Re: Need help installing Socket 7, AMD K6/300AFR CPU
Posted on 2019-10-29, 20:39
I love those mmx days.
Re: Need help installing Socket 7, AMD K6/300AFR CPU
Posted on 2019-10-29, 21:30
Did you lower the voltage??? Running at the intel mmx setting (2,8v) is not a good idea... also keep trying, one setting should yield the 4x or 4,5x setting because it's now running at 5x (333mhz). 2,5v is the lowest I can go, with the "open" settng. I'v been troubleshooting this with the original …
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 10:30
Well, in 1999, the first Athlon (K7) was released. So you don't have that much to choose from. The Slot A K75 (Pluto/Orion) with 750 MHz was the fastest Athlon at that time; it was released in November 1999. Good luck finding exactly that one for a good price.
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 11:35
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Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 16:27
you started your interest in computers when you were less than 1 year old?
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 16:38
you started your interest in computers when you were less than 1 year old? LOL like the girl that is 6 and said she had planned for 10 years to do a charity thing :lol: If referring to memories around 2006 and you think your parents had it for say 4-5 years then something from 2001-2002 would be …
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 19:46
I have a rare Slot A motherboard but it unfortunately is dead, it doesn't POST, i hear fans, the HDD spin up, etc. and thats it, nothing appears on the screen, no beeps, nothing. there are no bulging or leaking capacitors on it.
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 20:13
Warlord wrote: you started your interest in computers when you were less than 1 year old? Fair enough - a generation earlier, my parents have a photo of me typing on a C64 when I was 1. "Apparently" I knew how to type my name. I'm not sure I believe that, to be honest.
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 20:58
I guess if you want to stick to that specific year, I'd go with: Athlon 750 1gb RAM Radeon 7500 120gb HD CDRW/DVDRW If you didn't mind fudging the "period correctness" a bit I'd go Duron 1200 or 1.2ghz Athlon, 2GB RAM, and Radeon 9500 or 9700. But that's more of a 2001-2002 system, if I recall …
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-03, 21:18
I think radeon 7500 is a 2001 card, in 1999 he'd be stuck with ati rage 128 ultra or ati rage fury maxx. Also correct me if I'm wrong but didn't 120gb HDDs come out late 2001 too?
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-04, 04:05
I think radeon 7500 is a 2001 card, in 1999 he'd be stuck with ati rage 128 ultra or ati rage fury maxx. Also correct me if I'm wrong but didn't 120gb HDDs come out late 2001 too? You're probably right, I'm not good with exact release dates on hardware. I think going for a specific year build with …
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-04, 07:17
yes, which is why I personally go with a specific month, not a specific year, when considering period correct builds
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-04, 10:18
If you're just getting into retro computing, this isn't going to be an easy rig to acquire and setup. How serious are you about doing this? [...] For the graphics card, I was going to suggest ATi Rage Fury MAXX, but I'm not sure they actually got these into the hands of consumers before January …
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-04, 11:35
even Rage 128 Ultra are easy actually, you can find them for 5 bucks and are common enough. It's what I'd go for if it has to be a 99 ati, it has higher clocks than the fury maxx, and no dual gpu AFR issues to deal with. But yeah, Nvidia TNT2 Ultra or 3dfx Voodoo3 would be better, even Matrox G400 …
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-04, 12:26
For the graphics card, I was going to suggest ATi Rage Fury MAXX, but I'm not sure they actually got these into the hands of consumers before January 2000. yeah no chance to get one of these for anything close to a reasonable price unfortunately :( can you elaborate what's wrong with the early MSI …
Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC
Posted on 2019-11-04, 12:53
I still have my fathers old PC from around that time if I remember correctly. It has Asus A7V motherboard and it is still working perfectly. I have not done anything with it since he gave it to me after he didn't need it anymore, but after since the pc is working fine after 20 years or so, it must …
Re: Latest AGP/AMD mainboards?
Posted on 2019-11-09, 15:38
I have a AM2NF3-VSTA, it's an AM2 board with AGP, not sure if there is anything later than AM2 available with AGP but there are a few mATX boards around too.
Re: Latest AGP/AMD mainboards?
Posted on 2019-11-09, 18:55
I have an AM2NF3-VSTA, but it isn't micro-ATX sized as requested. I've seen this format with socket LGA775 and i865 chipsets. Why do you need AGP?
Re: Latest AGP/AMD mainboards?
Posted on 2019-11-09, 19:25
I have an AM2NF3-VSTA, but it isn't micro-ATX sized as requested. I've seen this format with socket LGA775 and i865 chipsets. Why do you need AGP? Because I've quite enough AGP cards to test and only few PCIEx and like to see how well these old gpu can still lives. I did in the past similar test …
Re: Latest AGP/AMD mainboards?
Posted on 2019-11-09, 19:32
Note that you'll hit problems with Windows 8 and nF3-based boards: nVidia dropped support for their AGP chipsets after Vista. Linux runs fine though.
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