Re: Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners
Posted on 2021-03-13, 02:48
Change is instantaneous on SC-88 Pro.
Re: 20mhz 286's
Posted on 2021-03-12, 23:24
In my experience Intersil CPUs tend to overclock better than Harris ones. They are the same design really, but wonder if Intersils were produced on improved fabrication process ...
Re: Forex 386/486 CACHE repair
Posted on 2021-03-12, 23:22
Crossed my mind too about Forex having shorter lifespan than the rest. Board looks pretty beaten down. Hope you can awaken it.
Re: Sound Blaster: From best to worst
Posted on 2021-03-12, 19:31
Tested a bit more. One of the cases - 1750 with turned-off amplifier has the same noise levels as 2230, which passes as "low-noise" implementation.
Re: Question for SC-88, SC-88Pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 Owners
Posted on 2021-03-12, 09:27
I have 88pro. Will spin it tmrw and report.
Re: Like Abit VP6 but with 2 ISA slots
Posted on 2021-03-12, 09:20
There are some pretty badass dual slot1 options. Downside is - slotkets that support dual P3 cpus.
Re: Sound Blaster: From best to worst
Posted on 2021-03-11, 23:16
I can confirm that his suggestion works. Tried it on 2 "noisy" CT17##'ies. My original point about lowering output volume and passing to any decent amplifier works just fine as well.
Re: Sound Blaster: From best to worst
Posted on 2021-03-11, 20:58
So, based on simple solution that @Cloudschatze suggested, does it make sense to change the status in the "self-noise" field for the CT1730/40/50/70 ? With an added node perhaps ?
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2021-03-11, 00:56
Here is the second of the examined OR800 motherboards. OR820 as Dell Optiplex G300 Initially it supported 128Mb RIMMs only. BIOS update allowed up to 2x512Mb, as well as added Tualatin support. Rudimentary BIOS - 1 page with the basics. Clock generator is limited to 133MHz. No chance for …
Re: Sound Blaster: From best to worst
Posted on 2021-03-10, 17:00
Great tip. Thank you.
Re: Sound Blaster: From best to worst
Posted on 2021-03-10, 16:10
Agreed about tc3980. Great hardware. As for the low volume + good external amplifier, seems to work really well actually. Not just for these old audio cards only, but in general.
Re: Sound Blaster: From best to worst
Posted on 2021-03-10, 08:01
Great info in this thread ! So it looks to me that from all sb16 versions the best are ct1780 and ct1790, assuming good dac and dsp versions. We can also consider 1730 1740 1750 1770, if output volume is set low and passed to external amplifier, if one is bothered by self-noise. From the awe32 ones …
Re: Anyone try USB 3.0 vs. USB 2.0 on conventional PCI slots?
Posted on 2021-03-10, 00:48
Theoretical bandwidth limits: 32bit PCI - 266Mb/s USB2 - 60Mb/s USB3 - 625Mb/s SSD bandwidth range - 500-to-7000Mb/s You will feel it with large data sets. The question is - how much data you will pipe through it and how often. External SSD suggests auxiliary storage. USB2 may be just fine.
Re: Evergreen 486 SuperChip - settings for DIP switch?
Posted on 2021-03-07, 09:44
I am sure you know the Linux ways. In my experience redhel based distros worked better than Debians. I still remember how nice fedora 12 was. Sh!t just worked. It should handle well hardware from around year 2009. I wouldn't mind checking your irc posts and expand my street vocabulary.
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2021-03-07, 02:50
picture great tip about the ide controller. forgot to comment on that in previous post. i have a note here to look for drivers for the integrated one but will use external as you suggested. so far it was solid with any Hdds and CFs, but if you experienced problems with it before i may be hitting …
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2021-03-07, 02:03
Fpm. Tried multiple sets of trusted modules. Didnt observe any difference. I remember testing with 8, 16, 24, 32, 64 Mb
Re: Evergreen 486 SuperChip - settings for DIP switch?
Posted on 2021-03-07, 01:57
Linux of the olden days was pain in the bottom. Then at some point things clicked and it became feasible even for casual home usage. The trick is to use preemptive measures - assemble computers from parts that are well supported by Linux directly, or there are matured drivers available. Also, you …
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2021-03-07, 01:32
@Chadti99 This seems to be the highest Quake1 score on a socket 3 system that I have seen around. Keep in mind that the computer runs with full gear and everything. Cache size is 1024kb. See speedsys screenshot above. On page 6 i believe is a post with details about the PC setup. Quake's screen …
Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking
Posted on 2021-03-07, 01:18
Thanks. The first cpu was modded long ago. Primary objective was to make it work, looks were secondary. I will probably redo it for pretty at some point. Its heatsink has opening at the front which allows to make the mod without removing it. Currently I use this one because of the better ventilation …
Re: 286 dead, long live the 286! Sourcing and building a fast 286 replacement
Posted on 2021-03-07, 00:00
Checked recently this 286 VLSI scamp board. Expectations were high, but it was kind of disappointing.
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