TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[erek]

The first programmable graphics processor chip

http://eecatalog.com/digital-signage/2019/01/04/famous-graphics-chips-ti-tms34010-and-vram/

 

[E-Bear]

Just two motherboards in my possession that are like new. Gold board is a Winfast K8S760MG and red one is MSI KM4M.

I also built this older socket 478 setup.

Unknown case but mobo Aopen AX4SPE-UN
Filled it with 3gigs ddr400, Radeon 9250 256mb 128bits. Modem 56k, firewire pci card and usb pci card.
Sata odd, sata 320gigs hdd and 3.5" fdd.
PSU Raidmax RX-480A

Decided to swap gpu for a HIS IceQ HD4670 AGP 1gig ddr3 with hdmi. Will see how it goes.

 

[dorsetknob]

Found a 3DFX Vodoo 5500 with Drivers CD inc online for £215 ono

if anyone interested pm me for link

 

[Red_Machine]

Found a 3DFX Vodoo 5500 with Drivers CD inc online for £215 ono

Wow, they've really gone up in price. I got my boxed complete one for just £50 about 8 years ago.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Just two motherboards in my possession that are like new. Gold board is a Winfast K8S760MG and red one is MSI KM4M.

That Winfast board is an odd duck. Hang on to that one.

 

[E-Bear]

That Winfast board is an odd duck. Hang on to that one.

Why it's an odd luck? Were they prone to break? After some research I found that until socket AM2 Winfast and Foxconn had same boards just different colours. Winfast did not update drivers but Foxconn did.

 

[delshay]

Here's another rare item on EBAY. I have this attached to my old Antec True Power PSU, & it still works.

Thermaltake Fireball https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Therma...item1a59bccd00:g:Rj8AAOSwpAlbXfrt:rk:104:pf:0

 

[E-Bear]

Here's another rare item on EBAY. I have this attached to my old Antec True Power PSU, & it still works.

Thermaltake Fireball https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Therma...item1a59bccd00:g:Rj8AAOSwpAlbXfrt:rk:104:pf:0

Still the guy has 9 like that for sale.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Here's another rare item on EBAY. I have this attached to my old Antec True Power PSU, & it still works.

Thermaltake Fireball https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Therma...item1a59bccd00:g:Rj8AAOSwpAlbXfrt:rk:104:pf:0

I remember those. First thing I did was take off that awful grill to improve airflow and noise.

 

[Robert B]

MS-6168 V2.0 full recap

DIE CHHSI WG & HK CAPACITORS!!!

31 caps ranging from 10uf to 2700uf. 3 hours of work. PANASONIC FC & FR. RUBYCON ZL & YXJ. NICHICON UPW.

All caps have superior specs than the CHHSI crap and have been chosen based on: 1. Availability 2. Specs. 3. Brand 4. Price.

I had to shoe horn a couple of caps but nothing too difficult.

I still have some odds and ends but I'm close to POWERING UP this puppy and see if she's ALIVE!

The amount of work required to get to this point has been close to unreal. I must be mad to try and save a trashed board. I hope that it will work.

 

[Robert B]

MS-6168 has been repaired

 

[Keullo-e]

Ugh its starting to become an expensive hobby. I've been very itching to buy either X800Pro or X800XT PE. The XT PE close double the price of Pro (Pro RM80 ~USD19, XT RM149 ~USD36). I shouldnt...but cant resist...

Got my X800 Pro for free Too bad that it's not a VIVO model, I had a VIVO model once and ofc I bios flashed it to XT PE

Ti4200 is probably THE best DirectX 8.1 card in existence! Apart from the fact they're very common & fairly easily accessible (among other, high-end models) they OC easily, and are usually capable of delivering performance much higher than what they're officially rated for, just like yours from the example above, or even my Leadtek A280. They're also literally universal & can easily be paired with just about any AGP-compatible system, regardless of the OS choice of even the game you're playing. I had mine working in DOS, Windows 98, and/or XP, it really doesn't make much difference TBH!

I only feel bad for not buying/grabbing more of them while I still had the chance... They're becoming somewhat rare nowdays, just like any other hardware from around the same period. Although, to be honest I /do/ have a spare Gainward Ti4200 doing absolutely nothing, and yes - it already has a new GPU fan/heatsink in place, but I've been keeping it for something "special" if & when I'll ever need it. Which (with all these other nVIdias & ATIs) isn't likely to happen any longer


GeForce4 Ti Product Overview

Ti 4200 (Abit's 8X) model was my first gaming PC's card. Though I traded it with some euros to 9700 Pro and oh boy..

MS-6168 has been repaired

Whoa, that has an integrated Voodoo3?

 

[lexluthermiester]

MS-6168 has been repaired

Very nice! Is that process going to go on your thread?

Whoa, that has an integrated Voodoo3?

Yup, they made them. Very rare though.

 

[Robert B]

A 3dfx VooDoo 3 2000 with 8MB. This motherboard was used in Packard Bell Systems back in the day.MS-6168 aka Packard Bell Bora Pro .

I read about this type of motherboards quite recently. Imagine my surprise when I saw one at the local flea market

I thought that I would never own one

In other order of ideeas I'm waiting for a package with: an " MX RUSH", a "5500" which has problems but I still want it and a sky "V1" with some scratches. The price was ok-ish and I really want to complete my 3dfx line-up. So I'll have all of the 3dfx cards that I want: V1,Rush, V2, Banshee, V3 - I need a 1000 and a 3500, but I have plenty of 2000 and 3000, , V4 4500, v5 5500. The V5 6K will remain into the realm of fantasy for now.

http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB2111.html?num=1134682380
http://tdfx.de/ger/atc6254m.shtml
http://tdfx.de/ger/ms6168.shtml
https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=57743&mode=view
https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=57744&mode=view

The story of my MS-6168 will be posted on my thread/Project Logs Section on TPU and I assure you that it will be EPIC!

 

[E-Bear]

Just bought this at second hand store. BFG Tech 3DFuzion GeForce MX4000 128megs AGP. Gonna put it in one of my older Compaq D51S sff and install Xubuntu to make a HTPC for living room tv.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Just bought this at second hand store. BFG Tech 3DFuzion GeForce MX4000 128megs AGP. Gonna put it in one of my older Compaq D51S sff and install Xubuntu to make a HTPC for living room tv.

Does your TV have VGA in?

 

[E-Bear]

Does your TV have VGA in?

Yes

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yes

Cool. Do you have a good CPU to match it with? Forgive me if you've stated this elsewhere..

 

[E-Bear]

Cool. Do you have a good CPU to match it with? Forgive me if you've stated this elsewhere..

A Compaq D51S also branded as D510 is a single core skt 478 cpu. The one I have is a 2.8gigs paired with 2 gigs of ddr400 and a 80 gigs hdd plus the floppy and optical. The agp is low profile but I think I have couple brackets somewhere.

 

[lexluthermiester]

A Compaq D51S also branded as D510 is a single core skt 478 cpu. The one I have is a 2.8gigs paired with 2 gigs of ddr400 and a 80 gigs hdd plus the floppy and optical. The agp is low profile but I think I have couple brackets somewhere.View attachment 114718

Are you doing 1080p HTPC or 720p?

 

[E-Bear]

Are you doing 1080p HTPC or 720p?

Im going regular vga display. I found out on older systems that connected to tv choosing 720 or 1080 is out of range or blurry so i go with the vga settings that fits the best

 

[Robert B]

My little over 2EUR GUS ACE Version 1.1 has been restored Thank You FLEA MARKET! THANK YOU!!!

I never owned one or saw one back in the day.

 

[E-Bear]

My little over 2EUR GUS ACE Version 1.1 has been restored Thank You FLEA MARKET! THANK YOU!!!

I never owned one or saw one back in the day.

Sound card? Anything special about it?

 

[agent_x007]

@E-Bear It's all in the name : GUS (Gravis Ultra Sound).

 

[Robert B]

@E-Bear - The GUS ACE is a wavetable add-on board. "ACE plugs directly into an expansion slot in your PC and works alongside your current 8-bit or 16-bit Sound Blaster or compatible sound card. Unlike other wavetable ugprade cards, ACE is the only one to give you the benefits of 16-bit, multi-channel digital audio, professional wavetable synthesis, and dedicated games support. "

ACE is THE Audio Card Enhancer.
http://www.mindflux.com.au/products/gravis/gusace.html#overview
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2014/07/28/advanced-gravis/

I'm not quite familiar with it and I"ll have to read how to set it up and use it. Back in the '90 sound was a BIG THING.