Re: Most modern hardware for a standalone XP Pro SP3 x86 machine in 2023?

Posted on 2023-12-07, 11:26

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by nd22

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In my opinion X79 is a wild card: it may work or it may not work with all the required drivers. I am sure there are many here who are experts in installing XP on much newer hardware but for a production system I would go the safe route and choose something with official support! The most sensible …

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Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2023-12-07, 08:21

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by nd22

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I never did a head count so here it goes: Matrox 1. Matrox Millenium II 8mb PCI Nvidia 2. Riva TNT 16mb AGP 2X VGA only 3. Riva TNT 2 ultra 32mb VGA only 4. Riva TNT 2 ultra 32mb VGA only 5. geforce 32mb SDR VGA only 6. geforce 32mb DDR VGA only 7. Abit geforce2 mx400 64mb VGA only 8. Abit geforce2 …

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-22, 06:24

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by nd22

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I have a quite a few Abit motherboards supporting P4. My question is: Cedar mill is allowed or only Willamette/Northwood/Prescott? All of netburst. Ill make new brackets as the benchmarks come in. With that said, you still need to participate in aiming for the stars. Stock benchmarks will no longer …

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Re: Aiming for the Stars, Next platform?

Posted on 2023-11-21, 06:58

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by nd22

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Probably it has been done countless time but I am going to suggest it anyway: socket 462 split into Thunderbird/Palomino/Thoroughbred/Barton sections.

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-21, 06:48

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by nd22

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I have a quite a few Abit motherboards supporting P4. My question is: Cedar mill is allowed or only Willamette/Northwood/Prescott?

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Re: Searching for a good and fast LCD 4:3 (vintage gaming)

Posted on 2023-11-08, 07:09

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by nd22

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21.3 inch are the largest commercially available 4:3 LCD monitors; most of them are premium models made for the professionals to use in CAD/medical applications and so on. I have an Eizo S2100 monitor - 21.3 inch - with 1600*1200 at 60hz max resolution; it has DVI and VGA inputs only, so no speakers …

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Re: Good 4:3 LCD Monitor

Posted on 2023-11-07, 06:41

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by nd22

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Good luck finding one! Even 21.3 inches has become expensive and rare today let alone that Viewsonic which must be something of a unicorn!

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Re: Annual specs for Ultimate Gaming Rigs from 1992 to 2000

Posted on 2023-11-06, 07:34

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by nd22

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Going back to the subject of the topic, I think we can all agree the the ultimate machine available each year was out of reach for 99.99% of people. Only those with very deep pockets could afford it. A different matter were the machines bought by companies. Those could afford to pay big bucks when …

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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose? (solved)

Posted on 2023-11-06, 06:49

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by nd22

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You could use the Brisbane to assemble the system and test it! Unfortunately the problem with Chinese sellers is always the same: advertise one thing, send another! It happened to me also when I got instead of low latency DDR2 Corsair RAM some no name brand with CAS6.

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Re: Annual specs for Ultimate Gaming Rigs from 1992 to 2000

Posted on 2023-11-03, 10:28

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by nd22

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Nforce4 chipset actually does not require to have the SATA driver to install Windows. I installed XP just with the original disk on my Abit AN8-SLI. Yes, I got the floppy with the driver but it was not required! There may have been some differences depending on the manufacturer, but I distinctly …

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Re: Annual specs for Ultimate Gaming Rigs from 1992 to 2000

Posted on 2023-11-03, 08:28

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by nd22

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I used floppy on all my systems from 1996 to 2010 with Windows 95 up to Vista. Only in 2011 when I got the last PC - the brand new Sandy bridge - I renounced the floppy drive. Today it is still there in all of my systems but I do not use it unless it is required to update the BIOS; when installing …

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Re: WinXP/7 builds and potential Windows 98 rabbit hole build

Posted on 2023-11-01, 07:12

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by nd22

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Why don't you install 98Se on that NF7-S 2.0 to see how it performs? If you already have the board and the CPU I would say this is a very good start! Put only 512mb of RAM in it, the geforce3 card and run some benchmarks and games so you can asses the system. FX 5500 is a very weak card but you can …

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Re: WinXP/7 builds and potential Windows 98 rabbit hole build

Posted on 2023-10-30, 08:35

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by nd22

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As Joseph put it, going beyond 20001 with 98SE for games is not a good option; the best platform for 98 is socket 370/423 if you have deep pockets/478 from Intel and socket 462 with VIA/AMD/SIS chipset/slot A from AMD. Taking into account the rarity of socket 423/slot A and the price of socket 370 …

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-10-26, 06:29

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by nd22

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The number of games incompatible with NT 6.X would be too long to even mention them but the list of games incompatible with XP is much shorter and frankly XP has other advantages too like EAX for example! For the 99% of installs XP 32 bit is what I see at my friends, personally I use 32 bit version …

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-10-25, 07:45

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by nd22

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From a P4 1.4GHz at the one end to a dual Xeon E5-2690v2 at the other. Not sure why you'd pick the 1.4GHz P4 as the starting point - you could certainly, back in the day, run XP on less. Had XP (and later server 2003 R2) on a PIII 700 with 768 megs of RAM and it was... fine for the time. I remember …

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Re: Abitronium - an BE6-II rebuild that's A BIT long due.

Posted on 2023-10-13, 09:17

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by nd22

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Really good system! I have several BE6 - II and they are very good, one of the best slot 1 boards! One question: why Windows 2000?

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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose? (solved)

Posted on 2023-10-08, 15:48

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by nd22

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Show us some picture with the assembled system so we can rejoice again seeing an Abit board at work!

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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-05, 06:01

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by nd22

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Depending on where you live you might have the perfect option: https://www.ebay.com/itm/113737803569?epid=1963871211&hash=item1a7b4d2731:g:xmgAAOSwKMJhv5QG&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwH4%2BzjzvlEuxZ7F15h92YhTUzWapMhw%2BT0HDDK6ZuB% …

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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-05, 05:39

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by nd22

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[/quote] P.S. About the mentioned problem for the non-integer CPU multiplier values: I think it's chipset related. [/quote] No, it is not chipset related, it is CPU related.

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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-05, 05:36

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by nd22

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1. friendly advice: You have an Abit board. Leave it at it is! Just put the latest BETA Bios if you want but don't mod it! I have all socket AM2/AM2+ Abit boards and they are great - no need for any modding and unnecessary risks. 2. Nforce4 SLI and Ultra are basically the same chipset - no …

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