Re: ATX PSU's for older systems
Posted on 2013-12-13, 01:42
Isn't here a guide for building a simple -5v source?
Discussion of using actual old hardware belongs in the Marvin section of the forum
Posted on 2013-12-11, 19:21
Old hardware discussion belongs in the Marvin section of the forum.
Re: Needing the final word on V5 compliant mobos
Posted on 2013-12-11, 04:29
I run one on a MSI KT3 Ultra2 which is KT333. KT333 is the fastest Socket A chipset you can use, but from what I've read some KT333 are actually relabeled KT400 and will not work with 3.3v cards. KT3 Ultra2 fully recognizes my Athlon XP-M 2500+ too. It surprised me at least.
Re: 16 bit sound in DOS games, was that 'a thing'?
Posted on 2013-12-10, 00:23
98 and later support digital cd audio via ATA bus. USB too. I haven't used it much myself but that is what I find while searching.
Re: The timbre of PC Speaker sound
Posted on 2013-12-09, 18:37
Re: VESA Local Bus And/Or ISA Video?
Posted on 2013-12-09, 18:24
I almost bought a Soundman Wave back in '94 or whatever. I had Logitech's free demo audio CD with recordings of how amazing your PC could sound with a Soundman Wave. I think it was FM synthesis vs their semi-competent wavetable. One of those old things I should never have thrown out! Interesting …
Re: Athlon XP really retro?
Posted on 2013-12-09, 01:16
cdoublejj wrote: i don't think it's an IDE driver cause all the AHCI function are turned on. Specifically - which NVIDIA chipset do you have?
Re: Let's tinker with pre Core 2 Duo Windows XP era platforms
Posted on 2013-12-08, 05:09
Well I guess from what's in my junk pile, my preferred "pre-Core 2" XP setup would be my DFI NF4 Ultra-D with Opteron 170. In the photos it has 4GB RAM which is tricky to pull off with 939 (picky about RAM). This Opteron 170 will do about 2.5GHz on stock voltage. The chipset cooler is a Thermalright …
Re: VESA Local Bus And/Or ISA Video?
Posted on 2013-12-07, 20:15
Not exactly. Pricing was spread out similar to today but today a low end card serves most users as well as a top end 3D card because they don't need the 3D. Back then you would get garbage at the low end and the high end GUI cards (or just more color depth and resolution) cost a lot of money and …
Re: Athlon XP really retro?
Posted on 2013-12-07, 07:44
I think you are probably best off with the stock Windows IDE driver. But I do like the Ethernet drivers in his packs. I saw CPU usage reduction in Win7 on nF4 when transferring at full gigabit speed, compared to the driver 7 includes.
Re: VESA Local Bus And/Or ISA Video?
Posted on 2013-12-07, 06:24
Windows wasn't uncommon on 486s. Most 486s spent their time running Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95. This was the beginning of the age of not needing to know anything about DOS to use a store-bought PC.
Re: VESA Local Bus And/Or ISA Video?
Posted on 2013-12-07, 04:31
Yeah asking for more than 1280x1024 is very tricky with VLB. I have no idea which cards would provide sharp output at that resolution. I don't think I ever ran a VLB card above 1024x768. Definitely not anything from Trident of the mid'90s. I also doubt any Cirrus Logic cards were designed with that …
Re: VESA Local Bus And/Or ISA Video?
Posted on 2013-12-07, 04:13
The ET4000 to get is ET4000/W32p. That is the top model AFAIK and it does do GUI acceleration and is very nice in DOS. But I seem to remember it being annoying to configure the refresh rate in Windows 9x. I think I needed a DOS utility to do it? Maybe a non-issue with a 60Hz LCD though. I've used …
Re: VESA Local Bus And/Or ISA Video?
Posted on 2013-12-06, 21:10
I think the best card you could ask for would be a S3 Trio64 VLB. These are very capable chips and should have the least headaches included.
Re: VESA Local Bus And/Or ISA Video?
Posted on 2013-12-06, 20:21
STX wrote: The whole system went into the dumpster when I moved though. In retrospect, I should've kept that system and instead discarded some college textbooks since everything worth knowing is on Wikipedia now. 😎
Re: Athlon XP really retro?
Posted on 2013-12-06, 19:40
They are just a mix of driver versions newer than the official NVIDIA downloads. If you are running a SSD on an nForce chipset it is probably running at SATA 150 rate. The chipsets don't work properly with SSDs for some reason. This isn't really a practical issue though because the main benefit of …
Re: Athlon XP really retro?
Posted on 2013-12-05, 20:25
It's the VIA AGP that is apparently the problem. nForce2 performs better. Though I only tested GDI performance. I don't know of 3D is indeed slow too. That is something that reviewers would have exposed I think. Few reviews looked at 2D speed. In fact the Tom2D benchmark was born from the question …
Re: Athlon XP really retro?
Posted on 2013-12-05, 17:05
http://www.win-raid.com/t15f37-NVIDIA-Optimized-nForce-Driverpacks-for-Vista-Win.html If someone is willing to give them a try. I'll be free to play with my hardware around Christmas :( But ... ha, I do "steal" some time at work to read the forum :) I have used these on nForce4 and its siblings …
Re: Athlon XP really retro?
Posted on 2013-12-05, 17:03
Hey it just occurred to me that in my quest to figure out why VIA seems sluggish I did some 2D GUI speed tests years ago. I even posted about it here and the thread is still buried here. Essentially VIA AGP causes performance degradation for the 2D GUI acceleration of graphics cards. I used a …
Re: ATA DMA modes
Posted on 2013-12-03, 20:23
d1stortion wrote: Any comments on the benchmarks I've posted? I want to see what performance difference DMA would make on my Socket 7 PC, but don't know why I can't enable it... What is the deal with the 500MB/s result??? 😎
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