Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2020-04-20, 04:52

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by Nemo1985

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Benchmarks at the same freq. are always the most interesting in my opinion. 300 MHz is a nice round number and you should be able to get some P233MMX results at 300 MHz as well. As far as I recall, the Cx6x86MX is the same as the MII, so not having the 6x86MX isn't a loss. I mostly agree to you, …

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Re: Pentium MMX 450MHz

Posted on 2020-04-20, 03:21

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by Nemo1985

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Lovely and very interesting! I was able to use the l2 cache without issues with a Epox EP-51MVP3E-M.

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2020-04-20, 02:41

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by Nemo1985

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Hello people, how's going? Since cause of the lockdown I have some free time I was thinking to do another round up of cpu tests with a ss7 platform. This time i'm going to use an Aopen X59 PRO, not the fastest mb out there but it has many voltage settings, plus I got recently some hoarding about ss7 …

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Re: damaged x800gt?

Posted on 2020-04-18, 17:24

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by Nemo1985

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candle_86 wrote on 2020-04-18, 16:21: What your descriping sounds like bad memory Thank you for the answer, watching the artifact image, does it sound as bad memory? Would the heatgun help in any way?

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damaged x800gt?

Posted on 2020-04-18, 06:00

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, I'm seeking an advice about the video card I bought some time ago, It came with a capacitor detached due to the poor packaging. I was unable to restore the original one but I found another with the same values (it was surface mount). Then when I tried the card, it showed issues on 3d …

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Re: General instability with p3 1000 and msi bx master

Posted on 2020-04-10, 23:35

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by Nemo1985

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Yep, some cards draw too much power over the AGP bus. I just had to swap out an Nvidia FX5200 from my build for that reason. Put an old 128 Pro in there and it runs fine. That's on a Gigabyte GA-6BXE build with a P3 700. That would be an explanation but wouldn't be a radeon 128 pro too old for the …

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Re: General instability with p3 1000 and msi bx master

Posted on 2020-04-10, 22:31

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by Nemo1985

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Thanks for all the answers. I suppose is a generic sloket, but it has many jumpers so it shouldn't be that cheap, I have another one with no jumpers at all that is called: D370A VER:1.0 I'm pretty sure the system was very stable, I always used it as testing bench and I never had issues other than …

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Re: General instability with p3 1000 and msi bx master

Posted on 2020-04-10, 21:21

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by Nemo1985

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The microcodes are the last version, voltage shouldn't be an issue since it's underclocked, but I raised it on the bios, now I get 1.76 but the issue is still there, I also tried an older cpu, it always get detected as pentium III mmx, but sse got detected on windows. I'm thinking to try another …

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General instability with p3 1000 and msi bx master

Posted on 2020-04-10, 17:16

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, after the issues with the hard drive using the ata66 ports on that mb, I'm facing another issue: I upgraded the cpu (in a Slotket) from a p3 800 mhz to a P3 1000. The weird thing is after that upgrade the system has become very unstable, i'm actually keep using it with fsb 100 mhz (750 mhz), …

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Re: DS1287A

Posted on 2020-03-24, 01:10

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I'm noticing a weird ssue with Biostar MB-8433UUD, it came with a depleted Odin oec12c887a rtc, I changed it with a Dallas ds12887 with the cr mod, I noticed that the system is seldom booting fine while most of the times I got just a black screen. The Dallas battery with the CR2032 mod is proved to …

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Re: Advice about a build with UMC cpu.

Posted on 2020-03-21, 14:24

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by Nemo1985

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I like the umc cpu because despite being a common SX cpu it was faster (clock to clock) than intel\amd counterparts. I already have a fast 486 build with amd 5x86 cpu, I just want to try overclock the umc cpu, since the vlb experiment failed I'm looking for some advices about what motherboard to use …

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Advice about a build with UMC cpu.

Posted on 2020-03-21, 12:59

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, i'm looking for advices about building a 486 build with the UMC U5SX 486-40. I've tried to use a vlb motherboard and overclock the cpu to 50mhz but it's a no go, the system doesn't boot. I also have an Asus PVI-486SP3 but it probably won't support the 50 mhz fsb since it lacks the proper pci …

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Re: ARK2000MT with strange resistors

Posted on 2020-03-20, 14:51

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by Nemo1985

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This is yellow capacitors for fixes to make video card working properly that was left out during production. Cheers, I see, thank you for the clarification, I found the very same model card on ebay and the picture of the back shows no capacitors on the back: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ …

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ARK2000MT with strange resistors

Posted on 2020-03-20, 14:00

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, I just received this somewhat rare card but as soon I opened the package I noticed this thing: https://imgur.com/a/W4NWQl0 On the back of the card there are 2 resistors clearly soldered out from factory. I tested the card on msdos and it seems it works fine, it also detects 2 mb of memory as …

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-03-04, 10:30

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by Nemo1985

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So, I got the isa videocard today, I tried to set the fsb to 50 mhz, but it doesn't boot despite my efforts: I took off the vlb i\o card, I loosen the timings of cache and memory to the slowest. The debug diagnostic card doesn't work with this specified mb... I'm thinking the issue could be the cpu …

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-03-02, 21:33

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by Nemo1985

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Well you are lucky :P I tried the Tiido advice to populate the slots from the farthest one from the cpu but still the pc doesn't boot at 50mhz. Furthermore with the very same system, with the Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 card I can use cache timings as 3-1-1-1, while if I swap it for a ARK Logic ARK1000VL …

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-29, 08:00

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by Nemo1985

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Always remember to look for master/slave vlb slots. Yes, it is a thing. One master slot, two slave slots. Populate master and then populate whatever slot you want. Some boards do not have writing on the slots. Next rule: 33 mhz FSB = 3 cards. 40 mhz FSB = 2 cards. 50 mhz FSB = 1 card. If you can …

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Re: Amd Am486 DX-40 with missing pin

Posted on 2020-02-28, 12:49

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by Nemo1985

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Well I tried the cpu as predicted I got black screen.

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-28, 11:27

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by Nemo1985

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I'm messing with my vlb system once again, I noticed that with the cirrus logic vlb video card the system is more stable compared to when I use the ARK Logic ARK1000VL card. The first allow me to have lower cache settings and use 0 ws for ram, while with the 1000VL I have to add the wait state. This …

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Re: Amd Am486 DX-40 with missing pin

Posted on 2020-02-27, 17:35

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by Nemo1985

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Tomorrow I will give a try and report back... Tido, just in case, you will be my man 😁 Thank you everyone

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