Caluser2000 wrote:

Bought this:

a5000.jpg

Not sure how servicable it is but time will tell...

What exactly IS that?

Lukeno94 wrote:

Caluser2000 wrote:

Bought this:

a5000.jpg

Not sure how servicable it is but time will tell...

What exactly IS that?

The image name should give you a clue. Another clue is it is'nt an amiga.

Acorn A5000

retrofanatic wrote:

Interesting that the 5950 gets that hot...must be why they put such a huge heatsink and fan on it (on the models I own). When I get a chance to put together my P4 AGP Win 98 rigs, I will have to give both of my 5950 ultra and 6800 ultra a try.

Whoops - must've been a typo. I meant the 5800 Ultra is getting hot; I don't have the 5950 in-hand yet. 😊 And it's actually not the 5800 getting hot when it's running "heavy" games - for example it's fine running Halo. But running older games, like Lego Island, it doesn't bump its clocks up (it idles at 300/600, and can run a lot of old games at that level too), which means the fan doesn't spin up (it seems tied to clockspeed, not temperatures 😒), and it ends up running hotter than when running a "heavy" game. I think the positive pressure airflow in my case may be a factor here, but I'm not sure. It was making me uncomfortable though, since I don't want the card to be damaged, so I swapped it for the 6800 - which runs very cool in "light" games (the fan never turns off either). We'll have to see how the 5950's cooler handles this - I'm almost wondering if it'll be better with positive pressure because of the way the cooler is designed.

smeezekitty wrote:

Acorn A5000

Your powers of deduction are certainly on form dear Watson.

It'll interesting to see what the issue is with it, if any. I suspect the seller just didn't have a suitable monitor and keyboard/mouse combo to get it up and running. Looks like it might be an early revision with original RiscOS 3.0 roms. Something to add to the my growing Acorn collection non the less.

obobskivich wrote:

retrofanatic wrote:

Interesting that the 5950 gets that hot...must be why they put such a huge heatsink and fan on it (on the models I own). When I get a chance to put together my P4 AGP Win 98 rigs, I will have to give both of my 5950 ultra and 6800 ultra a try.

Whoops - must've been a typo. I meant the 5800 Ultra is getting hot; I don't have the 5950 in-hand yet. 😊 And it's actually not the 5800 getting hot when it's running "heavy" games - for example it's fine running Halo. But running older games, like Lego Island, it doesn't bump its clocks up (it idles at 300/600, and can run a lot of old games at that level too), which means the fan doesn't spin up (it seems tied to clockspeed, not temperatures 😒), and it ends up running hotter than when running a "heavy" game. I think the positive pressure airflow in my case may be a factor here, but I'm not sure. It was making me uncomfortable though, since I don't want the card to be damaged, so I swapped it for the 6800 - which runs very cool in "light" games (the fan never turns off either). We'll have to see how the 5950's cooler handles this - I'm almost wondering if it'll be better with positive pressure because of the way the cooler is designed.

I see. I may have to test out one of my 5950's when I get a chance.

As far as I know (from reading reviews and whatnot), the 5950 never turns its fan 100% off, so it probably wouldn't be an issue.

Interestingly, a Dell Latitude D600, with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 GPU and 1.4 GHz Pentium M CPU, with 1GB of RAM, is almost strong enough to run YouTube at 360p. It stutters a bit, but it is reasonable enough most of the time.

Just won the final ebay auction I'd been waiting on this morning - a Wildcat Realizm 800. Should be very interesting to play around with at least.

Some more crap 😁

I bought a Dell Dimension 8100 for 7 Euro. It is the first Dell Dimension P4 model, perhaps the first Dell P4 model of any kind.
The reviewers could not believe how slow this system was, other P3 and P4 systems were alot faster.
The spec should be: i850 chipset, P4 1.4/1.5GHz, 128MB RamBus memory, GF2 Ultra, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz? and a 40GB HDD.

My system came without video and audio cards but I have both a Geforce 2 Ultra and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz so its not a problem.

I did also buy another DX9 video card.

Gigabyte X1900 XT (10 Euro)

1.4 GHz P4... feel the power.

lazibayer wrote:

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Gamecollector wrote:

SquallStrife wrote:

Where is the identifier stored that makes a Creative card different to a Diamond card?

PCI SUBSYS and REV values.

I wonder those IDs would only affect the recognition of the cards. Once the cards are both picked up by the same driver, I can only think of two things that may prevent them from working together:
1) the driver intentionally disables mismatched cards; but under some other cases mismatching works with official driver;
2) some cards are designed to work in an incompatible fashion with other cards.
Too bad there is no video rom on V2 to play with.

Now I got matching and working pairs of Voodoo2. Still dunno what prevented certain mismatched pairs from working properly... Should be something deep buried in the hardware rather than PCI IDs. I checked the PCI IDs of Diamond, STB and Creative Voodoo2's, and they all have the same string "VEN_121A&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_02". I wonder if it's common for V2 cards to have the same string because of no BIOS present.

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Some more crap 😁

I bought a Dell Dimension 8100 for 7 Euro. It is the first Dell Dimension P4 model, perhaps the first Dell P4 model of any kind.
The reviewers could not believe how slow this system was, other P3 and P4 systems were alot faster.
The spec should be: i850 chipset, P4 1.4/1.5GHz, 128MB RamBus memory, GF2 Ultra, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz? and a 40GB HDD.

My system came without video and audio cards but I have both a Geforce 2 Ultra and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz so its not a problem.

Then i demand a 3Dmark 2001 score and some cpu benchmark of some sort 😁
Would that be a socket 423 board\cpu?

rick6 wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

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Some more crap 😁

I bought a Dell Dimension 8100 for 7 Euro. It is the first Dell Dimension P4 model, perhaps the first Dell P4 model of any kind.
The reviewers could not believe how slow this system was, other P3 and P4 systems were alot faster.
The spec should be: i850 chipset, P4 1.4/1.5GHz, 128MB RamBus memory, GF2 Ultra, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz? and a 40GB HDD.

My system came without video and audio cards but I have both a Geforce 2 Ultra and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz so its not a problem.

Then i demand a 3Dmark 2001 score and some cpu benchmark of some sort 😁
Would that be a socket 423 board\cpu?

Yep, it is. Northwood never clocked as low as that, and the Dimension 8100 came out in late 2000, very soon after the first P4s shipped. In fact, most Willamettes wouldn't ship for another year - you only got 1.4 or 1.5 GHz chips at the time.

It's been a while...so here goes! 😎

3DFX Voodoo Banshee - Creative 3D Blaster Banshee CT6760 16MB PCI (Boxed) (1998)

3DFX Voodoo3 3500 TV (UK-PAL) 16MB AGP(Boxed) (1999)

3DFX Voodoo3 3500 TV (US-NTSC) 16MB AGP (Boxed) (Orange '3500') (1999)

3DFX Voodoo3 3500 TV (US-NTSC) 16MB AGP (Boxed) (Yellow '3500') (1999)

3DFX Voodoo4 4500 (EU) 32MB PCI (Boxed) (1999)

3DFX VoodooTV FM (PAL-EUR) (Boxed) (2000)

ATI 3D Rage II (3D Xpression+ PC2TV 4MB) PCI (NOS) (1996)

Biostar MB-8443UUD-A Version 2.x with new Dallas RTC and Recapped

IBM (Cyrix) 5x86-3V3100HB (1995)

Intel Pentium MMX Overdrive Processor (BOXPODPMT60X180SL2FE) (NOS) (1997)

Matrox Millenium II (MGA-2164WP-C) 8MB PCI Video Card (Boxed) (1997)

TSENG ET4000AX - Gainward CARDEXpert FCC ID# ICUVGA-GW142 Part # 927-04) 1MB VLB (1993)

Turtle Beach (Voyetra) Montego PCI (NOS) (1998)

STOP DOING THAT!!!! 😎

sliderider wrote:

STOP DOING THAT!!!! 😎

Or else, you'll make VOGONS implode upon itself. 🤣

Artex wrote:

It's been a while...so here goes! 😎

Great pick ups Artex. .simply amazing!

Not very exciting but I bought a wrapped pack of 10 diskettes for $1

Bought another Asus p3b-f board, came with p2-450 cpu and is in working condition.

Have 4 of these now because i wanted some backups as i really like them. Now, i have enough 😎

All of them have 1 isa slot. There is a version with 2 isa but i never seem to come across it. No biggy for me, one isa soundcard is enough for my needs.