Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:54

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Hey in the ISA era most of us had somekind of cheap clone sound. Or a Vibra16. In post ISA era most had integrated sound. In pre 3D most had just a VLB/PCI dumb framebuffer. Lucky ones had a S3 Trio or Cirrus CL-GD. Unlucy ones had somethin bizare or little incompatible or slow in some modes. Post …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:39

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PacardBell or not. Everybody had beige boxes with somekind of cpu/ram/hdd/fdd/cd back then. The 3D accelerator defined the "gaming pc". true enough. i suppose other parts aside from maybe the CPU such as the mobo, hard disk, ram and maybe the sound card weren't at the time advanced to the point of …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:35

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Also interesting was that the ppro was not as egregiously expensive in single cpu form as many note (late 95 yes but prices eroded rapidly on pro180’s) , late 1996 the local tech bought around 250x ppro 180’s with Micronics motherboards and they weren’t significantly more expensive than a top of …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:31

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Wow! people really showed up to LAN event with their parents packard bell OEM home PC? nobody could PAY me to do that. The fact that you were able to get a cpu clocked that high for your first "from scratch" build is truly impressive. I think stability is for sure important but for a LAN event, if …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:26

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for me as someone who likes to build as period correct as possible, these processors always make it hard for me to decide. i usually go with athlon because i love post 2000 processors. I've done both. Depending on the use case, they both can certainly do the job. So far though I've found my current …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:17

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Mandrew wrote on 2024-05-09, 18:05: "Legendary Celeron 300A overclocked to 721 MHz with dry ice cooling & 2,7V" https://muropaketti.com/tietotekniikka/retro- … eron-300alla/5/ goodness gracious...

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:16

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Intel always tried to coerse to buy a new system. And those overdrive stuff were a fooling of customers. Thank god for AMD and Cyrix. Both Socket 7 and Socket 370 were 64bit 66mhz at start. i never really understood what a "pentium overdrive" was. sounded cool though, i liked the logo design too. I …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 20:13

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side question: did you ever own a celeron in the late 90's and early 2000's and how was it? First PC I built from scratch was a Celery 300A, on an Abit BH6 with 128 meg of PC100 RAM. That is how easy overclocking was for a while, first from-scratch build I aimed for what should be difficult, a 50% …

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is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 17:17

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Ive heard many good things about older models of the intel celeron specifically slot 1 mendocino models being crazy overclockers. I have experience with socket 775 celerons (celeron D and other models god forbid) but ive never touched a celeron older than 2004. do pre 2004 celerons have potential …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 17:06

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But im here in 2024 writing this to you in a Xeon 775 from 2008, using Supermium and XP SP3... how can consider retro... if i use everyday for modern use? in my opinion computers really did not change much this last 20 years... just more power I don't think I would consider something from 2008 to …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 17:03

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theelf wrote on 2024-05-04, 18:57: A P4 is retro? exept very rare boards no P4+ boards have ISA, then not good for DOS time flies by

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 17:02

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Well yes if you do not have something better. Just for me the era of P4 and the era of early AMD 64bit is dead. I jumped from a souped up AMD Athlon XP ISA motherboard to a late Core2 that I still have. Usually like to transfer to mature and good platforms.P166MMX to BX P3 500 to AMD Athlon XP to …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 16:57

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The Pentium 4 seems to have a mixed rep. I've seen some folks straight-up swear off ever even looking at a Pentium 4, let alone creating a build based on one. Though most of the negative rep stems from the under-performing Willamette processors and the power hungry Prescott lineup, but I feel like …

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Dell Precision 690 Windows XP BSOD problem

Posted on 2024-05-08, 22:41

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Hello, I have previously already posted about this in the software however i wanted to see what people here have to say. I have been trying to install windows XP professional on a 2007 dell precision 690 workstation with dual intel Xeons but unfortunately, each time the computer restarts during the …

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Re: Issue with my diamond voodoo 1, please help

Posted on 2024-05-02, 15:08

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Testing DOS games with Glide support and/or running the 3dfx diagnostic utility would help. yeah i tested a copy of tomb in dos and got an error code. i dont remember exactly what it was off hand but it was something like "failed hardwareGuild O" ill test it again when i get home today and get the …

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Re: Issue with my diamond voodoo 1, please help

Posted on 2024-04-29, 21:37

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Try to eliminate possibilities. Is it a windows issue? Test the card on a fresh, temporary installation (even on a different HDD if you don't want to format the current installation until proven bad) Is it a win95 issue for some weird reason? Confirm that the card still works as it used to do in a …

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Re: Help needed in tracking down the model of this compaq laptop. (1996-1997)

Posted on 2024-04-29, 21:14

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Tripredacus wrote on 2024-04-29, 18:49: I used that model in college but with Windows NT 3.51. how did you like it?

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Help needed in tracking down the model of this compaq laptop. (1996-1997)

Posted on 2024-04-29, 15:57

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This white compaq machine is featured in the "Hello You" scene in Disney's Jungle 2 Jungle (1997). The computer appears to be running windows 95 in the movie. although I have not been able to track down the model of this computer yet, the machine appears to have a fan on the back, brightness slider …

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Need help identifying these Boards!

Posted on 2024-04-26, 10:00

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I was given these two boards for free from a friend who was decluttering their garage. One has two intel microcontrollers and the other has a Motorola MC6800 chip, other than that Im not able to find any information on what these are/where they are from.

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Re: Youtube channel recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-22, 01:33

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rasz_pl wrote on 2024-04-21, 22:23: There is a thread dedicated to recommending little YT gems Less popular Youtube channels Thanks! Didn’t know about that…

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