HighTreason wrote:BSA Starfire wrote:More fuel for my Cyrix obssession. ECS P5SD-AS super 7 motherboard with SiS 6326, ESS Audiodrive 1896F soundcard on board, even […]
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More fuel for my Cyrix obssession. ECS P5SD-AS super 7 motherboard with SiS 6326, ESS Audiodrive 1896F soundcard on board, even has TV out. Seems to be a nice well laid out board, all jumpers are clearly silkscreened and it is running the PCi bus at 33 Mhz even when FSB is 83mhz or 100mhz. Came with 2x 64Mb dimms and the IBM 6x86MX pr333.
Good board. I have one, because Time Computers used them, so still have the whole case and all. They used a Cyrix with them too... That same one actually. The SiS 6326 is not to everyone's tastes though.
The only thing I would say is mine had stability problems in 98 First Edition, but that seems to be specific to the OS and let's face it, First Edition was shit anyway.
🤣, so this is another TIME then!!! I have a complete TIME system with MSi ALi Aladdin 5 and another Cyrix MII 333, that one has a ATi RAGE PRO & SB vibra 16, tiny little board that one tho, pics here
, seems to be a few months newer according to BIOS date than the ECS, however the ECS does not have the TIME branded BIOS like the MSi does.
Liking this ECS board so far, 1mb cache is a bit of a luxury on socket 7. I do like the SiS 6326 too, this one has 4 MB dedicated on the board, it has none of the image quality and over bright issues of some S3 cards(out of the 7 S3 cards I own, only two arent unusably overbright, the Diamond Stealth 968 VRAM & an unbranded ViRGE 325). I've never had any issues with SiS for 2D & the 3D is pretty decent for a budget card, at least compared to ViRGE or early MATROX.
I'll post some scores on Phil's VGA benchmarks later on for comparison with the ALi that is already up.
Could you post of pic of your TIME case Hightreason? would be interesting to see. I'm running ME, SiS drivers from Vintage3D it is working great.
Best,
Chris
286 20MHz,1MB RAM,Trident 8900B 1MB, Conner CFA-170A.SB 1350B
386SX 33MHz,ULSI 387,4MB Ram,OAK OTI077 1MB. Seagate ST1144A, MS WSS audio
Amstrad PC 9486i, DX/2 66, 16 MB RAM, Cirrus SVGA,Win 95,SB 16
Cyrix MII 333,128MB,SiS 6326 H0 rev,ESS 1869,Win ME