Re: ISA video cards in DOS - where is the cap?

Posted on 2020-07-03, 22:04

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by Baoran

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One thing I have noticed. Not all ET4000AX cards are equal. I have 3 of them and all of them get different benchmark results. Their speed seems to be that the older the card the slower it is, so ET4000AX ISA card from mid 90s was faster than early 90s card.

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Re: Anyone collect foreign computers?

Posted on 2020-07-03, 21:43

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by Baoran

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Not many computers manufactured in my country so I guess they all foreign. I have one Finnish built PC with Pinus brand, but all the parts inside are still foreign so not sure if that counts as non-foreign.

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Re: Riva TNT vs MX400

Posted on 2020-07-02, 16:46

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Supposedly 64bit cards always have both/all memory locations populated on both sides. Whereas 32bit cards only populate one/half of the memory locations per side. Mine is bit strange then. It only has 4 memory chips on front side and no chips on back side. Can't see the markings on the chips …

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Re: Riva TNT vs MX400

Posted on 2020-07-01, 00:28

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That depends.... The MX4000 is the latest iteration of the GF4MX440 revision, which in itself is an MX2 on steroids... In terms of performance it really depends on the card in question as most MX4000s were of the 64bit variety, and there even exist 32bit versions, as well as PCI variants... The AGP …

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Re: Riva TNT vs MX400

Posted on 2020-06-29, 23:30

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How about how does Geforce 2 MX compare? I have one without 400 after the MX on the chip. I also have MX4000 card that I think is suppose to be similar performance as MX400 at least based on some forum conversation online. That depends.... The MX4000 is the latest iteration of the GF4MX440 revision …

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Re: Riva TNT vs MX400

Posted on 2020-06-28, 18:43

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by Baoran

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How about how does Geforce 2 MX compare? I have one without 400 after the MX on the chip. I also have MX4000 card that I think is suppose to be similar performance as MX400 at least based on some forum conversation online.

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Re: Compaq ProLinea 4/33 revival information and CPU upgrade help

Posted on 2020-06-28, 11:06

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I actually have 2 of those prolinea PCs. They both have exact same motherboard. One of them is inside it's case fully working and other one is stored as spare parts. Since the PSU isn't standard, it is good to have a spare for that at least. One thing to notice. I don't seen any electrolytic caps on …

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Re: Compaq ProLinea 4/33 revival information and CPU upgrade help

Posted on 2020-06-27, 11:02

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Would he be able to add cache to the system? On my prolinea there is a slot for cache module, but I have never seen such cache module being sold locally or on ebay even if I have been looking for it for a year or so. It runs fine with 100Mhz 486 overdrive, but because of lack of cache it isn't as …

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Re: Little WinME/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:59

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by Baoran

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If you wanted to build win9x/winXP pc, for me optimal setup has been something like Athlon64 FX-60 with motherboard that has win9x drivers and would put fastest agp video you can find for winXP and add a pci voodoo card to it for win98. Currently my system is win9x only with geforce FX5950 ultra …

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Re: What is your weirdest troubleshooting experience when dealing with retro computers/hardware?

Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:54

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by Baoran

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I had an issue where when you first turned on the 386 pc it did read floppies for about 15 minutes and after that it stopped reading the floppies and gave just errors, so if I wanted to transfer data from floppies to hard drive I had to do it immediately after I turned on the computer. Never really …

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Re: Little WinME/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:32

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by Baoran

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If you wanted to build win9x/winXP pc, for me optimal setup has been something like Athlon64 FX-60 with motherboard that has win9x drivers and would put fastest agp video you can find for winXP and add a pci voodoo card to it for win98. Currently my system is win9x only with geforce FX5950 ultra …

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Re: Questions for an early 1995 Pentium config

Posted on 2020-06-02, 19:39

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by Baoran

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Pentium pc that I built back in 1995 around the time when windows 95 was released was 90Mhz with intel motherboard, 16Mb ram and Diamond Stealth 64 with SDRAM. At least something like that would be something normally you would be building at the time and didn't cost too much.

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Re: My Dream High-End Intel 486 Build

Posted on 2020-05-27, 09:43

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I don't know why but I could never manage to match or have faster 486 performance with pci video cards when comparing to my vlb system. If I put my 486 33Mhz cpu to LS-486E motherboard with pci video cards, it always gets worse performance than when I am using the cpu in my normal vlb system. Tried …

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Re: My Dream High-End Intel 486 Build

Posted on 2020-05-27, 00:12

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I don't know why but I could never manage to match or have faster 486 performance with pci video cards when comparing to my vlb system. If I put my 486 33Mhz cpu to LS-486E motherboard with pci video cards, it always gets worse performance than when I am using the cpu in my normal vlb system. Tried …

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Re: Tell us about your 3DFX collection

Posted on 2020-05-18, 00:53

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by Baoran

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I don't have many. Voodoo 1 4MB 2x Voodoo2 12MB in my P3 SLI PC Voodoo 3 AGP and Voodoo 3 PCI (both 3000, I think)

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Re: Looking for manual: SOYO SY-5TH

Posted on 2020-05-17, 08:59

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by Baoran

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Never heard of that one existing. Do you mean Soyo SY-5EH? Do you have a picture of it?

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Re: Switching video card when switching OS.

Posted on 2020-05-16, 09:14

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by Baoran

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Thank you all for the advice. I had been considering getting a big kvm switcher to connect all my retro PCs some day, but I was wondering if a simple splitter cable would be more smart thing to do for a single pc that would have 2 video cards. That way if I will get kvm some day I would not need to …

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Re: Help me identify this LS-486E (Lucky Star 486)

Posted on 2020-05-15, 23:54

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by Baoran

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Is it this one: http://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486pci/ls486e.htm

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Re: Switching video card when switching OS.

Posted on 2020-05-15, 19:07

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by Baoran

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Of course, there are video input switchers. But the more easy solution would be to connect one card via VGA and one via DVI. You normally have both on most non-CRT monitors anyway. I only have one 19" CRT monitor for all my retro PCs. I basically currently have 4 PCs and just just one monitor …

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Re: Switching video card when switching OS.

Posted on 2020-05-15, 18:53

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Thanks. Just one more question. Do adapters exist that would allow both video cards to be connected to a single monitor?

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