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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-10-21, 14:50

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Now there is a question of I should keep it OC, since it seems to run just fine, ON STOCK VOLTAGE!!!, as it is at 2.7, but the main idea is to keep my "museum rigs" as they would have been at the time. And while Q6600 was definitely factory-clocked at 2.4, almost nobody kept it at that. So what is …

Re: 386 with VLB, suggestions?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 06:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DNSDies wrote on 2020-10-20, 06:41: That's the one. It seems to be VLB. 112 pins, MCA footprint, silkscreen says "Local 1". I'll double check the voltage pins, but it really looks like VLB. Wikipedia says that VLB is 116 pins?

Re: Printable clip-on 80mm fan adaptor for HP Slot 1 server CPUs

Posted on 2020-10-20, 06:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You might want to consider print orientation for more strength in the retaining clips ..

Re: 386 with VLB, suggestions?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 06:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Doesn't VLB only work with 486 and later?

Re: In an SMP system how does DOS/98 choose the CPU to utilise?

Posted on 2020-10-15, 19:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

True, software can't control the cpu multi. but on the p2/p3 the multiplier might be locked, but it can be set LOWER than spec by the bios. I've done a lot of benchmarking with a top end p2/3 and setting it to lower speeds for comparison testing. Wasn't all p3 locked, and not only limited? Or are …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-14, 14:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

dionb wrote on 2020-10-13, 18:31: I got big balls 😜 16026137593860.jpg And 3 of them 🤣

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-12, 09:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LewisRaz wrote on 2020-10-11, 20:52: Won this tonight for £12 inc delivery. Comes with manual and driver CD too. eBay pic: The very board, with a Celeron 300A, that bit me with the overclocking bug 🤣

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-11, 08:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brostenen wrote on 2020-10-10, 12:43: The plan is to buy modern replacements as much as I can. That means S-Ram and not D-Ram, eliminating the VSP-Bug. But, D-Ram and S-Ram needs very different controls .. Is there also other controllers for that?

Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2020-10-09, 17:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe, and this is a long shot, your regulator gets SO hot so it actually outputs a lower than expected voltage and all the power is consumed in the regulator in stead - all though I highly doubt it. But what is the nominal power consumption of the Tillamook actually?

Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2020-10-09, 16:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This suggests that the chip is running at a higher voltage but pulling less amps (because V*A=W). As it is, running these chips on a desktop board already increases the I/O voltage from 2.5 to 3.3v. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way with CPUs. They act closely like resistive loads, as in, if …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-08, 04:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Aublak wrote on 2020-10-07, 23:38: 1 dollar I haven't tried it yet Wow, I'm green with envy over that price! They tend to be like +100$ these days on eBay ..

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-07, 04:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh it's not 486, it's a Socket 4 Pentium! Which...I of course do not own any of, I have to buy a CPU and heat sink just to test the board. So, an actual excuse to shop some socket 4 goodness .. B-) I dunno what the heck kind of heat sink Socket 4 CPUs use, because the socket definitely doesn't have …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-07, 04:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh it's not 486, it's a Socket 4 Pentium! Which...I of course do not own any of, I have to buy a CPU and heat sink just to test the board. So, an actual excuse to shop some socket 4 goodness .. B-) I have the other problem.. no socket 4 board but have some socket 4 CPUs. Same problem here :lol:

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-06, 21:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EvieSigma wrote on 2020-10-06, 03:58: Oh it's not 486, it's a Socket 4 Pentium! Which...I of course do not own any of, I have to buy a CPU and heat sink just to test the board. So, an actual excuse to shop some socket 4 goodness .. B-)

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

Posted on 2020-10-06, 17:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried to blindly connect a 2x4 USB header to a 2x5 USB socket. I found the two Ground pins, and assumed that the rest was the same as a regular 2x5 (it just skipped the 2x1 S-Ground pins) and wired it up . After 30 minute of use I smelled a burn. Opening up the case I found that two of my dupont …

Re: is this pc good?

Posted on 2020-10-05, 10:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, waste of silicon might be a bad way of putting it. It was more a thought of not expecting the same boost from a Core2 or Pentium D in Win98 as you would've had over a P4 in an SMP capable os

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

Posted on 2020-10-05, 04:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to get a board to POST. I turned it over and realized it had some partial (and sloppy) recapping done in the past. And then there is this strange decoloration next to an apparently replaces capacitor’s legs. What am I looking at here? Looks like cold solder joints to me ! Wow what happened …

Re: is this pc good?

Posted on 2020-10-05, 04:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One thing with Core2 and Pentium D and Win98 is that Win98 only knows about one core, so it's a great waste of silicon .. I don't know whether or not that cpu generation is compatible with Win98 ..

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-04, 20:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-10-04, 17:30: I am going to rebuild my Sun Solaris server from 1990’s. Intel DK44LX motherboard with Dual Pentium 300mhz CPU’s. Maybe Win2000. Are the CPUs positioned opposite each other with heatsinks in the middle? That would've been a most brilliant design ..

Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-04, 20:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IIRC Coppermines in the 600-866 was pretty common here in Denmark .. As far as Tualatin goes, it's just a matter of pronouncing the name as "too late in" - it just showed up too late .. Especially 512k versions were never common ..

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