Re: Most powerful 1999 motherboard?

Posted on 2019-11-19, 21:14

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ya but the fastest bx motherboard from 1999 wouldn't beat the fastest i840 motherboard from 1999, so he asked for the most powerful motherboard from 1999, we think thats probably the OR840. Proof https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/rdram-avenger,151.html Quote Now we know why i840 is a workstation …

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Re: Intel Thor: my DOS/WfWG3.11 machine

Posted on 2019-11-19, 20:46

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i kinda like it. I had a 430vx with 128mb EDO and a 233MMX with a PCI ATI somthing back in the day. I regret getting rid of it it ran diablo 1 pretty well it was a great experience playing that game with that hardware.

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Re: Another PIII Build. M3D V3 Sb64 SCSI Big D (warning Pics)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 20:34

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Thanks there is a deeper backstory about the motherboard, it's personal to me but not all that interesting of a story. I just want to see the pictures, so thats how i made it. 🤣

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Re: Most powerful 1999 motherboard?

Posted on 2019-11-19, 19:50

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The 1st i840 motherboard came out in 1999 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/rdram-avenger,151.html Also 400bx came out in 1998 not 1999, so therefor3 440bx isn't eligible for discussion since its not 1999. I think OP means available in 1999, not necessarily released in 1999. well he said "from …

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Re: Most powerful 1999 motherboard?

Posted on 2019-11-19, 19:32

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The 1st i840 motherboard came out in 1999 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/rdram-avenger,151.html Also 400bx came out in 1998 not 1999, so therefor3 440bx isn't eligible for discussion since its not 1999.

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Re: How I washed motherboards and PCBs

Posted on 2019-11-19, 18:48

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I read a scientific research paper that said it was impossible under certain conditions, that and you would have to actually prove that it could happen under those conditions which there is no evidence of. Antistatic agents under 100% humid don't generate static electricity. Theres actually a …

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Re: How I washed motherboards and PCBs

Posted on 2019-11-19, 18:33

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2. Scrub it with the paint brush. Yeah, nice for causing ESD damage. It's not only scientifically impossible but its also not provable. You don't know what you are talking about. Not only is simple green an anti static agent, but your assertion is absurd. 2 wet objects like that that have no static …

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How I washed motherboards and PCBs

Posted on 2019-11-19, 17:56

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Not to make a guide or say best way just my experience. All supplies you can buy from walmart. Simple green Distilled water (not the kind with added minerals) Compressed Air Paint Brush PreHeat Oven to 200 Fahrenheit Make sure you remove the battery, BIOS chips or etc 1st.. 1. Put the motherboard in …

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Re: Most powerful 1999 motherboard?

Posted on 2019-11-19, 17:37

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I second 0R840, doesn't need to be dual CPU.

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Re: Voodoo3 Build: KX133 vs KT133 (vs KT333?)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 12:02

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I want this system to be my daily driver; Daily driver without sse and sse2 is total aids. No sse 2 is bad enough, no sse is useless as a daily driver. SSE/SSE2 didn't hurt AMD that much back in the day, but these days id say SSE is mandatory and SSE2 is borderline. Even though XP will run without.

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Re: Voodoo3 Build: KX133 vs KT133 (vs KT333?)

Posted on 2019-11-18, 22:29

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the slot a, not sure id use that mobo or that cpu tho.

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Re: Post photos of your favorite computer ad.

Posted on 2019-11-18, 20:54

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWxC8ezE4Dk

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-18, 19:55

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the yung micro board is pretty awesome. 🤣

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Re: i have a windows 95 computer

Posted on 2019-11-18, 14:34

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Bruh you need another computer that has a floppy drive or one of those USB floppy drives so you can make boot disks. I really don't understand the problem though boot the computer with the 98 bootdisk. use FDISK and delete all the partitions and create a new one. Reboot with the Floppy and run …

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Re: AMD equivalent to Intel Core Duo

Posted on 2019-11-18, 14:03

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I just misunderstood the use of the word upgrade. Hiddenevil wrote: I'd like to upgrade but keep in the spirit of Amd.

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Re: PII 400hmz vs Celeron 533mhz?

Posted on 2019-11-18, 13:56

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the celeron is faster. It has on die L2 like a coppermine even though it is less cache the cpu runs 133 mhz faster than the PII 400 so It should be a little faster. Not a huge upgrade but a upgrade none the less if you wanted to max out your hardware. I don't think its a great upgrade.

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Re: TNT2 64M 32Mb Connector?

Posted on 2019-11-18, 13:52

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might be for a s-video daughter board. I have an IBM #9 TNT2 that has DVI out and a Svideo out daughter board,

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Re: DOS 6 22 vs DOS 7.1

Posted on 2019-11-18, 13:27

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Microsoft fully supported 7.1 to be 100% functional in real DOS mode giving the end user options to both boot to DOS using F8 and restart in MS DOS mode. Just becasue it was bundled with 98 does not mean it was never intended to be fully function DOS supported by Microsoft it just was not sold …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-11-18, 10:37

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The problem I ran into was in order to get pot player to install and run on a CPU without SSE2 I had to use a very old version of pot player. While the Crystal HD encoder worked and was supported in the older version, I could not get youtube videos to play. I suspect that at one time they used to …

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Re: AMD equivalent to Intel Core Duo

Posted on 2019-11-18, 09:47

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Honestly the conversation has evolved from upgrading, to building a new system. If you wan't to use somthing other than a socket A that means everything from the motherboard, memory, cpu, heatsink, PSU, would change in adition to the upgrades that you were planing GPU, Sound, Harddrive etc. You may …

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