Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-23, 07:49
… the day. Then they will come back and beg to AMD for a CPU, eventually. The Mac is already a very niche thing …
Re: Pentium Overdrive competition - socket 3/4/5/7
Posted on 2020-06-23, 19:25
… improvement isn't necessarily greater than what I'd get with the AMD 5x86-P75 upgrade c) regardless, for an old platform like this …
No beeps, no post, no display...
Posted on 2020-06-23, 21:17
… power switch). The specs are: Gigabyte GA-7ZX rev. 5.00 AMD Duron 1300 2x 128 MB SDRAM 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP …
Re: Building an 80286 25Mhz system?
Posted on 2020-06-24, 19:33
I am going to do the same but with an AMD 386sx-33 motherboard. By disabling CPU and Motherboard cache I should be able to slow it dow to a 286-10mhz at least.
Re: What is your weirdest troubleshooting experience when dealing with retro computers/hardware?
Posted on 2020-06-24, 19:55
… shop in the service department when a guy brought in his AMD Athlon system, I think he had a MSI K8 Neo 2. Guy complained …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:54
The one thing I need to figure out is how the AMD CPU is a wee bit close to the side of the PSU. That drives me crazy, but at the same time, that system is really nice.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-06-25, 17:16
The one thing I need to figure out is how the AMD CPU is a wee bit close to the side of the …
Re: New to the site, resurrection of an old Athlon PC
Posted on 2020-06-26, 12:02
… the time the 760MPX chipset came along, the then-current AMD spec to draw CPU power from 5V was abandoned and …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-06-26, 13:42
Out of anger, because of the wrong delivery (P55T2P4 instead of XP55T2P4) and subsequent silence by the businesslike seller from Poland, I bought an ASUS P5A Rev. 1.06 with 128MB of RAM and an AMD K6-2 from a seller from Spain today. (Calm down and buy another one…)
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 18:47
… only that, intel has nothing to offer and switching to AMD is just giving another dependence. I also would make that decision …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 19:20
… only that, intel has nothing to offer and switching to AMD is just giving another dependence. I also would make that decision …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 20:33
… soldered), especially in mobile devices (laptops, phones, tablets). Except for AMD, CPU board compatibility no longer spans more than 1 or maybe …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 20:48
… while "non-free" Intel instructions are emulated in dynamic recompilers. AMD already did that for several legacy x86 instructions on the …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 22:20
… while "non-free" Intel instructions are emulated in dynamic recompilers. AMD already did that for several legacy x86 instructions on the …
Re: 386sx25 on vlsi 311 Mainboard overclockable to 33MHz?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 23:29
… came in 16 and 20MHz versions. It was only when AMD started producing 386s that they got off their asses and …
Voodoo2: Additional cooling recommendations for an AMD64 system?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 14:37
… possibly Win7). At the moment the build looks like this: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Asus K8V SE Deluxe (AGP 8X, PCI …
Re: ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D - dual socket 7 motherboard
Posted on 2020-06-27, 19:26
… chips but even when setting the proper voltage for an AMD chip, the one VRM just gets burning hot and the …
Re: FX 5500 on old Mainboard
Posted on 2020-06-27, 20:47
… I have. Drivers are a bit too heavy for Pentium MMX or AMD K6 though. How can I know if it's a Chinese card instead …
Re: ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D - dual socket 7 motherboard
Posted on 2020-06-27, 21:08
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-27, 20:57: That is a really nice looking board and it sounds like a fun project to work on. Which OS are you considering for dual CPUs? Probably Windows NT or 2000 depending on if I can get AMD K6-2 CPUs working or not.
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:06
… for them. If they can do it with a 32-core AMD CPU and dual graphics cards for half the cost of …
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