Re: Cacheable Ram and performance

Posted on 2022-04-24, 23:12

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by Sphere478

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Asus TXP4 with 256 megs of RAM installed and a K6-3+ @ 500 MHz enabling the motherboard's cache noticeably lowers memory bandwidth as measured by Sandra; I noticed that on my 430tx but on ss7 it seems to be the other way around. Not sure if it’s the chipsets or just the higher fsb. Suspect mainly …

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Re: Cacheable Ram and performance

Posted on 2022-04-24, 21:19

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The cpu supports 6x if you set it to 2x. Mvp3 supports 100mhz minimum usually. And most k6-3+ cpus will do 600mhz I’m running 640mb of ram on my 3+ and mvp3 and I can play halo. 🤷‍♂️ I got 2048k of 4ns L3 I could do a test where I shed some ram and see what happens maybe. I think 384 is a little …

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Re: Custom slim tyan s15464 build

Posted on 2022-04-24, 21:11

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Oooo yeah! Like that!

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-04-24, 10:42

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I have a correction to make, it seems my run of bad mods may have been a false negative. I just did a fourth one and again with the issue. So I did some investigation. Super pi 128, 256, 512 1m 2m 4m All run consecutively no errors. Run a super pi 32m and boom problem. Started to think maybe it’s a …

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Re: Last PCI video card with AGP gpu?

Posted on 2022-04-24, 10:38

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Good indicator of wattage is the heat managment going on. Big beefy heatsink, lots of watts. Little passive one, not so many.

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Re: Socket 5/7/SS7 Tweaker for Multipliers, WT/WB & Tillamook

Posted on 2022-04-24, 06:49

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Okay so now that I’m playing with these, it looks like there are going to be a few changes. Something keeps happening where vss keeps getting shorted to vcc3 or vcc2 I’m not sure if this is a installation error or a wiring error, it is gonna take me a while with a volt meter to debug that. I was …

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Re: Last PCI video card with AGP gpu?

Posted on 2022-04-24, 03:57

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What about matrox? 🤔 There is the pci-x matrox. Is that of use to you? Not agp? Idk but seems like may be useful for your situation. I think they work in 32-bit slots?

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Custom slim tyan s15464 build

Posted on 2022-04-24, 01:56

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I’ve had this idea for a while to build a ultra slim build for a tyan s1564d More I think about it, more I think maybe it should be a custom acrylic case. Possibly even a laptop build! Who knows if I’ll ever get around to this but figure I’ll document the idea, maybe turn it into a build thread one …

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Re: Smallest case for baby AT

Posted on 2022-04-24, 01:15

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The only AT case i have has issues where the cards won't go all the way into the slot. A tiny little bit of connector will stick out of the ISA slot. Something on the motherboard bracket is messing up the motherboard height or whatever and i don't feel like dealing with it. Mine is hella cramped …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-04-23, 23:08

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Fritz, my hot air soldering station is down, see if you can find a reason for that capacitor.. That’s odd. Are your high performing ones missing that? Will a low performing one perform better if you remove it?

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Re: Smallest case for baby AT

Posted on 2022-04-23, 22:39

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@Sphere478 Check out some industrial baby at cases. A few look realy really nice and often come without 5.25 or even 3.5 slots. https://www.google.com/search?q=industrial+baby+at+case&source=lmns&tbm=shop&bih=640&biw=375&prmd=isnv&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS913US913&hl=en-US&sa=X&ved= …

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Re: Socket 5/7/SS7 Tweaker for Multipliers, WT/WB & Tillamook

Posted on 2022-04-23, 22:28

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They’re here! -Pcb thickness at 0.6 looks nice and thin. -the silk didn’t turn out well as I feared. But idk if there is much I can do, there is so much info to include.

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Smallest case for baby AT

Posted on 2022-04-23, 09:41

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Kinda wanting to make a lan party style setup for one of my tyan s1564D mobos Are there any Media center style or small compact cases that will take a long baby AT mobo? Laptop size cd is fine, I can even do without hard drive spaces, but at least one floppy bay would be nice for my gotek. Small non …

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Absolute best overkill psu for dual pentium

Posted on 2022-04-23, 09:01

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Not that there is really a pressing need, other than perfectionism. What’s the best psu one could hope to have on a old socket 7 setup? -Modular would be nice, -Period correct is of no concern to me -fanless would be nice Lets face it, we aren’t dealing with high power requirements here. But stable …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-04-23, 08:49

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Skalabala wrote on 2022-04-23, 08:23: Sphere478 wrote on 2022-04-22, 21:10: Re did one with kryonaut, no dice, dud. Thermal paste will not change the outcome. I found it odd that it started when I switched TIM. Testing that theory was warranted. Shame to have so many unlock then all these duds in a …

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Re: Video Card for Socket 7 PCI Build?

Posted on 2022-04-23, 06:49

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On socket 7 sometimes it’s whatever card actually works lol. I’ve had good luck with radeon 7500 and 9200 pro though (7500 is a tad faster) But to answer your question, try them to make sure they actually post, then decide between those. I have over 20 different pci cards and only like five of them …

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Re: Very unlucky collision on card insertion for my FX 5900

Posted on 2022-04-23, 06:46

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by Sphere478

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Smaller diameter battery maybe?

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Re: New clock gen for tyan s1564d

Posted on 2022-04-23, 06:14

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Looking for ideas with this 🤔

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Re: Socket 5/7/SS7 VOLTAGE Interposer.

Posted on 2022-04-23, 04:48

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I bought a couple of these from a recycler some time ago, so I'm happy to experiment on one of them. I really like these boards so it's exciting to think about making improvements to it and seeing how far it'll go. It's an Intel OEM board, the quality of which is excellent, and there is also a …

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Re: Socket 5/7/SS7 VOLTAGE Interposer.

Posted on 2022-04-23, 00:31

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That does look like one of the unfortunate socket 7 boards to receive only one voltage plane. And it doesn’t look like they gave you any hope of powering vcc2 separately. So it looks like you will indeed need a interposer. (And probably a bios update/patch)

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