What retro things have you done today?

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Probably, and back in those days probably less common for people to take coolers off (and notice such things)
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True. I'm almost certain the only difference between Quadro and GeForce back then was BIOS Identifier and driver features anyway! Certainly at Geforce 2/3/4 era, softmodding to Quadro was rampant!

It does transpire that this card has 166MHz RAM, whilst it is only clocked to 150MHz, so there should be some headway for a touch of overclocking with standard voltage.
 
Turns out I can't try the Voodoo 5 in the shuttle due to the size of the card! I've ordered a PCI riser cable so I can run it externally, I'm not re-doing all my other benches just to compare this card :p

I also decided to buy another dual S604 board (mainly because I preferred the colour!). This is one of the ones @almoststew1990 was looking at (the HP workstation board), but for some reason in red and not green! It also means I no longer need to run a GPU in a PCIe X4 slot (yes, it was x8, but only x4 electrically!) as I've got both an x8 and x16 at my disposal.

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Nice looking board that. Is that a normal 8pin cpu power connector? Didnt think they were around that early!

Ive spent today getting my TriGem 486 ready for sale. Removed my diy adlib and put an audician32 in. Put a fresh install of dos 6.22 now just sorting out the audio drivers and testing a few games on it.
 
Thats going to be one crazy machine when its done!
Look forward to the GTA5 benchmark :P

Ive listed up my SS7 board(little more than I paid for it but im including cpu and ram). Going to put the socket5 setup on tomorrow too.
Really gutted I missed out on a PCI 486 board yesterday I got sniped right at the end. Was hoping to win that and clear out both of my VLB boards.
 
I thought 8 pin CPU 12v connectors went round round square round on the top (clip) row, as that is how I work which 4 pin connector I need to use on boards with a 4 pin only connector?
 
almoststew1990 said:
I thought 8 pin CPU 12v connectors went round round square round on the top (clip) row, as that is how I work which 4 pin connector I need to use on boards with a 4 pin only connector?
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Rest assured, you are correct. The reference guide I snapshotted seems to show no regard for the actual shape of the connector. The connector on this board is identical to a "normal" 8-pin PSU connector.

When looked at with the locking clip at the top, the layout is:

rounded, square, square, rounded
square, rounded, rounded, square

The bottom row here is all connected to the ground plane, so we're good.
 
Not even sure I want to use it for this dual-xeon build (as it's far too new), but just bought a GTX 295 for £25.

If I don't decide to use it, I might donate it to budget builds on youtube!
 
Picked up this curious Parallel Backpack Bantam CD-ROM/16-Bit Sound Drive. Its came with the floppy disks but these would not read, but managed to find the drivers online. At first the drive was struggling to read disks, so i cleaned the eye with some alcohol and a cotton bud and it reads them fine now. I've not yet got the sound capabilities working yet. I've copied over the Win95 folder from a cd onto my compaq Armada and just doing a fresh install of Win95 now.

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I think I'm running out of platforms to faff about with, so much so that I just bought an FM2 board for £15 - the idea being that I could have an XP gaming APU. I used FM1 in the past for that and it was not quite powerful enough, graphically, even with one of the higher end quad cores. I didn't realise FM2/+ CPUs are so expensive still!
 
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I think I'm running out of platforms to faff about with, so much so that I just bought an FM2 board for £15 - the idea being that I could have an XP gaming APU. I used FM1 in the past for that and it was not quite powerful enough, graphically, even with one of the higher end quad cores. I didn't realise FM2/+ CPUs are so expensive still!
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I’ve definitely not run out of platforms to faff with, but still look out for oddities. I’m currently eyeing up a socket 479 build. Coolers seem hard to find for the handful of available boards though!

Never owned an APU, but can see the appeal for a small yet functional XP compatible build. Though I seem to remember than even low end discrete GPUs were still an upgrade even for the better APUs. Which kinda renders the platform pointless for gaming? A decent HTPC, but who still uses one?
 
@cee-S-dee Could you take some high resolution shots of your PowerLeap iP3/T, preferably removed from the case so I can see the front and rear of the board?

I've got a broken one here and I think it's previously had some rework looking at the solder/flux on the back. Can you also tell me what rating C26 is (the big capacitor near the power connector)? Is it a 1500uF 16v? The rest of the large caps on this are a different brand and all 2200uF 10v.

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Scratch that, I've got it working now, seemed to be a dry solder joint :)

So my Abit BH6, PIII-850 machine is now a Tualaron 1.4GHz machine :D
 
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So, going from Coppermine 952MHz to Tualatin 1568MHz on the CPU has taken the Voodoo 5's benchmark results to the following:

3DMark2000

V5/Pentium 3 850: 3846 3DMarks
V5/Tualaron 1400: 4274 3DMarks
V5/Tualaron 1568: 4659 3DMarks

Quake 3 Arena (32-bit textures and colours):

V5/Pentium 3 952/640x480: 76.3fps
V5/Tualaron 1400/640x480: 90.8fps
V5/Tualaron 1568/640x480: 100.7fps

V5/Pentium 3 952/800x600: 76.3fps
V5/Tualaron 1400/800x600: 90.0fps
V5/Tualaron 1568/800x600: 100.0fps

V5/Pentium 3 952/1024x768: 73.9fps
V5/Tualaron 1400/1024x768: 88.4fps
V5/Tualaron 1568/1024x768: 97.5fps

Still seems that we are CPU limited (even at 1568MHz), but my PCI extension cable has arrived so I can now bench "in" the P4 Shuttle.
 
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Still some good numbers on that.

Man I miss quake 3 arena.. The first time I ever built a second PC for no real reason was to host a server for quake on my mighty 1mb adsl.. good old days..
 
I now wish I had a better Slot 1 board. No PCI divider for 133fsb means I can’t try pushing this Tualaron any further. I’m sure it has more to give!
 
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