Thanks, I hope all goes well for you 😊

It would make a lot more sense if Quake was in 320x200! I had a look through the video, and I selected option 'e', which is the Quake 640x480 time demo. I'm not entirely sure why the Doom score is so low, I'd imagine that there could be many variables at play here that would need further investigation. As you mentioned, it could be related to the graphics card, but there is only really one way to answer these questions. That would be to repeat these sane benchmarks, with adjustments to the hardware and settings. Cheers for the comment, take care 👍

Thanks man. Yeah, I agree, keep the dwindling supply of beige boxes for genuine period authentic builds. Sleeper builds are a bit dumb in my opinion, for the reason that you've stated, and because of the increased amount of work involved in doing so. Thankfully I chose a mobo that is ATX form factor, but even if that was not the case, and I happened to be using an older AT style board, you can pick up an I/O shield with the AT keyboard connector cutout, therefore accommodating all different board form factor without needing to modify the case. At any point, I can pull the components from this case and throw a brand new system into it, which is something you can't do with a modified beige box. Thanks for the comments. It is nice to hear that we have a similar opinion on sleeper builds. Take care

No idea man, it is just one of those weird quirks, I guess. The 256MB module does work, but only registers half the capacity 🤷🏻‍♂️ I was going to say that a bios flash may sort it, but I've already flashed the bios to the latest version. From what I have read online, it is stated that the maximum memory capacity is 512MB. All I can say it that it keeps me on my toes 😁 Thanks for commenting 👍

Thanks, it has been a good number of years collecting. I was blissfully unaware that they existed at the time. I'd have been running my ceramic Intel Pentium 100MHz CPU. Keep collecting them, and if you have not already, if possible, attempt to get hold of a working socket 8 mobo, a) so that you can test the processors are working, and b) just so you can have a tinker 😄 Thanks for the comment. It is always a pleasure to hear other people's experiences. Take care

Yeah, it really does! I was surprised with the results myself. I could do with a 400MHz K6-2 for a good comparison. Thanks for the comment 👍

@@Branco_G I had a K6-2 growing up..super slow. Not as fast as cheap computer stores and AMD would tell you back then by a long shot. It would probably lose!

I had an AMD K6-2 450 myself, around 1999, running on a Jetway J-542C motherboard, and I think 24MB of RAM that was pinched from the old system and a 4MB S3 Virge. I agree that the Pentium II was the superior processor, even though the cache arrangement was far inferior. At the time, for me, it was cost that led me down the AMD route. Nice to be able to look back 20+ years at what I missed.

@@Branco_G Hey, I was a little kid and didn't have any money. I remember how much more expensive P2's were, it was insane how much stuff used to cost. Stuff is cheap now!

Pentium II & K6 CPUs you can for sure pick up for next to nothing these days, bar any of the K6-III's. They're quite collectable, and thus can be quite expensive. It depends on what hardware you're looking at. Certain hardware, the price is astronomical!

Much appreciated, thanks 👍

I can do that at some point for sure. I can quite easily set up the option to dual boot Linux/Windows. To be honest, I have not had a lot of experience with Linux. The last time I attempted using the OS must have been 20+ years ago, and I remember it being quite difficult to build the OS. Should be much simpler these days as the installer is all pre built and ready to go. Thanks for commenting, take care.

Thanks a lot ❤️

Cheers man 👍

Yeah it is a hefty piece of kit. Haha yes, defo ebay to the rescue, I keep checking from time to time. There is the door pannel for the rack version, but no luck on the 7u front yet unfortunately 😔 Thanks for commenting 👍

Thanks ❤

Thanks George

Yes, Quake II is probably not the best choice as you're completely correct it is not a 3DFX game, owners of a Voodoo card would need to use the MiniGL driver, which is essentially a mini-subset of OpenGL functions. This may seem impractical to run the game in this way, but it looks and runs great. Thanks for the comment, all completely valid points. I shall look to rectify the points you made in a future video. Take care

Thank you George, glad you enjoyed 🙂

Not that I was aware of, but I have just done a little Google search, and it was apparently used in the IBM NetVista 6269, paired with an Intel Pentium III 800mhz.

Thanks for the comment. Yes I would much prefer an Athlon64 over the Pentium4. Currently, I do not have a S754 or S939 mobo that has an AGP slot so the P4 was my best option. I will continue to keep a look out and maybe compare the results from the two systems. Have a great day.

Socket 754 is cheap with agp around 25-35€.

I have not found one that cheap where I live. Those particular boards are pretty sought after, for the reason we are discussing. Popular for high-end WinXP builds with AGP support.

That does seem to be the question of the times... Can it run, Doom? 🤣 Have a great day, and cheers for watching 👍

Back then, CPUs wouldn't get toasty unlike the nowadays ones. Therefore no Thermal paste is needed. (yes, a fan THIS tiny would adequitely cool a CPU without thermal paste back then. Something that wouldn't even REMOTELY work nowadays, lmao)

No, the CPU does not need any thermal paste to be applied. It will not get anywhere near hot enough, believe it or not. Earlier processors did not even require a heatsink... Just bare ceramic 😄

Yeah, it is not meant to be like that 😂 The VGA connector is a bit sketchy and needs a looking at. I'm genuinely surprised that it still works after being in the attic exposed to the heat and cold for over twenty years!

Ahh, yes. I did a little read on the MMX tech single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction set architecture. The use of superscalar architecture incorporates a dual integer pipeline design, which lets the CPU process more than one instruction per clock cycle. 🧐 As well as a more advanced floating point unit, which quake relies heavily on. So yeah, that all makes a lot more sense now. I may even do a little video on the P5 architecture and MMX tech. Thanks for watching and commenting. Take care 👍

really good for 66mhz

Hey, thanks for the comment. Sweet, that is good to know, I can test them cards with a CRT monitor to check they're good. Seems odd that though that the older ISA card didn't have a problem with the monitor.

Yes it is! I'm not sure why I've titled it A7N8X, possibly wishful thinking 😂 I'll change that, thanks for the comment 👍

Hey Darthkielbasa, thanks for your comment. I actually do not have a backup or restore procedure in place at the moment. If I am completely honest, I hadn't even really thought about backing up my Virtual Machine, as I have never really seen the need to do so. If my VM had been using a virtual disk, then I would probably manually make periodic backups of the vdisk image, say once a week. I've been running this setup for a while, I've not had any problems with booting, or data loss on my VM. It is setup with two physical disks assigned, a 120GB SSD for boot, and a 1TB HDD for storage, no virtual disk is being used. If the VM ran into any problems and was unable to boot for whatever reason, it would be a slight incovienience yes, but I would not loose anything valuable. I would just need to do a Windows reinstall, and the VM would be back up and running again. I will have to take a look into a backup and recovery procedure in more depth as it is not really something I have looked into.

If you think that is bad, then you've seen nothing! 🤣 Yeah, my PC was a bit nasty, but that tends to happen when you use it a lot and have a lot of fans blowing air around. I tend to do a clean every couple of months, but it is a never-ending battle 🙄

Greetings from the UK. Thank you, and thanks for watching 👍

Thanks very much 👍

The original music is the Turrican 3 theme by Chris Hulesbeck, I just created my own version in cubase. I'm glad you liked the music, and thanks for the comment 👍

@@Branco_G Nice to know you! I am PC Hardware fans too

Hey Erik, I've not checked whether super by-pass is supported. I'll have to check at some point. If the option is not in the bios, then a possible bios update may enable the option. Something I will take a look at in the next video. Thanks for the comment. I'm sorry that I couldn't answer your question. Take care 👍

@@Branco_G I looked a review at PCSTATS and they write "Since this is the most recent revision of the AMD 750 chipset, the K7 Pro also has the Super ByPass feature available for a nice performance tweak. With this feature enabled in the "Advanced Chipset" section of the BIOS, users can enjoy a speed increase that brings the perfomance level up to KX-133 levels (newer VIA chipset with PC-133 and AGP 4X support.) Super ByPass increases memory performance, which leads an overall increase in system performance.".

​@@Branco_G I also saw that MSI got all the BIOS updates on their webpage available for download.

Sweet, in that case then, the board will certainly support super by-pass. As I said in the previous comment, the board may need a bios flash for that option to be available in the bios, but that is a nice, easy job. Thanks for that little valuable bit of information, I am thinking I shall do a comparison with super by-pass enabled and disabled in the next video with some benchmarks.

Hey, it is possible that your CF Card is not compatible with the Amiga. The cf card needs to support IDE mode. One other thing that it could be is the versions of cf.device and fat95. The latest versions of the files are available on Aminet. Later versions of cf.device support a broader range of cards. It is a bit of trial and error when using cf cards. I hope this helps and you manage to get it sorted 👍

@@Branco_G I did get it sorted. The problem was that I am on WB2.05, so I had to use mountlist due to the lack of dosdrivers folder found in WB2.1 and I wasn't aware of this at the time of commenting. Thanks though

@MPEG Ahh sweet, glad you got sorted. I didn't even think about different versions of Workbench. Cheers for the reply, take care 👍

Thanks very much for commenting. Yeah man, gotta save these babies from them scrappers! I've got loads of Pentium Pro CPUs. Motherboards though, they are a little harder to find. It is good to hear that I am not on my own when it comes to preserving these systems for the future. What hardware have you got your IPP running with?

@@Branco_G Thank you for the reply!! I have a 440FX board, Currently running a Pentium Pro Overdrive 333 (I also have a Pro 200 on a shelf looking pretty near it). 512mb of Ram, a S3 Virge DX, Sound Blaster Live and an Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1. Pretty proud of it. Feels cool to preserve the very late 90s of computing

Nice a Pentium Pro overdrive. Now they're hard to come by! The S3 Virge was my first GPU. I had it paired with an AMD K6-2 450 back in 1999. It was a fairly decent 2D card from what I remember. I'm hoping to rebuild the same system at some point in the future. Agreed, it is a good feeling preserving machines from the late 90's, for me, I'd say I have the most nostalgia towards that period. Thanks for sharing. It is always a pleasure to share builds and sometimes get good ideas for future projects. Take care 👍

@@Branco_G I was super happy to get my hands on it. It is a processor that was obsolete the moment it came out, but the DNA of the Pro and Xeon chips lasts till today. Also the Orchid Righteous is so cool. It was the first 3dfx consumer card. That click is so loud in an open case. Very cool

Used to love that click as the card initiates 😊

Totally agree, old is gold as they say 😊

Hey, thanks for commenting. I will be sure to refresh the thermal compound on the chipset heatsink. I will also check the tension on the CPUs. Thankfully, I have not yet had it fired up for any substantial period, so I will make sure I get all that checked out before I start using it.

Thanks, happy to help 👍

Hey, thanks for commenting. What were the problems you were having, if you don't mind me asking? So far, this rack has been alright. I have not noticed any problems yet. Hopefully, I will get a bit of use out of it 🫰

Hi, you should check IPMI for logs, and do not tighten the heat sink way too much, it will cause random RAM issues.

@@salman.sheikh Thanks a lot, I'll have a look into that 👍

Hey, thanks for commenting and the friendly advice , I shall have to give this method a try in the future. It cleaned up OK with the IPA, but I will have certainly missed bits for sure. The cotton wool was never really a good idea, especially when it snags on everything 🙄🤣 When the weather turns, I was thinking of stripping the whole system to paint the interior of the case as it is looking a little grotty and rusty in places, just to tidy it up a bit. Not decided on what colour yet, but it would be a perfect opportunity to give all the components a nice bath 😊 Take care 👍

@@Branco_G No problem, always willing to help people messing with retro computers.:) I had my first IBM ps/2 model-something mb cleaned wit IPA and small brush and cotton buds, it was covered with some strange residue. I wasted whole day to discover that when ipa evaporates all the dust stays in place.:) So I got psyched and gave it a bath. For some neat result. So this is really on of the best methods. By the way, guys from our local forum are using dishwashing machine, if you feeling lazy give it a try. Just don’t mix it with dirty dishes.:)

Thanks man, all handy stuff to know. It is what I love about the retro community, which is that we all help one another. I quite enjoy when I can help others with solutions to their problems. I've been out of the loop for quite a long time though. It has only been in recent years that I began collecting and tinkering again. I've probably forgotten a fair bit of knowledge I once had, but I'm slowly remembering stuff. Just silly things like FPM and EDO have to be in pairs, or you're not getting a post screen 😊

If I remember correctly, this is for Pentium systems only, 486 will work with one stick of RAM. Oh. If my memory serves me well. Went googling.:) Keep up the good work, it's always interesting to watch somebody is struggling to revive pieces of old tech.

Usually, the struggle for me is finding the hardware in the first place 😄 It depends on what system I decide to build, as some hardware is harder to source.

I'd never used a microdrive before, I'd only really discovered them a couple of years ago when I started collecting. I find them pretty fascinating even now, the size of the things, pretty kewl bit of kit even if they are from like 2001. Thanks for sharing 👍

Hi Dennis, Cheers for the comment and the extra info. It is handy to know what hardware these systems were running at the time, I may even try to pick up a Matrox Millennium MGA to keep the hardware period authentic. Yes, I agree, I only really threw Win95 on her because it had been so long since I'd last used it, so for nostalgia, really. I might give NT4 a go just because I've not used it before, but I think I'll end up with Win2K being installed eventually. I've got a few little bits that need attention, CPU cooler being one of them as I noticed she was getting a little toasty with just the passive cooler. Yeah man, the prices of the Pentium Pro are crazy and, as you mentioned, scrappers driving up the prices. Socket 8 motherboards are the most difficult to find, especially ones that are still in fully working order. I'd been looking for a while before coming across this Gateway 2000 mobo. I've never been into the black plastic/fibre Pentium Pro's. Only because, aesthetically, the ceramic and gold CPUs just look nicer 😊 but I would still like a couple in my collection. That must be rather frustrating being in that situation. As if it is not hard enough to find one CPU, you have to find a matched pair 🙄 I hope that you find a matched pair so you can move forward with your upgrade. Take care 👍

Hey TASLundy, yeah, you're right, I have just had a look at the part number and confirmed that they are 4MB FPM memory modules. I probably should have checked that beforehand. Thanks for commenting and providing that extra bit of information. I will amend the title, I'm not sure if I said it was EDO in the video, I can't amend that mistake. Cheers 👍

NP, I spent almost 20 years building PCs through the 90s and 2000s (Apple IIs and C64/128 mainly before that). it reminds me of just how many systems we got through the recyclers I volunteered for in the mid-90s, when Windows 95 came out and everyone was upgrading/replacing those XTs, 286s and low-end 386s, and building 486s and Pentiums to run it. iirc only the very last 486 boards supported EDO on the 72 pins (ie: FINALi (Ali) chipset)

That must have been a pretty awesome job. I'd have loved to have done something like that. I was 11 in '95 and learnt about building and tinkering with computers from my old man, and generally just messing about with them. I've probably forgotten a lot of what I learnt back then, but it's interesting to look back on systems similar to ones I owned and others that I couldn't have dreamed of owning back then, relearn and learn some new things about them systems. Also, preserve some of these systems because there are less and less of them all the time.

Yeah man, I'd love to have one, but as you mentioned, they're pretty rare, and when one does pop up, they're quite expensive. Hopefully, one day, I'll get my hands one one so we can have a closer look at one. Cheers for the comments. Have a great day 👍

@@Branco_GWhat if one made a clone of Asus C-P6S1

@QuestionQuest Good question 🤨😄 I'm fairly certain that it had already been done a long time ago, and even the clones are now pretty expensive. If someone could make a new clone for a fair price, that would be awesome. I would actually be able to find homes for my collection of Pentium Pro's. To be fair, I'd be happy with just the one, just so I could have a little play with 😊

Adapter is only one part of the problem - there is some bios issues on slot 1 boards to run PPro, so you will need a modified bios. But result will be interesting :)

@@axescar Thanks, that is good to know and shouldn't be too much of a problem, providing I can find a modified bios rom somewhere. Reflash the bios and do some testing. 😁 I'll also be able to compare it to this system to see what kind of performance gains there are.

Hi Kurt, cheers for the comments. I have not tried this on an A1200, but I would imagine that it is the same process and that it should work on the 1200 with no problems 😊

hi there do you a video on how to intall a whdload games package cheers kurt@@Branco_G

Hi Kurt. Yes, there is a walk through on how to install the files. It is in the video with the PCMCIA adapter in it. In that video, I installed the games from a CF card installed in the PCMCIA slot onto the internal hdd (which is also a CF card) The games are installed under the Amiga shell by typing various commands. I hope this helps 👍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5O3pYp4btdogZosi=_EO5Wdo7euoEfEfT

Thanks for watching and your suggestions. I did use isopropyl alcohol for cleaning, but I thought shortly afterwards, cotton wool buds weren't the best idea when they started to snag on everything 😄 Those pins do look a little suspect, and I will definitely have a closer look at them. The vast majority of this cards life has been spent in the attic, so I wouldn't be surprised if it needs some intense TLC 😊

Thanks for the comments. Cheers!

Thanks for commenting, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I have an example of all but the 166mhz version of the PentiumPro. That version seems to be quite rare, I have found. Is your Pentium Pro in a built system?

The Motherboard and CPU came from a trash picked gateway. It lives in a antec case now with a S3 virge and a Voodoo 2 @@Branco_G

Nice man, another saved from landfill ❤️

Thanks for the comments and some additional information on the Pentium Pros. Yeah, I couldn't get the RagePro going, so I had to downgrade to the Trio64. I was thinking not long after the install of Win95 that it probably wasn't the best idea! 😅 I may give NT4 a go just to see what that is like, but I think you're right, Win2k is probably the wise choice.

Thank you for the comment. I hope one day that you get that opportunity 👍 All the best.