Re: P4/Netburst Build - Equal Amount Pleasure and Pain

Posted on 2015-12-11, 22:06

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I too dislike AS5 I didn't see any difference in temps compared to some cheap polysynthetic stuff I was using before, Zalman ZM-STG2 is what use. As for high end air coolers for socket 478 the Cooler Master vortex dream was one of the best at the time I still have the package for mine it says the …

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Re: Best drivers for GeForce 7 series on Windows XP?

Posted on 2015-12-10, 04:17

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What you are suggesting seems to be the experience I have had with GeForce7 cards and driver packages. Older packages like the Forceware93.71 you mentioned give poorer performance in some situations than the 307.83 you mentioned but in my experience Forceware175.19 from 2008 is one of the best 175. …

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Re: FMV games on ISA cards

Posted on 2015-12-08, 21:20

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swaaye wrote: I knew some folks who bought a Pentium Overdrive 83 MHz for a Packard Bell with the same loadout. Didn't the 486 Packard bells have L2cache issues with the POD

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Re: Suggestions for High End 2004 Build?

Posted on 2015-12-07, 20:46

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yes this the same experience I had my dual boot setup with windows 8 lets me access all my files on the XP drive I had to get permissions to do it but it let me. I had two instances were I was not able to retrieve the files from a XP SP3 installation one were the mobo in my old machine failed (even …

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Re: Suggestions for High End 2004 Build?

Posted on 2015-12-07, 01:40

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/\ Nostalgia... It doesn't have to make sense, as long as you enjoy yourself ^^ This *thumbsup* And about XP, does installing SP3 really add any benefits on top of SP2 except for maybe extra security updates? I would not recommend SP3 unless you absolutely need it SP3 encrypts certain folders so if …

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Re: Suggestions for High End 2004 Build?

Posted on 2015-12-06, 00:04

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For the keyboard you could use a Zboard I had one of those back in 04 the gamer keyset with the big keys was nice. Another vote for the 6800 as a GFX card also had one of those then great card ran everything very fast till Oblivion came out

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-12-04, 06:56

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brostenen is right the market will shift XP era stuff is already becoming valuable, example a year ago non OEM 7900GTXs were abundant $20.00 and under I bought a new unopened BFG 7900GTX OC for $25.00 shipped now there is very few non OEM versions available cheapest one is $25 shipped for a used …

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Re: How many computers could you possibly build?

Posted on 2015-12-04, 05:35

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I could do at least 33 before I ran out of good cases mostly ATX a few ATs and some older proprietary designs even a 1980s Zenith data systems AT variant, have had a lot over the past ten years at least 400 most of them were good either got scraped or had the parts sold

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Re: SB16 and AWE64 side by side in DOS

Posted on 2015-11-27, 18:40

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Strange that the Driver Software gets things confused like that. So mainly you want to combine the SB16 IDE-Header with the AWE64 Synthesizer. I have a CT1920 AWE upgrade card sitting below a SB16 in one system, which gives a similar result. Though I don't have much use for the AWE synth myself. …

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Re: SB16 and AWE64 side by side in DOS

Posted on 2015-11-27, 17:34

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My original reason for doing this was to use the ide interface on my SB16 and still have the AWE64 wavetable apart from that it is only to get real FM its not just for sound quality either the system I am using it on has ISA IDE controller and with soft synth cards the FM synth will speed up and …

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SB16 and AWE64 side by side in DOS

Posted on 2015-11-27, 05:59

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I am not sure if anyone has already done this I couldn't find any treads on this exact combination or if they did they had compatibility issues, but I have found a way to have a SB16 run the sound and FM synth and have the AWE64 gold handle the wavetable in DOS. Basically what happens is the …

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Re: Abit AB-PB4 for 486 build

Posted on 2015-11-24, 00:41

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Nice-looking board! I wonder why didn't more S7 boards adopt this kind of layout. There is nothing more aggravating when building an S7 machine than having all the necessary slots, but be unable to plug your boards because the processor is in the way. Or the VRM transistors. Because many cases have …

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Re: Ideal Soundcard replacement for IBM MWAVE

Posted on 2015-11-23, 00:41

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My version is 1.1 dated 7/11/1995 and only 5.08MB in size, it actually says that is only for a thinkpad so I don't think this is the version you are looking for, strange these drivers are on OEM Packard Bell disc

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Re: Ideal Soundcard replacement for IBM MWAVE

Posted on 2015-11-22, 19:22

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If I understand you correctly you are running 95B from the 2161 cd and your machine is 2159 and came with 95A which had a different driver package. I have a 95A cd from a Packard Bell oddly it also has IBM audio drivers for the Mwave and there is two patches for the card one of them is 16MB+ ram …

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Re: Ideal Soundcard replacement for IBM MWAVE

Posted on 2015-11-22, 07:19

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by stuvize

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Fat chance but is this the disc you need? http://www.ebay.com/itm/CD-IBM-Test-Disc-with … HYAAOxydB1Sg4-v

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-11-16, 23:09

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Modified a POD using feipoas method with 5 A diode I pulled of a trashed socket 7 mobo ran quake demo for about an hour with no problems. Don't think I will run it anymore till I get a multimeter and test the voltage, I noticed the diode gets quite warm running quake at 100mhz. In my other post I …

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-11-15, 01:37

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tried a 50/50mhz boot like I had done before by pulling the fan but the fan signal seems to be null with all the on chip VRM circuitry gone it will boot at 2.5x multiplier with or without the fan. I'm having difficulty understand this. Are you saying that with the surface components removed, the …

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-11-15, 00:11

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by stuvize

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It makes sense that the POD needs more Amps rather than Volts, many modern motherboards are made with high output components to give better overclocking stability at a lower voltage. Feipoa I am glad you took a interest in this because I have limited knowledge on circuitry

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-11-14, 09:49

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I don't know if was JB weld for or not just seem to metal based. As for the POD at 5V I keep forgetting that the socket 4 PODs are 3.3 V not 5 V like the first Pentiums 60/66mhz, but according to literature of the time the socket 3 and 4 PODs were built to same specs of the 5 V generation of …

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-11-14, 07:22

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Is it JB weld I noticed it was metallic whatever it was solvents even acid did nothing to it I used a hard rubber buffing wheel for the Dremel it also went through extra solder and made it nice and smooth, the ceramic that the CPU is made out of is very hard the buffing wheel doesn't do anything to …

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