Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-09, 14:50

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by TrashPanda

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There I was just casually looking through GPU lots on eBay and what do I spot ... A lot with a ASUS V6600 Geforce 256, Geforce 6800 Ultra, 2 x 9800 Pro, 9600 Pro, ATI Rage Pro + 5 other AGP/PCI gpus I cant Identify from the pictures but one looks very similar to the Geforce 256 so perhaps another …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-09, 13:35

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Also picked up a Promise Sata 300 TX4 PCI to add some sata ports to the system, IDE to Sata adaptors give me migraines . Why ? (genuinly curious) I have had varying degrees of success with them, 90% of the time its that the motherboard simply cannot get along with the sata to ide conversion which …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-09, 11:55

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by TrashPanda

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Just bought this nice Radeon 9800 XXL Seems to be just below a 9800 XT in specs, hoping it'll be a decent match for a P3 1ghz system, putting Voodoo 2 SLI into it as well for some Glide sexiness. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/medion-9800-xxl.b283 Also picked up a Promise Sata 300 TX4 PCI to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-09, 03:39

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by TrashPanda

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So if I got one of those does that fit like a US XXL or a Chinese and I'll need to go to 3X ?? One Size fits All !! I was after a 9800 XT but well they are either stupidly expensive or hard to find on eBay, this card is close enough and cost 50 bucks which was cheap compared to the other options.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-09, 03:20

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Just bought this nice Radeon 9800 XXL Seems to be just below a 9800 XT in specs, hoping it'll be a decent match for a P3 1ghz system, putting Voodoo 2 SLI into it as well for some Glide sexiness. https://i.imgur.com/Pm4qtLI.jpg (sellers photo) https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/medion-9800-xxl. …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-12-07, 16:02

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There are roughly a hundred Voodoo 5 6000 in existence. A quarter of them is in the possession of just 3 people! If I owned all 100 Voodoo 5 6000s I would destroy 99 of them. This would make the final card literally priceless. I could charge anything I liked for it. Millions and millions of dollars …

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Re: Hard Card restoration questions

Posted on 2021-12-07, 04:19

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The logistics of taking a old proprietary HDD format and trying to rig it on to a modern SDD or CF makes me want to run and hide, the old formatting was unique to each HDD as every bad sector had to be mapped out at the factory before the drive could be formatted and each drive was unique and had …

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Re: Asrock 4CoreDual SATA II / Windows 98 SE issues

Posted on 2021-12-07, 01:37

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Could be something to do with these hybrid boards, the AGP on them isnt actually AGP but AGP emulated via the PCIe bus, WinXP doesnt have issues as it has native PCIe handling . .Win98 does not, so 98 is expecting the AGP bus to behave exactly like AGP should but the AGP via PCIe doesnt behave 100% …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-12-06, 15:12

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My view is this... If you don't want to pay eBay prices, then you will usually need to shop elsewhere. However, there are still good/great deals to be found on eBay, it is just not as common as it used to be. The government giving out "free" money doesn't help. If you are selling and ascribe to the …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-12-06, 13:22

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or for a grossly inflated price. That is the worst kind of hoarding, IMO. Welcome to capitalism! Your first time here? Perhaps they reside in a uhm non capitalist country and the entire concept is foreign to them. Im not sure what the rules are here about political stuff so ill side on the side of …

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Re: Pentium 3 Tualatin boards

Posted on 2021-12-06, 13:11

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Its a PC Chips M700 Rebadged to Amptron with the SiS 635t chipset. Its been recapped and aside from lacking some minor overclocking features is a great board, DDR + SDR, AGP 4x and Tualatin support.[/] Seems to me I will be keeping my eye out for a QDI Advance 12t on eBay or another SiS 635t board, …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-12-06, 08:31

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Guy , can you imagine either WATA games, or a company similar to that, snoop around here. And perhaps will try make it a bubble just like the video game auction bubble. That Karl Jobst is basically showing , how insane things are at the moment ? Cause that is what I see with "popular or rare …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-12-06, 08:24

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Trying to figure out why this nice 486 motherboard doesn't want to boot. It shows no signs of life. I don't have much experience in troubleshooting a motherboard with PCI/ISA diagnostic card. Does anyone know what do codes C7 (left) and C5 (right) mean? EDIT: I've added a better picture of the …

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Re: 3dfx Velocity 100

Posted on 2021-12-05, 13:06

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What an odd little GPU, from reading about it its essentially a scaled back Voodoo 3 2000 catering to the business market. Perhaps 3DFX at the time felt that diversifying their market would help with their cash woes. Its great that you can mod it via software, I still remember being able to do …

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Re: Voodoo 5 emulation

Posted on 2021-12-05, 12:17

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It's not all that useful to emulate Voodoo 5 fully in software. I wonder what would be more likely to be released sooner or later: PCem-like emulation or FPGA Voodoo5? Why even bother with all that .. there is a guy who reverse engineered a ES sample Voodoo 5 6000 and built one for himself, IIRC he …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-12-05, 11:59

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by TrashPanda

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Trying to figure out why this nice 486 motherboard doesn't want to boot. It shows no signs of life. I don't have much experience in troubleshooting a motherboard with PCI/ISA diagnostic card. Does anyone know what do codes C7 (left) and C5 (right) mean? Is that board capable of running a Dx4-100 ?> …

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Re: NVIDIA GeForce 5900 triage and repair

Posted on 2021-12-05, 10:16

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by TrashPanda

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That dropped corner in the last picture doesnt look great, I would be curious if its split the PCB further back internally where the traces are. Would they really put traces between the hole and the corner? Its possible the PCB has cracked internally from being dropped on that corner, you can see …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-05, 00:05

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This weird little card - sound + gameport + VGA to composite video - seller's pics. card.jpg ports.jpg card_and_cables.jpg I don't think it actually needs a driver. Looks to me like the VGA to RCA will always be active. One end of the cable goes to the video card, one to this weird little card, and …

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Re: Pentium 3 Tualatin boards

Posted on 2021-12-04, 23:45

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by TrashPanda

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Its a PC Chips M700 Rebadged to Amptron with the SiS 635t chipset. Its been recapped and aside from lacking some minor overclocking features is a great board, DDR + SDR, AGP 4x and Tualatin support. Seems to me I will be keeping my eye out for a QDI Advance 12t on eBay or another SiS 635t board, one …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-04, 14:51

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-12-04, 14:35: TrashPanda wrote on 2021-12-04, 07:10: They all appear to be working, so now I just have to figure out what to do with 8 Dualhead G450s Well now you only need 16x 50" panels and an airtime expired helicopter for the cockpit. Oh Shit Now you done it BRB …

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