"OPNsense is based on BSD, so yeah, Linux distribution" - BSD isn't Linux. Which is why going with Intel NIC was a good choice. FreeBSD doesn't have good Realtek support and it's known to cause issues.
I am running a very similar setup but on a Dell 7040 i7 6700T and 32GB Had a weird issue with the realtek card I put in (RTL8125), I had to disable bluetooth in the bios and got it working?? Issue #2 was BSD not supporting the card correctly itself. I eventually settled for proxmox to run opnsense in a vm and then complied a DKMS driver I found so proxmox can use it as a normal interface. It has been working really well for about a year, more reliable than a mid range Asus I had with merlin and I get much faster speeds. The Asus was bricked by a security update they pushed which made me really frustrated and go about doing this. I don't see why you should buy an off the shelf router for $500! crazy.
Really nice video, I was thinking of doing something like this too. Do you by chance know the power usage of that tiny PC? I want to minimize that because I often need to go battery powered and my current fiber optics box and crappy tp-link only eat 4-5W.
Just saw your Far Cry videos, nice! It's always interesting to watch how someone else is playing a game that one knows pretty well. To this day, this game is AWESOME.
Sorry for the slow reply! To be honest this is the first time I've played the game haha. But I've been replaying the levels as I go to try and find better techniques. Sort of like Half Life where you can cheese the levels slightly. Glad you've enjoyed the series. I need to get back into it but the classic balance of life and time kicks In
I've got a custom PC I built on the channel (Titled: Monster Of A PC | Building A XP Gaming Machine) It's a i7-950 x58 based machine, 2x GTX 560 Ti's in SLI, 6GB of Kingston RAM and a creative RX soundcard. Get's nice and toasty and loud!
It just came to my mind that the ISA bus clock was set to 10MHz, so those results are likely a bit skewed. Oh and when writing my DOS image to the Bigfoot on Win10, it showed a very constant speed of 6.8MB/s. I think that matches the drives datasheet well.
@@thesmokingcap I'm seeing huge variations in transfer speed with CPU, cache and memory timings. The actual drive doesn't seem to make a big difference. I could imagine if I downclock to 66 MHz and set cache/memory timings/waitstates to slower values I'll be able to reproduce your results.
Timing! I recently finished my first full playthrough of FC1, but on a modern machine. I also played on realistic, had to save scum via console in a bunch of places later. Anyways, back in a day this game blew me away with the water graphics and physics. Alas, my PC could not run it at playable FPS.
Nice! How did you find it? I've played about 2/3 of the game so far. Also I Do really love the graphics. I've found with SLI enabled, the water gets better. I have no idea how that works
@@thesmokingcap huh looks like my comment wasn't sent... Or YT deleted it? In any case long story short: I think the game is good. I didn't like some scripted events that give you no other way to proceed, but the gameplay itself, graphics and physics were very fun. Also I don't mind the cheese story :D Crisys 0.5. Oh all the little easter eggs like magazines and calendars and stuff where really fun.
New to me as well. I wasn't really old enough to understand how such machines worked in such detail. But glad there's people around that know this stuff
I'm tempted to dig out my 486 now. I expected a lot more gains from the driver. Luckily, I got the same Quantum Bigfoot CY 2GB drive last year. I'm curious if my drive also bottlenecks the controller this much on my system. That's going to be fun.
That’s more like it, indeed. On a side note, I noticed a typo in the path for wbide.386 in the system.ini file (c:\drives instead of c:\driveRs). But I guess you would have corrected that afterwards.
Drivers can be found here. I used the 2.0 version as the 1.26 didn't seem to work with my card. Link as follows, theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/dfi-mio-2050#driver
You need the cards DOS drivers to activate 32 bit transfers. I have the same card, and it is supported by Mr.BIOS so I don't need the drivers to do that. I get almost twice the transfer rate when using the cards features. With a DX2-66@80MHz and an SD2IDE adapter, I get a bit over 5MB/s transfer rate, which is impressive for a 486 that slow.
Thank you! You're a legend, that did improve disk access. I also managed to find a bundled Windows 3x drive in the pack. After mucking around with it today, it's been working well. I'll post a follow up video
Nice! When tearing and benchmarking VLB graphics cards, I like to just use an ISA controller. With flash based storage, Ibcoild never notice much if a difference. Maybe under Windows with 32 Bit driver but I tend to srick with DOS.
Always enjoy seeing what changes with different parts. @Shmbler just pointed out I was missing the drivers for DOS to unlock 32bit disk access. So it seems to have improved seek times greatly
cool content man, brings back the memories.liked and subbed. I used to work as audio editor for a rather large pc tech review site around the time when this type of gear was bleeding edge. Was so cool getting these soundcards sent to me before the public got them to test out, was a great time for pc gear in my humble opinion. cheers james. ( i`m feeling every day of 38 reading what i just wrote lol)
Thank you! Glad you're enjoying the content 😊 It sure was exciting back in the day. New ideas being thrown at the wall, dodgy water cooling haha. The one thing i'm sad about in this video is that sound card was faulty. So I ended up doing a work around replacement. You would have seen some amazing gear come into the company back then
@@thesmokingcap cool man looking forward to seeing the next part and your work around for the faulty card. Oh yeah got some amazing gear back in the day, and the best thing was it came from all over the world not just endless clone products from china. Sometimes i would get a knock at the door at nine o`clock at night with a special delivery from Asus or Creative labs with a new sound card that was test sample sent straight from headquarters. good times hey. james.
Thanks for the trip down the memory lane :) Nice setup, but you know you would have been killed by any other administrator if you installed IIS on the primary domain controller in an production environment ;)... 34:00 never used Windows Messaging/Windows Mail, i knew that it was suuuuuuuuper basic and very cheap (not even closely comparable to Exchange) but now I am shocked that it by default is created in the WinNT directory and not the user profile dir at WINNT\PROFILES :-o David Cutler let that happen!?
Glad you're enjoying the content, it's like my day job but as if I was in 1997. I was wondering if someone would notice the IIS on the PDC haha. Nice and dodgy. Also piled with File sharing roles and network booting services! Also that Windows Messaging is terrible. I wouldn't be surprised if it stores the Mail app profile password in plain text
I own the first model, luckely my device has the ram maxed out! But, no batteries, no accessories, only the charger and the machine itself. I bought it as faulty for 20 euros a couple of years back, but it wasn't faulty at all! The first model uses a 7.2 volts rechargeable Ni-MH battery, and when this battery is completely flat, the laptop does nothing, not even show an led that the power is connected, i left it on power once after i tought by myself "maby it jumps to live" and it did! But, the cables and the plug on the mobo were severely coroded, so bad in fact that with the slightest wiggle of the cable, the entire thing was loose! I was thinking first of installing 2 lithium ion batteries in series, but, this is not good for long time storage, so, today i had the brilliant idea to replace this battery pack with a capacitor, you can leave those drained for a long time, and the pc starts up in around 30 seconds (i mean to be able to turn it on) instead of waiting for a good 20 minutes! But, i can't find the drivers anywhere! it just has a generic windows me installation, but, i hope, 1 day, that i can find the original restore disks for my particular model!
That case is amazing for its time, but some design choices made by Silverstone are just confusing. And the slide-out motherboard tray never caught on for a reason. I think it's almost pointless, you still have to disconnect everything before you can pull the board. As for the RAM - it's a bit sad to see a triple channel system run in dual channel mode... have you considered using the other memory kit? Also, you've partitioned the SSD during XP setup, which means your partitions are now misaligned. It's best to partition SSDs on a modern system before installing XP. The 3TB drives were not only too big, as you've discovered, but you also dodged a bullet with that Seagate ST3000DM001. Apparently, it suffers from extreme failure rates after only two or three years of use, due to some kind of material fatigue. And the big drives would have been a poor match for RAID 0 anyway, because the WD Green only runs at 5400 rpm, while the Seagate runs at 7200 rpm.
It's a great case but it does some have some quirks for sure. In my follow up video, I ended up going back to the 6GB kit with 3x DIMMS. What do you mean about partitions misaligned? As in sizes or more of a layout (vista partitions being pushed around at the end of the drive?) I know vista has replaced the boot loader, allowing easier dual boot. I've also replaced the 3tb drives with some 750GB WD sata enterprise grade drives. Seems to work much better over both OS's.
I'd like to build another one just like it for a retro system. The person that has the old one I built still has it, and it runs perfectly, never leaving the bottom desk enclosure since the day I placed it in, except for an occasional blowout and clean..
The X58 chipset was the best most stable system ever. I had one monster build! It had an Asus motherboard that was the exact same color as the motherboard you're working with. It was an X58pro I believe with 12 gigs of ram 3x4=12, an unlocked overclockable 3.2 6core Xeon version of the Extreme Processor overclocked to around 3.6g if I remember correctly, it overclocked higher if needed and was more stable than the 3.33 version when overclocked to high speeds, Gtx 980ti, a 256gig Raptor hd running win 10pro 2x1terrabite Raptors for storage and a 128ssd setup to be used as cash, a turbo Cool 850w PC Power&Cooling powersupply, the legendary pioneer Blu-ray burner installed in the 1st bay, a THX Sound Blaster Fatality audio card with a dope Boston Acoustics 5 speaker Dolby Digital Surround sound complete with matching powered subwoofer that was sold as an add on by Dell who's 5 channel amp sounded amazing with crisp detailed audio and true to life presence in gaming and movies, I believe it had a Panasonic floppy disk, tech multi card reader sized for a floppy drive bay but I used an adapter that sat it factory clean flush against the front of the case bezel in the 2nd optical bay, for the 3rd drive bay I installed a very handy secret draw that was flat & flush to the case so it looked like an unused bay cover making it nearly invisible. It was spring loaded so when pushed it clicked and popped open. It's where I kept thumb drives and memory cards. One being a bootable Acronis True Image recovery software drive that I made to access the hidden Acronis safe zone partition where a system image recovery clone was kept, along with a 2nd copy of the image on a card incase of hardware failure. Just replace the part, boot of the media, followed by about 3 minutes to copy the image to hard drive and done! Every program, setting application, done in 3 minutes or so instead of days of customized system installation & settings🎉❤🎉
Hey Smoking Cap, my secret to good SATA management over the years has been the ADCAUX thin SATA3 cables on Amazon, makes it way easier to achieve good cable management in cases/builds that don't otherwise support good cable management. I wholeheartedly recommend their products for just about any build that still uses SATA rather than board/PCIe addin mounted drives. Since you also have that top PCIe slot unused, I can also recommend any of the cheap USB 3.0 XP compatible cards available, having faster transfer off my external drives for my Snappy Driver Installer Origin archives/GOG installers is a huge QOL improvement for XP. I used a more modern case with front panel USB3 so I got one with the header for connecting front panel USB3. Also the DanielK XFi pack works wonders for me on my XP rig. My rig is an EVGA NF68 rig with an E8600 and 2 GTX 285s in SLI, so modern features have to be added in a little more than using the later board than you did.
Sorry for the slow reply! Thank you for the cable tip, I will have to see if I can get some in NZ. I've used almost all of my PCI-E Slots as that SLI setup takes up much space!
@@thesmokingcap I feel that brother, SLI is fun and all but to add all the modern QOL improvements there's something to be said about a single setup like Phil's i7/960 setup so most of what you want is already in the mainboard and not taking up slots
I really like this board. Would be really nice as a cloning bench, especially having usb 3.0. My Phenom II cloning bench is a beast, but I have to put a usb 3.0 card in there! Onboard IDE is a must have. I could run Windows 11 with this thing!
@@thesmokingcap doing lots of clonezilla, dd rescue, secure erase commands, shred commands in Ubuntu. It’s nice to have IDE too, I have this trick where you plug in a bad IDE drive late in the post sequence so your computer doesn’t lock up and you can boot into your os. One time I was cloning a drive with clonezilla and the drive kinda stopped so I gave it a love tap and it started reading, must of been stuck
Haha I have a feeling the other clone motherboard I had was the 2GB kit. Both used the same type of blue Kingston modules. But this won't be the only other mistake I made 😂
nice build so far, but it wasnt a proper build since you didnt cut a finger and make a blood offering 😛 do you think the bottom card needs a support bracket, thought i looked like was sagging.
Hahaha the case was too premium. I used the power cables and trunking to help support it. But will need to find a better solution. Thankfully the cards are nowhere near as heavy as what we have now. I think in their past life they were left to sag a little bit
Damn. I always wanted to try SLI/Xfire but never had a chance and now there's no need. Looks good, I do wonder if you'll do some furmark or something and check the temps on them though.
