Setting my friend up with an RDRAM Pentium 4 retro rig to LAN with my Pentium 3 system. 1.4ghz P4, Intel D845 chipset motherboard, 1gb of 40ns 800mhz RDRAM, FX-5950 ultra and a 74gb 10k sata Raptor on a pci card.

I finally got around to reconfiguring my 486 in write back cache mode and made some tweaks to the config.sys and autoexec.bad so now I have 616KB free conventional mem.
quite happy with that.

ODwilly wrote:

Setting my friend up with an RDRAM Pentium 4 retro rig to LAN with my Pentium 3 system. 1.4ghz P4, Intel D845 chipset motherboard, 1gb of 40ns 800mhz RDRAM, FX-5950 ultra and a 74gb 10k sata Raptor on a pci card.

If that isn't severly bottlenecked by the CPU, I don't know what is 🤣

That doesn't sound right. Sure it isn't an 850 board?
IIRC, 845 supported single channel SDR and DDR SDRAM.

gdjacobs wrote:

That doesn't sound right. Sure it isn't an 850 board?
IIRC, 845 supported single channel SDR and DDR SDRAM.

Oh you are right! It is an 850 board. The twin to that is an 845 and also in my parts stash so I got mixed up. As for the bottleneck I rather like having the gpu horsepower available and treat this system like a fancy Pentium 3 that can actually web browse thanks to SSE2.

Awesome!!! I have a load of those socket 423 P4's chips I have never used from 1.3Ghz to 1.7Ghz, never have come across a suitable skt 423 board. I did run a willamette 478 chip 1.4ghz in an 845(ddr) for a while, as you say pretty much P3 performance.

I am looking for a 3.3v AGP compatible board for the socket 423.
I haven't come across those yet 😢

Recapped a abit vp6. I hope I can hit 1.2ghz now.

Arctic wrote:

I am looking for a 3.3v AGP compatible board for the socket 423.
I haven't come across those yet 😢

Maybe non-Intel chipset boards? With S478 it's only non-Intel chipset boards that support 3.3V AGP.

philscomputerlab wrote:

Arctic wrote:

I am looking for a 3.3v AGP compatible board for the socket 423.
I haven't come across those yet 😢

Maybe non-Intel chipset boards? With S478 it's only non-Intel chipset boards that support 3.3V AGP.

Yep, something with a VIA or SiS chipset. I already have a P4S333 by Asus for socket 478.
Maybe I am lucky and find one soon.

Arctic wrote:

philscomputerlab wrote:

Arctic wrote:

I am looking for a 3.3v AGP compatible board for the socket 423.
I haven't come across those yet 😢

Maybe non-Intel chipset boards? With S478 it's only non-Intel chipset boards that support 3.3V AGP.

Yep, something with a VIA or SiS chipset. I already have a P4S333 by Asus for socket 478.
Maybe I am lucky and find one soon.

Abit sa7

Cooking Grey Partridge, the old school way.... Black beer, parselille, mushrooms and 38% cream.
(plus a shitload of nice spices)

brostenen wrote:

Cooking Grey Partridge, the old school way.... Black beer, parselille, mushrooms and 38% cream.
(plus a shitload of nice spices)

You and food! It was a tart last time wasn't it? Given how well Google seems to index this site it wouldn't surprise me if someone looking for a partridge recipe ended up on Vogons 😉

Just cleaning up some old junk to sell 🤣

Dude, never call a working SMP motherboard junk! xD
By the way, what motherboard is this?

Started playing Midnight Club 2 last week. Fun game, though some of the Tokyo levels are killer. I don't remember it being this difficult the last time I played through the entire game. I believe this is one of those games that's a little easier to play at lower frame rates, and the computer I used in 2003 certainly couldn't maintain 60fps vsync.

Or maybe I'm just getting old. Yeah, that's probably it.

My retro activity included ripping down a few machines for parts and piling the husks, unusable / non-usefull computer parts (modems, serial cards, and unidentifiable cards from misc server computers I tore apart) some CRT monitors I no longer wanted in the bed of my truck to take to the scrap heap tomorrow. I'm probably going to also try swapping out the AT PSU in one of the IBM Aptivas to try and see if that solves the not turning back on after shutdown issue with that particular unit.

Oh and I finally replaced the DVD drive on my father's PC 🤣. It was doing that thing where you have to hit the button a billion times before it even considers opening.

saturn wrote:

Just cleaning up some old junk to sell 🤣

alexanrs wrote:

Dude, never call a working SMP motherboard junk! xD
By the way, what motherboard is this?

It's an Abit BP6. I thought that image looked familiar... It was originally posted in a Japan blog about the Abit BP6 in September 2014. The -exact- image posted above was taken from the article, actually.

Original here: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en& … 2F51964853.html

I put it through google translate so we can read it in english.

That seems like an awesome board. Too bad I can't find one of those locally and they cost an arm and a leg on eBay. ISA+AGP+SMP = happiness! The only way this could be better is with a later VIA 133A chipset so the AGP bus would be in spec at 133MHz FSB.

Yesterday I setup my new AST 486. I also installed a HDD. Very nice and fast. It appears to have been upgraded with a 5x86 CPU with voltage converter. 😀

Installed a CT1740 and MIF-IPC-A replica. Also got the IDE 2X CD-ROM to work. It even reads CD-Rs.