Re: Diamond Monster 3D II - what 2d card to go with it??

Posted on 2022-06-22, 12:40

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The Stealth II S220 with the Rendition Chip is very slow in some VGA Modes: From here: VESA support is good and performs quite well. Plain VGA modes are, however, very slow. There is a utility called "RenUtil" which remaps regular VGA to a VESA mode, but this doesn't work for ModeX (like lots of DOS …

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Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002

Posted on 2022-06-15, 16:14

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Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard Hope this helps!

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-06-07, 20:03

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-06-05, 15:44: If that’s a 433gp core like I think it is you can possibly get to 350mhz I wouldn’t try any higher than 2.4v though Yes, it boots with 350 MHz at stock 2.2V, the bios says MII 500, a nearly 100 MHz overclock! It also boots with 2.0V, but unstable, also with 2. …

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Re: Help cooling down a Pentium 3

Posted on 2022-06-07, 15:31

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For the record my second PC ever had a Pentium II 266MHz, it was actively cooled and it still had one of those reversed airflow PSUs in a generic ATX case. Even at the time it seemed odd to me, but the thing did work fine for 7 years so, with those types of CPUs it probably wasn't that bad since …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-06, 18:00

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I've acquired a Voodoo3 1000. I can't believe these things were sold with no heatsinks. I think I saw the same listing some time ago. I assumed that the heatsink had been removed. Can you confirm that it never had one? It does not appear a heatsink was ever applied; nor have I ever seen a Voodoo3 …

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Re: So, like, does the K6 3+ 550mhz really exist?

Posted on 2022-06-06, 17:35

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Not if you use the bottom of the barrel variants. The low voltage variants (400ATZ/400ITZ@1.6V + 450APZ@1.7V + 500ANZ@1.8V) are of high binning quality, just like the 550ACR and the voltage/clock settings are interchangeable between those. You're probably not gonna hit those specs with a 400ACR or …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-06-05, 14:36

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NostalgicAslinger wrote on 2022-05-27, 18:18: I have this Cyrix MIIv in my collection, should be rare today? And yes! The CPU runs fine with PR433 speed (100MHz FSB x3 = 300MHz) and stock 2.2V VCore, 33 MHz over stock should be easy to reach with the MIIv 333GP. Picture 2 is Mersenne Prime small …

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Re: Fixing a 3DFx Voodoo 3000

Posted on 2022-05-30, 19:27

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KM4132G512Q-7 means 7 ns memory chips, to slow for a Voodoo3 3000, because 7 ns is specified for 143Mhz like the Voodoo3 2000 PCI card with SGRAM. The 3000 SGRAM version needs 6 ns (166 MHz specified) SGRAM memory chips. Your broken card has 6 ns chips. I would look for the faster 5,5 ns SGRAM chips …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-05-29, 18:30

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MIIv isn't any particular model. They're just regular MIIs made for VIA. The silver top ones are pretty interesting. They're .18u, and said to overclock to 300MHz without much hassle. The strange thing is that I'd never seen a single silver top MII until a few years ago, then suddenly a whole …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-05-28, 14:58

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This is crazy, an AMD K5 PR200, look at the price, reached after the auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125228128174 I have an K5 PR166, which runs completely stable with PR200 speed, also with reduced VCore (3,52V>3,3V) and have payed about ~30€ for this CPU. One of my favourite Socket 7 gold …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-05-27, 18:58

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This is crazy, an AMD K5 PR200, look at the price, reached after the auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125228128174 I have an K5 PR166, which runs completely stable with PR200 speed, also with reduced VCore (3,52V>3,3V) and have payed about ~30€ for this CPU. One of my favourite Socket 7 gold digger …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-05-27, 18:18

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I have this Cyrix MIIv in my collection, should be rare today?

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Re: Tomb Raider 1 voodoo 5500 1024x768 resolution??

Posted on 2022-05-12, 04:34

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I use a Celeron 333@375 (75 MHz FSB) Mendocino Slot 1,FIC VL-601 i440LX, 256 MB SDRAM, S3 Savage4 32 MB AGP and a single Voodoo2 12 MB. I have started under Windows 98 SE, never tested under DOS...

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Re: Tomb Raider 1 voodoo 5500 1024x768 resolution??

Posted on 2022-05-11, 17:25

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Meatball wrote on 2022-05-09, 18:04: Power VR (practically unplayable at this resolution, DOS/Win9X) Not really, TR1 runs good on a PowerVR PCX2 in 1024x768 resolution. Played through to the last level. Here is a capture from me: https://streamable.com/6nmxfd

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Re: Overclocking a 233MMX to 266MHZ

Posted on 2022-04-16, 17:23

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idan182 wrote on 2022-04-16, 15:52: I can see my motherboard supports up to 300mhz K6 Its a socket 7, not super I would stay with the 233 MMX and change the heatsink to a better one. A MMX CPU is better for DOS Gaming, because of THIS. And HERE is the Setmul Test with Wing Commander 1 on my 233 MMX …

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Re: Overclocking a 233MMX to 266MHZ

Posted on 2022-04-16, 13:27

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Cuttoon wrote on 2022-04-16, 12:31: In any case, you're risking a five Euro CPU. Yes, if you have luck to find one for this price on the flea market...The Ebay Price of a 233 MMX is around~19€.

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Re: Overclocking a 233MMX to 266MHZ

Posted on 2022-04-16, 10:38

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Every 233 MMX should run with 262 MHz (75MHz FSB) at the stock voltage. My best Pentium MMX P55C runs with 300 MHz (100x3) at 2,8V stock voltage! Try out a better heatsink with a thermal compound on the CPU core. I use this Socket A/370 heatsink on my MMX 233@262MHz (75MHz FSB) 2,8V. Also runs fine …

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Re: What Voodoo graphic to buy?

Posted on 2022-04-13, 13:13

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I have scaled down the picture size and compression rate (from 1,5MB to 750 kb file size) for people with slower internet connection.

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Re: What Voodoo graphic to buy?

Posted on 2022-04-13, 12:38

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I would look for a Voodoo3 2000 AGP. ?Should? be not so expensive than the bigger 3000/3500 brothers. I had a V3 2000 AGP in 1999 and flashed the 3000 Bios without any problems, although my card only had 7 ns RAM, sepcified for the stock 143MHz. 166 MHz should be possible with every 2000 card (with …

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Re: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000 MHz Slot A and Epox 7KXA Rev. 0.4 VIA KX133 stability problems

Posted on 2022-04-08, 14:22

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Yes, 1.04, but you need luck to get the minimum C5 stepping, better C6 (because C5 could run unstable with enabled Super Bypass) stepping of the AMD 751 chipset for Super Bypass support. There are also Rev. 1.04 of the K7M on the market with C3 stepping. The Super Bypass option is grayed out in the …

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