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Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-26, 00:30

I got one of these specifically for games in that time period: http://i.imgur.com/cZOBcp5l.jpg Nforce 4 SLi + Athlon X2 4800+ (socket 939) + 2GB DDR1 Haven't built a machine around it yet, but I'm thinking of pairing it with these: http://i.imgur.com/DrheHHDl.jpg 2x XFX 7950GT 512MB silent. For …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-26, 01:14

by Robin4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Skip XP and go with Athlon 64 is my tip :blush: Depends which OS you want to use.. If its XP, then go with the athlon 64. Better choice would be an Intel core duo 2 as standard or an Core 2 Quad as premium.. I know back in the day games would use 1 or 2 cores, but its nice to have a smooth butter …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-26, 01:16

by Robin4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got one of these specifically for games in that time period: http://i.imgur.com/cZOBcp5l.jpg Nforce 4 SLi + Athlon X2 4800+ (socket 939) + 2GB DDR1 Haven't built a machine around it yet, but I'm thinking of pairing it with these: http://i.imgur.com/DrheHHDl.jpg 2x XFX 7950GT 512MB silent. For …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-26, 01:29

by KT7AGuy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe this problem is unique to me, but it has soured me on K8 systems and is the reason why I've been recommending AM3 and Phenom II instead. The problem affects both of my K8M800 motherboards: an ABIT KV85 v2, and PC Chips M861G v1.6a. Neither one of these will run 2GB (2x1GB) RAM at 200mhz. I …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-26, 01:58

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe this problem is unique to me, but it has soured me on K8 systems and is the reason why I've been recommending AM3 and Phenom II instead. The problem affects both of my K8M800 motherboards: an ABIT KV85 v2, and PC Chips M861G v1.6a. Neither one of these will run 2GB (2x1GB) RAM at 200mhz. I …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-26, 02:34

by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you care much about decent web browsing performance or watching videos with this machine, then I recommend you go with Athlon64 as a minimum. The socket-A AthlonXP CPUs don't support SSE2. It didn't matter much back then, but it's become crippling with newer software, web browsing, and video …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-26, 23:47

by buckeye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found this ASRock board N68C-GS4 FX compatible with multitude of cpu's - Am3+, Am3, Am2 and etc. Can anyone please recommend one or two for high end windows xp gaming? A lot of choices here!

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-27, 01:03

by KT7AGuy

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

candle_86: I'm not sure if the RAM is single-sided or double-sided. One CPU is a 3400+ Venice and the other is 3700+ Clawhammer. One set of RAM is a Kingston KVR400AK2 kit and the other is Crucial CT12864Z40B.M16FF. buckeye: I have a Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition that I like an awful lot. After …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-27, 01:08

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

for a good Windows XP system an Athlon II X4 would be excellent.

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-27, 21:47

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There's a quirk to Phenom and its K10 friends on XP. You need to either disable Cool'n'Quiet or use a utility that can lock all the cores to the same speed. Otherwise K10's fancy independent core clocks combined with XP's scheduler cause threads to jump to ~800 MHz cores unexpectedly and it has …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-29, 02:04

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are three camps when it comes to this, some people want period correct setups while others just build something newer that works and the last bunch who are just gunning for pure speed. Phenom 2 is great as there is a lot less annoying bottnecking and you get a great platform unlike with some …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-29, 02:42

by JaKSLaP

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i dont understand why would you need specific hardware for XP, XP Runs on alot of motherboard and video cards

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-29, 05:11

by nforce4max

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are three camps when it comes to this, some people want period correct setups while others just build something newer that works and the last bunch who are just gunning for pure speed. Phenom 2 is great as there is a lot less annoying bottnecking and you get a great platform unlike with some …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-29, 06:19

by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The XP era is so interesting because everyone sees it differently and you can indeed use so many different parts. We will see all sorts of XP machines and I think that's awesome :D I haven't chosen sides yet, and I might never will because it really doesn't matter much which way you go. But I'm …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-29, 11:24

by clueless1

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My XP machine happens to be mostly period correct for late 2006/early 2007, but I didn't plan it that way--those were the components I just happened to be able to get a hold of cheaply. Just tried F.E.A.R. last night (a 2005 release) and sure enough, it runs with a minumum framerate of >40 FPS with …

Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-29, 11:28

by PhilsComputerLab

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And F.E.A.R. is really an extremely demanding game. Just disable the soft shadows, that alone will give it a huge boost.

Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2016-05-08, 01:02

by ibm5155

in Release Announcements

Does it work with the cyrix Gxm?

Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2016-05-08, 10:34

by feipoa

in Release Announcements

ibm5155 wrote: Does it work with the cyrix Gxm? gdjacobs wrote: Being Cyrix based, do MediaGX Geode processors support soft multiplier configuration? feipoa wrote: I recall looking into this at one point and the answer was no. I think the GXm needs to see the binary values placed on CLKMODE pins to …

Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2016-05-08, 12:45

by ibm5155

in Release Announcements

my notebook can change teh clock speed from 200MHz to 175MHz, also overe Windows there's a tool that can low the performance to 50% (idk if it's downclocking the processor or doing another trick) I really need something for testing this netbook D: (is there some native Windows 98 tool for checking …

Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2016-05-08, 13:28

by feipoa

in Release Announcements

I question whether your notebook is really downclocking the CPU. The GXm's I've used and have read about all have a 30 MHz or 33.3 MHz FSB and 175 MHz is not an integer multiple of 30 or 33.3. The GXm only has integer multipliers.

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