Re: I need help to repair an old NV RIVA TNT2 Pro/32M card

Posted on 2023-06-27, 15:48

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by Trashbytes

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Shes Dead Jim, no seriously this looks to be far worse than some dead Vram, likely the BGA balls under the GPU die have cracked, these are very simple cards so there isn't much that can go wrong with them. (usually its dead Vram which still displays an image but with corruption, fully corrupted …

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

Posted on 2023-06-27, 13:38

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by Trashbytes

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Inspecting this MS-6168 board, it does post but the caps... Same old story so time to replace them all. Im in a slightly similar spot with a Gigabyte GA-8I875 P4 Titan board I got in the mail today, at least 6 caps need to be replaced due to bloating but what I didnt notice till it arrived was that …

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Re: socket 370 i815 pentium 3 1 ghz coppermine or Athlon Xp 1600 for windows 98 gaming system

Posted on 2023-06-27, 01:55

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by Trashbytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Athlon XP 1600+ with DDR is much faster than PIII 1Ghz. The extra speed isn't really necessary in Windows 98, but it isn't good enough for Windows XP. Since you won't get the benefit of an ISA sound card in DOS, I would go with the Athlon XP. GeForce 4 MX 440 will be sufficient. As for the …

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

Posted on 2023-06-27, 01:34

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by Trashbytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Inspecting this MS-6168 board, it does post but the caps... Same old story so time to replace them all. Im in a slightly similar spot with a Gigabyte GA-8I875 P4 Titan board I got in the mail today, at least 6 caps need to be replaced due to bloating but what I didnt notice till it arrived was that …

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Re: socket 370 i815 pentium 3 1 ghz coppermine or Athlon Xp 1600 for windows 98 gaming system

Posted on 2023-06-26, 16:27

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by Trashbytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Athlon 1600 and KT266 with a Geforce 4 would make for a pretty good Win98 gaming rig and the extra processing power will come in handy if you hit a more demanding game or want to play in a higher resolution.

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

Posted on 2023-06-26, 15:38

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by Trashbytes

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It's not that I don't consider them retro, it's just that I can't see the point to these.. I started building a Socket AM2 system myself with an HD 4890 at some point and realized it did nothing that my current AM4 / RX6700XT can't do.. a random more modern machine can do almost anything any PC of …

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

Posted on 2023-06-26, 13:06

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by Trashbytes

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It's not that I don't consider them retro, it's just that I can't see the point to these.. I started building a Socket AM2 system myself with an HD 4890 at some point and realized it did nothing that my current AM4 / RX6700XT can't do.. True I suppose, not that I ever see it that way as a hobby, I …

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

Posted on 2023-06-26, 11:50

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by Trashbytes

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Spent the day setting up and working on two builds based around the parts below, I dont know if people here will consider these as "Retro" but I think anything before Sandybridge is close enough. A AMD build based around the ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe and the Athlon X2 6400+ 3.2Ghz CPU, the Radeon 4870x2 I …

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Re: Radeon 9800 Pro or Mx440 for Win 98 SE gaming

Posted on 2023-06-20, 13:12

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by Trashbytes

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You know, I had this exact conundrum a while back when I was trying to pick between a slower PCI-graphics card and a Radeon 9200 for a system with a slot 1-motherboard. It's important to note that some slot 1-boards with VIA chipsets do actually support higher front-side-bus speeds with the proper …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-20, 05:50

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by Trashbytes

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...Should definitely make a video about the GeForve this month. There's actually a GeForve 256?? I thought it was a typo. Typo 😉 Nexxen is not the first Vogons user to joke about it. I will change my signature because it's outdated... and i have more systems, like one for every year. So I can't …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-20, 05:04

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by Trashbytes

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Yeah I wish I could find more info on how they did it, Asrock is well known for doing some cool stuff with hardware .. like their true Hybrid AGP/PCIe boards or their Upgrade boards that could use a daughter board to upgrade the motherboard to a newer socket.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-20, 04:50

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by Trashbytes

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Funnily enough Asrock got SLI working on AGP, they had a skunk Works board at a tech demo show displaying it working, it was AGP 8x only since that version did technically support multiple AGP devices as part of the paper standard. It never went anywhere as PCIe had just been released and AGP was …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-20, 04:27

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by Trashbytes

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Being a reputable seller I'm willing to give them the benefit of doubt, its possible they could have had something serious happen to them, I remember a time I bought two 1400s Tualatins from a seller, took a month to get a reply even after eBay had refunded me, turns out the seller who was a top …

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Re: Socket A: Nvidia vs Via - battle of the platforms!

Posted on 2023-06-20, 04:07

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by Trashbytes

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Not trying to be rude but walls of text are difficult to read, some paragraphs would help immensely with readability.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-20, 01:41

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by Trashbytes

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wow its a small world, its a great article about how the SLI VSA cards work internally, the Fury MAXX communicates between each GPU via the AGP bus as it doesnt have a bridge chip or any interchip pci lanes , its a truly weird card hardware wise and quite amazing ATI even got it work as well as it …

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Re: Best ISA Sound Cards to Pair with Dream Blaster X2 GS ?

Posted on 2023-06-19, 15:17

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by Trashbytes

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Thats like saying All Gasoline work equally on all Cars. Some cars ( games ) require specific MIDI audio components and sound cards To best be heard as the composers of the Music intended. Any music composed to the General MIDI specification should work on any General MIDI device. That's the whole …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-19, 14:56

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by Trashbytes

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What was the maximum number of VSA100 chips that could theoretically be on one card together? If that is a known data...I suspect that there is a diminishing return for having lots of chips due to inter-chip communication. 4 was quite a challenge and IIRC they never fully resolved all the issues, …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-19, 14:55

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by Trashbytes

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Not every seller on eBay is out to screw you over and there are a good number of good and reputable retro hardware guys on there just looking to shift their parts to other like minded people. Try not to be so jaded, sometimes just talking to the seller will quickly tell you which is which and can …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-19, 12:19

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by Trashbytes

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What was the maximum number of VSA100 chips that could theoretically be on one card together? If that is a known data...I suspect that there is a diminishing return for having lots of chips due to inter-chip communication. 4 was quite a challenge and IIRC they never fully resolved all the issues, …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-06-19, 11:22

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by Trashbytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I absolutely would sell it without a second thought. I'm not so much a hardware collector, not very much into Voodoo cards either and as long as there are people willing to pay the price of a couple of years old economy car for one, I'm willing to accept it. I would too, even at the 5,300 above its …

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