Received today:
Righteous 3D Orchid Voodoo1
Voodoo3-2000 PCI
I have now an almost complete lineup of 3DFx cards, except for a V5-6000 and a V4.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
wrote:I have now an almost complete lineup of 3DFx cards, except for a V5-6000 and a V4.
Jealous. I had 2x Diamond Monster 3D II (8 MB) back in the day and sold them on ebay circa 2001 to help fund an upgrade. Got a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI recently for $1, but additional purchases are going to be rough! Congrats on your near-complete collection!
Thanks. Eventually I will probably get the V4 as well (though that's not a high priority for me). But a 6000 may prove impossible, though I'd love to have one.
Forgot to mention, I also received the Savage4 I had posted earlier. Got it for peanuts on ebay ($4 including shipping). Works fine.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
wrote:Well, an 8500 LE is just an underclocked 8500, so you can OC and in the most of the cases, you'll get full 8500 perfomance (not all cards are the same though)
The GPU will usually overclock well but the RAM might not.
All hail the Great Capacitor Brand Finder
wrote:wrote:Well, an 8500 LE is just an underclocked 8500, so you can OC and in the most of the cases, you'll get full 8500 perfomance (not all cards are the same though)
The GPU will usually overclock well but the RAM might not.
^this.
Unfortunatly 90% of 8500LE cards use 4ns memory clocked at 500Mhz. The normal 8500 uses 3.6ns ram clocked at 550MHz. The core will go over 275 on most cards, but the ram usually overclocks 10-15mhz w/o artifacts... I don't like to OC my retro stuff anyway so I'm fine with it.
Top: 275 core / 550 MHz vram radeon 8500 built by ATi - 3.6ns Hyinx RAM
Bottom: 250 core / 500 Mhz vram radeon 8500LE by hercules (untested card) - uses hyinx 4ns ram.
P.S. - the hacked-up cooler job is not my doing 😒 Luckily I have a dead hercules geforce 3 ti200 I can scavenge a similar fan off.
wrote:I actually wonder why the 8500 is so rare, it looks almost as hard to find as a GeForce256
Dunno - I tough it's a local thing, but it turns out it's more widespread. 8500LE cards are more common, (more common then Geforce 256 cards anyway) but the regular 8500 is silly hard to find. Maybe they didn't sell well. The 8500 is a fast card for it's time tough.
Same story with the 9700 pro - very hard to come by. I've only seen two 9700 pro and one 9500 card ever. I've seen more 8500LE cards tough. The 7500 seems to be pretty rare too. I've yet to come across a working card. I had one back in the day, and they were around. Not nearly as common as geforce 2 cards, but I knew a few people who had them.
Got two CPUs today, an AMD Opteron 1216 (rev F3, 103 watt) and a Pentium M 770
Got Manli Radeon 9600 256Mb with nice RED capacitors for 1EURo.
Bought a GTX 295. Came up for a fair price, I wonder if my cheapo 700watt Apevia supply will be up to par
Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1
Got a Schneider EuroPC 1512SD (Amstrad 1512) + monitor and kb - intel 8086 @ 8mhz, 640kb ram, CGA graphics, 10MB HDD, 360kb 5.25" fdd - Stay tuned for pics 😁
wrote:Same story with the 9700 pro - very hard to come by. I've only seen two 9700 pro and one 9500 card ever.
About 7 or 8 years ago the 9700 and 9500 were a dime a dozen on ebay. Well not quite, but there were a lot of cheap ones around. I got a few 9500s back then for about $5 each. Still have two of them. They were a nice upgrade for AGP PowerMacs after you flashed them with the appropriate firmware.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
Got a few interesting retro hardware recently. Cga cards, Ega/Cga card. A monochrome card. A Vlb IO and Vga card, and an ISA Video card.
wrote:Bought a GTX 295. Came up for a fair price, I wonder if my cheapo 700watt Apevia supply will be up to par
The 295 is rated at 290W, so you should be OK (as long as you only have one!).
See my graphics card database at www.gpuzoo.com
Constantly being worked on. Feel free to message me with any corrections or details of cards you would like me to research and add.
Got this wee tiny Socket 7 board for little less then dollar. Is there some teeny tiny case I can fit it in to make nice small set? Already tried with Pentium MMX i have laying around and figured out that it will not accept 512 MB of RAM, but that really doesn't matter since 256 MB is plenty enough. Also I would like to know what CPU is good and which OS I should use.
wrote:Got this wee tiny Socket 7 board for little less then dollar. Is there some teeny tiny case I can fit it in to make nice small set? Already tried with Pentium MMX i have laying around and figured out that it will not accept 512 MB of RAM, but that really doesn't matter since 256 MB is plenty enough. Also I would like to know what CPU is good and which OS I should use.
CPU socket placement might be an issue with smaller cases.
I don't recall seeing a mobo with what looks like a dual-chipset. What's the significance of the doubled VIA chips?
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
DOS PCI Graphics Card Benchmarks
Literally, no idea. I just grabbed it because it was dirt cheap and so tiny. I love tiny stuff, so I had to have it.
As far as I researched, it has 3 north bridge controllers because that big bottom one is too. Don't know why, it just has.
wrote:Got this wee tiny Socket 7 board for little less then dollar. Is there some teeny tiny case I can fit it in to make nice small set? Already tried with Pentium MMX i have laying around and figured out that it will not accept 512 MB of RAM, but that really doesn't matter since 256 MB is plenty enough. Also I would like to know what CPU is good and which OS I should use.
Neat!
Personally I'd use this with w98 and a Voodoo Banshee. Then add a K6-2+/3+ and this could be a tiny but versatile retro machine that could play games from mid 80's all the way to late 90's (the kind that Phil made a video about some time ago)
My builds!
The FireStarter 2.0 - The wooden K5
The Underdog - The budget K6
The Voodoo powerhouse - The power-hungry K7
The troll PC - The Socket 423 Pentium 4
That sounds lovely, but I personally didn't see any small case ever. Yeah, I have few baby-AT, but that is too big for this board so it doesn't feel right to me...
wrote:That sounds lovely, but I personally didn't see any small case ever. Yeah, I have few baby-AT, but that is too big for this board so it doesn't feel right to me...
Too many slots to "creatively" mount it in a MicroATX case too. You may be stuck with a larger case..
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