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Re: Upgrading to faster Slot 1 Pentium 3

Posted on 2021-10-04, 14:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it an 800/100 or 800/133? If it’s the latter it will only run at 600 MHz in your machine due to the 100 MHz FSB limit. Regarding cooling, Gateway used that cooling shroud design on a bunch of Pentium III Slot 1 machines. The 450-500 had just a passive heatsink. The 550 and 600 Katmai had a small …

Re: Upgrading to faster Slot 1 Pentium 3

Posted on 2021-10-03, 23:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For a Pentium III 600 you need to decide if you want a Katmai (2.05v) or Coppermine (1.65V) model. Not all Slot 1 boards support the newer low voltage Coppermine CPUs. Your board should definitely work with a Katmai 600 MHz, but may not with the Coppermine. You need to check the numbers on the VRM …

Re: What should I upgrade in my new Windows 98 gaming build?

Posted on 2021-08-22, 11:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since it sounds like you could use a bit more performance than a GF2 MX400 offers for a couple games you want to play, check out that big auction site for “04n857”. That’s the Dell part number for a nice passively cooled GF3 Ti 200 with VGA and DVI outputs. They sell for pretty reasonable prices ($ …

Re: What should I upgrade in my new Windows 98 gaming build?

Posted on 2021-08-17, 20:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Stick with the 550 PIII for now. The GF2 MX400 is a great choice for a first upgrade. If you get the itch for more performance and your board supports Coppermine PIII’s, a GF4 MX440 or GF3 Ti200 + 1GHz PIII would be a nice step up.

Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-03, 18:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It’s the 90’s for me, maybe bleeding a few years into the early 00’s. The rapid advancement in hardware, the style of games, and the early internet are the highlights.

Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-20, 00:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PM sent!

Re: Stock Intel Socket 478 coolers

Posted on 2021-03-18, 13:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I suspect that the models with circular fins are later models as intel used that same design on their stock socket 775 coolers. The best way to figure this out is probably looking at new old stock open box CPUs to see which coolers came in the box. Any collector with a good range of open box P4’s …

Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-03-13, 01:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Take my money!!! Awesome work. Thanks for sharing your passion and expertise with the community.

Re: Pentium on a 386 motherboard ( sort of)

Posted on 2021-02-21, 00:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow! I was really not expecting that to work. Very cool.

Re: Asus P4PE-X and Prescott P4's

Posted on 2021-01-31, 21:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A 2.8/533 Northwood would be pretty cheap to acquire and equally or more performant than Prescott. If you’re in the US, that big auction site has them (SL6PF) for $7 with shipping.

Re: CPU collectors: do you collect each and every revision or just one?

Posted on 2021-01-22, 04:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ve got ~500 x86 CPUs in my collection. I’m most interested in 1990 - 2006ish, with special focus on 1997-2000 Slot CPUs. For something like Socket 478, one of each clock/bus speed/core is sufficient. When it comes to Pentium II or Pentium III, I’m aiming for one of every speed, stepping, boxed and …

Re: Pentium II Passive or Active Heatsink

Posted on 2021-01-15, 22:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It’s most likely from a Dell XPS R400 or other Dell of that period. Here’s a photo of that exact heatsink in the original Dell case. They just have an 80 mm case fan nearby without a duct. Later models with the SECC2 PII and PIII used a much smaller heatsink and a black plastic duct. You’ll likely …

Re: Slot 1 Pentium II Windows 95 Build - In Progress

Posted on 2021-01-02, 05:43

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I’ve had good luck with SD to IDE adapters and high quality U3 rated SD cards like Sandisk Extreme for Windows 98 builds. I only use CF cards for 486 or older systems though.

Re: Geforce 256 SDR Guillemot 3d Prophet with 16Mb of ram

Posted on 2020-12-08, 21:54

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I came across another GeForce 256 SDR with 16 MB of RAM. It looks like it could be an OEM card.

Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?

Posted on 2020-12-05, 20:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Holy bump from 4 years ago Batman! That is an interesting CPU though. There’s a whole Tillamook thread about getting L2 cache working on desktop boards, but this is a nice alternative for a fast Pentium MMX build.

Re: Look what Santa will bring this Christmas :)

Posted on 2020-11-29, 16:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very nice! I’ve had one or two good deals on one of these slip through my fingers.

Re: Fake GeForce 2MX (yeah...)

Posted on 2020-10-12, 21:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, the card is 64-bit, says so on the back (was there a MX400-64bit?) so I guess there's no need to check with Everest or Aida. I think I also remember one of my "FX5500" cards having a 5200 chip under the heatsink... GF2MX_fake(back).jpg The FX 5200 / 5500 swap is not surprising at all. The FX …

Re: Most compatible early 00's AGP cards for a Windows 98 build with a picky motherboard

Posted on 2020-10-11, 01:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A GeForce 3 Ti200 can be had pretty cheap in OEM form with passive cooling and is a good match for a high-end PIII. Search for the dell part number: 04n857. It’s a late 2001 card and will be a bit faster than the 9200 SE with its 64-bit memory interface. A Ti 4200 is faster than the Ti 200 and can …

Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Xeon W3540, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2020-10-07, 20:29

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hi, Great neo-retro rig! Put some 3dmark 2001 scores too! My neo-retro is: P8Z68 Deluxe I7-2600K @ 4300Mhz with Noctua D12 16G some low latency Corsairs SB XFI GTX Titan Windows XP & XP 64 I am running all latest drivers, so the '3d pissing contest' performance could be a lot better. But xp era …

Re: Fake 486 Processor?

Posted on 2020-09-09, 22:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looking forward to seeing what’s under the die cap and if anyone can get one working. I’d buy one and test it, but all my 486 boards are 5V only.

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