Personally I like the idea of "mascots" on video cards. Half-naked elf babes may not be too mature, but it's still an interesting quirck of the era 🤣
Its certainly more interesting than how today card makers just slap "GAMING", "G1" or "FTW" along with e-sports team sponsorships on their boxes.

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havli wrote:

dexvx wrote:

Got an Asus SK8N with FX-53 (Socket 940) setup.

Single socket s940 board... very nice, these things are not easy to find. I'm not sure it supports 90nm CPUs though.

I had some hopes because below said it could take Opteron Venus CPU's.

http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/SK8N.html

But then I realized that Venus may not have supper for Registered DDR memory. It must be a snafu because in AMD's wisdom, they decided to make SledgeHammer and Venus Opterons have the same naming scheme (e.g. Opteron 150 could be Sledgehammer or Venus).

Munx wrote:

Personally I like the idea of "mascots" on video cards. Half-naked elf babes may not be too mature, but it's still an interesting quirck of the era 🤣
Its certainly more interesting than how today card makers just slap "GAMING", "G1" or "FTW" along with e-sports team sponsorships on their boxes.

This. I hate e-Sports commercialization.

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havli wrote:

dexvx wrote:

Got an Asus SK8N with FX-53 (Socket 940) setup.

Single socket s940 board... very nice, these things are not easy to find. I'm not sure it supports 90nm CPUs though.

I had some hopes because below said it could take Opteron Venus CPU's.

http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/SK8N.html

But then I realized that Venus may not have supper for Registered DDR memory. It must be a snafu because in AMD's wisdom, they decided to make SledgeHammer and Venus Opterons have the same naming scheme (e.g. Opteron 150 could be Sledgehammer or Venus).

Munx wrote:

Personally I like the idea of "mascots" on video cards. Half-naked elf babes may not be too mature, but it's still an interesting quirck of the era 🤣
Its certainly more interesting than how today card makers just slap "GAMING", "G1" or "FTW" along with e-sports team sponsorships on their boxes.

This. I hate e-Sports commercialization.

I just view e-Sports the same as I do NFL or NASCAR. I don't watch it, but I may follow up on the stats just for the sake of discussions.

Some modern video cards have nice designs too. I like NVIDIA and ATIs reference designs lately. They have nice streamlined edges that remind you of a well built sports car. IMO MSIs Twin Frozr coolers also look quite nice.

Well... I like visual aestetics too. Don't get me wrong on that. Still glad that they got rid of those manga/porn chicks and dragons. Personally I really like the visuals of a card like the one below. No ugly artwork, the hardware is the artwork in it self....

Else... I want BIG chips and LOTS of them, like early 90's soundcards. (read Gravis Ultrasound and SB-Pro 2.0)

brostenen wrote:

Else... I want BIG chips and LOTS of them, like early 90's soundcards. (read Gravis Ultrasound and SB-Pro 2.0)

you could always 3D-print a retro style print for on the the card (Wonder 16 maybe?) 😲
this might have potential for the blower models.

dexvx wrote:

Got an Asus SK8N with FX-53 (Socket 940) setup.....

I think the fastest CPU is maybe Opteron 256 or something?

256 and 856 are the fastest.

havli wrote:

dexvx wrote:

Got an Asus SK8N with FX-53 (Socket 940) setup.

Single socket s940 board... very nice, these things are not easy to find. I'm not sure it supports 90nm CPUs though.

You're right, it only supports Sledgehammer chips. FX-53 is as fast as the Opteron 150 / 250 / 850, the only difference being that the Opterons have three hyper transport links.

Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds.

appiah4 wrote:

Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds.

Not to take away from these because I'm sure they'll be great, but Startech make a new AT PSU which I've found to be great. I have them in 4 machines and have no complaints:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Startech-com-Ps2po … LUAAOSwgApXBFWR

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Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds.

This may be a stupid question but I genuinely have no idea despite owning several.

What is the reversed 3 pin port on AT PSUs used for?

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds. […]
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Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds.

This may be a stupid question but I genuinely have no idea despite owning several.

What is the reversed 3 pin port on AT PSUs used for?

Connecting a monitor so both turn on and off at the same time without using the monitor power button.

I feel old for having used that all the way until maybe 2000.

Or for ATX psus that are using the same kind of technique but doesn't turn on/off the monitor if the pc is running or not, it's just used to spare one plug on the wall

appiah4 wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds. […]
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Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds.

This may be a stupid question but I genuinely have no idea despite owning several.

What is the reversed 3 pin port on AT PSUs used for?

Connecting a monitor so both turn on and off at the same time without using the monitor power button.

I feel old for having used that all the way until maybe 2000.

I did purchase a new AT PSU back in 2012, but the cooling fan's bearing went out, tried to lube the fan, and the PSU went out with a bang, I then purchased an ATX to AT adapter to use a modern ATX PSU in my 486 and K6-2 300 machine, and it worked great, and I didn't realize my K6-2 300 can use an ATX PSU (jumper-less configuration, just had to set the Power Supply type in the BIOS from K8/K9 to ATX), and I've been using an ATX PSU ever since (don't have to flip the switch to turn it off), but I like the flip switch (still have the flip switch on the computer).

Bought seven (that is 7 in numerals) brand new in box Radeon 9800s for a criminally low price.. not sure what to do with them likely keep one or two and sell the rest.

Got this a while back, bought it because it wa cheap and I never had one. Did not realise that I bought a PCI version until I got it.

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Got this a while back, bought it because it wa cheap and I never had one. Did not realise that I bought a PCI version until I got it.

Looks like a clone of the nVidia GeForce MX 4000 Series cards. I have the MX 4000 PCI myself, and it sucks. Luckily, I got a new heatsink and the card still works, even with one cap broken off.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Got this a while back, bought it because it wa cheap and I never had one. Did not realise that I bought a PCI version until I got it.

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Looks like a clone of the nVidia GeForce MX 4000 Series cards. I have the MX 4000 PCI myself, and it sucks. Luckily, I got a new heatsink and the card still works, even with one cap broken off.

Well I never had a Kyro card, so I am going to try it out. It probably won't be great though.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Got this a while back, bought it because it wa cheap and I never had one. Did not realise that I bought a PCI version until I got it.

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Looks like a clone of the nVidia GeForce MX 4000 Series cards. I have the MX 4000 PCI myself, and it sucks. Luckily, I got a new heatsink and the card still works, even with one cap broken off.

Well I never had a Kyro card, so I am going to try it out. It probably won't be great though.

Kyro is a chipset from SGS Thomson. The graphics chip will be STG4000 or STG4003.