Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-03-06, 20:15

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I though that I should see if those reviews back in 2001 was correct when they found the VIA KT266A chipset to be about 5% faster than the AMD 760 chipset. I'm not going to do a serious chipset comparison now, that will come later after I finally have managed to do all the CPU scaling tests. This is …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-03-06, 16:28

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back on topic - I highly recommend the A7V880 (despite my general dislike for Asus mainboards). It's a great motherboard and should be relatively easy to find. The Abit KT880 is better but they are notoriously hard to come by since people who bought Abit usually went for nforce 2 boards... …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2017-03-05, 20:54

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Here comes my first Socket A score. It's funny that this system with an AMD 760 chipset (released in October 2000) motherboard sporting a 2133 MHz Athlon XP-M 2800+ running at a 133 Mz FSB with 1GB single channal DRR266 memory which isn't even interleaved is the fastest non overclocked period …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-03-05, 20:10

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Here comes some benchmark results for my other AMD 760 chipset motherboard, the Abit KG7. I have to say that for a chipset released in October 2000 the AMD 760 chipset has really good performance, in my testing at least. I read some VIA KT266A chipset reviews from September - October 2001 and the …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-03-04, 16:47

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Probably won't work. PSUs have a minimum load, especially on the 12v rail for newer ones. I have an AX760i in my main machine. Very nice PSUs made by Flextronics (the AX non-I series is made by Seasonic and the I series is made by Flextronics, both high quality). Or at least be prepared to load …

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Re: Athlon 64 or Athlon XP?

Posted on 2017-03-04, 16:17

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Pretty sure a GF 8800 GTX with Core 2 Extreme QX6700 OC'ed with 4GB RAM rig can do CoD 2 full details (all have been released before January 1 2007 ;)). Perhaps like in this linked thread! :D The performance numbers I posted are bad though because of Vista and the CPU was too hot running for a good …

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Re: Need to find this 486 board from within the EU.

Posted on 2017-03-03, 22:29

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If Denmark is like Sweden then everything from Russia gets through customs without issues, even rather large packages. In Sweden, Russia and the Ukraine seems to be the only non EU countries it's safe to order stuff from. Even things from Norway always get caught, I think it has to do with volume. …

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Re: Intel DX4-100, Asus PVI-486SP3 desktop system

Posted on 2017-03-03, 19:17

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I added a new addition to this build. Now everyone can stop wondering where that card ended up. Thanks Artex for the tip! This is actually my second one but the other one sits in my 286 MIDI jukebox and i felt this build would benefit from one. Focus on the new addition!.jpg I updated the spec and …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-03-03, 17:52

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Not a dumpster find, but a local listing for free. samsung.jpg Samsung 959NF I just read a review of 19" CRT's from a 2001 magazine and this model (or rather 900NF) was the best of the bunch. It also beat a Sony G420 they used to compare a more expensive model. :blush: I use that exact model, I …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-03-03, 08:07

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Wow you must really like smokers. All I can see in those pics is fine dust, normal for a computer that has been sitting a poorly ventilated but clean house. My stuff doesn't smell like cigarette smoke (except for some of my clothes), and I am a smoker. To get a board to stink (I've come across some …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-03-02, 17:59

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Here are some performance results with the Asus A7M266 AMD 760 chipset motherboard. The CPU used is an unmodified Barton XP-M 2800+, the maximum "PowerNow! multiplier" this CPU can use is 16x. XP-M CPUs POSTs at the 11x multiplier in this motherboard. I did not run an overclocked FSB other than a …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-03-01, 20:57

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I have finished up my testing (for now) of the Asus A7M266 today so I can get back to benching, or at least back to trying to get the ECS Photon AF1 VIA KT600 motherboard to cooperate with the X1950 Pro. Here is a picture of my beat up Asus A7M266. The board has a couple of somewhat dodgy caps in …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-03-01, 16:25

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Do someone here is interested in dual Athlon MP systems? I plan to get a dual Socket 462 board (i found a Tyan Thunder K7XPro S2469 for a good price) someday and a pair of Athlon MPs, also plan to do an Slot A system as well since i don't have any of them Yes I will probably build a dual Socket A …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-28, 21:21

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A small correction. EDIT and a large correction of the correcton and even a correction of the correction of the correction. Also lots and lots of edits to try to make my gibberish understandable. It turned out that I by mistake had installed an Athlon XP 3000+ AXDA3000DKV4E 10.5*200 (I didn't even …

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Re: Help with overdrive choose

Posted on 2017-02-28, 12:27

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The 66 and 100 MHz overdrives will happily run at 50/75 MHz in a 25 MHz motherboard and you are right you need the ODP version if you are using it with an upgrade socket, not the ODPR version. If you want to run the overdrives at 66/100 MHz you need to replace the "tin can" with 50 MHz written on it …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-28, 09:58

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Thanks for the information about motherboards working with the Thunderbird 1000. On "The Internet" most people have heard that this or that will work but as the Slot A Thunderbirds are rare few people seem to know anything for sure. There is not really any hurry when it comes to the benchmarkng as I …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-28, 07:19

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Got one of my 1000s in the same kind of lot for 19$ :D Now good luck finding a MB for it. "Tbirds work on all amd750" is urban legend :P Perhaps it works in this quality motherboard costing 9€ new! :D http://www.computerstunt.nl/onderdeel/1587/moederbord-amd/pcchips-m800lmr-slot-a-moederbord-nieuw- …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-27, 22:40

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Haha didn't buy cause I trusted the description :D GG. When I googled those model numbers and saw that it was a Thunderbird 650 and not an Argon or Pluto I got more interested in the auction as I own a Gold Finger Device. But I also noticed that the Slot A Thunderbird 650 dosn't use much power at …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-27, 21:54

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Not much tinkering today but I got a couple of new CPUs. Two Athlon XP-M 2500+ (1.45V) from France and also a CPU lot including two Slot A CPUs. I have already posted these two pictures in the "Bought this crap thread" but I might aswell post them here too as they are on topic. I won this CPU lot …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-27, 19:31

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I have eaten now, lets do this! Inside the bubble wrap inside of more bubble wrap inside the wrapping-paper inside the paper inside the box we find some aluminium foil Inside the bubble wrap inside of more bubble wrap inside the wrapping-paper inside the paper inside the box we find some aluminium …

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