Re: Alton M571

Posted on 2014-02-14, 11:04

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The main problem about the integrated VGA is mentioned on the site you linked to: http://m571.com/m571/m571upgrade.htm "My own tests show that memory performance suffers approximately 30% by using the onboard video function as opposed to using any PCI video card." This is quite obvious since memory …

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Re: My latest Windows 98 Pentium 3 rig.

Posted on 2014-02-14, 09:58

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I completely agree with you about VIA chipsets. I run a 694X board myself, and the ability to use 1.5GB of RAM with XP is great. The memory performance of VIA chipsets can be just as good as i815, so long as you enable memory interleaving and use CL2 modules. I run a SB X-Fi and Radeon 9800 Pro on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-13, 22:02

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Stojke wrote: 10kg of various retro stuff packed neatly by force into an huge potato sack 🤣 And possible new stuff from a colleague from college 😀 Pics of the huge potato sack! 😁

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

Posted on 2014-02-13, 12:52

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I think it would be also good to differentiate between Windows 9x and windows "NT" results, also always specify motherboard (and cache), fsb, memory settings (as some are doing, but not all), that way the times would make more sense, but yes... it's hard to organize and interest in this is looking …

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Re: "WANTED: vintage computers" - does this work?

Posted on 2014-02-13, 11:55

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In The Netherlands I've placed a few wanted advertisements on a website that deals specifically with anything related to hardware and I did get a few responses and ended up with a couple nice cards...but I didn't really always get what I had hoped for. That was a couple years ago. I was actually …

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Re: Motherboard Choices, what to pick for my new old stock AT case...

Posted on 2014-02-13, 02:29

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I'd say build a 486. Dunno if you already have an AT Pentium build (or a 486 build for that matter 🤣 ) but if you have the right parts for them, then I would pick to build a 486. If you want a Pentium you can always use an ATX board in a cheap spare ATX case 😜

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Re: My Retro 3Dfx Build

Posted on 2014-02-12, 22:05

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Yep I have the Intel stock HSF but it does use metal clips. The were a pain to clip on as the metal was quite stiff. That is a good thing I guess; good thermal contact. The Tualatin-s 1400 is a good idea. I see on eBay they have ones pin modded and some without. Since I have a Slot T and a native …

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Re: Arman's Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2014-02-12, 16:29

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armankordi wrote: The board can support about ~128MB of ram when I filled the SDRAM with my 32MB modules, and left 32MB in EDO. Many boards of that age did not support the simultaneous use of SIMM and DIMM modules though. You might end up frying your DIMM's, just fyi

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Re: My Retro 3Dfx Build

Posted on 2014-02-12, 16:21

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Welcome aboard, young lurkling! :D I see you're using a stock Intel HSF. I always found those to make a nasty whining noise. Btw are the clips that attach the HSF to the socket made out of plastic? If they are, I always found those to be brittle. I always re-use the heatsinks, use a clip from a …

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Re: My AMD Athlon Socket A system..

Posted on 2014-02-12, 15:45

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One question though: Why would you go for 2k over XP? Afaik theres only few advantages to using 2k over XP (one is that some older hardware is better supported in 2k). Both seem to be about equally fast or slow on more recent systems and XP is easier to tweak using nlite. 2k has lower requirements …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-12, 15:29

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I was going to wait till all my stuff had arrived, I got quite a lot of stuff lately (including 2 s423 board, one with bad caps but hey, it was free anyway). Today I went with a friend to pick something up by car and on the way back he decided to take another route. So I told him that I knew there …

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Re: Goldmine or old junk?

Posted on 2014-02-12, 11:25

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Anyway, the Intel 740 might be interesting in some way I guess. Agreed. It is one of the less common video cards. Although there is no real reason to have it except experimenting or collecting, it does not support any proprietary 3D APIs, just Direct3D and OpenGL. i740 cards in AGP are actually …

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Re: Case recommendations?

Posted on 2014-02-12, 11:15

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129187 these Antec cases are nice. No frills, cheap, OK cooling. That case doesn't even have external 3.5" drive bays...gross.lol Just keep looking..I know where I live cheap atx cases are very easy to find...there are so many chinese …

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Re: What does this dream mean?

Posted on 2014-02-12, 09:31

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Dreams are always strange. I had a particularly strange and gory dream last night but I suppose it's just something that's on your mind somehow? At any rate, looks like your retro hardware has at least gotten your attention. If that's a good or a bad thing? That really is up to you to interpret 😀

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Re: Arman's Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2014-02-12, 09:22

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I've always wondered why the SIMM modules sometimes had very big RAM chips (in your case the 8MB modules) while before that and afterwards the RAM chips had the normal size? Those very large chips always are 2MB each so it's easy to count the amount of memory on those modules. From the photo's it …

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Re: Goldmine or old junk?

Posted on 2014-02-11, 20:46

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Thanks everyone for all your replys so far! :) I don't know, either :) He told me to name my price once I figured out what I want to keep, I guess if it's more than the value in precious metals it's okay with him. If I decide to keep everything, what would be a reasonable price, you think? I added …

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Re: Goldmine or old junk?

Posted on 2014-02-11, 18:39

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Dunno about the P4 boards though, but I'd at the very least sell anything that isn't ATX. The Slot 1 boards look alright. Keep the ASUS ones (especially the P3B's) as it seems ASUS has a magical ring to it, even though I don't find their board particularly special if it is a working unit. The ASUS …

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Re: Goldmine or old junk?

Posted on 2014-02-11, 18:22

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Lots of stuff, definitely a lot of stuff. I'm not sure how much it's gonna set you back financially, so I'm not sure what is wise and what isn't, but here goes anyway: About the SDRAM. Indeed keep the 128MB PC-133 modules, but it might be worthwile to also keep the double sided (2 times 8 chips) PC- …

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Re: 486-VIP-I02 Motherboard Cryix 5x86 100mhz

Posted on 2014-02-11, 15:09

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Stock the most systems where sold with 8 MB of ram.. The lower cheaper version did go with 4MB.. My dad bought an Highscreen 486 back in the days.. Did know with which processor it came, i thought it was the DX2 50mhz. Later he upgraded it with 16MB of ram.. but het never installed windows 95 on it …

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Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2014-02-11, 14:03

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leileilol wrote: 3D art and character design is a hobby. So is shader programming, hence the blurry look. I thought you had a crush on her 🤣 😜

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