Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2010-10-03, 15:25

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by Tetrium

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Yea it's been bery good so far! Excellent layout. Just like "modern mainboards". Allows for some clean cabling. However I can't find a new BIOS to support the K6-2+ It's here: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm The trouble is getting the correct bios flasher. If the bios is not …

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Re: Powerleap adapter

Posted on 2010-10-01, 00:25

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by Tetrium

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I can do that! Have only tested a few cpus. Where do I donwload it? What version should I use? And is it DOS / is there a boot CD version (linux or something) EDIT: Having second thoughts because I don't remeber super PI being a popular benchmark in the 386/486/Pentium days... Thanks for referring …

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Re: Initial "time machine" benchmark results

Posted on 2010-09-30, 12:24

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by Tetrium

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You can get chips from http://www.cpu-world.com/forum Theres a LOT of trading with old cpu's going on there for very reasonable prices. Bought a lot of chips from there myself 😉 It's excellent for getting larger quantities and getting to pick exactly which ones you want.

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Re: My first computer

Posted on 2010-09-30, 12:20

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by Tetrium

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A real retro rig 😁 Liking the cyrix cpu also, despite it's bad name back in the day

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Re: AMI WinBIOS vs Award BIOS

Posted on 2010-09-26, 21:52

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by Tetrium

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I like the windows bios also. First time I saw it (I never knew it existed!) my jaw dropped to the floor lol! A DOS computer with a windows bios hehe :) I've found I need to browse through a new bios to look for things regardless of make and year. I don't really like Phoenix bios though, they're …

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Re: My first computer

Posted on 2010-09-26, 21:47

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by Tetrium

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You can get those adapters fairly cheap on ebay though. I only use new keyboards with the adapter on AT systems and all work just fine 😉

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Re: looking for a turn based game.

Posted on 2010-09-26, 18:23

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by Tetrium

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Imperialism 2 (if you like turn based historical-like conquest&develop games)

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Re: My olderish games box

Posted on 2010-09-25, 07:07

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by Tetrium

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The board is a nice one. I got the ATX version (GA-5AX). Depending on the revision of the Ali chipset it can cache either 128MB or 256MB (or more if more L2 cache is installed). Your system is wanting a Voodoo or Voodoo 2 😁

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Re: 486 Mainboard check - Need some advice from the Gurus

Posted on 2010-09-25, 06:59

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by Tetrium

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OT said it all. I'd pick the Soyo board. Another plus is it comes with the rarer large cache chips (32 pins instead of 28 😉 )

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2010-09-22, 13:11

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by Tetrium

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Mostly only 50x50mm and 60x50mm will fit. Hope you can get yours to fit

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Re: This 486 board went for 66 euros!

Posted on 2010-09-19, 23:46

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by Tetrium

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What is the issue with this "dallas chip"? It's one of the last 486 boards made but nothing special really, I use to have one...no EDO RAM support...slow PCI performance. Hmm but wouldn't it be a lot better than ISA only boards or VLB boards? It's better then ISA and also better then VLB, the …

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Re: This 486 board went for 66 euros!

Posted on 2010-09-19, 21:02

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by Tetrium

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ux-3 wrote: the dallas chip in that auchtion doesn't look as if in a socket I could check on my boards. How do I tell if the DALLAS is socketed or not? (except by pulling hard 😜 ) Edit: Found this: Replacing the Dallas real time clock on a 486 mobo Seems they are socketed for the newer versions 😉

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Re: Powerleap adapter

Posted on 2010-09-19, 20:59

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by Tetrium

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Crumbling is indeed usually caused by mounting and unmounting a cooler. It doesn't have to mean the cpu is broken, theres an edge of unused die material surrounding the die itself (atleast there is with Athlon XP). I'm not sure if using an extra adapter would make overclocking more susceptible to …

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Re: This 486 board went for 66 euros!

Posted on 2010-09-19, 20:43

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by Tetrium

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I had my eyes on it, but for the time being will play with Socket 7 hardware. I liked that this board had PCI and IDE and FDD on the board. It also looks quite new and has a good chipset. But 66 euros? WOW Anything special about this board? There must be a reason why it fetched such a high price. …

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-19, 16:33

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by Tetrium

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Yea won the auction for the cpus! It's around 30 cpus in total. Works out to 1.7 bucks shipped per CPU :-) Now I just need to get the boards... I love bulk buys. So much cheaper than buying a single cpu. Definately! If someone selling an item I pretty much must have, I'll browse his other items to …

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-18, 11:20

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by Tetrium

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: The Aopen support site is awesome. Jumper tables, Bios, Manual, drivers it's all there! Looking at the jumper list, P54C Pentium 100 seems to be the slowest chip. There are even exotics like Cyrix 6x86 and IDT Winchip... Don't forget the mP6 Rise 😉

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Re: P3 Retro Machine Graphics Voodoo5 5500 vs GF3

Posted on 2010-09-18, 11:19

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by Tetrium

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: There is an urban legend that says GeForce3 can run GLide games. Is that true? I haven't got any chance to prove it. Anyone? Only with a wrapper I suppose

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Re: Hard disk drive grinding

Posted on 2010-09-18, 11:17

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by Tetrium

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If you're worried about spyware, I can suggest you run HijackThis and paste the log file online here: http://www.hijackthis.de/ It's not foolproof but it's a good way to start ;) I'll second that brand doesn't mean anything, got a Kolak running 15 years and it works sooo great man, unbelievable …

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-17, 23:06

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by Tetrium

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: The Aopen and Iwill are from the same seller so I think I will go with these two... Good choice, you'll save on shipping cost. I got an AOpen 59 Pro myself (got it last week, haven't tested yet) but I'm unfamiliar with the IWill. So what's your planned SS7 build gonna be like? 😉 …

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Re: 80 video cards of 1999-2003: 3D benchmarking (ixbtlabs.com)

Posted on 2010-09-17, 21:05

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by Tetrium

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sgt76 wrote: You guys might like this too... http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/retro/retro2003-2.html No Radeon 9600 🙁

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