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Re: Supermicro P4DC6+ /Dual XEON /Socket 603 /RDRAM Build

Posted on Yesterday, 05:08

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Sphere478 wrote on 2024-05-31, 16:04: Wonder how possible a 603 mobo with a 604 processor is. Apparently 604 went all the way to 6 cores? Is that right? Would 603 boards for only 2 sockets make sense? IIRC Xeon DP was 604 and MP was 603. Edit: apparently I forgot the subject of this thread 🤣

Two different G200s

Posted on 2024-05-31, 18:31

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hi, Anyone able to shed some light about the difference between these 2 G200s? They differ in part number, and memory chips seem to be different. Also two connectors are different between them. Is it an OEM version, or could one be an SG ram version and the other an SD?

Re: Advantages of Dual Pentium3 or dual Pentium motherboards for retro PC?

Posted on 2024-05-30, 21:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Apart from bragging rights, not much. I have two dual-CPU combos sitting here - ABIT BP6 w/ 2x Celeron 333 and MSI 694D Pro-AR w/ dual P3 1GHz SL52R. The latter is more desirable since it has 4 SDR slots and ATA100 onboard RAID controller, over the HPT366 and 3 slot limitations of the BP6. Never …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-30, 14:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Frend of mine was cleaning his house and want to throw this gem away. I get there right on time 😉😁 Wow! Better tell that friend to call you before throwing anything out another time, or you won't be friends no more :lol: But until then, it seems to be a good friend to keep, having such a cool board …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-29, 07:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Last Saturday I became the proud owner of this GA-6VX7-4X rev. 1.2, it was a flea market find. See something missing? Yup, almost all the caps and the chipset heatsink were ripped off the board. Man, someone must have been in bad need of Aluminum. Anyway, I would very much want to revive the …

Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98

Posted on 2024-05-28, 21:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And Windows' own boot manager is sufficient for this ... Actually great that W2K per default installs to C:\WINNT rather than in C:\Windows And you can add bootsector links to BOOT.INI (for example from primary partitions with FAT16 and FAT32) Yeah, probably, I'm just not invested enough to find …

Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98

Posted on 2024-05-28, 17:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And Windows' own boot manager is sufficient for this ... Actually great that W2K per default installs to C:\WINNT rather than in C:\Windows

Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98

Posted on 2024-05-28, 16:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And then it goes ... 😎

Re: Dual Socket 370 AUX power connector

Posted on 2024-05-28, 05:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm surprised nobody is making a 24pin > 20 pin + aux adapter. (that I know of) Funny, I've always figured that the 4 extra pins in the ATX connector were extra 12V :lol: Your post made me double check. Yeah, it's almost too obvious an option it seems, especially since on some ATX connectors, it's …

Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98

Posted on 2024-05-27, 12:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It does not. The factor of how much memory can be cached is the amount of TAG ram. I have edited my post to respect that. My numbers are for standard equipment. Wonder why Intel crippled the newer Socket 7 chipsets in that way - maybe it was because PentiumII was on its way and they wanted to …

Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98

Posted on 2024-05-27, 11:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This subject highly encourages me to co-install W2K on the P233MMX, I'm currently working on ... 🤔 But agreed, the higher performance in 2K vs 98 could to some extent be due to 64 MiB cacheable range and the fact that 98 uses memory from the top down. Will see - my P233MMX only has 64 MiB at the …

Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98

Posted on 2024-05-27, 07:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This subject highly encourages me to co-install W2K on the P233MMX, I'm currently working on ... 🤔 But agreed, the higher performance in 2K vs 98 could to some extent be due to 64 MiB cacheable range and the fact that 98 uses memory from the top down. Will see - my P233MMX only has 64 MiB at the …

Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2024-05-26, 10:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks guys, will try my luck and see how it goes. :-) Well, made it work, but not how I had hoped. In my case, the red connection "L2 (required on some boards)" actually prevented the system from posting ("----" on the post analyzer card). Also, I'm now stuck with the 4x multiplier :cry: . But, …

Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-26, 07:00

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Back to topic. When I look back today at the long road from Vic 20 until my current i5-9600 and ask myself for the stunning moments, the Pentium doesn't trigger my memory. It was just another step up on the road. The moments when I was going "OMG OMG" that I remember were a) when I put a 80387 co- …

Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-05-26, 06:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=100748 🤔 Think this could help make some records? A socket 478 in an LGA775 board? How would that challenge LGA775 Netburst cpus at 4+ ghz? 🤔 I guess there was a netburst EE in 775? Forgot about that. Oh, you were thinking about putting a Gallatin in a …

Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-05-25, 18:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sphere478 wrote on 2024-05-25, 02:18: I found a 775 to 478 adapter 🤔 Think this could help make some records? A socket 478 in an LGA775 board? How would that challenge LGA775 Netburst cpus at 4+ ghz? 🤔

Re: 775 Xeon fun

Posted on 2024-05-23, 07:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chinny22 wrote on 2024-05-23, 07:27: As the Xeon 5xxx family has SMP capability, you now need to wire up a 2nd socket somehow 😉 I'm pretty sure, that of all users here, Sphere478 would be one to take that challenge 🤣

Re: Thinkpad, A Better Place to Think.

Posted on 2024-05-23, 05:57

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I still have the T43, I used for work in my storage somewhere ... 😀 It was cool as it had a dedicated graphics card. Remember playing Colin McRae Rally 2 on it back in the day ... [Edit] I think that was the one, I succesfully baked back in the day, to get the GPU working again ...

Re: Budget King AMD-K6 with 3DFX Voodoo Banshee

Posted on 2024-05-22, 21:06

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

From what I recall, the Celeron 300A was the top-runner when it come to price/performance for 1998. Especially clocked at 450 😎 but was it out in 98? Remember buying one with an ABiT BH6 some time in 99 🤔 maybe I just wasn't a first mover :lol: [Edit]: according to Wikipedia, the Mendocino core …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 18:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And just because I've had tons of problems with old dodgy spinning rust as well, I'm giving the old Deathstar the full treatment first

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