Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 dual Deschutes build I never had
Posted on 2021-11-17, 22:15
Nice looking build. 😀 maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-10-31, 23:10: Dual 440fx has entered the chat I have one of those that has hit a snag via OS probs
Re: Northgate 386DX/25 w/Omnikey 102 keyboard
Posted on 2021-11-15, 22:10
Nice machine, when I lived in Minneapolis (multiple times and different suburbs) I dont know if I even remember Northgate which is funny as I lived in Eden Prairie twice. Machines I had when I lived there were Zeos and later Micron bought from local outlet stores, the Micron I still have but I so …
Re: 🧟 Frankenstein's Radeon 9700 Pro - Help needed for indentification
Posted on 2021-11-14, 00:49
My guess would be an OEM / bulk product from PowerColor (the R97-C3G on the front label is their style of model #). There's a post on HardForum by someone who bought similar (inc the Molex connector) from Newegg in 2004 https://hardforum.com/threads/9700pro-for-138-refurb-good-buy-testing-it.773628 …
Re: Looking for a unicorn
Posted on 2021-11-14, 00:23
These boards are expensive in part because they support T ualatin (694 T where 694 X does not support Tualatin officially), they support up to 1.5GB of RAM (where Intel Tualatin capable boards went to 512MB SDRAM max with i815 chipset), they support 133MHz FSB officially (which 440BX does not (but …
Re: Looking for a unicorn
Posted on 2021-11-14, 00:04
No data on regular Adlib Golds, but a sealed Adlib Gold recently went for $2,427.00! LOL on what planet are AWE64 Golds regularly going for $170? Next you will be saying Adlib Golds are going for 250. Heck I was surprised by an auction just a few days ago for a Aureal Vortex2 A3D SQ2500 I had seen …
Re: Socket 939 system... shows 4 bit colour only.
Posted on 2021-11-13, 23:46
I might be misunderstanding something here but on most of my systems I only get 16 colors until I install the graphics drivers.
Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?
Posted on 2021-10-28, 22:07
I have enough to build 45 more systems... is that too many?
Re: ASUS A7M266 and Nvidia video cards strange behaviour?
Posted on 2021-10-19, 20:25
@Grem Five, can you please tell me the fastest ATI card you tried on your A7M266? Thank you. I'm not very fond of ATI from this era because of terrible drivers. In games it was a nightmare with missing textures, display glitches, bad framerate... From the Rage 128 to the R100, things goes a little …
Re: ASUS A7M266 and Nvidia video cards strange behaviour?
Posted on 2021-10-18, 23:56
I have that same motherboard but have only used ATI cards in it and I have never had a problem, never tried a NVidia card in it. If you need it I do have the original driver disk that came with the MB when I bought it.
Re: AGP slot and burnt +12 volt trace.
Posted on 2021-10-18, 23:09
Well I was just trying to figure out if this board was worth being in my collection. I dont really have any nostalgia for P4 machines as after P2 & P3 I moved on to Athlons and never had a P4. Its a 1.6 GHz processor that I thought might fit in nice but I was hoping it was a socket 423 but it was a …
Re: AGP slot and burnt +12 volt trace.
Posted on 2021-10-18, 02:44
Best Pics I was able to do
Re: AGP slot and burnt +12 volt trace.
Posted on 2021-10-13, 02:30
I'd be surprised if the A2 pin managed to contact the A1 pin, it looks like the spacing is ok, probably >0.5mm from the A2 pin to the edge of the A1 copper. Well I tried to test this by probing ground and then the +12 volt trace that burnt and pulling out and reseating the card and trying to move …
Re: AGP slot and burnt +12 volt trace.
Posted on 2021-10-12, 21:05
Designers are allowed to draw 1A through the 12V pin, so that's another 12W if they need the power (they can regulate it down to whatever voltage they actually need). I found a picture of an MX200 that looks like it uses the 12V for something (or at least has a track going from A1, if I've got my …
AGP slot and burnt +12 volt trace.
Posted on 2021-10-12, 02:20
I was working on a computer I got for free and trying to figure out why it wouldnt boot. I disconnected the power supply that was in the system and hooked up the seasonic I use to test many of my boards, when I started to smell that smell of burning pcb. I disconnected the psu and proceeded to look …
Re: "low-cost" PCI gaming videocard
Posted on 2021-10-05, 19:10
Tradera seems to have some okay stuff on it from time to time, better for Europeans I'd think, https://www.tradera.com/en/category/340854 I've bought a lot of vid cards this year, even though I shouldn't be buying anything really, most I've paid is $20 each for 3 NIB 6200 PCI off eBay, down to a …
Re: Blue Screen Crashing on W98 & XP Build
Posted on 2021-09-29, 22:26
I posted this link in another thread http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/PSUReviewDatabase.html its a good place to see who really made a power supply you are looking at. If you look a company like Corsair they have had 6 different companies that have made their power supplies: Channel Well …
Re: Blue Screen Crashing on W98 & XP Build
Posted on 2021-09-29, 02:51
In my experience many weird errors can be traced down to power supplies. If you dont have clean power you will rarely have a stable system. I know so many people that put tons of $$ into a system then put in the cheapest power supply they can find and then wonder why their expensive systems is so …
Re: Assorted sound card combinations
Posted on 2021-09-29, 02:20
by far the most foolproof option would be an ESS Solo-1 PCI card, i.e. the Terratec Solo-1. Common, dirt cheap and pretty foolproof - and gets you rock solid MIDI. I'm not sure how the sound quality compares with the Terratec but I got a Labway LWHA331D60 its a Solo-1 with wavetable header and pc/ …
Re: How does this Slot 1 support mount to a motherboard?
Posted on 2021-09-27, 20:16
retardware wrote on 2021-09-27, 02:19: so neither Slot 2 nor Slot B ever reached the market 👍 They made Slot 2, the Xeons were slot 2.
Re: Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard Xeon CPU support
Posted on 2021-09-26, 16:16
I have that same motherboard and I'm running a x5675 and actually getting better overclocks with it than I did with the old 950 that it replaced. I used the same settings as used in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo3uaZCFybw&ab_channel=TechYESCity on my Sabertooth and easily got 4.5 GHz …
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