Re: Do you rather buy legacy pc hardware lots or one specific item?

Posted on 2023-12-13, 02:04

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I rarely visit eBay for electronics these days. However, when I buy gadgets locally, the seller will sometimes sense my electronical nerdiness and say something to the effect of "Yo dawg, I've got more stuff in my attic/basement/closet/fridge I think you'll dig. Wanna check it out?" And I'd think to …

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Re: ALL P4: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-20, 05:39

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Right, but remember that the P4/HT lineup included mobile variants of Northwood and Prescott: Pentium 4-M and Mobile Pentium 4, respectively. They weren't desktop-exclusive cores, unlike Smithfield in Pentium D and Prescott-256 in Celeron D, neither of which you'd ever see in a normal laptop. Those …

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Re: ALL P4: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-20, 04:28

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Pretty sure D just means desktop. Back then, Intel had the Pentium M and Celeron M for mobile/laptops; Pentium D and Celeron D for desktops.

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Re: P4 Willamette Core: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-11, 18:45

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DrSwizz wrote on 2023-11-11, 12:43: Here are my best results so far. 3Dmark 2000: 8183 3DMark 2001: 13362 Dude. You sunk my battleship.

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Re: P4 Willamette Core: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-11, 04:47

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The 1.3GHz P4 in my conservatively clocked (1292 MHz) Dimension 8100 obviously wouldn't bring me anywhere near the stars. Fortunately, I found a couple of 478 Willamettes in my drawer of CPUs. My entry: P4 1.6GHz @ 2143 MHz on MSI 845PE Max2 motherboard, 512MB single-channel DDR333 @ 2-2-2-6, eVGA …

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Re: The "Why even bother?" PC - Intel Timna build

Posted on 2023-11-07, 17:21

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I wonder what what it would do with a discreet GPU, seems like the 133MHZ FSB would give it a serious leg up. But then again the memory performance would be a drawback. Just look at the og Xbox. It had a Coppermine Celeron w/ FSB133 and a GeForce 3.5. Course, the Xbox CPU didn't have an IMC, but …

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Re: P4 Willamette Core: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-07, 04:41

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Aww, that's no fun. But a Northwood Celeron would be just as slow (or worse, even) so I guess the bottleneck fetishist with one of those boards could take that route. :P -- Speaking of which, the Willamette and Northwood Celerons are excruciatingly slow in 3DMark 2000. There's just something about …

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Re: P4 Willamette Core: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-07, 00:35

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I believe Asus made a 915 based S478 board. It'd be neat to seat a Willamette in one of those and let 'er rip alongside an RTX 2080 Ti. Somebody already inventoried all these boards - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=50655 . Maybe I'm missing something but I can't see which ones the OP …

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Re: P4 Willamette Core: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-06, 16:31

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Ooh, I may have to dust off the old curbside Dimension 8100 for this. I actually can't remember if it's a 1.3 or a 2.0 - I just remember it being either the slowest or the fastest of S423 when I found it a couple of years ago. :) I believe Asus made a 915 based S478 board. It'd be neat to seat a …

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Re: Heatsink-Fan: 3rd Gen i5 compatible with 4th Gen i7?

Posted on 2023-09-10, 02:47

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The stock i5-3450 cooler will fit atop an i7-4790, but watch out! Intel's typically quite stingy with their stock coolers, and the 4790 can guzzle down a lot more power than the i5-3450. Far more than the 7w TDP difference might lead you to believe. Run anything that uses AVX2 and that 4790 will get …

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Re: Super slocket-iii and Tualatin p3 1.4 SL657

Posted on 2023-08-25, 00:06

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As mmx_91 already stated lower voltage is a bad thing, means more amps - same logic as with EVs. All it will take to answer is a person with scope and one of the failure cases to probe at. I would start with monitoring VTT. And probably more than the Tualatin cores? IIRC copper mine is 1.6 - 1.8v …

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Re: Super slocket-iii and Tualatin p3 1.4 SL657

Posted on 2023-08-23, 16:38

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Screenshot 2023-08-23 at 08.20.05.png I did the mod for generic slotket and BX440 mobo GA-6BXC and have some stats: 1166 PIII-S does not start on 133mhz, 112Mhz stable. 1266/1400 PII-S starting, working, gets stuck under heavy load. 112Mhz stable. Cel 1100, 1200 @ 112Mhz (1.34ghz) works super …

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Re: Super slocket-iii and Tualatin p3 1.4 SL657

Posted on 2023-08-23, 16:21

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Screenshot 2023-08-23 at 08.20.05.png I did the mod for generic slotket and BX440 mobo GA-6BXC and have some stats: 1166 PIII-S does not start on 133mhz, 112Mhz stable. 1266/1400 PII-S starting, working, gets stuck under heavy load. 112Mhz stable. Cel 1100, 1200 @ 112Mhz (1.34ghz) works super …

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

Posted on 2023-08-11, 19:25

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I was helping my mate with some new PC components today and noticed right off the bat that Windows -- the Pro edition, no less -- activated itself as soon as we connected to the net! is this a thing now? Are motherboards aimed at DIYers shipping with Windows licenses baked into the UEFI? The …

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

Posted on 2023-08-10, 22:43

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I was helping my mate with some new PC components today and noticed right off the bat that Windows -- the Pro edition, no less -- activated itself as soon as we connected to the net! is this a thing now? Are motherboards aimed at DIYers shipping with Windows licenses baked into the UEFI? The …

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Re: Trash thrash, quick and derpy, low end socket A ...

Posted on 2023-08-10, 15:35

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I have the PowerColor version of that card, which IIRC looks identical. It's a slow, slow card that even manages to bottleneck the life out of a P2-450. At first, I placed most of the blame on the single pixel pipeline. Later on, when I had the card in an XP machine, I discovered through GPU-Z that …

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Re: Please help get my new PC build to actually work properly.

Posted on 2023-08-07, 03:01

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Apparently, having fTPM enabled in the BIOS can cause stuttering on some AMD systems. Try disabling fTPM, and if that fixes your issue, check if MSI has a BIOS update available for your board.

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Re: Voodoo 3 with P3 933?

Posted on 2023-08-04, 20:14

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Pretty sure I have DirectX 7 on my Voodoo3 machine, since that's the version on my file server. Though, it's definitely possible that a game installer has gone ahead and upgraded it to DX8 along the way. Assuming DX7 though, it seems to work really well. Nice and stable, or as stable as Windows 98 …

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Re: Voodoo 3 with P3 933?

Posted on 2023-08-03, 22:47

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Pretty sure I have DirectX 7 on my Voodoo3 machine, since that's the version on my file server. Though, it's definitely possible that a game installer has gone ahead and upgraded it to DX8 along the way. Assuming DX7 though, it seems to work really well. Nice and stable, or as stable as Windows 98 …

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Re: CRT experience

Posted on 2023-08-03, 02:28

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CRTs were superior to all but the latest best in market LCDs. Try it with an orange windows desktop wallpaper background without any image displayed. It should be a constant colour top to bottom. Not many can manage it though! Any IPS panel worth its salt should be able to pull this off, no? I'm …

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