SS7 cpu choice.

Posted on 2015-05-10, 01:57

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by ODwilly

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I recently acquired a pcchips m577 in working order and a k6 2-350afr installed. Now on hand I have a k6 2-500afx and a k6 3-333afk. Out of these cpu's which one would be the best choice for general 9x usage? I have a 1.1ghz Athlon machine running 2k that does well for the more intensive stuff and a …

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Re: Multiple Socket 7 systems?

Posted on 2015-05-10, 01:21

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by ODwilly

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You could use all of them to configure the system you like the best, keep it, and then sell the rest. Then use the money to buy more retro parts of course!

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Re: Biostar M6VBE - VIA Apollo Pro

Posted on 2015-05-10, 01:15

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by ODwilly

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That actually looks like a pretty neat motherboard. I could not find much info on the web about that board from my 30 second google search, but as far as I know the voltages should be handled by jumper settings on the Slocket. One of the Mendocino Celerons on a slocket might be a viable alternative. …

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

Posted on 2015-05-10, 01:04

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by ODwilly

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creepingnet: Just a heads up that bleach will actually make black molds grow faster after temporarily eliminating them. We learned that the hard way with our aluminum 70's mobile home windows.

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-10, 01:01

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by ODwilly

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I still say you should give that SiS based lga775 Gigabyte board a go 😀

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Re: Socket 7 system, main retrogaming pc

Posted on 2015-05-08, 08:31

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by ODwilly

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Im 99% sure that I currently own either my family's pc from 97 or a close family friend's identical system. 32mb of ram, Pentium 166, Labway Yamaha ISA audio and a S3 Trio64 😁 Pretty much fits the stereotype eh?

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2015-05-08, 06:34

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by ODwilly

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The Witcher II and Far Cry 4 both off and on. Was playing Dragon Age: Origins but my save got screwed up and I lost interest.

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-06, 06:20

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by ODwilly

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The GA-8S661FXM supports the Pentium D and is the only one out of them that I could find that supports a dual core cpu. I would suggest that board and one of the i915 Asus boards for systems maxed out. EDIT: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2186 here is the Gigabyte support …

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-06, 06:12

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by ODwilly

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The i915 chipset only supports single core Pentium 4's and Celerons. A 3.8 p4 keeps up on the web very well in my experience.

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Re: VGA CRT with a R9 290x

Posted on 2015-05-06, 04:03

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by ODwilly

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Ah ok makes sense. If his card is still under warranty he could return it and get a high end HD7k card then, since they are still DX12 compliant.

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-06, 03:14

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by ODwilly

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I used a 478 matx MSI board with one of the lga775 VIA chipsets with AGP/DDR and found it to be really trouble free. No bugs detecting hard drives, no data corruption, 0 driver issues and even the onboard VIA lan/audio worked great. Now the Monochrome graphics onboard were laughable, but who needs …

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Re: VGA CRT with a R9 290x

Posted on 2015-05-06, 03:03

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by ODwilly

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I use a vga CRT with my HD7850 using a DVI to VGA adapter. Odd that the R series would be incapable of that, is it just a difference in the type of DVI port on the card?

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-05, 10:20

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by ODwilly

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The max cpu the 800fsb 478 boards support is a 3.4ghz Prescott p4 which are still around $20ish, the 3.2 can be had for half that or less even. The intel gma900 is pretty much garbage in my experience, but much much better than the Extreme Graphics. The general rule of thumb with SiS chipsets of the …

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Re: GPU that makes sense paired with a late 6x86

Posted on 2015-05-04, 23:16

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by ODwilly

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I would love to use a GF4MX with my P4s if it didn't mean killing the PCX2 IMHO. I would prefer it over the just-as-available FX5200 However in the context of a Cyrix6x86 all I can think of is the classic S3 Trio+V2 combo I 100% agree with both of these statements. For Pentium 4's the Geforce 6200 …

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Re: GPU that makes sense paired with a late 6x86

Posted on 2015-05-04, 23:01

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by ODwilly

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I just figured it would make sense from an on-hand point of view, since these seem so common. Great 9x drivers and it is a fairly useless card that today no one would pair with a P4.

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Re: Foreshadowing the value of P4 hardware

Posted on 2015-05-04, 09:23

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by ODwilly

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For web browsing one of the 800fsb 478 boards (aopen board and intel entry server s875wp1-E stuck out to me) or the lga 775 boards. Preferably if you can find one that will support a Core2. The Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM supports the Pentium D (which isn't as bad as people make it out to be) and paired …

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Re: If you could play any game for the first time ever again...

Posted on 2015-05-04, 08:47

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by ODwilly

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Halo Combat Evolved. Mainly because I went from Super Mario Bro's on the NES and DOOM on the pc directly to Halo CE on the xbox. That graphical leap was mind blowing to a little kid. Also due to that I have yet to be truly wowed by any advance in graphics since then.

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Re: GPU that makes sense paired with a late 6x86

Posted on 2015-05-04, 07:11

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by ODwilly

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Really really cheap/free and common how about a Geforce 4 mx card?

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Re: ATI RV516

Posted on 2015-05-02, 06:32

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by ODwilly

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I hate DMS-59 because it seems like I always find cards that use it but not cables, and they are never mid or high end cards, but THE bottom tier that shipped with an OEM.

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Re: looking for a video card

Posted on 2015-04-30, 03:48

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by ODwilly

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fx-5900 or 5950's are easier to find I don't think I have ever seen a 5800 ultra

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