TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Trekkie4]

I see your point but that's not entirely correct... You can always use it to watch VHS

 

[verycharbroiled]

Unless your AIW has Analog/ Digital Tuner (DVB) the only use for the tuners is as input capture Device ( if it has AV/ input )

Those analog to digital tv converters are probably still available somewhere..

 

[agent_x007]

I got myself "new" stuff

Because one RaptorX isn't cool enough by it's own

 

[Mr.Scott]

Always wanted one of those drives.

 

[GreiverBlade]

I got myself "new" stuff

Because one RaptorX isn't cool enough by it's own

old "new" stuff is the best stuff .... which remind me i have a little something coming soon ....

hint: i already have 1 Ultra variant in my collection and i will pay it 1$ (nah i didn't got extra lucky as it's seemingly a bricked one .... tho i will know more once i receive it next week )

 

[Trekkie4]

Well guys, sorry to say I didn't get to pick up that ATI card today, since it was raining all afternoon (and I was jut too lazy to go out in bad weather lol), but I DID get another & completely unexpected surprise! I finally picked up replacement mATX board for that branded Asus system, running a (S775) Pentium 4 CPU. This "new" board is also acting up (but I'm hoping to fix the problem, since it doesn't seem to be that serious), and is so much better in the terms of expansions & overall performance than the old one except for one huge downside - it's PCIe, and not AGP Sooo yeah, that's a huge bummer IMHO, because PCIe is just not retro enough for my personal taste. Not to mention the fact that I now have a working 7600GT for AGP board & am fresh out of PCIe ones *sigh* Oh well, sourcing a replacement video card (especially for PCIe) should be a lot more easier than finding one that has AGP slot - I hope?!?

Meanwhile, I was also given a free 20GB Western Digital drive & Sound Blaster Live card, which I still have to check & see if it works or not. Sooo, yeah - you can expect further updates soon, especially on that Asus system once I set it up & boot up OS from scratch I also have something else going on, mostly cap failures & soldering jobs but at this point it's too early to tell anything for sure - 2 motherboards & 1 PCIe video card (Slot-1 & S478, ATI X1550), along with one additional S775 board that needs to be completely recapped (Asus P5SD2-X) but that's a story for some other day

 

[Robert B]

The BIG Guns!!!

 

[Trekkie4]

1. GV-R92128TE Gigabyte (Radeon 9200)
2. Hercules 3D Prophet II (GTS) ???
3. Leadtek WinFast (nVidia GeForce 6600GT)

 

[Robert B]

You got right the Hercules and the 6600GT.

The other one should be obvious - 4500.... L shaped....top corner number....

 

[Trekkie4]

Apparently not THAT obvious, after all

 

[Robert B]

PowerColor Evil KING IV VooDoo4 / VooDoo 4 4500 AGP 32MB

210-0908-01
210-0435-001

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It came a little rough but I sorted her out REAL good

 

[Trekkie4]

Jeez, that's disgusting! I mean, for a 3dfx card, those are usually beautiful & well-organized, component layout is usually spot-on, but this looks weird! (at least that's my very personal opinion )

 

[Robert B]

It's not going to win a beauty contest that's for sure. Think of it as a half of VooDoo 5 5500

Two of these puppies in SLI make a VooDoo 5 5500.

 

[Red_Machine]

That was also the only AGP 4x card 3dfx made, even the 5500 and 6000 were AGP 2x. It severely limited compatibility back in the day, as almost everybody was using AGP 4x boards by then.

 

[Robert B]

I read a lot of webpages and this particular L shaped V4 is known to be AGP 2x 3.3V only. So you need to be extra carefull when you use it. It seems that the AGP connector is keyed wrong.

"Only the retail 3dfx built Voodoo4 4500 AGP is 4xAGP 1.5V capable.
(the Powercolor Evilking Voodoo4 and the rare 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 "L" Shaped variants are confirmed to be 2xAGP 3.3V only)"

https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/548553/548665

Take these with a grain of salt - from some webpage many years ago...

"A number of cards have been identified that have the 1.5 Volt notch, but are actually 3.3Volt cards. These are:

- some nVidia Riva TNT2 cards
- all nVidia Vanta, Vanta LT cards
- all SiS 6326, SiS 305 cards
- all S3 Savage4 cards up to, but not including revision 3.0
- all 3dfx AGP Voodoo 3, 4, and 5 boards (officially non-AGP 4x anyway)
- some nVidia GeForce2 GTS/Pro."

 

[Mr.Scott]

Take these with a grain of salt - from some webpage many years ago...

"A number of cards have been identified that have the 1.5 Volt notch, but are actually 3.3Volt cards. These are:

- some nVidia Riva TNT2 cards
- all nVidia Vanta, Vanta LT cards
- all SiS 6326, SiS 305 cards
- all S3 Savage4 cards up to, but not including revision 3.0
- all 3dfx AGP Voodoo 3, 4, and 5 boards (officially non-AGP 4x anyway)
- some nVidia GeForce2 GTS/Pro."

A big grain of salt.

I have yet to see any GF2 cards that were 3.3v only, and I own SiS 305 and 315 cards that I know for a fact I've benched on boards that do not support 3.3v cards. Same thing with the Riva and Vanta cards.

 

[Trekkie4]

Well, I still didn't get to pick up that ATI card, but look at all these goodies here! Finally, things are on the roll!

Two of my Live! cards ... I got the 1st one (0220) way back, along with 7600GT card, but now (earlier today, to be exact) I picked up this other one, which seems to be older. Assuming it works (obviously), it'll make a fine addition to any retro gaming system! Wish it would be THAT easy to find Aureal Vortex2 cards, those are nowhere to be found


Then there's another mobo, Asus P5SD2-X which has bulged (and leaking) capacitor. Fortunately, it seems to be just one so I might get away with replacing just one instead of the entire series. I know this is against the rules, but meh. Don't think I'll be using this board any time soon, so why not?


To my surprise, I found this amazing P4 chip inside the socket. I assumed it was just another P4, but the specs read "2MB" of cache, which is twice as much of what these things usually had!


Video card crisis avoided, I present you with nVidia GeForce6 6600LE PCIe card. True, it's not "GT", and it's certainly not as powerful as 7600GT (or even 6600GT for that matter), but it's still better than onboard! I have Radeon X1550 which is throwing artifacts, and has some bulging caps so assuming I don't get to patch it up & get it back into working condition, I'll have to go with this card instead


And last but not least... Someone here mentioned ASRock boards, which have that fancy "AGP" expansion socket, for future sockets - right? Well yeah, look what I got here!


And yeah, it DOES work!


Edit
Wow, it took me way longer than I expected, but I finally found the original post. It was @Bungz who mentioned ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 board & that fancy-looking expansion module!

 

[Red_Machine]

I have a Vanta, which I've used in an AGP 4x board, and it worked fine. Also managed to get a 90% overclock on it with absolutely no cooling at all.

 

[Athlonite]

@Trekkie4 you might want to find a nice quiet fan for that 6600LE I had to replace the same card 3x in my sisters old PC because it kept cooking itself 4th time I put a fan on the passive heat sink and it's still running to this day although it's now relegated to the kitchen as a recipe/facebook machine

 

[Trekkie4]

Thanks for the tip... I might put one of those VGA coolers on this thing, mentioned on the previous page. TBH, it's the best I can do, I'd really hate to drill into the aluminum & "ghetto mod" the entire thing with some huge fan. But then again, I might be able to patch up Radeon X1550, in which case I won't have to use this one, in the first place

Speaking of X1550... After the initial test, I removed the heatsink assembly (fanless X1550 SCS by PowerColor) & found out that one of the caps is bulging. But to my surprise that wasn't the ONLY problem - it seems someone was already in here & replaced every single cap with used (and different) ones. So, from 5 caps in total there's 4 different brands & models No wonder this thing failed, come to think of it it's amazing that it still works (despite the numerous artifacts)

 

[Athlonite]

No need to drill in to the HS just use normal fan screws as they're a little fatter than normal they'll just fit in the narrow gaps between fins

 

[Trekkie4]

Bad news guys, I didn't have the time to go pick up that "All-In-Wonder" PCI ATI card, so by the time I got back home, I figured to heck with it (especially since it's not much of a card in the first place) and decided not to get it after all.

On a bright side however, my new RetroMaster 4000 is in production & should be finished soon! So I might upload couple of pics, in case anyone's interested?

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Bad news guys, I didn't have the time to go pick up that "All-In-Wonder" PCI ATI card, so by the time I got back home, I figured to heck with it (especially since it's not much of a card in the first place) and decided not to get it after all.

On a bright side however, my new RetroMaster 4000 is in production & should be finished soon! So I might upload couple of pics, in case anyone's interested?

Bring'em on!

 

[Trekkie4]

Alrighty then!

It's too early for specific details and/or full tech specs at the moment (be patient ), but in the meantime here's a small teaser!

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Alrighty then!

It's too early for specific details and/or full tech specs at the moment (be patient ), but in the meantime here's a small teaser!

Any difference between the regular VM and the VM/Vintage?