Got a nice deal on a X800 XT PE AGP card today, I really want a X850 XT PE AGP but they are kinda rare and expensive when they do get listed.

This one will need a rework on the VGA port but the DVI port works fine according to the seller, not sure I will ever use the VGA port so I may just leave it as is.

Being a XT PE model with a good cooler this card should OC to X850 XT PE speeds !

Scored a full Chieftec tower. Quick peek shows quite boring stuff - ASUS M2N4-SLI w/ prolly an Athlon 64, ASUS and Lite-ON DVDRW drives, a 450W Chieftec branded Delta PSU (which can likely double as a weapon!), unidentified Gigabyte GPU w/ HDMI, and an unidentified Samsung HDD.

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-02-11, 03:41:

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-02-10, 19:12:

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-02-10, 16:41:

Nice, and you got one that is populated with amps and a wavetable header. 😀

Based on my own recent testing, these cards are over 90% compatible with DOS titles.

Ah nice, I'll read that thread! At the moment I can test the card successfully with the games configuration utilities (Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2...), the sound plays fine. But as soon as I run the games, at the first note the system freezes. But I didn't debug very much at this point.

...and I lost a good 10 minutes until I realised that on my card the Line Out connector is the black one, not the green like on every other sound card.

I can confirm that compatibility with the Solo-1 is very good. However, whatever method it uses to emulate DMA will still fail on some chipsets. This card did not work at all on my Socket 775 system, for example.

It’s on my 486 and it works perfectly fine on Windows 98, the hardware is OK! It’s under DOS that it seems a bit more challenging 😀

This morning I got these two memory cards, the price was low, in proportion that of the 32 GB 🇬🇧 it was very convenient, the idea is to replace two other uSD memory cards of the same capacity, and reuse the uSD ones on an uSD-adapter CF, which will go into an IDE-CF adapter, at least until I have an IDE-SD adapter available.
The main use will be as HD, in old PCs, in the 32 GB one 🇬🇧, you could even load W7 X86, but I think I will need XP at most, for less dated PCs, I have some HDs that I can recover.

This SC-8820 showed up on a local auction site so I had to have it. I don't have any other romplers that are capable of General Midi 2 but I think it sounds really pleasant. Not a huge difference but more of an evolution. The plastic does however feel very cheap compared to for example the SC-55.

Bought a GeForce FX 1100 for 10$. Can't find too much info on it online other than the general FX suxx!!11!one comments.

Joakim wrote on 2024-02-11, 15:26:

Bought a GeForce FX 1100 for 10$. Can't find too much info on it online other than the general FX suxx!!11!one comments.

It's equivalent to an FX 5700 in the GPU and gets halfway to Ultra speed with the RAM so maybe sits in between them performance wise. Probably a decent one to have for the long term as faster FX commit suicide with alarming regularity.

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-02-11, 15:49:

Joakim wrote on 2024-02-11, 15:26:

Bought a GeForce FX 1100 for 10$. Can't find too much info on it online other than the general FX suxx!!11!one comments.

It's equivalent to an FX 5700 in the GPU and gets halfway to Ultra speed with the RAM so maybe sits in between them performance wise. Probably a decent one to have for the long term as faster FX commit suicide with alarming regularity.

Read somewhere here that it has worse compatibility with older games as it does not support old enough drivers. Dunno might be possible to hack the driver and force it. Or even softmod it to look like a GeForce?

never owned one. A few trusted people on here said inf driver mods dont work like they do for 5900xt for example. since its a differnt chip even though it sounds like its not.

It's not possible to use GeForce FX 5700 GPUs with earlier drivers. This can be demonstrated by forcing a driver for a different model. The last time I tried this it produced all kinds of graphical errors and other video corruption artifacts.

Interesting. I wonder why this is (other than it being too new).

Joakim wrote on 2024-02-12, 15:41:

Interesting. I wonder why this is (other than it being too new).

Older drivers lack DX 9.0 support, more specifically the later variants of it a/b/c that the FX cards require.

-There is only one FX card that can use older drivers and its a rather obscure FX 5200 card that uses the NV18c core .. never seen one myself but its listed as released, pretty much the same core the MX4000 uses. Perhaps this was a budget budget FX5200 ..like they could make that card any worse.

Kahenraz wrote on 2024-02-12, 10:47:

It's not possible to use GeForce FX 5700 GPUs with earlier drivers. This can be demonstrated by forcing a driver for a different model. The last time I tried this it produced all kinds of graphical errors and other video corruption artifacts.

Its not just FX5700 and later its the entire FX line of cards, they all require DX9.0a so that's why older drivers dont work correctly.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-12, 20:36:

Joakim wrote on 2024-02-12, 15:41:

Interesting. I wonder why this is (other than it being too new).

Older drivers lack DX 9.0 support, more specifically the later variants of it a/b/c that the FX cards require.

-There is only one FX card that can use older drivers and its a rather obscure FX 5200 card that uses the NV18c core .. never seen one myself but its listed as released, pretty much the same core the MX4000 uses. Perhaps this was a budget budget FX5200 ..like they could make that card any worse.

Just curious but what version numbers are considered "old" here? I use 56.64 on my Quadro FX 3000 and those have a driver date of 03/03/2004 according to device manager and 2004 is obviously quite a while ago now!

Gainward Geforce3 Ti200 Golden Sample

It works fine, but the garbage brand capacitors are going bad - they will be swapped out with polymer-type.

Meatball wrote on 2024-02-13, 00:35:

Gainward Geforce3 Ti200 Golden Sample

It works fine, but the garbage brand capacitors are going bad - they will be swapped out with polymer-type.

Hard to tell from your picture. Are you seeing physical indications of failure in the capacitors, or is it operating poorly?

smtkr wrote on 2024-02-13, 01:11:

Meatball wrote on 2024-02-13, 00:35:

Gainward Geforce3 Ti200 Golden Sample

It works fine, but the garbage brand capacitors are going bad - they will be swapped out with polymer-type.

Hard to tell from your picture. Are you seeing physical indications of failure in the capacitors, or is it operating poorly?

The furthest to the left is bulging. They had a good run for being cheap, for sure.

I didn't even know they made 128MB Geforce 3s.

MSI did a ti200 128MB too that I know of, got one, turns out 128MB wasn't really worth it until 2 gens later.

smtkr wrote on 2024-02-13, 04:12:

I didn't even know they made 128MB Geforce 3s.

IIRC it was only the Ti models that got 128Mb versions, I have never seen a 128Mb Ti500 in the wild but they apparently exist, have seen a few 128Mb Ti200s on Evilbay.

I would put the 128Mb Ti500 models up there with the Geforce 256 DDR 64Mb in terms of rarity.

So if you see a 128Mb Ti500 it would be worth buying it if its a good price.