Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-25, 06:37

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My pick would be an Audigy 2 ZS. I've been running one a few years prior to getting my NF7 and it was pretty good over most Live 5.1 versions I've had. Thanks a lot again for your recommendation. After doing lots of research I also come to teh conclusion that the Audigy 2 ZS. would be a neat card …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-24, 06:36

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Go for the Barton. They're usually good overclockers, and with the right GPUs (anything between Radeon 9500 and maybe X800XT for ATI, and any Geforce 4 Ti should do for nVidia - 6600GT or 6800 if you really want to max it out.) Thx for the advice. I pulled the trigger yesterday already for the Abit …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-21, 06:36

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I was not aware that there might be some problems when using the Via K 600 mobos. I will start to research more about that topic. I am not saying there is. I just remember, that when I was looking for a retro XP build, I explicitly avoided KT600. But I do not remember why I did. Could have been AGP …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-20, 07:16

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I rather liked my old Athlon XP system... Kept it on life-support far longer than was actually wise. I seem to recall having an AOpen that suffered the capacitor plague from that era. That's nice to see a post from a person who was happy with his athlon xp system. Yeah running into bad caps seems …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-19, 21:20

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@all Thx for the further replies I was not aware that there might be some problems when using the Via K 600 mobos. I will start to research more about that topic. Good to know that trying to get an athlon system running might be a rocky road. I am not deterred by that fact though. It is part of the …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-19, 06:46

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Do you think that it would be worth it getting the a KT 400 board over the KT 333 board for just 10 euro more? Lol! I bought a KT333 with a 2800+ CPU & ram a few years ago for $17! My how things have changed. I bought it because I wanted to see how Vlink affected Hard drive performance. The funny …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-18, 18:06

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Had an ASUS A7V333 and it was a great companion (along with DDR SD-RAM) to my GF4Ti4200 and AthlonXP 2200+. If you're going with a pre-XP Athlon CPU, probably KT333+/DDR/GF4 are already overkill. edit: Just a quick note that for Win98SE you'll be turning off some BIOS features on this type of …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-18, 07:36

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it is not like that I have preference for Via. But I have not found any nforce boards at a good price. Via boards seem to be more eccomonical. But if I can find a nforce board at reasonable price I would also go for it. I was just concerned about finding the right power supply in general because I …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-18, 06:40

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What are your thoughts about the VIA KT 333 family of chipsets? Had an ASUS A7V333 and it was a great companion (along with DDR SD-RAM) to my GF4Ti4200 and AthlonXP 2200+. If you're going with a pre-XP Athlon CPU, probably KT333+/DDR/GF4 are already overkill. edit: Just a quick note that for …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-17, 15:33

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In that case, the Audigy 2/ZS should work. Avoid OEM Creative cards, since they have worse driver support. I see. Thanks a lot for your recommendation. @all after doing some research I found out the mainboards with the nvidia nforce are out of question due to the high price. What are your toughts …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-17, 08:01

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But in case I should go the Socket A and not the classic Athlon K7 route looking into a more modern sound card like the Audigy 2 might be the more logical choice. I am I right with that assumption? Not everyone upgraded to the Audigy 2 as soon as it came out. Putting a Sound Blaster Live! in a …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-17, 06:46

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@all thx for the further information. @dionb Thx for the detailed post about the nforce 2 boards. I will look if I can find such boards at a decent price or not. Having a decent on board sound would be great plus .Could help me to avoid purchasing a second sound card. I wanted to get another sound …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-15, 11:18

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Thanks for the advice. @dionb Well putting the V3 back to the socket 370 p3 800 mhz system and use the 4200 ti for the upcoming Athlon is a thought that did not occur to me yet. But it makes sense. A Socket A System with very fast Athlon sounds like a good idea. A much better idea than "wasting" the …

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Re: Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-14, 18:49

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I have an Athlon K7800 (SLOT A) + Gigabyte GA-7VX setup. I chose this option because of the color of the motherboard (blue); I simply insisted on a blue set. From my experience, VIA is a bit slower than AMD (chipset) but the color compensates for the shortcomings. Choosing SLOT A is a more …

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Need help entering the world of athlong rigs

Posted on 2024-06-14, 07:01

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After having fun with socket 370 p3 800 mh system and my voodoo 3 card for many month I now want to get second rig. This time I want to do something different and leave the world of intel rigs and move to an Athlon. I decided to replace my trusty voodoo 3 with geforce 4200 ti just yesterday so the …

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Re: which specs would you recommend for a gaming rig that can cover the whole DOS area

Posted on 2023-09-26, 06:33

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Thanks for you recommendation. I have not considered getting a Via C3 Cpu or the but I will look into these options asap. I don't mention that option much due to the difficulties achieving this. It requires the following: A motherboard with a BIOS that fully accepts VIA C3 CPUs. Socket3's option is …

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Re: which specs would you recommend for a gaming rig that can cover the whole DOS area

Posted on 2023-09-25, 06:44

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My choice would be a fast VIA C3 like the 1200A Nemiah paired with a VIA VT82C694X or 694T chipset board with one ISA slot and official Nemiah support. Thanks for you recommendation. I have not considered getting a Via C3 Cpu or the My choice would be a fast VIA C3 like the 1200A Nemiah paired with …

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Re: which specs would you recommend for a gaming rig that can cover the whole DOS area

Posted on 2023-09-20, 07:25

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In the meantime my The Gigabyte 586HX arrived and I am going to resume building the dos rig and I will finalise the parts I am going to use. CPU wise I will either get a pentium 166 mmx or the Pentium 233mx like recommended. At the moment I am more inclined towards the 166mhz mhx due to the easier …

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Re: which specs would you recommend for a gaming rig that can cover the whole DOS area

Posted on 2023-09-18, 07:11

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In the meantime my The Gigabyte 586HX arrived and I am going to resume building the dos rig and I will finalise the parts I am going to use. CPU wise I will either get a pentium 166 mmx or the Pentium 233mx like recommended. At the moment I am more inclined towards the 166mhz mhx due to the easier …

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Re: What can I do with a Pentium 2 400 mhz?

Posted on 2023-08-29, 12:19

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A cheap i440LX based mainboard (asus P2L97 and the like) might be another option. The 400 would run at 266, which brings it into just above the speed of the fastest Pentium P55C. I don't know how expensive the slot 1 mainboards go in OT's area, but the LX is cheap and versatile, and supports up to …

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