Can anyone identify this old Compaq desktop case?

Posted on 2018-05-30, 13:49

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by appiah4

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Can anyone tell me what model/line this case was used for? It's in pretty miserable condition but I can get it for free. I was on the look for a desktop style beige case, so why not? Not sure if it's AT or ATX or even useful to me. Seems to lack the front bay covers, not sure if they are easily …

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Re: Diamond 3dfx Voodoo 1 problem!

Posted on 2018-05-30, 09:54

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Matrox Mystique or Millennium II would be my option for a Windows system.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2018-05-30, 08:14

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What about the Terratec ewx 24/96 24-bit ? Any good ? Where is the best place to buy Terratec cards ? Not a card or chipset I'm familiar with but googling returns absolutely nothing about Sound Blaster compatibility and it also seems to be a mastering sound card that is professionally oriented so I …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2018-05-30, 07:27

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I love Terratec like no other but the 6Fire is a recording card and not very good for gaming.. A Terratec Gold 16/96 or even better a Maestro 32/96 is the way to go for that. If you have to go with PCI the Solo 128, Digital 512i or the XFire 1024 are better options for gaming than the 6Fire.

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2018-05-30, 07:23

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That's very interesting, care to let me know which ones did not work? Just a generic flat top P54C. I don't think I even looked at what the stock multiplier was as I was mainly interested in approaching 286 performance if possible. Anyway, I was somewhat underwhelmed. Lots of flags didn't have an …

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Re: Matrox G400/G450 Quake III Performance

Posted on 2018-05-30, 07:23

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This thread has me ready to yank the Radeon 7000 out of my P3 just to install my PCI G450 Dual Head card just to run Quake 3... And I'll do it tonight if anyone can point me to a how-to to get timedemos back. (I have the Linux Q3A, but using ID's instructions to get it to run under Windows. Just …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-29, 20:56

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Grand Prix 2.. Envy rising.

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2018-05-29, 20:56

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Excellent, although it's possible some of these will have no effect. I thought all P54C cores responded to TR12 flags? As far as I've found, they will respond to the flags, but some will have no performance impact where they do with the PMMX cpus. At least that's the case with the P133 I tested. …

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Re: My journey to a bearable Sound Blaster 16 model

Posted on 2018-05-29, 20:55

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I have two CT4170 cards as well.. same model but different PCBs, likely different revisions, but I've also had no issues wrt clipping with them. They are CQM, so that's a downside if you consider it that, but otherwise they were pretty much faultless.

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2018-05-29, 12:53

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gdjacobs wrote: Excellent, although it's possible some of these will have no effect. I thought all P54C cores responded to TR12 flags?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-29, 12:34

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I guess Hercules' dithering was indistinguishable from actual greyscale color to our computer virgin eyes 😎

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-29, 11:40

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I'm fairly certain that my own PC, with a Hercules card, could output 12 (or maybe 16) shades of grey onto the monitor we had, that is why my dad always claimed it was superior to green monochrome PCs even though they could display in color, albeit a single one. So I'm guessing we had a Hercules …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-29, 11:12

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I'm fairly certain that my own PC, with a Hercules card, could output 12 (or maybe 16) shades of grey onto the monitor we had, that is why my dad always claimed it was superior to green monochrome PCs even though they could display in color, albeit a single one. So I'm guessing we had a Hercules …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-29, 10:02

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I used to own an PC/AT clone with a Hercules card, but my monitor was a 12.1" black/white.. monochrome? We used to call green/amber monitors monochrome and the black/white ones Hercules. To this day I don't know how off our terminology was.

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2018-05-29, 09:55

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Don't let that post-v1.0 software infect your machine. I don't get this.. :( it's a joke? right? Ok, so I have quite a bit of cache disabling testing planned for my Pentium 133 PC, here is the Google Docs file I have set up for this test. Hopefully I can find ways to achieve my speed targets ( …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2018-05-28, 14:32

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Yeah, since I can do the L2 Cache in BIOS (I can actually disable either L1 or L2 in BIOS, but SETMUL is pretty handy to deal with L1 on the fly for things like Ultima 7, Underworld etc.) so I will probably use Turbo for FSB, BIOS for L2(/L1) and SETMUL for L1. Out of curiosity, does SETMUL persist …

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

Posted on 2018-05-28, 13:22

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16MB RAM is enough for a 486 though I had 4MB on my DX33 and 8MB on my DX4-100 and thought they were plenty enough. Especially 8MB for Warp 3 was dream-like. 16MB was when I hit the Pentium era and my PII system had 32MB RAM. Even my PIII was down to 32MB at one point when one SIMM stick went bad, …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2018-05-28, 13:19

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It's also a hotter chip, seems like TDP is 15W or thereabots compared to P133's 12W, so running it without a fan is also not an option. The turbo button on the case right now is wired up to toggle between 50MHz/66MHz FSB but I could use it to toggle the L2 cache 0K/256K, not sure how much slower a …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2018-05-28, 12:09

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I see. Even though Speedsys says the computer benches at around the DX2-66 mark the Doom scores are more in line with something inbetween a 486DX33 and DX25 at 66MHz FSB. At 50MHz FSB it's pretty much in line with a DX25. I suppose disabling the L2 cache in bios would bring it down to around 386DX33 …

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

Posted on 2018-05-28, 06:51

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Murugan wrote: Finished my 486DX4-100 build but I am not happy with some the internals 🙁 Too bad the display is a 2-digit one so I changed it to HI.[/img] Which components are you unhappy with? My 486 at the time did not have a speed indicator, but a friend of mine had set his to 99 in a similar …

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