AGP card still kicking

[jedihobbit]

Ahhh, back in the day, I remember back when I dreamed of getting one of these cool portables:

Beat me to it except the "protable" I delt with was at 24ish lbs! An Osborne1 http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html

[supercat]

I bought this NF7-S ver 2 in 2004, and I have not updated the BIOS since. No funky mods, and if it ain't broke don't fix it. I almost tried some of the modded BIOS but I also heard that the Abit BIOS is easy to fubar, so I skipped it. I have a friend in Scotland that is really good at configuring the NF7-S, he scored some of the best scores on Extremeoverclocking.com, if you ever want some advice just check out there socket A stuff in the forums. Have fun !

wow very interesting, Say, what bios are you running on the NF7S?
I agree with your assessment of the AGP thing at present by the way.
mike

[thehandler]

Thanks, I'd love to check that out, do you have a link or how do I find this thread? Mike

I bought this NF7-S ver 2 in 2004, and I have not updated the BIOS since. No funky mods, and if it ain't broke don't fix it. I almost tried some of the modded BIOS but I also heard that the Abit BIOS is easy to fubar, so I skipped it. I have a friend in Scotland that is really good at configuring the NF7-S, he scored some of the best scores on Extremeoverclocking.com, if you ever want some advice just check out there socket A stuff in the forums. Have fun !

[supercat]

www.extremeoverclocking.com look for posts and benchmarks by postmanfw

[Spartan]

...so how did the X1650GT turn out? What games (and FPS / resolution) do you get out of it?

[RatboyX]

I had one of those Timex Sinclair with the chicklets keyboard and a cassette tape for loading programs. Bought it from a friend, but I never got it running. Next PC was an 80286 I purchased from a place I worked. I believe it had a CGA video card but I was able to run the old SSI gold box games on it. The thing was a clone and in a case that could have been used to anchor a modern day cruse ship.

Went from that to an NEC Ready 7022 with a PENTIUM 75. My god I was styling then. Hexon, Heritic, Quake…. Those were the days.

And it was that NEC computer, and it’s lack of upgradeability, that forced me to start building my own systems.