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

Posted on 2015-06-28, 18:30

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by kithylin

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I just dusted off an old Asus P4B533-E i845 DDR motherboard to see if the Willamette performs as badly with DDR memory as with PC133 memory. My expectation is that the performance will be better but still worse than with RDRAM, that at least what i see when reading old reviews. The system is still …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-28, 18:17

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by kithylin

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I have my athlonXP 3200+ (400 mhz FSB barton core) chip that runs stable @ 2500 something mhz with a 6800 ultra in it. Would you like some results from that as a comparison from "the other side of the fence" to intel about that time? I think the A-XP chips were around northwood chips. I'd have to …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-28, 17:52

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by kithylin

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I have my athlonXP 3200+ (400 mhz FSB barton core) chip that runs stable @ 2500 something mhz with a 6800 ultra in it. Would you like some results from that as a comparison from "the other side of the fence" to intel about that time? I think the A-XP chips were around northwood chips. I'd have to …

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

Posted on 2015-06-28, 17:40

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by kithylin

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Have you ordered yourself a Rosewill RCX-Z100 yet? I can confirm that GOG.com installers work on 3DNOW! and SSE Athlon XP processors. So you can always revert back to that if all else fails. What GPU are you going to pair with the Athlon XP? It would be nice to see you going with something like a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-28, 07:20

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by kithylin

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This arrived a few days ago for my K5/Voodoo machine, I plan on adding some more memory on this. Would this be the correct memory? Also seems to be damn expensive for what it is. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALLIANCE-AS4C256K16E0-50JC-SOJ-40-5V-256Kx16-CMOS-DRAM-EDO-/400870499868?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0& …

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

Posted on 2015-06-27, 09:13

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by kithylin

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This gigabyte board I'm using, I'm using a modern'ish (it's still old.. before we had 80+ standards) Thermal Take TR-2 435 watt power supply, with most of it's power diverted to the +12v side in my 3200+ system and it's running overclocked at 2528 mhz just hunky dory without problems. Could you …

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

Posted on 2015-06-27, 03:41

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by kithylin

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I got the board and cpu for $16 total shipped, so.. why the heck not? My previous Win98se system was a 1.8 ghz Throubhred XP-M mobile chip and the geforce2 ultra. Now it's the XP 3200+ (with a minor overclock to 2.4 ghz) + 6800 ultra card, in nforce2 ultra-400 system. Very nice! I've got a 3200+ …

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

Posted on 2015-06-25, 08:19

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by kithylin

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Today I completed my transition to my "new" win98se gaming platform, the AthlonXP 3200+ machine, installed my voodoo2 in it and removed from the other (old) machine, and planning to play almost all night in diablo2 in win98. XP 3200+ for a Windows 98 SE machine? That's some serious CPU power you …

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

Posted on 2015-06-24, 23:55

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by kithylin

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Today I completed my transition to my "new" win98se gaming platform, the AthlonXP 3200+ machine, installed my voodoo2 in it and removed from the other (old) machine, and planning to play almost all night in diablo2 in win98.

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-24, 20:56

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by kithylin

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some stuff is faster on the p3 probably because of the windows version (7 vs XP) Yes, your system would probably get over 20K in XP. That Yorkfield/Harpertown CPU really needs a better video card though. Speaking of. Here's what a slightly faster 771 12MB harpertown cpu can do with some faster GPU …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-21, 01:45

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by kithylin

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Made an offer for a CT1330 and it was accepted: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tested-CT1330A-Rev-3-Sound-Blaster-Pro-ISA-Sound-Card-16-bit-/201369237723?euid=29eb6fc6973f4370a44ac195c6e2ebcf&cp=1&nma=true&si=CFkAemjnwa3RG2nOkxQaxvfnLNM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 (for some …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-20, 20:00

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by kithylin

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Unknown Socket 7 board with Pentium 166: http://imgur.com/YbGLi7Z That looks like a cross between a Tekram P5T30 and a Aopen / Jetway J-656C - IDE connectors are in the same place as on the Jetway and jumper layout is nearly identical to the Tekram. The only difference between it and the Jetway is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-20, 18:25

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by kithylin

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Asus video+sound for PCI+asus mediabus. S3 Vision 868 and Vibra16s (with external yamaha ymf262-m) . Whoa, cool. I just got an Asus board with the Mediabus connector (just a few posts up). I like 'weird' combo cards like those :) Is that what that weird pci combo slot is? I have a socket 7 Acer …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-17, 05:20

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by kithylin

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Um... Am I to take it that it's a good one? =D Seriously, I have NO idea about these things. I would have been happy just to score a decent SB16, let alone with a daughterboard. roland sound hardware have been going for insane prices lately online, like $200+ insane. At least the ISA cards..not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-16, 17:28

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by kithylin

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And got some cheap new batteries in the supermarket. Does anyone have experience with quality differences in the CR2032 batteries? (8 for 85 cents is suspiciously cheap). None of these are rechargeable so it doesn't matter. As long as they say cr2032 go with it. You might want to check em with a …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live CD Help Requested

Posted on 2015-06-15, 00:50

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by kithylin

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KT7AGuy wrote: The disc from akula65 is now online here: Sound Blaster Live! Install Retail Disc Nice! Sharing with others is kind of what vogons is all about. And I like the credit to akula65 too. 😎 😀

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2015-06-14, 17:18

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by kithylin

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blank001 wrote: Why are they called 90 degree angle sockets? Probably because they sit at a 90-degree angle on the PCB, that is the memory modules installed lay sideways and flat against the PCB instead of standing straight up.

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

Posted on 2015-06-14, 08:54

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by kithylin

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Figured out why this P4 system is having random shutdowns and freezes. The owners replaced the old dead PSU with a 585W Orion unit. That is just the model name to fool people, it is really a much lower wattage unit and offers a measly 15amps on the 12v rail. It even has a 6 pin pcie connector on it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-14, 08:53

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by kithylin

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IMAG0199.JPG IMAG0193.JPG IMAG0192.JPG IMAG0191.JPG IMAG0194.JPG Got this baby, a Z180PC. Been playing with dos terminal programs connected to my daily driver Linux box via null-modem cable using a its irc clients. That pop-up drive is adorable! It's perfect for sitting your coffee on while waiting …

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2015-06-13, 18:03

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by kithylin

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Also he didn't give me a time frame or any ETA or anything. So I just kinda sit back and wait for some sort of response some day. So just so you all know, when he sends me something, I'll post here.

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