Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-21, 15:00

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The ones I saw were ~30$ shipped. Not exactly cheap but not outrageous either. Might as well grab a couple tough, as well as another FX5500 PCI since the seller had some too. They had something that really caught my eye - new Radeon 7500 PCI - from the pics they looked like high quality cards, …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-21, 11:36

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I saw those yesterday, but didn't know if I should get one. Performance-wise they should be around a TNT2 M64 right? Yeah I'd definitely say about TNT2 M64 level. I'm very happy with the G450 in the Pentium 233MMX... Once I forced the Matrox driver to install it was no problem. Probably requires an …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-21, 09:53

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got some Matrox G450 PCIs... arrived from everyone's favourite online Chinese site. I got these for my Socket 7 PCs... most running Pentium MMX. Performance is great, matching my TNT2 M64 PCI at around 1200 3DMarks in 99MAX. 1650534053434.jpg FRU number, so must have come out of an IBM server or …

---

Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2022-04-20, 04:50

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Nice project! I've used these on PC Chips motherboards and CMI8330 had always worked well for compatibility... I think these use CRL (Central Research Labs) for HRTF which was before Sensaura was Sensaura. I think I recall the vxd drivers having an audio3d.dll, but I don't think a3d is implimented. …

---

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2022-04-19, 16:36

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Its a little while back... but there was a really good trash pick where many people seemed to be getting rid of CRTs... I sold and repaired the rest except for the large Dell Trinitron which had a busted tube, and I kept the Multiscan 15sf II.. 1650383371159.jpg 1650383534038 (Large).png The AST …

---

Re: HUGE collection for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-04-19, 13:18

by

by holdencars11

in Milliways

in Milliways

I fear that when I die, someone will be faced with a similar situation to this.. hahahha.. 🙁

---

Intel Inside sticker replacement program...

Posted on 2022-04-19, 13:10

by

by holdencars11

in Milliways

in Milliways

Just wondering if anyone has tried this official program for replacement Intel stickers with processors that go way before the last few generations? Does Intel fulfil most of these sticker requests? https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form?EQBCT=946510ad2aab4ad2a4f9fd73f6fc1c26 I still have the original …

---

Re: ThinkCentre SFF office PC to nForce2 showcase build

Posted on 2022-04-18, 16:02

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The Nvidia System Utility and nVMixer....

---

ThinkCentre SFF office PC to nForce2 showcase build

Posted on 2022-04-18, 16:00

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

This Lenovo 33M was a trash pick from a year or so ago... Fairly standard office stuff... socket 775 - Pentium 4 D, SiS chipset Mirage graphics. One thing going for it was the standard nMTX layout and I/O, even through it takes half height cards. Anyway the point of the build is pure nForce relying …

---

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

Posted on 2022-04-16, 13:31

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Revived and Recapped a Soltek SL-65KV2-T with Nichicon HN and Panasonic FM....

---

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

Posted on 2022-04-15, 12:51

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Decided to have a relaxing day doing a build that I wanted to get done for a while: ABIT BE6 Pentium II 400 768MB Riva 128 ZX (I have many others I could use, just wanted to try the 128ZX) Reprogrammed the BIOS using the TL866 as it was suffering an bad Bootblock that casused it to not boot at all. …

---

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-04-14, 12:15

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cuttoon wrote on 2022-04-14, 12:02: I might have left face down it on the curb. (no, not really) hahh i don't think I've ever bought anything new from Apple... all came from the trash Was considering leaving it, just couldn't...

---

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-04-14, 11:49

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Random curb pile eMac. Heavy beast to carry home and no carry handle like a G3! Dusty internally but less of a pain to take apart to clean the CRT board than a G3 iMac.. The acrylic shell polished quite nicely.

---

Re: Windows 98 SE Shutdown Issue With The Last NVidia Driver

Posted on 2021-06-17, 15:03

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Thank you! I'm going to try this out, then maybe try the 66.XX series drivers which it seems from some posts can be forced to run on PCI-E 6600/LE cards.

---

Re: Windows 98 SE Shutdown Issue With The Last NVidia Driver

Posted on 2021-06-17, 14:07

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Anyone have a copy of this ShutdownPatcher? I need it for a 6600 PCI-E build. I can kind of live with just restarting the computer and turning it off at the POST screen, but I'd prefer not to.

---

Found a Supermac Supermatch 20 T-XL...

Posted on 2019-04-01, 13:30

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I found a Supermac Supermatch 20 T-XL STD9752 XL on the side of the road during hard rubbish collection. https://i.postimg.cc/rKffDdy4/IMG-20190401-172321.jpg I can't find much info on this monitor except for a few reviews from PC Mag 1994 "Best of 1993" And some MacUser magazines. Like $2500US in …

---

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-09-13, 08:50

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mrau wrote: holdencars11 wrote: Couple of finds in trash systems: Creative Graphics Blaster MA300 Cirrus Logic with RAMBUS how does it do in 2d? Only played around in win95 gui. It seems like 2D would be fine, 3D compares to Rage IIc http://vintage3d.org/cirrus.php#sthash.IpGmikMn.dpbs

---

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-09-12, 13:54

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Couple of finds in trash systems: Creative Graphics Blaster MA300 Cirrus Logic with RAMBUS Orchid Voodoo 2

---

I love finding hard rubbish PCs! S370, 486 and P133!

Posted on 2018-09-12, 12:13

by

by holdencars11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It's the time of year again when the local area has hard rubbish collection.. and that means finding the odd PC here and there before the scrappers come along and ruin the cases or cords looking for scrap copper and metal. Found a few over the last couple of days. Australian Computer Recyclers .... …

---