Re: My new QDI VLB motherboard - couple of questions

Posted on 2016-08-18, 23:47

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"Green out" could be a LED going to the front bezel of your case. What's wrong with the lever of your board? Iirc those white s3 ZIF sockets always had plastic levers, the metal ones came later? The IBM 5x86 is basically the same as the Cyrix 5x86, but it was different from the AMD 5x86, so no idea …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-18, 23:38

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I may pull the 2 sticks out then, but haven't notice any increase or decrease in performance at all. Why do they make board that cant cache there full RAM capacity? Does anyone know where I might find a bios upgrade for this board? I wonder what a new bios might support? If removing half the RAM …

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Re: How does a system admin deal with users?

Posted on 2016-08-18, 06:46

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I was thinking this Otherwise do as in above reply 😄

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2016-08-18, 06:43

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i been asked to review "old junk" that was going to the bin, i could take whatever i wanted... i was like 8-O when i found that between the "old junk" was some piece's of hardware that i never seen despite i been repairing computers since 1999 Intel D875PBZ: https://s4.postimg.org/z5cpjcahp/WP_ …

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2016-08-17, 16:48

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Updated to about halfway of page 13 lol! Sub 10s Core i74770k @ 4.3Ghz, 16GB DDR3 - 2133Mhz - Windows 8.1 8.469 Core i7 3820 @ 4.3ghz, DDR3 2133mhz - 8.752s Core i7 3930K @ 4.3GHz DDR3 1600 - 8.799s Core 2 Duo E8600 @4660Mhz - 9s Core i7 4930K @ stock (3.4GHz) - DDR3 1866MHz - 9.422s - Sub 15s Core …

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Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino

Posted on 2016-08-17, 11:38

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Is it me or is the celeron just a pentium 1 mmx with a higher clock Mendocino did have L2 on-die cache and not the slower motherboard cache. Other than that I don't really know (could check some benchmarks like SuperPi? I'll go check there in a moment and will edit this reply) except that the …

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Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D

Posted on 2016-08-17, 11:17

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clueless1 wrote: PhilsComputerLab wrote: I'll try to add the charts to this thread, not everyone wants to watch the video. Some charts will be a bit packed though with too many results... I don't think there's such a thing as too many results around these parts. 😉 I'd say there aren't too many …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-17, 11:07

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The RAM was $15 + free ship on ebay. So if I add more then 128MB of RAM will that make the system slower? If go above 128MB its not Cacheable? I read a few forums on chacheing but nothings to clear on what it means? If you go above the maximum cacheable area, it will probably make your system …

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Re: Pentium 4 build. Black is the new beige.

Posted on 2016-08-16, 23:52

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Your build looks perfectly fine, clean and also simple (simple in a good way :P), you picked some nice parts I think. Did you prefer a Prescott over a Northwood due to SSE3? Because afaicr Northwood ran both cooler and a little bit faster per clock tick compared to Prescott, except perhaps when …

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Re: What coast module is this? (need help ID-ing)

Posted on 2016-08-16, 21:44

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Cheers for the quick replies! 😁 No idea why I didn't find these, but thanks 😀

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What coast module is this? SOLVED

Posted on 2016-08-16, 21:14

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Been going through some of my old stuff and bumped into a small box of Coast modules and there is one odd duckling mixed into the pack. At first I thought it was for that infamous PC-Chips s3 board, but that coast has 9 chips while this one has 10 (it does look very similar though). Otherwise it …

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Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D

Posted on 2016-08-16, 16:05

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Updated the first post with 3dfx results! Nicely done! Overall I think you drew the right conclusion. Read your update and watching the video right now :D Only note is the lack of a Voodoo 2 (doesn't have to be SLI afaic) and I'm wondering how Voodoo 2 SLI + TNT2 would fare? The only downside I …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-16, 11:44

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Also I forgot to add that I ordered 4x64MB EDO RAM, im going to pop them in right now. I'm still curious about the cacheable area of that board. It would still be fixable with a K6-III or K6+ and this board supports these lower voltages (might need a BIOS update for the +'s to make them work). How …

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Re: Year 2003 Athlon XP Build - CoolerMaster Wave Master *Photo Heavy*

Posted on 2016-08-16, 11:39

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I never even knew such cool CPU HSFs existed for sA! I only knew about one with heatpipes (never had one of those in my hands either, alas). Lovely build :) I do like how those case doors looked, but I never really found them very practical. Top notch! I like it a lot :D, especially since it is very …

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Re: Help me find/estimate some 286 benchmark results

Posted on 2016-08-16, 11:28

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clueless1 wrote: Spaseeba. 😉 Vy bol'she nužny boepripasy? 😜

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-16, 01:39

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I seem to remember the Old Unreal mod patch supports more sound options, including OpenAL. I think I tried several patches of Unreal, a different one for any build I played Unreal on (at least 3 different systems, with different sound cards). The first one I think I left Unreal as it was, the …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-16, 01:34

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My board is set to 2.8 and 75FSB, but right now im waiting on a K6-2 333MHz processor to come in the mail I only payed $8 for it, free ship too. You could actually just switch CPUs, change the CPU voltage to 2.2v and the multiplier to 4.5x for 337MHz. Your K6-2 will most likely take a 1% overclock …

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Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?

Posted on 2016-08-16, 01:26

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Yup, click on Start > Run > DXDIAG Then go to the Sound or Audio tab and it will show it there :) Guys, I'm planning a follow up to this. I'm looking for a game that: - Runs well enough on SS7 - Has some sort of benchmarking built in - Supports high fidelity audio like 44 KHz and 16 bit I know …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-15, 23:15

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Hi. I'm sorry about the delay, I happen to have the exact same board, same revision also (B), though mine is a slightly more recent revision (B05) while yours is B04. Don't think this revision difference matters much though. I found my board, but had some troubles getting my camera to cooperate lol …

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Re: Opinions on Perfect XP Machine

Posted on 2016-08-15, 21:13

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Perfect XP machine? I dunno, I'd probably prefer XP over 7 in the case the system uses DDR instead of DDR2 (unless the system has only like 2GB or less) So far, all the few systems with a multicore CPU got 7 and all the singlecore systems ended up getting XP. But to me it's mostly the RAM. 7 is nice …

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