LewisRaz wrote on 2020-03-05, 22:18:Saw an add on FB market "does anyone buy old computers?"
Well yes. I do!
£30 later and I have picked this up:
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Saw an add on FB market "does anyone buy old computers?"
Well yes. I do!
£30 later and I have picked this up:
I am a sucker for matching monitors!
I already have a compaq kb/mouse.
Was very surprised to see an AGP slot although it appears to only take compaq shaped cards.
the specs are 350mhz p2. 128mb ram ATI rage pro (not sure on memory but it does have expansion slot on the card.) and 6gb HDD.
Nothing really of note but a nice system that will become my primary retro gaming rig. Once I have got rid of windows ME!
I own the 266MHZ variant of that. Mine is currently configured as follows:
* 266MHZ Intel Pentium II
* STB Velocity 128 8MB (NVIDIA RiVA 128)
* STB BlackMagic II (3DFX Voodoo2 12MB)
* Creative Labs Soundblaster LIVE Gold (1st generation, for Windows sound)
* Creative Labs AWE64 Value PnP (for DOS Audio)
* 256MB Memory
* 40GB HDD
* 12xish CD-ROM
* Windows 98 SE
You can take the bracket off of the RAGE Pro and fit it onto the variant of the STB Velocity 128 that looks like this:
That little piece of blank cut out PCB on the lower end needs to be removed, it doesnt do anything and it wont fit into the case with it on there. The Diamond Viper V330 also has a variant like this. There is actually a name for this form factor of video card but I've long forgotten it. There are also some Matrox cards that exist in this form factor. Alot of them actually but they are all 2D cards as far as I know. The 128 is really your best option for D3D/OGL video acceleration. If you install a sound card you can run the CD ROM audio cable over the center divider in the case, it will bend slightly but it wont hurt anything long term. I run my CD audio to the AWE64 and use the WDM drivers for the LIVE so it can bitstream the CD audio digitally. The onboard soundcard actually is somewhat DOS capable and it can cause problems with add in ISA sound as it has full IRQ and DMA allocation, I keep it disabled in the BIOs.
Note, these things have a VERY annoying case locking solenoid. Its BIOS operated and when its engaged no force from heaven nor hell will open that case. If your BIOs should ever become locked or inaccessible with that thing engaged you can very carefully guide a flathead screwdriver through the rear vent holes and pop out the CMOS battery and reboot the PC. The default BIOs settings will unlock the case.
Cyb3rst0rms Retro Hardware Warzone: https://discord.gg/jK8uvR4c
I used to own over 160 graphics card, I've since recovered from graphics card addiction