Re: Ultimate AMD K6-3-500 build advice ?

Posted on 2019-03-02, 20:28

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by Intel486dx33

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What is the best settings for this motherboard? AGP ? ( I am using a Voodoo-3-2000 agp card ) SDRAM? ( I am using PC-133 ram ) Cache? ( I have 512kb cache ) CPU bus ? FSB ? Clock speed ? CPU clock ?

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-05, 21:10

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by RetroSpector78

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Was wondering about the windows 95 performance when given sufficient ram (was thinking 16mb or 32mb).I assumed during that time period, especially late 1995 when these CPUs were still around a lot of PCs starting to get shipped with windows 95, probably with something like 8mb of ram)

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-06, 19:23

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by bregolin

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Reading the reddit thread reminded me of how I had to do enable mono playback in Winamp to be able to play MP3s on my Am486-DX4 oc'ed to 120MHz, otherwise playback would skip every now and then. That also meant it was listening to music and nothing else. Now, if I reeeally felt like pumping up the …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-06, 20:53

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by SirNickity

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I was working on a PC RPG game with some friends back then (you really have to use the term "working" very loosely here - it was mostly daydreaming.) I was one of two people writing music for it. Every time I composed something with my AWE32, I would record it as a wave file and encode to MP3 with …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 03:16

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by The Serpent Rider

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32mb should be enough for everything this CPU can run at least on barely playable level, like Blood, Starcraft and Diablo.

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 07:34

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by dionb

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Re the Windows 95 vs Windows discussion, when I started my second attempt at getting a degree in autumn 1997 the 'old' computer labs at the university had 486DX-33 with 4MB and somebody had installed Windows 95 on them. That was painful, really painful, but it ran. In another lab they had 486DX2-66 …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 09:06

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by RetroSpector78

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I don't think I'll put more than 16mb in this system, and I think Windows 95 will run pretty well.(perhaps even with 8MB il will be do-able, but it will benefit from an additional 8mb). I also have the impression back in the day we were a lot more tolerant to low FPS in games, and the fact that we …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 10:02

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by LunarG

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Yes, the difference between 8 and 16 MB of RAM in Windows 95 is pretty much night and day. But having even more doesn't hurt. There is a limit to how much is really useful though. I never got to try a DX4 back in the 90's, but one of my best friends had the chance to, and he said it was dead slow …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 10:20

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by henryVK

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My friend's P60 could play mp3s under Windows at least, something which my current DX4 can't do. At least not without turning down the quality a lot. Turning down the quality (and ditching stereo) might have the advantage of making a whole song fit on a floppy disk ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 11:06

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by Deksor

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Too bad I just uninstalled 95 from my DX4, I could have showed you the speed of 95 on it ^^

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 11:46

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by firage

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32mb should be enough for everything this CPU can run at least on barely playable level, like Blood, Starcraft and Diablo. Agreed, 16 or 32 MB at most. I'm quite particular about the physical RAM amounts in my own builds - too much of it feels anachronistic and does nothing but become a liability …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 13:11

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by BinaryDemon

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Reading the reddit thread reminded me of how I had to do enable mono playback in Winamp to be able to play MP3s on my Am486-DX4 oc'ed to 120MHz, otherwise playback would skip every now and then. That also meant it was listening to music and nothing else. Now, if I reeeally felt like pumping up the …

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Re: Looking for an ID/manual/jumpers and more info on this 386 AMD 40MHz board

Posted on 2019-03-07, 19:56

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by Cyrix200+

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Two and a half years later... I want to build a system with this board! Looking at the battery damage again, I feel it should be fixable if/when there are problems. But then there are the missing chips... There are a bunch of cache chips missing, those are replaceable but expensive on eBay. I have …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 20:01

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by bregolin

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Reading the reddit thread reminded me of how I had to do enable mono playback in Winamp to be able to play MP3s on my Am486-DX4 oc'ed to 120MHz, otherwise playback would skip every now and then. That also meant it was listening to music and nothing else. Now, if I reeeally felt like pumping up the …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 20:41

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by Cyrix200+

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We had this case at home when I was young(er), but with a 66MHz Intel DX/2. I have been looking for it for quite a while! Congrats on finding one, and I like that you have made a video on it! (Now there will be more people looking for it, yay! ;)) I did get the desktop version a while back, so there …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 20:53

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by treeman

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😲 Im scared seeing that coke in between the open case and keyboard! its a beautiful case

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Re: Looking for an ID/manual/jumpers and more info on this 386 AMD 40MHz board

Posted on 2019-03-07, 21:34

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by Predator99

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Cyrix200+ wrote: U24: 74FCT / 521BP(triangle) / 9131CP U23: P9142?? / 74FCT24?? / PC I can probably 'just' find these on eBay and go for it? Yes, these are standard logic ICs? You can also use other types, i.e. U24: 74ALS521 74F521 U23: SN74HC240 74ls240

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 22:58

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by torindkflt

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I haven’t tried on vintage hardware but mpxplay (dos) claims it only needs a dx4-100 for mp3 playback Indeed it will work, as I have done it on my own 486 build, a near-exact recreation of my previously-mentioned childhood system. As I recall though, I needed to download a special version of …

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Re: Looking for an ID/manual/jumpers and more info on this 386 AMD 40MHz board

Posted on 2019-03-08, 05:45

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by Cyrix200+

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U24: 74FCT / 521BP(triangle) / 9131CP U23: P9142?? / 74FCT24?? / PC I can probably 'just' find these on eBay and go for it? Yes, these are standard logic ICs? You can also use other types, i.e. U24: 74ALS521 74F521 U23: SN74HC240 74ls240 Great, thanks! I will look into it! Good to know that I am …

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Re: Looking for an ID/manual/jumpers and more info on this 386 AMD 40MHz board

Posted on 2019-03-08, 12:22

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by Deunan

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Just a quick note, HC and LS series might be a tad bit too slow for this task, if it's cache memory related. Mouser should carry FCT but you can try substitutes too. I'd pick ACT for FCT replacement. If you can't find ACT, try AC first, then HC/HCT, then ALS and LS as last resort.

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