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Re: How did the PowerPC G4 chips from 1999-2002 compare to Intel /K7 CPUs of the era?

Posted on 2020-09-24, 18:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They generally lagged behind, as others have already stated. It's madness when you consider that they were still using the G4 as late as 2005 for their laptop range. The G5 was a little more competitive against x86 for a while (pre dual-core CPUs), but severely limited by the fact it ran hot as hell …

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

Posted on 2020-09-21, 18:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I finally gave up on my 2nd 2000 PC build for the time being. The first motherboard was picky with CPUs and wouldn't work with much over 450MHz and the 2nd worked fine with a 1.1GHz Celeron but had terrible performance that I was never able to resolve. The 3rd worked great and would have been …

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

Posted on 2020-09-19, 17:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Continued to work today on a PC containing the ECS P6BAT-Me v. 1.1 Socket 370/Slot 1 motherboard. Tried various different things, earlier Nvidia drivers as suggested above and a clean install of Windows 2000. Nothing changed, it still performs dreadfully. I tested 1 game today - Quake III Arena and …

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

Posted on 2020-09-18, 18:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Continued to work today on a PC containing the ECS P6BAT-Me v. 1.1 Socket 370/Slot 1 motherboard. Tried various different things, earlier Nvidia drivers as suggested above and a clean install of Windows 2000. Nothing changed, it still performs dreadfully. I tested 1 game today - Quake III Arena and …

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

Posted on 2020-09-17, 18:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did some testing today with a PC containing an ECS P6BAT-Me v. 1.1 Socket 370/Slot 1 motherboard (Via Apollo Pro chipset). Installed the fastest CPU I currently have in my collection via a Slotket - a Celeron 1.1GHz and installed 512MB RAM. I had a HDD with Windows 2000 installed on it, cloned from …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-16, 18:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just bought another CPU which may potentially be used for a 2000-gaming system. CPU: Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz (Coppermine, 1000/256/133/1.7V). I say potentially be used, as I'm not sure if the board that I'm planning to pair it with will like running at 133MHz FSB, though the BIOS does have the …

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

Posted on 2020-09-16, 15:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did some quick testing today on a Slot 1 PIII PC/motherboard - Gigabyte GA-6BXE Rev. 2. It would have made a great gaming system, works well with a Coppermine Celeron 1.1GHz CPU on a Slotket and even supports 133MHz FSB stable as tested with a different Coppermine 133 CPU. Also supports up to 1GB …

Re: Trouble with different CPUs on a Slot 1 440BX motherboard

Posted on 2020-09-15, 14:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok I tried a few more things today. Took the PSU from another Slot 1 PC and tested it - no difference. Tested another CPU, this time a Coppermine 650/256/100, 1.65V. That also worked fine. Weird or possibly faulty motherboard. Don't think there's much more I can do with this thing so I'll probably …

Trouble with different CPUs on a Slot 1 440BX motherboard

Posted on 2020-09-14, 17:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For reference the board is: FIC KB-6130-Z. Been playing around with this motherboard with Intel 440BX chipset. It has always been paired with a Pentium III 450MHz Katmai CPU (450/256/100, 2.0V) amd works well with that. I recently got a Slotket and installed a PIII 1.0GHz CPU (Coppermine, 1000/256/ …

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

Posted on 2020-09-13, 18:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tweaked my 2000 build some more today. I cloned the HDD as a backup so that I could mess around and see if I could improve performance without worrying about having to reinstall Windows 2000 if it all went wrong. Luckily I managed to find the sweet spot for now and squeeze out some slight extra …

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

Posted on 2020-09-13, 09:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bruninho wrote on 2020-09-13, 00:10: Windows 2000 Pro = best OS ever. No internet browsing set up I guess? For fun I did install an older version of K-Meleon and used it to download a couple of game patches from sites that would still function. I'm just using SP4 at the moment, so struggled to find …

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

Posted on 2020-09-12, 22:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Been working on 1 of 2 of my planned year 2000 PIII 1.0GHz gaming systems. Decided on Windows 2000 Professional for the OS and have been installing games on it for most of the day. As I'm only installing games from 1998-2002/2003, I've only struggled with a couple of games that required patches to …

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

Posted on 2020-09-10, 18:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My latest PIII build is beginning to be a source of endless frustration and a money sinkhole. The PIII 1.0GHz CPU I installed on a Slotket was running too hot due to poor contact with the cooler. So I swapped the cooler for a smaller/better fitting cooler. Upon testing the CPU with the new cooler - …

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

Posted on 2020-09-09, 18:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I borrowed a BIOS chip from another of my PCs to replace a chip I accidentally fried in my current Slotket PIII build. Programmed it on my MiniPro with the latest BIOS I could find for this motherboard and happily it cures the HDD detection issues I was having. The board now recognises the …

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

Posted on 2020-09-08, 18:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today's retro activity didn't end well. I was setting up a Slot 1/440BX PC but having some issues with HDD detection. I found an updated BIOS that mentioned something with regards to HDD detection and so I removed the BIOS chip to flash it in my MiniPro. I then reinserted the BIOS chip and powered …

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

Posted on 2020-09-08, 04:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-09-07, 21:48: Got a similar board with a soldered Thoroughbred Athlon XP 2000+ PC Chips M825G.JPG Wow, makes me wonder exactly who these motherboards were aimed at.

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

Posted on 2020-09-08, 04:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The whole "1200+" thing was actually a marketing thing from AMD. People only bought MHZ. So Intel made "faster" chips when in reality, the 850mhz Duron was likely very close in performance to Intel's 1200. I remember AMD's rating scheme, but not something as optimisic as calling an an 850Mhz a 1200 …

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

Posted on 2020-09-07, 18:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dug out one of my PCs from storage to have a look what was inside, as my records didn't list any specific information about it. I couldn't remember anything about what was inside this PC, other than the installed CPU, RAM & HDD. Opened it up and was greeted with this: https://i.imgur.com/FkfLDCMl. …

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

Posted on 2020-09-05, 19:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received a new addition to my collection, a Games Console from the 1970s with 3 games - https://i.imgur.com/Jon11Pbl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/o5pTTh9l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/v5E5rBrl.jpg It's a Radofin-branded "1292 Advanced Programmable Video System" console. The left controller had a snapped/ …

Re: Fps drop in GF2 mx400

Posted on 2020-09-05, 09:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A non-MX GeForce 2 card would be a bit more competitive with the FX, ie. a GTS, Pro, Ti or Ultra. It's basically a trade off, do you want period correctness or more performance. If it's performance, probably just stick with the FX or gamble with the high prices of the more powerful GeForce 2 cards. …

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