What retro things have you done today?
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Yep, such a distinctive look and seems pretty clean!
Today's delivery has arrived:
Random Crystal/Aztech sound card and the memory (finally) for the Voodoo IIs.
FireGL V7200, V7300 or V7350 are a lot cheaper (and essentially the same as a X1800XT) - would also fit nicely with the "workstation" motherboard, but not 100% sure on drivers for that era (e.g. whether they work fine for games etc).
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATI-Fire...s-card-for-Computers-Workstation/224086257179
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATI-FireGL-V7350-Video-Card-1GB-512Bit-GDDR3-4/154010410305
Purchased a SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality. 
I had a spare 5 1/4 slot, so I was looking for a suitable item to fill the void on my Windows XP machine. I have had no end of driver trouble using a USB powered X-Fi. When it worked it was awesome, only it was such a lottery. So I thought I would try a period product instead. Now hoping it will work/play nicely.
I received it today, it looks in great condition, apart from the small bit of black plastic rattling around in the box.
The breakout box and card came with no padding what so ever!
Not holding much hope to be honest, the cabling alone, looks delicate.
I had a spare 5 1/4 slot, so I was looking for a suitable item to fill the void on my Windows XP machine. I have had no end of driver trouble using a USB powered X-Fi. When it worked it was awesome, only it was such a lottery. So I thought I would try a period product instead. Now hoping it will work/play nicely.
I received it today, it looks in great condition, apart from the small bit of black plastic rattling around in the box.
The breakout box and card came with no padding what so ever!
Not holding much hope to be honest, the cabling alone, looks delicate.
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Purchased a SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality.
I had a spare 5 1/4 slot, so I was looking for a suitable item to fill the void on my Windows XP machine. I have had no end of driver trouble using a USB powered X-Fi. When it worked it was awesome, only it was such a lottery. So I thought I would try a period product instead. Now hoping it will work/play nicely.
I received it today, it looks in great condition, apart from the small bit of black plastic rattling around in the box.
The breakout box and card came with no padding what so ever!
Not holding much hope to be honest, the cabling alone, looks delicate.
Looks nice and clean hopefully it works.
my £18.99 AWE64 arrived
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I put a fan on my Voodoo and finally got my ITX build working
I've now got an alright set up of this 800MHz VIA Eden CPU, 512Mb DDR400 and the V3 2000 (which I might overclock!). And then I set up my Athlon Venice 3200+ with a 7950 GT.
I've now got an alright set up of this 800MHz VIA Eden CPU, 512Mb DDR400 and the V3 2000 (which I might overclock!). And then I set up my Athlon Venice 3200+ with a 7950 GT.
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Great.
hahahahaha that must have taken ages. How is is that bad?!?Great.
I was just scrolling this thread for ages to find when @paradigm was having performance issues to compare my scores with his. Page 28. This thread has got busy since then.
Im getting 1881 with k6/2-500 and v3 3000!! Seriously low and I have no USB card to point the finger at.
Page 28? We’re only up to 25 man sized pages today! Your score is likely down to chipset drivers if everything else is fine. What’s your CPU score with the K6-2 500?
@almoststew1990 does yours even have video drivers?!?
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It was running fine but the frame counter in the game sections at least were saying 0fps so something isn't quite right!
I get 45fps in Quake 3 and 3DMark 2000 got1991 1391 points.
I get 45fps in Quake 3 and 3DMark 2000 got
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https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=733629#p733629
Looks like a specific bug to do with VIA Nehemiah CPUs on 3DMark99!
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Ah well this machine isn't looking long lived as it isn't really doing anything useful. Too slow for the games I want to play (midtown madness) and Dos -in-windows doesn't seem to be playing nicely with SC2000 the other game I actually have an urge to play. No sound support is DOS...
My Socket 604 build may have just escalated. I did a bit of research and I believe that the Xeon 7140M (65nm, 800MT/s bus, dual core/4-thread, 2MB L3 / 16MB L3) CPUs from 2006 *might* work in this board. This would be one of the last NetBurst based CPUs available, being released on 27th August 2006 (yes, AFTER Core 2 Duo).
I've ordered one for now (as there was a cheap one on eBay), and if the board boots with it then I'll grab a second. 4-cores, 8-threads of NetBurst wonder, clocking in at 3.4GHz. I might actually try that challenge of GTA5 on NetBurst!
This now opens me up to GPUs from late 2006/ early 2007.
I've ordered one for now (as there was a cheap one on eBay), and if the board boots with it then I'll grab a second. 4-cores, 8-threads of NetBurst wonder, clocking in at 3.4GHz. I might actually try that challenge of GTA5 on NetBurst!
This now opens me up to GPUs from late 2006/ early 2007.
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Do it!
But I wouldn't necessarily limit yourself to 2007 GPU - you'll probably find yourself massively GPU limited if my i7 860 shenanigans were anything to go by. If GTA 5 works you then need to try Red Dead 2!
I think a great "can you game on ancient hardware build" would involve xfire 7970s!
But I wouldn't necessarily limit yourself to 2007 GPU - you'll probably find yourself massively GPU limited if my i7 860 shenanigans were anything to go by. If GTA 5 works you then need to try Red Dead 2!
I think a great "can you game on ancient hardware build" would involve xfire 7970s!
I'd love to go xfire or SLI, but this Xeon board only has a single (8x) PCIe slot, so my only option for either is a dual-gpu card (7950GX2, 9800GX2 Radeon 6950X2, etc). I haven't ruled that out as a possibility, but it would mean ditching the idea to watercool the GPU.
I'm going to have to cut a slot out of the end of the 8x PCIe slot in order to fit a GPU at all!
I'm going to have to cut a slot out of the end of the 8x PCIe slot in order to fit a GPU at all!
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I bagged me one of these.
These were never on my radar when they were originally about. £12 including delivery. I'm hoping it comes with the Midi cable for the breakout card.
https://www.esi-audio.com/products/prodigy192/
I'm thinking of using in my AMD 64 Bit build. A neat Fujitsu PC I nabbed from the skip at work. This will replace the A3D (Vortex1) card if I did go down that route. My other XP build has an Audigy and Live Drive.
I found the correct SCSI cable for my last purchases.. I was told it was 'delivered', but I haven't received it.
These were never on my radar when they were originally about. £12 including delivery. I'm hoping it comes with the Midi cable for the breakout card.
https://www.esi-audio.com/products/prodigy192/
I'm thinking of using in my AMD 64 Bit build. A neat Fujitsu PC I nabbed from the skip at work. This will replace the A3D (Vortex1) card if I did go down that route. My other XP build has an Audigy and Live Drive.
I found the correct SCSI cable for my last purchases.. I was told it was 'delivered', but I haven't received it.
Tidied up one of the "Aurora" Asus A7N266-VM machines. Reverse-mounted the HDD to try and keep the cables as tidy as possible! Front panel is currently outside in hydrogen peroxide, hopefully getting a bit whiter. This means I still have the front-panel I/O and front mounted USB cables to add, but that shouldn't create too much additional visible cabling!
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I actually quite like ide cables for their rigidity. They're quite easy to push out the way and they'll generally stay there (and hold back other cables).
Easy to push out of the way, sure, but bulky and messy enough to seriously disrupt the already poor airflow in late 90s/early 2000s cases! They are just too ungainly and unsightly, this is why they are now either flat with the motherboard (as with the DVD drives), or hidden behind the 3.5" bays (floppy and HDD). It means the single 80mm front intake now actually has a shot at putting air over the PCI/AGP card area!
I do need a couple of 80mm fans in there (front and rear).