#PC/XT

[lonelyrollingstar]

Occasionally getting old hardware working is less than elegant

[themightymadman]

1983 IBM PC 5160 (XT) Power Supply Rebuild & Modifications

[bak3lite]

IBM PC/XT

[princess-viola]

IBM PC XT

[harlequinoccult]

shit can't ever be easy huh.

[bigboyplaya]

i'd be lying if i said Victoria's appearance wasn't based off of lucia from gta vi lol

as soon as i saw her in the leaks and stuff i thought damn i gotta make her in saints row while i wait for gta vi and ended up with my first female boss.

i tweaked her face to look more like naya rivera, but i think i'm gonna tweak her in the character creator to look like her original inspo too.

[netrunnervt]

Pretty good, if you can find one: The RX 9070 XT

Let me start by saying this: I fucking love how the 9070 XT turned out in terms of performance and I'll probably be buying one when I get the chance.

If you can find one at its MSRP of 600 USD/570 GBP, it's actually pretty solid. Not "shut up and take my money", but solid. Almost reasonable pricing for a GPU for the first time in however many years, relative to its build and performance class.

Nerdy details under the cut.

In short, the 9070 XT is maybe a tiny bit slower than the 5070 Ti, but also $150 cheaper.

In long:

(Image credits in order: Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed)

It's within *earshot* of the RTX 5070 Ti for raster benchmarks, which is more or less what I was hoping for. With undervolting, Der8auer even managed to squeeze past the 5080 in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme:

Not bad. I don't expect the 9070 XT to win against the 5080 in any real-world benchmark (and it doesn't), but for $150 under the 5070 Ti? Not fucking bad.

There is one segment, however, where Radeon still gets absolutely pummeled: Ray tracing. The more RT heavy a game is, the worse the 9070 XT will perform.

It's immensely better than last generation was in this situation, don't get me wrong, but don't expect Black Myth: Wukong or Cyberpunk with Path Tracing turned on to run well.

(Image credit: Gamers Nexus)

With a less RT-heavy workload, the 9070 XT finds its footing again, but still doesn't beat the 5070 Ti:

(Image credit: Gamers Nexus)

The new media encoder also seems to be doing well, with image quality in H.264 not quite where the competition is but really close:

Meanwhile, in AV1, it's almost the exact same:

Considering that Twitch lets you stream at 6000 Kbps (and they won't stop you if you set your OBS to 8000), while YouTube lets you hit 10000 Kbps, this encoder is completely acceptable.

Overall? I love it, it's more or less three times as fast as my RTX 2060 Super and it has double the VRAM, which means I should be able to stream Redout 2 and Ghostwire: Tokyo without Unreal Engine being a bitch about it.

Looks good enough to me.

[christec]

Test du ONEXGPU le hub eGPU avec une carte graphique Radeon RX 7600M XT

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[commodorez]

This thing came in clutch for fixing one of the exhibit machines that was having problems with the sound card joystick port for some stupid reason. The oldest design for a gameport/joystick interface on IBM compatibles, and it works just fine on a machine from about 1997.

IBM Analog Input Card, aka the original ISA joystick port option

[ui-alcoholic]

PolType/Cyfronex

Polish PolType is a family of microcomputer systems developed by Polish engineers in close cooperation with the Polish representative of the British MonoType company (PolType was acquired by the Cyfronex company in 1986, but the original developers remained with the company).

PolType devices were able to control LaserComp and MonoType Imagesetter machines (Imagesetter produces the printing film from which the printing plate is made – nowadays the plate is made directly, and the film is not needed).

The first generation of Poltype (1988) required its own eight-bit computer, the next, Poltype 03 and 04, used a PC XT class computer.

The 510-key POLSET 04 keyboard (for PolType 04) shown in the first two pictures was also Cyronex's own development. This was also excellent for typing complex mathematical formulas, but through it, the functions of the SW were also available (the mouse and WYSIWYG were still in a very experimental stage at that time)

source:

• Tumbler // sailing the cylindrical sea

• Mikro Klan 1988/1

• Bajtek 1988/5

[pissvortex]

ok i upgraded my gpu from the radeon 5600 XT to a 2080 super and literally everything about VR is working so much better

EXCEPT

last night when i tried to enter whiterun while streaming it performed so bad that steamvr crashed and my entire PC was stuttering like crazy. whiterun loads just fine at full frames when OBS isn’t open but the second I open OBS everything on my pc crashes. i tested it off stream, it’s not even the strain of streaming it’s the software itself. What could possibly be causing this? this is the literal only thing performing worse than my radeon. i have the FUS modpack installed so my thought is it’s one of those city enhancing parallax fuck ass mods but that doesn’t explain why it runs perfectly when OBS isn’t open - it does that even with the OBS preview off so it’s not that either. it’s like a very specific kind of computer stuttering like something with the two programs interacting wrong

[lonelyrollingstar]

Created the museum’s first Hidden Mickey-esque gag easter egg

[bowser-garyopa]

My latest donation is an Texas Instruments Professional Portable Computer.

These machines run MS-DOS v2.13 and use an 8086 CPU, and the cards are almost XT bus, but not really, and for a while, was the nicest luggable PC out there.

It fully works, but it is open to add a GoTek Floppy Emulator, as I currently don't have any original Floppy discs for it, but I have lots of archived images I can place on a USB stick and use on the GoTek.

Also this is good time to remind my supporters of my GoFundMe, that I also accept donations of equipment like this if its related to my TI hobby, and can be useful, it also keeps my mind active and healthy.

This one was available locally, and was worth it to take an Uber there and back to pick it up, many thanks again to all my supporters here!

[bringcal]

The LINUX REVIEW! Okay so I been using CachyOS on my desktop pc and Arch linux on my laptop (previously Linux Mint) for over a month now and I just wanted to post about my thoughts, from someone who has been exclusively on Windows my entire life and am not a programmer/dev (and now, no longer has anything that runs on Windows so you may see where this is going)

Laptop specs: AMD ryzen CPU i don't remember specifics, 8gb ram, 500gb storage (Truly just an average trash laptop whos already physically falling apart)

PC specs: 7600x CPU, 7800 XT GPU, 32gb ram, 2tb storage

List of things I've noticed or liked:

(Laptop) Fans no longer blaze on idle. Was really embarrassing bringing my laptop to school because of this and now no longer an issue. The fans only kick in when necessary

(Overall) Less ram usage. on idle, Windows 11 ate about half my ram on my laptop, its now about 1 gb on arch. Similarly, on my PC CachyOS is about 1.8 gb on idle.

(Overall) More customization compared to Windows. I've stuck with the cinnamon DE for all of them and at least on Cinnamon, customization is easy for the average person who doesnt wanna go mess w configs.

(Overall) I can update my computer and still use it like normal. If its a relatively deep update that needs to restart the restart time is as long as any other regular restart. I wont be tricked to being stuck on a blue loading screen for 10 minutes.

(Overall) I can run all games I like to play, even relatively newer ones like Monster Hunter Wilds. Which is now a few months old, but even Nightreign which is Brand New runs perfectly. People need to stop saying gaming is impossible on Linux. Yall are just addicted to Fortnite

(Overall) Pirating games is also easy and have had no performance issues with pirated games running via Lutris

(Overall) Better performance on Minecraft. Most games r kinda the same, but there are a select few like Minecraft who run better now

(Laptop) i can watch a FUCKING YOUTUBE VIDEO without my computer DYING

(PC) Everything just Works. CachyOS is really good. The reason this isn't an overall point is just that I'm more responsible for getting the packages my laptop needs, so obviously there wasn't a good out of box experience for a normal user on Arch. For being arch-based CachyOS is perfect and has no issues

(Overall) No Microsoft

(Overall) I can use pngs as icons for applications instead of needing to convert to ico

(Overall) And also, Converting something from one format into another is 10x simpler

List of things that are silly:

I can say "yay" to update my computer :3

I will never leave my wiggly window phase. blblublbublbubblubblub

List of things that I don't like:

Honestly such a trivial issue but the RGB on my keyboard under my capslock fucks up and gets stuck and I am in the select tiny minority where openRGB doesn't support my keyboard and akko drivers aren't available for Linux. im not sure i can say i "dont like" it because its such a non issue, its just a thing I wanted to acknowledge.

[yodaprod]

Pencept PenPad 200 on IBM PC XT (1983)

[sleepylostboy]

Nvm, anyone wanna buy nudes for $1000? I want a new pc :3

I’m sad, someone take away my phone so I don’t end up taking/posting lewds again and regretting it