Re: 2001 High-end PC of mine! Dual Tualatin, but not yet completed :).

Posted on 2011-02-01, 03:04

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The VIA boards of those times tend to have major problems with PCI performance and even AGP compliance to varying degrees. I've seen it first hand. Some boards are far worse than others though. The PCI performance problems show up with hardware-accelerated sound cards that require reliable bus …

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Re: 2001 High-end PC of mine! Dual Tualatin, but not yet completed :).

Posted on 2011-01-31, 02:24

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VIA 694T is the solution. Over here we rarely used any Intel chipsets for P III's past year 2000. Except, I think many of us would consider the Via Apollo to be more a problem than a solution. The Via boards became more common than Intel chipsets over here, too, but I think it was more due to cost …

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Re: 2001 High-end PC of mine! Dual Tualatin, but not yet completed :).

Posted on 2011-01-30, 16:42

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Nice setup, love hearing about other P3 builds. I'd love to find some Dual Tualatin mobo on the cheap as I have more than enough PIII-S 1.4GHz now! I won a lot of 10 P3-S 1.4GHz w/bent pins on ebay for $22 Shipped. I just got them friday and the seller sent 12! Most of them barely have bent pins at …

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Re: Autoexec.bat & Config.sys Advice

Posted on 2011-01-30, 05:48

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Although I haven't tried Terminal Velocity, just chiming in about your stacks comment. If you want to try stacks there are usually 2 commands used the most In the config.sys set: STACKS=0,0 or STACKS=9,128 STACKS=0,0 is disabled while 9,128 will allow asynchronous interrupts, max could be 64,512 but …

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Re: Advice on upgrading old PC

Posted on 2011-01-25, 02:52

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Hmmm, I was also vote against S939, had a X2 4200+ in my last build, first it is end of life and only can have up to dual-core. Second they are expensive now. While I'd like to recommend a AM2+ build I can't do it. Go for that Conroe865PE so you can use your DDR1 and AGP card. Buy a cheap dual-core, …

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Re: needed: Audigy 2 drivers for windows 98SE

Posted on 2011-01-25, 02:37

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Maybe my last update. Got bored of Windows ME already and just got done installing windows98se once more. Upon further inspection I found that the ctljystk.inf was not calling the proper id string of the audigy card. Once I added the proper string the driver installed no with problems. I haven't …

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Re: SSD in a retro PC

Posted on 2011-01-24, 04:30

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Jeez $60 for 16GB doesn't sound like a great deal to me. Back in the begining of 2009 I bought a 64GB for $130 and later that year another for $150 for Raid 0 on my Win7 x64 machine. Seems like prices have gone up for comparable drives since then. Even the older Jmicron controllers should saturate …

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Re: needed: Audigy 2 drivers for windows 98SE

Posted on 2011-01-24, 04:08

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Just an update. I got the those WDM drivers to install, the hitch.... I installed Windows ME! Turns out that the item missing is a Creative Game Port. I have never used Windows ME on my own computers so this will be fun. Installation of every thing went well until my NIC card. Using a DFE-530TX+ …

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needed: Audigy 2 drivers for windows 98SE

Posted on 2011-01-23, 03:43

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Hi again. So I recapped an old MSI MS-6309 today and got windows98se installed on it. Everything is fine except that I cannot find drivers for the Audigy 2 SB0240 that install everything. I did find a set of WDM that will atleast install the audio processor and the 1394 firewire driver.....but not a …

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Re: video card memory - is there a limit for win98?

Posted on 2011-01-20, 00:02

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some of the sites that sell it show it works with win98. Now the thing you may read over as MSFN is that windows98se was supposed to work fine with 2GB total system memory, later MS noted that it really only works with 1GB Ram before bigger issues happen. At that most things I have found is that …

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Re: My PC failed... how to diagnose?

Posted on 2011-01-19, 23:51

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Sounds like the PSU did its job and OverCurrentProtect (OCP) kicked in and shut the PSU down when the card went out. Why do you think your memory is failing? As I have never heard of Tacens before (not known name brand), It COULD be a failing PSU, since the 7900GS will draw more current than a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-01-19, 23:38

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I always way overspend, just bought all this for 72$ shipped, motherboards are in unknown condition though :( VooDoo5 3dfx 5500 64mb AGP -snip- This alone makes the buy worth the risk imo. I once spend that amount on the card alone! Also: $33.xx for 4x256MB Kingmax PC-150MHz micro BGA ram Lol, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-01-19, 01:03

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I always way overspend, just bought all this for 72$ shipped, motherboards are in unknown condition though :( VooDoo5 3dfx 5500 64mb AGP Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (Gold:SB0240) Asus A7V-VM Socket 462 Motherboard Abit KT7 Socket 462 Motherboard ECS Elitegroup K7VTA3 Socket 462 Motherboard Transcend TS- …

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Re: how hard to overclock a taulatin celeron chip?

Posted on 2011-01-19, 00:35

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Hey RT, what boards are you running your Tualatin-S chips in btw? Main system I've Been using is: Gigabyte GA-6VTXE Rev 1.0 (Via Apollo Pro 133T, got off ebay with bad caps) System I built up the other day: ASUS TUSL2-C (Intel 815EP I believe. Bought it new back in the day.) Haven't Fired this up …

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Re: Soundcards vs onboard audio for games

Posted on 2011-01-19, 00:06

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In Windows 7 and Vista, Creative cards require the ALchemy software to "turn on" the 3D Directsound. (Dunno why the heck Microsoft dropped the hardware 3D audio support from Vista onwards.) If I remember right they dropped it because most of the systems reliability was lowered with hardware sound …

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Re: how hard to overclock a taulatin celeron chip?

Posted on 2011-01-18, 06:09

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He's using s370 boards, not Slot 1 boards . I think I know what he means with pre-modded. Iirc I've seen them on Ebay myself. These are basically Tualatins with the pin-mod pre-applied so they work in non-Tualatin boards. To get back to the OQ, if you want to overclock a Tualeron, look for one with …

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Re: how hard to overclock a taulatin celeron chip?

Posted on 2011-01-18, 05:59

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hmmm, Thanks for the info! I guess its all up to fate till I get the system running. I thought the P3 issue was all with the coppermine 1.13GHz, never heard recalls on the Taulatin units. Kyle Bennett over at hardocp had some article about it and I seen something on a wiki page abut that cumine. If …

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Re: Performance of Shadow Warrior 3dfx @ 800x600

Posted on 2011-01-18, 05:13

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Yes, I meant NOFLBLIM, will this work with 3Dfx calls? I have it and works fine in software, just didn't try with 3Dfx. I did not know about that sourceport, pretty sweet, I tried it just a bit ago and while it loads up, It induces sound clipping and repeating. I tried lowering the settings for the …

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how hard to overclock a taulatin celeron chip?

Posted on 2011-01-18, 05:06

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by RogueTrip2012

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Ok, so I found a pre-modded taulatin celeron 1.3GHz on ebay (guy also sells pre-modded PIII-S 1.4GHz) for a small sum, I have 2 Via Apollo Pro 133A mobos I can try this on. What are my chances of hitting 133MHz with PC133 ram? Everything on google seems to relate to the use of adapters. The mobos I …

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Performance of Shadow Warrior 3dfx @ 800x600

Posted on 2011-01-16, 23:01

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Hello, I'm wondering if anyone else gets some slowdowns with Shadow Warrior using 3dfx patch and 800x600, at times it just gets a bit jerky other wise it plays rather smooth. 640x480 plays fine. I'm playing it from windows 98SE and not native dos. I haven't tried native dos yet either. Should I try …

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