Re: Pentium(PRO) 2 Overdrive 333 BEAST

Posted on 2012-05-31, 12:49

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by dirkmirk

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I could buy another PII overdrive chip right now If I wanted but it would serve no purpose, im only running windows 98se and dos, perhaps it would be a good experiment to have a 2nd cpu and run windows XP? Ive let another forum know where I bought the cpu, I only found it by logging onto www.ebay. …

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Pentium(PRO) 2 Overdrive 333 BEAST

Posted on 2012-05-30, 13:30

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by dirkmirk

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Im giving up on the tualatin project for the moment as the motherboard seems to be faulty, that machine might become a Pentium 4 845 isa system if I get that impulsive feeling again. However, I am very pleased with this system. http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd361/dirkmirk/Micronics.jpg …

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Re: Building a 486 system

Posted on 2012-05-28, 06:11

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd discount the first magitronics with the intel chipset, it has a dallas battery that is not easily replaced and looks to lack onboard cache/sockets? The PCI-400-4 looks to be an okay board (if you can find the jumper settings), you can run a 3dfx card if you wanted and probably supports any 486/ …

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Re: Dual CPU Computer

Posted on 2012-05-25, 14:59

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by dirkmirk

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I like the Socket 8 systems, rare, big & gold! What do you plan to do with a dual cpu setup? Im going to run a Pentium 2 overdrive in my system and add a Geforce 6200 pci, should make a good dos & decent win98 machine.

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Re: 3dfx and 486 possible?

Posted on 2012-05-25, 14:00

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by dirkmirk

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Not sure, I have'nt tested with an actual 486 chip but it also ran fine with a Pentium Overdrive 83 Im sure you already know this but the cyrix and pod struggle to run anything accelerated as it is, do you just want a 3d accelerator or an all in one like a banshee/Voodoo3?

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Re: 3dfx and 486 possible?

Posted on 2012-05-25, 12:28

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by dirkmirk

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Yes, I run a Voodoo3 in my cyrix 5x86-120 system, the board is a LS486E, your best bet might be to find a SIS 496/497 chipset as thats what I run.

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Re: SB16 vs DBs (hanging / stuck / wrong notes in MIDI)

Posted on 2012-05-24, 12:30

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by dirkmirk

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Just listened to a few of your videos Mau1wurf1977, Great stuff! 1. I like the chorus and reverb effects for the AWE64 Gold, do these effects applie to all EMU8000 chipped cards like the AWE32/Sound Blaster 32 etc (I could test this out but im too lazy, might do it tomorrow)? On the comparison of …

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IS THIS A PS2/SERIAL COMBO MOUSE? (BELKIN F8E201-BLK)

Posted on 2012-05-24, 10:44

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is a PS2 mouse I purchased hoping to use it with my 386/586 systems using a ps2>serial adapter, I could'nt find definitive information as to whether it was a combo mouse t but I decided to give it a try because it was cheap. I find this website which has a photo of the same mouse stating it …

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Playing the waiting game

Posted on 2012-05-22, 20:35

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by dirkmirk

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Ah! I've been wanting to purchase a Geforce 6200 PCI for about 3 or 4 months now and I search every morning and night to see if a new one pops up on ebay, Ive bid on 2 but they went over what I think is fair value, in saying that I was the 2nd highest bidder in both cases. The annoying thing? They …

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Re: AWE64

Posted on 2012-05-22, 20:26

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not very often but its not a desirable card either.

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Re: If Quake were made today

Posted on 2012-05-20, 20:32

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by dirkmirk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4yIxUOWrtw&feature=related The Doom one is awesome

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on 2012-05-18, 21:13

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by dirkmirk

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Airpower sounds very good with fm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGgbAUj3crU

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Re: "Hero saves valuable hardware from scrap heap"

Posted on 2012-05-17, 07:58

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Can't believe the condition of that 386 case! Looks new. I live near (10 minute drive) a computer/TV/whatever recycler but I dont finish work until 3.30pm which is'nt quite enough time to look through the computers, I guess anything is worth saving 486 and under that does'nt have corrosion damage? …

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Re: Tualatin "Beast" In progress

Posted on 2012-05-02, 10:47

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by dirkmirk

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Unfortunately the board is playing up BIGTIME I cant decide if the board is toast or not, everything was going fine until today when I decided to hook all the hard disks/cd-rom/floppy and the machine seemed a bit glitchy, in the bios I noticed the key presses were slow then would operate normally. I …

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Tualatin "Beast" In progress

Posted on 2012-04-23, 08:02

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by dirkmirk

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http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd361/dirkmirk/DSCN0121.jpg http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd361/dirkmirk/DSCN0179.jpg http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd361/dirkmirk/DSCN0180.jpg http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd361/dirkmirk/DSCN0182.jpg http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd361/ …

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Re: SD-RAM PC-150, RARE?

Posted on 2012-04-21, 04:26

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

About to purchase some brand new 3X512m PC-133 cas 2.5 modules to give 1.5gb ram, I think this should be plenty enough to squeeze some extra grunt, only thing to consider is running windows 98SE, apparently its gets unstable with this much ram? Im also going to run an ATI X800 PRO, That should be …

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SD-RAM PC-150, RARE?

Posted on 2012-04-20, 13:08

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm in the process of building a P3 Tualatin 1.4ghz and are comtemplating what type/size of memory to use, I scavenged an old box and found a 256meg Kingmax PC-150 module, a quick search on ebay gave 0 search results, did this type of memory come out when DDR was starting out or something? I assumed …

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Re: IBM 5x86 rebound

Posted on 2012-04-16, 20:40

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ System Specs

[quote="feipoa" I may consider trading an MB-8433UUD for a fully functional PCI-SiS board of my interest. I would really like to compare one of these later SiS boards with the MB-8433UUD.[/quote] I can run some tests if your interested, in speedsys my pci bandwidth with the the Voodoo3 is only …

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Re: New 486 toys! o_O

Posted on 2012-04-16, 20:33

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by dirkmirk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If your bios has an option to change L2 cache from "write back" to "write through" give that a try, my memory bandwidth goes from 33mb/s to 133mb/s along with fiddling ram timings.

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Re: IBM 5x86 rebound

Posted on 2012-04-13, 13:55

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by dirkmirk

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Excellent, I would love to run my 5x86 at 133mhz if my board supported that setting. Is that speedsys with the cyrix enhancements? On a side note, have you run many games with the 3dfx card? Ive tried a few, GLquake runs a little bit slow with my 5x86-120, Outlaws almost runs good, their must be …

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