Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-04-09, 22:21

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Just moved and got my office all set up: Comp Area 1.jpg Work from home and modern workstation on the right and retro setups on the left Comp Area 2.jpg CRT and keyboard and mouse setup for my retro rigs Comp Area 3.jpg Left Top is 486 100mhz Top Right SS7 K6-3+ Voodoo3 Middle Horizontal is K6-2+ …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 AGP under performing?

Posted on 2020-10-07, 15:25

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Video

I vaguely remember seeing a video from Phil's computer lab where he ran into the issue of an AGP card showing up as PCI and that limited performance for him as well. I am not sure if it was driver related or chipset

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-01, 20:02

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by mbliss11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would lean more towards SS7 for DOS compatibility. You have a really good range of processors and with a MMX or a K6+ cpu you can use setmul to really dial in for speed sensitive games. For a pure DOS PC SS7 is the way to go I think. 440BX is touted as being an ultra stable chipset over those that …

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Re: AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header

Posted on 2020-09-22, 01:57

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Sound

Just did this mod this evening. Thanks for the inspiration and the detailed instructions!! Works great 😀

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Re: Geforce AGP + Voodoo 3 PCI @ VIA MVP3 and Win98SE

Posted on 2020-09-21, 13:00

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Video

Second on Hardware profiles. I have that setup in my Win98 Tualatin build. AGP Geforce 4 Ti4200 and a PCI Voodoo3. If I want to play any glide games i go into the bios and switch primary video to Voodoo3 and then load hardware profile that has that enabled and the geforce disabled. Reverse for using …

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Re: PCI Cards faster than AGP on Epox ep-mvp3c2 SS7 DOS Benchmarks

Posted on 2020-09-15, 02:48

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by mbliss11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

UPDATE: Did some more testing today testing in Win98 FutureMark99 TNT M64 AGP 3110 6904 TNT M64 AGPVIA4-1 Driver Standard 3146 6893 TNT M64 AGP VIA4-1 Turbo 3150 6947 TNTM64 PCI 3111 6835 DOS: AGP - 3DBENCHV2 - 272, Quake 640x480 17.3 PCI - 3DBENCHV2 - 388, Quake 640/480 22.8 No K6WC or other MTRRs …

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PCI Cards faster than AGP on Epox ep-mvp3c2 SS7 DOS Benchmarks

Posted on 2020-09-14, 11:25

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by mbliss11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a new board over the weekend and I am trying to figure out a quirk that it has related to AGP and DOS benchmarks. It appears that the AGP slot is somehow crippled in performance compared to PCI. Board is an Epox EP-MVP3C2 with BIOS VP3C0C21 from "CPU Upgrade: Getting the AMD K6-2+ / K6-III+ to …

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Re: Dell Optiplex 466/L assistance needed

Posted on 2020-09-07, 12:51

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by mbliss11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Isn't the 466 a 486 machine? I just did a quick google search and those pointed to it being a 486. I have an Optiplex GL5100 which is a socket 5. Have you opened it up and checked out what the socket says?

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Re: PCI Power Filter Card - Linus Tech Tips Video

Posted on 2020-09-04, 11:58

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Sound

Ultimately they determined that there wasn't any distinguishable difference in their test bench which made sense but it got me thinking about older builds. Looking at a few socket 7 boards I had lying around I was curious if this thing could actually do anything for retro builds... I'm going to …

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PCI Power Filter Card - Linus Tech Tips Video

Posted on 2020-09-04, 00:43

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Sound

I just watched a video on LTT doing a review of a $40 PCI card claiming to improve audio quality of PC audio by cleaning out power signal noise See Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZzIqiwisY Ultimately they determined that there wasn't any distinguishable difference in their test bench which …

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Re: Starting DOS games freezes the PC

Posted on 2020-08-31, 20:28

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Software

I don't like Phil's startup files in general - too many options which have no practical use, but technically, they should work fine. Ruling out sound-related problems is indeed a good way to start. Crusader games and Mortal Kombat games all have "no sound" options. Do the games run fine this way? …

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Re: How do YOU mount your CF2IDE card?

Posted on 2020-08-30, 14:27

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by mbliss11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is another pic of my 486 (right) and SS7 (left). The 486 has CF and the SS7 has SD. The seller on ebay that does the 3d printing for the SD cards also has them in other colors but they didn't really match my cases. Filename Front Drive Bay.jpg File size 1.6 MiB Views 1382 views

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Re: How do YOU mount your CF2IDE card?

Posted on 2020-08-30, 14:15

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I like having front access to the drives. I was able to dig up a 3.5 CF2IDE bracket and mount that into a 3.5 to 5.25 bay on my Win95 and DOS rig. There is also an ebay seller who does 3d prints for a similar bracket but for SD cards as well. If you have a 3d printer I believe he listed the project …

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Re: Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-24, 11:30

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey canthearu! Hard drive size limitations was one of the first things I remember discovering after I first started getting into the hobby. My socket 5 has an 8gig limitation which is unfortunate in my 95 installation however I recently discovered dynamic disk overlay software and was able to …

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Re: Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-24, 10:55

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the insight Creepingnet! Networking is one thing that I have yet to get into with my rigs but it has always interested me. I was able to get a few nic cards late last year with drivers up on a few of my 98 machines but I noticed afterwards their boot times increased significantly as a …

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Re: Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-23, 00:12

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the suggestions! I have been playing around with Daemon tools on my SS7 build for a bit but am having trouble getting CD audio working. Thinking that it could just be a limitation with the chipset but I will have to do some more experiments. That is awesome that you got the terminal …

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Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-22, 19:20

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey everyone! I am starting to finally settle on a few of my machines and will be giving them a permanent home on my desk. I am starting to look for applications or other mods to make using these old treasures more enjoyable. I recently discovered cdbq which is an excellent dos application that can …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-08-10, 23:50

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey Mumak - thanks for all of your hard work! I was wondering if you could help with a troubleshooting issue that HWINFO is strangely fixing for me. I have an old Optiplex GL5100 and a Voodoo3 PCI running in a pure DOS environment. For some reason the board/bios will not detect the Voodoo3's VBE …

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Re: Voodoo 3 PCI Socket 5 Issues

Posted on 2020-08-10, 17:24

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Video

After more research I stumbled upon this post with someone having similar issues to what I am experiencing but with a Voodoo5 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62560&p=700450&hilit=hwinfo%20univbe#p700450 He ran HWINFO and everything seemed to work after that. Super super strange. There …

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Re: Voodoo 3 PCI Socket 5 Issues

Posted on 2020-08-10, 14:40

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by mbliss11

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in Marvin \ Video

Hey Serpent Rider! Thanks for the suggestion and I think you are on to something. No luck with NOLFB but I used HWINFO to check out details of the card and when I launch benchmarks and other tests sure enough everything works just fine. Wondering if HWINFO has UNIVBE or something similar. I am going …

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