Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-15, 06:34

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by ODwilly

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Well, went to some guys house to sell an old laptop (I'm not really into laptops) off offer up. So i knock on the guys door and he he looks like hes high on something and tells me hes really sorry but he doesn't have any money. I was only selling the thing for $15 but regardless I drove it over to …

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-12, 09:20

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by ODwilly

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My understanding is that the Aureal Vortex 2 has poor support for DOS so I figured that the SB16 could cover DOS games while the Diamond would be used in 9x games.Fun fact! The only parts I bought for this build were the motherboard, case, and the ISA 3com card. Everything else was free

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-12, 09:13

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by ODwilly

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From falconfly: AGP voltage regulator notes: There is a problem with the combination of older motherboards and newer AGP graphic cards. This is due to the fact that some of the early AGP motherboards used a linear regulator to control the power supply to the AGP slot. Linear regulators can supply …

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-12, 09:01

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by ODwilly

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Here is my progress on this build so far. AGP slot: PA256MX Aopen Geforce 2 MX 32mb card. Covered in soot from a fire in the 90's apparently. Slots 2 & 3: 12mb Voodoo 2's in SLI. Slot 4: Diamond Monster MX300 for 9x games Slot 5: Onboard mouse ps/2, infrared and USB. Slot 6: 3com Etherlink 3. Slot …

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

Posted on 2015-05-12, 04:38

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by ODwilly

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Finished up installing Windows 7 on my el-cheapo (AKA, free rejected trash) 478 p4. 3.0ghz Prescott, 4gb DDR 400, Geforce 6200 pci, 20gb SATA drive from an old xbox 360, Seagate 160gb ide drive and a 400gb ide Hitachi Deskstar with 10 reallocated sectors and over 40k power on hours.

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Re: p150 - good choice?

Posted on 2015-05-11, 05:48

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by ODwilly

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Even a tiny 486 style fan will work great for cooling a Pentium chip.

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-10, 11:26

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by ODwilly

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Buying an 845GV board would be a stupid idea, as it lacks an AGP slot. What the motherboard I linked on Newegg? #1 if you would have looked a bit closer it is out of stock (and has been for like 8 years) #2 I was just showing what board I use and participating in the discussion of memory issues/ …

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-10, 09:07

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by ODwilly

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16813131504 this is the motherboard I use in my media center pc. The bios only sees 3x of my 4gb of ram but Windows 7 sees all 4gb and utilizes the usual amount for 32bit Windows 7.

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Re: Biostar M6VBE - VIA Apollo Pro

Posted on 2015-05-10, 07:11

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by ODwilly

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Cool glad I could help. Post back on how the Celery works out, I know Celeron specific slockets go for peanuts on ebay, every one wants the Coppermine and Tualatins

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 06:58

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by ODwilly

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Heck there are not even that many cpu manufacturers any more!

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 06:27

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by ODwilly

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Mine goes all the way up to 3.5v O.0 can you imagine how fast the poor little k6 would fry? It can run Cyrix 6x86 chips so that may be the reason why. EDIT: Yep Cyrix 6x86 PR200 runs at 3.3 volts. No wonder why those thing run so hot.

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 05:58

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by ODwilly

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Thanks for the info! I have so many stacks of agp cards it is getting pathetic. People just keep throwing them out and I scoop them up 😀

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 05:47

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by ODwilly

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Nice scrore! The M577 is probably PC-chips best socket 7 board, I have two and both works perfectly. The K6-3 @400 is best paired with a Voodoo Banshee, a Voodoo 3 or a Geforce 2 MX 400 combined with a single Voodoo 2. If you find a K6-3+ and manage to run it at 6x100 then a full Geforce 2, Geforce …

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 05:13

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by ODwilly

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I could have sworn there was a thread or two on here about video cards and SS7 boards.

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 04:44

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by ODwilly

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Reset the voltage to 2.2, boots fine. Would a Savage2000 work in this AGP 1.0 slot ok? or does it pull to much power?

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 04:18

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by ODwilly

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My k6-3 is rated at 2.2 volts stock, same with the k6-2's. The funny thing is that according to cpu world my k6-3 was supposed to be in a laptop, I pulled it out of a matx MSI desktop board that was full of rotten caps! I agree with you on overclocking old hardware. I will reset it to 2.2v and see …

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 03:16

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by ODwilly

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SUCCESS!!! vcore set to 2.5, fsb set to 100 and multiplier at 4x. Now to decide on gpu that wont fry the agp 1x slot/motherboard.

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 03:08

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by ODwilly

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I will try to get the k6-3 to run at 100mhz FSB and maybe bump up the voltage and see if I cant get it to run at least 400mhz. Otherwise the k6-2 it is! :) my only complaint with this motherboard so far are the terrible ram slots and the lack of 2.3 or 2.4v settings. It jumps from 2.2 to 2.5 and …

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Re: Multiple Socket 7 systems?

Posted on 2015-05-10, 02:56

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by ODwilly

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Set them all up with an identical OS and early LAN games like Quake, Outlaws and Doom. Put the computers you wont use often in an accessible storage location and have them ready to roll for retro lan party fun :D I would advise you ditch that pci Trident video card for another Trio64 or a Matrox …

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Re: SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 02:47

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by ODwilly

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Ya the board can run at 100mhz fsb, but my k6-3 is limited to 95mhz. I have played around with voltage settings and multipliers and it will boot at 366mhz no problem on stock 2.2v. Have yet to play around with the 500 but from all accounts it should OC to 550 easily.

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