Re: Slowing a P2 on 440LX: 120/60MHz, 100/50MHz possible?

Posted on 2009-07-07, 08:51

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by gerwin

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Interesting idea. I cannot test this either, as I do not have any 440LX board. This topic seems to be using an 440LX, but they cannot get very low with this board. I can go slower with a 440BX. Computing.net The 180MHz Vista PC . The "XP on a 8MHz PC with 20MB of RAM" topic they link to is also a …

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Re: An old, but still very sore, place, left over from years ago, and Swaaye mentioned it . .

Posted on 2009-07-04, 23:23

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by gerwin

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My own experience with a 440BX was terrible. I had trouble with every kind of video card and audio card that I tried in mine (P2/400) That is surprising. Since the 440BX is about the most famous mainboard in the 1998-2000 period, and videocards from that era should therefore be thoroughly tested to …

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Re: A question about speed

Posted on 2009-07-04, 12:02

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by gerwin

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The following games seem to give me speed related issues, as they run too fast on a Pentium III: Chaos Engine (Bitmap Brothers) Death Track (Activision) Quarantine (Gametek) FirePower (Silent software) Theme Park (Bullfrog) Then Alien carnage/Halloween harry had the well known runtime 200 system …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2009-07-03, 15:03

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by gerwin

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I'm very interested in your further testing, especially if there is a "hanging" note problem on the WB header. But the big question is... why wouldn't this board have been brought up before on Vogons? Kinda makes me think something is fishy about it... or it just slipped through everyone's radar. …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2009-07-02, 23:03

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by gerwin

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You guys just cannot resist bringing up Creative Labs hardware in my own Clone-Only topic. ;) But now here comes something else to consider, because it seems the CMI8330 is for real! I only just started testing the thing. But so far it does what I hoped it would: -SB+SBPro compatible -SB16 …

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Re: A MONSTER arrives... HELP (me build a DOS box!)

Posted on 2009-06-30, 17:33

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by gerwin

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You mean like the Ensoniq Soundscape or Terratec Maestro, for example? Does that mean more than 90% success rate? And what about their FM quality? I'd like to compare them all if i can. Compare them All!? do you have any idea how many were made! that would be a very long list... :lol: Just kidding, …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2009-06-30, 14:23

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by gerwin

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I've used a SE440BX before but I don't recall the BIOS settings. The manuals tell you everything though. SR440BX appears to have configurable FSB 66/100 (choose end CPU speed matching your multi). Nah, as I understand it detects the status of pin B21 of the CPU card and sets the FSB accordingly to …

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Re: A MONSTER arrives... HELP (me build a DOS box!)

Posted on 2009-06-30, 12:41

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by gerwin

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That multiplier limited P-II system can potentially give you 133MHz to 400MHz (with L2 cache disabled below 200MHz). But few mainboards have the 1.5x multiplier option. correction: a 2.0x multiplier is sufficient for 133MHz. Now i'm thinking again about putting in an original SB Pro (CT1330). I'm …

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Re: Underclocking Pentiums?

Posted on 2009-06-29, 22:01

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CPU-Z Lowest Frequency Reached : * Nº 1 : viili reached 8.18 MHz with an AMD K5 (0.0 µm) MB : Asus P/I-P55TVP4 (Intel i430VX rev 02) - RAM : 32 MB * Nº 2 : Szpecu(ocsystems.org) reached 10.19 MHz with an Intel Pentium (0.35 µm) MB : ALADDIN5 (ALI Aladdin 5 rev 04) - RAM : 256 MB * Nº 3 : trodas …

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Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI 4MB vs Diamond Stealth32...Head on..

Posted on 2009-06-29, 21:22

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by gerwin

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In that older thread there is also this measurement of mine: PCPBench benchmark System: Soyo 440BX; Pentium-III-S 1000/105MHz; 512MB Ram, FASTVID set to enable 'linear frame buffer write combining: Geforce 4 MX440, 64MB 128-bit DDR: 135.0 fps Geforce 4 MX440, 64MB 64-bit DDR: 134.0 fps So these …

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Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI 4MB vs Diamond Stealth32...Head on..

Posted on 2009-06-29, 21:07

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by gerwin

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I remember this thread, were it seemed quite troublesome to get a rating on Dos Vesa Video performance, because there are a lot of different configuration aspects to consider: Most demanding DOS game, resource wise? In Dos, I mess mostly with soundcards, because they have so much issues. Since they …

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Re: PIII, Athlon mobo w ISA slot remommendation

Posted on 2009-06-29, 17:35

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by gerwin

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Asus it is than. One thing though, few posts on this forum mention some kind of adapter for tualatin cpu. Can this be used here with 1.2ghz celeron on cubx?. Yes, I don't see any reason why it would not work. But you don't need any of the common slot-1 adapters, you need the (more rare) socket 370 …

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Re: A MONSTER arrives... HELP (me build a DOS box!)

Posted on 2009-06-29, 15:59

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by gerwin

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Welcome archsan. That is some nice hardware you are gathering. 1. Just to confirm--when i have this setup completed, i'd get all of these, right? Roland LA, GM, GS / AdLib/SoundBlaster / SB Pro 8-bit stereo (with MX300) FM/OPL-3 / SB-16 / SB-AWE / WSS & DirectSound / A3D well.. most of it should be …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2009-06-29, 14:21

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by gerwin

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These CPU card boards sure are interesting toys. :) I have been searching around for info on the intel 440BX boards, and came up with this: Intel SE440BX Intel's max CPU support: Pentium III 450 MHz Intel SE440BX-2 Intel: The following board revisions (AA numbers) support coppermine processors: …

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Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI vs Vortex2 w/DB60XG daughterboard?

Posted on 2009-06-28, 11:44

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by gerwin

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I will try to explain. In real Dos the Vortex-2 can be in three states: 1) Idle, no driver loaded after boot. The line out connector gives no sound regardless of any signals that are received by its line-in, aux-in etc... 2) Activated and emulating SBPro, the driver has been loaded after boot. The …

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 BOXED fail

Posted on 2009-06-27, 17:54

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by gerwin

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Ebay search "Dell tb400 -3355" gives some more options. Here is an illustration showing the similarity of the Turtle Beach Vortex boards, tricky ain't it?:

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Re: What was your favorite Joystick?

Posted on 2009-06-27, 15:58

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by gerwin

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I have one old but practical Quickshot Joystick, it is an analog gameport joystick with two buttons. Later I chose me a MS Sidewinder Precision Pro, which I am quite happy with. That would be a digital joystick with a gameport interface and an USB adapter.

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2009-06-27, 13:26

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by gerwin

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That sounds good, thank you swaaye. Indeed certain slotkets can help to set 66 or 100MHz FSB regardless, but then you have to use a S370 CPU. I also found the following line in the SR440BX bios update release notes: "Added processor speed selection capability for engineering sample processors." The …

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 BOXED fail

Posted on 2009-06-27, 12:03

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by gerwin

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I don't think MX300 is anything really exceptional. I wouldn't hesitate to look at other cards, especially from Turtle Beach. I have a Turtle Beach A3DXStream Vortex1 from Dell that's nice. That SB PCI 512 might actually be a nice card. It has better MIDI than a Vortex, that's for sure. And its DOS …

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Re: Diamond monster sound mx300 BOXED fail

Posted on 2009-06-26, 15:19

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by gerwin

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I've been looking for Vortex2 cards myself, and was reluctant to buy any of the clone cards These Dell / Turtle beach cards are just as much a clone as the Monster Sound. I have one Retail Turtle Beach Vortex 2 card (Montego II), and one Dell card. The hardware of these two is exactly the same. And …

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