Yay 1K page 😁

Unfortunately, I have nothing to show today ... All I can say is that I recently received fresh caps for my EGA CRT so that will help it to survive another quarter of century (at least I hope)

Jade Falcon wrote:

Nice card by the way Munx.

Thanks! Been looking for a low priced one to add to my V2 SLI rig ever since Phil's review. Until that point I thought all Rage cards were terrible decelerators.

c0keb0ttle wrote:

Bought these beauties on a local trading site: […]
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Bought these beauties on a local trading site:

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I haven't tested it yet, but I think that's a 24MB memory module.

Both are in near mint condition.

Hah i look for that damn card since years, but at least i have x2 AWE64 Value...
From a 2 months i have contact that can find me great things like AWE64 Gold and Voodoo 5 6000 and others, so not big deal..

Munx wrote:

ATI Rage 128 pro!

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EDIT: who's gonna get to 1000 pages first? 🤣

128 and 128 Pro TV tuner...
Just missing the Rage Fury MaXX....

Here's to another 1K.

Munx wrote:

ATI Rage 128 pro!

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EDIT: who's gonna get to 1000 pages first? 🤣

ATi was lazy at naming their chips back then. Rage I and II were terrible 3D decelerators and Rage Pro was true albeit slow 3D accelerator. Rage 128 and 128 Pro were much better than Rage Pro, but still being shadowed by the brand image of Rage. They finally realized their lack of creativity and pulled off the title of Rage 6.

Deksor wrote:

Yay 1K page 😁

Unfortunately, I have nothing to show today ... All I can say is that I recently received fresh caps for my EGA CRT so that will help it to survive another quarter of century (at least I hope)

I am (trying to) fix my EGA monitor. What is your reason for putting in fresh caps? Were there any problems or just preventative maintenance?

BitWrangler wrote:

Edit: IMO, LG 16-52x drives are mulletproof, and early mass market CD writers were failure prone from most brands, think I only have a hitachi survivor.

You weren't exaggerating when you wrote that they were failure prone, I've googled the Philips drive model and it seems that even new drives had a lot of trouble behaving properly (+ something about not working nicely with the standard Windows CD-ROM driver in some cases 😵 ). In short, an expensive paperweight...

Got another 486 VLB motherboard. Hopefully this one will be a stable base for my 486 build. Barrel battery was remove, minimal acid staining on the keyboard port. Should be okay. Also came with an unknow CPU (my guess would be an Intel DX2/66).

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Got another 486 VLB motherboard. Hopefully this one will be a stable base for my 486 build. Barrel battery was remove, minimal a […]
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Got another 486 VLB motherboard. Hopefully this one will be a stable base for my 486 build. Barrel battery was remove, minimal acid staining on the keyboard port. Should be okay. Also came with an unknow CPU (my guess would be an Intel DX2/66).

That board only supports 5V it looks like, so it could be a DX2-66 and I cannot find manufacturer info for that board, except for the SIS 85C461 chipset.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Got another 486 VLB motherboard. Hopefully this one will be a stable base for my 486 build. Barrel battery was remove, minimal acid staining on the keyboard port. Should be okay. Also came with an unknow CPU (my guess would be an Intel DX2/66).

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That board only supports 5V it looks like, so it could be a DX2-66 and I cannot find manufacturer info for that board, except for the SIS 85C461 chipset.

I bought it on a whim, without any research. I will try and power it up for a bios string later. 5V only would be a downside. It was 'only' 15 euro so can't really complain...

Cyrix200+ wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Got another 486 VLB motherboard. Hopefully this one will be a stable base for my 486 build. Barrel battery was remove, minimal acid staining on the keyboard port. Should be okay. Also came with an unknow CPU (my guess would be an Intel DX2/66).

<snip>

That board only supports 5V it looks like, so it could be a DX2-66 and I cannot find manufacturer info for that board, except for the SIS 85C461 chipset.

I bought it on a whim, without any research. I will try and power it up for a bios string later. 5V only would be a downside. It was 'only' 15 euro so can't really complain...

Not a bad price. If you want to use processors that use 3.3V, either buy a voltage regulator or get an OverDrive processor that has the 5V.

A little something on the way... for the 1000th page 😉

This was a recent purchase:

It's not readable on the photo, but the Athlon is actually an Athlon XP-M 3000+. It will be great for Abit KT7A V1.3 😀

kixs wrote:

A little something on the way... for the 1000th page ;) […]
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A little something on the way... for the 1000th page 😉

This was a recent purchase:

It's not readable on the photo, but the Athlon is actually an Athlon XP-M 3000+. It will be great for Abit KT7A V1.3 😀

Well i don`t have all the insane amount of 3Dfx Voodoo cards for that page, but as soon as i get them i will post tons of Voodoo cards all of them will be in great condition and specially the Voodoo 5 6000 but for that later..

Mu Athlon XP-M 3000+ seems to be bad overclocker not sure how did clock back in the days when i did try it, but it was bad i think even 2.4GHz was not possible...
How you think to install this CPU on that old ABIT, im sure it does not support CPUs over 2GHz...

Is interesting to see how many brands was back in the days of that processors, IBM did make processors, CyriX was alive, even Texas instruments...
And today for the desktop we have only AMD and Intel, and if VIA and Qualcomm is count, but they are in mobile segment...
Too bad many brands did go away like Chaintech, specially Soltek, AOpen, ABIT, my personal favorites are AOpen and ABIT great motherboards from them, too bad they did die...

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dexvx wrote:

Got this AL440LX Atlanta motherboard for cheap. Unfortunately, it's a Micron OEM (not Intel retail). Weird enough, it came with a Pentium II 450 Deschutes CPU (of course it booted up to 300 MHz) along with 2x 32MB of some DIMM memory.

You probably already know this, but that board is one of the really nifty ones with the built in Yamaha + General MIDI sound chips. I haven't gotten one of these yet myself, but they are apparently very versatile and a great setup for DOS games.

I did not know. Sounds quite promising to pair it up with an unlocked Klamath CPU for a DOS box.

Here's a pic of the audio chips on the AL440LX. Looks like OPL YMF715-S and GM YMF721-S.

Radical Vision:

I'm mostly interested for the high clock multiplier (16.5X). KT7A has 133MHZ FSB and this is the fastest CPU for it. It's not great as SDRAM is a real bottleneck but I like it. At the moment I run it with XP-M 2600+.

From these cpus only Cyrix 486DRx2 33/66 and Cyrix 5x86-120 are pretty rare. One day I also hope to find Cyrix 5x86-133 and 387/487 double clock fpus - IIT X2 487DLX25/50 and ULSI Math Co DX2 66MHz. Weitk 3167-33 would also be great 😀

Also got a bunch of AMD 5x86-133... I hope one will break the 180MHz barrier I'm at.

kixs wrote:

Radical Vision: […]
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Radical Vision:

I'm mostly interested for the high clock multiplier (16.5X). KT7A has 133MHZ FSB and this is the fastest CPU for it. It's not great as SDRAM is a real bottleneck but I like it. At the moment I run it with XP-M 2600+.

From these cpus only Cyrix 486DRx2 33/66 and Cyrix 5x86-120 are pretty rare. One day I also hope to find Cyrix 5x86-133 and 387/487 double clock fpus - IIT X2 487DLX25/50 and ULSI Math Co DX2 66MHz. Weitk 3167-33 would also be great 😀

Also got a bunch of AMD 5x86-133... I hope one will break the 180MHz barrier I'm at.

I take it you are doing the socket pin mod so you can get the higher multipliers as well as the modded Barton BIOS for it, correct?

I've got an XP-M 2800+ running on my KT7A at about 2.4Ghz.

Nice cpu haul!

It would be interesting how fast the 85C461 shipset is. I had a board with its successor and performance was pretty good.

cyclone3d:

I thought about doing HW mod, but I'll just use the software to up the multi - CPUMSR. It works fine with rev V1.3. Not sure if I'll need to flash the modded BIOS... but as the last time I played with KT7A boards is around 3 years ago... I might have mixed some things up 🤣

I snagged a sealed copy of a VideoLogic DVD-Player MPEG2 accelerator card for ~ 12 USD shipped.

dexvx wrote:

I did not know. Sounds quite promising to pair it up with an unlocked Klamath CPU for a DOS box. […]
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I did not know. Sounds quite promising to pair it up with an unlocked Klamath CPU for a DOS box.

Here's a pic of the audio chips on the AL440LX. Looks like OPL YMF715-S and GM YMF721-S.

Both chips have OPL3 capability. Can you choose one of the two as OPL synthesizer for a certain application?