Don't underestimate the 5446, it's a great DOS video card.
Hey even KVM Emulation used for Virtualisation uses the 5446 as Emulation 😀
Its very combatible Card.
The 5446 also has Video Accelration. And should accelrate Windows 3.x VFW with prober Drivers.
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totally agree, the 5446 is a really good card!
Thank you! What a surprise, I just tried it and works perfectly fine. It's the basic 1MB version of the card 😀
Thanks keropi! 😀
wrote:totally agree, the 5446 is a really good card!
I too agree! Back then it was my go to card if I was having issues with newer builds since it would work on anything I had that had a PCI slot. Having issues with a new AGP card? Timing issues? Something weird? This card would certainly help out 😀
I did some tests on a 5x86 133MHz not too long with a few different PCI video cards and the CL-GD5446 was second only to the Matrox Mystique 220 overall.
wrote:Thanks keropi! 😀
enjoy! 😎
Yeah....
The 5446 is a great card. Really fast. I have two in my collection, and they are really compatible in MS-Dos 6.22
Not 100% compatible, and sometimes UniVBE has to be loaded. Only a few games have issues.
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Those cakes make you sick....
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Aopen Barebones Socket 479 system. Works with Pentium M CPUs. Gonna be a retro Windows 98 system for me most likely.
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Aopen Barebones Socket 479 system. Works with Pentium M CPUs. Gonna be a retro Windows 98 system for me most likely.
The only thing that turned me off to these small form factor systems is the power supplies in them really sucked so when yours comes in check the psu for bad caps. Caps from that era did go bad even when they didn't see use but beyond that you got a neat little system. Got a Pentium M desktop myself and they are fun to play with plus they sip power vs the hogs from the era.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
A few days ago I bought a Dell Ultrasharp 1801FP from a thrift store for $8. It's an 18" 1280x1024 IPS.
This is the first working IPS monitor I've come across. The screen was marked up from typical thrift store handling but I scrubbed at it pretty meticulously and it came out almost 100%. There are only a couple very minor scratches that I can't even see from distance - the rest of the markings were just so much surface debris that all came off.
I love this thing. The color with photos looks noticeably better than either of my 19" TN Samsung monitors (one of which is still pretty low hours). The black level is a bit of a challenge compared to the TN panels but with some adjustment I'm satisfied.
Today I settled in to how I've decided to use it. I'm keeping a 19" TN as my main monitor but I'm putting the 1801FP next to it in vertical orientation. I first tried the vertical idea on a whim but I was surprised how quickly I fell in love with it for looking at vertically oriented material. The first time I loaded a PDF on this monitor I knew I had to leave it this way, it's just so much more efficient with screen space and convenient to read. Office, email client, and maybe even the web browser will all be used on the vertical monitor also. Occasionally I need to do some minor photo editing and obviously the IPS is the ticket for that as well.
I'm undecided whether I'd want to use it over the TN for games. The color is better and it shows more detail, but the black level isn't quite as dark which might bother me with some games I play. Anyway it's vertical, so games are out. If I get another IPS sometime then I'll reconsider.
It seems the 1801FP didn't get posted about very much on the internet, but somebody said it's a minor update to the 1800FP. I tried to figure out how to get into the service menu but the instructions I've found for other Dells don't seem to work. I'm curious how many hours are logged on this panel but that's just curiosity - what matters is it works and has a good picture.
wrote:- An Intel Pentium 4 board. An early model, uses SDRAM.
Well, technically you can call it that, but it's DDR-SDRAM that that board takes.
Also, that's a very nice 486! The DX2-66 is such a great CPU 😁
wrote:Also, that's a very nice 486! The DX2-66 is such a great CPU 😁
Indeed, especially those fussy games that demand accurate clocks.
Little do people realize that Stuttering, Limited CPU power, Freezing, and hitting the Reset from time to time is all part of the experience which dosbox can never emulate.
Not to mention the tension and cold sweat pouring over me when formatting the HDD after Win95 crapped the system for the millionth time... some good memories. 😎
wrote:Not to mention the tension and cold sweat pouring over me when formatting the HDD after Win95 crapped the system for the millionth time... some good memories. 😎
Correct! 🤣 Although looking back at the time when I had a PC with a DX2-66 back in 1995, I wish I had kept Windows 3.1 instead of immediately jumping on the Win95 bandwagon. Much better performance, and hardly any exclusive Windows 95 game was playable on that CPU anyway.
wrote:wrote:wrote:- An Intel Pentium 4 board. An early model, uses SDRAM.
Well, technically you can call it that, but it's DDR-SDRAM that that board takes.
Ah yes, you're right! Not sure why I thought it was SDRAM 😊
That mobo takes DDR 200/266, you can use DDR 333/400 sticks, but it'll be downclocked to 266.
The Intel D845BG uses the Intel 845 DDR along with the ICH2 southbridge (same southbrige as 810E/815E/815EP/815EG/820E/850/850E and 845 SDRAM)
Some new aquirements
Radeon X800XT AGP (fan is broken though). That is why I got the ATI Silencer 😀
NIB Radeon HD4670 AGP 😀
Brand new, never been used
For my 9800XT which needs a new fan.
