Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-23, 20:57

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by Tetrium

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The Final Plan CPU: Pentium 3-STualatin 1.4GHz pin mod Motherboard: ASUSTeK CUSL2 Motherboard w/PIII 850 MHz & 512MB RAM GPU: GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme, 3dfx Voodoo 5500 HDD: Western Digital HDD IDE 120GB FDD: IBM 93F2361 INTERNAL DESKTOP COMPUTER FLOPPY DISK DRIVE 1.44 3.5 3.5 ODD: Please …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-23, 20:38

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by Tetrium

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I see. I will look through these brands that you mentioned. How about some high-end PSU brands like Delta, Enermax? Can you find the best cases, crt monitors, speakers, keyboard and mouse for me (I tried to search IBM's Think series but it's really pain in my ass. They are too rare to find on every …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-23, 13:32

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Actually, I live in Korea and stay in Malaysia for studying. The building process might be proceeded when I am going back to my country. Thanks for giving info about GPUs. However, finding case (IBM Thinkpad, Thinkcentre) and ODD (model that supports CD, DVD, RW) are the hardest tasks that I cannot …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-23, 13:26

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by Tetrium

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I suppose your intend is to really get a Tualatin I guess. Well, I did a 3 minute search on ebay and found this one . $25 buy it now. It has the Intel chipset, AGP and comes with extra memory and a Coppermine CPU already installed which is not bad start at all. You'd still need a modded Tualatin …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-23, 13:16

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by Tetrium

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I see. There is a motherboard that supports Tualatin. One of them are Asus TUSL2-C. I don't mind whether they are new or used condtiton. The thing is that must be functional and clean. The Tualatin that you mentioned has adapter for Coopermine board which I saw a week ago. Link: Asus TUSL2-C: …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-23, 11:17

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Thus, the Pentium 3-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz and board that supports it are the best result for play dos, direct-x, glide gameing. Can you give a board model name from ASUS, GIGABYTE for P3 -S tualatin? P.S. What is a good soundcard for me among (Gravis Ultrasound, Roland MT-32, Sound Blaster, AWE) to …

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Re: help identifying motherboard

Posted on 2014-02-22, 21:01

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by Tetrium

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@ b_rros: Dude, that's one heck of a nice looking rig! 😁

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Re: Odd subject - Is it possible for long video\sound card's pcb to warp over time?

Posted on 2014-02-22, 20:59

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by Tetrium

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This happened to my voodoo5. But only after I installed aftermarket heavy heatsinks. As a "solution" I routed ide cables at the end of the board so they would hold the board up. This is how I kinda solved my problem with my "GF7600 AGP passive cooled but with large casefan mounted on it" card, it …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-22, 20:51

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by Tetrium

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This topic really went quickly! I'd still suggest to find a Socket 370 board, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a Tualatin board imo. Iirc there was someone selling already pinmodded Tualatins on Ebay that will work in most Coppermine boards. I'd suggest you get one of those. If you're looking …

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Re: Building A Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2014-02-22, 10:26

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by Tetrium

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Maybe you can tell us which parts you already have laying around? Perhaps if you already have specific parts, you won't be needing to buy them and save some money 😜

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Re: Why no love for Socket 5?

Posted on 2014-02-22, 08:07

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by Tetrium

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Anonymous Coward wrote: I know Socket4 PODP5V133 overdrive DOES NOT revert to a 1X multiplier with the fan removed, as I have one missing the retail fan. So what will happen if the fan of such a CPU is removed? Will it simply refuse to boot or will it simply sit there and overheat?

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Re: help identifying motherboard

Posted on 2014-02-21, 23:15

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by Tetrium

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b_rros, if you really intend to find out what board you have, then one place is to look through total hardware 99 (more commonly known as th99, google that) and look through the pictures of Socket 5/Socket 7 boards and see if you can find one that looks veeery similar. Though personally I wouldn't …

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Re: Why no love for Socket 5?

Posted on 2014-02-21, 23:11

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Now, Feipoa wrote somewhere that the original Cyrix 6x86 had a rare 1.0x multiplier setting. Unfortunately the 6x86 is not that desirable, if only because it gets rather hot while doing nothing fancy. But I recently sourced a 6x86L PR200 split voltage model to try, and that one also supports the 1. …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-21, 22:35

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Actually, I'm considering exactly that: Underclocking a high-end card. If I really need more power, then I'll just use one of my faster rigs. I'm always on the lookout for software that can also underclock (usually they only offer an overclock option, I think it was Rivatuner??). Rivatuner can …

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Re: Tualatin PIII 1400-S + Geforce FX5900 Ultra Windows 98 build

Posted on 2014-02-21, 20:41

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by Tetrium

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I installed a Artic Silencer NV4 on my FX5950. Takes up a slot less than your massive cooler. Fan only runs when needed. Very quiet and good cooling. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arctic-Cooling-AVC-NV4-NV-Silencer-4-Nvidia-VGA-Cooler-/280553940841?pt=US_Video_Card_GPU_Cooling&hash=item4152516769 That's …

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Re: Anyone collecting older SLI/crossfire cards?

Posted on 2014-02-21, 20:38

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It is more expensive then older systems, most of the dual PCIE boards I have are old Opteron workstation boards and they need E-ATX cases. The cool thing about E-ATX cases is nobody wants them anymore (huge) and I picked up a few locally cheap, plus they have room for those older large cards (and …

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Re: What's in your toolkit?

Posted on 2014-02-21, 17:56

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Good question! When I'm going somewhere where I expect to find some computers or computer parts, I always bring 2 or 3 screwdrivers (1 large phillips, one small and a flat one) and a bunchload of antistatic bags. I have 2 of those small plastic suitcases full of parts (mostly screws, but also a …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-21, 17:29

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I prefer the top cards. Best cooling, all parts of the GPU activated, often wider memory buss plus more memory and so on. If you want to save power or decrease heat output make a custom BIOS with lower voltage and if necessary lower clocks. I ran a HD 4870 Crossfire setup that was almost silent. …

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Re: Why no love for Socket 5?

Posted on 2014-02-21, 16:38

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I have an Asus socket 7 board that lets you downclock the FSB to the ISA buss clock speed. Its a undocumented setting, I found it while looking for an undocumented 83 mhz setting. Stability at ~8-10 mhz FSB was bad if remember correctly. I can vaguely remember having underclocked a Socket 7 board …

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Re: M571 RAM Size error

Posted on 2014-02-21, 16:30

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I had to google your board. Apparently it came with a TX Pro chipset (dunno what that is exactly) and it apparently can handle 128MB RAM sticks maximum. Also keep in mind the density of your RAM sticks. I'm not really surprised your 256MB sticks are doing weird stuff. Do you have any other 128MB …

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