Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-20, 15:25

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by Ozzuneoj

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Tronix wrote on 2021-01-20, 09:12: Strange PCI video.... I have a cyberpro card around here somewhere. Can't remember if I ever got around to posting my findings about it. Mine has a jack for 3d glasses on it. Very uncommon chip, for sure.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 20:52

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by Ozzuneoj

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Oh man... someone gave me an estate-sale Pionex desktop PC a few years ago, with all the paperwork, books for all the components, etc. I had put it on the back burner all this time, but decided to power it on today to test it out. WOW... this thing takes me back. Not because I had a Pionex system, …

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Re: Compaq OEM Voodoo 3 3500 AGP with only VGA and TV-Out... lets put this to rest.

Posted on 2021-01-19, 20:11

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by Ozzuneoj

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Tangentially related to this topic - a lot of people aren't aware that you can get a stock standard voodoo 3500 to work just fine with a VGA monitor without the octopus. The compaq voodoo 3500 cards are a kind of halo retro enthusiast product which drives up the price - a bit unnecessarily. All you …

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Re: Compaq OEM Voodoo 3 3500 AGP with only VGA and TV-Out... lets put this to rest.

Posted on 2021-01-19, 18:29

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by Ozzuneoj

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This felt like the right place to post about yet another odd Voodoo 3 3500 I've just come across. I had a 3500 in my "to be tested" box and just pulled it out to take a look at it. When I looked at the SDRAM chips I was surprised to see they were 6ns chips! Sure enough, 3dfx Tools shows the card is …

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Re: Replace a Core2Duo E6600 for a Quad Q9400, worth it?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 17:51

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As others have said, an SSD can make a Core 2 system very tolerable for every day use for most people. I put an old Crucial C300 64GB in a Dell Vostro with a Core 2 Duo (can't remember which model) and it runs Windows 10 just fine. My daughter uses it as a glorified CD\media player in her bedroom. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-18, 06:14

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by Ozzuneoj

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I have one of those cases with the translucent blue swoosh on it too! It has a Socket A VIA VT600 board in it that needs a MOSFET replaced and probably also recapping... I have the exact same case holding the FIC PA-2013 + K6-500 system in my signature. When it was given to me by a local radio …

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Re: Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB

Posted on 2021-01-18, 06:10

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The issue with the SavageMX/IX family was that there are several versions - some are 64 bit bus, and some are 128bit bus, some are SDR (64 or 128 bit) and some are DDR (64 bit only) - it really depend on which one you have. The difference between the SavageMX and the IX is that the MX has no …

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Re: why sb emulation require virtual 86 mode

Posted on 2021-01-18, 04:51

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Aureal Vortex cards do not require EMM386 either, as far as I know. They are very underrated cards in my opinion. Decent wavetable music in Windows, good DOS compatibility without EMM386, waveblaster header, digital output on some (SQ2500) and impressive A3D effects in supported games (though it can …

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Re: Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB

Posted on 2021-01-18, 03:53

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Well, the Riva 128 I was testing had serious issues trying to run 3DMark 2000, and I couldn't find an 8MB Riva 128ZX... I could have sworn I had one. So, I just went for a Velocity 4400 (Riva TNT) 16MB AGP. The difference between a basic TNT and a Savage MX is kind of amazing. Sure, the Savage …

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Re: Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB

Posted on 2021-01-17, 22:05

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elianda wrote on 2021-01-17, 15:04: So what are actually the PCI Vendor / Device IDs of your card? Does it also use the 86C290 chipset? I just remembered to check this. Interestingly, Everest says this is an 86C270. I can't seem to find much about that chip. Filename appian_gemini_everest1 (Custom …

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Re: Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB

Posted on 2021-01-17, 21:55

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Well, the Riva 128 I was testing had serious issues trying to run 3DMark 2000, and I couldn't find an 8MB Riva 128ZX... I could have sworn I had one. So, I just went for a Velocity 4400 (Riva TNT) 16MB AGP. The difference between a basic TNT and a Savage MX is kind of amazing. Sure, the Savage stays …

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Re: Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB

Posted on 2021-01-17, 20:04

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Since there was the question about benchmarks here, I did a few with the Spectrah Dynamics Inc LD-S370 Savage MX https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_s3_savage_mx_spectrah.html See the second 3DMark2001SE image there. Thanks for the input! Your results got me curious, so I did some really quick …

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Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 23:59

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by Ozzuneoj

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Sorry, I meant much older than the P4 and Athlon XP boards. I would consider 5 years "much" anyway.

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Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 20:09

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by Ozzuneoj

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Those are all atx boards. It's hard to tell from your pictures, but the case you have looks like AT? Also, the location of the PSU and slot covers is totally different. Yours is likely a much older model.

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Post a pic of an interesting PC item you own\owned that you haven't posted about before.

Posted on 2021-01-16, 08:56

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by Ozzuneoj

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Some people have huge collections and we've seen pictures of their rooms full of $300,000 worth of rare sealed boxes... but that means we've seen those already. Try not to post an item that you've posted about in the past. Something new. Preferably, something useful, cool looking, rare, nostalgic, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-16, 05:52

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Shreddoc wrote on 2021-01-16, 05:21: Ozzuneoj wrote on 2021-01-16, 04:20: In all seriousness, I can't explain why some have had such reliability issues with nforce 2 boards while others have not. I can explain why my nforce2 board has a reliability issue. 😀 20210116_181613.jpg Mystery solved! 🤣

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Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 05:00

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I agree with replacing the LCD. Obviously wouldn't be a trivial project, but that screen is probably absolutely horrible by today's standards. Old CRTs have that vintage appeal and only look real bad if they are defective or worn out. Old (pre-1998-ish) LCDs were, in my opinion, barely usable from …

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Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 04:30

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by Ozzuneoj

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Wow! That is pretty stinking cool! You could make a luggable... anything, out of that! Not sure about the video connector. Would it be an LVDS interface? I don't know much about them, but I don't believe there would be any standard pinout if it was. Unless you can find documentation for that system, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-16, 04:20

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ok, quick update on the nforce 2 motherboard. it got through 50h of memtest86, just fine: nforce2 - 50h.jpg So onto prime95. Unfortunately, at first it was unstable, with prime95 reporting hardware errors. Since I am actually overclocking the CPU, that isn't too unexpected. So I've bumped up core …

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Re: Fastest AGP card that doesn't require external power (molex / floppy)

Posted on 2021-01-16, 04:02

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Club3d GeForce 7600GT or Medion Radeon 9800XL. Note: 9800XL has external floppy power connector, but does not require it to be connected on most motherboards. I'd never heard of either of these, so I Googled it and found the thread where you guys discovered the Club3D 7600GT just a week ago here at …

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