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

Posted on 2020-07-14, 12:31

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by LewisRaz

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amadeus777999 wrote on 2020-07-14, 07:09: Tested an un supported AMD K62 in an older socket7 board and got a nice string. This was my k63 - 400 in a board with modded voltage before I found a bios update. It would even show different speeds sometimes.

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-14, 17:25

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by Bruninho

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… get a computer with an ARM cpu. I have never had an AMD computer so I can't give an opinion about them. From the …

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2020-07-14, 19:54

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by OSkar000

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… on it. Needs a sound card also. Maxing out my first AMD K6-2 450. Upgraded to a K6-3+ at 550mhz now and I have …

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Re: So... I picked up a simple unassuming beige AT computer and it turned out to be this....

Posted on 2020-07-14, 20:05

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by Socket3

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… 96 early 97. In fact you could still find new amd 586 chips for sale here as late as 1998...

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-15, 03:31

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by cyclone3d

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Bought a used Intel 6950X from somebody in China who said they upgraded to a new AMD chip a few months back.... price was really, really, really, really good so we shall see what I get when it arrives. Hopefully not a scam... If so, I'll just put in an eBay dispute and go from there.

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

Posted on 2020-07-15, 04:04

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by Bruninho

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… like AKTiO or Sonnet, and neither an expensive NVIDIA or AMD GPU good enough to run that game with the desired …

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MSI MS-5169 dead - blown MOSFET?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 07:15

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by gex85

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… . 2.1, Super Socket 7 ATX, ALi Aladdin V chipset. It came with an AMD K6-2 300 MHz (300AFR) and refused to start (powers on …

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Re: Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0: Now w/200+ fonts, more variants, new site

Posted on 2020-07-15, 17:31

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by DracoNihil

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… on shader paths that are known to be problematic on AMD hardware. I'll take a look into fontforge though, thanks …

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Re: New GPU - buy now or wait?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 20:58

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by DosFreak

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Wait until the new Nvidia and AMD GPUs are out to see how that affects the market. I …

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Re: What's the dumbest retro mistake you've made?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 21:10

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by keenmaster486

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Ran an AMD Athlon with no heat sink for about 1 second. Poof.

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Re: Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0: Now w/200+ fonts, more variants, new site

Posted on 2020-07-15, 21:47

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by xcomcmdr

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… on shader paths that are known to be problematic on AMD hardware. I'll take a look into fontforge though, thanks! The software …

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Re: What's the dumbest retro mistake you've made?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 21:56

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by cyclone3d

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Ran an AMD Athlon with no heat sink for about 1 second. Poof. I had a …

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Re: Why is it that i can never manage a smooth scroll in DOSBox!?

Posted on 2020-07-16, 12:12

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by Samantha Ann Mulder

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… go into details for this, because it's different for nvidia, amd, intel, etc. so find instructions for your graphics card on …

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2020-07-16, 17:25

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by pentiumspeed

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… on it. Needs a sound card also. Maxing out my first AMD K6-2 450. Upgraded to a K6-3+ at 550mhz now and I have …

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2020-07-16, 19:39

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by OSkar000

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… on it. Needs a sound card also. Maxing out my first AMD K6-2 450. Upgraded to a K6-3+ at 550mhz now and I have …

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Re: 486 voltage converters

Posted on 2020-07-17, 08:52

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by The Serpent Rider

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Some say Intel DX4-100 is equal to an AMD 5x86-133 if both have cache set the same way. Intel DX4-100 is faster than 100Mhz 5x86, but not 33% faster.

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Re: AthlonXP + GeForce4 build

Posted on 2020-07-17, 13:43

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by Joseph_Joestar

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… -bit color depth. Game versions used: Quake2 v3.20 (with AMD 3DNow! 3.20 patch and 3DFX miniGL v1.49) Unreal Tournament …

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Re: 486 voltage converters

Posted on 2020-07-17, 16:14

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by SodaSuccubus

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… failure. Some say Intel DX4-100 is equal to an AMD 5x86-133 if both have cache set the same way …

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Promise ULTRA100 controller card: can't find drive

Posted on 2020-07-18, 14:29

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by Hezus

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… (https://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486pci/exp8049.html), with a AMD 486 DX4 100. It seems this board either has AMI …

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Re: PC-104 board found

Posted on 2020-07-18, 22:27

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by debs3759

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386SX40 was only produced by AMD, and was QFP (ie soldered to the board)

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