Re: Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch

Posted on 2012-07-13, 20:33

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It had only FX chipset anyway. I'm no expert in PPros, but I think something HX-based would be ultimate. Don't feel bad, shit happens. IntelFX was THE chipset for Socket 8. It has nothing to do with the IntelFX (Triton) for Socket 7, you are referring to. So there is no IntelHX (Triton II) for …

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Re: Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch

Posted on 2012-07-13, 20:29

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How do you know it was a voltage surge? Anyone with a new mobo for me? :confused: No, but this would be a good opportunity to see if RIVA TNT Windows drivers work on a SiS-based 486. by measuring the PSU after it killed another board later on the same day. it had peaks of 30volts on the 12volt rail …

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Re: Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch

Posted on 2012-07-13, 12:59

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It had only FX chipset anyway. I'm no expert in PPros, but I think something HX-based would be ultimate. Don't feel bad, shit happens. IntelFX was THE chipset for Socket 8. It has nothing to do with the IntelFX (Triton) for Socket 7, you are referring to. So there is no IntelHX (Triton II) for …

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Re: The OKSORI WS32 - a great 4MB programmable Wavetable Sound Card

Posted on 2012-07-10, 16:30

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Hi, thanks for the disk images, I'm loading them right now. Well SAM9233 has no FM part, but SAM8905 does. However, FM doesn't come from the SAM8905 but from one of the Oksori chips of the WS32 card. The SAM8905 FM sounds much much better and closer to the real OPL. I think you misunderstood when I …

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Re: Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch

Posted on 2012-07-10, 12:31

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Please don't comment on this. I installed DOS . The system froze at 76%. The board is dead since then. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

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Re: Speedsys on newer machines

Posted on 2012-07-10, 10:34

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Mine hangs on "Read MSRs"... :( It's a Core i5 2400 on a Z68-based motherboard. The UEFI-BIOS-emulation is probably tripping it up! :P Just run "speedsys /sp" to bypass the PnP detection. Should work afterwards. But I think the CPU scores may not be comparable with the OLD CPU's. The scores are so …

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Building a Pentium Pro system from scratch

Posted on 2012-07-09, 17:01

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Hello everyone, I'm in the need of a fast system for the late DOS games and also want to play the early 3dfx and OpenGL games and decided to build a Pentium Pro system with a triple-boot Menu (DOS / Win98SE / WinNT 4.0) from scratch. Although this CPU has no 32/16-Bit fallback feature like its …

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Re: 486 help

Posted on 2012-07-09, 05:22

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TI started out making exact copies of the Cyrix 486DLC (TI 486DLC), but later they started producing an 8kb version (TI 486SXL). This annoyed Cyrix, which lead to the termination of their contract. Yep, that is exactly what happened back in the day and I'm happy someone remembers this correctly, …

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Re: 486 help

Posted on 2012-07-08, 19:59

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Read please and tell me how much cache this page says it has. I also have several TI 486DLC's. http://www.cpu-museum.de/?m=Texas+Instruments&f=486DLC The site you linked has incorrect information. No, sliderider, the 1993 Ti is a 1:1 Cyrix clone with 1KB of cache. Period. I have this from first …

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Re: 486 help

Posted on 2012-07-08, 19:25

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That's wrong, actually. The TI version has 8kb cache. Nope. Your statement is wrong. I have the Ti486DLC CPU myself: http://www.amoretro.de/2012/03/386-486-mainboard-mit-ti486dlc-33-und-iit-4c87dlc-33.html The DLC's have 1KB L1 cache. Maybe you mixed it up with Ti's later "SXL" which had 8KB cache …

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Re: 486 help

Posted on 2012-07-08, 17:02

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The Ti486DLC is a Cyrix 486DLC clone. It's basically a pimped up 386 with 1KB L1 cache and the 486 instruction set. Running at 40mhz the speed is quite nice and competes with entry level 486 CPU's up to the DX-33, depending on the game/software used. If you pair it with a decent ISA graphics card …

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Re: Very demanding 3D games to run on a 486

Posted on 2012-07-08, 16:55

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which mobo are you going to use for this tests?

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Re: My Socket 4 Motherboard. The ultimate 486 replacement?

Posted on 2012-07-07, 09:08

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Well I do not have so much cache. And even the 512KB configuration hasn't proven to be stable. The board crashes after ~2hrs. I think it's because the manual says that 12ns Tag-Rams are required for the "fastest" mode. I got only 15ns modules installed. Do you know where to get them?

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Re: Rage Fury MAXX Slot A build

Posted on 2012-07-07, 08:53

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I love your keen approach to actually USE the Rage Fury Maxx. After all its drawbacks it's still an interesting card and due to the lack of T'n'L engine it benefits from every single MHz CPU power you give it. You could try to overclock your 900MHz Athlon a bit, it will help. Btw. this card isn't …

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Re: Anyone have a RIVA TNT PCI card and a UMC motherboard?

Posted on 2012-07-06, 20:14

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Ahhhhhhhhh, for some reason I always associated tnt with tnt2, I just re-read in your original post about the tnt2 not working my mistake, if the tnt works in the umc board I'll get one one myself There is no if (or did I overread something) - the tnt works. Tested in Gigabyte GA486AM/S and the …

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Re: ALI Socket 3 486 Motherboards

Posted on 2012-07-05, 09:23

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That sure looks like an interesting story. I would also test one board if available VERY cheap but I still don't believe that this is a quality board.

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Re: What's this 486 freak show worth?

Posted on 2012-07-05, 05:59

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Well these boards are worth something. They actually even have their fanbase and are good performers. They accept all CPU's and the later revisions go well with EDO RAM so a cheap memory upgrade is possible. But many BIOS versions are prone to some kind of unreproducable instabilities from time to …

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Re: ALI Socket 3 486 Motherboards

Posted on 2012-07-04, 14:33

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look at the quality: this board is junk. soldered l2 cache, only 2 pci slots.. real crap if you ask me. if this single chipset gained any reputation it would be known...

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Re: Athlon's disappointing performance

Posted on 2012-07-03, 10:37

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As an owner of the very first 1GHz CPU (the "real" 1GHz with the K75 core, not the lame Thunderbird OEM version) let me put my 2 cents: The 1GHz Athlon is a legend! Of course CPUs with on-DIE L2 cache perform faster due to full speed cache and much lower latencies. But they are also faster because …

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Re: ALI Socket 3 486 Motherboards

Posted on 2012-07-03, 06:30

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I have the PCX on another harddisk. Will post it here later. But these boards are in the same ballpark as the UMC/SiS boards. Having three simms implies nothing but the Acer FinALi Chipset was the first 486 chipset with EDO support. Any board based on the FinALi chipset supports EDO. The brown …

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