Re: QDI TwinMagic from Computex99 - Dual Socket 370 adapter for Slot 1
Posted on 2020-12-01, 14:34
Original adapter is most likely compatible only with PGA Celerons.
QDI TwinMagic from Computex99 - Dual Socket 370 adapter for Slot 1
Posted on 2020-12-01, 12:52
QDI's solution is called 'TwinMagic' and seems even cooler to me. So far you cannot purchase the dual Socket370 card for Slot1 on its own, you have to get the BX-motherboard with it. This makes sense though, because not every single BX-motherboard supports dual-CPU operations, dual operation …
Re: english, the planetary language
Posted on 2020-12-01, 01:35
if only because a language is something which has less to do with scientifically founded international standard Ahem, Latin.
Re: Build for Matrox G400 Max (EMBM) and A3D games?
Posted on 2020-12-01, 01:30
Like I said before, EMBM is not unique Matrox feature, so AFAIK none of the games require it.
Re: Testing an AT PSU?
Posted on 2020-11-30, 19:03
got a cheap AT PSU for my old mobos DON'T.
Re: EU votes for Right to Repair
Posted on 2020-11-30, 12:48
Not really. Since alot of products are getting more and more "app" integrated. For instance take boardgames, many of them now requires an app. A company could have a strategy saying that products are only supported 6 months after going out of print, meaning app service will be taken down and thus …
Re: EU votes for Right to Repair
Posted on 2020-11-30, 12:32
Also it's just product labeling, it doesn't force anyone to design products you can repair Yes, that won't stop shady practices from Apple and other companies . Each year they intentionally implement new roadblocks to repair their devices and that would be hard to prove in court. but I'm concerned …
Re: Overclocking the AT bus on a 386/40 motherboard
Posted on 2020-11-30, 09:32
As you can see there is a point of diminishing returns Try Doom and there won't be any diminishing returns. At 20Mhz my Sound Blaster 16 does not work at all Some late sound cards like ALS100 will work fine.
Re: Chips&Technologies F64300 VL-Bus cards (Wingine GDX)
Posted on 2020-11-29, 19:31
It's uncommon, but with decent performance.
Re: english, the planetary language
Posted on 2020-11-28, 04:09
Not long along, French was the Diplomacy language. To be fair, French was all the rage in 18-19 century and still has noticeable influence in Africa and Canada. Perhaps due to climate change Russian may become a more important language, or perhaps Mandarin? Heavily depends on economics and there …
Re: Is This a Geforce 8800 Ultra or 8800 GTX?
Posted on 2020-11-28, 02:11
What's going on here? Did someone put an 8800 GTX fan shroud on an 8800 Ultra PCB? There are 3 PCB variations in total. "GTS" PCB, which is used both for original 8800GTS and Quadro cards, "GTX" PCB, which is used only on GTX/Ultra cards and "Quadro FX" PCB which is used on Quadro FX 5600 …
Re: Upgrading an XP machine to an SSD
Posted on 2020-11-27, 13:04
I assume just plugging it into my W10 PC and running the garbage collection in Disk Defragmenter would suffice, right? I think Kingston's SSD utility can force TRIM manually (for Windows 7 and newer). Do you need to TRIM? Depends. Modern SSDs use SLC caching technique, when approximately 20-25% of …
Re: I thought Fat 32 was 32gb max
Posted on 2020-11-20, 03:10
FAT32's max partition size is 2TB with 512-byte sectors. It's LBA48 limitation with Master Boot Record (which is 32-bit), both for FAT and NTFS. If you format your drive with 4K sectors AFAIK it won't help. You need both physical (Advanced Format without 512-bytes emulation) and logical 4K sectors …
Re: Diamond Viper V770 Ultra, detected as Pro!! Wait, what??
Posted on 2020-11-19, 21:49
Pro chips use different manufacturing lithography. So while TNT2/TNT2 Ultra and TNT2 Pro are identical in capabilities, physically they are different.
Re: Can i live with a PentiumIII and a 2D Video Card?
Posted on 2020-11-19, 09:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIMunG7FPKg
Re: Help overclocking an AMD 5x86 133
Posted on 2020-11-18, 20:25
(though looking online, it seems that pretty much all of them are? ADZ =/= better overclocking. ADZ can officially operate stable at higher temperatures and that's about it. If you can, increase voltage to 4V and it most likely will boot.
Re: Socket A Motherboards That Have 12V-Centric VRMs?
Posted on 2020-11-18, 16:02
I think that'll be like over half of all Socket A boards On other chipsets, but majority of Nforce 2 boards had 12v connector. It's just counter productive to list all of them. When it comes to VIA and SIS chipsets, the situations is flipped - minority of boards, even most late ones, had 12v …
Re: Socket A Motherboards That Have 12V-Centric VRMs?
Posted on 2020-11-18, 13:18
You don't need to list Nforce 2 boards with 12v connector. Much easier to list exceptions which don't have it.
Re: Socket A Motherboards That Have 12V-Centric VRMs?
Posted on 2020-11-18, 12:08
VIA and SIS motherboards are hit or miss, when it comes to separate 12v connector.
Re: GIANT IBM vintage hard-drive
Posted on 2020-11-17, 16:27
Is the transparent plastic normal or is this some sort of demonstration model? AFAIK transparent plastic was used commercially only in Western Digital Raptor X. Everything else before and after that are demonstration models or for internal use/testing only (to check mechanics in controlled …
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