TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Trekkie4]

Appreciate that your accomplishment was somehow more impressive than mine, but I don't see any podium nor medals around here to suggest this is a competition. I've got long yearnings too, but most of what's on my list has been scarce or long been stuck with private collectors.

Hey, we're all friends here. No worries.

@Fouquin Agreed with lex, you took my post way too serious & literal. What I meant to say is that you're not the only one who spent a lot of time, almost 10 years to search and eventually find what you're looking for.

Some people would think we're crazy ... but I'd like to think of people in this thread as nostalgic & occasionally too stubborn to give up on something Otherwise, this is not a competition nor accomplishment ... just like you said. The only accomplishment for me, or you is to see our projects FINALLY come to life, and nostalgia (and memories) related to whatever is important to us.

@AugeK Wow! Uhh ... Asus P2B-DS? It's difficult to tell.
@agent_x007 I assume this is (Riva) TNT and not TNT2?

 

[AugeK]

MS6120, featuring 2 SCSI channels
694D, no SCSI ☹

 

[Trekkie4]

MS6120, featuring 2 SCSI channels
694D, no SCSI ☹

No, I was talking about the other (Slot 1) board, the one with 3 SCSI ports...

Edit
Oh, OK! Gotcha... Funny, reminds me a lot of Asus!

 

[AugeK]

Bought them because of their dual-CPU capability

 

[agent_x007]

@agent_x007 I assume this is (Riva) TNT and not TNT2?

Yes, this is orignal TNT, NOT TNT2.
Comes with 7-pin S-Video input (weirdly enough ?), standard S-video out, and composite In/Out.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Stumbled upon this thread by accident, inspiring me to browse the very back of my cellar.
Here is the results
Dual Slot I Board with 2 Pentium III 600 installed:
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Pentium III Dual Board with 2 933 CPU installed:
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Those are beautiful! They deserve to be made into retro systems!

Yes, this is orignal TNT, NOT TNT2.
Comes with 7-pin S-Video input (weirdly enough ?), standard S-video out, and composite In/Out.

That card was intended to do professional level video capture. Exceptional card in it's day!

 

[Trekkie4]

Bought them because of their dual-CPU capability

Sweet! I always wanted to make a dual-CPU Slot 1 system for retro gaming How much those older games would benefit from running on a dual CPU configuration is open for debate, but we are talking strictly theoretically of course, not to mention that it would look awesome!

Yes, this is orignal TNT, NOT TNT2.
Comes with 7-pin S-Video input (weirdly enough ?), standard S-video out, and composite In/Out.

Wow, nice find! You know, these cards are ridiculously rare nowdays & almost impossible to find ... at least I didn't get to find one (or even see, for that matter) myself. But I remember the good ol' days when having a TNT made you the coolest guy in school, and all of the sudden everyone wanted to be your friend

 

[agent_x007]

I usually see TNT2s and Riva128s (with single VGA out).

But this card was first TNT I saw with S-Video, so I had to buy it
A week ago, there was a Riva128 with S-video (similar to this one) and also from ASUS, but I wasn't able to buy it in time :/
Regardless, I think this TNT is the better buy from the two (even if I had to pay 2x more than for it).

 

[Fouquin]

Also please don't forget to change those caps. A few are bulging.

Absolutely, new caps went on before it ever got to the bench.

 

[Trekkie4]

Absolutely, new caps went on before it ever got to the bench.

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Panasonic FR-Series?

 

[Fouquin]

Panasonic FR-Series?

Close. Smaller Panasonic FS.

 

[Trekkie4]

Close. Smaller Panasonic FS.

Yup, I figured they were Panasonic the moment I saw lid cutout (perforation) shape! Also, they're small in size ... pretty much the ONLY decent small caps on the market, nowdays.

I bought 12 of FR-Series, 6.3V/1000uf for two of my Chaintech 6BTM boards, 24 caps in total.

 

[AugeK]

Some more stuff from the big bang:

 

[lexluthermiester]

Some more stuff from the big bang:
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I can't tell, is that a Radeon 9700 or a 9500? Either way, Nice!

 

[agent_x007]

That card was intended to do professional level video capture. Exceptional card in it's day!

Side note to that : In order to make S-Video work, user needs to install ASUS driver, and NOT nVidia one (since default driver doesn't know how to do a S-Video out/in).
I found it on web, and I will add it to this post for someone interested in them (they probably only work on ASUS cards).

PS. Old drivers are cool :
You can add TWO of them (98 and XP) and still not get "over the attachment limit" warning on post
I did not tested XP driver specificly yet, but it should work.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Side note to that : In order to make S-Video work, user needs to install ASUS driver, and NOT nVidia one (since default driver doesn't know how to do a S-Video out/in).
I found it on web, and I will add it to this post for someone interested in them (they probably only work on ASUS cards).

True! This is important! It sould be noted that the the driver set released with that card was thoroughly tested but ASUS and should be considered rock solid.

 

[Trekkie4]

Side note to that : In order to make S-Video work, user needs to install ASUS driver, and NOT nVidia one (since default driver doesn't know how to do a S-Video out/in).
I found it on web, and I will add it to this post for someone interested in them (they probably only work on ASUS cards).

PS. Old drivers are cool :
You can add TWO of them (98 and XP) and still not get "over the attachment limit" warning on post
I did not tested XP driver specificly yet, but it should work.

You didn't have to bother finding the correct drivers for V3400, as Asus (for whatever the reason, which I absolutely admire) STILL supports ALL their legacy hardware from back in a day

Here's the LINK

 

[lexluthermiester]

Here's the LINK

Didn't see that coming! Hope they continue to maintain it.

 

[Trekkie4]

Didn't see that coming! Hope they continue to maintain it.

Me too! Whenever you need V3400, V3800 (TNT2), V7700 (GF2 GTS) or something entirely different - a motherboard perhaps, certain edition of BIOS or flashing tool, they got everything! What I find most useful however are the manual(s), especially when it comes to motherboards (P3B-F, P4B in my case) and pinout for the front panel and/or CPU support.

It also comes in handy for downloading 3rd party OCing tools, such as "SmartDoctor", which allows active monitoring & OC of their cards. Well, at least some of them that is. I gave it a try on TNT2 and GF2 GTS and they both support OC, although TNT2 couldn't tweak fan/cooling adjustments.

 

[AugeK]

My wife is busy watching some bullshit movie, I went down and pulled the bits and pieces out of the Time Capsule:




Can't believe it still works!

 

[lexluthermiester]

My wife is busy watching some bullshit movie, I went down and pulled the bits and pieces out of the Time Capsule:
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Can't believe it still works!

Nice, very nice.

 

[Mr.Scott]

My wife is busy watching some bullshit movie, I went down and pulled the bits and pieces out of the Time Capsule:
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Can't believe it still works!

So is it 2x 1000's or 2x 600's........or are we talking 2 different machines?

 

[AlwaysHope]

Who could forget these infamous sticks!

 

[MaxiPro800]

Went home for a few days, now going back to college and figured I should bring my ol' trusty dv6-2115eg with me.

Turion M520, Radeon 4650 1024MB, 2x2GB DDR2-800, 320GB 7200RPM HDD and all running Windows 7.

 

[AugeK]

So is it 2x 1000's or 2x 600's........or are we talking 2 different machines?

It's 2 different machines, one Slot 1 and one Socket 370