Re: Old 486 Project Box

Posted on 2011-01-03, 15:50

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Hehe, I'm thinking of doing a youtube "spectacular", and grabbing a whole pile of this stuff, and shoving it all in front of a camera, and talk about it. I've got as far as making a youtube user name, retroGames1Hundred :happyhappy: I've done nothing with it, so far. I'll have to do this sometime …

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Re: MSI MS5169 socket 7 ATX motherboard - should I get one?!

Posted on 2011-01-03, 15:44

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by Tetrium

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I think I remember seeing this sale before. He's been trying to sell these boards since at least April 2010 and by the looks of it, isn't particularly successful. It's overpriced. Heck, it's not even NOS!

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-03, 11:51

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Good luck getting i.e. second reality to run on an i7 You would be surprised LOL Not an i7 but on a Phenom II and Asrock 770 chipset board. You can go into BIOS, set the reference clock to 100 and multi to 0.5 LOL BAM you have a modern 50 MHz CPU :D Wow...what motherboard do you have? I think I can …

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Re: Old 486 Project Box

Posted on 2011-01-03, 11:49

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I got 5 POD 83's now, one with some bend pins and all untested. I got them from different sources and they aren't particularly cheap to get. But I reckon those POD's won't get more common and will only go up in price.

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Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-01-03, 11:47

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I've got a second idea. You could try undocumented bus speed jumper settings, to see if it's possible to slow down the mobo a bit. The following 3 configurations do not appear on the stason webpage for a 386 chip, for this mobo. Perhaps give 'em a go?! JP3 JP4 JP6 C O 2-3 O C 2-3 C C 2-3 Go on, I …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-02, 21:29

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Ah! Now I see, cheers 😉

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Re: New Member and new 486 Build

Posted on 2011-01-02, 18:13

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Nice tower!! What motherboard are you using? Pics? *drools* 🤣!

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-02, 18:11

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shock__ wrote: Well, this isn't exactly what I'd call from scratch 😉 Just like how doing a page in a coloring book isn't exactly drawing a picture. So what did they base it on? This IDE controller supposedly works with much larger harddrives then any typical IDE drives.

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-01-02, 14:02

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edit: I've got a couple of identical 4C87DLC-40 IIT fpus. I suppose they work with 486DLCs, but I use them for my 386/40 and work fine. I wonder if the opposite is possible. I mean, to use a 387/40 on a 486DLC. The reason why I wonder about that, is because I see that cyrix had both 83D87-40 for …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-01-02, 01:10

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I've found one reference of someone running your board @ 233Mhz here: http://old.benchmark.pl/archiwum/kwie98.htm Which cpu's -exactly- do you own? Edit2: I'm asking this as many of the slower MMX chips had the higher multipliers disabled. Edit: both the AM386-40 and the Cx486DLC don't have the fpu …

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Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-01-02, 00:22

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Wow, all are sold??? Anyway, I'm hoping to get one to work with a Cx486DLC. Btw, I hope the board won't have problems with 2 sets of 4x4MB. Now I also finally have a reason to browse through the ISA controllers I have laying around, have a couple of those. If only I can find a silent SCSI drive, it …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-01-02, 00:02

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I've benchmarked my soyo with various cpus, and the the speed it shows is indeed the actual. That was the first thought I had, that maybe it shows for example 166MHz while it runs at 233, but the benchmarks showed equal performance to the 166MHz cpu. It would be interesting to work on that matter …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-01, 20:00

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Old Thrashbarg wrote: I dunno when Via and the others switched over. I 'think' the last VIA chipset to support ISA natively was the KT133A, though many boards with that chipset don't come with ISA anyway.

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Re: Tweak guides for older OS with newer faster hardware?

Posted on 2011-01-01, 19:41

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What you could do is look what hardware/software is the last one supported by 98/ME and go for that. This is a good starting point: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/8-windows-959898seme/

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Re: Big haul

Posted on 2011-01-01, 19:39

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Do you have anymore specs on the I815 board? any pics? :) I recently went through heck to find some older S370 boards with ISA. I finally stumbled across the VIA Apollo Pro 133T chipset that supported Tualatin/1.5GB SDram/ISA/ATA-100 and snagged one off ebay that had bad caps to repair. The board …

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Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-01-01, 15:10

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retro games 100 wrote: Edit: I bought those "3 chip" SIMMs, and I wonder if these are OK too - My guess is they should work fine. No guarantees though, but I can't really imagine your board to be so incompatible regarding memory. If it won't work with the memory you bought, imo the board would …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-01, 15:08

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I once found a website that was selling all kinds of industrial motherboards, including s478, LGA775 and even i5/i7

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Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-01-01, 11:51

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retro games 100 wrote: Would SIMMs that look like this work in DonutKing's 386 mobo? […] Show full quote Would SIMMs that look like this work in DonutKing's 386 mobo? I don't see why not. Those appear to be the regular 1MB SIMM's though, nothing special.

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-01, 11:50

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A similar process was done on vintage-computing.com. They created an 8 bit IDE controller from scratch!

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Re: My first (crappy) PC *UPDATED*

Posted on 2010-12-31, 17:44

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GF2MX cards seem to always be trouble free. I like em. They're cheap, widely available, relatively fast and consume very little power (which means they won't heat the inside of the case up as much)

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