Just look at all those yummy BIOS settings!

I had never seen a Phoenix bios first hand, only thing I heard about them was they wrote difficult to understand interfaces (can't see what they meant with that).

Award bios from that age do not have those settings, nevermind the excellent idea of making the turbo option adjustable.

Side note, disabling L1 cache or L2 cache or both also slows down a system a lot. Try benching the 5x86 once with both off.

Awesome system 😁 I just love high towers 😀 and extremely lovely specs. And the bios settings are smashing great 😀

I agree. Very nice system...but those face plates are just butt-ugly. You should go for matching drives and face plates. Sorry, but I discriminate against ugly computers 😜

That is how it was back then. Beautiful cases did not exist.

Either it is authentic or it is not.

Edit: That's not very nice. Editing after a reply makes the replier look like a (possible) fool. After your edit my comment doesn't make as much sense. The word "matching" is the key.

Oh, I disagree. Hardware in the 80s and 90s was VERY beautiful. Clean and modular the way it should be. Ugliness is a byproduct of upgrading.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I agree. Very nice system...but those face plates are just butt-ugly. You should go for matching drives and face plates. Sorry, but I discriminate against ugly computers 😜

When I've reached my goal...to get my Ensoniq soundscape card working along with all other cards I will change the 5.25 floppy drive and face plates to unify the look as a final touch 😁

well, PC's were ugly on mostly low quality back then compared to some other computers

Amigaz wrote:

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I agree. Very nice system...but those face plates are just butt-ugly. You should go for matching drives and face plates. Sorry, but I discriminate against ugly computers 😜

When I've reached my goal...to get my Ensoniq soundscape card working along with all other cards I will change the 5.25 floppy drive and face plates to unify the look as a final touch 😁

well, PC's were ugly on mostly low quality back then compared to some other computers...and horribly ill planned designs...it's a wonder how people couöd pay the high sums for PC parts back then..I guess people didn't know what to demand from the manafacturers in the past

I was really just trying to be humourous about the mismatched panels. I nitpick about that sort of thing, but I completely understand it is not always easy to get matching parts.

So now for a real recommendation. I can see empty RAM sockets on that ET4000W32P. You should really fill it up so you can take advantage of the bank interleaving that card is famous for.

Also, what version of norton are you running? It looks like it is definetly later than 4.x.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Oh, I disagree. Hardware in the 80s and 90s was VERY beautiful. Clean and modular the way it should be. Ugliness is a byproduct of upgrading.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and stuff. There is a definite case to be made for cases to look like this, yes. Not all cases were "one piece" even before upgrading though.

I only have to look in my memory and remember the cases of friends and people at computer clubs and this mismatching ain't that bad, heh.

The bank interleaving, yes. Amigaz that would make a difference for low resolutions as well.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I was really just trying to be humourous about the mismatched panels. I nitpick about that sort of thing, but I completely understand it is not always easy to get matching parts.

So now for a real recommendation. I can see empty RAM sockets on that ET4000W32P. You should really fill it up so you can take advantage of the bank interleaving that card is famous for.

Also, what version of norton are you running? It looks like it is definetly later than 4.x.

hehe, I felt a bit of irony in your comment 😉

samudra helped me with some RAM chips but I just got corrupt gfx with them mounted so I'm trying to find the correct type at the monent because it's one of the planned upgrades and upgrade the BIOs so my 5x86 CPU is fully recognised

samudra wrote:

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Anonymous Coward wrote:

Oh, I disagree. Hardware in the 80s and 90s was VERY beautiful. Clean and modular the way it should be. Ugliness is a byproduct of upgrading.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and stuff. There is a definite case to be made for cases to look like this, yes. Not all cases were "one piece" even before upgrading though.

I only have to look in my memory and remember the cases of friends and people at computer clubs and this mismatching ain't that bad, heh.

The bank interleaving, yes. Amigaz that would make a difference for low resolutions as well.

damn...my holy quest now is to find matching RAM 😁

Be careful with those SOJs. Make sure:

-they're FPM and not EDO
-the correct density
-at least as fast as the DRAM already installed

The EDO RAMs are pretty common. The only way to know for sure if you are scavenging another card is to look up the part number in the datasheet.

Now that's one huge tower 😜
Which application where you using for benchmark?

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I was really just trying to be humourous about the mismatched panels. I nitpick about that sort of thing, but I completely understand it is not always easy to get matching parts.

So now for a real recommendation. I can see empty RAM sockets on that ET4000W32P. You should really fill it up so you can take advantage of the bank interleaving that card is famous for.

Also, what version of norton are you running? It looks like it is definetly later than 4.x.

Forgot to mention that I'm using sysinfo from Norton Utilities 8

F2bnp wrote:

Now that's one huge tower 😜
Which application where you using for benchmark?

Yeah, it's quite tall....I'm kind of weak for these full towers..samudra made my buy two Colani designed Highscreen towers too, hehe

This Targa tower takes full size AT boards without any probs

for what app I'm using see my above reply

Amigaz, when the job is finished, you can always make it more Amiga like in its look. Since after all Amigaz is a way of saying Amigas in warez. And also I know you are a cool Amiga fan, and no wonder why you love the GUS. It sounds like the Amiga sound.

Amigaz wrote:

Yeah, it's quite tall....I'm kind of weak for these full towers..samudra made my buy two Colani designed Highscreen towers too, hehe

I forced him at gunpoint, people.

samudra wrote:

Amigaz wrote:

Yeah, it's quite tall....I'm kind of weak for these full towers..samudra made my buy two Colani designed Highscreen towers too, hehe

I forced him at gunpoint, people.

I would say you rather inspired me to buy them 😉

WolverineDK wrote:

Amigaz, when the job is finished, you can always make it more Amiga like in its look. Since after all Amigaz is a way of saying Amigas in warez. And also I know you are a cool Amiga fan, and no wonder why you love the GUS. It sounds like the Amiga sound.

Actually the case reminds me a bit of the Amiga 3000T's "bulky" look

How did you know I was a GUS-freak? 😁

Playing .mod music thru the GUS rocks...I prefer the to play for example Pinball Fantasies on the PC because of the GUS plays the music with more richness
It's pretty amazing though what you can squeeze out of the Amiga's Paula custom chips which are dated way back to 1985....you can squeeze out 14bit stereo sound out of an Amiga with it's built in sound