Re: Ultimate Socket 754 AMD System

Posted on 2014-10-06, 16:50

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by Skyscraper

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Just give it a try, anyway decided to give 754 a try and spent like $55 on a new very late model board as well the best clocking DDR1 that money can buy. Isn't it sort of cute what we can get cheap today? I saw a set of DDR-550 on ebay for like $10 the other day, there's more real cheap on there …

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Re: Ultimate Socket 754 AMD System

Posted on 2014-10-06, 22:15

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by kithylin

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Because of the Doom 3 benching I looked around for some nice Samsung TCCD or high clocking Micron chips. I quickly realized that nice DDR memory is the most expensive memory in Sweden. 256mb modules of any speed is without any value at all and non fancy 512 mb sticks can be had for 1 euro each …

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Re: Ultimate Socket 754 AMD System

Posted on 2014-10-07, 03:14

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by PhilsComputerLab

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The Asrock board I have, and maybe the Intel 865 chipset in general, has a limit of 2 GB. I got some 1 GB DDR 400 chips from eBay. There are sellers selling new stock with BIN prices. I can't remember how much it was, it wasn't much but it wasn't a super bargain either.

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-13, 21:41

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Hi! I also use mico drivers every now and then. But mostly Seagate and I believe one Hitachi. But shouldn't make a difference. A slow hard drive does not cause slow downs in games. The benchmarks scores are fine and the graphics card is also a very good performer in DOS games. You can run the …

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-13, 22:22

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by smeezekitty

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I would see if you could tighten your cache and memory timings and stay stable. It will make the system a lot faster if you can. Your VGA also appears a little slow

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-14, 11:24

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by Anonymous Coward

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Apparently you can't really trust speedsys for video scores.

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-14, 13:10

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by chinny22

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Your hardware setup looks more then enough to play Doom. I'm assuming your playing in pure dos Have you got a old HDD to test with? then you'll know one way or the other if its the CF card, shouldn't think so though

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-14, 14:48

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by Artex

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Love that case btw!

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-14, 14:59

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by gerwin

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When I had the Am486DX4-100 installed in a VLB motherboard I measured this: Doom Registered v1.9 "-Timedemo Demo3"; 1 level of green border; with sound+music: 39,71 Frames per second. The frame rate cap of the game is 35 FPS. Frame rate is Calculated like this: FPS = Gametics / Realtics x 35 If the …

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-14, 21:45

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by b_rros

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The game stops when something explode or a new bad guy show up... the same thins happens in duke nukem 3d :( I'm pretty sure it's a microdrive problem, I put the microdrive in a 486 DX2 66 MHz I have and where I'm pretty sure DOOM run fine and the same thing happened... I will try to find a new CF …

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-14, 23:32

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by gerwin

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My speedsys scores with that CPU are: L1: 62,91MB/s L2: 40,53 MB/s RAM: 27,12 MB/s (60ns FPM, minimal waitstates) Image in this topic Which is similar to b_rros, except for the RAM speed. Lower then what feipoa got, by 10MB/s each!? But I did not have a problem with Doom, and was in the impression …

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-14, 23:52

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by feipoa

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I have found that SiS 496/497 and UMC 8881/8886 PCI-based motherboards tend to yield the numbers I noted with optimal stable timings. SiS 496/497 might yield 1-2 MB/s faster for the memory test. I, unfortunately, do not have any data for non-PCI 486 motherboards.

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-15, 01:48

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by smeezekitty

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Regardless look at my speeds: download/file.php?id=14313 Your memory speed at 18MHz is quite dismal for a 496 chipset board

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-15, 08:53

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by b_rros

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Ok, I was allways a guy of "LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS" in BIOS and go with it :) It's perfectly understandable if you just say something like RTFM, but... any chance of helping me tweaking the BIOS settings? Here's how my BIOS is right now... http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/b_rros/IMG_20141015_ …

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-15, 12:15

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by b_rros

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OK, I found an old 800MB hard drive, move some cards and cables around, and install it in the PC and... DOOM runs fine now, I even installed Duke Nukem 3D (1.3 version) and the UNIVBE driver that came with the CD and I can even play Duke in 320x400 with no slow downs. Maybe my microdrive is bad, I …

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-15, 12:47

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Cool, always nice when you figure something out.

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-15, 13:44

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by chinny22

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This link explains what the BIOS setting mean in plain English, so you can fine tune your PC and know what your doing at the same time 😀 http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/set/index.htm

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-15, 13:54

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by b_rros

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chinny22 wrote: This link explains what the BIOS setting mean in plain English, so you can fine tune your PC and know what your doing at the same time 😀 http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/set/index.htm Thanks 😀

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Re: AMD DX4 100 and IBM Microdrive

Posted on 2014-10-15, 13:56

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by b_rros

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philscomputerlab wrote: Cool, always nice when you figure something out. I updated the spreadsheet with my results, at line 469. For what I could see it's not that much different from others with DX4 machines 😀

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Overclocking AMD 5x86 to 180MHz

Posted on 2014-11-25, 00:15

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by Anonymous Coward

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How many people on here have successfully overclocked their 5x86 to 180MHz? -Specifically which chip are you using? -Is it completely stable? -What voltage was required to get it stable? I have a late model 16BGC with a 2000 date code. Although it is the best of my four 5x86 chips, it still does not …

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