Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-26, 19:46

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by prophase_j

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I can't tell you off the top of of my head but I did update it to the latest one. As I recall the spread spectrum behavior was the same though.. and I would bet money that's the root of the FSB issue. I don't think would need to mess with the bridges on the CPU since its an XP-M. I'm not afraid to …

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-26, 03:02

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by prophase_j

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So I officially hate this board. Possibly the platform. For one reason or another I can't use over a 12.5x multiplier. Even though my bios has an option for 14x.. system won't boot. Another interesting thing it isn't detecting the voltage of the XP-M correctly. The current version of bios won't let …

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Re: 128meg 50ns EDO DIMM's for sale

Posted on 2008-10-23, 08:58

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by prophase_j

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I stated in the details that I could ship international... fixed the listing. Thanks Amigaz

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128meg 50ns EDO DIMM's for sale

Posted on 2008-10-23, 04:55

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by prophase_j

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Just listed some EDO DIMMs.. 8 in dutch auction http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … em=300268255063

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-21, 06:45

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by prophase_j

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After much thought I realized that there is only a handful of things that will need a real dos environment.. so yeah yeah *shrugs* Now if I was to setup something older.. I would go with a K6 or maybe even the original pentium.

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-20, 20:19

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by prophase_j

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Interesting. I juist read a couple of reviews on it and saw one guy that HDtach'd the controllers.. the 686b had really high CPU utilization and the RAID didn't. Mine doesn't have the RAID though. I'm gonna check out the latency patches.. see what that's all about. What else do you know about it PCI …

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-20, 03:38

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by prophase_j

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Tell me.. whats so bad it? I mean it is quite the bastard.. ISA slots.. PC133 ram.. Picked it up for $35 at recycler shop. Included the 512 of ram and 1ghz t-bred. I'm happy with it though. I'm just glad I didn't end up with a BX or some other P.O.S. 😉

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Re: Any Information about SB16 - CT2800?

Posted on 2008-10-19, 22:06

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by prophase_j

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Do vibra chips have the infamous "hanging note" bug?

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-19, 21:25

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by prophase_j

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Haters! j/k. I basically wanted to build the fastest platform I could get my hands on with and ISA slot. I got lucky and caught a steal on the motherboard, and from there I'm just gonna max it out. So maybe it is more of a Swiss Army box than retro.. but I live in a condo and have fiance so I can't …

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-19, 01:35

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by prophase_j

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I can see how you might think its a little much.. Try civ4 on a 1ghz pc.. it sucks. I can always softclock the CPU to a lower speed if I need to, or run DOSbox :P At one point I had Jane's ATF running at 1.4ghz and it was amazing. I need the ram for Civ and my for day to day things.. it isn't …

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My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-19, 00:19

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by prophase_j

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So I have decided to stick the details of my rig in its own thread.... and help get the other threads about the video cards back on track. At this point it has mostly taken shape for late 90's era games, a few choice modern titles, solid DOS support, and enough power to handle DOSbox in case it's …

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Re: SB Pro 2 Amplifier Disable

Posted on 2008-10-17, 00:09

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by prophase_j

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Excuse me for being a newb and a fool... but why would you want to do this? Is that one of the cards that has a powered out.. i.e. can plug speakers into? Is there no line out?

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Re: Are any of the video cards I already have "good enough"?

Posted on 2008-10-17, 00:07

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by prophase_j

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OMG journeymen project. I got that with my first PC (a packard bell lol).. it was probably one of the first PC games I beat. Man i was a young one. Unless your looking for something with real 3D rendering sounds like the tnt2 is the way to go. As I recall the geforce4, being an MX is actually on par …

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Re: Gunship 2000 chatter

Posted on 2008-10-15, 12:25

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by prophase_j

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nice vid cap. running in dosbox? what are your system specs?

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Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5

Posted on 2008-10-15, 10:59

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by prophase_j

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Well i got the the voodoo2's installed and chugging along.. and i have to say so far i'm really impressed. Using the latest fastvoodoo drivers 4.6 i think. One thing that does have me peeved is how if i turn up the gamma past a certain point it screws with the colors... some kind of blending or …

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Re: Bought a Logitech 270120 8bit ISA Mouse port card, any info?

Posted on 2008-09-30, 19:31

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by prophase_j

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ah the feature connector.. makes sense. i'm used to seeing the multi pin header. to honest though.. i have never seen a device that used the feature connector from a vid card

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Re: Bought a Logitech 270120 8bit ISA Mouse port card, any info?

Posted on 2008-09-30, 16:47

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by prophase_j

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wow a bus mouse. i had read about them once. i always thought it was a myth. just curious.. what is that trippy sli connector looking thing on the ati?

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Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5

Posted on 2008-09-30, 16:35

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by prophase_j

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if it is just a matter of what glide file you are using couldn't you just drop in the correct file in the application directory.. and then whatever game you want to play would be trained? seems like a better solution than screwing with the files in the system directory. i would really rather stay …

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Re: Voodoo2 vs. Voodoo3/5

Posted on 2008-09-28, 22:49

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by prophase_j

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I think KAN asked this on another site (I dug it up googling lol) and it didn't sound like it would work.. at least very well. would probably have to have 2x installs and use the device manager to disable/enable... The v5 pci was for PC... no DVI. At this point the game plan is to get a fx5950 or …

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Re: PCI Radeon 9200 on K6II pc

Posted on 2008-09-28, 19:53

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by prophase_j

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The thing about the FX is that its engine is optimized for dx7/8.. where as the 6000 series and so is the 9800's pipelines. I took me a while to figure it out.. but after combing through tons of reviews and keeping track of what games they are using for the benchmarks.. AAMOF most games that have …

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