For fun, maybe try installing win2000 - even better, co-install it with win9x on FAT32 and make them share the Program Files directory ;) In the win2000 installer just set the base folder to WIN2K for max jank ;p Sorry to others where my IDE/southbridge "speeds" experience doesn't line up. The two …

Some rambling, I hope some is useful... I'm surprised nobody mentioned it (or they did and I missed it) many PATA (and I imagine SATA) simply don't handle the IDE controller (southbridge) running at 41Mhz. I remember having to try a few different drives to find one(s) that don't lose their marbles …

I was going to say there was some weirdness with making bootable partitions past 2GB with some BIOS, but I guess with win2k and NTFS it was 8GB where things got weird. So that kinda shot my theory on "probably not this, but weird things I remember from back in the day." In a totally different …

Yea again I can't stress just how much PS2rate rocks. I understand that sure, back in the pre win3.11 days sure, proc time is precious and indeed if you do set the polling rate to like 200Hz on like a 486-33 you literally can choke the system moving the mouse slow (it slams IRQ - if it doesn't …

omgfoz wrote on 2020-12-29, 00:35: I know usb mice have higher resolution and move more smoothly on screen but how is the compatibility? For win9x PS2rate is your friend. Lets you set the sampling rate up to 200Hz if I remember right. Usually 60 to 100 is sufficient.

I seem to remember in this era (I'm a huge Super Socket 7 fan) that even the mostly godly disk was maybe putting out 70mb/s (unit?) so most controllers, even if they did support Maxtor's ATA133 it didn't really matter outside of synthetics. There was no "shame" in only being able to run ATA100 …

The case has good ventilation with both side panels perforated. With both side panels perforated, combined with the fact that a socket 370 system isn't going to get that hot w/o some crazy volt-mods - it just doesn't matter. The case you have is like crazy future alien technology compared to the …

An AT board in an ATX case? What is this madness? A baby AT board with ATX power connector too... it reminds me of the FIC 503+ but I can't quite place it. As for the case, whoever designed it actually did a great job for flexibility. It looks like they have holes for 80mm, 92mm, even 120mm. That …

It might also be the memory controller on the proc itself. I don't even know if 16GB is a tested config? Let alone at "full speed" DDR2 800.

I found this proported blurb quoted from an OCZ. I wish I had a better source with less marketing wank, maybe someone else will have more luck: " With 11 column address bit support by the AM2 memory controller, the number of addresses in each row or page can be as high as 2048 individual entries for …

From someone who grew up in the era. win2k basically was NT4 blessed with DirectX higher than 3. It was awesome. Format your drive FAT32. Install Win9x c:\windows. 2K c:\winNT. They can both share c:\Program Files. It's super wrong, but it works way better than you think. Also install KernalEX in …