Re: Stock Intel Socket 478 coolers

Posted on 2021-03-19, 13:31

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I suspect that the models with circular fins are later models as intel used that same design on their stock socket 775 coolers. The best way to figure this out is probably looking at new old stock open box CPUs to see which coolers came in the box. Any collector with a good range of open box P4’s …

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Re: Have anyone actually gotten hardware damaged due to using old PSUs?

Posted on 2021-03-19, 13:19

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Tagan I don't know if this brand even exists anymore, at the time they were supposed to be high quality but I've seen two of them fail. Came with nice braided power cords though. Also had a Corsair fail, and interestingly have never had shitty 300w units fail back when I was using those in the …

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Re: Have anyone actually gotten hardware damaged due to using old PSUs?

Posted on 2021-03-18, 20:11

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I can't remember ever having had a working PSU fail on me or break other components. I have had parts breaking but all of these would usually have a (sometimes clearly) external cause. Having said that, I have had PSUs that were defective when I got them. I always do a visual inspection of any non- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-17, 11:11

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Yesterday, I got an ASUS P/I-P6NP5 rev. 1.41 mainboard with a PPro SL22T and 64 MB of EDO DRAM. It does come with a cooler which has a rather pragmatic approach to power the fan. PentiumPro-ASUS-P6NP5.jpg I do like the retentioning mechanism. PentiumPro-Socket8-Retention.jpg Looks like someone …

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Re: My 3Dfx Collection

Posted on 2021-03-17, 00:46

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Your Voodoo 3 doesn't look like any Voodoo 3 I've seen in the flesh:P

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Re: Fastest AT computer.

Posted on 2021-03-16, 03:52

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-overclocking. The overclocking community has provided a lot of valuable info on old parts. But lets be real, overclocking 20 year old parts is hardly any practical use anyway. the thing is overclocking nowadays is barely any practical use... but back then it was at …

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Re: Fastest AT computer.

Posted on 2021-03-15, 22:34

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I don't remember that episode from South Park :P Btw trying to mock me is just pointless, so don't bother. Just saying. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-overclocking. The overclocking community has provided a lot of valuable info on old parts. But lets be real, overclocking 20 year old parts is …

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Re: Do your old builds have 5.25 floppy drives and ISA cards?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 22:22

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My builds were usually too modern to be using 5 1/4in floppy drives. My most used 'floppy' drives were either 1.44MB or ZIP drives, with some LS-120 and 2.88MB drives in the mix. My old backup PC (Athlon64 3500+) used to have a black-bezeled 2.88MB floppy drive. I have used some ISA cards in the …

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Re: My collections of Matrox video cards

Posted on 2021-03-15, 22:13

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Amazing to have such a matrox collection. though a bit sad, that no additions have been made seven years after http://2cpu.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=hardware&wr_id=26652 . and also sad that OP seems to have flown off to greener pastures. and sad as well that I'm replying to this thread after …

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Re: Quad voodoo 5500 on dual pentium 3 with 8gb of ram..

Posted on 2021-03-15, 04:24

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Sphere478 wrote on 2021-03-15, 02:39: http://captains-workspace.com/?page_id=17 Woah, 😳 I want it! Naaah, I'll just pass on this and wait till I can get a boxed one =) 😜

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Re: "new" (baby) AT based computer... what to choose?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 04:18

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This would get my vote. What exact Cyrix MII do you have? If you have any of the lower voltage ones, then that will give you quite a lot of extra flexibility. Tnx! :D These Cyrixes are here: - IBM 6x86MX pr166, 2x66 2,9v - Cyrix MII 300GP, 3x75, 2,9v I think the second one could turn out to be a …

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Re: Fastest AT computer.

Posted on 2021-03-14, 23:06

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Some P2Bs don't support Coppermine though. I have my doubts about every P2B getting to 133MHz FSB also. I'm reasonably sure the oldest BX boards did not overclock to 133MHz FSB very easily. Are you perhaps referring to some different board like P2B-B (which is the AT version)? Just trying to …

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Re: Fastest AT computer.

Posted on 2021-03-14, 20:41

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BX often makes RAM sticks unstable as a) it is very fast chipset itself , b) it often does not have enough i/o voltage so it is essential to use quality RAM sticks and sometimes loosen timings a bit. 133 MHz is breeze to P2B. Also you don't need Powerleap for Tualatin to work on this board, some …

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Re: AGP to PCI adapters - any PCB designers here willing to make one?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 17:46

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Something like this? 20200624_184104.resized-1024x365.png 20200624_1841042.resized-1024x365.png Even made a bracket for the V5 :) 20200624_183901-1024x665.jpg 20200624_183924-1024x634.jpg I designed it a couple of months ago, AGP 1.0 1x (3.3V only), 4 layer board with uninterrupted ground plane …

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Re: Mothermoard with 4 slot DDR400 slot PCI and 2 core more CPU

Posted on 2021-03-14, 11:50

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Hi everyone, I found 4 Gb (1 x 4) of DDR400 ram and i also having an RX 550 video card, case and ssd. I wanted to create a pc to use for light games.so I'm looking for a motherboard that has at least 4 DDR400 slots, a PCI slot and the ability to use CPU with 2 or more cores. I only found cards …

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Re: "new" (baby) AT based computer... what to choose?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 04:05

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Last week I had some discussion with friends and this is what I have in mind now: Cyrix MII on steroids: see what fsb I can get out of it and give it a pretty load of ram and some AGP graphics. I'll just see what comes out of the box :) This would get my vote. What exact Cyrix MII do you have? If …

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Re: Understanding what usefulness of PII 400 or 450 vs PIII 800?

Posted on 2021-03-12, 22:30

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There was also SL2W8 Deschutes 300/66 that had cache from 450. That was my 450 of choice in late 1998. Then got an SL35D when those came around. But yeah if you are looking for 60 fps in many 1998 and newer games, this isn't the hardware you want. The quote that says about playing 1998 and later is …

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Re: how to recognize how many kb the sram L2 cache chips correspond.

Posted on 2021-03-12, 22:21

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Hi to all, first of all excuse my horrible english. I would know how to recognize the size of the L2 sram chips from numbers and letters writed on it. In general i would know where to find a source of information about settings and combination of sram chips.. the use of the tag ram...etc... Thanks …

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Re: Leadtek Winfast Geforce3 RAM speed types

Posted on 2021-03-11, 22:53

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Sorry for being somewhat off-topic, but I was wondering what your cards look like without their heatsinks unmounted.

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Re: Fastest AT computer.

Posted on 2021-03-11, 09:51

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Yep. PICMG is still a thing and still fits AT form factor. I have a P3-1400S on one, but they are available up to Ryzen/i7/Xeon if desired . Not cheap though. This is blasphemy!!!1 This is madness!!!!1111 xD But it is true. Perhaps it would still be an interesting question to know which consumer- …

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