power cable for PowerLeap iP3/T

Posted on 2017-03-23, 03:54

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received a PowerLeap iP3/T in a lot I picked up but it's missing the 3 prong power adapter. any suggestions for a generic cable solution or an I going to need to build my own or track down one?

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Re: need manual or jumper layout for PA-2013 2.0 board

Posted on 2017-03-18, 02:04

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If a P233 MMX is what you're after, and you're having trouble with running at 233 MHz, then how about a Cyrix MII-400GP in that system? A Cyrix MII run at 300 MHz has the gaming performance of a P233 MMX. I figured it out. the 2013b1 layout matched. funny though I was getting better FPS running the …

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Re: need manual or jumper layout for PA-2013 2.0 board

Posted on 2017-03-16, 10:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

after looking through the files revision B1 does look like my layout. I test it tomorrow and see. trying to get a 233mhz P1. so far just messing with the jumpers I think Ive gotten it to post at every speed BUT 233mhz. Ive got 200, 225, 210, 250 and even 300mhz.

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need manual or jumper layout for PA-2013 2.0 board

Posted on 2017-03-16, 01:53

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm in need of a manual or jumper guide for the PA-2013 ver 2.0. this is the board with 2mb of l2 cache. Statson has the layout for the earlier board and the 2.0 revision is different and I cant find it anywhere.

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Re: The ultimate Ultima 7 machine

Posted on 2017-02-08, 03:35

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in Milliways

in Milliways

I have a question, If I'm using a compact flash card at a HDD will running SMARTDRV make much of a difference? currently I can run U7 no problem with SMARTDRV enabled but for serpent isle I'm short by just the slightest amount.

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Ageia physx card and sli

Posted on 2017-01-28, 02:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't seem to find a straight answer so I figured I'd ask here. Can I use a dedicated ageia physx card with an sli setup? For example 2 X 7950 in sli plus the ageia physx card or will the card only work with single GPU setups?

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2017-01-23, 02:59

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in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Diamond Sonic Pro Re: diamond computer systems sound card ISA I have the only one that I know of.

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Re: need help identifying media vision sound card

Posted on 2016-11-20, 21:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

None of those cards seem to visually match up well. The opl chip is on the back. Didn't know that about the drivers, I'll give it a try.

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need help identifying media vision sound card

Posted on 2016-11-20, 18:57

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

can anyone tell me what card this is? I'm assuming its a spectrum but no idea what model. all the images for spectrums I see online have green PCBs as well

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core 2 duo or quad for high end Win XP PC

Posted on 2016-11-19, 18:44

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I currently have a E8600 core 2 duo for my late Win XP machine but the motherboard also supports the late core 2 quad CPU's. Anyways my question is are there many Win XP era games (early 2000- roughly 2008) that even take advantage of more then 2 cores to bother?

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Re: Need help with Adaptec 1542B SCSI Controller

Posted on 2016-10-06, 20:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a 1542B that I was just messing with. I didn't have any issues with it detecting and booting. worked pretty much just as if i was setting an IDE drive up. It was only a 1GB drive though. http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e385/0blivi0n1/20161006_131603_zpsf7ahvj2k.jpg heres how mine is …

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Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 00:36

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm glad someone mentioned the FIC 2013. It's a great board. I'm not sure of my revision but it's the 2mb cache version and I've never had any issues with it. Very fast as well.

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Re: i486 DX2 66 vs Am486 DX2 66 and the winner is...

Posted on 2016-09-19, 03:57

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What strikes me about intel's DX4 chips is how poorly they overclock - if at all. A 66MHz AMD DX2 will often OC to 100MHz Oh really? That's more of a 'luck of the draw', or at least having a very late model, built on a mature process, more than anything. I had an early Am486DX2-66 back in the day, …

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Re: i486 DX2 66 vs Am486 DX2 66 and the winner is...

Posted on 2016-09-17, 20:26

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I basically got the exact same results. Same most of the time but when there is a difference the Intel is very slightly ahead. Cyrix dx2 66mhz varies. on a few tests is was slightly ahead but usually it was lagging behind a little bit like in DOOM and Quake benchmarks.

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Re: ReelMagic MPEG Decoder running Return to Zork

Posted on 2016-09-14, 03:21

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Here we go, Return to Zork Reelmagic version intro. I didn't bother to set my mixer here with the SB Pro card so its in mono and no thunder sound effect at Infocom logo but meh.... Captured this in DOS on my 33mhz 486DLC rig with my DVI2PCIe card. https://youtu.be/-qvPQrtgUKk

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Re: Replace floppy drive with a ZIP drive

Posted on 2016-09-12, 18:58

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If your looking for a replacement for the floppy drive the LS-120 drives would be a better fit then a zip drive. They connect via IDE but look just like a 3 1/2 floppy drive. they can read/write 1.44mb disks just like a normal drive but are faster and can use special 120mb disks as well.

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Re: 14 ISA and VLB graphics cards on a 486DX2 66

Posted on 2016-09-09, 21:11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my benchmarks from my Intel 66mhz dx2 and a VLB ET4000 are very comparable with your CL-GD5429. 3D Bench - 42.2 PCP Bench - 9.5 DOOM - 25.2 Quake 5.8 But I'm using a different motherboard with a different chipset and memory settings so its a pretty invalid comparison I suppose.

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Re: Video card recommendation for 1998 Win98 PC

Posted on 2016-09-06, 02:56

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

gdjacobs wrote: Don't knock the PCX2. It's the best card for playing Mechwarrior 2! I like it for Tomb Raider as well, I think the water looks best with it.

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Re: Video card recommendation for 1998 Win98 PC

Posted on 2016-09-05, 16:29

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't think the TNT2 was a 1998 card, I think it didn't come out until 1999 but please correct me if I'm wrong since I also built a Win 9x rig with a 1998 cut off date. I ended up going with 2x voodoo 2 in SLI and a Matrox G200. I figured the V2's would be doing most of the gaming work but the …

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Re: ReelMagic MPEG Decoder running Return to Zork

Posted on 2016-09-03, 07:54

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I figured it out, it was clashing with my sound blaster pro, which leads me to my next question. how did you mix the audio? as stated the reelmagic card outputs certain audio through it such as when the actors are speaking but I set my sound blaster pro 2 to output the digital effects and music. …

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