Re: ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-09, 18:14

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Tbh, this applies to almost any retro stuff. These days you get AMD, nVidia or Intel and it just works, with only differences being performance or price. But back before the boring days, even when titles used abstraction layers like OpenGL, early DirectX or WinG, you saw big image differences …

---

Re: ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-08, 21:18

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thanks for all the input, this is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. The experiences mentioned here definitely sound like what I remember about ATI cards in those days: competitive performance and some nice image quality features, but success with them is highly dependent on what …

---

Re: Youtube vid of V5 5500 playing ut2004?

Posted on 2018-05-08, 00:36

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Pretty impressive graphics and performance for such an old card... especially one that was behind the times already when it was released. This makes me really want to get the Voodoo 5 5500 PCI and Vortex 2 SQ2500 installed in my main rig for some Windows 10 + Windows 98SE dual-boot action... been …

---

ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-07, 23:31

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

So, my collection has been growing over the past couple years and I've started to accumulate a significant number of ATI cards. I posted a thread here a few months back trying to make sense of the various ATI Rage models I have laying around, and it certainly helped to see where they ranked when it …

---

Re: What recent hardware has the best chance of becoming "retro" in the future?

Posted on 2018-05-04, 05:01

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don’t think we’ll every look at today’s hardware in the same way we look at pre 2000 hardware. It’s just not the same and it’ll never match up, nor could it truly be called “retro”. In 20 years I’ll still be able to install Windows 98 on any of my pre-2000 hardware, but try installing Windows 10 …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-04, 03:22

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know it is RARE but that was expensive. Who cares?? Why do some of you guys insist on commenting on other peoples spending habits? I can't get my head around how you consider it any of your business! Do you do that to people in real life? If there was a place where everyone gathered together …

---

Re: Tandy 4000 - Puff of smoke

Posted on 2018-05-03, 03:49

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just curious, how long had it been since this system was last powered on and how often was it used? Generally, people say that tantalums are actually incredibly reliable if they are used regularly, with most failures of this kind occurring after 20+ years of being unpowered. I'm always interested to …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-03, 02:11

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought a couple lots of computer parts for scrap, almost entirely video cards. There were dozens of Geforce4 MX 440 and Geforce 2 MX cards, Matrox G200, G450, G550, misc TNT2 and ATI cards, all in pristine condition. But there were some real gems in these lots... some of which were in rough shape. …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-30, 17:13

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeesh... Can't imagine being able to spend money like that. I know it's all relative, but wow...

---

Re: When did prices on eBay skyrocket?

Posted on 2018-04-25, 15:30

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm, lets see... Re: Why are old PCs considered lame and boring? As bjwil1991 said above, blame popular movies and TV shows.

---

Re: Asus P3A TNT2 mainboard - released or only prototype?

Posted on 2018-04-25, 15:15

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting. Definitely never seen anything like that in the wild. With the fancy printing on the chipset and the big XG logo sound chip, it certainly has a lot of retro collector appeal. If any of those boards exist I think they'd be worth a bazillion dollars on eBay for no logical reason... 🤣

---

Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-22, 01:22

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

=== TDP I know most everyone uses TDP to determine power use by the CPU (I did too) but that is not very accurate. The watts used for TDP are not watts of power consumption, they are watts of heat dissipation.(heat losses.) If you read Intel docs TDP is Intel's estimate of the minimum cooling …

---

Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-21, 12:54

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is an old inefficient PSU from the 90s (with all original parts) really better than a modern one when the requirements are so low? It depends how extreme it all is. Take this graph from a 2016 PSU buying guide at Tom's Hardware: https://img.purch.com/w/450/ …

---

Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-20, 23:37

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is an old inefficient PSU from the 90s (with all original parts) really better than a modern one when the requirements are so low? Newer units are so much quieter too.

---

Re: Oldest Possible Hardware to Run Minecraft

Posted on 2018-04-20, 23:08

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Someone made a partial port for the Amstrad CPC a while back (so, that would be 4MHz Z80 and either 64K or 128K memory (depends on which CPC model they were using)). http://www.indieretronews.com/2015/10/amscraft-minecraft-style-amstrad-cpc.html Why? Who knows but they did it anyway. I don't know …

---

Re: Oldest Possible Hardware to Run Minecraft

Posted on 2018-04-20, 23:04

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey all, I managed to get Minecraft working on my retro PC yesterday. It currently has a Pentium III 600EB, 320MB of RAM and a GeForce2 MX400. Got 30FPS max, when looking at the sky with tiny render distance. The reason I'm posting this is because... Official source has it that the Alpha and Beta …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-19, 04:38

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I haven't been posting much in this thread lately, but I nabbed these for $20 shipped, which is a great price if they work. Pictures look pretty good, so I'm hopeful! Filename cards5.jpg File size 371.51 KiB Views 1205 views Ensoniq Voodoo Banshee and a Cirrus Logic Laguna3D, which is one of the …

---

Re: Speeding up formatting FAT32

Posted on 2018-04-14, 02:13

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alternatively, you could do what I ended up doing for my tester system: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=58310&p=647204 Here's the specific post where I describe my method: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=58310&p=647204#p647204 Basically, all I have to do is make multiple …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-10, 20:49

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The industrial computer I posted a pic of a while ago showed up today. It is a super custom jobbie made specifically for the motherboard in it.. an ASUS P2B-LS. Video card is a Diamond branded Riva 128. Also has a 3Com network card and a couple other cards. Kinda looks like it was used for some …

---

Re: Thinking of having a retro-pocalypse

Posted on 2018-04-09, 03:55

by

by Ozzuneoj

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This thread describes my life. I've made a decent amount of money fixing and selling old parts online over the past two years, but locally it's a joke, and it's very unpredictable. Amibay has been good but only 3dfx stuff seems to sell for me there and my collection is nearly gone now. Mercari is a …

---