Re: dual tualatin motherboard

Posted on 2011-07-11, 14:57

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These boards are junk, I've had 2 of them (both dead), and they are plagued by bad .tw cap disease. also.. if anyone is thinking they can OC these boards well.. WRONG.. the dual CPU action will limit your FSB.. i could never get over 140 FSB stable.. and remember, the via chipset isnt really using …

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Re: dual tualatin motherboard

Posted on 2011-07-11, 00:28

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That looks like a really good board if you can get it cheap. I'd like to see that benched against the Aopen DX34R-U that I'm getting soon (for pocket change), but this board would probably beat it off the mark with 2x the ram (if you plan on using an OS that can support that much) and a much newer …

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Re: Game demos that were not like there retail releases?

Posted on 2011-07-09, 02:17

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I'm not sure if this counts but the Age of Empires: Rise of Rome demo campaigns weren't in the retail version (and frankly I found them to be more fun to play than the retail's campaigns).

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Re: Zenith Data Systems Z-400+

Posted on 2011-07-09, 02:12

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Thanks for the suggestions. I'm in the process of cleaning up the board, and hunting for that ZDS configuration disk. I did have the video memory in it, but pulled it due to it not working anyway. No major loss if I can't get it to work, this is strictly a nostalgia build.

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Re: Zenith Data Systems Z-400+

Posted on 2011-07-08, 17:01

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I forgot to mention that the onboard video card isn't working properly so I had to make do with a weak ISA card (the only one I can seem to find). http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6137/z400p05.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us The rest of the stats are: DX33 Intel CPU 4MB of RAM The pictured …

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Zenith Data Systems Z-400+

Posted on 2011-07-08, 16:42

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Has anyone here ever messed with these machines? I used to use 'em all the time and now I have decided to ressurect one with limited success. I never changed the hardware in them in the past which is why I was quite surprised to discover just bad they were for being proprietary. The BIOS is nothing …

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Re: Bill gates windows 95 doom advert.

Posted on 2011-07-07, 01:07

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Hehe, I have an MPG of that video stored on my hard drive somewhere. I always thought that advert was a complete joke. Talking about how much _faster_ that DOS games would run under WinDoZe 95 than under native DOS. BAH! Do some framerate tests, Billy G... *I* did! And in the end, Windows 95 turned …

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Re: VA-503+ Super 7 build

Posted on 2011-07-06, 02:08

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Thanks for the advice, looks like you have a similar system but with better chipset (probably anyway... I've never messed with that one) and sound hardware. In light of that I would like to add that I gave up on the Sound Blaster Live! card and switched to a Yamaha XG PCI (took out all ISA cards too …

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Re: If you had to choose....

Posted on 2011-07-04, 22:20

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Never enough... ever... I always want MORE!!!! (Yes, I am greedy, and I approve this message). Edit: A few systems that I want (for too many purposes to list) are in my signature.

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Re: I'm confused.... :s-face:

Posted on 2011-07-03, 16:23

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Iirc the earlier ones were damaged FPUs but the newer ones were disabled.

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Re: I'm confused.... :s-face:

Posted on 2011-07-03, 15:02

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Just curious, what are the speeds of the two chips?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-06-30, 01:26

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Were any Tualatin DDR boards ever actually made? If there was, did they have any performance benefit? There were a few... I know Iwill, Shuttle, Chaintech and PCChips made some, I think MSI and Aopen as well, and there may be others. But they were matched and sometimes even outperformed by good …

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Re: AFCM (age, first computer, milestones)

Posted on 2011-06-28, 02:15

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1. 25 2. IBM 5160 with green monochrome screen 3. There are so many! For example: Getting Need for Speed: High Stakes to run on a 486 DX2 (I can't remember if it was a 66 or 80 MHz chip) Cyrix. Building my first PC (Athlon XP 2100+ irc, which ran very cool considering it's reputation). Seeing just …

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Re: VA-503+ Super 7 build

Posted on 2011-06-27, 00:25

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EDIT: The CPU used was the on in the OP, AMD K6-2E+ 570. Also I added fans and so far I'm only pushing the voltage to 2.1 (stock is 2.0). And I can't yet get the 124MHZ setting to boot past the Video bios screen. How's your PCI bus doing at 124Mhz? It's unfortunate only SiS-530 supports 1/4 PCI …

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Re: VA-503+ Super 7 build

Posted on 2011-06-25, 22:23

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I like to share my mistakes for the main purpose of a laugh and also for the lesser important purpose of (hopefully) preventing anyone else from making the same mistake.

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Re: Intel vs AMD? Or should I say Intel and AMD?

Posted on 2011-06-25, 22:13

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my main system is a dual socket F. I love my dual quad core amd. My main system was a dual socket F for a while too, and I just got it back up and running... maybe I'll post that story some time. What motherboard/processor did you have set up? Mine was the Asus L1N64 with dual FX-74 chips (back …

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Re: VA-503+ Super 7 build

Posted on 2011-06-25, 04:23

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Right about now I'm facepalming myself. I posted that the results were CPUZ in the benchmarks when they infact were CPU Mark 99 . I originally had planned to use CPUZ, but then changed my mind at the last minute and forgot to change the text. :oops: Anyway, I tested the system with different RAM …

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Re: Intel vs AMD? Or should I say Intel and AMD?

Posted on 2011-06-24, 17:20

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I made this as a spin-off from this topic: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=28982 What are you guys current rigs? Is it Intel? Or did you pick and AMD? What are the current advantages of either platforms? Is Intel still the more expensive one? And what about future upgradeability? Is Intel …

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Re: Floppy machine

Posted on 2011-06-21, 00:26

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Jaz drives aren't optical, they're rigid platter drives. Of course you are correct there, my friend. I was thinking of the ZIP CD drives for some reason. But I still don't consider a platter disk a "floppy". (Thank you for the correction). And don't forget the syquest SkyJet drives. In fact I did …

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Re: Floppy machine

Posted on 2011-06-20, 14:28

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I wouldn't trust the data on such overformatted floppy disks too much though, they may become unreadable sooner then usual. Still a nice solution of all you need them for is file transfer (even though I think there are better alternatives, like using compact flash IDE to transfer files quickly and …

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