Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2010-11-21, 13:19

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: This project just never ends 🤣 Hehe! That's the great thing about this hobby. Keep up the good work! 😀 Everyone.

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Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2010-11-21, 13:06

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I just tried those logitech mouse drivers. This is curious - after running mouse.exe, I query the PC's memory status with mem /c /p, and I cannot see the mouse driver, and I also cannot determine if any memory has been used by the mouse! Also, there is a useful mouse.exe switch called S, and you use …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-21, 11:46

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I have finally been able to make a recording, and upload it the net. I chose Doom E1M1, using a SB Pro 2. I appreciate it's not required by anyone, but I thought I would upload it anyway. It's only 40 seconds. http://www.multiupload.com/0M8FXZOC3P (I tested the Hotfile link, and it worked.) I …

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Re: OT: Can't upload to Mediafire - anyone else having difficulties?

Posted on 2010-11-21, 11:13

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not really a solution but nowdays when I want to upload stuff to share I use multiupload.com . it seems silly not to use it as you upload to it and it spreads your uploads to several servers like rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire, etc :D give it a shot rg100! Ah! Thanks a lot for the heads-up! I …

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Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2010-11-21, 11:11

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Re: ATX PSUs - unfortunately, I don't know if one will fit inside an AT case. Re: optical serial mice. My guess is that they do not exist. You have jogged my memory about PS/2 mice behaving a bit oddly. It could be a systems win9x resource issue, in conjunction with a driver issue. Have you tried …

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(Solved) Can't upload to Mediafire - anyone else having difficulties?

Posted on 2010-11-21, 10:50

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I try to upload a file (retro relevant Doom music for a Vogons discussion) to MediaFire, and I get the error below. I cannot see a community forum on MediaFire, so I can't share my comments with other users. I have submitted a help ticket, but I have yet to receive a response. I have tried 2 …

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Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2010-11-21, 10:37

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SS7 mobos seem to be the best for slow down projects. Malik's Skt 5 mobo is awesome too. The SS7 mobo I tested a few weeks ago even had an FSB option as high as 140! Before SS7 disappeared at the end of the 90s, the quality was good on some of them. Re: 486 and the AT form factor. You can get AT to …

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Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2010-11-21, 09:39

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^ Awesome. You've just given me a thought. I had a look at my Asus P2B slot 1 mobo, and it has 16 different FSB settings printed on its PCB. They range from 66 to 150. If a "slow" P2 (eg 233 MHz), or a Celeron (eg 266 MHz), or one of those "under-clockable" P2 chips were used, I wonder if you would …

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Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2010-11-21, 08:20

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These Pentium slow down projects are great! I particularly like the use of a turbo button on the skt 5 mobo. I don't have any skt 5 mobos, but it's possible I may have one or two skt 7 mobos with a turbo button header on them - I'll have to check. Re: Wing Commander on the P200 system, Mau1wurf1977 …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-20, 19:00

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Also, make sure your recording software is set to record stereo. Er... :blush: It's taken me a month to solve that problem. Audacity installation defaulted to mono recording. No idea why. I set it to Stereo, and I have sound recording working OK now. I did 40 seconds of Doom using a SBPro2 CT1600. …

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Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-20, 14:53

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Edit: If I do a search on German ebay for opti soundkarte (or ess or crystal), the results are plentiful. Can someone please helpfully point out a couple of good cards? Thanks a lot if possible. I decided to take "pot luck", and buy a selection of sound cards. They were Opti 82C929A, ESS 1868/9, …

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Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-20, 06:23

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Thanks a lot for the info. Ace, your Star Wars youtube vids are excellent. 😀

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Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-19, 19:18

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OK, thanks a lot. I have an AWE64, and I like its clean sounding output. Actually, I think I could have worded my question better. Rather than saying "no" to things like wavetable header, 16 bits etc, I should have said "I don't mind if the replacement card has this or does not have this". So, that …

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Re: Joysticks - general advice please

Posted on 2010-11-19, 17:27

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My joystick arrived in the post. The first one, the one I ordered several weeks ago. I opened a paypal dispute saying "no item arrived", and whadda ya know, it arrives a few days later. No comms from the seller. Some people are a bit odd. Anyway, it's a Mikomi QF-668IP . (3rd image). The resistence …

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Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-19, 16:40

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I'm curious, what sound card would you guys choose to directly replace a SB Pro 2? When I say "directly", I mean a replacement card doesn't have to have anything more than what is already on the SB Pro 2 card. So, no wavetable header, 16-bits, PCI, etc. Just a "like for like" replacement, that has …

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Re: Giant socket A/462 heatsink

Posted on 2010-11-19, 12:56

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nice heatsink/fan collection rg100! (I could use one on my hot pIII-1.4 LOL) I think the "slim line" cooljag socket 370/A heatsinks are very good. I like them because they also fit on Super socket 7 boards! :happy: I'm looking at the heatsink box it was packaged in, and it says: ITEM: JAC301C …

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Re: A question about unlocking a mobile barton CPU

Posted on 2010-11-19, 10:57

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I have replaced the AGP Voodoo3 2000 card, with an AGP GeForce3 Ti 500 card. Here are the 3DMark 99 Max scores: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Dop-eDMechk/TOaVXQgW0LI/AAAAAAAAAY4/VAeQDpJf2Io/s800/gf3Table.jpg I'm using the 43.45 drivers. They seem good for GF3 cards. I also increased the CPU's VCore by just …

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Re: Giant socket A/462 heatsink

Posted on 2010-11-19, 07:44

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^ OK, cool (on). :wink: Re: skt 370 cooler on a skt A mobo - do you know what the dimensions are, for the underside of the cooler? I have used a heatsink similar to this one , and it works for both skt 370 and skt A. It's advertised as "for socket: Intel FC-PGA (Socket 370) & AMD (Socket A)." I …

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Re: A question about unlocking a mobile barton CPU

Posted on 2010-11-18, 21:34

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If you're interested in testing that out further, try comparing 17x133 versus 15x150... both are at ~2.2ghz, and they should show to be within a couple percent of each other. You may find a slight difference when using the PCI V5, since I believe it's a little bit bus-limited and scales a certain …

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Re: Giant socket A/462 heatsink

Posted on 2010-11-18, 19:38

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Maybe coolon works by lowering the multi/voltage of mobiles but not for desktop XP's? All I can think of from the top of my head I'm afraid I don't know how Coolon.exe works. However, the two CPUs I have tested with Coolon are both mobiles; a 2400+ and a 3000+. The 2400+ worked with it, but the …

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