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Anyone has experience with this Vortex2 card?

Posted on 2020-06-04, 21:37

I know this board is simple... But its a Vortex 2 chip... And new old stock... I dont care for optical out, so, this board is a good buy? The price is good... Very good... Thanks

Re: Windows 98SE PCI-E graphic card support

Posted on 2020-05-28, 15:38

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LoneCrusader, from MSFN modded Intel drivers up to ICH9 for Win98... https://msfn.org/board/topic/163405-slipstrea … et-inf-drivers/

Re: Little Win98/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-05-26, 15:57

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After a weekend strugling with the GA-VM800PMC (wont go past hardware detection at installation and wont accept any of the hyperion drivers i've tryied), I decided to give P5PE-VM a try... After a few minutes, the Windows (ME) was installed just fine, all the drivers installed (except for a USB …

Re: Little Win98/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-05-15, 12:05

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Meeehhh one of the memories is not working. That's the problem of "test" by just powering on the system. Testing these memories would take 25min each, but the second memory showed errors at the start of the test... Anyway... I found a P5PE-VM with 3 bad capacitors... But I believe the board is …

Re: Hypothetical: Most coverage in a single system

Posted on 2020-05-09, 02:36

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm working on such a system, that nobody here has done. 915 Mobile Chipset with a Pentium M Single Core Aureal Vortex MX 300 for 98se + Audigy 2 ZS for XP Quadro FX1300 This is a NV38 AGP FX gpu on a PC Express Bridge. This should give me max compatibility with DX 5 to DX 9 So i still get support …

Re: Little Win98/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-05-06, 20:10

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The FSP Group ATX-300TA can do max 120W on the combined 3.3+5v and near 200W on the dual 12v so it should be enough iMO This PSU is the FSP300-60EGA. It has 103W on the combined 3.3V + 5V. BUT... It's 80 Plus Gold , which is cool :D --------------------------- The MoBo, E5300, stock CPU cooler and …

Re: Little Win98/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-05-04, 21:41

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You may have some issues running Win98 on a socket 775 but maybe not ! There are ways to make things work stable if you are not concerned about overall performance. Am sure if you spend a bit of time you can get Win98se running on that Gigabyte board just fine ! You might stumble on some SATA …

Re: Little Win98/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-05-04, 02:20

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well you might as well run WinXP as there are no motherboard chipset drivers for Win98 for that mobo. Watching people try and bridge Win98/XP is the most painful thing coming to this forum... Well, Via has Win98 drivers for this chipset in his site... Phils has them too as a backup location... They …

Re: Little Win98/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-05-04, 00:19

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A Geforce FX5900Ultra would be perfect for this...but I am curious why bother with WinXP at all for this period of games? I want to play the games on Windows XP, if they run better on that OS than Win98 for any reason... I'll make a few compatibility tests... And if my rig support, I'll try a few …

Little WinME/XP dual boot project

Posted on 2020-05-03, 23:50

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi everyone, The idea of the project is to use a hardware newer than period, to use less power a/or give more performance, but keeping the compatibility as high as possible. I'm planning to play games from 95-01 at high resolution (1600x1200) and AA if possible... Motherboard: Asus P5PE-VM (Intel …

Re: Thermaltake Big Thypoon. Got one?

Posted on 2018-12-19, 18:05

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can I use non-conductive tape to cover every piece of metal that may touch the motherboard?

Re: Thermaltake Big Thypoon. Got one?

Posted on 2018-12-17, 14:46

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I brought a Big Typhoon that wont come with the mylar... I've tryied to install is using a sponge to cover the back of the board. It stayed firm, but the CPU wont worked. Everything was firm, but was a no-no... I believe my CPU died too, because it's not working with the previous cooler anymore too …

Re: Proper RAM Amounts For Mid-1999 Gaming Build

Posted on 2018-12-13, 14:25

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is any drawback on using more RAM? I mean... Of course any program will need that, but if for any reason you need to access the web, every bit of RAM will be used. I'm building an Athlon XP PC with 3x512MB Ram... I know that my CPU will bottleneck any game I want to play before my RAM, but …

Abit AN7 + Radeon Hd4650 = no boot

Posted on 2018-12-10, 03:09

by undeon

in Marvin \ Video

Hi everyone, I've posted a few days about my little protect. Abit AN7 Athlon XP 2200+ (3200+ on the way) 2x512 DDR400 (2X1GB low latency someday) Radeon HD 4650 AGP To power this system I'm using a Corsair CX430 (20A at 5V, the minimal recommended on the manual). After assembly it, the system …

Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 15:36

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Munx wrote: It depends on the motherboard, however there are plenty of SA motherboards that run the CPU from the 12V rail. Did you know something about the Abit AN7? Thanks 😀

Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 11:11

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

20A 5V won't cut it. Wait. The AN7 does have an ATX12V connector. It must diminish the need of a beefy 5V PSU. I believe this was tested at some point and people found 12V connectors on Socket A motherboards did not really help much with 5V power draw? I may be misremembering though.. I'm planning …

Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 00:09

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm planning to get a Corsair VS400 (5V@17A and 12V@32A, single rail)...

Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-03, 23:15

by undeon

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, this means the CPU uses 12V for it's VRM, so you do not need a PSU with an oversized 5V rail for these motherboards. So it's safe to choose a modern PSU then? Make sure that you check the actual model and quality of the PSU. Lots of fake "450" watt PSU's claimed to have absurd 5v ratings to …