Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-24, 11:11

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by kithylin

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Bought another K6-III+ 400 ATZ, being sure that this one would clock to 600MHz. Yeah, that didn't happen, much like my spare one it can only do 550MHz. Just my luck :dead: . There is a reason AMD stopped at 570 MHz :) I did manage to run at 600 MHz but only with a lot of voltage, and all I did was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-14, 08:48

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by kithylin

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I feel those CPUs are slightly underpowered to really show the performance those cards can offer... even though I should not be one to speak, as I used my Voodoo2 on my MMX 200 and my V3 is currently on a K6-2. The V2 would probably be more at home in a Pentium 2 (or even the K6-2) and the V3 would …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-09, 22:46

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by kithylin

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Skyscraper wrote: I posted images of a box full of memory I won on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera a few days ago. How much memory do you get for ~30 Euro? Quite a lot it seems... Inside_the_memory_box.JPG oooh, a KingMax SDRAM stick. Those are supposed to be exceptionally good overclockers.

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

Posted on 2015-09-08, 16:45

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by kithylin

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I would have just soldered the cable directly in the PSU (if it had pads/holes for it). I don't think I'd be able to use the PSU with a clear conscience with the main ATX power connector hacked like that, even though it is probably safe. They're industry-standard crimpable butt connectors, rated …

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

Posted on 2015-09-08, 01:12

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by kithylin

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I haven't come across anything that uses the 3.3V line on the SATA power connectors (yet), normal Molex to SATA adapters have worked just fine with anything I've thrown at them. I suppose it's some sort of catch-22, since having the 3.3V isn't guaranteed, manufacturers are going to be reluctant to …

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

Posted on 2015-09-08, 00:29

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by kithylin

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Kinda sorta hacking day here too. I had two power supplies sitting on the floor. One was newer, but dead and didn't work. One's an older (old faithful I call it) 300 watt one I use for testing older computers. Single 20-pin ATX plug, only ATX molex and floppy. So I got to thinking.. thinking.. and …

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

Posted on 2015-09-03, 07:35

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by kithylin

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Coolmax isn't as bad as they used to be. I got it on sale for $14. It's either use this until it burns out on me (probably a year from now or a little less) or not use this system at all. I had a better power supply, but the seasonic 1000-watt platinum in my i7 x58 system crapped out on me again …

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

Posted on 2015-09-03, 06:54

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by kithylin

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... and currently saving up for a i7-3770K for it. I know that's not retro but.. I'm getting to that. Since I 'retired' my big x58 series 4.4 ghz 4-core i7 system... I know it's off topic and I don't want to spoil your party, but the difference between that 1366 i7 and a 3770K is hardly noticed …

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

Posted on 2015-09-03, 05:15

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by kithylin

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created a 4-pin-connector-to-2-pin-connector wire by cutting up a pc-speaker wire+connector, and a reset switch plug I found in the bottom of a "box of wires" in the garage. Now I can connect the pc speaker header on the motherboard to the sound blaster 16 in my 386, and hear the pc-speaker effects …

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

Posted on 2015-08-31, 18:26

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by kithylin

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I do not have the patience for surface scans :D, perhaps with the smallest disk,in the box (170MB) but with larger disks a surface scan takes ages :P These disks will not be used for anything critical but I still want to know which ones I can throw away. It's your life... any disk with even one bad …

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

Posted on 2015-08-31, 17:30

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by kithylin

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I will be testing them using the same unscientific method I used for the smaller drives only with DOS 7, FAT32 and a motherboard with better support for disks larger than 2.1GB. 1. See if the disk spins up without making nasty sounds 2. See if the system can find the drive. 3. Remove all partitions …

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

Posted on 2015-08-30, 17:38

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by kithylin

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Guess what I think I fixed... Awesome_Ti.jpg The GeForce 4 Ti 4600! F*** yeah! My overkill DX8 card. Oh, the Ti 4800 SE seems to work too. Now I can build that Athlon box to replace my old, beaten and dysfunctional Athlon box... Oh... Hang on... No, it keeps overheating and that heatsink is the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-24, 18:37

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by kithylin

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Small gift from my girlfriend. :blush: Quite interesting card, it's a shame that it doesn't have fully featured OpenGL ICD. It comes with 8MB VRAM although dxdiag says that it does have approx. 9,5MB VRAM. It's funny that using the slider in Direct3D tab to the "performance" level makes this card …

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

Posted on 2015-08-20, 05:15

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by kithylin

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ODwilly wrote: Yelled at a crappy power supply for about 5 minutes because it refuses to power more than a single drive at a time. . . Pour some water on it. Perferrably while it's on. Guranteed some 'fireworks' ... although possibly real fire, as the old ones don't have the protections new ones do …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-16, 23:29

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by kithylin

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anyone know what that second power connector is for next to the regular AT connector on the duel slot board? on the Intel product specs sheet images there's no connector there just solder points. It looks like standard ATX power connector and a 8-pin EPS-12V CPU Power connector beside that. The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-16, 22:25

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by kithylin

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anyone know what that second power connector is for next to the regular AT connector on the duel slot board? on the Intel product specs sheet images there's no connector there just solder points. It looks like standard ATX power connector and a 8-pin EPS-12V CPU Power connector beside that. The …

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

Posted on 2015-08-16, 20:52

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by kithylin

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The really large soundfonts are usually the wrong type, I think aweutil only supports the SBK file format. If you make your own SBK soundfont or if you somehow manage to convert a SF2 soundfont to SBK it should work. Darn, doomed to windows 9x for large soundfonts then... :blah: :depressed: I've …

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

Posted on 2015-08-16, 20:38

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by kithylin

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I diddnt load the soundfont with autoexec.bat as I read that it dosnt work. I used the command "aweutil /em:gm" with the 2MB soundfont in the same directory as aweutil, you have to rename the soundfont synthgm.sbk. I think the issue with trying to load the soundfont with autoexec.bat is that the …

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

Posted on 2015-08-16, 17:35

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by kithylin

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Ok now I have loaded the finegm.sbk 2MB soundfont to the AWE32 by renaming it synthgm.sbk and using the "aweutil /em:gm" command If anyone thinks that loading a 2MB soundfont to a Sound Blaster AWE32 using a 286 with 1MB memory is something that is done in a second then think again, I went to take …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 19:09

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by kithylin

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I have used the RevoDrive for a short benchmark session using another socket 1366 system and I found out that it diddnt like BCLK over 180MHz so I would have to change my overclock from 23x200 to 26x177 or 27x171 which would take days of testing so thats another reason I never get to it. Now would …

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