TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Trekkie4]

Nice. Do you have more? 256 total is a bit on the lean side, unless you're going to run Win 98.

Dual VooDoo2's in the original SLI. Very cool. That takes me back. Thanks for posting your built progress. It's been fun to watch!


Yes, yes it is!


Heck yes. Let's see!


You may want to check your capacitors on the motherboard as they may have leaked and be the cause of the memory errors. Those old Atari's were not difficult to disassemble.

Configuration is the same as it was before, the only thing that's different is the Thermaltake case, V8 model with side panel window I just had to re-arrange everything due to different layout, since the old case had topside mounted PSU where this one here is modern & has the power supply on the bottom.

It was a lot of work, probably a lot more than its worth, but in the end things worked out OK, because the old CoolerMaster case was seriously crowded inside, hard drives were interfering with the Voodoo2 card(s), and you couldn't even plug a cable into the motherboard without disconnecting several cards.

 

[TOMCAT]

Ok, next look inside.
I opened the defect Megafile 30 to look whats going wrong with it. Easy to open, just 14 screws and some hooks.
Big RLL HDD is working, but the data did not arrive at the 1040STF.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Ok, next look inside.
I opened the defect Megafile 30 to look whats going wrong with it. Easy to open, just 14 screws and some hooks.
Big RLL HDD is working, but the data did not arrive at the 1040STF.

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Man, this has been a very nostalgic week. Suddenly reminded of the old 47GB 5.25' full height SCSI drives I had 15 years ago.

 

[delshay]

This item is currently on sale on EBAY. Never seen a 30 pin simm like this. I think it's a higher than normal capacity.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This item is currently on sale on EBAY. Never seen a 30 pin simm like this. I think it's a higher than normal capacity.

They are. Those are the first experimental 8MB SIMM's if memory serves. Maybe they were 16mb. They were used for the first prototypes of the original Pentium processor. Very rare and interesting, but useless without the prototype boards and CPU's they were built for. The were made obsolete with the development of DIMM's and the advancement if memory technology.

 

[Trekkie4]

This item is currently on sale on EBAY. Never seen a 30 pin simm like this. I think it's a higher than normal capacity.

Brand new product line from Glitch experimental technology, Bitchin' Fast RAM for all your memory needs!

 

[Ruru]

Just paid the hella low price from a HD 3850 AGP card (and some cooling crap) @ 39 eur including shipping.

 

[8bitgamer757]

 

[Ruru]

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Still better than this day's Macs.

 

[dorsetknob]

Just paid the hella low price from a HD 3850 AGP card

Nice i got a 512mb Sapphire HD 3650 AGP in my Retro Build

 

[Trekkie4]

Just paid the hella low price from a HD 3850 AGP card (and some cooling crap) @ 39 eur including shipping.

Still, I'm taking the annual award for scoring the best deal in 2018...

Speaking of computer parts, I've been told about certain S370 Coppermine server board. I will most likely get it for free, but not until January, early Feb 2019. Complete with 1GB of RAM & (matching?) pair of Coppermine(s). Other than that, I have no clue *shrug* Oh, and I might also grab a free S939 board, complete with Athlon CPU. Also for free, I'm still debating with myself whenever I actually need another motherboard or not

 

[lexluthermiester]

Just paid the hella low price from a HD 3850 AGP card (and some cooling crap) @ 39 eur including shipping.

That is a very decent price!

 

[Ruru]

That is a very decent price!

Getting it in next week. We had independent's day in Finland (6th of december) and it's a holiday, so post packets don't go anywhere.

I guess that I just can't run with Socket A hardware since it's gonna be a horrible bottleneck, so I guess that Athlon X2 6000+ with good old Asrock AM2NF3 with 4 gigs of DDR2 will be fine. But of course I will be testing even with a 1GHz Athlon Thunderbird..

 

[Bungz]

Doesn't trump the 7800GS+ I got for £18 Both it and the 3850 are stupid quick for AGP systems it's funny.

You can run it fine in a socket A board but there is a bug with socket A chips and the later drivers due to a conflict with the driver wanting to use SSE2 (which the XP chips do not have). It causes a CTD.

I posted a fix a while back, it is stickied in the OP.

 

[Ruru]

Doesn't trump the 7800GS+ I got for £18 Both it and the 3850 are stupid quick for AGP systems it's funny.

You can run it fine in a socket A board but there is a bug with socket A chips and the later drivers due to a conflict with the driver wanting to use SSE2 (which the XP chips do not have). It causes a CTD.

I posted a fix a while back, it is stickied in the OP.

HD 3850 wipes its butt with 7800/7900 series, it's easy to see when comparing those PCIE models.

Those Nvidias aren't still bad for older games, since they're fastest Nvidia AGP cards.

 

[Robert B]

Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 PRO 64MB AGP 2842 PCB REV. B - untested. I hope that it is working. I keep my fingers crossed!

Missing only 2 ceramic caps. An easy fix. I paid 3 EUR for it and I found it at the Good Ol' Flea Market. FRIGGIINNNN'!!!!! AWESOME!!!

 

[Ruru]

Is that the original cooler? Damn it looks weird.

 

[Robert B]

All original!

Weird is the least to be said. When I first saw it on the internet I said what the heck is that?!??!

When I saw it at the flea market I said MINE ALL MINE!!!

 

[Ruru]

Sure! I've never had other GF2's than MX and MX400.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Sempron 2200


Maxtor 540 MEGABYTES, IDE, 3600RPM. 11.2 MBps transfer speed!

 

[Trekkie4]

Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 PRO 64MB AGP 2842 PCB REV. B - untested. I hope that it is working. I keep my fingers crossed!

Missing only 2 ceramic caps. An easy fix. I paid 3 EUR for it and I found it at the Good Ol' Flea Market. FRIGGIINNNN'!!!!! AWESOME!!!

Is that the original cooler? Damn it looks weird.

WinFast cards are the best! I got A280LE ViVo edition (Video-In, Video-Out) inside my RetroMaster rig from the profile. The beauty about WinFast is that you can easily OC it up to much higher specs (originally GF4, Ti4200 which is OCed to Ti4600) without having to upgrade the heatsink &/or fan. This thing even plays Half-Life 2, but the only downside is that the card is limited to DirectX8.1b & older.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 PRO 64MB AGP 2842 PCB REV. B - untested. I hope that it is working. I keep my fingers crossed!

Missing only 2 ceramic caps. An easy fix. I paid 3 EUR for it and I found it at the Good Ol' Flea Market. FRIGGIINNNN'!!!!! AWESOME!!!

One of the nicer GF2 cards. Good find.

 

[Ruru]

WinFast cards are the best! I got A280LE ViVo edition (Video-In, Video-Out) inside my RetroMaster rig from the profile. The beauty about WinFast is that you can easily OC it up to much higher specs (originally GF4, Ti4200 which is OCed to Ti4600) without having to upgrade the heatsink &/or fan. This thing even plays Half-Life 2, but the only downside is that the card is limited to DirectX8.1b & older.

Dude, I had the same Ti 4200

 

[Trekkie4]

Dude, I had the same Ti 4200

That's really cool, do you still have it?

I really do like Ti4200 (in all the shapes & forms), as the GeForce4 is highly flexible piece of hardware. It's old enough to work in Win98, ME without any issues (and the games from around 1996-2000), but it's also powerful enough to drive newer games, such as Half Life 2 & GTA San Andreas. In fact, I would say that being limited to DX8.1b is its biggest advantage AND disadvantage at the same time ... depending on which angle you're looking at it. Kinda like the best of both worlds

3DGameMan on YouTube made a review video long time ago, of yet another Ti4200 card that's very similar to Leadtek's WinFast ... except his seems to be missing the back side cooler (for VRAM).

 

[Ruru]

Nah, I had that in 2005, traded that for 9700 Pro and I paid 30eur in exchange.