Re: 430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 14:30

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nearly no Socket 7 Chipsets that have a 2/5 PCI divider. Actually, nothing aside from Aladdin IV seems to have a divider for Socket 7 PCChips M537 (the one with VIA VP) can set the PCI to 33MHz when using 75/83MHz bus. Well.. Are you sure the option to lock it actually works? Because the page I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-12-16, 13:33

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by appiah4

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Oooooh, UMC! Best kind of 486 there is. Mmm..

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Is it worth upgrading a Dell XPS D333 to a Celeron 533?

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:57

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by appiah4

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Would I get tangible benefit going from Pentium II 333 to Celeron 533? The system has 192MB RAM and a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP.

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Re: Augmenting a Trio64

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:53

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by appiah4

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This came installed alongside a Riva 128 in my Dell XPS D333 which shipped with a DVD-ROM so apparently this accelerates DVD Playback. It is connected internally via the feature connector. https://i.postimg.cc/d3Kwf10F/QI-Cinemaster-C-1-2-Dell-OEM.jpg More info on the card here: http://www.pennskog. …

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Re: Delusional performance of a 486 DX33

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:49

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by appiah4

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21603 wrote: Quake runs at about 4 fps, but is perfectly playable and very responsive Stop posting drunk.

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Re: 430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 12:44

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by appiah4

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HanJammer wrote: appiah4 wrote: This will be for a fast DOS PC, so no 3D acceleration will be used. But you know, that DOS gaming is where 3dfx Voodoo and Voodoo 2 really shines, right? 😀 Aside from Tomb Raider and Screamer 2 I don't know of any other DOS glide games I would be really interested in …

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Re: 430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 07:37

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by appiah4

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This will be for a fast DOS PC, so no 3D acceleration will be used. It will be running Quake in software mode though. CPU is an mII-PR266GP (2x75MHz). So am I better off going with a 430TX board or an Aladdin IV+ for this build?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-16, 06:24

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by appiah4

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oeuvre wrote: mystery box! somehow won this auction... it's an AT case with who knows what hardware... we'll find out! Socket 7 Pentium 166MMX with S3 Trio64 and ALS100+ 16-bit sound card.

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430TX (and other chipsets) and 75MHz (and 83MHz) FSB

Posted on 2019-12-16, 06:22

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by appiah4

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Many 430TX motherboards state support for 75MHz (and in some cases 83MHz) CPUs. Do these boards run the PCI Bus within spec while doing so, or does the PCI frequency also get an unintended proportional overclock? Also, how does this work for non-Intel chipsets such as Aladdin IV+, VIA VPX etc.? …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-12-15, 22:21

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by appiah4

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I upgraded my K6-2 system to a K6-2/500 (I wonder what the Pentium II equivalent for this really is).. I also did some troubleshooting on my dead Athlon64 PC to find my X1950PRO had died, so I replaced it with a more period correct X800XTPE AGP. I will try to fix the X1950PRO AGP later.

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-15, 22:18

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by appiah4

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After rebuilding the PC with the K8NS motherboard I still had the same issues so I dug deeper tonight, only to find out that it was the X1950PRO AGP that went bad somehow. After replacing it with an X800XTPE AGP, the system POSTed with either motherboard.. I will stick the K8NS nForce3 for now …

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Re: AMD K5 case basge/sticker

Posted on 2019-12-13, 14:18

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by appiah4

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Can I use my artist skills to roughly doodle from what I think I saw in 97-98? Could be false memories or confusion with another badge, and oddly I do think some form of line shading was involved, or maybe it was speedlines because it was "fast" taking inspiration from Cyrix's 586 line? I forgot …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-12-13, 13:33

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by appiah4

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Yeah if I saw an intellevision or a colecovision on the side of the road I would certainly stop to pick it up, I'd be excited. If I saw an Atari 2600 on fire on the side of the road I wouldn't piss on it to put it out =P. This is possibly the funniest thing I've read on Vogons in a long while. I …

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-13, 12:27

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by appiah4

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I will try a re-cap of the 1500uF 6.3V OTS caps, so I ordered the parts, they should be here next week. In the meantime, I also bit the bullet and got me a GA-K8NS nForce3 250 motherboard to replace the ASUS K8V K8T800; I may as well give nForce3 a shot. Also, it has Rubycon caps in the VRM area, so …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-13, 11:39

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A trio of cards from 2001 that basically battled it out amongst themselves until the GeForce 4 hit the shelves: https://i.postimg.cc/sGMdq5wk/ASUS-AGP-V8200-64-M-TVR.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/4nygYTsW/ATI-Radeon-8500-64-MB.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/YjPwgySM/n-Vidia-Ge-Force-3-Ti-200.jpg The GeForce 3 …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-13, 06:51

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by appiah4

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What Amiga could do with video required tens of thousands of investment with PC; this is why TV broadcasting studios were still using Amiga for video editing all the way into the late 90s (maybe in some cases even into the 2000s) until digital video, digital broadcasting and high definition became a …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-12, 09:43

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by appiah4

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Nope. I used it on the Orchid V1, that I had around 2000. I used it in an K6-II-500/Gigabyte-GA5AX setup. I have it on a CD somewere. I might know what you mean. Back in those days, especially scaling video to fullscreen was very expensive without hardware support. I've seen a video player that …

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-12, 04:47

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by appiah4

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I checked my board and all caps marked on ASUS FAQ are 1500uF 6.3V parts; however mine are not RLZ 0333; the ones by the VRM are RLX 0344 (again by OST, maker of the faulty RLZ caps) and the ones near the RAM are a super suspect Elite brand. I think it is caps all the same.. More on OST caps: …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2019-12-11, 20:12

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by appiah4

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Keropi, you put me on the waiting list for this right? Cheers neighbor 😁

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Re: Capacitor Question. Which one to go with?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 13:30

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by appiah4

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Get the Kemet, it will be fine. Kemet must be even better than the original, right? Knowing the cheap bastards Creative are anything on a decent reseller like Mouser will probably be better. I've used junk chinese caps to fix SB16/32 cards in the past and it had no discernable negative impact on …

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