kithylin wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

This is the 6th Geforce 8800 GTX I have bought this winter... and the 3rd working one. Finally I can mess around with G80 tripp […]
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This is the 6th Geforce 8800 GTX I have bought this winter... and the 3rd working one.
Finally I can mess around with G80 tripple SLI.

XFX Pine Group Geforce 8800 GTX. The factory OC for this card is 630/1000 up from 575/900.
The GPU on the Geforce 8800 Ultra is only clocked at 612 MHz so this card should be just as fast.
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Make sure the clock speeds on both core and memory all match, nvidia SLI is picky about this on all generations of cards, new and old. You can put mismatched overclocked/not-overclocked cards together, but unless you manually match the clocks, you'll see bluescreens and crashes and all sorts of nastiness.

Good to know.
I will sort that with MSI Afterburner 😀

I did run SLI with two 8800 GTX with different clocks without issues when I built my "2006 system" but that was probably the exception that proves the rule.

Skyscraper wrote:

Good to know.
I will sort that with MSI Afterburner 😀

I did run SLI with two 8800 GTX with different clocks without issues when I built my "2006 system" but that was probably the exception that proves the rule.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Some games and benchmarks are more sensitive to it than others, vantage and crysis are the ones that don't like mismatched speeds and crash on it, vantage causes BSOD and requires cold reboot. That's all I can remember off the top of my head, it's been years since I had a 3-way SLI Setup a while back (was nvidia gts-350 SLI). Best way to be safe is just match clocks and then rest assured no issues.

Well.... Must admit that, at a price of 16,29 US-Dollars including shipping.
I could not help my self. Must see what's all the fuzz is, regarding AWE64's.
A big plus is the sellers return policy (14 day's money back), and the waranty
wich is as far as i remember right now, 12 months. Can't beat that.
Ohhh... And it's tested and promised in working order... 16,29, can't beat it.

Delivery is 25 or 26 this month. Ohhh... yeah. 😜

kithylin wrote:

Make sure the clock speeds on both core and memory all match, nvidia SLI is picky about this on all generations of cards, new and old. You can put mismatched overclocked/not-overclocked cards together, but unless you manually match the clocks, you'll see bluescreens and crashes and all sorts of nastiness.

+1. You might also have to flash that GTX to show up as an "Ultra." nVidia drivers do not officially support any mismatched SKU combinations (like 8800GTX + Ultra), even if the clocks match (it isn't as flexible as CrossFire). There are driver hacks available that will over-ride that, but I don't remember if they support G80. I think they're still hosted on TPU, among other sources, if you end up needing that.

Also go with ForceWare 180 or later, as they removed the requirement for the cards to be from the same vendor (e.g. all Asus), and this also (theoretically) fixed things for mis-matched clocks on the same SKU (e.g. you have a BFG OC and a stock-standard Asus 8800GT together). I've had no problems with my PNY + Dell 7900GS combo in testing with "newer" (not that FW180 is really all that new nowadays) drivers, but the only real difference between those cards is the manufacturer ID string.

Bought old mb for 5 euros. Mb itself was scrap because it was really badly corroded from leaking barrell-battery... But took these from it

Genoa WindowsVGA 24 Model 8500 w 1mb, 4 pcs Intel sims (upper), 4 pcs Hyundai sims (lower) and 486DX 33

A small upgrade for my T3200SX... As I'm assuming I can use a co-processor intended for faster systems, it worked on my desktop anyway and I can't see any reason why it wouldn't just operate at the systems 16MHz clock.

Just bought this beauty on ebay, technically just because of the case but let's see... 😀

nemail wrote:

Just bought this beauty on ebay, technically just because of the case but let's see... 😀

That is a groovy case - a 486 in there going by the era of that 'intel inside' sticker?

yeah, 486-25SX

kinda crappy 😀

a 387sx-25.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251383579986?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I wonder why that one, and related items in the list on that page, never showed up in my search...?

Doesn't matter, I'm happy with what I have bought anyway - or I will be if it doesn't turn up in a million pieces, on fire or invisible.

Alright guys.. Not sure where this one should go, but I've posted this kinda thing here last year and the year before...

!!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!!

Those with heart conditions may want to skip this post. Heart palpitations are likely, with slight dizziness, drooling and high probability of seizure.

!!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!! !!! WARNING !!!

This weekend I added a ** 3rd ** 6ft table to hold my 3DFX cards. I thought, why not take the opportunity to organize and throw up a collection update on VOGONS. Presenting... "The H0arD!" (Feburary 2015 update!)

Enjoy my fellow VOGONS retro enthusiasts!

😎 😎 😎

ALL

The video cards..(3DFX)

The video cards..

The Processors..

The Audio Stuff..

The Audio Stuff (Creative Lovin')..

The Audio Stuff (Roland, Ensoniq SoundScape/SoundScape Elite/Creative CMS)..

The Audio Stuff (Let there be GUS!)..and my CM-500 😀

The "Artex's Build of the Week" Beasts!! + OEM Favorites

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Aww man you have a boxed 386 Packard Bell?!?! Colour me jealous. 🤣

Artex wrote:

Alright guys.. Not sure where this one should go, but I've posted this kinda thing here last year and the year before...

I have no words to describe the conflicting emotions conjured over what i just saw. Were you and Peter separated at birth? Nice basement.

That's amazing! You should give Guinness Book of Records a call.

I personally couldn't live with that much vintage hardware weighing on my soul - I'd end up sleeping down there, shotgun in one hand an fire extinguisher in the other 😀

*jaw drops*

A little bit of hoarding there 😉

Awesome collection. Are all those cards boxed and WRAPPED?

Hopefully you addressed the CMOS battery in the Packard Bell. I have one of the same model with the motherboard ruined by battery corrosion.
The battery is situated right next to RAM decoding circuitry.

Artex, do you live alone? My wife would not allow such consumption of space, even in a basement. My stash consumes only one medium-sized closet and a large dresser, all of which are kept well out of sight in the office.

Artex. that's amazing!

Well over the weekend I built my Athlon 500 as listed in my signiture, it was quite a... heartbreaking journey really.

First I put the cpu, board and ram together and into the case then as I was hunting for a direct 3d card to pair with the voodoo 2's I found a TNT2 Ultra 32MB that I didn't know I had.
Installed the rest of the hardware and installed windows 98SE and thats where the problems started...

Firstly once the latest voodoo 2 reference drivers were installed the machine started locking up once it got to the desktop.
After quite some time of troubleshooting I found the following issues:
- I had forgotten about the issues with greater than 512mb of ram in win9x, I had installed 768mb.
- One of my three voodoo 2 cards had failed, one of them turned out to be an 8mb card and I didnt know it.
- Driver issues with the voodoo reference drivers caused instability.

So first thing was to resolve the memory issues, easy done.. took out 265mb of ram to bring it down to 512mb.

Second issue was a little bit more heartbreaking, I have 3 voodoo 2's of which 2 are 12mb versions and one I found was only an 8mb verstion.
The failed card is a bit unusual, when in the system on its own it is detected by windows and shows up in the device manager, but the tab under display properties for voodoo is not there and it is not available as a 3d accelerator. When paired with one of the other cards the tab under display properties appears but it errors out when you try to go to the tab.
So with the 12mb card and the 8mb card I was able to set up sli but found the performance is only marginally higher with sli over a single 12mb card.
3d Mark99 Max
8mb card - 2400ish
12mb card - 2750ish
12mb+8mb - 2850ish
Found that in SLI is drops the 12mb card back to an 8mb card.
I also replaced the reference drivers with the fastvoodoo2 4.6 drivers which appear to be faster and more stable.
The last thing I did with the system once I worked out all the issues I was having was to reinstall with Windows ME as it appeared to be more stable.
I am in the process of making a video of the build to upload to youtube.