Re: Socket 754 mobo recommendation required please

Posted on 2011-06-15, 08:57

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by Tetrium

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I personally prefer VIA over NF chipset boards, even though VIA chipsets of that age had their own particular problems. I prefer VIA as the NF chipsets often ran much hotter and the chipset often required active cooling while the VIA's run perfectly fine running passively. Also I'm not sure if NF …

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Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 08:44

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I always got by using the adage of you can never have TOO much RAM nor TOO much Storage space. Although I understand why some peeps would say a quad core overclocked to 6GHz using Liquid Nitrogen Cooling along with 16GB of ram would make sense, I ran fine on just a 3.2GHz stock cooled with only 8GB …

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?

Posted on 2011-06-15, 08:42

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by Tetrium

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I always wait for games to drop to the <=€10 level hehe, much rather spend the extra cach on hardware 😜 😁

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Re: Server motherboards and 9x drivers

Posted on 2011-06-14, 23:40

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by Tetrium

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I only have experience with the Asus CUV4X-DLS. Holey cow, somebody is trying to sell one on eBay for over $600 USD! It may take me some time to get over this kind of shock. Oceanside, California? Is that where the IC recycling depot is for Los Angeles? *Checked Ebay* Oh, that seller! The one with …

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Re: AWARD BIOS 4.50PG vs. 4.51PG

Posted on 2011-06-14, 23:37

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by Tetrium

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Think it would be feasible to compare the 2 binaries with a program like modbin or something? For all we know the updated BIOS file only corrected a stupid spelling error 🤣!

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Re: Info on slot1-s370 adapter

Posted on 2011-06-14, 15:02

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by Tetrium

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It "seems" to be nothing but basically a standard 370 to slot 1 converter with options for setting the voltage (perhaps for overclocking?). Theres basically not much about them, except it will probably work with PPGA Celerons and maybe with Coppermines. Have you tried it yet? And what were you …

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Re: Tillamook

Posted on 2011-06-14, 11:58

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by Tetrium

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Off topic, but... I just looked over some old posts and from the dates, it seems your attic has been 'under construction' for years. I find that old dressers work great for retro IC storage. Actually, those pics were of attic 1.0 completed! :P When I say I'm chaotic, I don't mean "loosing my …

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Re: Brainstorming about my 3rd pc..

Posted on 2011-06-14, 11:49

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by Tetrium

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If ISA is what you want, then I'd suggest you build 2 more systems instead of just 1. One of around 1Ghz-1.4Ghz with 98SE + XP dual boot, and another with XP and "maxed" XP hardware (s939, s754 or KT600 would be good examples).

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Re: Benchmarking with various VIA 4in1 service packs, including the unofficial Win98SE SP.

Posted on 2011-06-14, 11:47

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by Tetrium

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VIA s370 and KT133(A) seem like motherboards that require a bit of tweaking to get working correctly, kinda like Super 7

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Re: Tillamook

Posted on 2011-06-14, 11:32

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I might go test this with 2 little copper wires (the RG100 method 😁) and one of my lesser s7 boards within about 2 weeks or so? Depends how long I'll need to finish my attic, but progression is good actually.

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Re: Info on slot1-s370 adapter

Posted on 2011-06-14, 11:22

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by Tetrium

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A pic of the slotket would help 😉 Many support only PPGA Celeron and/or only work with Coppermines if the original motherboard supports Coppermines also.

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Re: Buying advice required for an 8086 type PC please

Posted on 2011-06-14, 11:20

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by Tetrium

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I ended up with terrible eyesight when I was using an XT regularly for work [it got better when vga came along]. The AT was a bit better. They had Amstrad PC1512's or 1640s on a few courses I went on back then. They were disappointing - cheap-looking and the screens were really awful. I've never …

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?

Posted on 2011-06-14, 11:18

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by Tetrium

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Haha, I like that "dry" voice of the Duke! 😜

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Re: windows 95 on a 386

Posted on 2011-06-14, 01:15

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by Tetrium

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NT never came with any other OS... it may LOOK like 95 or 3.1 but it's NOT either one of them the Win3.x/DOS 6.x were special OEM combos that were never sold retail I checked my NT 4.0 Server disk and this is what I found. On the disk theres a directory with the following files (I copied the dir to …

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Re: Brainstorming about my 3rd pc..

Posted on 2011-06-13, 23:35

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by Tetrium

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For your 3rd rig basically anything can work, though I'm not absolutely sure about games with a req of, say, of 500Mhz (which is too fast for SS7 usually). I use a s754 and sA rig as my LAN computers, using XP, AGP and at least 1.5GB DDR-400 and so far almost anything has worked for them. I wouldn't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-06-13, 21:47

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by Tetrium

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And you have a mobo that will fit inside this case? I'm thinking of scrapping it for parts, then doing away with the rest as I already got SOOO many cases already! Also, the case is broken (front panel is loose) and totally non-standard, meaning if something breaks, I can't repair it. Also it's too …

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Re: Benchmarking with various VIA 4in1 service packs, including the unofficial Win98SE SP.

Posted on 2011-06-13, 20:53

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by Tetrium

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Thanks a lot. It took ages. On and off, a couple of days to do. Everything was crash free. But the removal of the ATAPI fix was interesting - I rolled back the CF device to the beginning again, so it had a fresh Win98SE installation on it. I then installed the VIA 4-in-1 SP, version 4.37. I ticked …

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?

Posted on 2011-06-13, 20:35

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by Tetrium

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Stick with whatever you're used to whether it be a gamepad or mouse/keyboard, but I perfer the mouse/keyboard mix because the most skilled player with a mouse has a greater advantage than the most skilled player with a gamepad... I've seen the results myself. But again, it doesn't matter how good …

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Re: Why USB 2.0 is slower on AMD than on Intel

Posted on 2011-06-13, 20:32

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I never knew USB 2.0 performance could differ so significantly between different platforms, though it's logical to assume that is it a possibility. I know VIA often had sub-par performance and sometimes had troubles with their drivers, but NForce had troubles of it's own. Theres also SiS of course …

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Re: Buying advice required for an 8086 type PC please

Posted on 2011-06-13, 20:26

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by Tetrium

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Yeah, VCF is the better place for information about those sorts of machines. But I also don't think you quite realize what you're asking... There were hundreds of different XT-class machines on the market, ranging from the original IBM 5150 and 5160 machines, to big-name OEM 'compatibles', to …

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