Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-10-22, 22:08
Unicorns do exist and very occasionally pop up at thrift shops, it seems. Even in pairs. Now, if a Covox Sound Master would be so kind as to do the same somewhere near me...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-10-21, 22:36
I have this exact same DELL keyboard in a cupboard somewhere. Came with a GX110 I once bought, I think. I want to use it with my XPS D333 but it is in horribly dirty and yellowed condition. I am honestly too scared to open it up and restore it. But I should. It's a damn solid keyboard.. Don't be …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-10-21, 12:29
Was in town for a medical appointment today so of course checked out the local thrift shop too. Not very optimistic, but this time it was my lucky day: 16348178416880.jpg Dell AT102W, ISO variant of the legendary AT101W. Alps Black switches (silent, tactile) and great build quality. Oh, and I …
Re: Definition of "Super Socket 7"
Posted on 2021-10-21, 12:25
Marketeers gonna be marketeers ;) That's the point though, Super Socket 7 is a marketing term combining a bunch of nice features that don't directly have any thing to do with the socket itself. The only change to the socket is the addition of BF2 multiplier pin, but that was already done prior to …
Re: UMC U5S Release Date
Posted on 2021-10-21, 08:03
https://www.cpushack.com/2012/09/06/intel-vs-the-world-the-338-patent/ Says UMC "started making" in 1993 and started marketing in 1994. Interestingly, nobody else had CPUs on 0.6micron 600nm process until the DX4 and P75. Partially then it had to be pure terror on Intel's part that UMC were getting …
Re: Identifying Pentium II "LISBON" mainboard...
Posted on 2021-10-19, 21:29
This looks and sounds suspiciously like an Intel OEM board. The layout and style on the photo look Intel-like, and Intel typically gave its boards codenames based on the letters of the model name expanded to a city, so PD440FX was 'Portland', DB440FX 'Dublin' etc. Although I can't find any Google …
Re: Crazy overkill build ideas post here: Oldest motherboard that supports server ECC registered SDRAM?
Posted on 2021-10-18, 19:29
Does it have to be x86? The first x86 chipset with registered (ECC) SDRAM support was the i440BX from april 1998. However the Digital (DEC) 21174 Pyxis chipset from early 1997 already supported 128b (dual-channel) registered SDRAM for the Alpha 21164. Not sure that would be able to use 512MB DIMMs …
Re: How much is it worth? (Vintage 98 System)
Posted on 2021-10-18, 11:07
Exactly which components we're talking about might make quite a bit of difference in terms of price. Particularly brand+model of motherboard and GPU are relevant, also which Tualatin it is exactly. Where you're located is also relevant - somewhere Down Under being at one extreme, Shenzhen at another …
Re: ASUS A7M266 and Nvidia video cards strange behaviour?
Posted on 2021-10-18, 10:17
[...] I'm open to any other idea. Before doing anything drastic, I'd want to be sure if it's hardware or software. Try booting from a Linux LiveCD/USB (if the board can boot from USB) like an older version of Knoppix (4.x or 5.x should work fine on this hw). If you see the same glitching there, …
Re: ASUS A7M266 and Nvidia video cards strange behaviour?
Posted on 2021-10-17, 23:30
Just a check as you don't mention it explicitly: you do have the AMD 761 chipset AGP drivers installed don't you? If not, that could explain a bit. The WinXP AGP miniport driver isn't easy to find, AMD no longer has it on its site. This looks like the right one, but don't have a 761 board, so can't …
Re: Asus P3C2000 troubleshooting
Posted on 2021-10-14, 15:08
This is a board with i820 RDRAM chipset and an MTH to allow it to use SDRAM. The MTH at best combined the worst aspects of SDRAM (low bandwidth) and RDRAM (high latency), but at worst it was a buggy compatibility nightmare. Try different DIMMs, one at a time, preferably good stuff from well- …
Re: K6-2+ Questions
Posted on 2021-10-13, 20:57
Fastest K6-III+ 550 MHz is equivalent of Pentium II 300-350 MHz in most of games. Performance of K6-2+ 450 MHz @75 MHz FSB with good motherboard should be maybe around Pentium II 233 :) Only if by "most games" you mean (Gl)Quake: https://i.imgur.com/S4fBxkF.jpeg Most games that run on these PCs …
Re: K6-2+ Questions
Posted on 2021-10-13, 07:04
A) depends on workload, K6-2+ is a very different beast to Intel's CPUs of the time. K6-2+ had 3DNow, which was very, very fast in the very few things that supported it. It had a typically weak FPU (at least when compared to the P6 monster), and again compared to P6 was slightly stronger in 16b code …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-10-13, 06:44
[...] Never heard of a sound and network card, but you know you need to look for one :D That would indeed be epic. Of course, I could do either via parallel port too, but I hate dongles. Maybe someone did something very creative (pun intended) with one of those mid-1990s DSPs... [...] Not all of …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-10-12, 22:23
Found one thing I've been looking for for quite a while: 16340769031480.jpg ISA VGA + I/O card. Performance obviously not the goal here. I have a 486SLC system in tiny flat case with only two ISA slots either side of the shortest excuse for a riser I've ever seen. Currently there's VGA in the one …
Re: Mix and Match - big pile of parts, how would YOU build these machines?
Posted on 2021-10-12, 13:13
Personally I like over-speccing systems so I know CPU and RAM won't be bottleneck. I have a GF4Ti, V2 SLI and Audigy2, but pair them with a P3-1400S and still consider it a bit slow for some of the last Win9x stuff. I also upgraded my late DOS box from Pentium 200MMX to K6-2 350 to P3-600 for the …
Re: Searching for good Network card 99-2k1
Posted on 2021-10-11, 22:55
4dam wrote on 2021-10-11, 18:06: [...] 2003 Socket-A Windows 2003 Server with a Socket A motherboard? Tbh I have no idea of 2003 server driver support. 3Com was bankrupt by then so probably not much. Intel would be a better bet.
Re: Searching for good Network card 99-2k1
Posted on 2021-10-11, 17:07
Which motherboard (relevant because of PCI version and voltage)? And which OS? For DOS, ISA 3Com 3C509B/C cards are best (DOS is hardly capable of high speeds anyway, these are trouble-free and well supported/compatible) For Win9x, PCI 3Com 3C905B-TX or similar are your best bet (again, excellent …
Re: Recapping Capacitor List
Posted on 2021-10-11, 15:38
Weird, the PSU does look unused but it has bulged caps. That happens only when power is applied, so perhaps it has clocked a few hours but not more than that. Not necessarily. Applying power speeds up the processes, but bad electrolyte can degrade spontaneously over a few decades as well. I've had …
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2021-10-11, 12:07
Not using too intensively, but zero problems so far. It just works, including the TEA2025B.
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