Re: Pentium II and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress

Posted on 2011-05-15, 12:00

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I can't feel any benefit from going over 256mb with 98, anything beyond that is really past the point of diminishing returns. Unless of course your gonna use XP on a retro monster rig :evil: Yup! But then the next sweet spot is more around 1GB's? Kinda a big step-up lol. 95 + 64MB RAM and you're ok …

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Re: 50 to 133MHz FSB on a BX Mainboard

Posted on 2011-05-15, 11:49

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You see the highest that particular P-III could do is 8.0x. So when Intel releases CPU with a 9.0x Default multiplier, they will have to make room for that setting, thus sacrifice another (lower) setting on that CPU. After all they have only 16 settings max. That's what I was afraid of.... :dead: …

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Re: Very Old Games On New Computers?

Posted on 2011-05-15, 11:47

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Tell you what though... sometimes the old hardware does annoy the crap outta me, especially when I've spent days on the damn thing and it doesn't work well LMAO!! Maybe this is why I tend to stick to Windows, because if it crashes, it's probably not something I did! :P For me the thing is, I tend …

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Very Old Games On New Systems?

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:52

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I just wanted to know, this forum was originally more about Very Old Games On New Systems, right? But it has developed an active retro hardware community which I think is one of the best ones on the entire internet (thanks All Gore!!1 L O L :P). Soooooo...I'm wondering, is this a welcomed trend for …

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Re: Easiest way to duplicate 9x on "new" harddrive?

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:40

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You know, the thing is that I did look on the net for easy ways to clone 9x installations and this never popped up. All I got were things like msbatch, some other "easy" (lmao) tricks along with lots of trialwhares. Why is something as simple as this not all over the net??

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Hardware chart

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:35

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Yesterday I found this while browsing the net like a headless zombie. It's a large pic with detailed shots of a lot of relevant hardware thingies like CPU sockets, RAM modules and a few others. Link: http://sonic840.deviantart.com/art/Computer-hardware-poster-1-7-111402099 If this link goes down, …

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Re: any point in putting an am3 or am2+ cpu in an am2 board?

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:27

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The HT bottleneck will really only affect an IGP because that is the only way it can access the RAM. AM2 IGPs are very bandwidth starved. Few other components move that much data over HT though. I've played with AM2+ boards and compared the difference in IGP performance with an AM2 and AM2+ CPU and …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:23

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@stano: You got some real nice rigs there mate. Your P4 and P3s are really similar to my builds. Indeed ;) About the case, I tend to call them "Slot 1" cases as that's what they appear to be made for. Put in a Socketed motherboard and the 2 coolers (CPU fan and PSU fan) will try to pull air in …

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Re: What else to go with my build?

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:20

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The Voodoos are there to see what the hype was about (can't really say nostalgia considering I wasn't gaming back in 98 (had no clue about computers really, that didn't happen until around 2002, but I enjoy the history of things)). Ah, I can see where you're coming from ;) I've build a Voodoo 2 rig …

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Re: "POWER SW" front panel wire confusion

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:09

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I think your assumption is correct 😉 If both "plugs" are connected to the (same) power switch in the front of the case, you can use either one. They prolly did it this way for compatibility reasons. Edit:And welcome to Vogons 😉

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Re: Some questions about RAM in a 486 with MS-DOS.

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:07

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Pondering...if you create a RAM drive with 95, will the RAM drive be "eaten" from the top addresses? If so, you could put 256MB in a P1, have the RAM drive eat everything except for 64MB (so the RAM drive is uncached, but the Windows RAM is cached).

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Re: Pentium II and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:04

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SavantStrike wrote: Tetrium wanted a much more reasonable 1.5GB 🤣! But only for XP though 😜 For 9x (ME 😜) I think 256MB is more then enough 😉

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Re: Easiest way to duplicate 9x on "new" harddrive?

Posted on 2011-05-15, 08:02

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Man...why didn't I know this 10 years ago, L O L!

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Re: 50 to 133MHz FSB on a BX Mainboard

Posted on 2011-05-14, 22:37

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Which board did you use? Good chance I have one laying around anyway, lol. Just not sure if I have the correct Slot 1 adapter for it though and using a linlin and slotket is not something I can be bothered with at this time (I'm in the middle of a major overhaul of my attic). I'd rather just use a …

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Re: Collectible video cards

Posted on 2011-05-14, 22:06

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Pippy P. Poopypants wrote: Oak Technology's unreleased 2D/3D graphics chip: http://fireeye.tripod.com/warp5.html Interesting...so anyone here have one? Along with a pic? 😁

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Re: What else to go with my build?

Posted on 2011-05-14, 22:02

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I'd recommend adding a second stick of memory for a total of 256MB. As for graphics card, consider using a GF2MX. It's much faster then TNT. Imo TNT1 isn't really that great and sounds a little underpowered for your rig. I got one new when I bought my brand new P2-350 which is less then half as fast …

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Re: Easiest way to duplicate 9x on "new" harddrive?

Posted on 2011-05-14, 21:56

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Anyhoo, yes... if you have a blank drive that has been FAT-32 partitioned/formatted/made bootable (with an active partition), you can simply copy the contents of one drive to that hard drive; and it should bootup into W9X looking just like the first drive :) Cheers! This was exactly what I was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-05-14, 19:47

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A couple days ago I bought a lot containing 7 "new" ATX cases, 🤣 It's not exactly retro, but they are of much better quality then the crappy cases I'm otherwise stuck with. Only thing I need to do is drill/saw out the case fan vents 😁 The lot also contained an ASUS A7V880! 😁

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Re: Collectible video cards

Posted on 2011-05-14, 19:44

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swaaye wrote: I know somebody that managed to get an Oak Warp 5. 😁 Wooooow.....whats a Warp 5? 😕 (sorry 🤣 😜)

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Easiest way to duplicate 9x on "new" harddrive?

Posted on 2011-05-14, 19:39

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I've been wondering (and also wondering if I posted a similar question earlier)... Suppose I take an empty harddrive (hard drive Ae), fdisk and format it in DOS, create partitions, set an active partition and format it. Then I slave the drive in a random computer (which is a fully operational …

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