Standard Def Steve wrote:

I finally got WinXP up and running on my main system! Man was that a pain in the ass. Unfortunately I couldn't run any benchmar […]
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I finally got WinXP up and running on my main system! Man was that a pain in the ass.
Unfortunately I couldn't run any benchmarks with my GTX 970, (no driver support for XP), so I installed the next best card in my collection, a nice little EVGA GTX 680.

I'm gonna try and do a little more benchmarking before I plug my Win7 drive back in. So far I can't say I'm disappointed with the performance! 😀

Nice! Thats the best score posted here on Vogons with a ~3000 points margin.

I guess I need to try to beat that score sooner or later 😀

As my hardware tinkering goes in cycles it will probably not be until the next winter season I will be back to super high end XP hardware, this year its all about the 90s.

Finally brought all those boxes of hardware back up the stairs, went quicker than I had anticipated as I can easily lift 5 of those kiwiboxes at once (except for the ones willed with CPU trays, those are impossible to lift unless I want to have my back shrink by an inch afterwards

ramiro77 wrote:

I finished running memtest on my -almost- sixty dimm sticks. Now I'm running hdd regenerator on 35 ide hard drives to see if they are ok. This is a torture 😵

Lol, I feel your pain!

I usually only bother testing them as in seeing if the motherboard setup will POST with a DIMM then shut down, test the next one etc etc.
I'll test the RAM for errors while installing Windows or playing games...I only bother with memtest after I suspect the RAM may actually be bad.

I know what you do is actually better, but the time it takes, I'll not even be sure I manage to test all of em outside my coffin 🤣, it just takes so damn long!

Chewhacca wrote:

Sorted out a lot of my hardware: http://imgur.com/XVbU4JZ […]
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Sorted out a lot of my hardware:
http://imgur.com/XVbU4JZ

Also tested some video cards and other hardware.

These seem dead:
http://imgur.com/XVbU4JZ

I suppose you accidentally put the same link twice? 😀

For quick memory test I find Speedsys to be quite reliable and fast 😀

Tetrium wrote:

Lol, I feel your pain! […]
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ramiro77 wrote:

I finished running memtest on my -almost- sixty dimm sticks. Now I'm running hdd regenerator on 35 ide hard drives to see if they are ok. This is a torture 😵

Lol, I feel your pain!

I usually only bother testing them as in seeing if the motherboard setup will POST with a DIMM then shut down, test the next one etc etc.
I'll test the RAM for errors while installing Windows or playing games...I only bother with memtest after I suspect the RAM may actually be bad.

I know what you do is actually better, but the time it takes, I'll not even be sure I manage to test all of em outside my coffin 🤣, it just takes so damn long!

Yes, I know it takes too long. But I need to be sure of everything because when I run out of space (or need more space to buy another mega bunch of stuff) I sell some items. And of course, I don't want to have any problem with any vendor. The bright side is I can do this while I'm studying or reading. I only stop doing my things for switch disks and/or dimm sticks. But damn, it takes too long indeed. And I still have to do 3D tests on all my vga cards to see if there is any artifact or something. 😵

Just got my little box of internal ZIP drives from upstairs as there was a nice thread about those here Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? 😕

Does anyone have more info?

kixs wrote:

Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? :confused: […]
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Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? 😕

Does anyone have more info?

I may be wrong but I believe that's a video card. Normal VGA on the left, and that weird looking connector on the right is a propritary sun systems monitor connection. I believe you can get a cable to plug in there and "fan out" to multiple BNC connectors on the other side: black,white,red,green,blue

I repaired my new Macintosh Performa 6115CD. I got it for cheap from eBay but when it arrived while it powered on, it did not boot. So I got another motherboard and after replacement (and I replaced the PRAM battery too) now all works fine. The machine has System 7.6 installed. I am trying to get different software installed in it now so I can play with it. It has a PowerPC 601 @ 60Mhz with 8Mb of RAM. I am planning on adding updates to it like: cache, more memory and a better video card.

Anyone has any game/software suggestions I can try to run on it? I am assuming the CPU will run akin to a Pentium 66-100Mhz. But I would like to do some benchmarks.

EDIT: Forgot to add link: https://sites.google.com/site/digiloguemuseum … performa-6115cd

kixs wrote:

Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? :confused: […]
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Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? 😕

Does anyone have more info?

It could also be some form of capture card. Often they had a VGA out on the same board and had connectors like that, my QuickWorks is similar and I'd love to find some drivers for it some day to see what it can do.

kixs wrote:

Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? :confused: […]
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Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? 😕

Does anyone have more info?

kithylin is right. It's a video card with a standard DB15, and then a DB13W3 connector, the latter of which was used by Sun, SGI, and perhaps some other companies back in the day.

Have two of these cards and the second one, although set up the same as first, but it's a different revision, shows this message and beeps a lot when powered up:

After around 20 seconds it goes on to boot and works like nothing's wrong 😉

Things need a little explaining of what's going on in this picture so I'll post picture first then explain.

Larger: http://www.outfoxed.net/DSC05882.jpg

Okay, this is in retro stuff because, kinda retro. The system is one of my P4 cedar mill chips. Inside the case is a cpu-only water loop (The green fluid), because the thing's running currently at 4572 Mhz. So that's the retro bit.
But what I did today was bring out my spare EVGA GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW card (runs with a custom bios by me @ 850 core & 3800 memory), and put that in here as a test today.

I set it up with it's own separate loop from the main one already in there (Currently just Distilled Water, for the 470), because I don't know just yet if I'm going to keep it. I'm not sure if it's much faster than the GTX 260 (air cooled) I had in it already.. and I don't want to disturb the existing cpu loop and re-do it all until I know for sure I'm going to keep the 470 in this system.

My early testing has shown +30 FPS to the resulting average at the end of Half-Life 2 Lost Coast benchmark.. I haven't done too many other tests on it just yet. Still running some software benchmarks on it and trying some games.

I did find out that even with a GTX 470 in here.. and the big overclock on this cpu, it's still not fast enough to play Warframe on it. Stutters and runs like crap.

On to testing more.

CelGen wrote:

There is however a Plus sitting on my bench right now though in the process of being refurbished. I'll probably put Photoshop 1 and 0.6 on that. 😉

Finished.

AllUrBaseRBelong2Us wrote:

kixs wrote:

Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? :confused: […]
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Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? 😕

Does anyone have more info?

kithylin is right. It's a video card with a standard DB15, and then a DB13W3 connector, the latter of which was used by Sun, SGI, and perhaps some other companies back in the day.

Sun, SGI, Apple, HP, DEC, IBM....pretty much everyone used 13W3 to tier products between professional and consumer products (also the connectors cost a lot more than the typical HD15 plug.) The pinning varied a tiny amount between manufacturers but if your monitor supported just Sync on Green that didn't matter.

Your cards however are NOT following the loose standard. Two of the coax pins are physically missing.

kithylin wrote:

EDIT: Just so you know, handbrake does not support gpu assistance.

I converted some DVDs with Handbrake utilizing Intel's QuickSync (Haswell CPU). That ran quite fast IMO. I needed an unofficial build, but this seems to be supported in the current official build.

vladstamate wrote:

I repaired my new Macintosh Performa 6115CD. I got it for cheap from eBay but when it arrived while it powered on, it did not boot. So I got another motherboard and after replacement (and I replaced the PRAM battery too) now all works fine. The machine has System 7.6 installed. I am trying to get different software installed in it now so I can play with it. It has a PowerPC 601 @ 60Mhz with 8Mb of RAM. I am planning on adding updates to it like: cache, more memory and a better video card.

Anyone has any game/software suggestions I can try to run on it? I am assuming the CPU will run akin to a Pentium 66-100Mhz. But I would like to do some benchmarks.

EDIT: Forgot to add link: https://sites.google.com/site/digiloguemuseum … performa-6115cd

You can also add the PDS PC compatibility card for it, if you want the luxury of having a 486 inside your 6115, instead of a better video card.
Try the games of the era, Quake, Dark Forces, Wing Commander III and IV, Under a Killing Moon, Carmageddon...
Games requiring a PowerPC 601:
http://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attr … t,0/p,74/so,0a/

Check this website for infos on upgrades:
http://www.kan.org/6100/

kithylin wrote:

Things need a little explaining of what's going on in this picture so I'll post picture first then explain. […]
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Things need a little explaining of what's going on in this picture so I'll post picture first then explain.

Larger: http://www.outfoxed.net/DSC05882.jpg

This looks insane compared to any of my humble 386's... you're fusing Chemistry with Electronics in that thing!

kixs wrote:

Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? :confused: […]
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Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? 😕

Does anyone have more info?

Cute card... I like it. Could it have been used in a system with limited expansion?

kithylin wrote:

I did find out that even with a GTX 470 in here.. and the big overclock on this cpu, it's still not fast enough to play Warframe on it. Stutters and runs like crap.

I play warframe, too, and I've tried running it on quite a few platforms. I've had it running fine on a G1840 with a GTX560, as well as a Q9550 with a GTX460, but I'd hate to think of it on a P4. I don't imagine it would ever do well on anything before Core2Duo, and probably even then it wouldn't do that well.

My drum machine turns 30 this year, so I decided to come up with a track for it which I seem to have completed now.

https://soundcloud.com/high_treason/two-secon … casio-rz-1-only

The whole track uses only the drum machine, even the lead and bass are sampled into the drum machine. Each sample is only 0.2 seconds long except the "gasp" which is 0.4. Only 0.8 seconds can be loaded at any given time and I made a rule that only one of thee 0.8 seconds-worth of time could be used by any one instrument. The track description explains what the samples are and how they fit in.

I got the second to last piece in for my industrial 486 pc build... just waiting for one more part on a slow boat from china. finding cheap industrial chassis sucks 🙁