Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2019-05-16, 10:58

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Seems like limiting the drive to 32 GB via jumper did the trick, now I see all 32 GB in the socket7 machine even on onboard IDE controller (and I lost only 8 GBs since the drive is 40 GB total capacity). Replaced the AD1816 sound card in super7 build with SB AWE64 Value (CT4520) card. Even with …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2019-05-13, 10:56

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Yes, but even after patching the BIOS, so my PC didn't hang while booting I was only able format it to 8GB max and had to use Ontrack SW. But not everytime, it depend on actual motherboard, it seems :( And the patcher doesn't work everytime - see my post above https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p= …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2019-05-07, 09:53

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In fact I had most success with Ontrack disk manager. I only set the harddrive in a way that it doesn't lock up the PC while booting and Ontrack does the rest. That way, I was able to use even 120GB drive on similar board (with HX chipset) that was stuck on 8GB barrier no matter what I did.

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Re: why do people speak ill of the Voodoo Banshee?

Posted on 2018-11-01, 15:15

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I like my banshee, it is the only working 3dfx card I now have, cost me next to nothing (I exchanged it for two chocolate bars :blush: ) and yeah it is a PCI version from Creative. Crisp 2D picture, good compatibility, working glide. No need to hassle with more cards and cables, takes up less space …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2018-10-31, 11:34

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Hello , how can i add support for a k6-3 for my old qdi titanium iiib? You can use biospatcher (http://www.rom.by/) to add cpu support and being a TX board, look exactly what your voltage regulator is. Maybe there will be another undocumented voltage settings. As far as good cooling goes, I had no …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2018-10-29, 09:47

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Yes and you can mod the BIOS for better support of K6-2 on really old boards, that weren't avare of K6 let alone K6-2. And the CXT core of K6-2 has 6X multiplier. That way I successfuly ran K6 at 400 MHz (6x66) on old mobos with 430HX chipset (Zida Tomato 5DHX and MSI 5128). No need to mod CPU or …

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Re: Memory size, cacheable range and performance. Socket 5/7

Posted on 2018-10-12, 06:40

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Oh, it ended at 40 EUR :) for the pcchips mobo+CPU (K6-2@300), some RAM and ATcase+PSU setup. And it seemed kind expensive to me - maybe just because I got ma VA503+ PC for free and the P5A-B cost next to nothing (about 10 EUR bundle with another working nforce2 board, some NOS socket7 coolers and …

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Re: Memory size, cacheable range and performance. Socket 5/7

Posted on 2018-10-11, 06:03

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Is the difference that big? As i think the Ali boards are better performers against the Mvp3 boards hands down, and I've tested a lot of them (mostly with 3dmark and Everest). But most Mvp3 boards I've seen only had 512kb cache and only one had 1MB (DFI board, didn't seem much faster as the 512kb …

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Re: Memory size, cacheable range and performance. Socket 5/7

Posted on 2018-10-04, 10:26

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Yes there is no tag chip, but it is somewhat embedded in the ali northbridge isn't it?

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Re: Memory size, cacheable range and performance. Socket 5/7

Posted on 2018-10-04, 05:57

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I came to a P5A-B rev 1.06 board lately, it booted fine. So I tested the cacheable limit, put 512 MB of RAM into it and a classic K6-2 450 MHz (with no L2 cache). And really this chipset revision (M1542 Rev. G) caches all the memory, despite having only 512 kB of L2 on board. Anyway judging from the …

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Re: Trying to save a Voodoo3 from death

Posted on 2018-07-06, 09:06

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Hello, sorry for reusing this thread, but two days back I got my poor voodoo (apparently V3 2000), it was cheap, but in sad condition, missing bracket and heatsink. I managed to mostly clean that gunk on the chip (although it was hard like stone), but i noticed that one little SMD something ( …

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Re: Amd K6-3+ will work on my mb?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 09:13

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I would use some thermal grease, just to be on the safe side. But it's a fact, that back at the time, when I bought K6-2 CPU as new, there were no thermal compounds available in local PC hardware shop (so it works without it). Not much had changed even in the early days when I bought hot-new AMD …

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Re: Amd K6-3+ will work on my mb?

Posted on 2018-06-13, 13:20

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As long as you're using "plus" CPU, the cacheable limit is no issue, since the L2 sits on the core itself, so It is able to cache all RAM you have, as dionb wrote. The modified Epox BIOS should be based on the same VP300411 version, only the readme file is not included. So now you have two decent …

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Re: Amd K6-3+ will work on my mb?

Posted on 2018-06-12, 14:51

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Isn't it EP-51MVP 3 E-M board? If so, than it has the same BIOS ID (according to this site http://www.kva.kursk.ru/bios1/HTML1/epox.html) as the EP-58MVP3C-M board and the BIOS version shloud also be the same - both motherboards listed on this site http://www.filesearch.ru/drivers/main/epox.html are …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-06, 20:48

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NOS Arctic Cooling ATi silencer4 for my X800XT PE, cost about 5 EUR at local shop. DSC03188.JPG And I also grabbed a pair of heatpipe LGA775 coolers from Evercool (blue-led present ... check :-)) for about 7 EUR each. Hope they will be more quiet than intel's box coolers and will fit nicely into my …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2018-03-21, 06:55

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Seems like limiting the drive to 32 GB via jumper did the trick, now I see all 32 GB in the socket7 machine even on onboard IDE controller (and I lost only 8 GBs since the drive is 40 GB total capacity). Replaced the AD1816 sound card in super7 build with SB AWE64 Value (CT4520) card. Even with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-16, 16:18

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I was initially planing to purchase some "better" GF4 MX card, since my GF2 MX is slowly dying and GeForce 2 GTS/Ti/Ultra are hard to get. Found a seller on our local "craigslist" and ended with these: - Abit GeForce 4MX 440 (on the back of the card, there is 440SE printed :( , so we will see in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-16, 10:18

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god damn! i could not resist! i entered an old pc shop where they treat old PCs looking for a cheap heatsink. and i saw this beauty inside a pc case on the floor, and i thought ..nice a REAL GOOD geforce4 card,...gf4 4200 paid 13 bucks and left when i came back home i was so mistaken..its not a …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2018-03-15, 20:16

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Last week I had some time to play with the first socket7 build. Since I had previously connected mouse header, I could do some real testing. - at first I wanted to exchange the original S3 Virge (325) 4MB with the Virge/DX (375) previously taken from the super7 build. And because the older virge had …

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Re: Subtle differences between Cyrix and IBM 6x86s

Posted on 2018-03-06, 07:00

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Skyscraper: thanks a lot, it seems good Yep the 6x86 wasn't that fast, but it was really the best bang for the buck if you were poor student somewhere in Central Europe (like me :-) ) and wanted to upgrade your PC. I bought Cyrix MII-300 as new, it was really really cheap even as new (1998-1999) and …

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