Re: Another turbo display puzzle

Posted on Today, 10:20

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Sphere478 wrote on Today, 06:36: Is there a need for a universal turbo display replacement? might be able to whip something up.. I'm having a vague recollection that someone may have already though. Fabricating a New Turbo Display Seems like it 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 10:18

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SB0460 Fatal1ty with break out box. Haven't got ANY clue if it's of any interest, but "oh, something to fill a 5.25 bay" :lol: I've thought about buying one of these for years, but I can't ever think of anything to plug into one. I think it's mostly about aesthetics, having all those knobs and …

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Re: NexGen Nx586-P90

Posted on Yesterday, 21:52

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Are you running the PF110 CPU? My system has the PF110, so I was concerned that perhaps the higher FSB might cause issues with 1024K vs. 256K using the same memory timings. This is an issue I've witnessed on socket 3 boards. Isn't the cache on a separate bus? Or is that still dependant on the FSB?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-16, 16:47

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SB0460 Fatal1ty with break out box. Haven't got ANY clue if it's of any interest, but "oh, something to fill a 5.25 bay" 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-16, 09:11

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It is rare, never seen one! I have just once, a Vogons member has one but its for the 775 version of this board turning it into an AM2 board IIRC, but I believe the board doesnt care which mainboard type its put into. (That Yellow PCIe looking slot is where the upgrade board goes) Im happy I got …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-06, 18:12

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@H3nrik V! yes- 300 always ECC. 233/266 can have ECC. Toms advice in article was, to check ECC, if you don't have, and you have PII 300, you have fake (overclocked) CPU with switched cartrige. Toms archive is working 99%. Some pictures are missing. Some of them are reconstruced on thg.ru version. …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-06, 07:31

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IIRC I've read earlier somewhere, that cache timings were a bit looser on higher clocked models. Maybe that applied to some coppermine p3, though, but it seems plausible that even using higher speed cache, some latencies may have needed to be loosened? Yes, it's true. When clocked at same speed, …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-08-04, 08:56

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Don't quite understand what you mean here? 2K was out there before XP, running as the workstation OS, while ME was the home computer offering at that time. They "merged" into XP which was the first home-consumer Windows based on the NT kernel. And I don't quite understand what you don't quite …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-08-04, 06:00

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For nostalgia, XP had an absurdly long relevance. One could daily drive it from the start of elementary school all the way up to bachelor's degree. Those are very influential years in everyone's lives. It's also a transitional OS from the clunky Win9x to the modern experience which includes a lot …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-04, 03:52

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have to bump the thread a little :) recently managed to repair my multiplier-unlocked P2-333 scrapped L2/TAG chips from dead P3-450 reminds me of Genesys B52 MMX https://www.cpushack.com/2021/08/12/forgotten-italian-cpu-the-genesys-b52-mmx/ >The processors cost about 25% less than similar Intel …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-04, 03:50

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nice work wbc. Its cool to see old Pentium II 333 saved. Good work on finding that resistor. Had to be difficult, or time consuming. Or, did you manage to figure it somehow , that R15 is damaged? Or had to measure all of them randomly? Weren’t the 333mhz versions available as either space heater …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-04, 03:42

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I bought some pretty goodies :) IMG_20220803_132750.jpg Celeron : 633, 700, 800, 1000, 1000, Tualatin 1000A, Tualatin 1200 P3 : 667, 866, 1000, 1000 256MB Sdram PC133 AMD 486 DX4-100 AMD K6-2 300 Total 10$ :smiling_face_with_3_hearts: Good score, though you know they were effectively paying you $ …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-07-26, 12:14

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My PowerVR PCX2 based machine. Coppermine 1GHz, 815 chipset, 256mb of RAM, Pioneer Slot-in DVD reader (had an hard time fitting it since it's much longer than the stock optical reader), 160GB WD HDD on a Silicon Image SATA controller (to be replaced with a CF card on IDE). Running WinME (hated for …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-07-26, 07:30

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My PowerVR PCX2 based machine. Coppermine 1GHz, 815 chipset, 256mb of RAM, Pioneer Slot-in DVD reader (had an hard time fitting it since it's much longer than the stock optical reader), 160GB WD HDD on a Silicon Image SATA controller (to be replaced with a CF card on IDE). Running WinME (hated for …

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Re: HP z800 ( WinXP Beast )

Posted on 2022-07-16, 20:36

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4 modules per CPU is not optimal and will hurt the performance, you should be filled 3 modules per CPU for single channel mode (slower) or 6 per CPU to get dual channel mode working correctly. Cheers, Wouldn't that be 3 or 6 per cpu to get tripple channel mode? Or I wonder if these specifications …

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Re: Restoring a small form factor 486

Posted on 2022-06-30, 20:18

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Would it be possible to to specify "big difference"? Is it 5%? 10%? 25%? Disabling the cache on my old 486/DX2 66 was how I made it run at 386 speeds. I'd bet thats your culprit on your speed issues. If you look at some of the old DOS game guides, you'll see disabling the cache as a recommended …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-06-02, 14:28

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Intel DX2/40, though ...

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

Posted on 2022-05-19, 19:00

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Wondering whether I should adventure in getting a slotket to work with my ABIT BE6-II. I have had rather unpleasant stuff going on with the old one (which just for the lulz I might relegate to a 440LX mobo just to see if I can get a 633 or 700MHz Celeron to run on those - they're 66FSB parts after …

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

Posted on 2022-05-19, 17:45

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Wondering whether I should adventure in getting a slotket to work with my ABIT BE6-II. I have had rather unpleasant stuff going on with the old one (which just for the lulz I might relegate to a 440LX mobo just to see if I can get a 633 or 700MHz Celeron to run on those - they're 66FSB parts after …

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Re: Building Retro 486

Posted on 2022-05-18, 06:05

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Is EDO RAM a thing with 486? Didn't that first come into play in Pentium era? As in, would the chipset recognize it? Link from Cuttoon's post shows 36-bit memory config? Isn't that odd? Or is it parity RAM? [Edit] checked the manual, which clearly states that EDO is supported and also lists RAM as …

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