Re: Help! Keep burning voltage reg fic va-503+
Posted on 2018-06-30, 18:36
I think AT boards were never fixed, because they need this VRM for AT PSU.
Re: Tualatin or Thunderbird 1.4ghz?
Posted on 2018-06-28, 07:26
I don't see many people going for Tbird rigs. Because there's no practical reason to choose Thunderbird over 266mhz FSB Thoroughbred-B. Of course if you have decent KT133A+ board.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-06-27, 18:53
ASUS S3 cards: ASUS S3 Trio64V2 DX and Virge DX.jpg ASUS S3 Trio64V2 DX 4 mb.jpg ASUS S3 VIRGE DX 4 mb.jpg Yep, for some strange reason they've decided to produce S3 Trio64 on late Virge PCB with 4 mb expandable. Both are 35ns and pretty much as top tier S3 as you can get (in their respective chip …
Re: Thermal Pad Thickness For AM5x86 CPU
Posted on 2018-06-27, 08:05
Just use sticky thermal paste like Arctic Cooling and reinforce it with small amounts of adhesive near the corners of CPU.
Re: 75% off on Duke Nukem 3D World Tour
Posted on 2018-06-27, 07:40
Meh, Megaton was better.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-06-26, 17:42
Wildcat series can used for games, but performance is very lacking. VP760 can be compared to GeForce 256 SDR. Heck, you can even lauch Morrowind with shaders, allbeit quite slow.
Re: Looking for 32Kx8 10ns 28-pin cache
Posted on 2018-06-26, 12:15
UMC/Winbond chips are good for overclock, that's for sure.
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2018-06-24, 03:50
5x86 never missed a beat It's just overclocked 486DX4 with power saving features. Wouldn't that be the fastest possible card for this motherboard? Quadro4 100 NVS PCI aka GeForce 4 MX440 should work too.
Re: Which Audigy for EAX?
Posted on 2018-06-21, 17:02
XP = X-Fi
Re: The best 4:3 monitor?
Posted on 2018-06-20, 18:24
More light - LCD is better; less light - CRT is better. Glass is not the main problem here.
Re: AMD K6 3+ vs. P3 500mhz.
Posted on 2018-06-20, 17:54
K6 II+ and K6 III+ can have their speed configured in software. VIA C3.
Re: Socket 7 board boots fine with a P100 but nothing else
Posted on 2018-06-20, 16:40
Black voltage regulator. If you have doubts about capacitors - recap them too.
Re: The best 4:3 monitor?
Posted on 2018-06-20, 16:33
But for older LCD i don't think that the black levels would even compare to a nice crt. That's long running myth. Filename 58653766.jpg File size 34.34 KiB Views 3573 views
Re: AMD K6 3+ vs. P3 500mhz.
Posted on 2018-06-20, 16:31
If you are not interested in early speed sensitive DOS games - Slot 1/Socket 370 system.
Re: Socket 7 board boots fine with a P100 but nothing else
Posted on 2018-06-19, 18:37
CPU doesn’t warm up at all. Most likely split-rail voltage regulator on your board is just dead. Plain and simple. And if I remember correctly, ASUS boards ignore any split-rail voltage jumpers setting with classic Pentium installed.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-06-16, 13:32
dropped on my lap Ouch.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-06-13, 19:02
It's amazing to see ISA, VLB, and PCI on a 486 motherboard Apparently VLB is linked directly to a CPU too: Filename ASUS PIV-486SP3 back.jpg File size 919.54 KiB Views 4065 views
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-06-13, 18:14
Oh what a day, what a lovely day! EVEN MOAR 486! Filename ASUS PIV-486SP3.jpg File size 974.29 KiB Views 2740 views Filename ASUS PIV-486SP3 revision close-up.jpg File size 682.96 KiB Views 2739 views
Re: Blue / Blue PCB SDRAM
Posted on 2018-06-13, 12:05
Repaint modules or order custom PCB? any ideas what else I can add to this build (of course blue). Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500?
Re: Which Voodoo card to buy ?
Posted on 2018-06-13, 11:53
It varies depending on if the game uses multitexturing Games without multitexture support were rare beasts right after Banshee release. Yes, faster in older games or some rare occassions, but that's it.
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