Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2023-06-14, 16:36

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by ph4nt0m

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It isn't about silicon hardness. It's about organic vs. ceramic base packaging. Organic allows for greater non-uniform pressure. It just bends slightly. Ceramic doesn't bend at all and it results in silicon cracks on edges. Coppermines also have near square die size which helps. how will you …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2023-05-18, 18:21

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by ph4nt0m

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It isn't about silicon hardness. It's about organic vs. ceramic base packaging. Organic allows for greater non-uniform pressure. It just bends slightly. Ceramic doesn't bend at all and it results in silicon cracks on edges. Coppermines also have near square die size which helps.

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Re: Fastest AGP video card for Super socket 7 platform?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 09:42

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So actually this cheap Radeon 9200 (probably also the 9250) is the most compatible and well performing card I ever had in my K6-III system. It's rock stable with the Catalyst "classic" (without CCC) 5.13 drivers, I tested it in around 10 games, Direct3D and OpenGL and it works flawlessly. Radeon …

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Re: Fastest AGP video card for Super socket 7 platform?

Posted on 2023-05-10, 15:41

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Triangle subpixel correction is performed in the on-chip triangle setup unit of SST-1. When subpixel correction is enabled (fbzColorPath(26)=1), the incoming starting color, depth, and texture coordinate parameters are all corrected for non-integer aligned starting triangle coordinates. The …

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Re: Fastest AGP video card for Super socket 7 platform?

Posted on 2023-05-10, 11:14

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Awhile back some people here determined the GeForce FX cards have higher driver overhead than earlier GeForce cards and possibly the 6000 series as well. That doesn't explain why it's unusable though... G400 was rather CPU heavy as well. I would probably use TurboGL as it is usually a bit faster …

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Re: Cache stuff questions. American Megatrends: AMI ATLAS PCI-II

Posted on 2023-02-05, 18:25

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What about the 512K pipelined burst cache using two tag rams then, the COAST with the one tag ram and motherboard's soldered tag ram? The second tag is never used for all 8 bits, just 1 to 3 bits. Many chipsets are limited to a single tag. It's a bit unclear how a particular manufacturer …

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Re: Cache stuff questions. American Megatrends: AMI ATLAS PCI-II

Posted on 2023-02-03, 04:02

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Or sync cache up to 1MB using Intel COAST version 1.0 but I could not find the PDF for designing the COAST version 1.0, anyone could help here? There are many data sheets on COAST modules from their manufacturers, but none of them described a 1Mb version. Make a high res scan of your module to see …

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Re: The coolest socket 7 motherboard that you’ve never heard of

Posted on 2023-01-22, 03:02

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by ph4nt0m

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I see you still haven't got rid of those Sanyo CG capacitors. These are not even low ESR actually.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2022-12-20, 02:34

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If it's this thing for soldering and other PCB repair related works, I'm interested 😀 KOTTO LED LIGHTED MAGNIFYING THIRD HAND

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-12-15, 16:23

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by ph4nt0m

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That thin aluminium heat spreader sucks. Take a decent copper one off an Athlon 64.

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-12-14, 13:55

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by ph4nt0m

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Just use 30% hydrochloric acid (HCl). your avatar explains everything :D Always looking for new ways around, no matter easy or hard :) It eats aluminium like a charm. It attacks tin and lead, too, so don't put the whole chip into the acid. A few drops on the heat spreader, wait, wash away, repeat. …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-12-13, 12:31

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I can upload a vid of popping the ihs off. It is probably the easiest part of the mod. Everything else is pretty tough. But you have to do it the way I show. It has worked for me many times but that isn’t to say that it will work every time. I saw a user on another forum (beginning of this thread) …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2022-09-28, 02:08

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pshipkov wrote on 2022-09-27, 16:29: USB keyboard has to go. Cooler master, storm quickfire rapid (mouthful stuff !) Brown keys. Interested. Good switches on this one. Would be nice to compare with blacks of my Steelseries 6Gv2.

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Re: DTK 486VIP PKM-0039E BIOS and Jumpers Wanted

Posted on 2022-09-27, 13:32

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EFAR EC802G = SiS 85C471 EFAR EC810PB = OPTi 82C822 EFAR EC100G = OPTi 82C206 or a clone Still would be good to have a manual for this board.

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-09-25, 15:05

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Would be interesting to have some values of the cpu power demand differences of these modded/overclocked K6-3+ compared to both the original K6-2+ setting and also the original clocked K6-2/3@250nm. The additional L2 cache doesn't seem to consume much. Actual power consumption varies significantly …

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Re: ASUS Pro B550M-C/CSM : Socket AM4 with Legacy Stuff

Posted on 2022-09-08, 18:02

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There are two things that really piss me off about this mobo. 1. You can set memory voltage and that's all. No CPU core or NB voltage. Not even a P-state to choose. 2. When you type in any memory timing and it doesn't work, I mean absolutely doesn't, the mobo won't recover from this no matter how …

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Re: ASUS Pro B550M-C/CSM : Socket AM4 with Legacy Stuff

Posted on 2022-09-08, 17:54

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-09-05, 16:30: Windows 7 rig with PCI X-Fi? ASUS Xonar D2 actually, but I have many other cards to choose from.

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Re: ASUS Pro B550M-C/CSM : Socket AM4 with Legacy Stuff

Posted on 2022-09-05, 16:17

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Figured it out myself. You have to delete that Auto with back space and type in numbers. Those at AMI who designed it this way instead of drop-down lists must be genius.

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-09-01, 03:40

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Pardon my late arrival to this thread, but I couldn't help but wonder if anyone knows the rationale for disabling half the cache on the K6-2+ chips? With the Pentium Pro chips, I'm pretty sure that the difference between 256k, 512k, and 1024K was the presence of less cache, and consequently less …

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ASUS Pro B550M-C/CSM : Socket AM4 with Legacy Stuff

Posted on 2022-08-31, 09:09

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It's one of a few AMD 500 series AM4 boards with PCI, COM and LPT. It's ASUS business series, so no fancy bells & whistles, but well done in general for $100 price. Supports up to 16C32T Ryzen 9 5950X, though I doubt it can actually do that with 4+2 power phases using somewhat ordinary Vishay FETs. …

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