Re: PATA 133, SATA 150 or SCSI U160 for 486 PC

Posted on 2019-01-15, 02:38

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by epicbrad

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi there, nice plans you've got going. Personally I remember having (Got it working though) quite a few troubles having both a scsi and sata card in my 486. I found SCSI was easier to work with in my case for booting from. I ended up just moving to a 2/4GB Ultra II Sandisk card that supported udma …

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Re: GA-586AX P150 Build

Posted on 2019-01-13, 11:52

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by epicbrad

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a look at flea Bay... 233mmx costs way too much

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Re: GA-586AX P150 Build

Posted on 2019-01-13, 03:52

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by epicbrad

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I just read that the board should be ae to handle a 233mmx... I wonder what cpu would perform best on the machine however. I also wonder if the 233mmx would overclock much.... I'm running a second ssd in mine now it stores over 100 dos games I grew up with. I'm going to install a sb128 (ensoniq …

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Re: GA-586AX P150 Build

Posted on 2019-01-12, 15:45

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I used a promise fasttrak 150 4 port sata pci card. No issues installing windows 98 (I partitioned drive on my main pc first) What cpu will you run?

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2018-10-18, 13:10

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by epicbrad

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Ryzen 1700x @ 4ghz evga 1070 ^^ Both AIO Kraken AIO X62's (g12 GPU) 32gb ram OC with cpu M5015 sas 8x 10TB HE10 HGST Enterprise drives Raid 0 = 3.5 Gb/s peak 512gb 960 pro nvme 900d case + more (still WIP after 1 year....) But I'm actually working on my p150 classic machine building it up right now, …

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Re: GA-586AX P150 Build

Posted on 2018-10-18, 12:34

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Hey there from Australia :D I had a very vague look at the motherboard today. It only seems to have dip switches for multiplier only, but not FSB Anywhere. I would also like to know how to run it at a faster bus or - later down the track drop in a nice MMX CPU but,the manual I saw (rev 3.34) doesnt …

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GA-586AX P150 Build

Posted on 2018-10-18, 10:12

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Hey everyone So today I finally managed to work on a project with my GF Please note this is just the configuration we mashed together to "bring it up" We will be "upgrading" and picking parts carefully over the next few months. It is based on GA-568VX Motherboard (3.37) Pentium 150 CPU @ 180 Mhz …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-14, 03:24

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by epicbrad

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Went digging in my garage to find some Socket 370 CPU's to upgrade my GA-6VA With slocket adapter. Tried a 100mhz FSB 1300 Mhz CPU When the board only allows x6.5 multiplier and manual states up to 633Mhz. Tried a 700mhz 66 Cpu, it fried itself even when jumpers set to auto. didn't like it. Settled …

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GA-6VA Project / AA8XE Project

Posted on 2018-10-13, 06:38

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Hi good people, I'm working on 2 projects with my new GF as she likes console games, and older games and also likes putting things together. She's fairly good at doing documentation and research, so that takes a load off me a bit whilst I focus on the tech side of it. I have a GA-6VA in my garage I …

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Re: Dual channel U320 SCSI, any benefit?

Posted on 2018-10-06, 08:02

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by epicbrad

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Yeah it's true, some 10K drives can outperform 15K counterparts. It depends on the drives in question and you'd need to compare benchmarks. Now, to be transparent - I don't know about any SCSI performance reviews over the last xx years as it's been a very long time as I left the IT world and came …

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2 options for Retro gaming PC

Posted on 2018-10-06, 04:06

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by epicbrad

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Hi Fellow retro techies :) I want to build a high end retro gaming desktop. I want it to cover XT-486 era games as well as Pentium classic era stuff, up to some windows XP based games. Parts I have found so far in my garage that I purchased a few years ago on eBay at good prices MS-7021 Ver :1 …

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Re: Dual Pentium3 motherboard, Is it worth it?

Posted on 2018-10-06, 03:52

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by epicbrad

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To be honest, I would do it if you want to add this to your collection of retro hardware. I would enjoy having such a system. I would probably do some basic mods, put it in a nice case. Some lighting and show it off. It could be a nice retro build. However, unless you know what you're going to do …

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Re: Dual channel U320 SCSI, any benefit?

Posted on 2018-10-06, 03:44

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by epicbrad

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To be honest I'm not sure if there would be a major benefit depending on your usage. I would like to however, see some benchmarks to see how it performs and that would really answer the question being asked if there is any significant improvement making this a worthy setup because I am in the …

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Re: This makes me want to buy an iPad

Posted on 2013-02-16, 13:31

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oh yeaaaahhh!

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Re: Which Linux on a 486 ?

Posted on 2012-09-18, 12:00

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by epicbrad

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried some skinny distro's with and without X - I find it's just too slow with more modern apps. You can build your own distro. Slackware would be best option for speed, DSL would be for everything readyd to go OOBE.

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Re: Which Linux on a 486 ?

Posted on 2012-09-17, 08:49

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by epicbrad

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Slackware. Not GUI. CLI only. Not a recent version, but not the oldest. You need GOOD 486 package support.

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Re: CV860C-based Thin PC with legacy sound issues

Posted on 2012-09-03, 23:41

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by epicbrad

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Perhaps some variables / files need to be parsed from command line pre / during OS load? along with win vxd / dll's? What a frustrating problem. Are there any board updates? Have you tested the audio in 8-bit only for dos stuff? ie doom, Rott stuff that needs it fed in rather than W3D etc

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Re: A-Bit VP6 Dual PIII project

Posted on 2012-09-03, 08:01

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by epicbrad

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2000 is REALLY the way to go. Anything older and you might as well sell the board for a single cpu system. Mod a pair of tualatins, pack it full of ram and drop a voodoo 5 in it for some quake 3/ UT action. Thats my suggestion/ Fair enough suggestions :) - I might have a Voodoo of that description …

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Re: A-Bit VP6 Dual PIII project

Posted on 2012-09-03, 04:49

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Had the choice of SL52R's or SL4C8's. I bought 2x SL4C8's as the voltage is slightly lower. I'm hoping this will give me a slightly better overclock / stability. They are from working pulls. One helpful piece of information I will find is - Where can I get the best drivers? and I'm wondering what …

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Re: Possible Win98 rig?

Posted on 2012-09-02, 12:38

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by epicbrad

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Could run win 2000 possibly if you have specialised hardware needs (ie SB64/128 or ES137X sound) for the 8mb waveset and then run NTVDMS sound or even dosbox depending. But XP will do the same thing if you don't have certain hardware needs etc. Being a faster machine you could run a few emulators on …

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