Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?

Posted on 2020-07-22, 12:14

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by frudi

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I recently built a DOS/Win98 system based around the socket 754 Athlon64, mainly to see for myself how it would handle DOS sound. I went with a VIA K8T800 based motherboard (after testing several I decided on Abit's KV8 Pro), since Nforce chipsets are apparently a no-go for digitized sound in pure …

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Re: Abix BX-6 Rev 2.0 - Can't Overclock

Posted on 2020-06-29, 12:46

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I used to run a Celeron 633 @ 950 on the BX6 v2.0 back in the day, through Abit's SlotKet III adapter, and didn't experience any particular stability issues with it. It can definitely handle 100 MHz FSB Celerons just fine. The reason a 500 MHz Celeron won't run at 100 MHz FSB has nothing to do with …

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Re: Silent cooler for 370 socket

Posted on 2020-06-21, 21:15

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The copper Startech cooler with a noctua fan will work fine, it's not exactly cheap though, at about $35 for both combined. But trust me, you will want to replace the stock fan, since that one is obnoxiously loud, even if slowed down by running it at a lower voltage. I prefer to use Startech's …

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Re: Socket 754 chipset/motherboard recomendations for Win98SE

Posted on 2020-06-12, 10:15

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Both VIA and nVidia have their chipset issues. As already mentioned, VIA has better DOS compatibility for sound cards. On the other hand it doesn't support SATA2 or SATA3 drives (sometimes they work if they have a SATA1 compatibility jumper, but even that isn't necessarily reliable). nForce chipsets …

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Re: Which Video Card for this Old Pentium 2

Posted on 2020-05-29, 10:11

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Interesting, I haven't ever come across an actual MX100 myself, so I don't know what specs they even have. I've only ever seen them referenced in drivers, grouped together as MX 100/200, which is also what an MX200 is shown as in display properties in windows. I always figured the MX100 was some OEM …

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Re: Which Video Card for this Old Pentium 2

Posted on 2020-05-28, 07:47

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by frudi

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Don't expect much from 2 MX much for 3D. Back in the day, I had one due to little money trying to make Myst 3D work acceptably, I had to lower many options just to work acceptable. Next time look for Geforce2 MX400. Better one and works well with 3D and DOS. Even GTS if you want to move up. Cheers, …

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Re: Does it worth to make a Windows98SE/DOS Pc today?

Posted on 2020-05-12, 11:43

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by frudi

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The video cards you have available are only fast enough for up to very early 2000's games, maybe 2002-2003 era at most. Which you can just as well run on windows 98, no need for XP. For later games you'd really want a more powerful DX9 era card, something like at least Radeon 9800, preferably X800/ …

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Re: Questions about upgrading SS7 CPU

Posted on 2020-05-09, 17:00

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As for which is the most expensive out of K6-3, K6-2+ and K6-3+, it really depends on who's selling what when you're looking. I was able to get a K6-3+ 500 very cheap 2 years ago when someone in Germany was selling a batch of them for EUR 15 each. A year later I picked up a K6-2+ from China for a …

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Re: Questions about upgrading SS7 CPU

Posted on 2020-05-09, 09:46

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Except the K6-3+ is even harder to find and more expensive than the K6-2+. And the 450s will most likely be able to run at 550 MHz without issues anyway. So basically just get whatever K6+ chip you can find for a reasonable price.

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Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2020-05-05, 07:38

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by frudi

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The TX or TX-M series 650W gets you 30A on 5V, also with combined 150W on 5V + 3.3V, for a fair bit cheaper than the RM series. Still not exactly cheap though. And actually finding one to buy is another matter. The TX650M has 25A each on 3.3V and 5V and 130W total, according to the manual . I could …

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Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2020-04-28, 09:42

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Corsair RM750I and up (850, 1000) have 25A on the 5V rail and 150W on the 3.3+5V rails combined. I never encountered any problem in any of my systems not even with Athlon XP 3200. They are built like a tank and never had any issues with them. That being said they are not cheap. The TX or TX-M …

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Re: Pentium MMX 450MHz

Posted on 2020-04-21, 07:50

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K6-2 beaten decisively by a competitor with half as many transistors :D Based on your L2-enabled DOS Quake results, it looks like the Tilamook at 450 MHz yields the same performance as a K6-3 450. I guess the only way to top that on a super socket 7 is to run a K6-2/3+ at 500-600 MHz. What am I …

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Re: How is crossfire with two HD 3870?

Posted on 2020-03-30, 10:54

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I used to run dual 4890's in CF back in the day and while performance was great at the time, I see little reason to put up with the downsides of CF (or SLI) these days. I would just go with a generation newer card which will get you equivalent performance without the multi-GPU pains. So unless you …

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Re: AM2 Motherboards with AGP Slots

Posted on 2020-03-02, 13:16

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I was just in the process of looking for an AM2 board with AGP a few weeks ago, I could have used a nice concise list like this :) I ended up getting a trio of ASRock's AM2NF3-VSTA boards, sold as defective on ebay and explicitly described as not working at all. I figured I'd be able to fix one of …

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Re: Builds general discussion

Posted on 2020-02-28, 06:51

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Indeed you don't need the -5V rail in your build, so you can simply ignore the warning. Just don't go connecting a PC speaker to your motherboard, unless you want to be driven crazy by the beeping :) You're right that Slot 1 Coppermine CPUs can be hard to find, at least harder than their socketed …

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Re: Builds general discussion

Posted on 2020-02-27, 21:27

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- Should I be concerned about the "Check system health - VCore=2.05V" error message when booting the P3-600? My guess is the 'Check system health' message doesn't have anything to do with the Vcore voltage, despite the confusing way it's presented. I've had a couple Gigabyte boards display the same …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-07, 21:35

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After not being to my local flea market in months, the first time back I stumbled upon all these at my favourite seller: https://i.imgur.com/qsipBem.jpg A couple AWE64 Value cards. I like these for late-DOS or DOS/Win9X builds so I'm always happy to get more of them. Unfortunately the CT4520 is …

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Re: Trans-CPU motherboard ECS PF88 WTF?

Posted on 2019-10-15, 12:33

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ASRock even had a board that came with both 754 and 939 sockets right out of the box, no add-on upgrade boards required. I have one in my collection, but most of its capacitors are busted, so it's awaiting a complete recap before I can even test whether it works. The K8 Combo-Z in all its beauty ( …

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Re: Need help with a niche build idea - early P3

Posted on 2019-10-10, 11:35

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For 466 you have several options: - Celeron (Mendocino based) 466. The weakest of the lot but the only one that natively comes in 466 MHz flavour. Only available in S370 form, since Slot 1 variants top out at 433. - Pentium III 933EB (Coppermine), runs natively at 133 MHz FSB so just halving it to …

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Re: Is flashing a Mac G5 Radeon 9600 to work on PC possible?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 20:21

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by frudi

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Since Mac versions seem to go for about twice what PC versions sell for, you're probably better off just selling it and getting a regular PC version instead. But on the other hand the dual DVI setup is nice and you won't find that on regular 9600's. I'd probably keep it for this feature alone.

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