TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Radical Vision]

Got me one of these! Albeit not an oeltra but still frickin' AWESOME!

Impulse buy and totally untested! I'll find out later if it is alive. Now I just enjoy looking at it.

It will be restored to perfection. Then and only then I'll give it a spin and see if it is working.

The suspense is killing me.

That looks like FX5950 Ultra ...

I have 2, but the Leadtek is broken is crashing after the leadtek BIOS post....





The XT machine, nothing special, but is really old, so is valuable, even the MFM disk is still working and no bad sectors who to think it will be still working..

 

[Robert B]

The card is a GF FX 5900 128MB. MS-8929 VER:100

 

[lexluthermiester]

And TADA! That is a very beautiful bit of retro-tech! Well done cleaning it up, looks new!

Remember that DanielK has a driver pack that has updated support for that Audigy card;

SB Audigy Series Support Pack 6.2

This software/driver pack is unofficial, not supported by Creative Labs. Use it at your own risk. Supports any model of the following...

danielkawakami.blogspot.com

 

[Ruru]

Audigy Rx drivers works at least with Audigy2 ZS, works flawlessly in Win10.

 

[Bones]

That looks like FX5950 Ultra ...

I have 2, but the Leadtek is broken is crashing after the leadtek BIOS post....

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The XT machine, nothing special, but is really old, so is valuable, even the MFM disk is still working and no bad sectors who to think it will be still working..

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It is, have one just like it.
Good card but I hate that (With mine at least) it doesn't like tweaking in that what you try to do doesn't apply, it's like the card either ignores it or it's locked somehow against it.
I literally have to flash it just to change clock speeds to any extent.

 

[Radical Vision]

And TADA! That is a very beautiful bit of retro-tech! Well done cleaning it up, looks new!

Remember that DanielK has a driver pack that has updated support for that Audigy card;

SB Audigy Series Support Pack 6.2

This software/driver pack is unofficial, not supported by Creative Labs. Use it at your own risk. Supports any model of the following...

danielkawakami.blogspot.com

Well as far as i remember that card was in really good condition, and was not dirty, so not much work from me there.. But on other hand i did clean lot of dirty stuff, like very dirty keyboards, machines and other.. But the moment i get something that is really dirty, or have some cosmetic wear and i dont liek it i sell it the moment i clean and test it. For now i keep some ugly MatroX mystique, it have traces of hits on the pcb and some chips, only reason i keep that card is, as i dont have another Mystique, the moment i get one in good condition this one will be sold.

I found Voodoo II Diamond these days, and i did consider to keep it, BUT it is only 8MB, i dont plan to waste time, money and resources to upgrade it to 12MB, also the card have some little bended pins on the 3Dfx chips, and that is not acceptable to me so i sold the damn card.. Same with the 7-8 Voodoo III 2000 i have and like 3-4 Voodoo III 3000, they was from scrap and not in the best shape, so i just cleaned them added the metal brakets, and sell them, no point for me to keep parts that are not in factory condition... My Voodoo III 2K and 3K that i keep for me are in best possible shape, no scratches (as i fucking hate scratches on the PCB even small ones) heatsinks are there and the metal braket is there too, the Voodoo III 3K looks liek was pulled out of the box is really well preserved, dont know why is like that, also the heatsink was removed by someoen and there is normal paste under it, not the thermal glue normally...



That Audigy card is inside the IBM dual V8 machine Death Star, as the mobo PCB is black, the case too, the cables need only some black XGI Volari V8, but Voodoo V 5500 will work well too, sadly the color is not black...

It is, have one just like it.
Good card but I hate that (With mine at least) it doesn't like tweaking in that what you try to do doesn't apply, it's like the card either ignores it or it's locked somehow against it.
I literally have to flash it just to change clock speeds to any extent.

Well OCking old parts is not best idea anyway, as something may die, it happens to ppl that i know and OC old stuff, so best bet is not to OC most things, or at least if OC to be only the things u really like, like me my K7 machine...

 

[Ruru]

Never been that much a 3dfx fanboy, though I still hate the fact that I sold a Voodoo2 hella cheap (like for 20EUR) several years ago.

 

[Radical Vision]

Never been that much a 3dfx fanboy, though I still hate the fact that I sold a Voodoo2 hella cheap (like for 20EUR) several years ago.

Me too you see, i even laugh at 3Dfx, as they was nasty as a company, and they did cheap out on their products, made in Mexico.....
I am ATi and AMD fanboy myself, i prefer their parts and hardware over rest, and i am concentrated mostly at them. But as true collector i cant just ignore 3Dfxm, as they are major player in the 3D market of the 90`s, no matter i dont like them as company, i still want to have some piece of their unique hardware, as no matter i prefer mostly ATi and AMD parts, even i can tell ATi Rage 3D did suck hard vs 3Dfx, even vs Rush...


Meanwhile i got this for 30 euro, will sell couple of the crappy Vibra cards, and rest will become for free...
Crappy Vibra 16 cards
Crappy crystal cards
Now Yamaha OPL should be ok, cuz is OPL, but what do i know..
AWE64 value will sell for some money, or will be personal one...
Now the SB16 i have similar card but CT1750, so no matter i like this new one, well will serve me better if i trade it for something more useful..
And cool 20287 Math CPUs....

 

[erek]

Can anyone find a Commodore Advanced Amiga Architecture – AAA Chipset? prototype or ES? Please

Need it

 

[lexluthermiester]

Crappy Vibra 16 cards

The Vibra16 cards were very misunderstood. It's not that they were crap, it's that they were budget/economy focused cards. They offered a similar level of quality to the AWE32/AWE64 but without all the bells & whistles. They were a solid sound card for a budget gamer.

Watched this and had to post it here;

 

[Radical Vision]

Well in my eyes they are nothing special, as i am on a hunt for the most rare and high end stuff that i can get my hands on, on cheap, without using ebay.... I have one of these in my collection, maybe i will add one more, but is way better to collect AWE64 Gold, SB16, AWE32, SB Pro and rest good stuff not Vibra 16...

About that video yeah, nice system, but i still prefer my scrap "IBM" Death Star V8 Dual system , as all parts aside of the GPU are parts that was going to be thrown in the trash, if it was not for me... And also using water cooling for PIII what for, also water and electronics never mix anyway so i will never like water cooling in a PC no matter what. And besides that guy spends lot of money on ebay, if i did spend lot of money i will build something better then this there, for example the mobo is not so interesting, my AOpen look way better with the black PCB, and is not really common brand, not like Gigabyte or ASUS...

http://imgur.com/a/uEOwmkG

I wonder how much did this guy spend on all his collection for sure is a lot, menwhile what i have is for free cuz of the stuff i sell that i dont need 80% of the time..

 

[Ruru]

The Vibra16 cards were very misunderstood. It's not that they were crap, it's that they were budget/economy focused cards. They offered a similar level of quality to the AWE32/AWE64 but without all the bells & whistles. They were a solid sound card for a budget gamer.

Watched this and had to post it here;

Too bad that (especially the fastest) Tualatins are hella expensive. Never had one, the fastest P-III I've had was a 1GHz Coppermine.

 

[Radical Vision]

Really damn i did just look in ebay, well did really not expected to see that the 1.4GHz PIII S to cost like 50$ ffs....
I did think they prob sell for like 10$, but seems they are rare, no wonder i never saw other of these 1.4GHz PIII S, (aside of mine x2 i have)..
Sad stuff and i did really want to find x2 of these CPUs to replace mines, as they have wear look, and i hate parts that have wear on them, not to mention the guy that did give them to me, did use sand paper to the CPUs, as he said the cap was not flat.......

 

[lexluthermiester]

Too bad that (especially the fastest) Tualatins are hella expensive. Never had one, the fastest P-III I've had was a 1GHz Coppermine.

I had a pair of 1.33ghz in an AOpen dual board that overclocked to 1.66ghz without much effort.

 

[Ruru]

Really damn i did just look in ebay, well did really not expected to see that the 1.4GHz PIII S to cost like 50$ ffs....
I did think they prob sell for like 10$, but seems they are rare, no wonder i never saw other of these 1.4GHz PIII S, (aside of mine x2 i have)..
Sad stuff and i did really want to find x2 of these CPUs to replace mines, as they have wear look, and i hate parts that have wear on them, not to mention the guy that did give them to me, did use sand paper to the CPUs, as he said the cap was not flat.......

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Well, lapping the IHS was a thing back in the day. Especially in the LGA775 era when the lapping helped the temps by several degrees Celsius.

I remember even lapping my old Phenom II X4 965BE tho with it, lapping helped only by 1-2C.

 

[Radical Vision]

Is your AOpen that same board, or is other ? If it is too bad we cant trade, as i want to replace my AOpen DX34R-U with same board, but in factory/mint condition, and in return i trade my board and some other bonus part, so to make the trade fair and better, but i wont pay for shipping and stuff so yeah, seems will still wait to find another AOpen DX34R-U, in factory condition, as mine is not that well (is working ofc) in the cosmetic department....

Well, lapping the IHS was a thing back in the day. Especially in the LGA775 era when the lapping helped the temps by several degrees Celsius.

I remember even lapping my old Phenom II X4 965BE tho with it, lapping helped only by 1-2C.

Ok but does not worth the time, for the results you get. Is way better if you delid the CPU, and just put liquid metal instead if the IHS is not soldered...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Is your AOpen that same board, or is other ? If it is too bad we cant trade, as i want to replace my AOpen DX34R-U with same board, but in factory/mint condition, and in return i trade my board and some other bonus part, so to make the trade fair and better, but i wont pay for shipping and stuff so yeah, seems will still wait to find another AOpen DX34R-U, in factory condition, as mine is not that well (is working ofc) in the cosmetic department....

That looks similar, but mine had an AGP-Pro slot. Sold the whole rig many years ago.

EDIT;
Found it!

The built on SCSI was the deal-maker for me at the time as I had a bunch of SCSI 10KRPM drives in RAID. Ah the memories.

 

[Radical Vision]

Hmmmmmmmmm interesting... Did not know AOpen have another then this dark dual 370 board, well now i know... Sure to have AGP Pro Slot and specially build in SCSI is good, BUT i still prefer the sexy stealth black color, nothing can change my mind about that, and after all there are PCI external controllers, so adding one will fix the lack of SCSI. And after all the DX34R-U have IDE RAID so that still count for something. In the end best dual MOBO with lot of features is ASUS CUV4X-DLS, it have up to 4GB of SDram, while my AOpen 2GB is max, not that i care much Pentium III dont need more then 2GB of SDram anyway..

Interesting yout ex AOpen board seems to have AUX power connector, while mine does not have, strange why that is...

There is the fix for the missing SCSI Adaptec....



in the end for me that black AOpen dual 370 beats both your regular green AOpen, ASUS CUV4X-DLS, and Gigabyte dual 370 too, as the ASUS boards tend to die and have problems, while this DX34R-U mobo is rock solid even after abuse...

 

[Ruru]

Ok but does not worth the time, for the results you get. Is way better if you delid the CPU, and just put liquid metal instead if the IHS is not soldered...

Phenoms and most of the LGA775 CPUs were soldered; I tried to delid my old Pentium D935 and the other core came along with the heatspreader even tho I warmed it up

 

[Radical Vision]

Got new stuff for 12 euro...

Number Nine Ticket to Ride (Revolution 3D)
Intel Pentium 90MHz
AMD Mobile K8 Athlon XP-M 3000+
MatroX dual VGA Head
MatroX Mystique
S3 VirgeGX 4MB
And a crappy SB Live 7.1






Ofc from all these the most interesting is the Number Nine card, seems is not one of the common ones, as i dont see it in ebay...
The K8 Mobile Barton for sure is really interesting to me, if i can clock it higher can try comparing it to the Pentium 4 better, as the K7 Bartons are limited...



Update

So i did test as usual my new stuff, and all is working, except the damn Number Nine Ticket to Ride (Revolution 3D) .... So i changed x3 motherboards, did think the card maybe have some problem, no post, changed multiple times the motherboards the PCI slots, and the jumper on the card too, also cleaned the slot of the card with alcohol nothing... then on the last third mobo (MSI with Intel 815 chipset, previous 2 was VIA something..) same crap no post and beeps, then i changed with no hope for that card the jumper on the card, and that it was there was post beep, and the mobo did seems to work fine, but no monitor... Then i decided to look the exact model of that card for something funny/ strange... And what i found was that the card is for shitty MAC, damn, at least i am happy now the card is prob working fine,and is not broken, as it seems rare piece of hardware....

Founded BIOS from VGAmuseum, so far so good. But now i have a problem, dont know how to flash the card with normal BIOS, as the flash tools are all for nVIDIA or ATi, i know ppl use to flash the Voodoo V 5500 PCI MAC edition with normal BIOS, but dont knwo with what tools...
If someone know what tools i need to give some links, ot upload them here, prefer WINflash myself, but if is not possible DOS flash will work too...

 

[lexluthermiester]

So i did test as usual my new stuff, and all is working, except the damn Number Nine Ticket to Ride (Revolution 3D)

That is unfortunate. Still. Clean it up and frame it. It's an unusual and very rare card. History worth preserving and remembering.

 

[dorsetknob]

But now i have a problem, dont know how to flash the card with normal BIOS, as the flash tools are all for nVIDIA or ATi, i know ppl use to flash the Voodoo V 5500 PCI MAC edition with normal BIOS, but dont knwo with what tools..

Probably with a SPI flasher

 

[Radical Vision]

That is unfortunate. Still. Clean it up and frame it. It's an unusual and very rare card. History worth preserving and remembering.

Ofc even if was not the case to be MAC card and to be broken i was going to save it, as i can see the card is rare and is interesting + is the first Number Nine i ever encounter since forever, so no chance for me to sell it or trow it to the scrap... And i dont use most of my stuff anyway, so is good to have it even if will stay with the crappy MAC BIOS... I am wondering how Voodoo 5 5500 MAC edition users fix the BIOS, i think should be by using second card to see the monitor ofc and flash the voodoo, so i think to do the same, just dont know what tools to use...

Also have this nice card, sadly some baboon did hit the pins there, i wonder how the FK did they hit that spot, as is not enough space there, so should be way more protected, then the other sides of the chip.. The damn card still work tho, and is amde in Germany very high build quality.... I tihnk i will trow it to the scrap, as is taking place and i wont prob ever find someone thet will want to fix this crap..

 

[Apocalypsee]

I saw this card on sale on fb marketplace and going to purchase it, already contacted the seller. He is the only owner and the card looks mint and no viible rust like my previous AGP X800XTPE I bought. The owner don't know what is the exact card, it could be just plain X800PRO or it could be X800XT or XL, which even I don't know how to identify.

I still wanted to test ATi Truform with faster CPU so I need PCIe platform, going to couple it with fast i5 4670k and hopefully it will run Windows XP. Already have all the right ingredients for it. Hopefully everything going to be well with this build.

I found several other gems like 7900GTX, GTX 275 for about the same price but since I'm aiming for Truform the X800 was the ast card to support it.

 

[Radical Vision]

The card works nice, just need to flash somehow the normal BIOS, i hate the rotten apple, only BS from these mother *******, like was so hard to use the normal BIOS, but naa....

Number Nine is alive

I saw this card on sale on fb marketplace and going to purchase it, already contacted the seller. He is the only owner and the card looks mint and no viible rust like my previous AGP X800XTPE I bought. The owner don't know what is the exact card, it could be just plain X800PRO or it could be X800XT or XL, which even I don't know how to identify.

I still wanted to test ATi Truform with faster CPU so I need PCIe platform, going to couple it with fast i5 4670k and hopefully it will run Windows XP. Already have all the right ingredients for it. Hopefully everything going to be well with this build.

I found several other gems like 7900GTX, GTX 275 for about the same price but since I'm aiming for Truform the X800 was the ast card to support it.

The thing is you can know, these cards look exactly the same, sadly is one of these moments ( i have many of them) where you see something and you dont know if is the top card, or is the cut down version...
Just ask the seller to put the damn card on a system and tell from the AIDA64 or GPUz what is the exact model...