrote:

Zenn wrote:

A boxed S478 Preshott? Researching on the net gave me the general consensus to choose Northwood if on S478 and Prescott if on LGA775 due to motherboard VRM capability issues, heatsink choices and other concerns mostly regarding heat/power.

Prescotts on (late) socket 478 boards work fine as long as you run at stock speed.
Asus and Abit i875P and i865PE boards can handle overclocking Prescotts while MSI boards (and many others) cant.

It's good for a cold winter too as it easily replaces a heater. It's like 2 in 1, you can play games and stay warm at the same time =)

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Just got these from a fellow collector at a local retro gaming forum:

The Plus has a bad analog board on which I spent the evening trying to get it running, you can read about it here. The IIc is a UK model (hope it can be converted to NTSC) and the external floppy drive will go very nicely along with the Toshiba Tecra 550CDT I picked up a while ago. 😀

I hope you have more success with that FDD than the one I got for my Satellite 200CDT, which has a different proprietary connector to the one on the laptop, even though it's a Toshiba drive!

F2bnp wrote:

This little buddy arrived in the mail today. I got the Artex bug, but I couldn't resist this one, it was 10 euros shipped! Would have set me back about 180Euros back in 2004 😀.

I have that same P4 in a DirectX 9 box I'm building. I've used that Prescott for years and it served me well. No complaints whatsoever. Great choice for a socket 478 build. Not quite as fast as a 3.4, but for $10 the value can't be beat.

Just received a fresh, new/unused, in the box, Extron RGB 202xi today.

This will fit nicely in my multi system setup as it accepts 15kHz input (TTL and Analog) and will output to standard 31kHz VGA/SVGA monitors with virtually no lag. I have heard that an Amiga A500 will connect directly into the 9pin connector with a regular 23pin to 9pin Amiga adaptor and I will be making cables for my sega genesis, Amiga 2000HD, atari ST system, Tandy CoCo3 and for many others. My Tandy 1000 systems will probably just plug in with a straight 9pin to 9pin cable, but I will have to doublecheck pinouts. It is a huge undertaking to have all the systems and gaming consoles I am planning to be connected to one monitor, but with this Extron unit, it is begining to look more feasible.