I recently got my hands on a dual p2 Tyan 1682D Tahoe with 512MB of EDO ram and a pair of P2-300mhz (passive). If you can, try to google up a manual (Tyan's FTP server was down for a few weeks when I tried to find mine). In the case of the S1682D, it can not only run with just a single CPU (better …

I went back to i865gv due to the fact, that there is no real solution for my purpose. In short: - Nvidia: DVI-Output ugly, VGA output not centred ! - ATI: DVI-Output sharp, drivers and compatibility ugly! (Dos-Vesa, Win9x/Win2k drivers do crash my machine, black icons, freezes, argh! no way) - …

Win98 does not support hyperthreading, so good idea to turn it off in the bios. I found the most stable overall boards for P4/win98 (especially native DOS) are intel and the ones with PC133 RAM. They may have actual win98 drivers on the intel site too. Usually only work with early models of P4 cpus …

My first slot-1 PC was a PcChips 741LMR with the SiS xcel2000 chipset. IIRC it was sluggish with PC66 RAM but the thing seemed to fly once I got my hands on a PC100 256MB DIMM and threw it in. I actually really liked the SiS integrated graphics and the look of games in software rendering. To this …

how bad is an ATI FireGL Z1 for games?, cause i can get one of those. The FireGL Z1s was for CAD/CAM and workstation stuff, and spec wise it was the lowest of the low end for these types of cards. If you are talking 3D accelerated XP era games, the FireGL Z1 is bad to the point where it wouldn't be …

Hi! (first time i post in the forum!!!) I recently bought a Compaq AP550 Workstation really cheap :blush: so cheap i might buy another, just to have spares :happy: it came with: 2x PIII 1Ghz 256MB RDRAM (soon 1GB or 768MB) Matrox millennium G400 MAX Dualhead 32MB 18GB SCSI HDD Windows XP SP3 I …

Hullo, Elbereth. How have things been lately in Valinor? :lol: Nothing short of absolutely legendary! Anyway, welcome to the forums. Thank-you for this... been a long time lurker finally getting around to regging NOOOOOOOO!!! !_! !_! It must never be allowed to happen. I think the industry agreed …

I personally like them. The sound stage is different with tape decks, for popular or sought after releases that are worth the trouble of listening to on an analog medium you are facing on average around $1 per cassette in the wild or less; where the vinyl might be $50+ or into $xxx and that keeps …