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Re: Temperature difference between cores Q9550

Posted on 2016-02-16, 00:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FYI the Q9550 comes in two flavors: C1 and E0 stepping. The C1 tends to run hot and the E0 (your chip) is the good one which runs cool. I used this processor several years ago and loved it. Snayperskaya's suggestion that the heatsink is making an odd contact with the heat spreader would be my guess. …

Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark

Posted on 2016-02-16, 00:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can use a LBA bios extender which sits in the MBR of the hard drive to gain access to the space normally out reach on larger disks. Though I have no idea what might happen if you combine it with a disk cache like this. Here is something I did a number of years ago: http://www.vogons.org/ …

Re: Could this be the ultimate fastest system with pure dos sound support?

Posted on 2016-02-16, 00:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also own a Commell PMCA motherboard: http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/PMCA.HTM http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/PMCA/PMCA-3DS.jpg It's a nice board and works fine with a MIDI/synth ISA sound card but does not support DMA or bus mastering. One cool feature is that it has a PCIe video card …

Re: Could this be the ultimate fastest system with pure dos sound support?

Posted on 2016-02-15, 23:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want a small form factor with a peppier CPU but with full ISA support, try and find a D845GECL. There are some on still ebay. The following photo is SIMILAR to my board. There are a number of listings on ebay of 845GL/854GL, etc. Some have winbond chips some do not. They all appear to be …

Has anyone ever seen a GeForce 2 Go on an AGP card?

Posted on 2016-02-15, 23:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm very curious as to how these became circulating. And I wouldn't mind owning one to play with:

Re: SysColors: A system colors import/export tool for Windows

Posted on 2014-11-10, 09:33

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Fixed some bugs with parameter processing and the --set option not being evaluated for a comma-delimited list. Re-download from the same link to get the updated version.

Re: ATI Xpert 2000 Pro.

Posted on 2014-07-30, 16:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

+1 for the Matrox G400 series. 😀 Supposedly they have the best analog signal quality of display cards of that era.

Re: Senrew's Parts Giveaway

Posted on 2014-07-30, 16:45

in Milliways

in Milliways

Give me your Voodoo 1. 😏

Re: Abandoning Skype

Posted on 2014-07-30, 16:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

I use Skype 4.2.0.187 for this reason. It is a simple, clean interface and does not have obtrusive ads: http://oldversion.com/windows/skype-4-2-0-187

Re: AWE32 & IDE/ATAPI CDROM

Posted on 2014-07-30, 16:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PeterLI wrote: Bootable CD-ROMs came with BIOS' with plug & play OS'. The SB IDE controllers precede this. That is like using a SB with IDE to run the HDDs: that will not work either. The SB IDE is not integrated with the BIOS. Oh. I suppose this makes a whole lot of sense. 🙄

Re: COMPAQ LTE 5280 + DOS + PCMCIA

Posted on 2014-07-30, 16:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Compaq LTE Elite which is the predecessor of yours. I have the same issue with CD-ROMs and at best I've surmised that it might be possible with a docking station. The Elite model does not have any BIOS options to boot from a CD-ROM so it is not possible with a PCMCIA or parallel drive.

SysColors: A system colors import/export tool for Windows

Posted on 2014-07-30, 16:28

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I've been futzing around with themeing Windows XP and was a bit frustrated by Windows's appearance editor which not only doesn't provide feedback for every option, but also does not expose all elements which can be altered. It's also really slow to "apply" a new theme. To solve this problem, I wrote …

Re: Roland JV-1010

Posted on 2014-07-29, 06:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yea, but I'm waiting on the auctions to try and get one on the cheap.

Re: How to tell if a big box PC game has been resealed?

Posted on 2014-07-28, 07:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

It's not worth selling imo. The last one sold on ebay for $15. Just buy it and open it.

Re: How many use linux?

Posted on 2014-07-28, 05:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

I use it pretty much all day every day. And even though my main computer runs Windows, I still do most of my work with a Unix shell. I don't see Linux doing much for the desktop crowd, honestly. It's still more of an advanced user workstation type of environment. As much as I love Linux, I still …

Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2014-07-28, 01:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

ATI Radeon 7500 for $880. Yes, you have to pay for shipping too: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-7500-PCI-G … =item3a91581f99

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-07-28, 01:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wasn't sure if I did ok on the price, but considering so few games need anything beyond the basic Roland GM patches, I figured it would be a good first buy. Yes, I have this one as well and the sound is excellent. Comparing to my SC-55 MKII, I think it actually sounds more accurate; it always …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-07-27, 17:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Umm.. did you guys completely skip over my response? GDDR is not the same as DDR; it has enhancements which are targeted at graphic hardware applications, hence the "G". The spec was designed by ATI Technologies with the collaboration of JEDEC and was first used on the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra in 2004. …

Re: AWE32 & IDE/ATAPI CDROM

Posted on 2014-07-27, 17:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

From what I understand, the boards are very specific about what CD-ROMs they support, which is why there were so many variations simply to change out the controller chip for different manufacturers.

Re: Roland JV-1010

Posted on 2014-07-27, 16:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm on the lookout for a JV-1010, but it's probably not worth it to ship to the USA.

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