Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-11-10, 15:02
beastlike wrote: PhilsComputerLab - For those BIOS shots - do you use a VGA capture card? thanks! HDMI capture.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-11-10, 14:29
Got this recently off eBay. Amazed that the prices are actually quite low. Compared to the 480, this is a much better card. Although it also has 8 and 6 pin power connectors, it's very quiet. Needs a bit of cleaning but otherwise works well. http://www.philscomputerlab.com/uploads/3/7/2/3/37231621/ …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-11-10, 08:05
Private_Ops wrote: Cooler is an AMD Wraith-like (same thing as the Wraith but no fancy cover) that came with my Athlon 880K. Nice. I'd love to have one of those. I use an older Phenom II cooler that came with a 125 W model. It cools ok, but boy is it loud...
Re: The American Brexit
Posted on 2016-11-09, 23:19
Wondering if the people who said they'd leave the country are going to stick to what they said 🤣
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2016-11-09, 14:20
agent_x007 wrote: It's really not that far out. 8800 GTX and QX6700 are already 10 years old 😀 True. But I also do videos on DOS and Windows 98, so it all adds up. You just got to be patient. But do express your thoughts, I do take not on everything and one day, BAM, there is your video 😊
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2016-11-09, 12:54
Haha, true that 😀
Re: EPROM burner and "blank" BIOS chips
Posted on 2016-11-09, 12:45
^^ Agreed You might not need it right away, but one day it will come in super handy 😀
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2016-11-09, 12:23
It will be years until I get to the point / time of building something that actually runs Crysis 😀
Re: MT32 and General MIDI?
Posted on 2016-11-09, 12:19
The way I do it is not have a config per game, but for various machines / configs. Then just load the games through the command line.
Re: MT32 and General MIDI?
Posted on 2016-11-09, 11:58
That's really easy. You just have different DOSBox config files for each game and configure it that way. I'm sure the readme file / manual covers this. But you can also use a GOG game as an example, every game uses its own config file.
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2016-11-09, 10:27
agent_x007 wrote: @up Only one question : WHY would you try to run Crysis on High settings, with only 256MB of VRAM ? Next time, try going Low/Medium or low-ish resolution 😀 Because it's "But does it run Crysis?". It's meant to be lagging and choking.
Re: EPROM burner and "blank" BIOS chips
Posted on 2016-11-09, 05:07
I have that also, it was my first one. In general the Genius is good for newer chips, especially flash. But it cannot do EPROM chips that require higher voltages to write. I see. Well that's ok I guess, since I would be using it exclusively for eeprom chips used on socket 7 and newer - maybe some …
Re: Voodoo 3500TV w/crt monitor...input lag?
Posted on 2016-11-09, 02:44
So you're using the video in and outputting it onto VGA? Yes, there will definitely be a delay.
Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)
Posted on 2016-11-09, 01:11
7800 GTX SLI bottleneck removed Something to distract from the election :D How does Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX SLI perform when you use a modern processor and remove any bottleneck? And how does it handle games? Let's find out in this video! I am using a modern AM3+ motherboard, 4 GB of dual channel …
Re: Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots
Posted on 2016-11-08, 23:02
I guess 333 is the base memory clock, so the RAM is running at DDR2 667 speeds with FSB 800, all the standard possible RAM speeds are: DDR 320 (200/1.25, FSB800 doesn't support DDR 333) DDR/DDR2 400 (200/1) DDR2 533 (200/0.75) DDR2 667 (200/0.6) DDR2/DDR3 800 (200/0.5) That sounds right. I can take …
Re: Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots
Posted on 2016-11-08, 15:38
Got the MSI 945GCM478 yesterday. One cap popped after turning it on, so I replaced all the VRM incoming caps with some lovely Panasonic :) I'm benching this board at the moment, so any questions please let me know ASAP as I will pack it away soon enough. I've finished benchmarking Northwood 3.4 and …
Re: EPROM burner and "blank" BIOS chips
Posted on 2016-11-08, 14:26
I have that also, it was my first one. In general the Genius is good for newer chips, especially flash. But it cannot do EPROM chips that require higher voltages to write.
Re: EPROM burner and "blank" BIOS chips
Posted on 2016-11-08, 11:41
You give up easily 😊 I'll play around with it when I get to it. Hex is just a base 16 number system. Anyway, I'll let you know how I go 😁
Re: EPROM burner and "blank" BIOS chips
Posted on 2016-11-08, 10:02
Surely that software has an option to start writing from the 32 KB onwards? Like a starting address. I have the same programmer, I guess you could check the manual for such a feature? I recently also got one of these cheap china UV EPROM erasers. Can't wait to try it out. I got an old Adaptec SCSI …
Re: Pentium 4 motherboards thread
Posted on 2016-11-08, 08:14
Very nice. I wasn't even using such a beefy CPU. I think just a stock 3.2 GHz Northwood.
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