Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-10, 17:24
SMD tantalum caps.... Oh, thanks, have never heard of these caps. Also never heard of this metal, the chemistry in school was looong ago 🤣
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-10, 17:00
I've got this 'No-Name' GF2-Ti 64Mb today. (Slowly my early nVidia compilation gets complete: GF2-MX400, GF2-GTS, GF2-Ti, GF3-Ti200...) Has somebody ever seen such VGA cards with 'ceramic' caps, instead of the traditional big caps the VGA cards have during that era?
Re: What was the coolest looking vintage computer?
Posted on 2016-06-06, 21:25
The 'Holborn 6500' is really cool 😀 Look like Apple copy some design elements from them... http://www.technischmuseum.nl/devices/Holborn … orn%206500.html
Re: What was the coolest looking vintage computer?
Posted on 2016-06-06, 18:18
I like also this old vintage HP computer. Last year, i saw this old HP computer, somebody else selling this on ebay (germany). Don't know about the status, if it was running, but it was really huge, you need a Pick-up truck or transporter for moving 😊 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_250
Re: Caps on motherboards and other parts
Posted on 2016-06-05, 08:27
Now, i'm also affected by the topic "caps- disease". Since i have put my mainboard into the original box 5 years ago, i've never checked in detail the board status. Yesterday, when i had a closer look at that board, the Epox EP-8K9A3+ (socket 462, VIA KT400), i saw a lot of caps with lifted upper …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-04, 10:49
Now, finally after 4Gb (Samsung) are not used long time, i've upgraded to 16GB. To realize this, i've bought on ebay, this 'Low-profile' RAM. This Kingston 4Gb Ram is really nice, and avoid the clash to my big cooler.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-03, 16:00
I've bought this new, boxed full copper cooler from Zalman, only for a few Euros. The Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu. 773g = 1,704lb full copper http://i.imgur.com/xD6h9vV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5ajd5ga.jpg Hope i can install it at my S478 board. There are limitations written at the back: http://i.imgur.com/ …
Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled
Posted on 2016-06-02, 15:47
Interesting results with your Via-Cyrix III (600Mhz). With 3Dbench & PCPbench, you'll get a 486DX25-33, and with Doom you match to a 486DLC-33. That's quite good. When i compare my results of PIII, i've made in the past (only 3Dbench & PCPbench, with a slow RageXL), i've got these strage results: …
Re: What would you choose, K6-2 500mhz or Celeron 466mhz
Posted on 2016-05-29, 21:11
From my point of view, the 440ZX is as good as the 440BX. There are only these main differences: SMP: 440BX- Yes / 440ZX - No Max.Mem: 440BX- 1024MB / 440ZX - 512MB RAM Parity/ECC: 440BX- Yes / 440ZX - No PCI support: 440BX- 2.1 (64-bit optional) / 440ZX - 2.1 So, at least 512MB are really enough, …
Re: What would you choose, K6-2 500mhz or Celeron 466mhz
Posted on 2016-05-29, 20:40
I have built a K6-2 500 super-socket platform at beginning of this year. Looking back this was the best option for me, cause i use it as a "time-maschine" with 386, 486 and Pentium speed. (End of 90's, i had not one Celeron 466's, but two with the famous Abit BP6 board. I've used W98 and W2000, but …
Re: Games with highest conventional memory requirements
Posted on 2016-05-28, 15:45
IIRC Frontier:First Encounters required approx. 620kB. Its predecessor Frontier Elite 2 was leaner on conventional memory but required at least 500kB EMS. That is wrong. I've already tested them both (german version) the last hour. Here the results: Elite 2 Frontier needs at least 580kb …
Re: Is a Voodoo 5 worth it?
Posted on 2016-05-27, 20:36
Wow, just one hour ago i've seen the highest price ever i've seen for a used, single Voodoo 2: A Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 3Dfx 12MB, coming complete with the original box and all content...... for incredible 97€ Canceled: 'Not bad...' Replaced: 'Crazy...'
Mainboard, or CPU, which's dead....?!
Posted on 2016-05-25, 19:40
I've got an old socket 462 board with Thunderbird CPU (athlon1000) this week. And yesterday, after a test run, i have only a black screen... The CPU is: A1000AMT3B, so it's a 100Mhz base clock CPU. The board is: GigaByte GR-7ZXE Rev1.1, so it's a Via KT133A chipset board. I've had plugged in ATX-PSU …
Re: I think I hit the motherload today!
Posted on 2016-05-22, 14:50
Nice old AT tower!!! I like these tower's with a wider basement for a good stability. Tower's like this are really hard to find on ebay these days...
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2016-05-21, 10:07
Your alu cooler is nice. It's from a T-Bird or Palomino/Thunderbird? Did you put some thermal glue capable paste between chip and cooler?
Re: New Windows 98 Build
Posted on 2016-05-20, 21:15
+ Asus P5A ATX Motherboard + 512MB of RAM (2x256MB PC100 SDRAM) Remember of the cacheable RAM of super-socket 7 boards: When you have for example, the ALI Aladdin V chipset (D and E) with revision up to 1.04 of Asus P5A has only 128MB cacheable!!! If you have may revision 1.05 or 1.06 , then there …
Re: Fire GL2 AGP video card, who knows anything about these?
Posted on 2016-05-20, 19:30
Geforce256 has no Vertex shader: Pixel Shaders: 4 Vertex Shaders: 0 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/731/geforce-256-sdr
Re: Fire GL2 AGP video card, who knows anything about these?
Posted on 2016-05-20, 19:17
The Fire GL2 has a raw power next to Geforce256: Pixel Fillrate (MPixel/s): 410 Texel Fillrate (MTexel/s): 200 Triangle/Vertices Rate (M/s): 27 Here are values of Geforce256: Pixel Fillrate (MPixel/s): 480 Texel Fillrate (MTexel/s): 480 Triangle/Vertices Rate (M/s): 0 Here are values of …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-05-20, 17:54
I've got this Sidewinder 3D Pro today. http://i.imgur.com/PnuVIVB.jpg Last week, I've got the 2'nd one, and with the two Force Feedback Pro's i have now 4 Microsoft's sticks overall. The right FF Pro, i've tested already. Won't be activated fully with the sidewinder 3.0 drivers on my Win95 system : …
Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled
Posted on 2016-05-18, 18:18
By the way, i have replaced the GF2-MX400 with a RivaTNT2 i've bought last week. It works quite well after deinstall and reinstall the same drivers. A first test with the clock-speed which i use mostly and with all caches: As expected, the RivaTNT2 is as fast as a GF2-MX400 (which performs with a …
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