Re: Let's tinker with pre Core 2 Duo Windows XP era platforms

Posted on 2013-12-07, 15:34

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SSE??? whats that, who needs Super Sux Enhancements. I dont really know but I bet some programs benefit from it otherwise it would have been a waste designing SSE in the first place. Is there a cap missing next to the memory slots on the DFI board? I hope not but you are getting close. I have …

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Re: Let's tinker with pre Core 2 Duo Windows XP era platforms

Posted on 2013-12-07, 15:08

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That's easy.. the board has no ATX power plug :D Yes that is one of the two things wrong with the board. How do you manage to damage a board like that? Is there people stupid enough to just grab the cables and pull for all its worth? Is that a DFI? that thing makes me slobber. i cannot help it. …

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Re: Let's tinker with pre Core 2 Duo Windows XP era platforms

Posted on 2013-12-07, 13:45

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I will start with playing around a bit with Socket 754. This is the motherboard I will not use. I bought it on Ebay "Tested OK". The image was too small for me to get a good look. Never trust Ebay sellers... Can you find the two faults with this motherboard ? :) (Its not the "cooler mounting cage" …

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Re: Let's tinker with pre Core 2 Duo Windows XP era platforms

Posted on 2013-12-07, 13:28

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Reserved for conclusions, benchmark summarys and the like Someone suggested a performance comparison between diffrent K7 and K8 cores so I will make a list with SuperPi 1m times @~2.4 ghz. I will also make a SuperPi 1m top list. and a 3dmark 2001 toplist. Something about rules were also mentioned …

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Let's tinker with pre Core 2 Duo Windows XP era platforms

Posted on 2013-12-07, 13:26

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The thread "Athlon XP really retro?" started a few discussions about platforms from ~2002 to ~2005 (Pre Core 2 Duo) These platforms dosnt get as much attention as older platforms since newer computers can handla most of the games and programs from the Windows XP era just fine. Are these platforms …

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Re: fastest 98ish era laptop with flopyp drive?

Posted on 2013-12-05, 22:52

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This is laptop from that era I use... or used since it rarely gets used these days. There are Windows 98 drivers but I have Windows XP installed. Compaq n410c Pentium 3 m 1.2 ghz 12" 1024*768 ATI Mobility Radeon 1.5 kg 256mb memory 30gb hdd I have 1gb memory in mine but for windows 98 512mb would be …

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Re: Dumpster diving!

Posted on 2013-12-05, 21:54

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That ETEQ chipset is a fast or faster than in intel VX memory performance wise? Where do you get to dumpster dive? i myself go diving in the dumpster of the company i work for. I find sometime some nice 486 systems and many socket 7 but all brand like gateway dell etc so no clone motherboards. Last …

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Re: Dumpster diving!

Posted on 2013-12-05, 19:09

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On the topic of dumpster diving Im in love with one of my latest finds I found a Fujitsu Siemens laptop. Old but in good shape from the looks of it. It turned out to be an Amilo a1630 from 2004. No powerbrick and it used a 4pin! dc-plug so I diddnt have one that fits. It turned out it needed 20v 8A …

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Re: Dumpster diving!

Posted on 2013-12-05, 14:53

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Its not documented on the board or in the manual. edit 83mhz should be JP10 2-3, JP11 1-2, JP12 1-2. The other table was for a Asus board which used the same jumper settings but mirrored 😀 My jumper setting notes are a bit chaotic. /edit

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Re: Dumpster diving!

Posted on 2013-12-05, 14:37

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That Soyo board is great if it is what it looks like. Soyo Sy-5eas VIA VPX chipset but this board is not bad at all. It supports all socket 7 CPUs exept the K6-X+. I guess they could work aswell but I have not tried it. It supports 66, 75 and 83 mhz fsb. 83mhz with 41.5 mhz PCI is totally stable at …

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Re: Athlon XP really retro?

Posted on 2013-12-04, 19:58

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This is no exact science but I see it like this During the winter 2002 - 2003 Intel 845PE and Nforce2 were the fastest platforms Intel gets Canterwood and Pentium 4 with 800 fsb out before AMD releases K8 parts that are not aimed for servers and workstations so the Canterwood platform is without a …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2013-12-04, 17:19

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I own this card. I bought it new for a Pentium 133 if I remember correctly. It must have been late 1996. It looks somewhat simular to yours :) ESS 1868F http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2684/ynfu.jpg I also have this Compaq card but I have no idea where I got it. ESS 1868F http://img21.imageshack.us …

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Re: Athlon XP really retro?

Posted on 2013-12-04, 15:50

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This is all from memory so do not take it as facts. [edit] I just checked the screenshots so its not from memory but do not take it as facts anyhow[/edit] I tested a P4 3.06@3450 and a Athlon XP Barton @2425 mhz The Barton destroys the P4 in 3dmark 2000. When it comes to 3dmark 2001 the Barton wins …

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Re: Athlon XP really retro?

Posted on 2013-12-03, 16:03

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Overclocking is an industry of it's own - darn, I paid ~140$ for my Epox 8rda3+ back then. And it was top grade. Give me the price of a high grade motherboard today, and tell me if it's not only because of those fancy OC features, solid capacitors, shiny heatsinks, etc :) Computers are getting …

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Re: Athlon XP really retro?

Posted on 2013-12-03, 11:58

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Coming back to topic: Someone has experience what the gain from upgrading a KT600 to the KT880 chipset was (except Dual Channel support) ? Here is a shout out between KT880 and Nforce2. Although I dont have any experience with KT880 I have to say the performance look good. http://techreport.com/ …

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Re: The Suitability of the PS/2 for Gaming

Posted on 2013-12-02, 18:46

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My first (x86) PC was a IBM 55SX 386 - 16 mhz 4mb ram 60mb hdd with a nice IBM VGA screen I payed for it with thousands of golf balls. It must have been ~1992 I played lots of games on that machine.

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Re: Favorite old OS

Posted on 2013-12-02, 16:16

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CP/M MS-DOS 6.22 Windows 2000 OS/2 Warp 3.0. I still have the discs 😀

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Re: Athlon XP really retro?

Posted on 2013-12-02, 15:17

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Anything younger than 10 years doesn't feel retro at all. I'd like to see a high end So754 system with a current GPU, lots of ram (too bad there's no DDR2 support) and a fast SSD running Windows 7. But I'm getting offtopic here, so I'll go to the drawing board with that idea ;) I totally agree on …

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Re: The Unreal build.

Posted on 2013-12-01, 13:37

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I think I would manage with those expansion slots. The board I replaced it with has exactly the same layout. 1x Voodoo Banshee or Voodoo 3 PCI 1x Soudblaster AWE64 1x PCI for other uses With the P3 board the ISA slot wont be used but I might put a Soundblaster Audigy in one of the free PCI slots.

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Re: Athlon XP really retro?

Posted on 2013-12-01, 13:17

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that said the idea of retro is different for every person so I can see why it wouldn't be retro for some people, though it makes you wonder at what point will the i5 or i7 machines we use now will become "retro", and there may well be a generation of people more attached to those machines than the …

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