Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-11-25, 23:00
@PTherapist What system is that? it looks VERY familiar.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-11-24, 22:36
Think some people here are envious of my deal. To be brutally honest this thread was always about bragging and generating envy. "Look at me, I got some hardware for 5 dollars! You know the same ones you got for 300! Aren't I lucky?" The dumpster find thread is the same. People wouldn't admit it but …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-11-24, 18:45
Man, I really want to get one of those dual Tyan boards.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-11-23, 03:06
if not memory, the next culprit i'd look into is the PCI bus. is there an option for 30mhz?
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-11-22, 09:20
It means the cpu isn't a bottleneck. I'd play with ram timings, if it were me.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-11-20, 20:04
Wasn't improved gaming performance and video a major impotus for MMX? So any game/driver that leverages MMX would obviously be faster on a 200mmx VS the ppro. That's why I covet my overdrive CPUs.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-11-20, 16:24
I'm weary to directly compare a mmx and non mmx cpu in games.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-11-20, 10:08
anyways, started to get my stuff a bit organized before I drown in random hardware ^^ progress! :happy: hardware34_01b.jpg If I had the money to do that, I would. For some reason ESD bags are expensive to order. Not to mention the 100x boxes I would need to get to properly house all the …
Re: Dell socket423 motherboard, question about VRM and its socket.
Posted on 2019-11-09, 00:47
oh its fine. Its actually quite normal for the era to have replaceable voltage regulators (in enterprise level gear). That connector is common on 1st gen pentium 4 xeon setups. Natually Dell does stupid shit and special connectors, but here its fine.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-11-06, 20:46
that case is PIMP! I love it! That keyboard is amazing as well!
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-11-03, 21:29
Predator99 wrote: Think/hope Luckybob made a joke :-p You are right, its the Aztech Sound Galaxy BX II - 8bit with OPL2. Didnt want to buy the whole 10kg pile for it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svstp1CWuF0
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-11-03, 19:16
Nice! Those ELSA S3 video cards are rare!
Re: Fast Ethernet on ISA
Posted on 2019-11-01, 22:21
Wasn't this card designed around/for windows NT environments? I have one of these cards in front of me and i'm curious now. Also with late isa cards like this, I find its very helpful to assign it all the irq/dma requirements in the BIOS. Dont let the OS use PNP. Linux might do it better, and i'm …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-11-01, 20:56
neat! quite a bit different than the cpu upgrade card i have for my 25/30.
Re: Pentium Pro multiplier options
Posted on 2019-10-20, 21:18
Thanks guys. I'll see what PLL is on the board to see if there is a hidden 75 MHz option. EDIT: Its an ICS9169M.. datecode with a -01 suffix. https://www.idt.com/document/dst/9169-01-datasheet - 50/60/66 MHz options + TestMode freq, whatever freq. that is. Datasheet does mention "Output frequency …
Re: Pentium Pro multiplier options
Posted on 2019-10-19, 21:40
Sounds like 266 MHz is a realistic maximum. Has anyone checked for undocumented FSB's on this board (VS440FX)? Being an Intel board, it seems unlikely. So, to go from 3x to 4x, I'd need to flip the polarity of IGNNE# and A20M#? Perhaps with jumpers removed I can realise this with some cabling? mine …
Re: Pentium Pro multiplier options
Posted on 2019-10-19, 19:52
socket 8 is *almost* pin compatible with socket 370. The differences being mostly voltages. If you look at 8/370 converters they have no glue logic, save for a bit for voltage regulation. That said both the overdrive and celerons have locked multipliers. So the OD chip will only run at 5x. I assume …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-10-19, 19:36
I think X58 boards only support one floppy drive though. What do you do if you want two? You can usually connect two drives on a single connector. Just get a cable that supports two drives (make sure the cable has the twist). The problem is the BIOS. The C2D era bios'es only support ONE drive. I …
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-18, 22:29
i'll have to take your word for it, I dont own one. (even agp)
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-18, 22:10
the Matrox G200 supports USWC which gives DRASTIC performance boosts to games. (quake) even posted about it in the 686 benchmark thread: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison Other cards might support it too, but it would need to be tested.
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