Re: Memory compatibility for Intel PR440FX dual Pentium Pro motherboard

Posted on 2021-07-28, 17:04

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This Samsung 128mb module works in my PR440FX. I also have a Siemens one with similar layout that also works. I have 4x 256mb IBM modules that I bought for this borad but I haven't tested them yet and I have no clue where they are. The pics were taken with a phone in bad light and also got …

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Re: Educate me on XT-IDE or other IDE controller with Bios options.

Posted on 2021-05-21, 19:36

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This exellent Youtube video could probably help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofZLDAOmZYU

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Re: Asus P2B & Compatible P3 1.4Ghz slotket

Posted on 2021-05-14, 14:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This thread is relevant. MS6905 "Master" Slotket Adaptor + Tualatin?

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

Posted on 2021-02-24, 19:07

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in Milliways

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Some time ago I found a pre-built Asus system with an Haswell i7 4770S CPU. The i7 4770S is a 3.1 GHz CPU with a max all core turbo limit of 3.5 GHZ if you stay below it's 65W TDP-rating. A Haswell i7 @3.5 GHz is fast enough for most tasks but I wanted to see if I could persuade this 4770S to run a …

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Re: PAT48SA-1.30 Motherboard (Skyscraper???)

Posted on 2021-01-29, 16:03

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have not done much with the PAT48SA-1.30 motherboard or the rest of that system after I removed the battery and the corrosion it had caused. At the moment the system is probably in some pile of systems somewhere in storage. I'm looking for a new (larger) home at the moment so I can get stuff …

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Re: Best LGA 775 Motherboard with AGP and DDR400?

Posted on 2021-01-23, 20:47

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Did some more testing with the Asus P5PE-VM and the Russian modded BIOS. The first memory modules I tested were 2x1GB Infineon BE5, these caused 3d corruption in 3dmark2001 Draconic at 200+ MHz FSB using the 1:1 memory divider. The second memory pair I tried, also Infineon BE5 (Corsair cmx1024- …

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Re: Best LGA 775 Motherboard with AGP and DDR400?

Posted on 2021-01-23, 18:42

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wish someone would mod the P5PE-VM BIOS (it's not just as simple as adding microcode).... Hello all, new user / first time poster here. As it turns out, I was able to find a modded BIOS for the P5PE-VM. It was done by some Russian modder, so I translated his notes to English, cleaned them up a …

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

Posted on 2021-01-19, 17:13

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

(Not today but very recently) I replaced a bad cap on an Asus P4P800 motherboard I found in a dumpster find. Asus P4P800 with a bad cap.jpg The 1500uf 6.3V cap was just a rotten as it looked. I repaced it with a cheap (low ESR) Panasonic FR series cap. I will use these wherever I think I can get …

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

Posted on 2021-01-17, 13:14

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In December I bought an Asus P4T-E i850 Socket 478 rdram motherboard from the UK for £10 + £12 shipping. With all the Corona and Brexit releted stuff going on the shipping took longer than usual but I finally got the board 10 days ago. The board diddn't come with a chipset heatsink and one of the …

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Re: Diferrence between revisions of Corsair XMS CMX-512?

Posted on 2021-01-14, 19:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is there any physical diferrence between these two dimm`s from first picture? I just bought pair of dimm`s from second pic with different label. And i wonder what is the best method to remove these scratches, maybe masking tape and glossy spray paint will be enough? The first pair uses Winbond ( …

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 17:39

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Focus on ESR. This is most important part as this indicates how capable the capacitor is to source sufficient current during short time transits spikes. Capacity of uF determines storage long enough to bridge largest voltage dips. But too much capacity of too few takes too long to react due to …

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 10:07

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The MSI /Fujitsu board with one visually bad cap by the AGP slot. MSI 845 Ultra (fujitsu version) with a bad cap by the AGP-slot.jpg The visually bad cap was really bad but I desoldered a few more of the same type and they all seemed fine, back on the board they went! Bad cap.jpg In this case I …

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 09:57

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I built a fast year 2001 system that I will use in a future project. Ths system consists of Asus A7V266-E motherboard (KT266A September 2001) Palomino Athlon 1800+ @1800 MHz (October 2001) Geforce 3 Ti 500 (October 2001) Era correct memory, storage and case. A somewhat newer Seasonic PSU from 2005 …

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Re: Asus rampage extreme 775 worth it?

Posted on 2021-01-10, 09:01

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never understood why you would overclock and older system vs putting together a newer system that would do a better job without needing to be overclocked. As older components continue to fail overclocking just further increases the rarity even more. As far as the board is concerned, because I …

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

Posted on 2020-12-24, 01:29

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I built a fast year 2001 system that I will use in a future project. Ths system consists of Asus A7V266-E motherboard (KT266A September 2001) Palomino Athlon 1800+ @1800 MHz (October 2001) Geforce 3 Ti 500 (October 2001) Era correct memory, storage and case. A somewhat newer Seasonic PSU from 2005 ( …

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Re: PC100 M747 - The bane of my existence

Posted on 2020-11-29, 12:50

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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This is how well the PC Chips M577 can perform 😀 K6-3+ 6x100 PC Chips M577 Via MVP3 256MB PCI S3 Trio64V+ 2MB Filename S600MVP3.jpg File size 171.17 KiB Views 2310 views Quake: 93.0 FPS Doom: 90.97 FPS (2134 gametics in 821 realtics) 3dbench2: 319.5 FPS PCPbench: 179.7 FPS Some PC-Chips boards are …

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Re: PC100 M747 - The bane of my existence

Posted on 2020-11-28, 10:45

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So what's waiting me, problems? I could take also one more Super7 board, also noname, but it has directly MVP3 chipset on it. Should I take also this one, or this PCChips M577 board is decent one MVP3, and it is not much more worse than other MVP3 based board? Can I use it regulary as retro build …

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Re: Pentium III Coppermine 700MHz - 1 GHz voltage question

Posted on 2020-04-02, 11:02

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello guys, I have what I consider to be a very nice 440BX board (MSI MS-6163 ver 1.0), which is probably as close as it gets to perfection for Pentium 2 Deschutes / Pentium 3 Katmai CPUs. Now, since the board supports FSB frequencies up to 150 MHz (I'm actually running a Pentium 2 350 MHz CPU @ …

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Re: AMD 760 and KT133A release date evidence (2000 or 2001?)

Posted on 2020-03-09, 11:46

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I did look into this at some point. This is a copy paste from what I wrote in another thread. " The only AMD 760 boards you could get your hands on in year 2000 were AMDs own Corona EVT8 board and Asus A7M266 and the Asus is a maybe. The legend is something like this. The issue was that there was a …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2019-12-06, 17:40

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I think he has a lot of room on the table for more FPS. If he switched to a dual core and less ram (2 sticks) he could get a much higher overclock out of that x38 board. There is also faster ram out there too. And that is on top of switching from windows 10 to XP. Yea but the challange with …

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