Re: Suggest CPU Between Pentium200 and Pentium4 1700

Posted on 2023-11-01, 05:01

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by H3nrik V!

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I never saw a 1GHz/100 at all, I've only seen their existence on the Intel site which *used* to have a conveniently searchable database of all their CPUs. They do exist - I have one, I got from some scrap lot ... will post an image later - can't get that to work from my phone for some reason ...

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-10-30, 19:31

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by H3nrik V!

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pshipkov wrote on 2023-10-30, 19:05: Forgot to clarify yesterday that these CPUs are claimed. I'm glad, as I didn't need them per se, but wouldn't let them go to scrap 🤣

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Re: Suggest CPU Between Pentium200 and Pentium4 1700

Posted on 2023-10-30, 10:55

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by H3nrik V!

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I would probably suggest this approach: 1) Look at the supported CPU list for that motherboard (if there is one...), and sort from fastest (highest clock rate) to slowest, and 2) Look at the prices for those CPUs in your area until you find some that fits within your budget What was the fastest …

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Re: Suggest CPU Between Pentium200 and Pentium4 1700

Posted on 2023-10-30, 10:53

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by H3nrik V!

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Problem with >800 MHz P3's is bios support. Apparently, there's a microcode update which all boards didn't get ..

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-29, 18:20

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by H3nrik V!

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Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buying enough kit to set up a home lab: Circa 2016ish Dell PowerEdge T430 - 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 (14c/28t, 35mb, 2.0-3.2ghz) - 192gb ddr4 2400 - 8x 256gb ssd in raid10 Just …

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Re: +5V Load Balancer?

Posted on 2023-10-28, 21:05

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by H3nrik V!

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Na, that’s not how dc works. You can parallel multiple DC sources of identical voltage. Sometimes this can cause more (or less) line noise. But I don’t expect you will have problems relating to this. The condition of your mobo caps would be where I looked if you did. Differrences in MOSFET Rds will …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-28, 21:02

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by H3nrik V!

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Part way explains why you didnt like ATRAC3 encoding. I was an early adopter of MiniDisc and remember it was far superior to MP3 of the same time period. I dont remember ever seeing Mini discs being sold or even advertised. THe only time I saw a mini disk and player was when my friend was sent one …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-28, 17:15

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Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buying enough kit to set up a home lab: Circa 2016ish Dell PowerEdge T430 - 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 (14c/28t, 35mb, 2.0-3.2ghz) - 192gb ddr4 2400 - 8x 256gb ssd in raid10 Just …

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Re: CPU Upgrade Options

Posted on 2023-10-27, 22:47

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by H3nrik V!

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Thanks for all your replies. If I had to guess, I believe it's a Northwood with HT. Will have to confirm when I get home later this evening. Looking into it, I think that the Northwoods 3GHz and up had 1MB of L2 at least instead of 512KB, but I'm confident that it wouldn't be a noticeable …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-27, 22:43

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I built for me and my wife X58 based systems last year for cheap. Asus sabertooth X58, Xeon X5675, 16 gigs DDR 3 1600, 500 gig Corsair MX500 gig sata sad, 1tb PNY XLR8 NVME drives is pcie adapters, Corsair rm850 pay, EVGA RTX 3050 XC in mine and a Gigabyte RTX 3060 Vision OC for hers, 240mm aio cpu …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-27, 22:41

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Bought a 6GiB Asus GTX1060 for the kid, to build him a more gaming-appropriate rig than his laptop, which has integrated GPU in an 11th gen i5 :) Cost a hair's width more than US$100. Going to put it in a Lenovo Workstation with a Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1270 and 12 GiB of DDR3 memory. All which I had …

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Re: Pondering the recreation of an early "Multimedia" PC... if it exists.

Posted on 2023-10-25, 05:31

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Wow, I'm just surprised that the term "Multimedia PC" existed on 386SX platform. Didn't believe it was a thing until 486 was the "go-to" system ... 😀 [EDIT] The article in above link actually shows the "MPC" or "Multimedia PC" standard - stating that 386sx with 2MiB of extended memory ... Wow!

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-23, 12:32

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I made a stupid move a couple of days ago ... I'm on the lookout for a Pentium III 933 slot-1. They are horribly priced on a well-known auction site - like +100US$. Then my saved search found a Dell motherboard (Precision 420) with one 933 Slot-1, memory, C-RIMMs (I think, or the memory banks were …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-23, 12:31

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by H3nrik V!

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I made a stupid move a couple of days ago ... I'm on the lookout for a Pentium III 933 slot-1. They are horribly priced on a well-known auction site - like +100US$. Then my saved search found a Dell motherboard (Precision 420) with one 933 Slot-1, memory, C-RIMMs (I think, or the memory banks were …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-23, 09:13

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by H3nrik V!

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I made a stupid move a couple of days ago ... I'm on the lookout for a Pentium III 933 slot-1. They are horribly priced on a well-known auction site - like +100US$. Then my saved search found a Dell motherboard (Precision 420) with one 933 Slot-1, memory, C-RIMMs (I think, or the memory banks were …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-22, 19:55

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by H3nrik V!

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Picked up this Pentium beige box with a cute little CRT in my local flea market: photo_2023-10-22_13-32-15.jpg No RAM, but it has a Pentium 166 (maybe mxx) installed, mainboard features Intel 430VX Chipset and there is a drilled through Hard Drive: photo_2023-10-22_13-33-49.jpg photo_2023-10-22_13- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-21, 22:40

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Tried and failed to get this ASUS P/I-P55TP4 to POST. Verified voltages with a POST card, tried a couple PSUs anyway. Tried a few different (proven on other systems) CPU/RAM combos. Dumped the BIOS and flashed it with the only version I could find online. Tried it with the dead Dallas RTC in, …

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Re: A Kick-Ass Dual 3.8GHz NetBurst Xeon Build

Posted on 2023-10-21, 18:19

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Irinikus wrote on 2023-10-21, 05:45: I've also downloaded this driver: (Just in case!) 🤣 was just about to suggest doing that ...

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-19, 07:07

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by H3nrik V!

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Made a Slot1 slocket adapter holder since all the brackets available don't grip them properly and the slight movement can cause system to crash Fits great, works great, happy! https://i.imgur.com/KCD7onj.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/MlUXika.jpg Are you using long retaining bolts to hold them in the …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2023-10-18, 06:48

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The last 3 computers I have found are Pentium 3's. This is the latest one. It is a Dell Dimension 4100. It had 128 Megs of RAM. No HDD, anda P3 933 mhz CPU. I really like this case, so I might transplant a 1ghz cpu into it and more ram. It also had an ATI rage 128 pro in it. https://i.imgur.com/ …

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