today I received these 2 cards 😀

appiah4 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBayhas even fewer capacitors.

This listing also has good photos to compare: https://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRRUS-LOGIC-FCC-ID- … d-/171261110460

Well, that one is specifically listed as not working so I'm not sure if it's a good specimen to compare with 🤣

Regardless, I bit the bullet and bought it. Now I can do my Hippo VL+ DCA, EDRAM, VLB, DX2-66 build.

Great... Yeah. There is something about VLB system's. Something different that are really cool.
If you get tired of playing with DX2-66, then upgrade to DX2-80.
Not many people are doing systems like that, yet I think that 2xVLB cards and 40mhz FSB are great.

This is my Dx2-80 system:
Dx2or (Dextor) - A tale of a Dx2 Rebuild Log

keropi wrote:

today I received these 2 cards 😀

Nice.... 😀

Hah, I didn't think anyone ever shipped a Voodoo card with drivers on floppy. Those might be interesting to image & upload if they're not online already.

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote:

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@xjas

Links for...

... the motherboard -https://web.archive.org/web/20041222204751/ht … 4000494tc.shtml

...the server - https://web.archive.org/web/20041224114237/ht … ers/8504076.pdf

Awesome, thanks! I did find the "user's guide" for the server itself (probably the same one linked there) but it completely glosses over the motherboard settings. Those will definitely be useful.

brostenen wrote:

Great... Yeah. There is something about VLB system's. Something different that are really cool. If you get tired of playing with […]
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Great... Yeah. There is something about VLB system's. Something different that are really cool.
If you get tired of playing with DX2-66, then upgrade to DX2-80.
Not many people are doing systems like that, yet I think that 2xVLB cards and 40mhz FSB are great.

This is my Dx2-80 system:
Dx2or (Dextor) - A tale of a Dx2 Rebuild Log

You can also just run a DX2-66 at 80Mhz. That's what I did back in the day. Just keep it cool at it will most likely run just fine.

bought this humble lot

cyclone3d wrote:

You can also just run a DX2-66 at 80Mhz. That's what I did back in the day. Just keep it cool at it will most likely run just fine.

True... If overclocking is you'r game. Personally, I like to keep everything at stock speed.

brostenen wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

You can also just run a DX2-66 at 80Mhz. That's what I did back in the day. Just keep it cool at it will most likely run just fine.

True... If overclocking is you'r game. Personally, I like to keep everything at stock speed.

I've been overclocking ever since I saw a 25/33Mhz jumper on a 486 motherboard.

The best was when AMD came along with the Slot-A Athlon CPUs. Almost all of them were actually higher rated CPUs than what they were sold as. Pull the cover off a 500Mhz and see that it is actually rated for 650Mhz. Pull the cover off a 650Mhz and see an 800Mhz part. A couple soldered jumpers later and you have a much higher speed than what it was sold as.

cyclone3d wrote:

The best was when AMD came along with the Slot-A Athlon CPUs. Almost all of them were actually higher rated CPUs than what they were sold as. Pull the cover off a 500Mhz and see that it is actually rated for 650Mhz. Pull the cover off a 650Mhz and see an 800Mhz part. A couple soldered jumpers later and you have a much higher speed than what it was sold as.

Even easier is to use a GFD. Someone at http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28887 is working on making some.

Pabloz wrote:

bought this humble lot

Woa... that graphics blaster Eclipse is interesting looking. Apparently its a CirrusLogic GD5465 4MB card? That has to be the first graphics card ever made with that kind of colorful printed artwork on it... and pasted right onto the die too! Never seen anything like that. 😀

Got myself an EIZO FlexScan L771 today for some UXGA action!

Full album with commentaries here: https://imgur.com/gallery/t6HiO

Bid on a pretty rare MIDI module and won it:

(auction picture)

That's the IO Data MIDI-KG/APW, a Japan-only (AFAIK) MIDI module that's actually a OEM version of a Korg wavetable board in a separate housing, in this case the version for Apples. Seems to be missing only the MIDI cable...

Found random PC components at the local thrift shop. Luckily all i needed to refurbish my broken pentium setup.
Shuttle Hot 553,HX chipset, with cpu, AT power supply, 4 sticks of ram and one cache module,Video and audio card. all for 18 euro.

Cpu is a p200 mmx, so i checked all jumpers, especially the VRM module addon (the vertical tiny pcb near cpu) Everything was already set up correctly for the p200 mmx.
Started it up , and no magic smoke! Dallas RTC is obviously dead.Sigh, it's not even socketed, I'll have to desolder it and apply a coin cell battery

80 megs of ram! That's quite a lot. I had only 32 megabytes installed in my mmx pc back in '97

JeffBai wrote:

Full album with commentaries here: https://imgur.com/gallery/t6HiO

Your sleeper build looks absolutely gorgeous. I love Model M, I love desktop cases, and I've been actually looking to try Eizo LCD screens for my Voodoo 5 build (https://imgur.com/a/laQXm) for a while now. The aesthetics of your build really speak to me. I would be very interested to hear how well this screen works for games.

A 3D printed front panel cover for my C1084S monitor

appiah4 wrote:

A 3D printed front panel cover for my C1084S monitor […]
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A 3D printed front panel cover for my C1084S monitor

Who did your printing?

I need a bezel for my Gateway CrystalScan EV700 and my iMac G3 Bondi

appiah4 wrote:

A 3D printed front panel cover for my C1084S monitor […]
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A 3D printed front panel cover for my C1084S monitor

I need to do that for my IBM 2115 monitor that lost its bezel years ago (plastic always breaks) that covers the display adjustments (pan left/right, stretch left/right, pan up/down, stretch up/down, curvy, brightness and contrast via potentiometers).

JeffBai wrote:

Got myself an EIZO FlexScan L771 today for some UXGA action! […]
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Got myself an EIZO FlexScan L771 today for some UXGA action!

Full album with commentaries here: https://imgur.com/gallery/t6HiO

NETVISTA MASTER RACE!

Sweet monitor!

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Who did your printing?

I need a bezel for my Gateway CrystalScan EV700 and my iMac G3 Bondi

A very small local company printed it out of PLA plastic for 10 bucks. It was the best offer I had locally. The quality isn't great, there are gaps and the finish is somewhat rough on the inside but it will do.

bjwil1991 wrote:

need to do that for my IBM 2115 monitor that lost its bezel years ago (plastic always breaks) that covers the display adjustments (pan left/right, stretch left/right, pan up/down, stretch up/down, curvy, brightness and contrast via potentiometers).

I just checked that monitor out and yes, it has a very small panel door. No wonder it broke off and went missing at some point. Whoever designed these things, I want to have a word or two with them. At least we have 3D scanning and 3D printers now.