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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 08:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Took out my Pentium MMX @ 3.5x75MHz and installed a 10GB 7200rpm Maxtor HDD. The previously used CF card became a secondary slave together with CD drive. Then installed Windows 98SE and spent most of the night figuring out, how to enable DMA on HDD. But as it seems, if you use any higher UDMA mode …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-17, 14:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

buckeye wrote: Artex, don't know how the heck you found a Monster 3D boxed with all the "trimmings" but it gives me hope! You know that giant black hole chinese scientists had found a couple weeks ago? That's Artex. The retro hardware simply can't excape his gravity.

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-12-17, 13:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

MKT_Gundam wrote: Some Avance logic ASL 4000 ASFM music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrRMqYEiIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrRMqYEiIw Somehow manages to sound so much worse than ALS100+/120..

Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-17, 07:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My woes are neverending.. I put the system back together using the nForce3 board and an X800XT PE, and exactly what I feared would happen has happened: Unstable system. This was exactly my experience with nForce2 boards, supposedly very fast but they are quirky and unstable as all fuck, so when the …

Re: Delusional performance of a 486 DX33

Posted on 2019-12-17, 05:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I played Doom on a 486DX33 and the experience was enjoyable enough (at a window size one or two steps below full) that it was my most played game of 1994. However when Doom II came out it ran considerably worse. I saw it play so much smoother on a rich friend’s P60 that I upgraded to a DX4-100 in …

Re: 430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 21:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What I have at hand is also a MB560TG.

Re: Is it worth upgrading a Dell XPS D333 to a Celeron 533?

Posted on 2019-12-16, 14:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Chipset is a 440LX so 66MHz is as high as FSB will go.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-16, 14:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mystery box! somehow won this auction... it's an AT case with who knows what hardware... we'll find out! Socket 7 Pentium 166MMX with S3 Trio64 and ALS100+ 16-bit sound card. How are you so sure? It's what I get in 90% of such mystery boxes :lol: Maybe it's just my luck.. There was the one time I …

Re: 430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 14:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

nearly no Socket 7 Chipsets that have a 2/5 PCI divider. Actually, nothing aside from Aladdin IV seems to have a divider for Socket 7 PCChips M537 (the one with VIA VP) can set the PCI to 33MHz when using 75/83MHz bus. Well.. Are you sure the option to lock it actually works? Because the page I …

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

Posted on 2019-12-16, 13:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oooooh, UMC! Best kind of 486 there is. Mmm..

Is it worth upgrading a Dell XPS D333 to a Celeron 533?

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would I get tangible benefit going from Pentium II 333 to Celeron 533? The system has 192MB RAM and a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP.

Re: Augmenting a Trio64

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:53

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

This came installed alongside a Riva 128 in my Dell XPS D333 which shipped with a DVD-ROM so apparently this accelerates DVD Playback. It is connected internally via the feature connector. https://i.postimg.cc/d3Kwf10F/QI-Cinemaster-C-1-2-Dell-OEM.jpg More info on the card here: http://www.pennskog. …

Re: Delusional performance of a 486 DX33

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

21603 wrote: Quake runs at about 4 fps, but is perfectly playable and very responsive Stop posting drunk.

Re: 430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

HanJammer wrote: appiah4 wrote: This will be for a fast DOS PC, so no 3D acceleration will be used. But you know, that DOS gaming is where 3dfx Voodoo and Voodoo 2 really shines, right? 😀 Aside from Tomb Raider and Screamer 2 I don't know of any other DOS glide games I would be really interested in …

Re: 430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 07:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This will be for a fast DOS PC, so no 3D acceleration will be used. It will be running Quake in software mode though. CPU is an mII-PR266GP (2x75MHz). So am I better off going with a 430TX board or an Aladdin IV+ for this build?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-16, 06:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oeuvre wrote: mystery box! somehow won this auction... it's an AT case with who knows what hardware... we'll find out! Socket 7 Pentium 166MMX with S3 Trio64 and ALS100+ 16-bit sound card.

430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 06:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Many 430TX motherboards state support for 75MHz (and in some cases 83MHz) CPUs. Do these boards run the PCI Bus within spec while doing so, or does the PCI frequency also get an unintended proportional overclock? Also, how does this work for non-Intel chipsets such as Aladdin IV+, VIA VPX etc.? …

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

Posted on 2019-12-15, 22:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I upgraded my K6-2 system to a K6-2/500 (I wonder what the Pentium II equivalent for this really is).. I also did some troubleshooting on my dead Athlon64 PC to find my X1950PRO had died, so I replaced it with a more period correct X800XTPE AGP. I will try to fix the X1950PRO AGP later.

Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-15, 22:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After rebuilding the PC with the K8NS motherboard I still had the same issues so I dug deeper tonight, only to find out that it was the X1950PRO AGP that went bad somehow. After replacing it with an X800XTPE AGP, the system POSTed with either motherboard.. I will stick the K8NS nForce3 for now …

Re: AMD K5 case basge/sticker

Posted on 2019-12-13, 14:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can I use my artist skills to roughly doodle from what I think I saw in 97-98? Could be false memories or confusion with another badge, and oddly I do think some form of line shading was involved, or maybe it was speedlines because it was "fast" taking inspiration from Cyrix's 586 line? I forgot …

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