Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-13, 19:50

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but right now it got it clocked a 263MHz, 66FSB, multi at 4.0x and voltage at 2.8 only way it will boot stable. The Pentium MMX shouldn't have any 4x CPU multiplier, I guess you jumpered your board to 3.5 x 75MHz FSB, which will give you 263MHz instead of the 266MHz you otherwise would've gotten if …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 19:43

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The GF7 started using this new solder, right? It's the main reason I kinda avoid any passively cooled GF7s, as usually only baking will help and I don't feel like buying an already baked GF7 which will likely start having problems (again) after a short while. I'm glad I added active cooling to both …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-13, 19:36

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Two more pacakages arrived today, again from local sellers: Socket 7 board, Intel FX chipset, it's a 'BCM SQ595'. Good tech support, the site is still up! http://www.bcmcom.com/tech/sq595/tech595.htm . The CPU is a 75MHz Pentium http://i.imgur.com/c4VO3Sql.jpg?1 486 VLB board, Gemlight? GMB-486UNP …

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Re: Best cooling mod for sockets 370, 462 and 478

Posted on 2016-08-13, 19:16

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Hey you could always mount one of those 15k rpm Delta fans on a bare cpu. Just rig it up to float over the top of it with some zip ties! Who needs heatsinks when you have MASSIVE AIRFLOW!!! Isn't it kind of necessary to have a heatsink of some sort to keep the CPU from cooking itself? Do not make …

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Re: Zen - I knew it would kick butt!

Posted on 2016-08-13, 19:14

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I'll wait and see what will appear on the shelves, wouldn't be the first time someone didn't deliver what was expected (not looking at any single manufacturer here), but some better competition would be good for prices, performance and for consumerfriendlyness.

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Re: Thunderbird 266FSB + ViaKT133 possible?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 07:52

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Several weeks ago, i've destroyed one Athlon 1000 B cause i forgot the thermal grease. As a replace i've got an Athlon 1333 C with closed L1 bridges. That means, by default you are able to change multi's if the board has the option for. Now my VIA family is these: KT133, KT133A, KT333, KT400 and …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-13, 07:11

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So yours is probably this one? http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/850.htm Now I wonder which revision yours is, as I have one of these as well lol! I used it for a testing rig at one time, running a K6-2/300 @ 75MHz FSB with either 3x or 3.5x CPU multiplier. I kinda liked that board for some reason, …

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Re: Looking for some good benching tools

Posted on 2016-08-13, 07:04

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I've used SuperPi the most, because it's a very small program (could fit on a floppy) and easy and quickly to use. Only prerequisite is that you have a Windows installation. There's a SuperPi downloadable in the SuperPi thread that will measure floats in 9x (it prevents a crash bug that always …

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Re: Thunderbird 266FSB + ViaKT133 possible?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 06:51

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VIA KT133 worked just fine with Thunderbird B (it's kinda made for that chip), so I don't see why it shouldn't run the C fine also, provided your board can handle the unofficial 133MHz well enough or you underclock its FSB (making your C-chip run slower). If it won't run it, you can do the pencil …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-13, 06:25

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Up until recently Blues were mainstream desktop drives running at 7200rpm. The Greens were the 5400rpm drives with automatic head parking that were really just good for bulk storage. People liked the Blues so WD stopped developing them after 1TB (the WD10EZEX) while the Greens kept getting bigger. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-12, 20:18

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Those Quantum Bigfoots are notoriously SLOW ala 3600RPM. I have two of the 2.5GB variants, but both have bad sectors. Did I mention they are slow? I've watched ice melt faster in a freezer. :lol: I kinda regret only having 2 of those, both being like 1.2GB and maybe 2GB or so (there were like 20GB …

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Re: The Systempro

Posted on 2016-08-12, 19:23

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That case looks awesome! 😁 I remember many IBM cases having protrusions like that, though most of those were desktop instead of towers. If an old PC looks this alien, it's got to be good! Fantastic!

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Re: Found some stuff (Video/Ram/CPU's) my wife will hate me for it

Posted on 2016-08-12, 16:19

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That's a fantastic haul! 😁 Wish I had this many GF7 cards 🤣 Have fun testing all those memory modules with memtest and don't forget to check in again to let us know the final results 😜

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-08-12, 16:15

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Actually found all parts needed for my old camera, these mobile phones are utter crap when it comes to taking pics of hardware components :dead: I hope it will work this time lol! For the past 2 days I have started, and am now part through a project of organizing and sorting my collections (I do …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-12, 16:11

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I got this Packard Bell the other day the case to it was smashed and rusted bad. Inside was a SIS 5598 motherboard witch was very clean to eat off of, I thought that was kind of odd since all the other components where extremely dirty it also came with a Riva 128, 128MB EDO RAM 64MB x4, Cyrix MII …

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

Posted on 2016-08-12, 14:52

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I think this is actually quite interesting. Thanks for testing these out Phil, nicely done! 😀 Perhaps test a few ISA sound cards, a couple more common ones like SB16, any SB32's and perhaps 1 or 2 of another make.

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Show us pics of your collection :D

Posted on 2016-08-12, 14:44

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I realize there was already a thread about collections here http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=26892, but it's old and I really wanted to have a thread where there's a wall of hardwarepr0n instead of only list upon list (but lists are fine if they are accompanied by pics of course :D! I'd …

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2016-08-12, 14:01

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Wow...your collection of cards newer than GF2 is pretty much awesome though! :D Which cards do you have in your collection atm? TNT2 is expensive these days? And those early Ati AGP cards used to be everywhere, there's got to be some still floating around for you :D List of cards from pic earlier, …

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Re: Red Alert 2 & Age of Empires 2 LAN Parties; September 2016; NL

Posted on 2016-08-12, 13:32

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Now I'm really sorry I don't live in Limburg, not even close 🤣!

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Re: 486 Motherboards and components

Posted on 2016-08-12, 00:41

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According to your locations you're in Moscow, there are a few listings in the Russian Federation. I'm probably the wrong person to ask — I've actually never sourced any part outside of Moscow. Regular Russian postal services are notoriously bad (e.g. damaged shipments, takes too long, can be …

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