Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2024-04-14, 06:18

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by Mamba

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Update, Next step will be to repeat numbers on a 370DE6 (again with adapters for Tualatin). See if dual channel memory and higher PCI64 channels will have an impact. Plus, the presence of AGP pro (2x) could tell me if there is any speed loss between pci at 66Mhz (with not shared bandwith) and the …

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Re: Any Extended 3Dnow video players out there?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 13:50

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A mini PCIE card based on the Broadcom BCM970012 or BCM970015 decoder card might be an option -if it can work through a PCIE to PCI bridge -if its drivers do not require SSE -if you don't consider this "cheating" somehow - if you can find one at a good price Already tried, it won’t work on any SS7 …

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Re: Any Extended 3Dnow video players out there?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 13:12

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I have posted you mplayer with gui that has 3dnow support, i see it should support Windows NT OS as well (like XP is), H264 DXVA videocard support maybe missing from it and you need it for all slow and old cpus, without it, it will be slideshow for h264 1080p, did you try it out? https://www.upload …

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Re: K6-2+/III+ possible media player

Posted on 2024-04-10, 18:49

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There are many players that work for AMD K6-II and K6-III for Dos/Win9x, for DVD i use ATiDVD 3.2 (Rage Pro/Rage128Pro). Mplayer should also support DVD, can someone help how to use mpf or mplayer without frontend for DVD, then i can uninstall ATiDVD. Added my old mplayer-k6.zip. QuickView Pro …

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Re: K6-2+/III+ possible media player

Posted on 2024-04-10, 13:23

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by Mamba

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There are many players that work for AMD K6-II and K6-III for Dos/Win9x, for DVD i use ATiDVD 3.2 (Rage Pro/Rage128Pro). Mplayer should also support DVD, can someone help how to use mpf or mplayer without frontend for DVD, then i can uninstall ATiDVD. Added my old mplayer-k6.zip. QuickView Pro …

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Re: Any Extended 3Dnow video players out there?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 13:19

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I have used P-III and ATi Radeon HD2400 with XBMCBuntu and 1080p h264 media files + bluray disks over hdmi, it was smooth as butter (video+audio) and it worked with Windows, also Nvidia Geforce 7600GT can playback h264 @ 1080p very well. Win9x and NT should be supported, i used it with Win98se. I …

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Re: K6-2+/III+ possible media player

Posted on 2024-04-10, 07:08

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Mplayer was a no go. I think I will post on video subsection. Mplayer works well, i have 3dnow version of it, maybe it needed dx9 or two files from dx9, I can share it later today or tomorrow. I have dx9.0c installed, tried the generic (486) version of Mplayer and crashed on startup. Tried smplayer …

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Any Extended 3Dnow video players out there?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 06:18

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Recently my project was to build a P-III system capable of h264 HD playback and it was relatively simple. All I had to do was to find the right video player that take advantage of hd3xxx gpu properly. At the end of the day it was mpc-be and nothing else. Cpu usage was around 20 to 30% (no audio) and …

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Re: K6-2+/III+ possible media player

Posted on 2024-04-10, 06:16

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Mplayer was a no go. I think I will post on video subsection.

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Re: K6-2+/III+ possible media player

Posted on 2024-04-08, 16:52

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VLC is not good for me. Winamp is for mp3/audio AFAIK Do not know foobar2000. Can it run mp4 enjoying some kind of hardware acceleration from gpu? Nope - only hardware decoders (REAL Magic X card PCI or CrystalHD mini-pci) can help Let’s assume it can be done, my question is which program can do …

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Re: K6-2+/III+ possible media player

Posted on 2024-04-08, 14:41

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by Mamba

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VLC is not good for me. Winamp is for mp3/audio AFAIK Do not know foobar2000. Can it run mp4 enjoying some kind of hardware acceleration from gpu?

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K6-2+/III+ possible media player

Posted on 2024-04-08, 13:01

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by Mamba

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Hello, plain simple, I am trying to find the best media player for the best socket 7 cpu. Media player classic black edition is a no go because it needs SSE. Any alternative? Or a custom build of MPC-BE without the need of SSE?

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Re: 370DE6 Crossflash to P3TDE6 ???

Posted on 2024-04-07, 07:36

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I can confirm that a Tualatin celeron 1400 with soldered Korean adapter is fully recognised. Guess I need to use adapters. The AGP port is 3.3V only? I mean, I see AGO pro 2x and I read about people using a 7800gs on it, but not ATI HD or X cards. Is there a list of recent AGP cards electrically …

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Re: Trying to upgrade L2 cache on SL-56G5

Posted on 2024-04-04, 13:29

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by Mamba

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Can you please explain what to change at resistor level and where? There are usually 1 or two resistors for grounding / connecting the unused / used address lines at the TAG chip (high numbers) and another resistor (combination) to tell the BIOS what´s populated. This mainboard can be configured …

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Re: Trying to upgrade L2 cache on SL-56G5

Posted on 2024-04-04, 10:20

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You can upgrade it for 2MB cache with 2 chips 128K x 64. You will also have to replace the TAG chip with a 64K x 8 one. If you´re going for 1MB (just add a second 64K x 64 chip), you don´t need to upgrade TAG-RAM, just leave it at 32K x 8. In either case there will be some adjustment necessary by …

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Trying to upgrade L2 cache on SL-56G5

Posted on 2024-04-04, 08:30

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by Mamba

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Hello, We are trying to upgrade the cache of a Soltek SL56G5 (512kb) motherboard. Apart from the cache chip itself, maybe we need to add something else(?) Can I ask if someone has the SL-56G1 (1Mb) to compare them and see what is missing? Thanks

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Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2024-04-03, 07:01

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by Mamba

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If they share the very same BIOS, why you need to (cross)flash it? Maybe these motherboards differ in VRMs as the Tualatins need less voltage than Coppermines. If it was that simple… Supermicro often uses same bios files for similar motherboards. There must be an ID chip or something on the mother …

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Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2024-04-03, 06:24

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by Mamba

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Hello, There is one thing is driving me crazy. p3TDE6 vs 370DE6 I think you know a bit of the cards I mentioned. I have the 370DE6 and it is totally identical to the P3TDE6 as far as I can tell. Same ports, same chipsets. Even same bios file! And this prevents me from crossflash the card to her …

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Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2024-04-03, 05:38

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by Mamba

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Hello, There is one thing is driving me crazy. p3TDE6 vs 370DE6 I think you know a bit of the cards I mentioned. I have the 370DE6 and it is totally identical to the P3TDE6 as far as I can tell. Same ports, same chipsets. Even same bios file! And this prevents me from crossflash the card to her …

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Re: 370DE6 Crossflash to P3TDE6 ???

Posted on 2024-04-02, 10:09

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The problem is that the bios file is the same. For the two motherboards….

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