Re: LGA 775 Motherboards with AGP Slots

Posted on 2020-03-02, 10:25

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by Carlos S. M.

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Xplo wrote on 2019-11-22, 20:05: The Shuttle XPC SB77G5 (FB77 motherboard utilising 875P chipset with DDR and AGP) should be added to this list 😀 Added along with another shuttle board

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2020-02-23, 22:38

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by Carlos S. M.

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Tried on my Z97 system with i7 4790, HD 4600, BCLK OC to 103 Mhz and DDR3 2133 CL9 Also tried a 9500 GT in both single and SLI HD 4600: Filename 3dmark01 hd 4600 ddr3 2133 oc.PNG File size 468.84 KiB Views 465 views File comment Intel HD 4600 9500 GT: Filename 3dmark01 9500 gt ddr3 2133 oc.PNG File …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-23, 22:29

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by Carlos S. M.

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Snagged a set of laptops for $25 locally. 1 very interesting laptop, 1 nice-to-have, and 2 that I could care less about. The best of the lot is a Toshiba Portege S5005 with a DESKTOP Pentium 3 1.1GHZ CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce2 Go with 16MB of DDR memory. I had to order a power supply for the …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2020-02-22, 11:09

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by Carlos S. M.

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since the electromynie drama back in 2017 There was drama? They were his sponsor and I got a few great parts from them with his voucher codes. Good deal for me - I mean, a man's gotta eat. I agree that his latest videos seem very generic and uninspired though. That Audigy 2 ZS video seemed to be a …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2020-02-21, 23:15

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by Carlos S. M.

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I was hoping Phil's videos would evolve into more in depth and informative content like the stuff HighTreason makes (and I wish he would make more of them..) but it really devolved into.. weirdness for lack of a better definition.. Phill isn't the same as he used to be before, in the old times, his …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2020-01-13, 09:52

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by Carlos S. M.

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E7300, Asrock g31m-vs, 4GB DDR2 800, XP SP3, HD 4670 DDR2, HD 5850 reference, HD 7850 windforce 2x it's interesting how on 3dm01 the 5850 is faster even when all the specs are all lower, and on 3dmark 03 the 7850 scores a lot higher than the 5850, the 4670 does OK given the low memory bandwidth, …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2019-12-12, 23:58

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by Carlos S. M.

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Tested my new HD 3850 AGP from a trashpicked compaq. Specs on tested system: Pentium E5700 Asrock Conroe865PE 2 GB DDR 400 CL3 250 GB HDD ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP Windows XP SP3 3850agp 3dmark01.PNG Also did 3dmark03 and 06 as well hd 3850 agp 3dmark03.PNG hd 3850 agp 3dmark06.PNG Bonus; Intel Q45 IGP …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2019-12-09, 12:06

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by Carlos S. M.

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Tried CPU-Z Vintage Edition on NT 3.51 (running on a VM) with SP5, some updates and VC++ 6.0 libraries, throws an error about a missing function about OS version, but starts. Will try some older hardware later on 9x or NT 4. VirtualBoxVM_Sg6e4XfETl.png VirtualBoxVM_9saoL90qsH.png VirtualBoxVM_ …

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2019-11-27, 14:52

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by Carlos S. M.

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486 build with Socket 6 That would be somewhat rare. I am pretty certain these were never released in North America. Don't know about Europe. I think I heard a few systems in Japan might have had socket 6. I believe Socket 6 only existed in paper, no chips or products were known to exist, not even …

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Re: My 3DMark03 Mega Thread

Posted on 2019-11-02, 02:02

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by Carlos S. M.

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Benched my new Windows 2000 system: Intel Core i7 930 ASUS P6T SE 12 GB DDR3 1333 ATI Radeon HD 5870 2x 500 GB HDD Windows 2000 Pro SP4 with BWC Extended Kernel and Extended Core 4.3 GHz OC all core + HT: Filename i7 930 oc 3dmark03.PNG File size 174.46 KiB Views 343 views File comment 4.3 ghz

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2019-11-02, 01:59

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by Carlos S. M.

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Benched my new Windows 2000 system: Intel Core i7 930 ASUS P6T SE 12 GB DDR3 1333 ATI Radeon HD 5870 2x 500 GB HDD Windows 2000 Pro SP4 with BWC Extended Kernel and Extended Core 4.3 GHz OC all core + HT: i7 930 oc 3dmark01.PNG 4.63 GHz OC only 2 cores enabled and no HT: i7 930 ultra oc 3dmark01.PNG …

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2019-11-02, 01:13

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by Carlos S. M.

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Added results from my new (trashpicked) and overclocked i7 930 rig

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

Posted on 2019-10-28, 08:36

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by Carlos S. M.

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Local ewaste place still has stuff piled outside by the sidewalk, so I stopped and had a look. And this is why. https://i.imgur.com/l5o0L7N.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6R4SmXG.jpg It does have some nasty looking caps. https://i.imgur.com/QQau71h.jpg But it POSTs! https://i.imgur.com/NfWoHQA.jpg It has …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-26, 11:28

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by Carlos S. M.

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https://i.imgur.com/hTxEMSQl.jpg Dell OEM NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 128MB AGP video card... for that Pentium 4 Comapq Evo. Hey, I have a ton of these! Are they any good? by the looks of that card, is clearly a 64 bit version since the top row of ram chips are missing, the 128 bit variant has all ram …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-21, 07:34

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by Carlos S. M.

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WHAT THE BALLS IT HAPPENED AGAIN. CameraZOOM-20191020185434407_sized.jpg Yep, the Wall of Crap strikes again. Am I being trolled here?? Like, do the employees at this place see me coming and sneak this stuff out to mess with my head? Actually nah, given the lack of interest in this town, it's …

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2019-10-11, 10:11

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by Carlos S. M.

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Haven't posted here for a long time, but i benched my current laptop which replaced my old i7 5500U, an i7 7700HQ laptop

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Re: List of motherboards with SB-link (PC/PCI) header

Posted on 2019-10-10, 07:27

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by Carlos S. M.

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PARUS wrote: I don't know what is it but it can not be SB-Link. No doubt. nF4 never supported PCI Legacy DMA in any format. If i remember correctly, none of the nforces supported PCI Legacy DMA at all, even the older nforce 1/2 chipsets for Athlon XP

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Re: List of motherboards with SB-link (PC/PCI) header

Posted on 2019-09-02, 09:23

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by Carlos S. M.

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MSI MS-6168 ver 2 (440ZX, micro ATX) has solder pads for SB-Link, also QDI Legend VI (440LX, Baby AT) has an SB-Link connector

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Re: Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots

Posted on 2019-07-16, 17:30

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by Carlos S. M.

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>=4 gb will be always seen as ~3.5 GB, i did get a 945 board post It's more about 32-bit OS with PAE. 64-bit capable Socket 478 CPUs are too rare anyway. yeah, i did my testing with an LGA 775 board, but pretty much all 945 chipset variants suffers from the same limitations, the same aftermentioned …

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Re: Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots

Posted on 2019-07-16, 11:37

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by Carlos S. M.

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Intel 945 series chipsets doesn't memory remap support all, >=4 gb will be always seen as ~3.5 GB, i did get a 945 board post (Dell Dimension 9150) with 4x 2 GB RAM, Dell BIOS could see all 8 gb, but all OSes even Windows x64 and linux x86-64 only detected 3.5 gb ram, tried XP x64, 7 x64 and 10 x64 …

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