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Reply 3083 of 52977, by Mau1wurf1977

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One doesn't seem to work. Computer just beeps. Will take a closer look at it later 😀

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Reply 3084 of 52977, by carlostex

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PeterLI wrote:

Got a MPU-IPC-T & MT-32 bundle in today. I still need to test it: MPU-IPC-T works.

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Reply 3086 of 52977, by tincup

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

One doesn't seem to work. Computer just beeps. Will take a closer look at it later 😀

If it's the top card, hold onto those un-soldered ram clips. They'll come in handy in a future video card ram upgrade..

Reply 3087 of 52977, by easy_john

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Roland SCC-1 from PeterLI
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Pentium2 450/256mb/4gb/ati rage 128+voodoo2/SB awe32 8mb+db50xg/GUS PnP 8mb/TB Tropez 2mb
486 DX2-66/32mb/8gb/tseng4000 2mb/SB 16+WB/GUS 1mb/LAPC-I
286 12mhz/4mb/512mb/Vga 1mb/SB 2.0+Covox
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Reply 3088 of 52977, by Robin4

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My second overdrive 100 mhz processor (price wasnt very bad, with free shipping.

What iam going to do with these parts? Ill keep them in own stock.. So i can decide, which processor, memory, board i can take for use.

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Reply 3090 of 52977, by sliderider

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Robin4 wrote:
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My second overdrive 100 mhz processor (price wasnt very bad, with free shipping.

What iam going to do with these parts? Ill keep them in own stock.. So i can decide, which processor, memory, board i can take for use.

I don't see the point of buying 486 Overdrives.They usually sell for more because of the word "overdrive" on then than the "normal" DX4 chips and an AMD DX4-120 or 5x86-133 can be had for less and make a faster system. The only Overdrives I bother with are POD 83 (if they're cheap enough), Pentium MMX Overdrive or Pentium II Overdrive.

Reply 3091 of 52977, by Mau1wurf1977

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That overdrive works on more 486 board than the AMD chips. The Intel is also faster clock for clock compared the 5x86 P75. I tested this myself.

For example on my Acer it gets detected properly, whereas the AMD shows up as DX2-80.

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Reply 3092 of 52977, by DonutKing

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The DX4 Overdrives have a voltage regulator on board so they will happily run with 5V. The normal DX4's are designed for 3.3V so you need a motherboard that supports it.

Supposedly there are AMD DX4's that are 3.3V/5V tolerant but I haven't been able to confirm this.

The 5x86's are also designed for 3.3V or 3.45V. You can get them with a voltage regulator onboard (eg Kingston Turbochip) so they will run at 5V, but these aren't quite so common.

In my own testing I found the Pentium Overdrive for socket 3 to be somewhat finicky in certain situations, and an Intel DX4-100 would generally beat it for DOS games at stock speeds. The POD83 was only better if you were using software/games optimized for Pentium or that used floating point (eg Quake), in which case why not just get a socket 5/7 Pentium, they seem much more common and cheaper than 486 class hardware.

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Reply 3093 of 52977, by vetz

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DonutKing wrote:

In my own testing I found the Pentium Overdrive for socket 3 to be somewhat finicky in certain situations, and an Intel DX4-100 would generally beat it for DOS games at stock speeds. The POD83 was only better if you were using software/games optimized for Pentium or that used floating point (eg Quake), in which case why not just get a socket 5/7 Pentium, they seem much more common and cheaper than 486 class hardware.

Could you please provide these benchmarks to Phil's thread/document? I'm the only one who have benchmarked my POD83 and that system is currently beating all the DX4 and AMD X5-P75 133mhz benchs at stock speeds (and overclocked).

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Reply 3095 of 52977, by Mau1wurf1977

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tincup wrote:

If it's the top card, hold onto those un-soldered ram clips. They'll come in handy in a future video card ram upgrade..

Yea it's the top one.

Pulled the memory off the card and now the machine posts. But the image is grey-scale. There is a jumper that hasn't been set, might play around with it...

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Reply 3096 of 52977, by bristlehog

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MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum:
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MediaVision Pro Audio Studio 16 LMSI:
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MediaVision Pro Audio Studio XL:
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Reply 3097 of 52977, by Skyscraper

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That looks like the photos my grandmother takes.
She usually only gets the back-end of animals and such in the image, the rest is cut off.

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Tham! You fixed it fast!
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