Re: Core 2 Duo 775 or Pentium 4 775, which has better compatibility with Windows 98?

Posted on 2024-09-06, 16:03

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by mothergoose729

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My socket 468 board with an intel 965p chipset is great though. P965 was a chipset designed for Core 2 but also with backward compatibility of some newer NetBurst CPU; MB using P965 or any other 965 family chipset tended to use LGA775 instead of Socket 478. I couldn't find any MB with the …

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Re: Core 2 Duo 775 or Pentium 4 775, which has better compatibility with Windows 98?

Posted on 2024-09-06, 15:11

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It's more about chipsets than processors IMO. There are a few core2duo compatible 775 boards with AGP but they are often difficult to find and not cheap. I own one with a via chipset. It works great for XP, but I had nothing but problems in 98. My socket 468 board with an intel 965p chipset is great …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2024-09-03, 22:52

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I bought a 2024 Tesla Model Y recently

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

Posted on 2024-08-30, 06:54

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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: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2024-07-08, 17:47

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P4 Northwood 2.5ghz - my first home compute in 2002, a dell P4 Northwood 2.8ghz - another dell that I used until around 2008 3.0ghz E8400 Core2duo "Wolfdale" - The first PC I built myself in the summer of 2008 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T "Thuban" - I think I traded my Core2duo CPU for this one + cash on …

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Re: Do you even need a vintage machine?

Posted on 2024-06-17, 20:04

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over time i realise that almost everything that i actually run could be run on some middle of the road 'new' PC Just about all DOS applications can be run on an emulator like PCEM, that would cover windows 3.x too Any games not catered for by the above are fine on DOSBOX Just about all the windows …

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 22:50

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Im computer programmer, but I work as construction worker here in spain because is better paid You were probably tired of those TPS reports as well. Hi! to be true, i need to google what "TPS report" is.. i did not understand very well yet, but i think never have any of this stuff here in spain or …

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Re: My water cooled Windows XP machine.

Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:30

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This is the most 2007 time machine build I have ever seen. I was just getting into computers back then and really active on forums like OCN and anandtech. Shiny aluminum, custom water cooling, and blue fans were all the rage. It's perfect. I love it. Put a mean OC on that core2quad for me.

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Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 16:47

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Fastest launch CPU for socket 5 was a Pentium 90. Slot 1 it was in actuality the 266 which was available to go from launch date. Socket 5 was the original socket for Pentium was it not? The first Pentium had a clock speed of 66mhz, but it was very quickly followed up by a 90mhz sku. EDIT: Nope, …

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Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 03:31

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IMO unmodified socket - fastest CPU at launch compared to fastest CPU available is the only fair way to consider it. Taking the slowest CPU a socket supports and comparing it to the fast CPU that can be hacked to work is disingenuous IMO. The problem with slot 1 and socket 370 is that the CPUs at …

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Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 03:07

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IMO unmodified socket - fastest CPU at launch compared to fastest CPU available is the only fair way to consider it. Taking the slowest CPU a socket supports and comparing it to the fast CPU that can be hacked to work is disingenuous IMO. The problem with slot 1 and socket 370 is that the CPUs at …

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Re: Why is Windows still called Windows?

Posted on 2024-01-02, 06:18

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I was watching a documentary about the original windows release. They looked at at the media coverage around other GUIs on the market and sorted created a word cloud. They saw that "windows" was a term used to describe GUIs the most, so they named their product "windows" so they could sort of …

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Re: New Dos/Win98/WinXp ( a bit extreme )

Posted on 2023-12-20, 19:42

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The way DOS and windows 9x interact with chipsets can be pretty mysterious. I would try the Asrock board first since high performance PCIE cards a much cheaper and easier to find than high performance AGP cards. If y0u already own a high performance AGP card, you can try a variety of socket 478/775 …

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Re: New Dos/Win98/WinXp ( a bit extreme )

Posted on 2023-12-20, 04:28

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It's possible, but IMO it wouldn't be a computer I would actually want to use. If the goal is to make it mostly work just for its own sake then there are lots of interesting configurations you can try.

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Re: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper on Windows 10

Posted on 2023-12-12, 16:28

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Pretty much all forms of physical media copy protection are no longer supported in modern windows. If you use original media you need to patch or no cd crack the game in order to be able to use it.

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Re: Most modern hardware for a standalone XP Pro SP3 x86 machine in 2023?

Posted on 2023-12-01, 23:18

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Am4 and intel rocket lake CPUs can be made to work by slipstreaming drivers. You can likely get nearly any platform to work. If it is a dedicated XP machine I don't see much point beyond sandy/ivy bridge.

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Re: PCem/86Box how to increase motherboard caches?

Posted on 2023-11-28, 20:48

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I wonder if that explain the pretty sub par performance I see on a lot of emulated socket 7 boards. I am pretty sure there is no config setting for it. Maybe you can patch the bios? You are going to need a devs help to navigate the code base. Maybe you can add a config option and try to get your …

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Re: Super confused about right motherboard for win98 gaming PC

Posted on 2023-11-12, 18:07

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Clarifying question - why windows 98? If your favorite games are comfortably in the XP era, you might just want to build an XP machine. Hi , I would stick with intel 865G chipset with native 478 socket . Combined with 3 Ghz pentium 4 prescott/northwood does give reasonable performance and perfect …

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Re: I want to build another Win 98SE PC. Do any video cards offer anything a Voodoo3 does not?

Posted on 2023-11-09, 00:57

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Late DOS games (from 1995 onward) do sound worse with the SBPro2 and compatible clones using that mode. With the low-pass filter enabled, the output gets muffled if sample rates above 11 kHz are used. But it isn't that better when disabled where the dry output is apparent. Very few games actually …

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Re: I want to build another Win 98SE PC. Do any video cards offer anything a Voodoo3 does not?

Posted on 2023-11-08, 23:12

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I would put the audigy 2 in the 440bx system and keep playing more demanding games on your XP machine. I would agree with that, or pick up a late ISA sound card like the AWE64 if there's a compatibility benefit to ISA. There's something odd with the SB Pro - why would you want a 1991ish sound card …

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