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

Posted on 2020-04-20, 19:37

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by Caluser2000

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Swappee out my P166mmx test mobo for an AUSUS socket 7 mobo rocking an AMD K5-266. More pci slots, slightly quicker, 2 16-bit ISA slots, 1 AGP slot and more available memory. I can test a few more cards now.

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Re: Building PC for DOS and Win98 games (socket370)

Posted on 2020-04-20, 23:28

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by phinix

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… pretty bad at slowing down due to the locked multiplier AMD and especially Super Socket 7 motherboards is what you want to …

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

Posted on 2020-04-21, 06:27

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by appiah4

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-04-20, 19:37: Swappee out my P166mmx test mobo for an AUSUS socket 7 mobo rocking an AMD K5-266. More pci slots, slightly quicker, 2 16-bit ISA slots, 1 AGP slot and more available memory. I can test a few more cards now. K5-266?..

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Re: Am586 and Shuttle HOT-419

Posted on 2020-04-21, 19:18

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by Intel486dx33

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I recall it reads in the manual for those Power Stacker Trinity AMD 5x86 CPU upgrades that the setting for 486dx-33 works best. Search for the manual online.

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

Posted on 2020-04-22, 04:53

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by bjwil1991

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… drive and it runs real smooth on an Evergreen 586 (AMD Am5x86WB-P75). 20200422_000505.jpg The drive's power is being …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-04-22, 12:35

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by Mumak

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… CPUID there's no way how to tell a DX2/DX4 or AMD/Intel other than the actual clock. I'm wondering why did HWiNFO …

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

Posted on 2020-04-22, 22:37

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by flupke11

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… they can't afford. So I have spent all evening reviving a 2009 AMD x2 laptop. With Ubuntu on a 120GB transcend ssd, a thoroughly cleaned …

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

Posted on 2020-04-23, 01:33

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by Jed118

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… they can't afford. So I have spent all evening reviving a 2009 AMD x2 laptop. With Ubuntu on a 120GB transcend ssd, a thoroughly cleaned …

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

Posted on 2020-04-23, 02:16

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by Horun

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… they can't afford. So I have spent all evening reviving a 2009 AMD x2 laptop. With Ubuntu on a 120GB transcend ssd, a thoroughly cleaned …

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Re: SIS 486SOM Socket 3 System Board

Posted on 2020-04-23, 06:35

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by H3nrik V!

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… years in storage). It sports the 486SoM board with an AMD dx5/133. As for what I can see from the pictures …

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

Posted on 2020-04-23, 10:17

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by dionb

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… they can't afford. So I have spent all evening reviving a 2009 AMD x2 laptop. With Ubuntu on a 120GB transcend ssd, a thoroughly cleaned …

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Re: SIS 486SOM Socket 3 System Board

Posted on 2020-04-23, 12:55

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by HanJammer

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… this board? Are they easy to set up with an AMD 133MHz 486? http://www.recycledgoods.com/sis-486som-socket-3-system …

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Re: 486 voltage converters

Posted on 2020-04-23, 15:57

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by Anonymous Coward

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… at floating point operations. For things that need integer performance, AMD and Cyrix are better alternatives.

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-04-23, 18:05

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by cyclone3d

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… Apple were smart, they would just switch to the newer AMD platform. I just don't see how they can get that high …

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Re: Slot A thunderbirds

Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:16

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by sunaiac

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NostalgicAslinger wrote on 2020-04-23, 20:44: The AMD-751 does not have this problem and works fine with the > …

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Re: Slot A thunderbirds

Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:27

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by appiah4

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… a Pluto 800, for better or worse.. https://i.postimg.cc/6QP35k5t/AMD-Athlon-800-B.jpg I plan to put together a Win98/2K dual boot system …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 12:24

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by wiretap

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… .png PCMCIA to CF adapter. https://imgur.com/9TUDxrP.png AMD K6-2 550AGR. https://imgur.com/5PTB1z2.png

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 20:47

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by CHiLL72

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… programmer. I had planned to test all the Pentium, Cyrix and AMD K6/K6-2 CPUs I have kept in box for years....

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PcChips M918i BIOS Upgrade for Am5x86-133

Posted on 2020-04-24, 22:30

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by ninevapor

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… ) or 12/28/95 (V3.0A) to support the 133MHz AMD chip. Much to my dismay I got this upon testing the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-25, 04:49

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by aha2940

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… programmer. I had planned to test all the Pentium, Cyrix and AMD K6/K6-2 CPUs I have kept in box for years.... If …

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