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Re: Which motherboard to use with a GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Posted on 2022-04-26, 22:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

8400gs Sorry I read the label again. I actually heard bad stuff about the AGP version of my gpu Your 8400 GS is a Tesla G98 and AFAIK there are no Tesla AGP GPUs at all. Further I expect it's not even native PCI and is PCIe connected via a PLX PEX 8112 x1 Lane PCI to PCIe Bridge. https://www.vogons …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-26, 19:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyhow does anyone know good sounding wavetable hardware that'd blow xg away? thats nice and cheap? plz let me know. Serdashop has a bunch of modern wavetables for sale: https://www.serdashop.com/ I'd suggest either the Dreamblaster X2 or the X2GS. They have audio demos on their site, so you can …

Re: Which motherboard to use with a GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Posted on 2022-04-26, 18:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

8400gs Sorry I read the label again. soon i shall have glasses. still, i bet it'll last longer than the agp version and with HDMI it'll bebetter than the sis agp 🤣 I actually heard bad stuff about the AGP version of my gpu but i dont mind its still better than SiS 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-26, 18:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DELL TURTLE BEACH VORTEX PCI SOUND CARD got it eBay was 45 but got it cheaper by offer. I need it for wavetable synthesis I like yamaha xg but they are so expensive and rare come on eBay sell then reasonable. Anyhow does anyone know good sounding wavetable hardware that'd blow xg away? thats nice …

Re: crappy old power supplies

Posted on 2022-04-26, 17:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

does anyone know of tester that will interface with PSU with like a digital readout of tre watts output? there are the cheap power good testers but I haven't seen anything that'll tell real world wattage!

Re: How much time do you have to wait to open a PSU without any risk ?

Posted on 2022-04-26, 17:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi my appologies I didn't read replies. each cap has 2 pins. if you have insulated aligator clips joined by wire you can securely short them safely but you only would need to discharge the big ones. But only if you can't wait 10 to 20 minutes. you can use a resistor by ohms law to slowly discharge …

Re: Which motherboard to use with a GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Posted on 2022-04-26, 16:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i got a 7800gs on pci bus for my dual p3 system running xp with 2gb ram. I didn't build it for gaming rather to master musics. the HDMI output of this PNY brand PCI GPU with its 512mb ram should be good as AGP the only good ones too damn expensive I am sick of untested ones or ones with damaged …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-26, 16:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DELL TURTLE BEACH VORTEX PCI SOUND CARD got it eBay was 45 but got it cheaper by offer. I need it for wavetable synthesis I like yamaha xg but they are so expensive and rare come on eBay sell then reasonable. Anyhow does anyone know good sounding wavetable hardware that'd blow xg away? thats nice …

Re: high or low density ram banks

Posted on 2022-04-26, 16:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Density is kinda relative, compared to what BX boards take, you've got high density RAM at present. However, finding lower density 512MB sticks that also run at PC133 may be hard. There are supposed to be mild performance gains in sticking with the lowest density possible, but that tends to only be …

Re: Yamaha S-YXG100plus SoftSynth for Win9x 4MB waveset working!!

Posted on 2022-04-26, 13:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This is where DOS Box would be beneficial on 98se and millennium: for dos games to used xg100 😁 So those without BARE BONES I wonder: virtual pc + win98se + xg100 + DOSBOX + DOS GAME (in dos box)= dos game with music and effects?

Re: high or low density ram banks

Posted on 2022-04-26, 13:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi my pentium III uses pc133 SDRAM. What i'd like to know is if single or double sided memory are better for it. Or even, high / low density. As generations evolve, ram does too so I like to point out sdram is not DDR ram so please don't post about DDR ram (need veteran assist) Thanks ~:) Please …

high or low density ram banks

Posted on 2022-04-25, 14:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi my pentium III uses pc133 SDRAM. What i'd like to know is if single or double sided memory are better for it. Or even, high / low density. As generations evolve, ram does too so I like to point out sdram is not DDR ram so please don't post about DDR ram (need veteran assist) Thanks ~:)

Front panel audio compatible PCI sound cards that have windows 98SE / Me Drivers

Posted on 2022-04-24, 05:38

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi 😀 I am building my retro dream but cannot find a soundcard with front panel jack support and driver for 98se / Me. Can I please hear of sondcards with windows 9x drivers that support the front panel jacks of pc towers. Thankyou.

Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 19:34

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

world of warcraft I don't play because its subscription like EVE Online and just plain expensive. I do think about WoW it evolves eve hasn't done much 🤣

Re: Bios for Citygate Harris 286 motherboard

Posted on 2022-04-21, 19:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

whenever i see a motherboard without its base memory chips i cringe that it might not have 540k base memory or is that vram?

Re: Pentium Overdrive PODP5V83 - Detected as Pentium 33 and underperforming - Compaq Deskpro XE

Posted on 2022-04-21, 19:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Make sure the fan on the pentium overdrive CPU works. If it doesn't, the POD will run at 1x multiplier (it's a failsafe), witch would explain your scores and the fact that it's detected at 33Mhz. I agree but i'd still check the capacitors as even if they're not bulging at such old age a few would …

Re: 486 board with no FDD connector

Posted on 2022-04-15, 02:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

a dynamic drive overlay software can be installed to extend the drive capacity limit however it uses a part of system memory to run.

Re: Serial Mouse on win98

Posted on 2022-04-15, 02:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

if the serial port is plugged into motherboard maybe its plugged in wrong way the red wire should be pin 1 on motherboard or com addin card..

Re: Building my dream-Windows XP machine

Posted on 2022-04-15, 02:24

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hi, welcome to the forum. I competely skipped the vista nad 7 era. Having xp was one heck of a future investment spanning 2001 to about 2014.

Re: Northwood win98se project - need some input please

Posted on 2022-03-08, 18:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As I remember I had a pentium 4 northwood pc that i had xp running on. I decided to take its CPU driver and put it into a fresh windows 98se installation to see if it worked. It didn't just work it actually ran cooler (speedstep support) I generally recommend intel systems than AMD with windows …

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