Re: The millenial troll PC - A Socket 423 Rambus build

Posted on 2021-11-15, 16:26

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These machines pretty much represent a dumpster fire of choice and circumstance for Intel, RDRAM was a terrible decision that not only cost them market share due to cost, but financially to deal with the replacements of defective 820 chipset/SDRAM boards... and then there was the initial round of …

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Re: Matrox VLB?

Posted on 2021-11-15, 16:20

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Everyone knows Matrox from their Mystique days. But how where they early on? Where these cards fast like a ET4000 VLB. Couldn't find too much online. Pretty horrible when it came to DOS performance. Here's a quick benchmark of various VLB videocards I did with a Pentium 200. I've used Quake 1.08 …

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Re: SDL Future 3D API

Posted on 2021-11-15, 16:16

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if 3dfx came back the gpu market would probably plumit in price and if they were smart their cards would not go to crypto

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Re: Dungeon Siege 1 running poorly

Posted on 2021-11-15, 16:09

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if its a gigabit lan card i recommend limiting it to 100mbit to keep bandwidth for the i/o to cope with AGP and comms with your SSD. or even 10mbit when not using ftp. A 3COM nic has its own cpu so it doesn't use as much cpu to run through drivers. autopatcher tweaks your system.ini file to optimise …

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Re: Matrox VLB?

Posted on 2021-11-15, 15:47

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untested means bunged up every time for me (just saying) if it wasn't fully functional it'd be the memory is what all the gpu's that were screwy had issues with for me. you know, you could ask if it came from a complete system that would give the deal more confidence. It wasn't one of the best if …

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Re: Fastest socket super socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2021-11-15, 15:34

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Did the Intel 233mhz MMX run on the FSB at 100mhz? i had a super 7 with one when the K6 cpu died (ran hot and much faster one than these) I remember it was almost identical in performance for me so i wonder if its a simular tale to the intel overdrive generation Mine was the Ali Alladin chipset …

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

Posted on 2021-11-15, 15:04

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i got my retro pc in post yesterday been working on it. So far the gpu freezes, the ram is non matching pair of half capacity i bought it has original windows 7 no sp the foxconn motherboard based on via p4m800 chipset accepts Both DDR and DDR2 ram up to 2gb the built in chipset graphics (64mb) has …

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Re: The millenial troll PC - A Socket 423 Rambus build

Posted on 2021-11-15, 13:42

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never had rambus i imagine the magic schoolbus rocketing

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Re: Dungeon Siege 1 running poorly

Posted on 2021-11-15, 13:24

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unofficial sp3 I don't recommend for starters. its full of bugs. Autopatcher '97 is by far the best it also has tweaks for yourAGP arpeture, memory and disk DMA. Also the most stable option. Its something I would do a fresh install of 98se about its just that bad. unofficial sp3 is notorious on …

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Re: Can you help me build a Windows 98 SE gaming machine?

Posted on 2021-11-14, 11:14

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Macrium is a good choice but if a restore optical disc is needed be sure to select the windows 32bit PE option 😀

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Re: Does anyone have a GeForce 6600 AGP card to help test for a graphical glitch?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 10:08

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Now, what people don't realize is that GeForce 6xxx support in Win98/Me is very dependent on the motherboard/platform you have, that's why it can work a bit better for some people when all the stars align. :-) To be fair, nobody in their right mind would've used a GeForce 6xxx series GPU from 2004 …

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Re: Converted registered SDRAM

Posted on 2021-11-12, 09:52

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luckybob wrote on 2021-11-11, 18:58: The only end result of this thread is a pile of dead parts. I feel like I'm watching a car wreck in slow motion. Except the cars are retro parts. Well they haven't found a way to set the t-model fords on fire yet then maybe if they add nitro 🤣

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Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.

Posted on 2021-11-12, 09:32

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I discovered by mistake once that the shortest possible IDE ribbon to disks gives better signal gain for these old things. Custon ribbon kit was what i used when accidently breaking a cable plug. Though I wouldn't have it with the disk right on the motherboard; short as possible to limit slck is …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-11-12, 08:34

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feipoa wrote on 2021-11-12, 08:29: https://www.ebay.com/itm/165155022649 Adlib Gold 1000 sells for $2400 USD. Shocking and impressive! I'd at least rattle the box when received 🤣

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Re: The most coolest IDE hardrives....

Posted on 2021-11-11, 00:38

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Drives that are absolutely silent. But even SSDs make noise that can be heard when the rest of the system is silent. Not all of them do that. The first few times I heard it I though there was something wrong with the laptop I was using. I plan on getting rid of most of the old spinning rust drives …

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Re: What are the most popular DOS era parallel port printers?

Posted on 2021-11-11, 00:04

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IBM made great ribbon ink dot matrix printers into the early 90's noisy but the ribbon was $2 the inkjet era started at about $35 for a black ink cartridge; no names mentioned ..... cannon bubblejet 🤣

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Re: How do I apply thermal paste to this cpu?

Posted on 2021-11-10, 04:49

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RaiderOfLostVoodoo wrote on 2021-11-09, 18:57: I didn't damage it. The seller damaged it, when he took off the cooler. Just a reminder to be extremely careful when handling So […] Show full quote zapbuzz wrote on 2021-11-09, 18:28: getting a part refund for damaging stuff 🤣 I didn't damage it. The …

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Re: How do I apply thermal paste to this cpu?

Posted on 2021-11-10, 04:48

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wow what a twist this thread is becoming de-lidding and getting a part refund for damaging stuff lol seriusly its intel and all i see is a contaminated lid. The lids are basically impossible to remove from a socket 370 coppermine. If it were an AMD it would be different. Looks exactly like my ones …

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Looking for specific variety of pentium motherboards

Posted on 2021-11-10, 04:47

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Hello. I am looking for a socket 478 Pentium 4 HT motherboard that doesn't have built in GPU and Audio. Also am looking for socket 775 That supports core 2 quad but without audio and video built in. Do such motherboards exist? I haven't found any yet... My reasons are such motherboards usually have …

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Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 18:33

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PC's aren't really overpowered but seemingly so for 5 years as they are under supported. Every time they bring ou new tech the softwares are lagging behind. for example MMX II became supported more in xp than 2000 but was around in the 2000 support phase.

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