Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-23, 14:46
oeuvre wrote: PowerPC and x86 will both be simultaneously supported... somehow. No 68K support? 🙁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-12-23, 11:46
Why are these boards called "Batman's Revenge" and what is special about them?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-12-20, 21:22
https://i.imgur.com/uNxMI7wl.jpg Mystery box came today... packaged like this. Pentium 133MHz Socket 7, COAST module, 2x16MB SIMM RAM, an ATI mach64 PCI video card, an ISA modem, a 2.1GB Western Digital HD, floppy drive, 12X CD-ROM, 250W AT PSU. And... a Creative Sound Blaster 32 CT3600 (no RAM in …
Re: The Case Badge Thread
Posted on 2019-12-20, 15:25
wiretap wrote: They are hosted on Imgur. Do you have a firewall or ad blocker that is preventing viewing them? I'm at work now, so I'll have to Zip this evening or weekend. Imgur is blocked in my country. Dont ask.. 😒
Re: The Case Badge Thread
Posted on 2019-12-20, 11:43
@wiretap: I can't access any of the images you posted above.. Any chance you could zip and attach them to a post?
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2019-12-20, 10:41
IBM Aptiva 2153-E44, AMD K6-2 300Mhz This is the one without the AGP slot right? If it is, I had trouble finding a PCI accelerator (besides Voodoo) that would make it more of a gaming rig. I had plenty of AGP cards, but nothing for the PCI (besides the Voodoo cards). :dead: Radeon 7000/VE PCI are …
Re: VOODOO 2 SLI Memory reporting
Posted on 2019-12-20, 07:44
I feel Voodoo 2 was pretty future proof despite its architectural shortcomings. Yes, the framebuffer memory limits it to 1024x768 even in SLI but the card was released in 1998 and people did not game at higher than 1024x768 all the way into 2001 or thereabouts. I was still gaming at 1024x768 when …
Re: The Case Badge Thread
Posted on 2019-12-20, 07:24
I have been getting case badges printed for my cases for a while now: Here are the images I used so far, in a zip file. There are several sticker images in there you may find interesting.
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-20, 05:46
Oh.. So Rambus made the deal with themselves? Wait, what? Intel whored themselves at the customers' expense. Intel and Rambus went to bed together because Intel would actually get paid by Rambus if RDRAM succeeded . The level of irate vitriol, and corresponding lack of reasoning that you display …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2019-12-20, 05:23
I love those Aptiva cases.. they are the quintessenial K6-2 boxes to me.
Re: MP-32 : Pi based MT32, GM, ... module
Posted on 2019-12-20, 05:22
So hyped about this thing...
Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated
Posted on 2019-12-19, 11:09
Qbix wrote: In general, the contrast between text and background will increase significantly as that is on the low side currently. This is a welcome change. Also, please don't change your avatar, ever.
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-19, 09:45
If you are joking with the above, it's not funny. If it was serious, then I had a good laugh, thanks.
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-19, 09:32
Yet another case of Intel choosing to fuck over a market they had monopoly on for personal gain and felt they could dictate whatever costs they whimsically willed onto the customers. But then, who would be surprised. RAMBUS, not Intel. Oh.. So Rambus made the deal with themselves? Wait, what? Intel …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2019-12-19, 09:30
My Athlon64 build, finally rehoused in a NOS beige ATX case.. https://i.postimg.cc/9zmHHzrL/Athlon64-01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Vd5y5T9M/Athlon64-02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XXsSj354/Athlon64-03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/68mbg5F1/Athlon64-3-DMark2001.jpg It's not a good case, but it's beige simple …
Re: Save my 9800 ! :)
Posted on 2019-12-19, 07:22
9800s are known to be failure prone, unless you're doing something very basic such as forgetting to plug in the power molex and it doesn't POST at all I wouldn't count on fixing it.
Re: How do you find retro Hardware free?
Posted on 2019-12-19, 07:21
I've had people I know come and donate things to me often, once they know what I like to do with it. Particularly in the office, people tend to dig up their and their parents' old computers once they learn you resurrect them and put them to use.
Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?
Posted on 2019-12-19, 07:15
The whole "we will update and install stuff on your PC whether you like it or not" really aggravates me. +1 this is the main reason I dislike Windows 10 There's also the fact that the OS keeps.. changing, which I feel is not fair to the customer. You buy something and in a couple of years it …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-19, 07:09
Yes, RDRAM meant that Intel had to have an exclusive high-end deal, and they couldn't offer DDR until that deal ran out. Yet another case of Intel choosing to fuck over a market they had monopoly on for personal gain and felt they could dictate whatever costs they whimsically willed onto the …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-12-19, 05:21
xjas wrote: Coincidentally, this is the last CPU I just finished benchmarking in my Super 7 project: 20191218_210655.jpg That reminds me, are there any functional differences between 6x86mx and mII architecture wise? Would be nice if you could look at that in your testing..
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