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Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 04:18

Can't work it out. > Never used an IBM I liked, got shot of all but one of mine years ago. > Never had an Athlon that worked. I'd run a GeForce 256 or something in a machine from that era, but on that one I think I'd go with a Trident Blade T64 as I have one I'll never use and it seems like a good …

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 04:40

by alexanrs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I decided to research a little to sort out the specs of my old Duron machine and apparently it must have been a 1200MHz one. I could swear they used a PR system, because I remember seeing that processor as 800Mhz somewhere, but I guess that processor was being throttled (because I'm sure it …

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 04:42

by ODwilly

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I like IBM laptops a lot. Can not comment on the desktop towers, only experience were with p4 Thinkcenters that were dreadful. Have had good luck with parts and systems in general. Even have had good PC CHIPS motherboards! Bad experiences grow strong opinions.

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 04:57

by HighTreason

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll give the thinkpad one thing, it lasted, you could send it on a trip to hell and back and it wouldn't care. But it was second rate compared with the Armada and Presario.

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 05:08

by HighTreason

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why am I starting to get the impression you don't like me? Yeah, the K7 had it's place, it was faster than Intel's solution (At setting fire mostly) and I had several while they were a relevant piece of hardware. That doesn't mean that it worked reliably, perhaps that is a factor in why they are …

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 05:35

by RacoonRider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why am I starting to get the impression you don't like me? Yeah, the K7 had it's place, it was faster than Intel's solution (At setting fire mostly) and I had several while they were a relevant piece of hardware. That doesn't mean that it worked reliably, perhaps that is a factor in why they are …

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 05:40

by Sutekh94

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Only experience I've had with Slot A/K7 stuff is my yet-to-be-finished T-bird 700 build, which actually uses decent parts (MSI MS-6191 micro ATX mobo, my GF2 Ultra if I get it working properly...) I guess it's one of those situations where your mileage may vary due to the quality of the parts and …

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 06:17

by HighTreason

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@RacoonRider; It's not an issue anyway, just a difference of opinion. On that note, me and my best friend disagree on most things and argue a lot - sometimes we even disagree when we don't really disagree because it's almost a habit by now. The world would be immensely boring if everyone liked the …

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 07:33

by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My parents used to have a Pentium 2 IBM Intellistation from that time period. The case was styled very much like this one, but black. They never reported any issues with it, other than when it was getting too slow for the modern internet. It looks like your case uses standard front panel connectors. …

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 10:29

by RacoonRider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Btw, there's a very similar-looking IBM PC-300PL series tower case with all PCI slots mounted on a RISER. Yes, riser in a tower case. Huge tower case with a lot of space.

Re: IBM Aptiva - AMD K7 550 Slot A. Any good?

Posted on 2015-03-04, 15:54

by Artex

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I'll throw the build together tomorrow and see how she goes. I've never messed around with a system built around a K7 processor, so at the very least, it will be a learning experience - hopefully a good one. I have a ton of graphics cards laying around, so I'll probably throw in a V3-3000 …

AMD A80486DX4-100NV8T (write through CPU) - overclockability

Posted on 2015-04-09, 19:10

by jesolo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was wondering how overclockable this CPU is? I have one like this and would like to overclock it to 120 MHz (40 x 3). Does it normally run stable at this speed?

Re: AMD A80486DX4-100NV8T (write through CPU) - overclockability

Posted on 2015-04-09, 20:10

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, it usually does. But it's over-clocking, so, YMMV.

Re: AMD A80486DX4-100NV8T (write through CPU) - overclockability

Posted on 2015-04-09, 20:52

by smeezekitty

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have the CPU, just try it and see. There shouldn't be any danger with a decent heatsink.

Re: faster SPEEDSYS with Intel 386 than with AMD?

Posted on 2015-04-24, 20:03

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Presence of a 387 divides speedsys score. Real performance is not changed, don't worry. edit : But changing a 33MHz CPU to a 40MHz one is not enough, 386MB set speed with some crystal I think ? Not really my domain, I'm a 486 guy.

Re: faster SPEEDSYS with Intel 386 than with AMD?

Posted on 2015-04-24, 20:15

by HighTreason

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I suspect Suniac is right about the performance. If you have a 66MHz crystal, you could drop an 80MHz one in and you would see a 40MHz CPU clock... It might overclock the ISA or something a little though. You could be adventurous and try to go faster if you wanted ;D

Re: faster SPEEDSYS with Intel 386 than with AMD?

Posted on 2015-04-24, 20:24

by nemail

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ok thanks for the speedsys info - so the score gets divided by 2? @crystal: crap - so i'd have to swap out the crystal to get 40mhz? i don't want to overclock anything, though...

Re: faster SPEEDSYS with Intel 386 than with AMD?

Posted on 2015-04-25, 01:12

by HighTreason

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't speak for speedsys. But the crystal will be fairly trivial. At worst, your board will be dividing by 8 for the ISA clock, so you will get 5MHz instead of 4MHz, which is well within tolerance. I have ran ISA cards at over 20MHz without issue.

Re: faster SPEEDSYS with Intel 386 than with AMD?

Posted on 2015-04-25, 04:01

by smeezekitty

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't speak for speedsys. But the crystal will be fairly trivial. At worst, your board will be dividing by 8 for the ISA clock, so you will get 5MHz instead of 4MHz, which is well within tolerance. I have ran ISA cards at over 20MHz without issue. Uhh... isn't ISA 8 MHz and not 4? Anyway, 10 MHz …

Re: faster SPEEDSYS with Intel 386 than with AMD?

Posted on 2015-04-25, 04:22

by HighTreason

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Eh? Yeah, oops. I forgot that the divisor refers to the crystal and not the CPU clock. I think most ISA cards were probably made to run fine at 12MHz to be honest, given some boards seemingly yield this frequency no matter what. My Shuttle 386 board has never had a problem with the divisor set to 8 …

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