Srandista wrote:

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Wow, two slots definitely needed for that. *sarcasm*

A Quadro FX3000 . Yeah!!!
This baby looks like it has 2 Silicon Image TMDS chips, so it should do 1600x1200 over DVI in DOS on either of its outputs, if my previous experiences with such matters are anything to go by .
See [Explained and mostly solved] VESA BIOS works in 1600x1200 in DOS, with LG L246WP, but not with Samsung 204B

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/232474829254

voodoo5_6k wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

Azarien wrote:

It would be nice if this website automatically scaled pictures to current window size (with the possibility to right-click and open/download in full-res).

Tgis is why we should all use the image attachment as opposed to uploading photos elsewhere.

I agree. In addition, there is the big advantage that image files aren't lost over time. If you browse through old threads you'll see that many externally hosted images already are no longer available. This really diminishes the value of old threads and sometimes makes information incomplete or almost useless because the visual part of it is gone. In order to preserve information for the future readers, everybody should consider uploading using the attachment function (and shouldn't delete those attachments later on).

Good point. As much as I've been liking imgur, there are so many posts on here ruined by photobucket locking out all the "hotlinked" images.

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In other news, I bought more stuff! Mainly was looking for the IO card and AT PSU so that I can get working on my DX2-66 machine. I'm going to put it in the neat looking case I got a few days ago - turns out is supports an AT motherboard easily, so it must have been sold right at the transition period.

Maxtor 525MB HDD
DOS 6.22 on 3.5" Floppy
DOS 5.0 on 5.25" Floppy (plus some other 5.25"s)
AT keyboard
2x AT Power Supplies (both work)
Acer 5105 IO card
some extra card slow covers, IO ports, drive bay covers, etc

xplus93 wrote:

Srandista wrote:

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Wow, two slots definitely needed for that. *sarcasm*

I assume it's simply because the shroud is simply too tall and took up two slots.

MrEWhite wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

Srandista wrote:

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Wow, two slots definitely needed for that. *sarcasm*

I assume it's simply because the shroud is simply too tall and took up two slots.

Yeah, on a mainstream GPU the oversized fan keeping things ultra quiet is a smart choice. The graphic designers and casual steam players probably don't want lots of noise. I just think it looks funny on such a low spec card.

I have seen many lower-spec ones dying because of heat issues (GT210 for example) so I'd take a solution like this any day of week over the single-slot crappy ones 😁

voodoo5_6k wrote:

In addition, there is the big advantage that image files aren't lost over time. If you browse through old threads you'll see that many externally hosted images already are no longer available.

Thanks god at least someone has noticed that. Why can't others get this?

xplus93 wrote:

Wow, two slots definitely needed for that. *sarcasm*

Yeah, you definitely need that second slot to tame the beast 😁

brostenen wrote:

I have seen Asp.net C# code behind, that can be hooked up on buttons, wich makes you choose what resolution
the picture you are going to post, will end up as. And I have seen C# code that automatically resizes to predefined resolution.
As this is PHP, then I do not know if it is possible. Yet I suspect that it can be done some way or another.

I meant that the picture could be scaled on the user side, by the browser itself. This can be easily done with HTML's <img> tag.

Well, quite a nice "addition" to my collection - a monstrous ALR Revolution 6x6 😀
It arrived in parts, I don't have immediate access to all of them, so I can't provide the complete set of good pictures - only the seller's ones as well as some others made by my mom who was extremely happy to receive this 60kg beast while I'm 13000km away 😁
So, let the fun begin...

Seller's pictures (sorry for making your eyes bleed):

IT ARRIVED!

Bonus track: the package used for ground shipping from St. Petersburg to the suburbs of Moscow (the mover guy couldn't lift it with this piece of wood, so he unpacked it right in the van as my mom told me)

As you see, the beast came with both tri-CPU cards, but fitted with only 2 of the PPro's per each one, totalling for 4 instead of 6. I haven't found another couple of SL25A (yet), however already got the missing pair of VRM's and authentic HSF's from eBay. I don't show them as they are exactly like those four above.
Also got a spare RAM board (the relatively common SIMM variant, for 16 bucks shipped it should have been a nice spare part if something happens to the oh-so-rare DIMM variant I got here), seller's pic:

Also the system wouldn't be complete if I didn't take on the quest for the P2 Overdrive CPU's - already got 3 of them (all boxed, one even sealed), missing other 3, but that's a matter of time I guess. I don't think they are worth showing, you all know what they look like, right?

Well, I really hope it works when I finally assemble and power it up - but I won't be able to check that till some mid-2018. Stay tuned...

P.S. Also got a spare rackmount variant of the 6x6 mainboard - not sure if I'm going to make some industrial art object out of it 😁

P.P.S. Hey guys, am I crazy and obsessed enough to enter the elite geek force of VOGONS?..

😳 😳 😳

This has to be the king of the mid 90's workstations/servers 😳
It deserves at least a quad pentium 2 xeon upgrade coupled with a 3Dfx voodoo 2 quad SLI !

Well, essentially Pentium II Overdrive is indeed a Pentium II Xeon manufactured for the obsolete Socket 8, so this girl will get 6 of them at some moment 😀

Voodoo 2 quad SLI? That would be difficult - you can either go with a SLI (in 2 PCB or 1 PCB in case of the Q3D boards) or with 8-way SLI (in case of Q3D Mercury). Actually I have both to try, however I think V2 will be an overkill for the 333MHz P2OD. So I'm planning to use a Q3D Obsidian 100SB-4400V instead (it's a dual Voodoo Graphics in SLI with the 2D daughterboard based on AT25) as it will nicely suit it in terms of period correctness, performance, and the AT25 should be more than enough for 2D. Otherwise I may take the VideoLogic Apocalypse 5D Sonic if its drivers for NT 4.0 prove stable enough.

Srandista wrote:

So then I focus my attention on ASRock 4CoeDual-SATA2, which I won for 15,5€. [...] I bought C2Q Q6600 for 11,5$, with B3 stepping.

Very nice board, I run it too with a Q6600 G0. Keep in mind that it runs the Q6600 at 2.30GHz by default. Quad-core 1066FSB CPUs get a speed penalty (stability issues with the VIA PT880 chipset?).

A package that was supposedly (as per the sellers words) lost in the mail nearly 2 and a half months ago containing a GeForce2 MX 64MB and a 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 AGP mysteriously showed up. Now we get to see if something can survive 2 months in the mail. I still have absolutely no idea what this package was doing during its 2 months in transit with USPS with an inactive tracking number. I was refunded for this as well so in practice it's essentially free.

This also, however, means I need to pull out my socket 370 board for testing which I don't really feel like doing today. I enjoy retro-computing, I don't enjoy fucking around with what amounts to a motherboard, power supply, RAM, and CPU sitting ontop of a cardboard box sitting ontop of whatever random table happens to be available for component testing.

@hard1k

I was waiting for your comment! 😁

hard1k wrote:

I was waiting for your comment! 😁

INORITE? I mean it is one thing to get a motherboard or cpu card. A whole unit is an entirely different thing. That beast deserves it's own thread. I so want to see that thing in action.

An S3 805 VLB video card arrived today which I will be using in a 486 build (obviously). 😀

You will! I just don't know when - I would be happy to bring it here, in Argentina, but it is almost impossible. So it will have to wait till my return to the homeland.