Re: CPU MELTDOWN!! (show me!)

Posted on 2024-10-01, 21:02

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by Jasin Natael

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I had an FX-9590 that boiled over a Deepcool 360mm AIO. Sprayed all over the case and destroyed pretty much everything (including my Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z) except the SSD. Deepcool, warrantied it all and that is how I built my first gen Ryzen system. Board, ram and PSU still going strong to …

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2024-10-01, 16:10

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by Jasin Natael

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Update: The Packard Bell has been confirmed working. I upgraded the ram from 8MB to 64MB EDO, Upgraded the onboard Cirrus Logic video from 1MB to 2MB, also installed ISA 3Com NIC. Upgraded the OG 800MB hdd with a Seagate 1.2GB one that was lying around. I have a Pentium 120 kicking around that I'll …

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Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on 2024-09-19, 13:28

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by Jasin Natael

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This is an Ian Malcolm question if I've ever heard one. "Your Vogoners were so obsessed with whether or not that they COULD, that they never stopped to think if they SHOULD!

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2024-09-11, 20:35

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by Jasin Natael

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Apologies for the multiple posts, but just trying to get stuff down before I forget about it. So I am leaning more to PB 900 PB900 PB-900 I have seen it styled multiple ways and I don't know which one is most correct. It appears that Packard Bell used the model number for this series in marketing …

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2024-09-11, 16:29

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by Jasin Natael

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Recently rescued this old thing off of eBay. Fairly rough looking. Much to my surprise the thing just fired up and worked with no real fiddling. Appears to be 100% original, Windows has been reinstalled and isn't booting properly. But other than than I'm pleased. Pictures are from the original …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-09-10, 14:20

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I think at the time I went thru several cards quick because I was trying to get a good Quake3 experience on my P2-400. I was disappointed with my Banshee and upgraded to a Voodoo3 but that made almost no difference. Still disappointed, I tried a GeForce2MX and that made all the difference in the …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-09-05, 19:37

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by Jasin Natael

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I think that I went directly from a budget box with a K6-2 with integrated SiS530 (6236) to a still yet cheap Geforce 2mx PCI, and somewhere along there to a Duron with the same Geforce card (later a Radeon 7200). I had a few friends that had 3dfx cards, I can remember being jealous of a buddy who …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-05, 01:24

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by Jasin Natael

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Might just be me or my config, but it does seem like my build is underperforming for the average results I'm seeing for similarly specc'd machines. Comparing your Nehemiah 1500 (15x100) to sunmax's 1400 (10.5x133), it's a 7.1% increase in clock speed but a 10% improvement in Quake SVGA framerate. …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-04, 03:18

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by Jasin Natael

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I tested the J7F2 (C7-D 1.5GHz) with a Matrox G200 PCI in Quake: Quake VGA: 172.5 -> 185.8 Quake SVGA: 27.5 -> 77.0 (2.8X) This is slightly slower than the results with the CN700 UniChrome Pro iGPU (-5.06% at SVGA with WC). I did have to manually specify the LFB base address as MTRRLFBE couldn't …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-01, 21:34

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by Jasin Natael

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Hi jtchip, yes agree. Good point on the Unichrome Pro. I got a ProSavage Twister IGP (2D core from Savage 2000 + 3D core form Savage4) which is on the AGP and also uses shared memory, and still some of the top PCI cards (especially Voodoo3) outperform it, when MTRR VGA WC is on. With WC off, as …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-01, 02:16

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by Jasin Natael

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I did enable by by hand and ran the Quake bench again, still getting around 61fps I think your BIOS is enabling WC. On Asus boards (P2B and CUSL2-C at least), there is a "Video Memory Cache mode" setting which defaults to UC (uncached), and USWC enables WC. Not sure what the Intel board would call …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-09-01, 00:34

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by Jasin Natael

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Hi Jasin, the numbers look promising! Very nice setup btw, GeForce3 is really classy :-) I would expect Quake numbers to increase with MTRR WC. Did you enable MTRR via DOSBENCH or by hand ? Can you please get a snapshot of MTRR on a fresh boot and before any test with: MTRRLFBE INFO (not sure if …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-08-31, 20:20

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by Jasin Natael

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Ok, I'm a little late getting back to this party but here are my results just from DOSBENCH. Not sure it matters but specs: System is a Intel Seattle 2 440BX VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.2@1500 (100x15) 512MB PC133 RAM Nvidia Geforce 3 Aureal Vortex 2 PCI, (ISA sound card is removed ATM) Without Fastvid or …

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Re: Hi, new friends!

Posted on 2024-08-29, 13:19

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Welcome! I too, was a lurker for a couple of years before creating an account. The wellspring of collective knowledge here is pretty amazing.

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-08-29, 13:05

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by Jasin Natael

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That is interesting to know. I have a Nehemiah 1200 chip that overclocks pretty well. It runs at 1500 (15x100) stably at stock voltage on my Intel Seattle 440bx board. I did a few benchmarks with my old Voodoo 3 before I sold it, and I didn't have any issues in Windows Glide, but I'm sure I didn't …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-08-28, 13:42

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by Jasin Natael

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Hi Jasin, it's a good question! The Nehemiah behaves like the original Ezra, with a noticeable speed increase when MTRR WC is enabled on VGA and LFB. It also offers SSE, which might be needed in more recent nvidia drivers. The downside of the Nehemiah, is that it doesn't have the same granularity …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-08-27, 17:25

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by Jasin Natael

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Pardon if this is an ignorant question as I'm rather new to C3's, but how is Nehemiah effected? Good, bad, irrelevant?

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Re: Thought's on Intel's recent troubles

Posted on 2024-07-30, 17:00

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by Jasin Natael

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DosFreak wrote on 2024-07-29, 19:05: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/i … cpu-voltage-q-a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB8GVMNJkE That's just pretty a disappointing response, I must say. I wish I could say that I'm surprised, but I'm not. Intel will Intel I suppose.

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Re: Thought's on Intel's recent troubles

Posted on 2024-07-28, 02:24

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I haven't had any problems at all with the two 12600K systems I use. Built when the 12th gen launched. I've overclocked them to 5.0GHz on all P cores for extended periods with a 0.01v offset voltage increase. The power consumption is almost unmanageable with air cooling though, and the heat flux is …

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Re: Thought's on Intel's recent troubles

Posted on 2024-07-27, 15:51

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I haven't had any troubles with my two 12600K systems. It's really something that they could mess a refresh up. Surely pushed it too far in the name of competition. 12600/13600/14600 chips have more conservative power limit. So there should not be any, unless you try to manually OC them. I also …

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