Re: Technological critique
Posted on 2020-07-26, 05:57
Yeah ok, I can get behind that statement. My bad for misinterpreting your statement, sorry.
Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform
Posted on 2020-07-26, 05:55
I had XP running on a Duron 750 with 64 MB ram. That was in the time when nearly all my friends ran Windows XP. Most of them had Athlons or Durons with approximately 256 MB RAM or even less. That was ok for the first release without service packs and the eye candy turned off. But I obviously later …
Re: Technological critique
Posted on 2020-07-26, 05:50
Ok, I think we're basically just talking about different things. Are we talking about backends or frontends? I mean "web" can mean a whole lot of things and I probably wrongly jumped to the conclusion that you meant frontends.
Re: Technological critique
Posted on 2020-07-26, 05:44
C# for the web? I must have missed that JavaScript and Node.JS went out of fashion. Or do you mean for services which are basically only connected? Then yes, C# is strong there but so is Java, Node.JS and a ton of other languages and frameworks. But no, I'm a Computer Scientist who actually started …
Re: Technological critique
Posted on 2020-07-26, 04:12
VS 2019 doesn't come with everything installed by default because most developers don't need everything. You actually need to set a tick at "Desktop Development with C++" -> "C++ MFC for latest[...]" in the Visual studio Installer. There are also good reasons to prefer C# over C++ and vice versa.
Re: QDI Legend Superb 1 Bios
Posted on 2020-07-25, 11:10
Absolutely! 😀 Please tell me if you need more information about this board.
Re: QDI Legend Superb 1 Bios
Posted on 2020-07-25, 07:03
Thanks mate, I really appreciate it. I totally forgot about the web archive, sorry. Btw: the flash went nice and everything's well know. I kinda like this board because the onboard sound just works in dos without any drivers and it does sound like it should.
QDI Legend Superb 1 Bios
Posted on 2020-07-25, 06:40
Hello everyone, I've googled now for quite some time but I couldn't find the latest bios for this mainboard. It can support any K6-2(+) or K6-3(+) CPU as everything's (fsb, multipliers, voltage) there. I have a K6-2+ with 2.0 voltage and the board boots with it but sets the default voltage too high …
Re: Were CD-ROMs common on 386 computers?
Posted on 2020-07-24, 17:02
Even if nowdays I find the cd drive to be the fastest way to pass applications to the 386 machine I've built, back in those days I suppose it was even difficult to see any 486DX/DX2 with cd drive. My first PC having a cd drive was a K6-2 350 machine you can imagine... but I remember a friend having …
Re: Did anyone Upgrade the cache on a Super Socket7 board?
Posted on 2020-07-22, 04:01
Warlord wrote on 2020-07-22, 02:52: [...] and I tend to believe that cache is probably slower than the cpus cache. [...] It is. The board's cache runs at fsb frequency, while the CPU's cache runs at the CPU's clock frequency. Technically the board's cache becomes L3 cache when using a cpu with an …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-07-15, 14:03
Today my ASUS CUV4X-CM Medion 2001 with a Pentium 3 1000EB arrived and what can I say? Very nice for an OEM board. The bios even allows cache control and the board is so tiny which makes it viable for small cases. So far I'm playing around a bit with it, installing Windows 98SE and seeing what it …
Re: Would you remove (break) plastic piece covering a port in 30-year old laptop?
Posted on 2020-07-13, 10:42
Depends. If it's an item I just wanted to collect for historical or other reasons then no, I wouldn't break it. If it's an item I actually want to use because I enjoy using it I would definitely break it, if that lead to more enjoyment.
Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform
Posted on 2020-07-12, 16:28
Wow, great answers so far :). I totally forgot about socket 423 ever being a thing because I had an AMD based system at the time and had practically no friends who had a Pentium 4. We were all teenagers so nearly everyone either had a Duron or an Athlon, one friend had a Celeron based system. My …
Your favorite retro socket/platform
Posted on 2020-07-12, 10:50
I'm curious as to what your favorite retro sockets/platforms are. Personally I never had a Slot 1 platform (I only had Socket 3, Socket 7, then Socket 462, Socket 939, LGA 775, LGA 1366, Socket FCLGA1150 and Socket AM4) but I somehow started to LOVE the Slot 1 platform with a BX 440 chipset for my …
Re: 10 year cpu challenge
Posted on 2020-07-12, 09:24
2000 Duron 750 (before: Pentium 90, so that was a HUGE step) 2010 i7 920 2020 Ryzen 7 1700
Re: Low performance with PCChips 599 mlr: just curious
Posted on 2020-07-11, 17:10
Yeah, an FSB of 100 seems to have pushed the system roughly where it belongs. Thank you, I really appreciate the help.
Re: Low performance with PCChips 599 mlr: just curious
Posted on 2020-07-11, 12:04
Good point I just did that and the cache seems genuine (512 KB @ 74.37 MB/s). I now installed a Pentium 90 and that one is shown correctly in Speedsys and the rated speed seems to be fine, too. I'll now test with a Pentium 133 I have at hand.
Low performance with PCChips 599 mlr: just curious
Posted on 2020-07-11, 10:32
Hello everyone, I recently got a PC Chips 599 mlr and equipped it with the following: CPU: Pentium MMX 233 RAM: 128 MB SD RAM (I also tried with 32MB RAM) GPU: onboard Now, don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely aware that an onboard GPU wouldn't perform extremely well, that was never my expectation. …
Re: Which memory manager offered the TSR unload/instant reboot feature?
Posted on 2020-07-10, 18:32
QEMM had a rapid reboot feature.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-07-10, 13:37
Both items are unrelated. The mainboard was bought via local classifieds from a very nice seller and the CPU was bought from an auction house. They just arrived at the same time. The Amazon cardboard is also just what I use for testing hardware when it arrives and not related, too 😉.
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