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Re: 486 VLB build advice ?

Posted on 2018-11-16, 19:58

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Any board with a voltage regulator.

Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2018-11-16, 19:55

by The Serpent Rider

in Milliways

Recent retail releases of remastered Spyro games didn't had all required data included on disk. So essentially you're totally screwed in that particular case.

Re: Logitech F310 on Windows 98?

Posted on 2018-11-16, 19:44

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sticks dead zone is horrible on those anyway.

Re: Help configuring 486 board

Posted on 2018-11-16, 18:47

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PCB is different around the cache area compared to normal 1.7 revision, so 6.1 is probably indicates this changes. Also it looks like you can't add 512kb cache here (no room). Required VR parts were already discussed here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=61973 Personally don't think it's …

Re: 486 VLB build advice ?

Posted on 2018-11-16, 18:10

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some ASUS, Soyo or Aopen (VI15G) boards (SIS/UMC chipsets) with voltage regulator for DX4 support. S3 Trio64 of Cirrus Logic 5434, if you can find it. 256kb cache minimum, any 60/70 ns FPM RAM you can find.

Re: 486 VLB build advice ?

Posted on 2018-11-16, 17:25

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anything you can find cheap.

Re: SS7 playground - Rise MP6 333 / 240Mhz peculiar results Quake2

Posted on 2018-11-16, 04:37

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium MMX 233 is more than 2x faster with PCI S3 Savage 4.

Re: ESS 1688F sound card

Posted on 2018-11-15, 17:59

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Sound

As for which one is more silent - that depends wholly on the card. Quality made ancient ES688/1688 cards are cleaner and much more pleasant to the ear than late 90s OEM junk ES18xx cards in my experience even though the more integrated card should have much less noise.. ES18xx cards are mostly …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-15, 17:42

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is that a terminator COAST module on the left side?

Re: Sound Blaster 32 PnP CT3670 refuse to work properly

Posted on 2018-11-15, 07:20

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Sound

After reading some old posts, looks like I have corrupted EEPROM. Which is weird, because in my case the card is not completely "dead". https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=39683 Apparently I can reflash it with Dell utility and succesfully change it to AWE64 , but I wonder if I can find …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-14, 11:49

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

or even a Pentium III-S 1400 for anything near that price... Actually those are quite easy and cheap to get, due to their strong presence in OEM.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-13, 19:36

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

600? Sure, easy. Everything higher is not easy at all due to various limitations (including some nasty CPU FSB wall) and might even require considerable voltage increase. Therefore my statements remains the same - never.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-13, 17:57

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

easily overclock to 660Mhz or 720Mhz Never.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-12, 20:55

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Curious what the final price will be I am already out... They're investing into this card, huehuehue.

Gigabyte GA-5AA revision 1.1, 2.2 and 3.2 differences

Posted on 2018-11-12, 20:11

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since I have both, might as well do some documentation. Gigabyte GA-5AA revision 2.2 and 3.2.jpg Gigabyte GA-5AA revision 2.2.jpg Gigabyte GA-5AA revision 3.2.jpg Compared to the previous revision, 3.2 has the following improvements: - Additional NEC K3296 voltage regulator (2 vs 1) - Better VRM …

Re: FIC PA-2013 2.0 vs 2.1

Posted on 2018-11-12, 19:38

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Revision 2.1 FIC PA-2013 Revision 2.1 (shot 1).jpg FIC PA-2013 Revision 2.1 (shot 2).jpg FIC PA-2013 Revision 2.1 (shot 3).jpg FIC PA-2013 Revision 2.1 (shot 4).jpg Also repost from another thread : After some research I've decided to debunk some myths about revisions. - Revsion 2.0 and 2.1 have …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-12, 19:01

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Time for some Socket 7 galore! Socket 7 galore.jpg FIC PA-2013 revision 2.1 (1mb cache 4.5ns, AMD K6-2 400) ASUS TX97-E revision 1.12 (Pentium MMX 233) Gigabyte GA-5AA revision 3.2 (Cyrix M2 266) Gigabyte GA-5AA revision 2.2 (Pentium MMX 233) Also Aztech Waverider Platinum 3D PnP Aztech Waverider …

Re: Can't get an ATX Socket 8 board to POST

Posted on 2018-11-12, 11:09

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My bet is on dead CPUs or completely/partially dead CPU VRM, hence that's why no beeps and FF code on a post card. There's also a risk that you've killed your CPUs due to the mentioned faulty VRM. Does CPU heat up blazingly fast?