Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on Today, 01:48

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Ok, so i am not alone then. Yes, Voodoo3 and any other PCI card or pre-GeForce 256 AGP card is just fine. It is really annoying, since the board has good characteristics otherwise. 6x112MHz - fine. Can do even 750MHz or whatever on a narrow OC.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on Yesterday, 23:09

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Been messing around for a while with FIC PA-2013 version 2.0. My first K6 experience. Also, very frustrating one. Some real janky stuff there. Picture of the mobo for reference here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1015453#p1015453 Basically somebody gave me this board. I tried it - worked. …

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Re: The K6-III build

Posted on Yesterday, 16:27

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I think you shown the PC in another thread a while ago. Looks great. Very tight. Classic look requires messy cables that prevent you from seeing the motherboard, but I prefer your style. Are you able to reliably run agp gf cards on this board ?

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-12-03, 02:50

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Can you recommend some paste that you like ?

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-12-01, 23:18

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That is implied.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-12-01, 16:12

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I don't know Max. Soldering this kind of chips with so many legs is a job for paste+hotgun. It looks to me the Feipoa is 1 step away from getting the right amount of paste applied to get the desired result.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-12-01, 02:59

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Read your responses more carefully. Makes sense. Initially i thought this is the outcome of mixing old paste with flux. Which i thought is great, because every few months i have to buy new syringe to use few times only before it eventually goes bad and has to be replaced. Wasteful.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-30, 22:48

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Ok, paste looks healthy. Going to use what you did when the one here goes dry. Btw, you probably know, but still - i usually do one stroke with syringe across the pads grid - goes much quicker and result is the same as putting paste on each pad individually.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-30, 09:41

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Added your numbers. Also added DTK PKM-0039S. An ISA/VLB main board which was a complete disaster with 486/586 processors but pod100 unlocked its potential. More details at the end of that post. Feipoa, so not clear if refreshing old chalky soldering paste with flux is working or not ?

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-30, 00:09

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Excellent. Thanks Chadti99. Will add your data to the charts and notes in the original post above (along with info for another board that i missed).

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-29, 08:20

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Something feels off about how liquid the paste you have is. Mine has tooth paste like viscosity. But when it goes old/bad it thickens and gets ... brittle. It becomes difficult to squeeze it out of the syringe. If you already soldered something in the same area of the PCB it can get hot/warm enough …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2021-11-29, 02:59

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You know what i am looking at. 😀 Btw, what is this picture showing ? https://i.postimg.cc/qtdttvnP/PRW-2021-381.jpg

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2021-11-28, 21:13

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The name of the thread is a bit misleading since it says "world's fastest 486" but first post is about a hybrid processor. So it is about the fastest Socket 3 hardware really. If a CPU fits Socket 3 without interposer - it should be considered. Otherwise - probably not.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-28, 19:39

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Updated the post above with more all speedsys screenshots, also adjusted layout for better readability. M918i and HOT-433 still need screenshots with applied UMC IDE driver.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-28, 16:35

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@chadti99 Thanks. Can you run the common benchmarks above on your GA AMS board and share the numbers with clarification about l1 and l2 cache modes ? I will look one more time at why this was a problem here. About LSD, yes 3-1-3 is fine with 15ns L2 chipswt 180 and even 200 mhz. The most magical AWD …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-28, 05:23

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L1 in WT mode since there is no proper support for P24T type CPUs. Only P24D. Added that note to the original post. Also, will capture and share 2-3 more SpeedSys screens for completeness tomorrow.

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2021-11-28, 05:15

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Dhuuude. Ali Baba and the forty thieves kind of stuff. How many camels it took to load the loot ... ahem ... the junk ? Few very interesting things there.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-28, 04:47

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Of course. Did I make it sound too absolute ? I certainly don't see it that way. Some of the UMC based motherboards can handle IDE drivers with high speed settings and BIOS timings on max when running at 40MHz base frequency. Outcome differs based on used data carrier - CF, mechanical HDD, or SSD. …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-28, 01:25

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The Socket 3 motherboards summary several posts above didn't include POD100 section. Filling the gap now - extending the original post about POD100 (PODP5V83 / P24T / Pentium Overdrive) processors running at 100MHz by testing with wide range of mid/late 486 boards. --- motherboards Used the best …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-11-26, 06:18

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This crossed my mind. While the card has scratches everywhere i remember looking more carefully under the EPROM chip and there are scratches on the plastic socket that are typical when sharp tool is inserted multiple times for chip removal. Impossible to say if it came with that bios chip out of the …

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