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

Posted on 2011-06-13, 20:23

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Nice post! I'm quite startled by the big differences in performance shown here. Can you say anything about VIA's stability btw? Or was your testing crash-free?

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Re: Buying advice required for an 8086 type PC please

Posted on 2011-06-13, 17:36

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Perhaps VCF would be the place to ask 😉

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

Posted on 2011-06-13, 16:50

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I never look at the keyboard. Ever. Especially while gaming. But I use the numpad and surrounding keys rather than WASD and the sea of keys all around the same area. Same. I use the numpad and kinda set up the rest of the keys around that. And I set the left and middle mouse for fire and alt-fire …

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Re: First post - Dual PProOverdrive on PR440FX

Posted on 2011-06-13, 16:48

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While surfing the net on dual Tualatin configs, I stumbled upon this forum where I might fit in. As to assess my entry, I present to you my Intel PR440FX Mainboard, onboard SCSI and 640 MB of EDO Ram in Dimm-form. It has been upgraded some time ago from 2 PPro 200's to 2 333 MHz Pentium Overdrive …

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Re: First post - Dual PProOverdrive on PR440FX

Posted on 2011-06-13, 15:40

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Thx Tetrium, I didn't know that. The Asus P5A will be the better choice over this TX board for a K6-III, I presume (according to the info on the Intel site, the board doesn't support the lower core voltage of the K6-II/III. Np mate ;) Intel had the habit of making their boards as un-upgradeable as …

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Re: Floppy machine

Posted on 2011-06-13, 15:38

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Never knew internal 700MB ZIP drives existed! I only ever saw an external USB one (which I promptly bought :D). Get a 2gb Jaz drive. The whole point of getting the 750MB ZIP drive was to be able to read the earlier ZIP disks and the 750meg ones with only a single drive. Can the Jaz drive read all …

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Re: Is there an easier way to find new posts?

Posted on 2011-06-13, 15:36

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A lot of other forums I am on if you click on a topic with new posts it takes you directly to the first post that you haven't read yet instead of having to do all that clicking and scrolling to find them. Can't something like that be done with these forums? You mean like, clicking the little round …

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Re: First post - Dual PProOverdrive on PR440FX

Posted on 2011-06-13, 11:34

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You do realize that 430TX can't cache more then 64MB if not using a K6-III or a K6+, right? Going over 64MB might actually decrease performance

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

Posted on 2011-06-13, 11:32

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"Auto-aim" feature is for n00bz anyway, I prefer skillz!!1 😁

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Re: First post - Dual PProOverdrive on PR440FX

Posted on 2011-06-13, 10:58

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More to come if you want :) Definitely! ;) The thing with VIA or Intel (with it's 512MB limit) is a handicap for sure. For a 9x rig 815 is the way to go if you want Tualatin but for NT5 I think a server board could actually be the best option. Not sure how much buffered SDRAM modules go for, but I …

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

Posted on 2011-06-13, 10:52

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I watched some footage of DNF on youtube while being played on the xbox. The guy kept getting frustrated by the xbox's lousy controls and I could feel the pain! Why would anyone ever want to bother playing a FPS on a console anyway, it's interface kinda sucks. The guy kept pressing the wrong buttons …

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Re: Floppy machine

Posted on 2011-06-13, 10:50

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Never knew internal 700MB ZIP drives existed! I only ever saw an external USB one (which I promptly bought 😁).

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2011-06-13, 10:48

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HunterZ wrote: ...The only problem is my desk is a huge mess! Pics! 😁

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Re: My Pentium 133 build

Posted on 2011-06-13, 01:52

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Yup, here in The Netherlands CDROM readers have reached their lowest value, even DVD drives are like €2 each second hand now, if you manage to find a place selling them. DVD burners I don't find as much though, but prolly because those get picked by other hardware collectors as well :P Not a problem …

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Re: socket 370 cpu fan

Posted on 2011-06-13, 01:49

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A good source for me is dumped computers, second hand shops that sell untested parts and half-disassembled computers and such, mainly because it's cheap to do it that way. This may not be a solution to everyone though and of course it has the drawbacks that you have very little choice and can't buy …

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Server motherboards and 9x drivers

Posted on 2011-06-13, 00:18

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So I recently aquired a small batch of servers, including 2 ASUS CUR-DLS boards. The boards are Socket 370 Coppermine boards with a number of PCI and 2 64bit PCI slots (No ISA, no AGP). It uses some LSI(?) chipset, which I presume is especially made for servers instead of desktops. Hence 64bit PCI …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-06-12, 23:59

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@Tetrium Those are some sweet looking servers. I especially like the Netserver, built like a tank and a huge feature-rich mobo inside it. Have you measured how big it is? I've got the innards of an older Netserver with a dual Pentium 133MHz setup (with a whopping 4 EISA slots, 3 PCI slots and 2 …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2011-06-12, 23:56

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I use photobucket. It's pretty good and free.

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Re: Gate A20 Failure

Posted on 2011-06-12, 23:54

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Deep scratches can cause all sorts of trouble. It's possible something gets shorted somewhere in the PCB and in such case theres nothing practical you can do. Perhaps a good idea would be to check if theres any further damage? I found sometimes boards have oxidized contacts within the memory slots …

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Re: Awe32 ram. What kind, and where to get it?

Posted on 2011-06-12, 23:46

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elfuego wrote: Check the published link above 😀 Maybe there are more around! You mean the link mentioned in jmrydholms post? jmrydholm wrote: I just recently got these: (x2) http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World% … uting/30PS16MB/ That does look like 16MB modules to me 😉

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