I wanted to sum up my findings in the event anyone else discovers this thread in the future. I certainly welcome necro-posting :) In summary, I'm still not completely certain why VIA rebadged the Northbridge "AT" suffix as "MVP" In pouring over the VT82C598MVP datasheet, I found a revision history …

I recently took out a Tyan Trinity S1598S motherboard with the VIA Apollo MVP3 chipset for some playing around. As is sometimes the case (I'm sure with some of you too), I began reading period reviews of the board and found this statement by Anandtech on the board's release in 1999 concerning the …

Does your BIOS have some option like memory remapping? Ah, very interesting. Thank you. My Evga board is missing this option. Perhaps future Vogons readers can fully appreciate this advise :) I've moved on to another area of interest however: I find out other pro thing, you can disable whole PCI-E …

Yes thank you. I have reviewed this blog before but nothing helpful stood out. Considering the amount of detail in it, can you be specific about which method you're referring to? If "MTRRLFBE.EXE LFB WC" as a solution - I tried this but it had no effect. If system.ini changes to limit Windows 98's " …

Absolutely ruthan, the performance is still acceptable. It became more about understanding why the two platforms were behaving differently despite identical accessories and software. As a final follow-up to this curiosity - It turns out I experienced the same bottleneck to performance on both my X58 …

Thanks for all the encouraging suggestions Thanks also for the info regarding disabling PCIe devices at the OS level. I incorrectly assumed multiple GPUs in newer OS's posed a problem for builds of this type and considered a hardware solution an advantage. I suppose it's actually the opposite! :) …

Great read ruthan. I'm building a similar rig using the Evga x58 3x SLI Classified. One added advantage to this board are hardware jumpers to disable PCIe lanes. In the end hope to mount an external switch to select which GPU is active depending on the OS I intend to boot. In any case, I've hit a …

Expendable (1999) includes a pretty informative benchmark by including the "-timedemo" input parameter on go.exe. This benchmark can be thwarted by a CPU check however that fails with newer processors like the Core 2. For normal play, this check can be bypassed with the parameter "-nocputest". …

I had the same issue recently with an R300 card and the 6.2 Catalyst drivers. For me, I had to define a monitor. With a DVI connection, the default "Plug and Play" specification wasn't negotiating available resolutions to the OpenGL driver and/or Quake engine. Oddly, other OpenGL and all Direct3D …

I got the benchmark working with a simple hex edit - changed the two parameters' names to same, then gave the game that parameter and now it runs the benchmark with nocputest. I use HxD myself but I didn't discover a way to accomplish this. Care to share your method? Even better, can you just share …

Thanks for the quick help everyone :) I've found some Artesyn parts catalogs (without pictures) so I'll get started there. Bought it (the adapters) at end of 2020 beginning of 2021 from some online store selling old server hardware. High chance they still have some. If you have the vendor and item/ …

An amazing resource for the OR840 slivercr! As an authority on this board, perhaps you don't mind a necro-post? ;) I imagine as more of these boards come into the hands of collectors, you'll get more. My board is missing the DC-to-DC adapter. This adapter sits just above the ATX power connector and …

Love that box... future VOGONs user there. At least I'll confess to also examining my system board on the same machine it runs on.

I am waiting for a new PSU to arrive so I can continue this build. Regarding that, I see in the photos that the board has a standard 20-pin ATX power connector but also the 6-pin AUX power connector. Is the AUX connector required? Did you have to source a power supply with a unique wiring harness …