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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-06-22, 17:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've used the BIOS Patcher for a couple of Socket 7 motherboards. The first one worked perfectly, the second one had some sort of issue and I had to do a hot swap BIOS flash and start over again. It worked fine on the second try, though I'm not aware of having done anything differently than I did on …

Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-06-22, 17:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a really cool AT motherboard. Necroware had the advantage of knowing the CPU worked in the board before modifying the BIOS for proper CPU recognition, but with so little information online about your motherboard board I think you're going to have to experiment on your own to know if a faster …

Re: Desktop motherboards for Pentium M

Posted on 2022-06-21, 21:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS which uses the Intel 82855GME Chipset and has an AGP Version 2.0 slot I also have one of these, and as I mentioned on this initial post when I first bought it, I normally will look for an Ebay listing to get an idea of what something is worth but these boards are so …

Re: AGP video card experts, what would you recommend for this system?

Posted on 2022-06-20, 17:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Pentium M has pretty decent IPC, you want the absolute fastest AGP card you can find IMO, which leaves you with GeForce 7800/7900/7950 or Radeon HD3850. It does, but it's a bit limited by this board as it doesn't have dual channel memory, and the memory bus is 166 MHz. I imagine the Asus P4P800 …

Re: AGP video card experts, what would you recommend for this system?

Posted on 2022-06-20, 16:45

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm looking for something more powerful without overshooting the rest of the system and there are two votes for the X1950 Pro. I will update this thread when/if I get one.

AGP video card experts, what would you recommend for this system?

Posted on 2022-06-19, 22:31

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have an AOpen i855GME motherboard (AGP 4X) with a Pentium M 780, two gigs of DDR, and right now it has an X1650 and the 3D Mark 2001 score is around 19,500. Right now I have it running Windows 2000, but I might switch to XP or set it up to dual boot XP. What video card would you use if this were …

Re: DFI K6XV k6xv3+/66 Memory performance is weird

Posted on 2022-06-18, 22:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

USB 2.0 cards are known to really slow down Socket 7 systems. Slow AMD K6-2+ 550 MHz performance?

Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-06-17, 20:22

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Bank interleaving is enabled - using Sandra to check memory bandwidth, there's no difference between using a single 256 DIMM and a pair of 128 DIMMs. I tried both 43.45 and 45.23 with the FX5600 and I used 28.32 and 40.72 with the Ti 4600. I overclocked both to the limits, but the gap remained. My …

Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-06-17, 19:12

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

My system is plateaued between 4,500 to 4,600 points, and I guess it will remain there unless I buy another K6-2+ 570 and win the CPU lottery with a chip that will do 672 MHz. Interestingly, my Quadro 2 Pro score is virtually identical to my score with the Ti 200. One thing I didn't expect; in 3D …

Re: The moment you were hooked

Posted on 2022-06-17, 18:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

I used to play arcade games from 1979 to about 1984 (my favorite was Gravitar) then lost interest until 2000 when my neighbor showed me Jane's WW-2 Fighters on his PC. The moment I saw it, I knew I had to upgrade my PC to be able to play it.

Re: AGP 1.0 vs PCI Graphics

Posted on 2022-06-17, 18:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps I've been lucky, but my Epox MVP3G-M has worked with every AGP card I've tried - Geforce 3 Ti 200, Geforce 4 Ti 4600, ATI 9800 SE, FX 5600, and a Quadro 2 Pro.

Re: Windows 98 drivers for Xcel 2000 (PC Chips 741lmr)

Posted on 2022-06-14, 16:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With my PCChips M930 (SiS 645) when I install Win98 I found that I need the SiS IDE driver (the default one works, but the port does have better bandwidth with the SiS driver), and there's an AGP driver that I install, though I've not done a performance check of before/after to see if it nets me any …

Re: Windows 98 drivers for Xcel 2000 (PC Chips 741lmr)

Posted on 2022-06-14, 04:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It seems that board uses the SiS 620/5595 chipset. PCChips old download page has a LAN driver: https://web.archive.org/web/20061020193316fw_/http://www.pcchipsusa.com/support-discontinued-bios.asp#M741 If you want to use the onboard sound or graphics (assuming it has either) you should be able to …

Re: Split from the recently bought retro hardware. Discussion about Geforce FX5xxxx series.

Posted on 2022-06-14, 03:07

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Testing a 128 bit 256 meg FX 5200 and a 64 bit 128 meg FX 5500 on my TXP4 with a K6-3+ @ 500 MHz I found that they are so CPU bound on this system that there's only a slight difference between the two. The 64 bit FX 5500 actually had the edge in 3D 2000 because it would work with the 44.03 driver …

Re: Asrock dual-sata2 POST problem

Posted on 2022-06-14, 02:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I have a motherboard that has visibly failing capacitors I consider a successful POST to be a good sign, and immediately stop there and put it away until I've replaced the bad capacitors. I'm fairly sure that (way back when) I allowed a motherboard to become irreparably damaged by continuing to …

Re: What video card for an authentic 2009/2010 system?

Posted on 2022-06-12, 02:38

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

You guys all had deeper pockets than I had - I upgraded from a 6800GS (my first ever PCIe video card) to an X1950 Pro in September of 2007, and I didn't upgrade again until I bought a GTS 250 in Jan. 2010.

Re: Can I plug my audigy 2 zs into my front panel mic and headphone port?

Posted on 2022-06-11, 19:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I bought a couple of these some time ago, but I only got around to installing one today and it works fine with an Audigy 2.

Re: Windows 98SE installation

Posted on 2022-06-06, 20:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Norton Ghost 2003 is available for free from The Internet Archive. I like to have a Ghost backup on a hard drive partition as that allows you to go back to how things were in a matter of minutes. This makes it trivially easy to go back to an earlier version of Direct X, roll back to an earlier …

Re: Windows 98SE installation

Posted on 2022-06-06, 16:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is a good guide: Generic Win98SE Installation & Setup Guide My experience with the unofficial service pack for 98 wasn't good, so I'll never bother again. You can get the updates to 2004 with this CD: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … &menustate=50,0

Re: Help cooling down a Pentium 3

Posted on 2022-06-06, 16:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When you have the front fan out, be sure to lubricate the bearing. There are many tutorials on YouTube if you've never done it before. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query= … te+computer+fan

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