Re: Pentium 4 Discussion Thread

Posted on 2011-08-16, 17:50

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by ProfessorProfessorson

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Frist of all there nothing wrong with Prescotts and the best thing in world to do is to just turning HyperThreading OFF and used a good aftermarket heatsinker heck even to days late's Core i7 run hot with HyperThreading ON as much 10/5 degree higher. That's 2 pound block of copper core sliderider. …

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Re: Pentium 4 Discussion Thread

Posted on 2011-08-16, 12:42

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by ProfessorProfessorson

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First point for discussion- I find it pretty strange that most retro builders stick to P3/ Athlon builds for circa 2000-2002 machines. Given that the original s423 was launched in Nov 2000 and ran until Jul'01 and the Willamette s478s were out in Aug 01, that makes them congruent with the same …

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Re: New rigs! (first ones of a bunch)

Posted on 2011-08-16, 07:34

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by ProfessorProfessorson

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Yeah Quake Wars is pretty good, though I hate that your Xp resets after campaigns. Part of the joy of Wolf ET was the fact that most servers saved your XP forever, so I thought it was pretty screwed up that they started doing Xp resets. Kinda made earning xp pointless. That is my only real issue …

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Re: New rigs! (first ones of a bunch)

Posted on 2011-08-16, 07:25

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The only ones who play on the comps here are me and my kids, and my nephews when they visit. I used to host Shogo matches a few years back for people from another forum that would jump on for a few matches. Other then that most of my online play has revolved around Wolfenstein ET, Split Second, …

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Re: New rigs! (first ones of a bunch)

Posted on 2011-08-16, 01:16

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Good work man. Looks nice and solid in there.

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-15, 16:11

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by ProfessorProfessorson

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Anyway, I've now installed 2x128MB SDRAM modules :D There is some strange thing going on with the timings though: every now and then on a cold boot the BIOS automatically reverts to CAS3 setting. When I manually change it back to CAS2 it boots just fine and is also completely stable (Memtest86+ …

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-15, 15:27

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Yeah I was gonna say, there is 400fsb Northwoods clocked at 3ghz. I see them pop up on ebay now and then for around 50-80 bucks or so. http://cgi.ebay.com/Pentium-4-P4-3-0-3-0Ghz-5 … =item27bcbbc599

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-15, 10:12

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but there was also a Coppermine 1133 made, though it was barely any faster (never saw one in the flesh btw). I remember the Coppermine 1133 mess. When I started going on different hardware forums a lot back in early 2002 or so they were still talking about that flop of a cpu and its stability …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2011-08-15, 02:06

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While I admire your new additions to your collection, what I admire far more is that massive collection of Taco Bell hot sauce packets you have carefully safe guarded behind Top Gun and the such. In fact, I think the games in the pics are meant to just distract would be looters from spotting the …

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-14, 21:25

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I think I have a couple Pentium III 1000 MHz Coppermine cpus tucked away in a small box in my parts closet. I could never really find a use for them.

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-14, 02:58

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by ProfessorProfessorson

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I'm using 430TX chipset with PC66 memory, what is your AMD K6 running on? I'm using the EPoX EP-MVP3G2 in my K6-3 system. It uses the Via Apollo chipset. It boasted a fairly modernized (at the time) feature set, like AGP and ATA66. You cpu marks are clearly high, so it could be just that your board …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2011-08-12, 06:29

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Picked up Age of wonders and Dark Reign today. It was only a buck for both of them, so couldn't resist.

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-11, 19:30

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Received the AMD K6-III+ CPU today! Installed it, switched voltage and multiplier jumper, turned PC on and... BOOM... works like a charm ! :D Running @ 450Mhz (6 x 75) Here are some benches with the new CPU (also upgraded RAM to 4x32MB): 3DBench2: 324,9 PCPBench: 42,5 3DMark 99 MAX: 2699 3DMarks & …

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Re: What old game would you like to see remade?

Posted on 2011-08-11, 02:37

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by ProfessorProfessorson

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Mega Race, Blood, and Shogo.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-08-10, 22:53

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by ProfessorProfessorson

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luckybob wrote: What i've done is take the FSB, Multiplier and cpu voltage jumpers and wire switches to them and put them on the FRONT of the case. This makes for stupid fast overclocking and testing. That sir, is a truly badass idea. Wish I had thought of it.

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Re: Your first high performance pc.

Posted on 2011-08-10, 13:09

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Yeah the HD 3800 and 4800 line, and 4770 are all pretty solid even to this day. My son uses a HD 4830 and my daughter a HD 3850, and there is no complaints on either end. Rock solid cards. The GF 8 line was awesome too. I love my 8800 GTS Sli system, still handles anything out currently pretty well …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-08-10, 10:37

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Tetrium wrote: Also some PSU manufacturers state they have 2 separate rails, when in fact they don't. PSU's can be messy when it comes to finding out what exactly they are When in doubt, buy a 1000 watt. 😜

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-10, 00:30

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I have both a Slot A 900 and 850mhz that work in mine, along with a 700mhz. I had a friend in Texas nab me the 900 and 850 for a few bucks each at a computer shop like a year ago. Id prob be willing to part with one or the other in a parts trade or something if a deal came up. Actually prob be …

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-09, 23:35

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Same here. Like almost every other AMD CPU the K6 series is behind to no end. But in the end it's not as fast as the Pentium 2 and you can get those cheaper most of the time. So why the hell bother? The K6-III looks like it does well in synthetic benchmarks but falls behind in actual games where …

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Re: My recently pimped and now _finished_ Socket7 project (with pics!)

Posted on 2011-08-09, 11:11

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I still have yet to produce any error messages on my K6-3 build myself. Have a list of games that do that specifically on hand by chance? If its just really old stuff from 91 or prior, wont matter much to me anyway, because I would run that stuff on either my Pentium 1 or K6 166 instead. It's just …

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