Re: Thinking about the eBay DB60XG clone, should I?

Posted on 2009-12-08, 09:14

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I've just finished testing the yamaha and clone dbs, on the montego 2 soundcard. Menkau_ra, you said that you "found that daughter board makes a lot of noise". Personally speaking, I can confirm that both these dbs have no "noise" when listening to midi music. They both sound clear. I increased the …

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Re: Thinking about the eBay DB60XG clone, should I?

Posted on 2009-12-07, 22:33

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8 hours later, and about 2 dozen (no really) windows 98 reboots later, and I've got the montego 2 + yamaha db working. About 2.5 hours was spent trying to get the DVD-ROM working on my crusty socket 7 board, in order to install the software. The fix was to delete an intel bus master system device in …

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Re: Thinking about the eBay DB60XG clone, should I?

Posted on 2009-12-07, 14:07

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Menkau_ra, I've just returned from the attic o' doom, and retrieved some archaic artifacts. I'm about to test them all. Before I do this, can you please tell me what music (game?) you were listening to, so that I can replicate your testing conditions as much as possible. Thanks a lot. BTW, very …

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Re: More fun and games with VIA's KT133/A chipset

Posted on 2009-12-06, 21:02

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I'm currently testing probably my last KT133A chipset based mobo. This one is made by Jetway, and it's called 663AS Ultra, revision 3.2 board, with a "BOM" (whatever that means) of 4. The following jetway support page says that with this board revision and BOM number, and with the latest A08 BIOS, …

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Re: Thinking about the eBay DB60XG clone, should I?

Posted on 2009-12-06, 19:54

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retro games 100, I've just got my Nec clone of db60xg too. I put it on my mx300 card and found that daughter board makes a lot of noise. Can you share your expirience with nec clone and original db50xg? Do they have any difference in SNR? In my case, was it a daughter board makes that noise or it …

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Re: Minor problem with MSI FX5950

Posted on 2009-12-06, 19:45

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Hehe, OK I'm not getting one!

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Re: Minor problem with MSI FX5950

Posted on 2009-12-06, 17:17

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Thanks for the heads up. I just read here, at the bottom: http://www.digital-daily.com/video/abit-ti4200-8x/index2.htm Cons: Immense noise from the cooling system

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Re: Minor problem with MSI FX5950

Posted on 2009-12-06, 16:50

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I just spotted this interesting looking ti4200 for sale - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt … e=STRK:MEWAX:IT It's a curious looking thing, as its design takes up 2 slots. The seller has got 84 of them left. Go for it, or avoid?

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Re: AMIGA games VS IBM PC ... which are better?

Posted on 2009-12-06, 13:44

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Thanks a lot for the emulation advice! 😀 I'm definitely going to check out Amiga Forever. It seems like a good way of doing this.

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Re: Cyrix Cx486 DX40

Posted on 2009-12-06, 12:38

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If you search for: PCchips M919 on ebay.com, you'll find a fairly well known seller who still has 6 of them. Incredibly, he's sold 3 of them already, at inflated prices. It looks like the version he has is the same as mine: V3.4B/F. This seller has thousands of retro items for sale. Very …

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Re: Cyrix Cx486 DX40

Posted on 2009-12-05, 21:44

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Is it possible to use a real COAST cache module on this board? Please go to this webpage - http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/486pci/m919v3.htm Then DL the .zip file from the "download jumper manual" link, then read the help-tips.htm file. It's got lots of info about this "M919 VIP" board, …

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Re: which one of you jokers outbid me?

Posted on 2009-12-05, 20:21

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Not me! I can't plug in a magazine and benchmark it, so that counts me out. 😉

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Re: Cyrix Cx486 DX40

Posted on 2009-12-05, 19:56

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I pulled the cache stick out of the mobo (which was hard to do cos it was really stuck!), and the BIOS POST screen now says "Write Back Cache ON". Yeah, right! :sly: I run Speedsys: Memory bandwidth = 70.75 General score = 25.01 L1 = 47.94 Memory throughput = 28.22 I then "max out" the BIOS memory …

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Re: AMIGA games VS IBM PC ... which are better?

Posted on 2009-12-05, 17:46

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Some that I think were better on the Amiga: Times of Lore Ultima III, IV, and V Dungeon Master, though the Amiga version was nearly identical to the original Atari ST version Bard's Tale 1-3 Faery Tale Adventure The Pawn Defender of the Crown Populous 1 & 2 The original Star Control 1 The original …

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Re: Cyrix Cx486 DX40

Posted on 2009-12-05, 16:05

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I removed the Cyrix DX 40 CPU, and replaced it with an Intel DX2-66 CPU. (I also adjusted the mobo's system speed from 40 to 33.) This SL enhanced but non-write back cache CPU (SX807) usually gives me a score of about 24.something on most of my mobos. On this thing, I get 23.84, which is …

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Re: Cyrix Cx486 DX40

Posted on 2009-12-05, 14:27

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I just ran the freely downloadable Cachechk (version 7), by Ray Van Tassle, and it reports that the mobo's cache is fake. I disabled the L2 cache option in the BIOS, then reran speedsys, and it doesn't affect the overall score at all. It's still 17.24. Edit: When the mobo arrived, it had 3 sticks of …

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Re: Cyrix Cx486 DX40

Posted on 2009-12-05, 10:59

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I did a very quick test and it POSTs - that's the good news. :happy: Speedsys gives me a score of 17.24, which seems low, but I'm not sure how well a Cyrix DX 40 should perform. (Typical speedsys tests on an Intel DX2-66 give me about 24.something on most of my mobos). Hopefully, I'll get some time …

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Re: Minor problem with MSI FX5950

Posted on 2009-12-05, 08:26

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I had a look at this interesting webpage on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units It shows all the different nVidia chipsets, over the years. For the GF4 series, I'm tempted to get a Ti4200 AGP 8X, because the ones I've seen on ebay have DVI, but it …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2009-12-05, 08:20

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Yes of course! I just remembered I've got some passively cooled P3 CPUs. Speaking of which, I've finally got around to ordering a PowerLeap PL-iP3/T 1.4 GHz Celeron slot 1 CPU (revision 2.0). I'm looking forward to testing this with my Asus P2B board..

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Re: What DOS game are you playing right now?

Posted on 2009-12-04, 15:23

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That's very interesting. Recently, I discovered that you can get your displayed character attributes to all be equal to 25 by doing this - Set the "current" character attributes to 22 Set the "enhanced" character attributes to 25 Set the Strength Bonus (100) to 0 Set the Strength Bo.'factor' to 89 …

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