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    Dabombinable got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    These all have onboard USB, no add-in card (they'd do nothing at all under DOS anyway). The Intel SE440BX-2 only saw performance impacted with the mouse plugged in, the Jetway 994AN-L (the slowest Apollo Pro 133A board ever made - period) saw it with USB just enabled. I have a BabyAT Apollo Pro board now that I could test with as well as my Asus P2L97 (440LX). Can't use my GA-5AA as I accidently shorted a mosfet while checking voltages.

    Honestly, got to keep in mind that USB will have a performance impact in addition to how well a board is designed. 12-13% in sysmark for these slot 1 boards and 25-30% in games:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20050214185451/http://www.thg.ru/mainboard/20000410/via_ap133a-27.html
     
    Images are gone on both the original and archive version 😞
    Really want to correct them on 994 not being able to accept PIII (it runs everything that fits except Tualatin). Many years too late however.
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Some boards don't have any performance impacts if USB is unused (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=96663), however with just a mouse plugged (legacy USB support enabled) in you could see a 5% or greater impact - some were OK with USB enabled but not in use.

    It took a while for me to get those results, and they were running the benchmark under my Windows ME boot floppy, so no USB drivers.
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    Dabombinable reacted to Skyesgaming in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Congratulations babe. I know how hard you've been working on this project getting Frog up and running. I'm so happy to see your progress and follow you along in your journey. 
    Frog is looking amazing. I'm glad he's kept his little signature smile on his face. 

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    Dabombinable reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Frog is starting to look even cooler now 🙂 I've installed the optical drive and the USB card from my paternal Uncle, the beige 5.25" floppy drive and the Soundblaster Pro 2 (for testing and seeing what the midi is like on it) from my maternal Uncle. The NOS beige 3.25" floppy drive from the shop haul a couple of weeks ago. and the IDE to Compact Flash (With a 1GB card in it) from eBay a while ago.  Didn't need any power extensions or adapters to get power to all the drives and cards.  Here's the pics..
     
     
     
    yeah, yeah..I know, the colours are slightly off.  But it looks waaayy better than having the black drives in there...and not a DVD drive to worry my air cooled Voodoo 3 3000 AGP in sight 🙂 
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    Dabombinable reacted to jaslion in 7800X3D and 3090TI   
    Its literally the best gaming cpu right now. It doesnt get any better.
     
    People are wrong here a 3090ti is even easily maxed out by a 5700x3x and such
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    Dabombinable reacted to Distinctly Average in Norfolk County Council vs Apple   
    Summary
     Norfolk County Council  successfully won a  £385m class action lawsuit against Apple for covering up poor sales in China
     
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    My thoughts
     While this is just pin money for Apple, for those loosing out on their pensions this is a significant amount. Apple obviously didn’t want a court ruling on this so have seemingly done the right thing. However, it should not have taken 4 years to do so. So this is probably just another case where only the lawyers win.
     
    Sources
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68580235
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    Dabombinable reacted to Middcore in TikTok is in trouble... again? (Updated)   
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    Dabombinable reacted to RONOTHAN## in Help me to understand. People upgrading their GPU but still using their 10 YO CPU   
    As far as I've seen, that really isn't that common anymore. There was a mindset back then that the CPU really didn't matter for gaming performance, especially since basically any quad core i7 would perform fairly similarly to each other once you had an overclock on it. Look at X58 setups for instance, the people who bought them ran them for 6-7 years without feeling a need to upgrade because there just wasn't a need for it. Nowadays though, games are using a ton of CPU power and therefore you really do need an upgrade. 
     
    I'm sure there are still some people out there that still live by that older mindset of any CPU made within the last 10 years is probably OK for a mid to top range GPU, but I'm pretty certain that it's more rare than you make it out to be. 
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    Dabombinable reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    I can't really sell the whole thing cause there's a couple of bits I want out of it.  Keep your eyes on the classifieds though 👍 always open to deals for multiple items
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    Dabombinable reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Also, sorry to be a pain, but I'll probably be selling most of the stuff out of these as the plan is to built one decent retro DOS 6.22 / Windows 98 SE machine out of all three of them.  Is it worth putting the stuff in the classifieds here first for a few weeks before listing them on eBay or shall I just head straight to eBay? (I know everyone is broke at the minute with the cost and living and such but then....so am I 😛 )
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    Dabombinable reacted to da na in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    It's worth giving classifieds a shot, managed to sell a few things before listing em on ebay
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    Dabombinable reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    I'll create a new post, sorry.  I've opened up the Baby AT system a cleared out the mess of ribbon cables to reveal the gooey goodness inside..
     
    It has a Gigabyte GA 586ATV Rev 4B Socket 7 Motherboard in it. Which to Gigabyte's credit they still have the manual for online here..
    https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-586ATV/support#support-manual

    Compatibility in the manual list up to a Pentium 200 and a Pentium MMX 233
     
    It also has this Cirrus Logic VC923/926 Fastware card with the GD5446 chipset which another forum lists as one of the first consumer grade parts with media acceleration built in

     
    and finally a Creative Labs CT1690..The Creative Soundblaster Pro 2 from 1993..

     
    I like this one cause it has the older Creative logo on the bigger chip and the newer one on the smaller chip 🙂
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    Dabombinable reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    You may or may not remember I managed to snag my late Uncle's Baby AT machine a while back.  It's been in storage since then but today I took it out of storage and booted it up for the first time..It was quite surprising what was in there.  I was expecting maybe a 386 or a 486 with 4-8MB of RAM..but...

     
    The purchase sticker on the bottom dates the PC back to '94 so my uncle must have put some serious chops in to upgrading this thing over the years.  I can't get past this screen yet as I can't find my PS/2 to AT converter for my keyboard.  I guess the next step is to stand down the monitor and open the little tower up and have a dig through the cables in there
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from MiszS in Microsoft is removing the ability for Windows 11 to run Android apps   
    Considering that I've never been even able to use WSA in Australia, because it wasn't available over here. So I forgot about it (like many others probably have), and next thing I hear its being removed because "no one used it". People wanted to use it, but it was handled so poorly that people couldn't and just forgot it even existed.

    Microsoft doing a Google.
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from RevGAM in What was your first experience of installing the Heatsking/CPU cooler like?   
    First experience was removing the stock cooler from my second PC (Celeron D 2.4GHz+SiS motherboard), to just see what the CPU actually looked like. Had no thermal paste (didn't even know what it was at the time), and just putting it back on. Didn't notice any difference in performance, and it still ran just as loudly (the side panel screw threads were stripped so it could be heard vibrating all throughout the house).
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from LAwLz in Microsoft is removing the ability for Windows 11 to run Android apps   
    Considering that I've never been even able to use WSA in Australia, because it wasn't available over here. So I forgot about it (like many others probably have), and next thing I hear its being removed because "no one used it". People wanted to use it, but it was handled so poorly that people couldn't and just forgot it even existed.

    Microsoft doing a Google.
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    Dabombinable reacted to Eigenvektor in Steam removes scam games impersonating Helldivers 2, Palworld, and other popular games   
    This is probably an unpopular opinion, but imho buying gray market keys isn't better than downloading warez.
     
    You have no idea where the license comes from, whether it will remain working and most importantly who you're financing by buying it.
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    Dabombinable reacted to porina in Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures   
    I've had more than a few disagreements with Mark so I don't want to assume, but I read unrealistic as "not generally representative", in which case I'd agree. At the end of the day, software can only represent itself. Cinebench is a benchmark first, anything else is secondary.
     
    Even if it was referred to as loading potential, I view the latest 2024 version as getting into the upper mid range of overall stress. Perhaps 6/10. It is still a relatively low intensity workload that scales well to as many threads as you can throw at it. Higher intensity workloads I'd include Y-cruncher at 8/10 and Prime95/Linpack at 10/10. Older Cinebench like R15 was pretty lightweight, 3/10 at most.
     
    If you wonder what I mean by intensity, I'd illustrate it as, if you run a CPU at a fixed clock and voltage, how much power would it use? To represent the modern context a bit better, how hard does the clock drop if you run it on a fixed power limit? Edit: now that I say that, I feel like doing some testing to get hard numbers on that.
     
    As always it comes with a big "depends on the workload", but I'd certainly agree with not worth pushing it in general. Either by manual OC or buying insane rated kits.
     
    Y-cruncher and Prime95 certainly do scale with ram performance. Modern cores can get through work faster than you can feed it, not even 3D cache is enough here. I'd like to see GB scale caches on CPUs if the x86 makers are not going to give us more affordable memory channels.
     
    Even ram configuration makes a difference. Link below I tested 1Rx16 vs 1Rx8 vs 2Rx8, in 1DPC and 2DPC configurations. And that was at one speed and same nominal timings. I don't usually bother testing timings since for my interests it has a far smaller impact than practical (not peak) bandwidth.
     
     
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    Dabombinable reacted to TetraSky in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.   
    They just gave up without a fight...
    Because Nintendo 100% would've dragged this on, costing them way too much in legal fees.
     
    I went ahead and saved the latest version of Yuzu when this whole thing started. Considering it's open source, though.... Cut one head and 10 more will spawn from it. They will just be more careful about it.
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    Dabombinable reacted to da na in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    XPS M2010 makes a 17" laptop look reasonable...

    ...and makes a 12" look like a scale model.

    HDX Dragon/Pavilion 9300 is similarly massive - and all of that space is used well.

    Its subwoofer alone is fist-sized.

     
     
    Back to the XPS M2010, it unfortunately suffers from optical drive problems, keyboard problems, and horrendous backlight bleed.
    As for the optical drive, the awesome raising/lowering mechanism works well, just the slot loading drive inside does not want to eject.
    As for the keyboard, its internal rechargable battery is totally dead, and unfortunately that means it's a brick. Will try to replace it.
    As for the screen, well... 

     
    I can put up with the flaws of the XPS M2010 and HDX Dragon though, they're both remarkably performant machines with odd designs and I wouldn't be surprised if fewer than 1000 working units of each are still out there.
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from da na in $4K CAD workstations   
    Even my old Gigabyte X570 UD supported ECC - and that was one if if not the cheapest ATX X570 board. My current MSI X570S board however does not, as it all depends on the manufacturer and how they tweaked the BIOS:
    https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-UD-rev-10#kf
     
    All of my old VIA Slot 1/Socket 370/Socket 462 boards support (unbuffered) ECC as well. Only my Intel chipset boards don't.
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from da na in $4K CAD workstations   
    You can also shop around for consumer AM5 boards that support ECC RAM - something that Intel has never and will never have on consumer platforms due to how much they make off their Xeon lines.
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from da na in Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures   
    Could end up being a slightly smaller problem than Intel had when they tried to push Coppermine to 1.13GHz. That ended up in a total recall.
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    Dabombinable reacted to Bitter in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    I remember when jumperless was the big buzzword and selling point on motherboard, yeah....jumperless until you lock it up and have to use the clear BIOS jumper lol.
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    Dabombinable got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your old and retro computer parts   
    Jetway objectively made the most compatible boards available.
    Setting the jumpers incorrectly by accident on a board - aka getting what were 1 and 0 wrong, getting an undocumented 112MHz FSB (BIOS is where increments are supposed to be set)...and damaging the core of a recently purchased GF2 MX "400" due to the FSB multiplier defaulting to low (what it'd use for 66MHz not 100 or 133).

    Such fun. Card sucked though ("3G Graphic" was the brand) and its replacement was well worth the cost (has diagnostic LED).
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