Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-07, 06:46

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by sgt76

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Yes, yes... seeing it would be like discovering the El Dorado of Retro PC Stuff! Anyway,, I would have posted my Tualeron rig here if not for the fact that it's not working ATM- and you can't post stuff that doesn't work here- hey no cheating, mmmkay! But I have another rig that I call the Rat Rig …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-04-07, 06:41

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by sgt76

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Thanks RG100! Thoroughly comprehensive testing, reporting and summarization as usual. Unfortunately, my board seems to have problems booting - actually it seems dead as a dodo. Haven't got round to troubleshooting comprehensively yet.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-07, 02:43

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RogueTrip2012 wrote: What happened to the momentum??? I guess no one has camera's? I think most of our rigs are in pieces most of the time...being hardware tinkerers and all 🤣

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-04, 06:38

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@Tetrium: Nice pics and entertaining stories man! You obviously love your machines- every one of them is given a personality. I've felt that way only for a few of my rigs- an IBM 300PL with a 450Mhz Katmai that I loved sooo much I named it, a P233MMX 430HX system, and a Dell P4 workstation. Hmm, …

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Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-04-01, 09:08

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I have Voodoo3 and Voodoo2 cards, but I almost always only use my Voodoo2s, cause they look so damn 1337 when SLI'ed.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-03-31, 15:26

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Tetrium wrote: I'll post a couple more of my rigs later. Just beware...there is a story attached to every single one of them 😜 Please do, and don't spare us any detail. It's the stories that make the thread interesting. Without which, it'll just be a collection of pictures of outdated electronic …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-31, 15:21

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We like burning our chips dammit!!! Yeah! BTW, when I was testing the mobo last night @ 166, I was using aggressive BIOS settings: RAM speed was "host clock" (not -33), and CAS2! However, pity about the cold boot problems the next day. Naturally, I "loosened up" these BIOS timings, but the cold …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-31, 13:12

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sgt76, how are you getting on with this mobo? What VGA cards are you using? Have you tried a cold boot at 166 FSB? Have you got any BIOS settings hints and tips you could share please? Thanks a lot! :happy: Not too well unfortunately. I can cold boot even up to 190mhz, but stable operation is …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-31, 10:19

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[quote="Tetrium"]I think a comparison between a P3s-1400 and a Thunderbird 1400C would be interesting. The fastest P3 ever made vs the fastest Athlon Thunderbird ever made :D[quote] But that's been done by contemporary testers many times before. I was thinking of real empirical proof verifying a …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-31, 01:04

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Sorry RG100, must have gone to bed when your next posts came in. I think I faced the same issue doing the wire trick before too, on which ones are VSS and VID2. I too used both sites for reference, can't remember which one though for the Soyo. I used Martin's exclusively for my AX33 Pro board- …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-03-30, 14:35

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Old Thrashbarg wrote: Way I figure it, a retro rig is whatever you use to do retro PC stuff. That could just as easily include a pristine IBM 5150 PC, or DOSBox running on a 24-core Xeon with 32GB of RAM and quad-SLI GTX590's. I like this definition! 😁

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-30, 14:29

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Please can you tell me how I can force 1.65V through the Tually 1.4 GHz server CPU? I need to understand about this wire mode trick! Thanks a lot! The best Tualatin mod site for your reference sir: http://home.arcor.de/frogge/pepper/tua/tuareport1.html Awesome! Are there any other 694T boards that …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-30, 10:25

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Your right in that there's no voltage selection available in the bios, nor any jumpers. Very odd and quite stupid really for an overclocking board. However (facepalm), I forgot to check if the mobo automatically ramps the voltages up with the corresponding increase in fsb. I know that it doesn't …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-30, 10:04

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Go for it! This mobo makes me wish I HAD a Tualatin 1.4. 190mhz x 10.5 = 1995mhz Woohoo! I mean, potentially of course 😊..

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-03-30, 09:47

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What's the newest hardware that would be eligible for posting here? Would anything newer than slot A/ s370/slot 1 be welcome?

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-03-30, 09:38

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Update: Fiddling with the Soyo 7VBA133U last night, I found that it is indeed an uber overclocking monster! The mobo resets the PCI divider at 133, 166 and 200mhz and so on (i.e. PCI dividers of 4,5, 6 etc). Not having seen any 370 mobo able to go over 150mhz before, the possibility of having PCI …

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Re: BOTTLE necks

Posted on 2011-03-23, 07:38

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Well, if you want to get technical, I don't think anybody had a S423 P4 with any amount PC1066 RDRAM, since the latter came out with the 533fsb-capable i850e in mid-2002 and S423 was discontinued in 2001. Good point... the thought never crossed my mine to be honest. Anything from 512mb onwards …

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Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-22, 12:45

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The GF4 is a godly card! My 4600Ti can handle Far Cry, HL2, NFS: MW at 1024x768, DX8 of course, nearly as fast as my 6800GS (in DX9). You lose some features, but its not like the games look like shit in DX8 or anything. It was the G92 of it's day.

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Re: BOTTLE necks

Posted on 2011-03-22, 12:34

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I'm with you on the s423 RDRAM classic P4. Build it as kind of an ultimate year 2000 pc with an overclocked 'willy at 2+ghz, 2gb 1066 RDRAM, raid 0 ATA100/133 and a GF2 Ultra.. woohoo!

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Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI for MAC

Posted on 2011-03-22, 12:31

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Man, prices for these have really gone up, or is it just cause it's off the 'bay?

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