Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-07-25, 03:52
An optical mouse for COM interface: HI-BON Laser Mouse (NIB)! NumberNine Reality 334 S3 Virge GX2:
Re: Again new 486 build (Am5x86)
Posted on 2015-07-23, 08:04
I guess it's just the OPTi chip set. Does not really matter much, does it? If you want to compare your system to what others build, welcome here: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project Make sure to submit your result after benchmarking.
Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project
Posted on 2015-07-23, 08:02
Why that reaction? I just wanted to add a couple of entries and couldn't remove the "-"s there. :( Phil wanted to close the database half a year ago due to having different priorities. It's still online and still welcomes submissions, so let's be grateful for that. I actually asked him if he needed …
Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project
Posted on 2015-07-21, 06:59
Could you also remove the first line? It's kind of empty 😀 I think it appears when someone starts an entry and then decides against it, then you sort it and get the mess 😀.
Re: Damage on CPU edge
Posted on 2015-07-20, 03:17
Finally got it anyhow working, but don't still know what was reason for the black screen on computer startup. (The motherboard is AK75-EC and had never heard of it before I got this PC.) That's OK. They say, electronics is a science of contacts. If one of a hundred contacts is lost, nothing works. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-07-19, 04:33
This. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99196890/vogons/P1060135.JPG https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99196890/vogons/P1060136.JPG The one of them is refurbrished, the other one came free with box and manual when I told my friend I just bought the first one :D. I guess I know what my phone will …
Re: Games you can play with a Riva 128?
Posted on 2015-07-17, 02:54
Or, since it's PCI, you can put it into 486, for which Rivas are one of the fastest things around 😀 This might be interesting 😀 http://www.vintage3d.org/riva128.php#sthash.JTlanqKx.dpbs
Re: Plastic lubricants in Logitech mouses?
Posted on 2015-07-15, 05:25
As a kid I washed MX310 and added a drop of grease afterwards. Within a week the wheel was completely covered in it. Ew. I use paraffin for bike chains, the last lubrication lasted 350km. It's dry and washes off easily, so the chances of getting it where you'd rather not have it are zero.
Re: HD 2900XT
Posted on 2015-07-15, 05:11
Long term driver support has been quite disappointing from AMD. Hehe my laptop has HD5450, I did not untick auto-update after we bought it. Guess what? A year ago after another silent update I did not manage to keep track of (not a gaming machine anyway) the Catalyst started telling me that my card …
Re: HD 2900XT
Posted on 2015-07-14, 03:11
The Radeon 9800 and HD4850 were my only ATI cards I believe. I've had quite a few... Radeon 8500 Radeon 9600Pro 128MB Radeon 9600XT 256MB Radeon X1800XT Radeon X1900XTX Radeon 5770 Me here as well: Radeon 8500 Radeon 9600XT Radeon x1800GTO Radeon 5670 Radeon 4870X2 (second-hand) Including cards …
Re: The teardown
Posted on 2015-07-13, 06:56
Yes the secondary circuit board with the resistor is always burned out on those PSUs. Anyways, I do happen to have a spare one from when I threw out my pentium 2 300PL. I also still have that spare blue panel for the front. In regards to cooling, this case is designed for a pentium 1 and not really …
Re: HD 2900XT
Posted on 2015-07-13, 04:34
Time is a funny thing. You guys here are discussing DirectX12, while my best modern videocard only supports DirectX10 😀
Re: HD 2900XT
Posted on 2015-07-12, 16:18
These were pretty dark times for ATi. The 3850/3870 they released a while later were an improvement, but then the 8800GT happened. They only really managed to get back up when they released the 4850/4870 in the summer of 2008. Are you sure about 8800GT? As far as I remember, 8800 appeared when …
Re: Genius Peripherals
Posted on 2015-07-12, 15:27
In Russia Genius almost dominates the middle-end peripherals market. Yes, it's middle-end here, of more costly stuff only Logitech and Razer can be seen in the shops. When I'm in the market for basic keyboard or mouse, I always pick Defender. They are outrageously cheap and the quality exceeds …
The teardown
Posted on 2015-07-11, 05:27
The 300PL hasn't seen much use for almost a year. In efforts to make it more stable I took it apart completely, including the PSU. It tuns out, the PSU has a small circuit board that burned out. Btw, I was impressed with the amount of components it had, including solid copper radiators. Wow! So …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-07-11, 03:19
Or is everything done through the motherboard slot? Yup, all over the PCI bus. Could multiple of these be used together in the same system? PCI bandwith kills off the performance of one, why would you want several? That picture on the box is a perfect representation of m3D. Having a huge potential, …
Re: Logitech Rebranding itself as "Logi" with a very early 90's / late 80's feeling commercial
Posted on 2015-07-10, 04:36
King_Corduroy wrote: That's a very colourful computer in your avatar! What is it a Sun system? No, it's just a painted 486:)
Re: Logitech Rebranding itself as "Logi" with a very early 90's / late 80's feeling commercial
Posted on 2015-07-09, 15:29
Oh no. I find this is awful. Now we all once again have to get angry at the new trend and bust chops.
Re: Damage on CPU edge
Posted on 2015-07-08, 10:18
You're not the first one there, try it out to find if it works. I'd say it should be OK. The only AthlonXP I've seen without chipped edges is NOS I bought from China. All the others had this thing and most worked anyway.
Re: A Sound Blaster 16 unboxing with an unhappy ending.
Posted on 2015-07-08, 05:13
That sucks :\ It's astonishing thoug how much people that used these cards knew about them compared to most of their current users. They didn't even need to see the model number on a box because it would not tell them much...
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