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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 07:26

by Paadam

in Marvin \ Video

Just put some fast CuMine or Tualatin with modified adapter and you are good to go.

Re: An EPIC Socket-8 Build

Posted on 2023-01-30, 18:09

by Paadam

in Marvin \ System Specs

Sure, a P3 is always better than a PPro, but a P3 everyone can have. And there isn't something like a Pentium 3 Pro, is it? In the end it's just something a little more uncommon to have some fun with and when you are done you put it back in it's boxes for the next years to come. It sort of is: a …

Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?

Posted on 2023-01-29, 06:34

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just solder small wire (a strand from IDE 80pin cable) to ground. There are plenty of grounds around, just measure with multimeter to verify. These tasks are sort of obvious, if you are not able to perform basic modifications like masking/soldering etc then perhaps you should not do this. Or find …

Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?

Posted on 2023-01-28, 19:22

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just mask the needed pins with tape, no need to cut traces.

Re: PentiumIII 600 on a PentiumII System?

Posted on 2023-01-27, 08:18

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They all had same type (=identical numbers) but one of them had later production date by few months and had Coppermine capable VRM. Officially none of them supported Coppermines. But all of them can work with Coppermine, just have to supply 1.8v to CPU (easiest using slocket+370 CPU).

Re: PentiumIII 600 on a PentiumII System?

Posted on 2023-01-27, 05:27

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had this type of 300GL back in 2004 iirc, got threee of them for real cheap and I even put Tualatin on it using Powerleap adapter. One of them worked out of the box with Coppermine also (100 MHz variant) as it had updated VRM.

Re: mobo upgrade

Posted on 2023-01-24, 11:48

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most Slot1 (and SS7) AT boards accept ATX PSU also, I have used that way many times. Either change out power switch or use reset switch as ATX power switch.

Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?

Posted on 2023-01-24, 10:46

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.motherboardpoint.com/threads/piii … in-a-p2v.15438/

Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?

Posted on 2023-01-23, 18:19

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Please read again this thread :) With Coppermine Slot1 you can mask VID pins so that the board delivers 1.8v which is perfectly normal for Coppermines. With 370+slot1 adapter you can usually just use voltage selection jumpers and set it to 1.8v and done, it works. Also, you can replace HIP6004ACB …

Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2023-01-23, 14:12

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not likely, I am happy with it. Going any higher will not make any miracles happen and I am satisfied to have Pentium being on par with K6-2 CPU's.

Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2023-01-23, 04:06

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This card plays it very well, it is totally CPU bound. With PII 400 it played smoothly at 1024x768/medium settings.

Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2023-01-22, 20:55

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Meanwhile in the world of working combinations... :) Scored SL2Z4 Tillamook for a whopping 5 euros on local auctrion site and finally got a chance to try the mods listed in the thread, 15 minutes with soldering iron and put the CPU into my PC Partner MVP3BS7 that I got from the same auction site a …

Re: Best Slot 1 Chipsets/Motherboards?

Posted on 2023-01-22, 20:25

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yeah i consider the 440bx to be the best chipset for slot1. although it doesn't official support for 133fsb, slot1 pentium3s @ 133fsb are not that common, so this requirement is unnecessary for me. one can also try finding the abit sh6, which has 815e chipset. it is slightly slower than the 440bx …

Re: Best 100mhz FSB Processor? (that I currently own!)

Posted on 2023-01-19, 20:58

by Paadam

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depending on the videocard I would choose to run a P3 800 or 850 in order to not stress the VRM of the motherboard too much - those high end Celerons draw a lot of power. Maybe not use the board at all, then it will not wear at all too, no? ;) Sorry I couldn't resist. I have yet to see a BX board …