Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-09, 20:28

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by Katmai500

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I managed to crack my new Dimension XPS open thanks to ouevre (never thought it would be so hard to open a PC case) and it turned oıt to be more interesting than I thought. 2F6B5F09-58A3-4BD8-B6F7-D305D97F396C.jpeg It is a PII 333 unsurprisingly, with 3 sticks of 64MB RAM. It came with an 8.4GB IBM …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2018-05-03, 13:58

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by Katmai500

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I don't know if I could call these rare but I've never seen more than one in the wild: Athlon FX-62 Rise MP6 266 Pentium 4 2.0GHz (Socket 423) Rise MP6 266 turns up quite often on the CPU-World forums, usually selling for between $9 and $15. It's actually quite common. I have one off those socket …

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Re: 3D Blaster VLB has appeared on eBay.

Posted on 2018-04-09, 11:52

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by Katmai500

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And why in the name of God is a FX 5800 Ultra on its way to reaching $1000 (Aussie) dollars while a typical FX 5950 Ultra might go for under $200? Maybe FX5800 use DDR2? On a 128bit bus? My understanding is the 5800 was basically a mistake, and Nvidia rushed out the fix in the 5900. The 5800 had a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-04, 19:09

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by Katmai500

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Holey mackerel... I found a cheapish ASUS P3B-F v1.04 motherboard with 1GB RAM, an AGP Rage IIc video card.. and wait for it... a Slot-1 Pentium III 1000/256/100 CPU. MWAHAHAHA :evil: for the CPU. The motherboard and video card were not really even on my radar as I have plenty of Slot 1 440BX …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-03-29, 14:02

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by Katmai500

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Spent the last couple days fixing up a Dimension 4600 for a friend, in between work and sleeping. It refused to take a 3.4 Prescott but a 3.2 Northwood worked no problem. Replaced the Deathstar with a Raptor. With 4gb of DDR400 it makes a competent web browser. The only concern I currently have is …

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Re: Best cooler for SECC processors (Slot A Athlon to be precize)

Posted on 2018-03-23, 14:58

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by Katmai500

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I love seeing all these Orion 1GHz Athlons still up and running. I'd love a golden orb for mine, but swaaye has the right idea. Those giant passive SECC heatsinks with a 80mm or larger fan attached are plentiful, cheap, and effective. Are you monitoring temperatures on that setup? If so, what are …

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Re: Pentium 1 build — choices, choices

Posted on 2018-03-22, 18:12

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by Katmai500

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You could just remove one 32 MB SIMM and go with 48 MB of RAM. That will be plenty for DOS/3.1. Lots of machines of that era had only 32 MB. Back in the 90's I ran Windows 95 on a Pentium 90 with 24 MB of RAM for years. The MB requires ram simms have to be populated in pairs, so that isn't an …

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Re: Pentium 1 build — choices, choices

Posted on 2018-03-22, 14:05

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by Katmai500

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You could just remove one 32 MB SIMM and go with 48 MB of RAM. That will be plenty for DOS/3.1. Lots of machines of that era had only 32 MB. Back in the 90's I ran Windows 95 on a Pentium 90 with 24 MB of RAM for years.

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Re: What is this...THING?! o_o ("BitchinFast 3D 2000")

Posted on 2018-03-20, 20:18

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by Katmai500

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🤣 The physical board is a really well done replica made to match the pardody image.

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Re: 440BX faster than Via 133A ?

Posted on 2018-03-19, 18:19

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by Katmai500

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Seconded. The BX was a speed demon and rock solid stable. It was a shame intel took so long on the 815E and crippled it to make RAMBUS look more appealing. An official 440BX-133 chipset with a 1/2 AGP divider and UltraATA-66 would have been fantastic. Here's an old Anandtech article from 1999 …

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Re: Retro computers and noise

Posted on 2018-03-19, 11:31

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by Katmai500

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I had a Gateway Essential Pentium III 500 that used a 92mm fan on the bottom of the PSU that pulled air over the PIII passive heatsink through a plastic shroud, and then out through the power supply. It had no other fans and was pretty quiet. The loudest thing was the IBM Deskstar hard drive. …

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Re: SECC Pentium III Katmai??

Posted on 2018-03-19, 10:59

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by Katmai500

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Woah, they must really be rare. To go deeper, I hear there were also 400MHz OEM PIII's, but that seems a bit farfetched. I've never heard of a 400 MHz production PIII. I have seen 400 MHz Pentium III engineering samples which were built in both SECC and SECC2 packages. Neither have any valid …

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Re: SECC Pentium III Katmai??

Posted on 2018-03-16, 20:40

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by Katmai500

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I've got one of these. It's an SL38F / 500 MHz version manufactured in week 6 of 1999. They are OEM-only and were never sold as boxed processors. The general theory I've read is that they were made early in the PIII production run. The early date on mine, and the early date on the SL38F Kamerat …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-03-16, 15:08

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by Katmai500

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https://www.anandtech.com/show/274/5 Anand's testing is limited to Quake 2, but it gives an idea of where a Celeron 433 falls against other Slot 1 CPU's in a period-correct game with a Voodoo2. The Celeron 433 manages to punch up between the Pentium II 400 and 450. It's definitely going to be faster …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-03-13, 21:32

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by Katmai500

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oeuvre wrote: hnnnnnnnng dat gateway 2000 x2 😎

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Re: TrinityWorks PowerStacker AMD 5x86-133 Broken Pin

Posted on 2018-03-13, 21:29

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by Katmai500

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gbeirn wrote: Ha so funny I was born and raised in NJ and now live in Minnesota. I do have one I can send you, PM me you address and I’ll get it sent out. PM sent! 😁

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Re: Phil drops a graphics card benchmarking bombshell!

Posted on 2018-03-12, 21:09

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by Katmai500

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Phil added a comment on the video that he's doing some additional testing of the cards @ 640x480 with a P4 2.8 Northwood and RDRAM, and seeing some of the same results.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-12, 20:50

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by Katmai500

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People here yearn over Slot 1 CPUs and machines? How boring; nothing but computers which have the promise to run modern software but instead play chicken when it comes to anything greater than their era. I get that the cartridge look may be nice, but that's just aesthetic that gives off little …

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Re: TrinityWorks PowerStacker AMD 5x86-133 Broken Pin

Posted on 2018-03-12, 20:35

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by Katmai500

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Thanks everyone for all the replies. Wow, your TrinityWorks PowerStacker has twice as many DIP switches as mine! You want to look for PGA 168. This one is cheapish. I bought from him before. https://www.ebay.de/itm/ECE-PGA168-SOCKETS-3-PCS/321163112146 Interesting! Is yours a different revision? …

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Re: TrinityWorks PowerStacker AMD 5x86-133 Broken Pin

Posted on 2018-03-09, 23:57

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by Katmai500

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Thanks for the link. That does appear to be what I'm looking for, but for about that same price($45 US shipped) I can buy a whole replacement 5x86 upgrade chip ($30). I was hoping to find the part for less than the cost of just replacing the CPU.

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