Re: Thunderbird 266FSB + ViaKT133 possible?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 10:36

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What a pity! Would be bad that i can't use FSB133 with this KT7 board. The manual of KT7/KT7-Raid/KT7A/KT7A-Raid, it's a manual for all 4 variants of these Abit boards, i've linked previous mail, there is at page 40 shown all the users defined setting. You mean this is valid/available only for the …

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Re: Thunderbird 266FSB + ViaKT133 possible?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 07:08

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Several weeks ago, i've destroyed one Athlon 1000 B cause i forgot the thermal grease. As a replace i've got an Athlon 1333 C with closed L1 bridges. That means, by default you are able to change multi's if the board has the option for. Now my VIA family is these: KT133, KT133A, KT333, KT400 and …

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Thunderbird 266FSB + ViaKT133 possible?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 06:24

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is possible to use a Athlon C (with default FSB133 (266DDR)) on a VIA KT133 mainboard (VT8363 & VT82C686A) ?? The official support by VIA is only 100Mhz front side bus. For memory bus it supports also 133Mhz. If you have a mainboard with good bios Oc settings, for example the Abit KT7 (not the A …

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Re: Best Socket 462 CPU on performance/power request

Posted on 2016-08-09, 22:06

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by melbar

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List of AMD Duron microprocessors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Duron_microprocessors#Duron_.22Morgan.22_.28Model_7.2C_180_nm.29 List of AMD Athlon microprocessors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Athlon_microprocessors List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors https://en.wikipedia. …

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Re: Fun with ASUS TUSL2-C

Posted on 2016-08-08, 18:38

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by melbar

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See already on ebay this board! Seems like the 6th pci slot looks really strange... But it seems this is alright, it looks also smaller in the manual. http://oldschooldaw.com/asus/2001/tusl2c-104.pdf

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Re: Look it's another Piii system.

Posted on 2016-08-08, 12:32

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by melbar

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It has killed your PIII-S 1400? this is not really nice...board dead...CPU dead. By the way, several weeks ago, i've also have "overheaten" a thunderbird CPU (A1000) due to not using thermal paste... forgot that these generation without heatspreader was really sensitive.. Next time let's see how it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-07, 18:47

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by melbar

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I've bought a voodoo 1. But without additional cable. I can use any Male-to-Female VGA cables, which i can get also on amazon or ebay right? There is no special cable with crossing copper cable inside or something...? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GP1895-VGA-Cable-Adaptor-9-Pin-Female-to-HD-15-pin-Male- …

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Re: Build Recommendations for Different Processors

Posted on 2016-08-07, 06:27

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can see at this thread how you can handle with slowing down your machine. It gives you a good overview. (In case that you don't want to build a 386 or/and 486 platform these cache tricks are great...). "Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled" http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t= …

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Re: Build Recommendations for Different Processors

Posted on 2016-08-06, 07:16

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice that you have all these CPU's new out of the box.. I would propose: |------------------------------------------Win98(SE)--------------------------------------------------------| PII Xeon 450 / Athlon 1333 / Duron 1800 / Athlon XP 2700+ / P4 3000 (S478) / Athlon 64 3000+ (S754) …

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Re: Ideal graphics card for Socket 7 setup

Posted on 2016-08-05, 17:32

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by melbar

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I'm already searching on ebay... what is really interesting to see: There are only ATI Rage 128's cards with AGP only available. Are there really PCI version out there?? What are the alternative (cheap) PCI cards, except the voodoo banshee/2/3 PCI cards? Are there some which are faster than a ATI …

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Re: Pentium 133MHz in Socket 5

Posted on 2016-08-02, 19:22

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by melbar

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Intel Pentium 133 - A80502133 / A80502-133, Sockets: Socket 5 Socket 7 www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium/Intel-Pe ... -133).html

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Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino

Posted on 2016-08-01, 22:01

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by melbar

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This is absolutely reasonable when you see the anandtech.com benchmarks of 'SPBHM'. With Unreal Tournament (1024x768,16bit), you increase your FPS with a Geforce256 DDR (23.1) compared to a rage 128 pro (17.7) about 30%. With Quake III (1024x768,16bit), you increase your FPS with a Geforce256 DDR ( …

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Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino

Posted on 2016-08-01, 18:52

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by melbar

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Back in the day, i had also a Celeron 466Mhz (overclocked at 525Mhz). First, I've paired it with a Voodoo 2000 AGP, later then i've paired it with an Asus V6800 deluxe (GeForce256 DDR). At the end performance was much better. Considering this sum of benchmarks, ok it was done with a quite stronger …

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Re: Year 2003 Athlon XP Build - CoolerMaster Wave Master *Photo Heavy*

Posted on 2016-07-31, 07:52

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by melbar

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This would be nice for your 9800pro: Arctic ATI Silencer 1 Rev. 2 (Maybe hard to find these days...)

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Re: I can't decide.... Graphics card(s) for K6-2/500 DOS/W98 Machine... And more!

Posted on 2016-07-29, 21:41

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry, was a writing error from me. Sure, i have a RivaTNT2. It's a ELSA Synergy II-32.

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Re: I can't decide.... Graphics card(s) for K6-2/500 DOS/W98 Machine... And more!

Posted on 2016-07-29, 18:35

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by melbar

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About the cacheable RAM in sockel7 board (VIA or ALI Aladdin), here is a good explanation for the AMD K6 family: http://www.amd-k6.com/cacheable-ram-on-socket-7-platforms/ So, depending what Revision your ALI chipset is onto the GA-5AA board, you can have 128Mb, 512Mb or 4096Mb cacheable RAM for K6 …

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Re: Share your AUTOEXEC.BAT + CONFIG.SYS

Posted on 2016-07-26, 19:15

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ System Specs

configs for DOS mode on my Win95 maschine: AUTOEXEC.BAT SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP SET PROMPT=$p$g SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND C:\WINDOWS\a3init.exe LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:OPTICAL LH C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE.EXE /R2 CONFIG.SYS (EMS) …

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2016-07-26, 18:36

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did not solve the capacitor issues of my old epox board until yet... "capacitor plague" .... i don't like that...

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2016-07-25, 21:27

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most Socket A motherboards draw CPU power directly from the 5V rail of the PSU. For the A3200 Barton, this can be a very high current requirement -- certainly beyond the capability of a modern power supply. Slow CPUs are less demanding but still require a very strong 5V rail. Hhm, that means a …

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Re: Look it's another Piii system.

Posted on 2016-07-23, 13:37

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ System Specs

With 1800 MHz, then your AGP port (@85.4MHz) on ASUS CUSL2 is ~19Mhz overclocked, right? Some VGA cards might have some problems with this OC... The CUSL2 has no further dividers at FSB166, can see it online inside of CUSL2 manual... Seems like it is a really good OC board. I have also a tualatin …

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