Re: -<[({My Old PC})]>- Retro AMD Athlon XP 2600+ RIG
Posted on 2019-11-21, 05:18
Update: Replaced the Powerlink PSU with a Premier LC-B400ATX PSU. It is OK.
Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86
Posted on 2019-11-21, 05:59
I'll be building a KX133 Slot-A Athlon or a KT133 Socket-A Duron system soon, I will test it out and let you know if you are willing to try developing in that direction. 😎 I am hoping disabling L1 cache on either CPU would bring it down to a nice 386/486 speed..
Re: -<[({My Old PC})]>- Retro AMD Athlon XP 2600+ RIG
Posted on 2019-11-22, 15:31
Here are the benchmarks for this PC. Used CineBench 2003 and 3DMark2001SE. Any comments and opinions are welcome.
Re: -<[({My Old PC})]>- Retro AMD Athlon XP 2600+ RIG
Posted on 2019-11-22, 15:53
Second wave of benchmarks. Used PassMark Performance Test 6 and PCMark 2002.
Re: Gateway AMD K7 Winter Holiday Build
Posted on 2019-11-24, 22:53
I also have this case with a socket 423 and 1.8 willamette. I like it a lot. Oh also windows ME
Re: My old Super Socket 7 AMD K6-2 system
Posted on 2019-11-28, 04:17
The HDD is capable of ATA133, but it runs on a ATA33 controller from the VIA VT82C586B southbridge. Of course, Windows 98 can support Ultra DMA, but depending on the drivers and chipset. For Example: the PC Chips M571 motherboard supports DMA under Windows 98 with the stock drivers. In Windows 2000 …
Re: My old Super Socket 7 AMD K6-2 system
Posted on 2019-11-29, 16:15
Update: I recently built today a retro Slot 1 System. I moved the 30GB HDD, CD-RW, NIC and Modem in to the Slot 1 build. Now it have a 20GB Maxtor HDD DiamondMax Plus, 40x Liteon CD-ROM. In rest is the same.
Re: My old Super Socket 7 AMD K6-2 system
Posted on 2019-11-29, 20:03
The HDD is capable of ATA133, but it runs on a ATA33 controller from the VIA VT82C586B southbridge. Of course, Windows 98 can support Ultra DMA, but depending on the drivers and chipset. For Example: the PC Chips M571 motherboard supports DMA under Windows 98 with the stock drivers. In Windows 2000 …
Re: -<[({My Old PC})]>- Retro AMD Athlon XP 2600+ RIG
Posted on 2019-11-30, 04:55
Anyone seen the benchmarks? It is Ok?
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 16:46
I find the above amusing as I was always a Cyrix/sis/pcchips head in the later 90’s till bankruptcy They were cheap and did what I needed, (SNES emulator ran great) I still have my pr233, and pr433 somewhere Oh and any Cyrix fan should read this https://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/via- …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 16:47
Intel is still the gaming king: https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_c … _review,21.html
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 17:54
Intel is still the gaming king: https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_core_i9_10980xe_processor_review,21.html Ryzen 3800x is within 10% of that for 30% of the price. I can take the $650 I saved going ryzen and get another 2080rtx and go SLI. Also, that i9 runs at TDP rating of 165 watts. A …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 18:33
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 18:58
Intel is still the gaming king: https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_core_i9_10980xe_processor_review,21.html Ryzen 3800x is within 10% of that for 30% of the price. I can take the $650 I saved going ryzen and get another 2080rtx and go SLI. Also, that i9 runs at TDP rating of 165 watts. A …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 19:38
Interesting discussion. But I think to remember something different after the first good Athlon (at least in the gaming community) wasn't the Athlon XP doing quite better on the general price/performance opinions than most P4 until the 3200+ that was basically useless at that point and really needed …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 21:34
Well, there's always hindsight. Someone comes out there, thinking outside the box, and says "but what if we do THIS?!" That's super successful for a while, because it's revolutionary and they were the only ones with a product. Then the "big boys" come out with a clone, and their superior R&D budgets …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 21:45
> Intel will come back, in a few years' time. Your assuming that tomorrow will be like yesterday. We are starting to hit limits in the miniaturization of transistors, the cpu of a few years time might not be much faster than today's.
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 21:56
Firtasik wrote: The gaming king ≠ the budget gaming king. Must be wonderful to live in a world where money is no object and you can drop $650 on a 6-8% performance boost because you've already got quad-SLI 2080s without blinking.
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-03, 23:59
Well, if you want to talk about computers that ran the internet you can't leave out Sun Microsystem ( Sparc CPU ) HP ( PA-RISC CPU ) SGI ( RISC CPU )
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-04, 00:08
DNSDies wrote: Firtasik's charts had a $1100 Intel CPU topping the charts of a few games with Ryzen 3800x about 7-8FPS behind it, which costs about $300. i5 9600K costs about $200 and it beats 3800x (about $370) in some games.
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