Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-02-08, 08:54

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@keropi I see your pre sales promo campaign is ramping up fast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lXZBeNIlg4 Involving star influencer channel - impressive 😀 Looking forward for final product.

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Re: Home NAS - running SAMBA NT1 and SMB2/3 instances in parallel

Posted on 2025-01-19, 21:07

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Thank you for your replays! This little question actually triggered me to dive full into Home Lab rabbit hole over this weekend. Ended up upgrading to OMV7 with proper Docker and KVM setup. It went surprisingly smooth. Most of the time went for learning Docker ins and outs. Docker alone is fantastic …

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Re: Win98 testing: Apollo Pro 133A vs 440BX

Posted on 2025-01-18, 17:32

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, the usual Korean one https://biosupdate.runboard.com/t7 Voltage regulator supports Tualatin voltage so with modified BIOS it should work.

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Win98 testing: Apollo Pro 133A vs 440BX

Posted on 2025-01-18, 09:09

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by vutt

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As long time Asus P3B-F user I was curious about contemporary competition. I had back in days i815 and we all know that performance was not impressive compared to BX. So I acquired Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X and run some tests. I have both variants of 933MhZ P3 CPUs and 2 similar GF4 4200ti-s. Fixed it at …

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

Posted on 2025-01-14, 15:39

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Stress testing my recent acquisition in my "standard issue reasonably priced test bed carte". Actually had my facepalm moment. One who have been building Socket 7/S370 systems since 90-ies should pay attention that CPU sink mounting clip pressure point is not symmetrical... I could not understand …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-13, 19:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

440BX + Tualatin have been my main DOS+Win98x system Was curious about alternative contemporary platforms I bought this on locally - Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X This one seems to support VRM 8.5 voltages so Tualatin conversion is possible. Back in days I had intel 815. Internet is telling me that you will …

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Re: Home NAS - running SAMBA NT1 and SMB2/3 instances in parallel

Posted on 2025-01-06, 18:07

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Thanks megatron-uk ! Somehow I forgot about typical *nix daemons possibilities to add separate conf file as parameter. This solution will work as long distributions will include v1 protocol functions in distro package. It could be that in the future it will be removed. Then I can however always …

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Home NAS - running SAMBA NT1 and SMB2/3 instances in parallel

Posted on 2025-01-05, 12:42

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Problem statement: Modern *nix distros are starting to decommission NT1 protocol required for Win 9x shares. For (almost) decades I have been using regular Ununtu LTS distros as "lazy" NAS OS. Running my SAMBA shares, P2P, Plex, Folding@home etc as services on same box. I have 2 network adapters on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-01, 17:22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks myne. I'll dig into this probably over weekend. However my card might be defective. VidMem stress test CE 1.21 is showing errors regardless of FSB speed

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-01, 14:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have been using team Green DX8 AGP cards for years now in my Tualatin/P3B-F@133FSB rig because internet told me that team Red cards do not like 89MHZ AGP speed. Well decided to test myself after finding few old posts confirming that at least Radeon 9000 PRO tolerates overclocking I bought …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-12-30, 20:53

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have been using team Green DX8 AGP cards for years now in my Tualatin/P3B-F@133FSB rig because internet told me that team Red cards do not like 89MHZ AGP speed. Well decided to test myself after finding few old posts confirming that at least Radeon 9000 PRO tolerates overclocking I bought Sapphire …

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

Posted on 2024-12-28, 14:57

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Decided to do some testing my PAS16 with recently acquired Asus PVI-486SP3 MB sporting am486DX4-120. I did not have back in days such card - I have to admit it does have impressive build quality, clean layout, shielded ISA connector, metal audio jacks... One of the goal was to test if PAS16 is …

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

Posted on 2024-12-21, 12:57

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by vutt

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sacrificed today mic in jack for clean EMU8K output.

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

Posted on 2024-11-21, 20:48

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have been testing my recent acquisition - Asus PVI-486SP3 Working like champ with highest memory timings on 40MHZ FSB. I have seen posts saying that VLB implementation is slow on this board but my testing results against my SIS471 based pure blood VLB board are about the same. VLB by nature …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-20, 20:22

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by vutt

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After years of waiting I finally captured my "unicorn". My retro hobby have been mainly about cheap stuff popping out on local market however this one was my first "I want this" type of chase. However it started badly since it turned out that there are more "I want this" type of weird people but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-11-19, 17:47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After years of waiting I finally captured my "unicorn". My retro hobby have been mainly about cheap stuff popping out on local market however this one was my first "I want this" type of chase. However it started badly since it turned out that there are more "I want this" type of weird people but …

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

Posted on 2024-11-02, 09:19

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recapped and tested my GF3 Ti 200. Spread some Rubycon love... It was first time over past 7 or so years in retro computing when Capacitor "hissed at me with blue smoke". I have to admit I stress tested it few years ago. Card is passive I assume Aldi branded PC-s back in days had good case …

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Re: TinyLlama 3

Posted on 2024-10-26, 20:18

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by vutt

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Just came from dusting off my TinyLlama 3 components laying on the corner of my bench... :) I have day job running IT projects and Scope Creep is clear risk. Have you considered forking base version into some sort of public V1 Limited run stable version? To give vogoners with higher risk appetite …

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

Posted on 2024-10-26, 09:42

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by vutt

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I have been playing around with my recent acquisition after full recap - MSI MS 6163 Master Pro v2 First I did put officially supported Slot1 Coppermine 933 PIII in and run it trough my regular stress tests - no problems whatsoever. Rock solid at 133FSB speed. Tested yesterday properly 2nd part …

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

Posted on 2024-10-22, 20:09

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by vutt

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I have been playing around with my recent acquisition after full recap - MSI MS 6163 Master Pro v2 First I did put officially supported Slot1 Coppermine 933 PIII in and run it trough my regular stress tests - no problems whatsoever. Rock solid at 133FSB speed. Then I decided to be more bold and …

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