Re: "Black Widow" Pentium III Build

Posted on 2017-02-10, 17:04

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Atech 384 MB PC-100 SDRAM * * Maximum supported memory configuration Let me know your thoughts. BX should support 256MB memory modules and several of them (depends on the number of memory slots your board physically has). But this is an Intel branded board and we know these did have artificial CPU …

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Re: Windows 95 Pentium Build

Posted on 2017-02-10, 16:53

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As for a case, I can get one from Newegg for roughly $50 that comes with a power supply and a generic ATX rear I/O shield (which I could honestly use 2 of right about now). Would be simple enough. Thoughts? Or you could simply use that money to get yourself a copy of 98SE and spend the rest on some …

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Re: VIA C3 Nehemiah vs. Coppermine(-128) and Tualatin

Posted on 2017-02-10, 16:21

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Caching limit? What were your latency timings? After some more testing I think maybe your right about the caching limit after all, when running over 512MB it somtimes feels fast and somtimes it slows down like hell (might be when the CPU accsesses the uncached area). This is possible. And just as a …

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Re: Voodoo2 blues, advice?

Posted on 2017-02-10, 15:32

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It's a Katmai (first gen P3) and its FSB is 133MHz You can tell by the part number, CPU-World has a dedicated page about how to read CPU part numbers, including your Pentium III The jumper is kinda irrelevant, as your CPU is most likely completely multiplier locked. So you can set it to whatever you …

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Re: Win98se + MVP3 issues

Posted on 2017-02-10, 15:22

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Welcome to the world of retro computing! :D Btw, for some reason I always found 9x to actually be easier about swapping components compared to XP. I would even simply attach all my random harddrives containing any 9x install to my test board and I'd arrive at the desktop most of the time. XP seemed …

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Re: Athlon 64 X2 opinions

Posted on 2017-02-10, 15:16

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I hope for your sake you're not using an Abit KV7-V. Mine was an uttermost terrible board to deal with. Even a BIOS flash didn't solve its fantastic crashability. From hindsight though it may have been the CPU. Or the board was simply a dud. It's a K7Upgrade-600 board that always ran really good …

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Re: Downclocking intel cpu help?

Posted on 2017-02-10, 13:00

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There were actually 350MHz Deschutes which were not fully locked? Any idea which ones? Or is it just a date code thingy? :P When searching these topics on keyword '350', I get no reports of an unlocked one. But no reports of pre week 34 locked one either. - Slowing a 440BX based PC - Which Pentium …

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Re: Athlon 64 X2 opinions

Posted on 2017-02-10, 12:55

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Hah I use a similar processor for my media center. It think it may be a generation or two above, but it's quite similar in specifications. I mean it's right on the fringe of what most people consider retro. Some people don't even consider some later Pentium 4s in the category. I think even a …

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Re: Win98se + MVP3 issues

Posted on 2017-02-10, 12:52

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Yes, I could buy a cheap PS/2 mouse, but I HATE cables ;-) I actually hate wireless input devices. However the easy KVM switching between rigs does actually sound like a useful feature, but I tend to prefer to give each rig its own setup. And to kinda help prevent wear and tear of the PS/2 …

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Re: Downclocking intel cpu help?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 23:02

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You need a Pentium II produced before week 34 1998. Retail Pentium II (and III) processors produced after that date are multiplier locked. Good chances with 233/266/300/333 MHz Models, especially Klamath core. Only a minority of the 350/400 MHz Deschutes core processors are not locked. There were …

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Re: 386DX-40 Build

Posted on 2017-02-09, 22:52

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Weren't rounded cables more susceptible to noise due to the data wires not being separated anymore by ground lines? I remember reading the same thing somewhere, and makes sense, but have never run into trouble so not worried I do remember having had odd stability problems with my Barton 3200+ rig …

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Re: Win98se + MVP3 issues

Posted on 2017-02-09, 22:19

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Never mind, I just reinstalled it from scratch. But this time with a git repository on the Linux partition tracking every single reboot as a commit. Apparently Windows98 is so shitty, you can't even change a single hardware component without risking to completely break it. Starting to remember now, …

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Re: What if Old CPU's where made on a new process

Posted on 2017-02-09, 21:45

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I don't know from top of my head how many VSA-100 chips max can work on a single board, but with the miniaturization of old designs that's possible with todays fabs, how about a 4x VSA-100 die with all the RAM on the same die as well? On-die RAM. Or at least RAM on the same package. Kinda funny …

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Re: VOODOO 2 12mb sli

Posted on 2017-02-09, 21:09

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Another vote for Pentium 3. A coppermine of around 800MHz should be more than enough 😜 For Voodoo 2 SLI you could opt for something similar as a Voodoo 3. Personally I like using a single Voodoo 2 in ss7, but most people seem to want to run SLI (which should work perfectly fine on ss7).

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Re: ASUS A8V-XE

Posted on 2017-02-09, 21:03

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candle_86 wrote: Sorry it wasn't NiB i opened the box that was sealed and inside is an A8N-E, so a 939 Nforce4 Ultra So a sealed box had the wrong motherboard in it? Doesn't really seem very legit 😕

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Re: What machines did you use in High School?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 20:36

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I can't remember lol! I think my schools did have a couple computers, but I didn't have a computer for myself back then. I have absolutely no idea what kind of PCs they had. At some point I got a Pentium II (which I still have) but I never really understood what was under the hood until I wanted to …

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Re: places to buy old hardware?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 20:19

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Still though, I wish it were like the good ole days of the early 2000's when 8088-80486 was considered "junk", when I Started out. Back then I was bringing stray x86 desktops home like a madman, like you could almost swear they were like Herbie the Love Bug following Jim Douglas home even at times. …

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Re: Voodoo2 blues, advice?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 19:55

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If you want, you could show us a couple pics of the board. Particularly one of the entire board and perhaps a couple ones of some of the printing on some sticker or so. Quite often there is a mark of the brand on the board (sometimes it's on the chipset heatsink) and in a few cases it's on the back …

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Re: Switching 486 board because of fake cache, tips needed (probally to: PVI-486SP3)

Posted on 2017-02-09, 19:43

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The SIMM looks like a 32MB one, the part number suggests it's FPM. Just google the part number (sorry I'm a bit lazy atm), but you could also just try them in your board. Or try in an old Pentium board that works with EDO. It should display whether it's EDO or FPM. This might be a nice site to read …

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Re: SE440BX With Crystal ISA CS4236B IRQ Issues

Posted on 2017-02-09, 06:59

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chinny22 wrote: Found this as a funny coincidence as you can get SE440BX motherboards with AudioPCI onboard Kinda the same here 🤣, back in my n00b days I upgraded the onboard sound with a PCI Solo-1, only to find out years later the onboard chip was also a Solo-1 😵

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