Post Pics of Old School Hardware "hard to find on the net"

[CrackerJack]

You couldn't tell that I was being sarcastic could you?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/125772-5/the_25_worst_tech_products_of_all_time.html
Ranked 18th.

wow that list brought back memories

 

[twilyth]

You couldn't tell that I was being sarcastic could you?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/125772-5/the_25_worst_tech_products_of_all_time.html
Ranked 18th.

Couldn't believe the old 200gig Hitachi Deathstars weren't on that list.

 

[DaMulta]

Wait wait 2GB RAM in a slot1 board? Was that even possible on those?

I remember I had 3 or 4 GB installed in it maybe 2 1/2 I know it was more than 2. Yet, could not find a hack or way to do one to make it read the extra ram I had installed.

It was possible on the old slot boards, but super $$$$$ I just happened to have some of those rare chips

 

[Frick]

I remember I had 3 or 4 GB installed in it maybe 2 1/2 I know it was more than 2. Yet, could not find a hack or way to do one to make it read the extra ram I had installed.

It was possible on the old slot boards, but super $$$$$ I just happened to have some of those rare chips

Didn't know that. I thought the BX440 boards supported 1.5GB. Coolio.

 

[DaMulta]

IF I remember right lol it was 2 years ago that I did that little project after all.

I flashed bioses, had a ISA card working in 7(that was a bitch) converted files into system 32 unlocked protected ones. It took a bit to get 7 to run all that old hardware, but it did it!

 

[Wile E]

yes it is. i checked the manual. the big speakers are peak 500WRMS total and small ones are 40 each. you must be confusing it with the g50 or something.

No, I'm not, I just have plenty enough experience with audio setups to know for a fact that those are not 500W capable. My Polk TSi 300's can't handle that kind of power. How the fuck do you think those shitty Sony speakers are going to be able to do it? Hook those main speakers up to a true 100W per channel RMS amp, like an Onkyo, Denon, Marantz, etc stereo receiver, and they would blow before half volume.

As for the amp power, feel how heavy a proper 100Wx2 channel receiver is compared to your little all in one, then listen to them both, and come back with a straight face and tell me that your little all-in-one is 500W.

First off, ratings cannot be peak and rms at the same time. RMS, is constant, peak is what it can do for a very short burst of the manufacturer's determined length. In other words, unlike RMS, there is no standard for measuring peak power.

Second, these power ratings are utterly useless without a THD number accompanying them. Sure, it might be able to peak at 500W for .5 sec @ 15% THD, but that kind of burst is useless, as we as humans generally hear any distortion above .8% quite easily. Imagine what 15% sounds like.

If it's claiming 500W peak, it's because peak is an utterly useless number, and almost always grossly inflated, especially by companies like Sony. AKA: Your manual is bold faced lying. Logitech also pulls this bullshit, by giving their power ratings at 10% THD, which is utterly unlistenable distortion wise.

Again, that thing is 50w RMS in the mains, AT BEST.

 

[twilyth]

Logitech also pulls this bullshit, by giving their power ratings at 10% THD, which is utterly unlistenable distortion wise.

Wow. That should be considered fraud - at the very least. Setting the countdown clock for a class action suit. And to think the monitor makers got bitch slapped for calling a 21.5" monitor a 22" monitor and the HDD makers got sued for calling a 80 gigabyte drive . . . well, exactly what it was, an 80 gigabyte drive. Somehow the noobishness of the average user was legal grounds for the suit as 80 gigabytes only has 74,400,000,000 bytes of storage.

 

[Wile E]

Those are technicalities tho. All the HDD manufacturers had to do afterwards was disclose in the drive's materials that they are using 1MB = 1000000Bytes (or anything equal to that statement).

Logitech has their asses covered because there is no full industry standard for RMS rating (although there are typical practices, there are no mandated ones), and they openly disclose it is at 10% THD.

 

[user21]

Oh F*** you got to be kidding me are they still used cant believe

 

[Eric_On_Web]

Just got my hand on a "Real 3D StarFighter" 8megs pci video card. Anyone ever heard about that? Seems even faster the my GeForce FX5200 pci 256megs Of course not gaming but over normal stuff like internet and files.

EDIT: Found this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/23255/real3d_starfighter_pci.html

 

[Frick]

Just got my hand on a "Real 3D StarFighter" 8megs pci video card. Anyone ever heard about that? Seems even faster the my GeForce FX5200 pci 256megs Of course not gaming but over normal stuff like internet and files.

Look at the GPU itself to see what it is.

 

[_JP_]

Look at the GPU itself to see what it is.

It's an Intel 740. lol

 

[Eric_On_Web]

Never heard of intel 740 but i dont even have the plugs like in the manual i only have the blue plug for screen on the card thats it and its 24 bit colours instead of 32 ehhe 290$ the original cost

 

[Red_Machine]

The card will use a standard VGA cable to output to the screen and 24bit IS 32bit.

 

[Eric_On_Web]

how can a 24bit can be 32 bit?

 

[Frick]

It's an Intel 740. lol

Oh.. Ohh.

 

[Red_Machine]

The colour you get on a 32-bit display is the same as on a 24-bit display (television and movies are all in 24-bit). The extra 8-bits are for other things.

 

[_JP_]

With performance similar to the TNT and the RAGE128, it sounded like a nice card to have...in 1998. The FX5200 is still better than that, though not by much. lol

 

[Red_Machine]

Actually, the i740 sucked major ass back in the day. It's why Intel never made discrete cards after that, they botched the interface implementation and it turned out to be slower than 2D cards in software mode!

 

[_JP_]

I heard the drivers were the problem, not the card. But damn, that sounds very bad. Nevermind what I said then.

 

[Red_Machine]

They had the insane idea of the card using only system memory or something, which the AGP bus was not designed to do. It actually turned out that OEM versions of the card using the PCI bus ran faster!

 

[Eric_On_Web]

The 8 bit extra from what ive read are used for rendering icns like "melting" te contour of an image or icon to the background on desktop something like that from what ive heard.

 

[Eric_On_Web]

Gonna dump it in the old 550mhz i have here and install Xubuntu

 

[Doc41]

A Geforce2mx, does this Casio count as old pc hardware?
and still couldn't find that sinclair

 

[Widjaja]

Cirrus Logic PCI VGA card which you can upgrade the memory size on!

Didn't cope very well at all with Windows 7 and a 24" monitor last time I tested it.
Went into 8-bit mode and the BIOS post screen was messed up.