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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2025-04-15, 14:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

found yet another BlasterBoard M003 looks like later revision: it has HIp6004BCB PWM, Game Port, USB port soldered. Bios 2000 year. number 3 in my collection. 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg Man, these must have been released in very limited markets. Awesome that you keep finding them... just wish I …

Re: Shopping for a graphics card for around the year 2000...

Posted on 2025-04-15, 02:41

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I was running an Athlon (non-Thunderbird) Slot A 750Mhz and a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI in late 2000. In late November or early December I bought a Visiontek Geforce 2 GTS 32MB. This was a solid PC at the time, but if you want to play games from 1999-2001 with max graphics settings, high resolutions and …

Re: The inverse Quake III benchmark

Posted on 2025-04-15, 02:29

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hmm... now I'm curious. I have a rather rare 3D accelerator from 1995 that apparently has OpenGL support in Windows NT. I wonder what kind of numbers it'd pull. It is an AccelGraphics AG300, like the one on this page . It uses an LSI L1B9307 chip (absolutely huge thing with a ridiculous number of …

Re: Feast of Intel740 chip Graphics cards

Posted on 2025-04-15, 00:36

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Babasha wrote on 2025-04-14, 22:12: i740 by STB Wow, never seen an STB i740 before! Nice find!

Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2025-04-12, 06:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Somehow I missed this thread for the past nine years. Since it is 54 pages long, can someone link whatever the most relevant (and up to date) posts are if someone wants to take a stab at this? Some questions I hope to find answers to: Are there any downsides to upgrading any specific models to any …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-11, 23:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received this last week - not yet tested, but that's the biggest heatsink I've seen on a graphics card that wasn't on the main chip or RAM... Holy cow! You aren't kidding... 🤣 Reminds me of the rather absurd Sound Blaster PCI 5507: https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/creative-sound-blaster-pci …

Re: Retro 3D print topic

Posted on 2025-04-11, 16:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

We've all probably had a situation like this: You're assembling a PC and put the CPU heatsink on. Power on. It's the noisiest thing in the PC (whole room). That little 60mm (or 50) struggling to keep that larger AthlonXP cool. It's taking all it's got and it's amost not enough, so slowing it down …

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

Posted on 2025-04-10, 20:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This might warrant it's own thread at some point, but for now I will just post it here. I have been reassembling, repairing and testing a bunch of hardware I got from a (really nice) scrap lot. The seller actually found a whole bunch of the brackets that had been removed from them and was happy to …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2025-04-10, 03:25

in Milliways

in Milliways

if this is phpBB, then that is what I prefer for forum software Snover did a really good job of making it look pretty (and very much unlike phpBB). Their default theme hasn't changed much in ages. I spent a ton of time on forums ages ago, so it seems familiar to me. Also, I still use the old-school …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2025-04-10, 03:04

in Milliways

in Milliways

Honestly, I don't know anything about web design, but if this is phpBB, then that is what I prefer for forum software. There seems to be an issue with an error displaying when posting, but I never actually lose the posts. Other than that, I never really have any issues. It is definitely old school, …

Re: Yet another thread with voodoo issue...

Posted on 2025-04-09, 16:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I could be wrong, but this definitely looks like a hardware issue. From my (limited) experience with Voodoo 1 cards, it is very common for one or more legs of the TMU and FBI chips to have come loose from their solder joint. They appear to be straight and connected but if you use a magnifier and …

Re: Is it ok to use a Pentium III 800EB (133Mhz FSB x 6.0) like a regular Pentium III 800 (100Mhz FSB x 8.0) ?

Posted on 2025-04-09, 08:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I guess I will have to buy the $50 dollar P3 800 (100Mhz FSB version) if I want the best CPU for this Board. Which is on top of a Pentium III slotket which I also need. Buy a cheap 1Ghz P3 and run it at 750 MHz. Problem solved. Although I'm no sure if this board has support for any Coppermine …

Re: Is it ok to use a Pentium III 800EB (133Mhz FSB x 6.0) like a regular Pentium III 800 (100Mhz FSB x 8.0) ?

Posted on 2025-04-09, 07:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That brings us back to the motherboard problem right, It cannot go over 8x multiplier, so maximum is 800Mhz. Unless I am misunderstanding things and there is a way to increase it further? Screenshot 2025-04-08 184636.png Unless you have an engineering sample processor, a Pentium III will always run …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2025-04-07, 21:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

If such a "feature" aka trash was added I recommend having the ability to turn it off or on in the forum itself per user so the user doesn't have to jump through hoops with browser addons to remove the idiocy. ... and now remembering the whole mess with mouse cursors on this forum... well... Yeah, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-07, 06:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Audition 32 plus Nice! With dedicated Midi too. I also have such a card with another chip wt Oh man, that one is so cool! The YMF704c is quite uncommon. I have mainly seen it on motherboards that have onboard Yamaha audio. A YMF718 with a 704C onboard would be a really unique and very versatile …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-06, 17:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Jccwu wrote on 2025-04-06, 15:54: Audition 32 plus Nice! The ones with built in wavetable are quite rare. I have only seen a couple in my life, and I bought one of them from a seller in Singapore several years ago.

Re: Oak OTI087X

Posted on 2025-04-06, 07:10

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

How can I tell which ones have a 16bit bus and which are 32bit? Does this apply to cards other than the OAK *7 series? From what I've seen, this is uniquely an Oak card problem and I have not seen any other 1MB cards that exhibit this poor design choice. Using your vgamuseum link as a reference …

Re: AMD k6-2 500 mhz gpu pairing

Posted on 2025-04-05, 20:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried it with the onboard video? Apparently that chipset has integrated Trident Blade3D or Cyberblade graphics which are .... Not great. But a K6-2 500 isn't really "fast" for games made after 1998 anyway, and will massively bottleneck most GPUs (meaning, GeForce or better) so it might be …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2025-04-05, 19:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PD2JK wrote on 2025-04-05, 14:31: *sad PCIe slot noises Poor thing is so trashed it's unrecognizable... That's an AGP slot. 😔

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2025-04-05, 08:23

in Milliways

in Milliways

And in the list of "New posts" and "Your posts", i saw that this thread has a new post in it. And so i opened this thread up to see, and it just contained an appreciation on another post, no real content. 🤡 (I continue to suggest that this "kudos-system" would be a great addition to this forum) …

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