Re: Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots

Posted on 2019-07-16, 17:30

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by Carlos S. M.

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>=4 gb will be always seen as ~3.5 GB, i did get a 945 board post It's more about 32-bit OS with PAE. 64-bit capable Socket 478 CPUs are too rare anyway. yeah, i did my testing with an LGA 775 board, but pretty much all 945 chipset variants suffers from the same limitations, the same aftermentioned …

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Re: Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots

Posted on 2019-07-16, 11:37

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by Carlos S. M.

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Intel 945 series chipsets doesn't memory remap support all, >=4 gb will be always seen as ~3.5 GB, i did get a 945 board post (Dell Dimension 9150) with 4x 2 GB RAM, Dell BIOS could see all 8 gb, but all OSes even Windows x64 and linux x86-64 only detected 3.5 gb ram, tried XP x64, 7 x64 and 10 x64 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-17, 05:51

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by Carlos S. M.

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Couple of Slot 1 BX boards - a Gigabtye GA-BX2000 and an Intel/Dell SE440BX-3 GA-BX2000v1.1.jpg SE440BX-3.jpg keep in mind the Dell OEM boards of that time (Pentium II and Pentium III) are known for having propietary power pinout and needing the aux connector to work, this SE440BX-3 is one of them …

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Re: Ryzen 7 most powerful windows 98 computer?

Posted on 2019-05-02, 07:39

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by Carlos S. M.

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An FX5500 is equivalent to what AGP Geforce card ? GF 6200 in DX9. It can do a good bit better if DX7/8 is needed (since it should have 128-bit bus vs. 64-bit on 6200). Not familiar with the 6200 AGP. I imagine the FX5500 is slower than any of the AGP FX cards (up to 5900) ... is it faster than say …

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Re: Need P3 CPU to replace Celeron ?

Posted on 2019-04-30, 11:21

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by Carlos S. M.

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Every single board which officially supports tualatin, supports FSB 133 as well, all tualatin supported chipsets do FSB 133 officially and yeah, the only posible step up is the Pentium 3 1.4 or the Pentium 3 1.4-S

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2019-04-28, 23:16

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by Carlos S. M.

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Benched the VIA Chrome 9 HC on the ASUS P5VD2-VM, the last VIA/S3 IGP for Intel platform Stock CPU clock Filename chrome 9 hc 3dmark01.PNG File size 190.01 KiB Views 2634 views Overclocked (board can't really overclock much) Filename chrome 9 hc 3dmark01 oc.PNG File size 191.35 KiB Views 2634 views …

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Re: Socket 423/478 Motherboards with Universal AGP Slot

Posted on 2019-04-25, 09:01

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by Carlos S. M.

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Sorry for necroposting, I have bought recently an ECS P4S5A/DX+ thinking that I would have been able to use the Pentium 3.06 with HT, unlucky this specific model of mb is not able to enable HT, now I'm looking for another mb that let me use the HT feature while keeping the highest AGP support as …

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Re: Celeron 700 vs Pentium 400

Posted on 2019-04-24, 11:16

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by Carlos S. M.

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Not only depends in how slow is the chipset, also how it was implemented, such case happed on the VIA Apollo Pro 133A (694X) which some boards performed quite bad despite using that chipset at the point it was no faster than 693A or even slower than it, notable examples of such boards are the Jetway …

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Re: LGA 775 Motherboards with AGP Slots

Posted on 2019-04-23, 12:33

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by Carlos S. M.

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Added few more industrial boards

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Re: Ryzen 7 most powerful windows 98 computer?

Posted on 2019-04-14, 21:30

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by Carlos S. M.

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Keep in mind the "Ryzen Windows 98 attempt" Kugee (the youtube who did that video) did was only an experiment and was never meant to be a serious project, he was aware of many of the limitations of Windows 9x in such modern system and he tried to counter some issues with workarounds, but still …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-08, 21:02

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by Carlos S. M.

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News in my collection Legend P6V694T motherboard socket 370 with a Celeron 766 2x128Mb ram and 1x 64Mb ram. Some caps are in bad condition, i will change them, now I have 3 motherboards waiting for repair :dead: The graphics are good, the 64Mb one needs a fan the 128Mb fan and cooler, the owner …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-04-07, 23:34

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by Carlos S. M.

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Whats an "Ultrabook"? [sarcasm]The opposite of a ThinkPad, Ultra books are wafer thin enough so a wee bit of wind sends it flying[/sarcasm] In short, a disposable laptop, if Netbooks were not enough... Don't overrate ThinkPads, certainly not the new ones. There's a reason I still use my battered …

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Re: LGA 775 Motherboards with AGP Slots

Posted on 2019-04-04, 00:25

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by Carlos S. M.

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Found a new board and added to the list of boards with NON AGP chipsets (no true AGP slots) Albatron Mars PX915P-AGPe

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-29, 10:41

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by Carlos S. M.

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Escom, vobis was cheap? You dont have too much experience, what the small shops sold in the eastern european countries as a pc :D compared to this, the escom was a superbrand - and it was not cheap. …not in Central Europe. I now feel this is the reason why the only (baby) AT mobos natively being …

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Re: Introduction and CPU Adapter Idea

Posted on 2019-03-27, 01:28

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by Carlos S. M.

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Diamondville Intel Atoms used the QDR Pentium 4/Pentium M/Core 2 FSB interface which also uses AGTL+ which would make it incompatible with the SDR FSB of the Pentium 3 and even if you manage to do that, the very slow SDR FSB will cripple Atom's performance to death making it even slower than the …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2019-03-12, 10:59

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by Carlos S. M.

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SiS chipsets were a great choice in the early to middle 1990's. SiS 496/497 was one of the best chipsets for 486. Supported up to 1Mb L2 cache and the PCI bus. The last revisions made in 1996-1997 could actually work with EDO and there was a good chance to overclock them to 66MHz. SiS lost most of …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2019-03-12, 10:45

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by Carlos S. M.

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[...] My NLX system also has a SiS 5598 chipset (Asus SP98N motherboard), including the integrated video option, and although the board itself is generally stable the integrated video is anything but. It uses an early shared video memory implementation that is ...wonky..., to say the least. After …

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Re: Subtle differences between Cyrix and IBM 6x86s

Posted on 2019-03-07, 08:40

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by Carlos S. M.

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I was able to get the original Cyrix 6x86 chips to run with 1x, but which SS7 boards have a stable 133 MHz FSB setting? Gigabyte GA-5AX (rev 5.2) supports 135 and 140 mhz,but not 133. ASUS P5A only does up to 120 mhz. No idea if other boards have that setting though. I can say FSB >100 MHz is …

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Re: Subtle differences between Cyrix and IBM 6x86s

Posted on 2019-03-06, 07:25

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by Carlos S. M.

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As well, i tried some newer software on 6x86 P166+ using Windows 2000 w/ BWC extended kernel since XP won't boot on it, these tests were done without the CPUID hack Machine specs: Cyrix MII-233GP (200 MHz) EPoX EP-MVP3G2 Motherboard 384 MB RAM Geforce 6200 AGP Realtek RTL8139 LAN card Soundblaster …

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Re: Subtle differences between Cyrix and IBM 6x86s

Posted on 2019-03-06, 07:06

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by Carlos S. M.

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I recently tried Windows 7 on a Cyrix MII-233GP and managed to get running, even with Aero working, but in the practice, it was too slow to be usable Filename mii w7.png File size 445.96 KiB Views 963 views Machine specs: Cyrix MII-233GP (200 MHz) EPoX EP-MVP3G2 Motherboard 384 MB RAM Geforce 6200 …

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