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PC is about to get its 4TB spinning rust back.
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Every PC needs some spinning rust.
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If I can clear floor space, I have figured out to have 4 of my retro PC setup without buying more KVM cables. Early and Late Slot1/370 builds via the KVM with; my 15" Hicon (cards are at most capable of 1024x768 gaming), Fellowes AT keyboard (have 2x PS/2 adapters) and MS IntelliMouse Pro (have a working serial adapter for it).
Mid and late Socket A builds with VGA and a passive DVI to HDMI adapter (plugged into my HDMI switch, which is currently used for my 360 and PS5).
Need to get the few faulty keys working on my PS/2 keyboard for the mid SocketA PC (as the late one gets my cheap mechanical USB keyboard+matching mouse), and set it up with my MS Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1a (found the OG PS/2 adapter for it).
With another KVM cable I'd have the mid SocketA build on it and KVM run through the main screen, and just run my Slot1 BabyAT build (with my 2 buton MS serial mouse and the AT keyboard) through the Hicon. Got the cables to daisy chain the old PSU as well (depending on their power rating for the 240V output).
Very unnecessary, however each build offers a different experience with; Ati, SiS, S3, Nvidia, chipset+motherboard performance, sound cards (2/5 use Live! Value however) and CPU (ram starts at 256MB and goes up to 2GB w/MemPatch - not a consideration).
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Loading Aida64 on the BabyAT PC, the Rage 128 Ultra manages to have barely more memory bandwidth and fill rate than my TNT2 Vanta (125MHz core/mem). On the plus side, it is far more capable in 32bit colours (in fact 16bit is barely faster while looking bad). Should be far better than the SiS 315E since that does have a large hit when 32bit colours are used.
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Gotta love an old motherboard, which has performance so inconsistent that a 64bit Radeon 7500LE can swing between expected performance (faster than GF2 MX400) to slower than an SDR SiS 315.
I really need to get out my second working Celeron 333, and compare the performance of my PCPartner Apollo Pro board and Jetway994 Apollo Pro 133A board. Because the NB and SB used are pin compatible, so Jetway really didn't change much if anything when they went from the 993AN (Apollo Pro) to the 994AN which would explain the abysmal memory performance (PC133 performing close to PC66 on 440LX and 440BX).