I'm still using my i7 860 that I bought in 2009, and it still runs everything I want. However, I disagree about the "clunky base clock overclocking" - there's nothing clunky about it. What's clunky is the way intel intentionally disabled overclocking for most cpus that followed, while intentionally …

Was testing the original Nvidia Quadro (Elsa) aka Geforce SDR, under Windows XP in my Sis 651 AGP test system. Initially the card kept pausing, freezing and artifacting in 3D Mark 2000 and 2001 when using the popular drivers like the 45.23, 41.09, or the latest official 71.89. I was starting to …

So here's a fun one. Picked up an Aopen MX46-533V socket 478 universal AGP motherboard, having the SIS 651 chipset. Popped in a P4 3.06 HT, and hyperthreading is working, but figured I'd update the bios anyways, since it came with some mystery R1.02TR bios that wasn't even listed on the Aopen …

CuPid wrote: Is "CPU Host Clock Control" BIOS setting set to enabled ? Yes, it's enabled.

I have a strange problem with my Gigabyte GA-6OXT board - it can't run at any FSB speed other than the default for a given CPU. I tried a P3 550E and a P3 600EB. In both cases I can adjust the FSB in the BIOS but it doesn't take effect, and only runs at default speed. The memory divider setting also …

Radeon 9000/9200 have universal AGP support, while most 9600 Pro cards don't. I was going to say this exactly. I keep a Radeon 9200 128bit for this reason, for testing AGP motherboards. Plus it's passively cooled. Back in 2002 I was using a 9000pro as my main gaming card, and it worked great until …

While messing around with an S3 Virge DX and torturing it with various old 3D games, I found a way to make it display world textures that are typically missing on the Virge decelerator. Launch the game with the developer console enabled. By default the Virge will only show lightmaps instead of the …

Depends on the board. My Asus P5Q doesn't support Celeron D processors, and wouldn't POST when I tried one, which was strange considering that it supports Pentium 4. Meanwhile, Gigabyte P45 boards with the same chipset support the Celeron D.

Tested an AGP Radeon 3850 on an Athlon XP Nforce2 system. Read somewhere that the video driver requires SSE2, which I'm happy to report is not true. Card works fine using normal catalyst drivers.

Got a 100% overclock on a s775 Pentium e2140. 1.6GHz -> 3.2GHz. Using a cheap Foxconn G45M board, stock cooling, and no crazy voltage. If anything deserves to be a spiritual Celeron 300A successor, this would be it, not that lame Anniversary Edition Pentium G3258.

Registered just to post this... 2009: Core i7 860 2019: Core i7 860 Maybe Ryzen3 will finally tempt me to upgrade.