Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-21, 00:56

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by ncmark

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I have used AWE64 or AWE64 gold in as many computers as I could. I no stranger to setting things up, but I had some Live! PCI cards but could never even get those to work right! I have some sound blaster 16 PCI cards which are okay - but IMHO if you're going to be running DOS games, even if that …

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Re: My First Tualatin System

Posted on 2011-07-21, 00:53

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How is that running? I have several pentium 3 systems but never missed with tualatin - the boards were always a lot harder to come by.

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Re: My Pentium 133 build

Posted on 2011-07-16, 16:48

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I am curious - what CPU cooler is that?

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-16, 16:20

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I am so far behind the times you guys are talking Greek to me! (My last computer build was an Athlon XP)

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Re: dual tualatin motherboard

Posted on 2011-07-11, 12:38

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Yes thanks for the input! But I had pretty much decided not to mess with it anyway. it you're going to go dual processor, I think dual Athlon would be a much better choice.

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-11, 12:36

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k6-2/333? That sounds like it used a 66 MHz bus. I have used them and in my opinion the K6-2's were pretty underpowered.

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-11, 02:31

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My only experience with PCI was a sound blasted 16 PCI. I didn't like it because it chewed up two interrupts - one for windows and one for the dos emulation. I had a real hard time getting DOS games to work and finally said **** this.

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-11, 02:22

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Interesting - are ISA sound cards really going to slow you down that much?

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-11, 02:13

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I see what you are saying. I have used AWE64 and AWE64 gold cards almost exclusively and never really noticed a problem.

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-11, 02:05

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I've always used headphones with my computer so I've never missed multichannel audio 😀

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Re: dual tualatin motherboard

Posted on 2011-07-11, 01:50

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by ncmark

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Well thanks to everyone for the feedback 😀

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Re: dual tualatin motherboard

Posted on 2011-07-11, 00:17

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by ncmark

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Thanks for the input on this 😀 It might be fun to build, but wouldn't really fill a niche for me. I would probably win up using it for Linux, and there are probably better boards for Linux.

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dual tualatin motherboard

Posted on 2011-07-10, 21:22

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I was wondering what you guys think about this motherboard: http://cgi.ebay.com/MSI-Pro266TD-Master-LR-Motherboard-dual-Tualatin-NEW-/260815592029?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D5%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1251653789089760451 Seems liked a nice board - but what would …

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-10, 21:20

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I never never really liked the slot-1 processors (much more limited range of cpu coolers, and much more difficult to swap). K6-2 is really underpowered. All of which was why I was calling this board a "perfect" solution - for me anyway. 😀

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Re: K6-2 Blues

Posted on 2011-07-10, 20:37

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My bad - the 450 is a pentium *3* (so it is Katmai)

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-10, 16:30

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I would have to disagree with you there - I have used PCI soundcards and I do not like them. If you want throw away running any DOS games, maybe. But a PCI sound card has to do an emulation for DOS mode. Nothing but trouble in my opinion.

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2011-07-10, 15:55

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How in the world did you ever get that much stuff? 😀=

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Re: the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-10, 15:50

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Well - I like my AWE64 gold cards - that means a board with an ISA slot, which narrows it down quite a bit.

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Re: K6-2 Blues

Posted on 2011-07-10, 13:32

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If anyone is interested, I did some rendering test with Pov-Ray. On the "biscuit" sample at 640x480: 1. A pentium 3 650 with coppermine core did in in 1 minute 46 seconds 2. A pentium 2 450 with katmai core did it in 2 minutes and 9 seconds 3. A k6-3 450 did it in 3 minutes and 5 seconds

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the perfect unreal/half-life box

Posted on 2011-07-10, 13:01

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I keep trying to build a "perfect" unreal and half-life (and other voodoo games) box. I wanted to go pentium3, but I had some tyan 1854 boards with the apollo pro chipset - and I could never get voodoo cards and awe64 to co-exist. I tried everything, and believe me I do mean everything. My solution …

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