Don't worry. I will never touch my 5150 (or any other of my classics)!
I may end up saving some cash to buy a 5170 case with PSU or a fully working one.
Thank you.
Jose
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Don't worry. I will never touch my 5150 (or any other of my classics)!
I may end up saving some cash to buy a 5170 case with PSU or a fully working one.
Thank you.
Jose
Cimonvg
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hello
This tuning the old PC is (at the moment) my hobby.
So, a new "cpu-power" card on the way – and I go wayyyy :D ….well.
I have set the boundaries for my hobby to the original motherboard – then finding the most advanced / powerfull / crazy components to get the PC , lets say, go 1% faster.
Example – have a SCSI->RAID-SCSI converter lying , and one day it will feed the pc-xt with data.
Ones installed I can say ”I am running DOS on a original pc with RAID5 ” :crazy:
Back to the cpu cards.
@lyonadmiral , I think another bottleneck when you have a system runing. The software written for modern PC's do not understand what hardware you got . So, software drivers are then also a most.
The version without a cpu replacement and the rather unflexible flexible cpu cabel, would bee just awsome. But, if I remeber correct the review were not that overwhelming. But I agree , a solution with only one card would bee perfect
The SOTA cards have one very attractive feature. The switch from 8088 to 286/386 cpu. And in my mind a perfect solution. When I want slow cpu for some old game , a have the original 8088. And for more modern applications I then have a 386 – in the same PC.
Speed: The SOTA were not the fastest, and the make-it-486 without drivere were neither the fastest. But I like the speed of the Intel Inboard/386 with Evergreen cpu mounted.
I have not that much knowledge on the technical site of a new cpu-card. But can see that the old boards have alot of standard LS chips, and no ”chipset”. And if a new cpu-card with chipset is introduced in a slot – will it coexist with the original motherbaord ??
/cimonvg
This tuning the old PC is (at the moment) my hobby.
So, a new "cpu-power" card on the way – and I go wayyyy :D ….well.
I have set the boundaries for my hobby to the original motherboard – then finding the most advanced / powerfull / crazy components to get the PC , lets say, go 1% faster.
Example – have a SCSI->RAID-SCSI converter lying , and one day it will feed the pc-xt with data.
Ones installed I can say ”I am running DOS on a original pc with RAID5 ” :crazy:
Back to the cpu cards.
@lyonadmiral , I think another bottleneck when you have a system runing. The software written for modern PC's do not understand what hardware you got . So, software drivers are then also a most.
The version without a cpu replacement and the rather unflexible flexible cpu cabel, would bee just awsome. But, if I remeber correct the review were not that overwhelming. But I agree , a solution with only one card would bee perfect
The SOTA cards have one very attractive feature. The switch from 8088 to 286/386 cpu. And in my mind a perfect solution. When I want slow cpu for some old game , a have the original 8088. And for more modern applications I then have a 386 – in the same PC.
Speed: The SOTA were not the fastest, and the make-it-486 without drivere were neither the fastest. But I like the speed of the Intel Inboard/386 with Evergreen cpu mounted.
I have not that much knowledge on the technical site of a new cpu-card. But can see that the old boards have alot of standard LS chips, and no ”chipset”. And if a new cpu-card with chipset is introduced in a slot – will it coexist with the original motherbaord ??
/cimonvg