What retro things have you done today?

LewisRaz said:
@paradigm the sloket arrived today thankyou, The jumper settings look confusing, is it auto voltage in its default state?

My DIY adlib has arrived too... But been back at work today so spare time is all but gone until the weekends.
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Honestly, I’ve no idea if the slocket does auto-voltage, but I’d be inclined to believe it doesn’t but instead defaults to something common for Slot 1 CPUs. The jumper settings seem pretty straight forward to me. What voltage do you want tot set, I’ll try and put up an image of how to set it.
 
I'll give it a try later, see what happens.

My brother just grabbed my first "trashpicked" retro item:



The only caveat being he lives in holland...

Bet this isnt going to be cheap to ship.
 
@LewisRaz that looks in great condition. Guest2 posted a conversation about 1997 and I was just rueing the XPS Dimensions.

Shipping wont be cheap as you mention, but then again, if the item was free, hopefully not such a bitter pill.

Definitely like to see what you will do with it as I am getting an itch to try again. :)
 
Ninco! said:
@LewisRaz that looks in great condition. Guest2 posted a conversation about 1997 and I was just rueing the XPS Dimensions.

Shipping wont be cheap as you mention, but then again, if the item was free, hopefully not such a bitter pill.

Definitely like to see what you will do with it as I am getting an itch to try again. :)
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I dont know the value of it. Shipping is looking to be around £50 which is not small change.. Do you think it is worth bringing home? Its scrap metal otherwise.

He sent me these pics today and said anything of interest? I said grab that dell :D



 
@LewisRaz Tough call mate. I know I paid £70 and £85+ a couple of years back for a couple of Dell's so £50 or thereabouts, is a good price. It seems that in the UK similar spec machines are around £100. I had a quick look on eBay and there are not a lot available. It does look in nice condition. Your brother will love you when packaging. :D

Tough call, as you know, a lot of members (and the peeps at Vogons) will give you far better advice than me, I had a quick google on performance.

Medion was a budget make back in the day, personally I would pass. The HP personally looks like a bloated boat, does not tick (for me) the retro side and I never associated HP with gaming.
 
paradigm said:
“Swamped” says the man looking to ship a pallet from Germany...

Get the cube bought ;)
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I was counting that!! :P

I gave the sloket a go with the 1ghz and no post :(
I know the cpu is good as it works in my oem compaq s370..

Too tired to try and force a little more voltage with those jumpers but might try on the weekend. I also managed to slip while taking the HSF off and completely destroyed my other sloket :D
Ninco! said:
@LewisRaz Tough call mate. I know I paid £70 and £85+ a couple of years back for a couple of Dell's so £50 or thereabouts, is a good price. It seems that in the UK similar spec machines are around £100. I had a quick look on eBay and there are not a lot available. It does look in nice condition. Your brother will love you when packaging. :D

Tough call, as you know, a lot of members (and the peeps at Vogons) will give you far better advice than me, I had a quick google on performance.

Medion was a budget make back in the day, personally I would pass. The HP personally looks like a bloated boat, does not tick (for me) the retro side and I never associated HP with gaming.
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Cheers for having a look mate. Might try and get him to bring it over next time he visits once the covid crap is over!
 
paradigm said:
Replaced the caps with Tantalums (had them in my parts bin) and we're good to go, no stability issues to report, so "faulty" wasn't actually faulty :) Another working card for the collection.
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Good stuff, I've still yet to try mine! Will in due course but I've had other stuff to mess with.

Been busy today with other stuff to do like shopping etc, but something turned up in the post. A Voodoo 2 advertised as faulty. Yes, a bit of a gamble. I figured if it was dead then I could probably sell the passthrough and SLI cable to make some money back. Anyway, what sold it for me was the description whereby the seller struggled to get it working under WinXP. From what I gather, it can be a bit of a pain to do so (setting priorities for system files I think I read somewhere?). Could it just be a driver/OS issue I thought?

Checked the card over this evening, no visible defects that I could see. Installed the card and drivers, and the system would repeatedly freeze after about 10 seconds on the desktop before auto-rebooting. Bugger. However, noticed two things - the elapsed time until system lockup was consistently the same, and if I plugged any USB device into the USB expansion card (in this case a game controller) it would freeze instantly.

Yep, it didn't like the USB card. Removed it and have just been playing NFS3 using Glide for an hour, no problems at all. Looks like I got lucky, but need to look into a different USB card or driver perhaps... hope it's not NUSB-related, as I really would like to be able to use flash storage devices easily on Win98. But overall, quite chuffed!
 
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@LewisRaz, Your Athlon XP setup is based on the Asus A7N8X Deluxe, yes? Is yours a v2.0 (Gold) board, or an earlier revision? What CPU are you running, and which driver versions (and which OS, XP SP3 I assume?). I've got an A7N8X Deluxe v2.0 coming today and am still deciding what CPU to use but want to start compiling the drivers I'll need (and work out which GPU to use, I've got a decent choice these days!).

I've got the following AGP cards "available" (as in, not currently in a system):

3DFx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB
ATi Radeon 9200SE 128MB
ATi Radeon 9800 XXL 128MB
ATi Radeon 9800XT 256MB (AGP Pro, flashed Apple G5 card, so needs no external power)
nVidia Geforce 2 MX200 64MB
nVidia Geforce 2 MX400 64MB
nVidia Geforce 2 Pro 64MB
nVidia Geforce 2 Titanium 64MB (Thanks Lewis!)
nVidia Geforce 4 MX460 64MB
nVidia Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB
nVidia Geforce 6 6800XT 128MB
nVidia Geforce 7 7900GS 512MB
PowerVR Kyro II (Prophet 4500) 64MB

As you can see, a decent list!

hohum said:
Yep, it didn't like the USB card. Removed it and have just been playing NFS3 using Glide for an hour, no problems at all. Looks like I got lucky, but need to look into a different USB card or driver perhaps... hope it's not NUSB-related, as I really would like to be able to use flash storage devices easily on Win98. But overall, quite chuffed!
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What's the rest of the system? My Super Socket 7 system (K6-III 450 @ 550) tanked in performance with a Belkin (NEC chipset) USB 2.0 card installed (even if disabled in Device Manager). With a VIA chipset USB2.0 card I was getting roughly 95% of the performance I attained without any additional USB cards (the motherboard has USB 1.1 on-board). Much-like different sound cards can have different performance impacts on older systems, so too can other devices and peripherals!
 
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paradigm said:
What's the rest of the system? My Super Socket 7 system (K6-III 450 @ 550) tanked in performance with a Belkin (NEC chipset) USB 2.0 card installed (even if disabled in Device Manager). With a VIA chipset USB2.0 card I was getting roughly 95% of the performance I attained without any additional USB cards (the motherboard has USB 1.1 on-board). Much-like different sound cards can have different performance impacts on older systems, so too can other devices and peripherals!
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Yeah I remember the discussion not long ago, much like you I have been using a Belkin NEC-based card. This is with a 440ZX chipset and a AGP TNT2 as the main card. It doesn't affect performance like it did on your setup, but does hard lock the system repeatedly with a V2 installed. I think what I'll probably try soon is a re-install of Win98, but using the Belkin-supplied driver instead of NUSB initially. Once that's done, installing NUSB afterwards won't replace that driver but will provide the extra functionality I need (generic mass storage).
 
LewisRaz said:
I dont know the value of it. Shipping is looking to be around £50 which is not small change.. Do you think it is worth bringing home? Its scrap metal otherwise.

He sent me these pics today and said anything of interest? I said grab that dell :D



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Grab them all see what you can fix up between them. You might need components from each one to make a decent one. If not get em and sell em!
 
@paradigm Seeing as you have a GF2 Ti now, do you have an idea of how it performs versus the Kyro II in benchmarks on your system? Be interested to know given that reviews of the Kyro were using early alpha drivers at the time of release, yet it still managed to beat the GF2 Ultra in some tests.
 
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