how about some details so we know whether it's worth watching.
if GPUs prices weren't going nucking futs enough, some of the special edition cards are saying "hold my beer".
jayz2cents has a had a look at MSI 5090 Lightning Z which are a limited run of 1300 selling for US $5090.
Card comes with a 360 AI Cooler and status display on the front.
And initial verdictr is it's pretty mediocre to disappointing.
The software is pain and the card is supposed to be overclockable (two bioses) and can pull 800 to 1000w so between that and high CPU you're pushing what can be powered from a standard North American power socket (which is 1500-1600w).
But voltage can also play a big role in overclocking but you can't adjust for the card.
So do you by the card to brag about your $6k GPU or hang your head in shame that you've got a card that's not performing any better than than cheaper (comparatively speaking) 5090 special editions.
jayz2cents has a had a look at MSI 5090 Lightning Z which are a limited run of 1300 selling for US $5090.
Card comes with a 360 AI Cooler and status display on the front.
And initial verdictr is it's pretty mediocre to disappointing.
The software is pain and the card is supposed to be overclockable (two bioses) and can pull 800 to 1000w so between that and high CPU you're pushing what can be powered from a standard North American power socket (which is 1500-1600w).
But voltage can also play a big role in overclocking but you can't adjust for the card.
So do you by the card to brag about your $6k GPU or hang your head in shame that you've got a card that's not performing any better than than cheaper (comparatively speaking) 5090 special editions.
something different in the world of retro PCs
Adrian's digital basement has a system that was used as a Raster Image Processor for a big print shop.
The case is fairly standard of the era (1989) but the board is custom and running a 68020 running a Postscript environment connected to a daughterboard running a 68000.
We all know of the 68000 series in the Macs. I know of it used in VME Bus Unix systems (iirc the big white tower behind Adrian is based on a 68000 series processor and he did a series on it sometime back it's a big beastie) but this is something different.
Adrian's digital basement has a system that was used as a Raster Image Processor for a big print shop.
The case is fairly standard of the era (1989) but the board is custom and running a 68020 running a Postscript environment connected to a daughterboard running a 68000.
We all know of the 68000 series in the Macs. I know of it used in VME Bus Unix systems (iirc the big white tower behind Adrian is based on a 68000 series processor and he did a series on it sometime back it's a big beastie) but this is something different.
^^ Cool, will watch the video soon. The 68000 series was also used in the Atari ST line of machines and of course the Amiga, back then these were used quite a lot in music and even video editing.
I'm doing my own retrocomputing thing, so I've been working on my Medion Pentium 4 machine which works fine, it's a pretty nice machine for that era, also still working on my brother's socket 939 machine which is such a wonderful machine, it's on the edge of old tech and newer tech, still has a floppy connector, PATA and also SATA ports and an on board PATA RAID controller, the graphics card is still AGP and not PCIE yet, the mainboard is a Asus A8V Deluxe
theretroweb.com
And today I found another relic, a Netburst Celeron 2.6Ghz, I've briefly used it but then needed the casing etc for another machine but that one will get a new (old)casing soon.
So I found a suitable cooler, some RAM 512MB, a harddrive and DVD drive, that one actually came with the machine, the mainboard is a MSI MS6526 with on board graphics, no APG port though so it's stuck with that.
theretroweb.com
I did find the drivers for that thing but I suspect that SP4 unofficial will have it all so when that finishes installing I might have a fully updated machine, the HDD is a 80GB Maxtor, I've got a lot of those in various machines, it used to be my go to HDD, when the IDE era ended i switched to Samsung HDD's which were absolutely awesome, still have two 200GB and two 320GB's running and a 250GB.
Luckily for the Celeron I have the original setup CD for the mainboard so I have all drivers available which is good, hunting down stuff for something that old can be a real hassle.
I'm doing my own retrocomputing thing, so I've been working on my Medion Pentium 4 machine which works fine, it's a pretty nice machine for that era, also still working on my brother's socket 939 machine which is such a wonderful machine, it's on the edge of old tech and newer tech, still has a floppy connector, PATA and also SATA ports and an on board PATA RAID controller, the graphics card is still AGP and not PCIE yet, the mainboard is a Asus A8V Deluxe
ASUS A8V Deluxe (Rev. 2.00)
ASUS A8V Deluxe (Rev. 2.00) is a motherboard based on the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!
theretroweb.com
And today I found another relic, a Netburst Celeron 2.6Ghz, I've briefly used it but then needed the casing etc for another machine but that one will get a new (old)casing soon.
So I found a suitable cooler, some RAM 512MB, a harddrive and DVD drive, that one actually came with the machine, the mainboard is a MSI MS6526 with on board graphics, no APG port though so it's stuck with that.
MSI MS-6526GL
MSI MS-6526GL is a motherboard based on the Intel 845GL (Brookdale-GL) chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!
theretroweb.com
Luckily for the Celeron I have the original setup CD for the mainboard so I have all drivers available which is good, hunting down stuff for something that old can be a real hassle.
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Can I thank the California and Colorado legislatures for protecting children from the naughtiness embedded in Linux and BSD?
I mean, what if they were exposed to systemd?
I mean, what if they were exposed to systemd?
The Motorola 68000 series has enough fans that they made a modernized "68080" derivative CPU to be run on a FPGA that is backwards compatible with programs that natively run on previous 68000 seris CPU's.
They call it the Apollo 68080. It's a very interesting FPGA core for those who have fond memories of the Legendary older Motorola 68k CPU's but would like a bit more modernized architecture.
The modern CPU Architecture feature list is quite fully fledged.
If they ever want to turn it into a real CPU to become a "Drop-In Replacement" for machines running on older Motorola 68000 series devices, you have something very modern that could be pretty amazing & very low power / performant while being "Dirt Cheap" to mass produce.
If you ever wanted a "Modernized Amiga", this is where you can get it.
I'm new to Windows 10, so this is a problem everyone else in the first world was thinking out in 2014.
I don't care about the incredibly woke news bar, but "others" most certainly would.
I'm not going to do it, but is there a way to redden the newsfeed so you can see all the incredibly real, incredibly "positive" Maga news?
I don't care about the incredibly woke news bar, but "others" most certainly would.
I'm not going to do it, but is there a way to redden the newsfeed so you can see all the incredibly real, incredibly "positive" Maga news?
Why not disable it altogether?
made a comment a few pages back about building a Mac with 68000 based SBC that some-one had developed.
Well who needs a SBC when you can do it with a Raspberry Pi.
but you miss the startup dwoing as there's no speaker and no connectivity because well no AppleTalk but otherwise it's the full MacOS experience.
Well who needs a SBC when you can do it with a Raspberry Pi.
but you miss the startup dwoing as there's no speaker and no connectivity because well no AppleTalk but otherwise it's the full MacOS experience.
^^ Cool, will watch that when I have the time. 
There's something iffy about the old Celeron.. I've took out the mainboard etc and I'll have to test it, and yeah, it's very old so it could just be that the caps have gone dead.
Did find another old system to put in that casing though, an old HP Pro 500 mainboard with an i5 3470 8GB of RAM and I had an old laptop HDD lying around.
The casing is an OEM Compaq EN series casing from 1998, HP bought Compaq a few years later so somehow fitting, originally the machine was a Pentium II 400Mhz.
I'm installing Win 8.1 on that machine because why not? The mainboard is HP so I don't even have to register it (mwuhahah)
As for the Celeron, testing and then maybe stuff it inside some other casing if it turns out to be okay, got some other P4's around but those are also ancient and haven't run in at least a decade..
There's something iffy about the old Celeron.. I've took out the mainboard etc and I'll have to test it, and yeah, it's very old so it could just be that the caps have gone dead.
Did find another old system to put in that casing though, an old HP Pro 500 mainboard with an i5 3470 8GB of RAM and I had an old laptop HDD lying around.
The casing is an OEM Compaq EN series casing from 1998, HP bought Compaq a few years later so somehow fitting, originally the machine was a Pentium II 400Mhz.
I'm installing Win 8.1 on that machine because why not? The mainboard is HP so I don't even have to register it (mwuhahah)
As for the Celeron, testing and then maybe stuff it inside some other casing if it turns out to be okay, got some other P4's around but those are also ancient and haven't run in at least a decade..
^^ Cool, will watch that when I have the time.
There's something iffy about the old Celeron.. I've took out the mainboard etc and I'll have to test it, and yeah, it's very old so it could just be that the caps have gone dead.
Did find another old system to put in that casing though, an old HP Pro 500 mainboard with an i5 3470 8GB of RAM and I had an old laptop HDD lying around.
The casing is an OEM Compaq EN series casing from 1998, HP bought Compaq a few years later so somehow fitting, originally the machine was a Pentium II 400Mhz.
I'm installing Win 8.1 on that machine because why not? The mainboard is HP so I don't even have to register it (mwuhahah)
As for the Celeron, testing and then maybe stuff it inside some other casing if it turns out to be okay, got some other P4's around but those are also ancient and haven't run in at least a decade..
Do you remember those old mounts where they used these plastic mounts that you had to squeeze from the other side of the board to release it? Those were an absolute PITA
Anyone who built or worked on PCs through the 80, 90s would remember them.
hard to forget.
Needle Nose Pliers were your friend for those situations.
Yeah, I don't like those plastic mounts, I've seen plenty of people using needle nose pliers or other tools that then slip off the damn mount and take out a capacitor or other component on the mainboard or making a scratch deep enough to damage the traces.. fond memories.. NOT! 
Yeah, I don't like those plastic mounts, I've seen plenty of people using needle nose pliers or other tools that then slip off the damn mount and take out a capacitor or other component on the mainboard or making a scratch deep enough to damage the traces.. fond memories.. NOT!
on the otherhand you couldn't short the board by having on in the wrong placee and not realising it or come out when you were trying to take out a screw.
but largely history is the best place fro them
Yeah, I don't like those plastic mounts, I've seen plenty of people using needle nose pliers or other tools that then slip off the damn mount and take out a capacitor or other component on the mainboard or making a scratch deep enough to damage the traces.. fond memories.. NOT!
Did do that. Pliers slipped and gouged the board enough that the tiny hole I had made had fucked up the board.
^^ouch!
Pulled out a really old machine today, it's a Celeron 333Mhz machine, I wanted to use its casing for something else but it wasn't possible to do so, I booted it up and it still works, runs 98se with some enhancements and unofficial service packs etc which were all the rage back then.
Pulled out a really old machine today, it's a Celeron 333Mhz machine, I wanted to use its casing for something else but it wasn't possible to do so, I booted it up and it still works, runs 98se with some enhancements and unofficial service packs etc which were all the rage back then.
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