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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-04, 05:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recently picked up this fascinating VLB card. Gotta say, it’s pretty darn fast. I haven’t tried out video acceleration, but I’m curious to see how well the Vision868 does. I have wanted to test an 868 for a while. I suspect that the 868 can be tuned with MCLK a bit. Right now it seems slightly …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-23, 17:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally found a board I've been hunting for some time: the FIC PA-2007. I've had a lot of luck with the FIC VA-502 I picked up recently and figured it's time to try out its bigger sibling. The VA-502 a really fast board for what it is, and it does indeed excel with Cyrix 6x86s. This is pretty …

Alaris Tornado 2 VIP 486 Motherboard VRM(?) Issues

Posted on 2022-02-04, 00:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone, I recently came across an Alaris Tornado 2 VIP board. Unfortunately, my photos of the board are too big to host natively, so here's an imgur link with a bunch of higher-res photos of what we're dealing with. It's quite the interesting one, being made by the same Alaris that made the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-21, 19:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yah, I was trying to look that board up but kept getting swamped with socket 7 aladdin chipset boards... and google is so damn hard to work around now, search for an R7 260 for example and it will tell you that you wanted to look for R7 260x, no you say "R7 260" (Which quotes should be like sudo …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-21, 18:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

and an "ultra" small 486 PCI motherboard with onboard Cyrix 5x86: https://i.imgur.com/PB2udppl.jpg Nothing tested so far... but I hope everything is functional - it better be! :lol: That 486 board is so strange! No jumpers, and the "Aladdin" marking makes it even more interesting, especially since …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-18, 16:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally picked up a motherboard I’ve been curious about for some time: the Alaris Leopard VX/Tornado LX. Apparently, this board has a matching CPU/interposer setup that allows it to run an IBM BL3 . Fascinating. I have an Alaris Cougar, so that’s not a bother, but I’d be interested to find one of …

Re: Does the Cyrix Cx486DX-50 actually exist?

Posted on 2022-01-06, 16:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just looked into it. AMD had the 40MHz DX, but sadly no 50. I see. Interesting. That probably makes sense, as the AMD DX-40 was not exactly the most well-regarded chip, by all accounts I’ve read. Any evidence of those Cyrix DX-50 chips actually being available on the market back in the era? Or …

Re: Does the Cyrix Cx486DX-50 actually exist?

Posted on 2022-01-05, 04:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I won’t lie, the fact that Cyrix even considered a DX-50 intrigued me, and that’s really what prompted me to inquire. I feel as if the Intel DX-50 has a (somewhat deserved?) black sheep status amongst its peers and I figured a Cyrix equivalent would be even more interesting. I can’t say I’ve seen an …

Re: Does the Cyrix Cx486DX-50 actually exist?

Posted on 2022-01-03, 01:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I see, that definitely makes sense. I figured insofar as that those collectors' photos were evidence of its existence, but have been wondering why they're so elusive; it seems as if the Cyrix DX-50 is up there in rarity with some of the true oddities of the 486 world like the UMC U5SD or Cyrix 5x86- …

Does the Cyrix Cx486DX-50 actually exist?

Posted on 2022-01-02, 23:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all, I know this sounds like a foolish question, but I've been looking around here and there and have never seen a Cyrix DX-50 CPU. There's a few references out there to this particular CPU, namely on x86-guide here and on CPU-World here . From what I understand--and from my personal …

Does anyone know what SS4/SS5 refers to on the ELSA XHR Winner 1000?

Posted on 2021-12-20, 02:03

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hey all, I recently acquired an ELSA XHR Winner 1000 convertible and it's really a wonderful card; more than I could've hoped for, certainly. I was messing with some dip switch settings after upgrading the card to 2MB of VRAM and noticed that one is titled SS4/SS5. Does anyone know what this refers …

Re: Latest datecode on 486 chipsets

Posted on 2021-12-01, 20:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry to revive such an old thread, but I figured I'd contribute this oddity. Recently, I purchased this American Predator Corporation Predator 747. It has a Chips & Technologies F84041 chipset, and a date code of 9944. Corvalent, which appears to be American Predator post-rebrand , sells this same …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-03, 22:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just picked up this neat board. This photo is the seller's. I use an APC Predator I Plus as my main 386/486 board right now and it gives excellent performance. That board has a Symphony Haydn II chipset, and a similar layout with two VLB slots at the bottom of the board. The jumpering is simple, and …

Re: Hunting elusive EISA Video cards

Posted on 2021-10-14, 17:43

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have the Mach32 in nearly all bus variants which were available (MCA and PCI excluded). Not getting much usage though, more or less just display items. 4.jpg Whoa, what a gorgeous array of cards! I find it very interesting that the Mach32s all were advertised with the Graphics Ultra Pro on the …

Re: Hunting elusive EISA Video cards

Posted on 2021-10-11, 03:39

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thing is, when cross comparing the different busses, you really need to make sure that everything is running at the same exact speed on the cards themselves which is likely to never happen. I have an ISA Tseng ET4000 card that has a jumper for a "turbo" mode which makes the performance of that card …

Re: Chips and Technologies CT-65545 (VLB) - slower or faster than potential ISA cards?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 22:48

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I can’t say I have any experience with the Chips 65545, but I’ve extensively used a Chips 64300 VLB card. From what I’ve read, they seem to be similar; both are 32-bit cores and have 32-bit memory interfaces, but the 65545 appears to be a later generation card and clocked a smidgen higher. Speaking …

Re: Hunting elusive EISA Video cards

Posted on 2021-10-10, 21:34

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

When you are planning a VL/EISA build, add an EISA SCSI adapter (like the Adaptec 2740W or 2742W) and a VL graphics card. EISA graphic cards are rare and VL ones are more common and faster. That’s definitely the plan for normal use! I have been hunting EISA graphics cards as I’d like to benchmark …

Help Finding Driver for Media Vision Pro Graphics 1024

Posted on 2021-10-10, 19:28

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hey everyone, So I’ve come across a Media Vision Pro Graphics 1024 and have been struggling to find Windows 3.1 drivers for this thing. They seem to be lost to time. I found a reference to the files on the former Media Vision FTP, and the file name is apparently PGWIN15.EXE. Apparently, there were a …

Re: Hunting elusive EISA Video cards

Posted on 2021-10-10, 19:20

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

My sincerest apologies for bumping a very old thread here, but I find this topic quite interesting and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or advice on how to find EISA video cards. I don’t want to create a new thread, as my interest is much the same as slaynmage’s. I’d like to know if it’s …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-30, 18:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice find on the Mach64 VLB... especially boxed. Now you just need to upgrade it to 4MB. I've only got the "lowly" MACH32 but I do have an ISA MACH64. Thank you! I have seen the 2MB upgrades floating around, but the particular part numbers seem hard to find. Perhaps I can poach one off a PCI card, …

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