What retro things have you done today?
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This arrived yesterday:
Socket 775, AGP, DDR1 (and a 2.8Ghz Celeron)
Nice looking board, simple, but looks nice in red!
That's going to be faulty VRAM by the sounds of it. A Volt-mod may bring it back to life, but it's more than possible it needs new RAM
Interesting, I'll have a look into that - as hadn't really got a use for this board (other than the fact it was the cheapest working AGP board I could find other than S478 which coolers are getting scarcer for)@Armageus - if you like Amiga BTW, that should be an ideal board for Amithlon
Was £12 including postage - which seemed ideal to have an AGP/DDR1 board that I can use for testing stuff.
Well I think my Midi stack is complete. Managed to pick up a Yamaha MU50 for £60+P&P. Don't really need to add anything else to it now. I actually think for owning retro hardware I'm pretty much done. Got a few machines now which covers a pretty much all games I want to play. Soo going to have a massive purge, being ruthless and keeping stuff I only really want.
@LewisRaz I popped that P3 550 in the post on tues. Should be with you tomorrow.
@LewisRaz I popped that P3 550 in the post on tues. Should be with you tomorrow.
I'd say the SC-55 is the safe bet and the De-facto when it comes to Midi for DOS games, but from my brief listen to the MU50 its sample quality and balance is in the same ball park as the SC-55. I'm looking forward to testing some games on it.
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@cee-S-dee that is a sweet midi stack.
If you had that setup in back in 1996 - 1999, you'd be the talk of the town.
If you had that setup in back in 1996 - 1999, you'd be the talk of the town.
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It arrived, as passive card that requires a 6 pin connector... Guess what it is?
It's a 1GB ASUS GTS 250 e-green. It would be pretty useful card with HDMI, DVI and VGA... if it had the fan that it was meant to come with too!
Ah well I'm sure I can sort something out.
My Asus P3C-E, 256MB RAMBUS and PIII 733 Slot-1 CPU arrived today, looks lovely condition wise, shame there was no I/O shield, but as a "standard" 2x PS/2, 2x USB, 2x DB9 under 1x Parallel layout I'm sure I've got one somewhere.
PIII straight back onto eBay as I have no need of the CPU.
Pretty sure you'd be able to mount a 60, 70 or 80mm fan on there without too much hassle!
PIII straight back onto eBay as I have no need of the CPU.
Pretty sure you'd be able to mount a 60, 70 or 80mm fan on there without too much hassle!
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Man those 5800s are both hideous and great looking at the same time! There also worth a lot of money, probably even with artifacting!
Edit I think I mean 5950 actually
Edit I think I mean 5950 actually
@cee-S-dee CPU arrived yesterday mate, hopefully get it fitted this weekend(I've googled how to remove the heatsink from my other p3 and looks like I am in for some fun 
). Thankyou again!
). Thankyou again!Actually was not too hard to do using this guide from someone with 1 post on vogons: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=51594
Nice big jump in 3dmark99.
P2 @ 392mhz = 2973 3dmark 3927 cpu 3dmark
P3 550 = 4234 3dmark 8434 cpu 3dmark
Nice big jump in 3dmark99.
P2 @ 392mhz = 2973 3dmark 3927 cpu 3dmark
P3 550 = 4234 3dmark 8434 cpu 3dmark
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This arrived yesterday:
I lusted after a Ti4600 back in the day. Felt like a proper pauper with my geforce3 ti500. It did look slick with its third party copper heatsink/fan on it though. Was also a slick red PCB. Love old PC tech.
@cee-S-dee CPU arrived yesterday mate, hopefully get it fitted this weekend(I've googled how to remove the heatsink from my other p3 and looks like I am in for some fun
Glad it turned up mate and you can put it too some use!
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Played some C&C Red Alert this morning on my P2 machine. I forgot how good the cutscenes are.
Considering adding a good DirectX 7 card to it and upgrading to a P3 800MHz or so so it can run a few more games.
Considering adding a good DirectX 7 card to it and upgrading to a P3 800MHz or so so it can run a few more games.
Been pretty quiet on the retro lately but did pick these up:
Going to change my sound card setup to adlib - SW60XG - ESS Audiodrive. Should work better than the SBLive dos emulation. Could potentially use the live too I think.
It seems they might have some sort of wavetable too which might be interesting to look at.
Edit - Yep, found it here with samples: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=50552#p536905
Going to change my sound card setup to adlib - SW60XG - ESS Audiodrive. Should work better than the SBLive dos emulation. Could potentially use the live too I think.
It seems they might have some sort of wavetable too which might be interesting to look at.
Edit - Yep, found it here with samples: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=50552#p536905
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Will doLovely Cards @LewisRaz! If you decide one of them was to become available let me know
I was looking to flip them... But Kind of want to keep 1 now! Hopefully they both work.. Pictures look clean enough
I got this yesterday for 15
Seems a fairly decent board