Re: Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-13, 20:58

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by swaaye

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ohh...that mobo you show in those links look beefy, seems most sellers on Ebay still think it's 1996-97 when they sell these motherboards judging by the prices They probably sell it as replacement for people, who really need them (because the one in their critical server might be damaged), thats …

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Re: Pentium 133 MMX

Posted on 2008-09-13, 20:54

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by swaaye

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that reminded me that I actually tried to overclock the P133MMX TCP module. There are some spots that look like jumpers, so I got out the old soldering iron and went at it. Only managed to underclock it though, and I'm not sure that it was the multiplier that was changing. So I gave up. 😉

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Re: Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-12, 01:21

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by swaaye

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You have more RAM slots! I am inferior!! And you have a header for the 440fx USB (hmmm...) Yeah kick that into 233 MHz "high" gear and see how things go. The best way to test stability I found is to run Prime95 torture test and while it's going try loading other apps and see if they crash. Prime95 …

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Re: Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-11, 20:25

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by swaaye

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ooooo pretty blue. and baby AT tooooo....

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Re: Looks like SPORE sucks....oh AND noone loves it's DRM

Posted on 2008-09-08, 22:18

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by swaaye

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Some people are calling it another Black & White. Unrealized promises and excessive hype BS as usual. I was never really interested in it anyway though.

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Re: Vintage computer and gaming advertisments

Posted on 2008-09-08, 18:54

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by swaaye

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http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/33147263d4564e69e3fd5b3e9890c353/ Welcome back to 1994. (No, these aren't mine) Hey those are mine! ;) There is actually a torrent out there (and it's legal) of the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World. If you want to go from 1980 to 1992 or so, that's the …

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-07, 20:03

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by swaaye

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but it has!! that big AMIKEY 2+ chip on the bottom left is for PS2 mouse support! I got very ambitious last night and desoldered a PS2 port from the Socket 4 board that I'm never going to use (and probably doesn't work) and soldered it via some ribbon cable to the MSI board's blank PS2 mouse spot. …

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-07, 20:01

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by swaaye

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Swaaye, I really like that heatsink on your MSI board. To me it appears that you used a large socket7 heatsink and used a special clip. Did you fashion the metal clip yourself? The heatsink must be from a Pentium, but the clip is from some other 486 cooler I had once. Works nicely, that's for sure. …

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Re: Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-07, 19:51

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by swaaye

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The performance boost I got when I upgraded the CPU was quite big....some SVGA games almost run too fast now...like Nascar and Formula One Grand Prix 2 Windows 98SE really flies...thinking about trying Win2000 and see how it performs Also fun to know you own a system no "mortal" could afford back …

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Re: Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-07, 19:47

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by swaaye

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I also own a Socket 8 mobo and a Pentium PRO 200 MHz 1 MB Cache CPU, but I never had time to build a working system. What fans will work with Socket 8, because my CPU arrived without any heatsink? I think only Socket 8 heatsinks fit it. Nothing else is shaped like Socket 8. As for the fan, I just …

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Re: Will a 486, specifically the am5x86, work in a Socket 4 board?

Posted on 2008-09-07, 02:32

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by swaaye

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Socket 4 is just Pentium 60/66.... It's the original Pentium socket. No 486s allowed. 😀

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-07, 02:30

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by swaaye

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but it has!! that big AMIKEY 2+ chip on the bottom left is for PS2 mouse support! Hmmm... Well the board obviously has an area for dual PS2 ports, but this one is wired up for that AT DIN. Not sure what to do about it.... Would be pretty sweet to take that off and put a pair of PS2 ports on. I have …

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Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-06, 21:55

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by swaaye

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So, who likes to mess around with PPro? These CPUs intrigued me from day one, because of that on-package cache and their impressive FPU performance that was untouchable by just about anything else (certainly nothing from AMD, Centaur or Cyrix.) I picked up a nice Intel mobo, the VS440FX "Venus". …

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Re: My very own Socket 4 mobo....

Posted on 2008-09-06, 21:50

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by swaaye

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Well, it got here a few weeks ago now, but I haven't messed with it at all. I just can't get excited about a Pentium that would be slower than a AMD 5x86 that I could build. 😉

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-06, 21:47

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by swaaye

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I've had a few 486 mobos. Back in the day, I went from a ISA only board that came with a OEM sys to a MTI R407e mobo with VLB+ISA. But I really prefer the boards with PCI because, if they work well, they support most (if not all) Socket 3 CPUs and also work with most PCI cards (meaning lots of …

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Re: Interested in this?

Posted on 2008-09-05, 19:08

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by swaaye

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Make sure you have a -5V rail for those ISA cards. Lots of PSUs have dropped it.

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Re: Pentium 133 MMX

Posted on 2008-09-05, 18:50

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by swaaye

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133 MMX was in lots of notebooks. No...it wasn't. The mobile version of the MMX processor started at the Pentium 200. The desktop version of the MMX processor was the P55C, which started at the 166 MHz processor (officially) but then Intel decided to make a 150 MHz version of the P55C also. Nothing …

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-05, 18:43

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by swaaye

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There are a few EISA+VLB mobos on ebay right now, going for a few hundred bucks!! No thanks. 😀

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Re: X-COM series just released on STEAM uses DOSBox!

Posted on 2008-09-05, 18:39

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by swaaye

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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/86094-X-COM-Comes-To-Steam and unless you happen to be reading this on a 286 with less than four megabytes of RAM, you have zero worries about system requirements. Great. Just great. Heh. Yeah you probably need a 900 MHz P3 or better to run it well. I ran …

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Re: X-COM series just released on STEAM uses DOSBox!

Posted on 2008-09-04, 21:32

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by swaaye

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Awesome. Great to hear that you guys are appreciated and a little bit rewarded for your efforts!

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