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Reply 25000 of 54980, by tegrady

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Picked up a lot of 10 Sound Blaster 16's off of eBay for a ridiculously low price. I won't need to worry about sound cards for my retro builds for quite a few years, or decades.

Good times.

Reply 25001 of 54980, by DaveJustDave

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tegrady wrote:

Picked up a lot of 10 Sound Blaster 16's off of eBay for a ridiculously low price. I won't need to worry about sound cards for my retro builds for quite a few years, or decades.

Good times.

which SB16s were they?

I have no clue what I'm doing! If you want to watch me fumble through all my retro projects, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrDavejustdave

Reply 25002 of 54980, by dionb

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The postman came today:
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Saw the Aztech card. I already had this 826, but I couldn't get the wavetable to work at all. This one was going cheap, so snaffled it up to see if I can get wavetable working here. And then I saw the seller's other stuff. He'd posted this MusicQuest in the "Music and instruments" section and no one was interested despite very low price. I was 😉

Will be testing these tonight. If the MusicQuest is working I'll be checking with a musician I know. He's still using a DOS 6 / MusicQuest system for his work - not because it's retro but because he spent years figuring out how this works and is convinced he could never to that again - and it's no longer stable. He's convinced his MQ is to blame, but given his *ahem* "great technical knowledge" I'm sceptical to say the least. If it is after all, he's getting this and I'll try and fix whatever is wrong with his. If not, I suppose I won't be needing SoftMPU any more...

Reply 25003 of 54980, by tegrady

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DaveJustDave wrote:
tegrady wrote:

Picked up a lot of 10 Sound Blaster 16's off of eBay for a ridiculously low price. I won't need to worry about sound cards for my retro builds for quite a few years, or decades.

Good times.

which SB16s were they?

CT2940. Not the best models, but I am very pleased with them.

Reply 25004 of 54980, by Intel486dx33

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Reply 25005 of 54980, by brostenen

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Recieved my TF-530 in the mail today. I must say that this is quality soldering. That red PCB looks so sweet.
Still waiting for the new A500-Floppy drive and I need to get a new solder iron, as the old is nearly worn out.
And I need to modify a PC power supply in order to give this baby enough juice.

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Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 25007 of 54980, by emosun

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found these at goodwill and they sound surprisingly good , tested with midi and vaporwave

Reply 25008 of 54980, by luckybob

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those are almost as nice as the ones I got a couple days ago:

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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 25009 of 54980, by Intel486dx33

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Yeah, well I got these this weekend at a flea market.
Sound pretty good too. 2.1

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Reply 25010 of 54980, by Batyra

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@dionb - nice! haha you post something new almost everyday - you speed up 😁

Just bought nice sdram's… 2x256 pc166 in blue heatsink. AFAIK the fastest sdram's.

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Reply 25011 of 54980, by dionb

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Batyra wrote:

@dionb - nice! haha you post something new almost everyday - you speed up 😁

Actually I'm slowing down, getting more selective. And in this case plain lucky - I wasn't looking actively for these, just scanning adverts locally when I spotted something.

Just bought nice sdram's… 2x256 pc166 in blue heatsink. AFAIK the fastest sdram's.

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Fast - and very blue (even if the PCB looks suspiciously green 😢 ). Since I learnt of their existence through you, I've been looking for some of those red OCZ SDR-SDRAM DIMMs (my son wants a red build), but - as expected - no luck so far. Am contemplating moving to DDR instead (I already have a red So478 board I could use in that case), but not quite giving up yet.

Reply 25012 of 54980, by appiah4

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Batyra wrote:
@dionb - nice! haha you post something new almost everyday - you speed up :-D […]
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@dionb - nice! haha you post something new almost everyday - you speed up 😁

Just bought nice sdram's… 2x256 pc166 in blue heatsink. AFAIK the fastest sdram's.

(Sellers photo)

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What use are these, then? For overclocking early Athlon or P4 boards with SD-RAM?

Reply 25013 of 54980, by dionb

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appiah4 wrote:

What use are these, then? For overclocking early Athlon or P4 boards with SD-RAM?

As always with this sort of "OC" stuff, it's at least 50% marketing - but other 50% is i815EP with some P3 at 150-166MHz FSB. Not going to work with every CPU or board, but when it does, it really goes.

Reply 25014 of 54980, by appiah4

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dionb wrote:
appiah4 wrote:

What use are these, then? For overclocking early Athlon or P4 boards with SD-RAM?

As always with this sort of "OC" stuff, it's at least 50% marketing - but other 50% is i815EP with some P3 at 150-166MHz FSB. Not going to work with every CPU or board, but when it does, it really goes.

I didn't know i815 could do 150/166MHz at all..

Reply 25015 of 54980, by dionb

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appiah4 wrote:

I didn't know i815 could do 150/166MHz at all..

Not officially of course, but just as with the i430TX, it was a late part that could have been sold at higher speeds, but for commercial reasons (P4) was not. That made it a good overclocking part.

I remember reports of 166MHz being reached regularly (iirc mainly with P3-866EB parts). Can't find a link right now, but here's one of a P3-1000EB running at 153MHz FSB: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=770&page=5

Reply 25016 of 54980, by luckybob

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I used to own a slot-a board from abit. It would run the ram at 33mhz above the cpu fsb. So those pc166 dimms would REALLY have come in handy.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 25017 of 54980, by henryVK

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Finally managed to pick up a proper CD player. It's a Onkyo Integra DX 6850 from the early 90's. The one I got is in very good shape except for the drive belts which should be changed sometime. The player was cheap enough that I won't worry about the laser unit (no longer available) dying on me.

If this thing lasts I'll think about replacing the plastic side panels with some wooden ones.

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Reply 25018 of 54980, by dirkmirk

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luckybob wrote:

So, drunk me found this on eBay and tossed an offer. I wake up to find out it was accepted. YAY!

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I'll post proper pictures when I get her.

That is awesome!

Can you explain the CPU speed jumper?

I've seen references of settings up to 300mhz?

What are the FSB options?

Reply 25019 of 54980, by amadeus777999

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luckybob wrote:
those are almost as nice as the ones I got a couple days ago: […]
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those are almost as nice as the ones I got a couple days ago:

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Brotherhood speaker technology at its finest.