Re: FSB Speed, Memtest and Errors...

Posted on 2010-09-17, 20:59

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If you tested separate DIMM's in separate slots on the same board, I'm inclined to think the motherboard is toast. I've seen this behavior once before (intel 815 board) except that it would see only 64MB of any 256MB DIMM I inserted. If it were just 1 DIMM slot I could reason one of the slots might …

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Re: FSB Speed, Memtest and Errors...

Posted on 2010-09-17, 15:26

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Have you tried different memory slots? Maybe one of your slots is defective

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Re: What card is this?

Posted on 2010-09-17, 11:13

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by Tetrium

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Definately a V5 5K. Voodoo 3 never came in multichip configuration and a molex. Also those fans are a give-away 😉

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-17, 11:11

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Thanks for the information! The Aopen and Iwill come with a K6-2-300 and the GB has a K6-2-450 Any time! 😉

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-17, 11:10

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Not all Via S7 chipset mobo's are crap The very last one's made in 1999 like the Epox MVP3 series are very solid examples, I've used two of these boards..one with 2mb L2 cache and one with 1mb L2 cache...both have been rock solid with high spec gfx cards like the GF2 Pro, Ultra, ATI Rage cards etc …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2010-09-17, 10:58

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: No plans as of yet. I tend to buy 2 or more items to save a bit on postage / have a backup incase I break something. just like 90% of the people here, 🤣! Except many have a backup-backup and a backup-backup-backup 😜

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-17, 10:53

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Wow so much info! Still reading... […] Show full quote Wow so much info! Still reading... I have my eyes on these boards: VIA: Aopen AX 59 Pro ALI: GB GA-5AX and Iwill XA100 Plus Those are good choices 😉 Used the GA-5AX rev 4.1 myself

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-17, 10:52

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One more thing (new post so the previous remains readable). If you use a SS7 chip with L2 cache on-die, the L2 cache on the motherboard will become L3 cache. THE biggest benefit of using such a CPU is that you have virtually unlimited max cacheable area that way. The only chips that have L2 cache on …

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Re: Super Socket 7 - VIA MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V?

Posted on 2010-09-17, 10:39

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I've read on the net that the VIA ones are a lil more unstable due to the chipset and the ali AGP drivers are a story in itself. I've never build a system based on the MVP3 but I did with the ali (GA-5AX) with a TNT Vanta 16MB AGP + Voodoo 2 and it was as stable as it should be. What you should keep …

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Re: Modern LCD monitors - what about a win9x .INF file?

Posted on 2010-09-16, 14:57

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I had a PCIe X300 card (so quite new) and it didn't support my widescreen LCD monitor (It's a 18.5" with 1366 x786 pixels). So I wouldn't be surprised if you run into issues with a widescreen LCD on older computers. I've run into issues with widescreen LCD's with computers fitted with graphics …

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Re: Not directly game related:Dualboot 98SE and ME

Posted on 2010-09-16, 14:39

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You might want to keep an eye on Giveawayoftheday; they'll probably feature another one of Paragon's many products sooner or later. Not that they're necessarily that much better than the alternatives. And there we go. 24 hours: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-10-personal-special-edition- …

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Re: Assembling a machine for DOS/Win3x

Posted on 2010-09-15, 08:25

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It's a bit difficult as a semi-poor high school student :P I can afford little things, a $5 CompactFlash adapter here, a $10 sound card there... but the motherboards seem to be a bit pricier than that. (Cheapest Socket 7 board I saw was $10 but it was a crap OEM board that didn't have any ISA slots …

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Re: 80 video cards of 1999-2003: 3D benchmarking (ixbtlabs.com)

Posted on 2010-09-15, 08:17

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Oh yeah, I'd like to add a link which I find very handy for comparing GPU's. Not a benchmark but still very handy. It's a list of graphics cards going from the Mystique 220 all the way to the most modern graphics cards listed in order of slow to fast. I find it great as it's very old and still being …

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Re: Anyone got any RAM for sale?

Posted on 2010-09-14, 23:58

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It's a shame that ASUS board came with only 2 SIMM slots.

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Re: 80 video cards of 1999-2003: 3D benchmarking (ixbtlabs.com)

Posted on 2010-09-14, 23:57

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I know, it's why I like seeing they got such a fast processor to work on an AGP4 board 😀

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Re: 80 video cards of 1999-2003: 3D benchmarking (ixbtlabs.com)

Posted on 2010-09-14, 20:23

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Svenne wrote: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/over2k4/index.html This I find interesting: Testbed configurations: […] Show full quote Testbed configurations: Athlon XP 3000+ based computer AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU (2166 MHz) MSI KT7 Ultra-2 mainboard based on VIA KT333 Hehe

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Re: Anyone got any RAM for sale?

Posted on 2010-09-14, 20:22

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retro games 100 wrote: Hehe. BTW, for a DOS based 486 system, 32MB is extremely generous. That and some of those boards won't cache all of the 64MB if you use the writeback option 😉

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Re: Impact of motherboard cache on 486 machines?

Posted on 2010-09-14, 20:19

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http://www.bcmcom.com/tech/IN530/IN530.htm http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/980.htm If the board you own is one of these 2, personally I think they are ok. One of the better Socket 7 boards. Ofcourse there are even better ones but I tend to like these. That is the one and I like it too. Just be …

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Re: Impact of motherboard cache on 486 machines?

Posted on 2010-09-14, 15:31

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Look, I did not question the existance of such jumpers. I know many a HDD has the ability to conform to the nearest size barrier. But I never saw one, that would then act as two disks instead. Regarding SS7: I had a lot of SS7 boards about at a time. I basically inherited a companies P1 pool. I …

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Re: 80 video cards of 1999-2003: 3D benchmarking (ixbtlabs.com)

Posted on 2010-09-14, 12:07

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Downloaded, for storage in my personal offline archive. Cheers! 😁

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