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

Posted on 2011-05-14, 23:52

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by SavantStrike

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I thought we were looking to max out a server board? :D That was me. I've got a Dell with a Serverworks chipset in it, and it's just itching for dual 450mhz PII chips (I even have the chips lol). I could only give it 2GB of ram though, as opposed to the 4GB it deserves. I will probably not bother …

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Re: Cyrix III (i.e. VIA C3) for vintage gaming?

Posted on 2011-05-13, 23:55

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Err... you're right. It's 200mhz. IDK though, unless it's absolutely terrible, I would say it should be as fast as an equivalently clocked Pentium. It does have 128kb of cache after all. Although, FPU at 1/2 cpu speed. Now that sounds promisingly bad :happyhappy:. You're right about it's 128kb …

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Re: Cyrix III (i.e. VIA C3) for vintage gaming?

Posted on 2011-05-13, 21:36

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by SavantStrike

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But otoh, it does allow for a wide selection of different multipliers, much wider then the unlocked Deschutes ;) And I reckon it's performance will be like a P1 133Mhz when running at 266Mhz anyway :P Edit: The Samuels and Ezra's had an FPU that ran at only half the CPU speed, so it might still be …

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

Posted on 2011-05-13, 21:08

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by SavantStrike

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The problem with server memory is that it's usually registered memory, which iirc isn't supported by desktop boards. Please correct me if I'm wrong ;) ECC should be no problem though, even if a board doesn't support it, the ECC memory will function like a normal memory module. Correct. You can't …

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Re: Cyrix III (i.e. VIA C3) for vintage gaming?

Posted on 2011-05-13, 21:03

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But wait! Theres more! Yes, it's unbelievable Mik...I mean Swaaye! The C3 also is able to have it's multiplier changed by means of software!!1 No more fiddling around with those awkward user-unfriendly BIOS thingies, just let teh program do all the hard stuff for you!!1 :P Lol, I forgotten about …

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Re: Collectible video cards

Posted on 2011-05-13, 20:51

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by SavantStrike

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Unreal Engine is a CPU hog and that's what you saw there. Also, if you use D3D with it it becomes even more inefficient because it is designed around Glide. This is also why UE1 games are so low poly. The engine scales poorly with more complex geometry. UE2 remedied this. Yeah, it's probably a bad …

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

Posted on 2011-05-13, 20:37

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1GB SDRAM sticks... And the 512MB ones are already quite uncommon. I do see them for sale on Ebay and such, but hardly any appear in old systems I disassemble. Up until recently I only had 1 stick of 512MB SDRAM, and it was DS. I'm not even sure if there's any non-server chipsets that fully support …

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Re: Collectible video cards

Posted on 2011-05-13, 16:12

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I think TNT2 is definitely worth collecting (after all, it is kinda the GeForce 0 :P), but I already have enough TNT's and TNT2's and GF2MX is much more practical then TNT2 imo. TNT1 isn't really practical btw. I owned one when it was new and it never impressed me, even though it was supposed to be …

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Re: Cyrix III (i.e. VIA C3) for vintage gaming?

Posted on 2011-05-13, 16:01

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by SavantStrike

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Oh man, I've just done some browsing about the Nehemiah and closed a window that explained how the Nehemiah multi could be unlocked (max multi was 12x). I'll go look it up again... Edit:1 search, 1st result, thank god, LOL http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/roundupmobo/via-c3-nehemiah.html Iirc it was …

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

Posted on 2011-05-13, 15:38

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by SavantStrike

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Reading about the 4GB cacheable memory limit on the later PII's makes me want to try that though, but only on 2k or above as 9x is limited to 2GB :). 64GB for the PPro and the Xeons is really impressive. The only problem is, BX maxes out @ 1GB. The only way to get past 1GB on a Deschutes is by …

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Cyrix III (i.e. VIA C3) for vintage gaming?

Posted on 2011-05-13, 15:30

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by SavantStrike

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So I've seen threads where a lucky few have unlocked pentium III chips and use them for vintage DOS gaming goodness by dropping the multipliers to insanely low numbers. Then I got brainy when I saw Tetrium talking about the Via C3 chips in another thread. Some of them are unlocked from the factory ( …

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

Posted on 2011-05-13, 01:55

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by SavantStrike

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Good point about the Win9x memory limits. Oddly enough, I've never run into stability issues at 768MB of SDRAM or 1GB of DDR, even with 256mb video cards (so yeah, I've gone asking for trouble and had none that I could detect). But then again I have only been using the systems for gaming, and none …

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

Posted on 2011-05-12, 20:04

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The voodoo 3 is overkill for a P2. hell, even a pair of voodoo 2's can make a 333-p2 work for its money. Personally i'd go with the awe64 for the P2. And you ALWAYS max out the ram. (with a p2 dont go over 512mb) having a k6-2 system and a p2 system is just redundant. the 486 looks good. again i'd …

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Re: Just came to me...

Posted on 2011-05-12, 16:28

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helios64 wrote: sorry about the thread title Jorpho... was more a brain-dump than an informative article 😉 At least your brain dumps aren't in hex 🤣.

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

Posted on 2011-05-12, 16:23

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by SavantStrike

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Sigh....and they've already missed the "April 1st" launch! :lol: I'll just let whomever wanted to buy it so badly, to review the games for me. The pizza is WAY too cold for me to enjoy it. It doesn't matter what toppings were on it. It's just not hot anymore. Heck, it's not even warm! It's too cold …

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Re: Computer refuses to boot after moving the mobo to a new case?

Posted on 2011-05-12, 00:46

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by SavantStrike

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sliderider has a point, but so does Tetrium. If you know you've got a compatible power supply, and you're not having a conflict with onboard video, and everything is hooked up okay yet it still won't power on, then you've probably got a short :). It can happen if the stand offs aren't tall enough …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-10, 21:44

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by SavantStrike

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The iPad has bad flash support so it's a bad web browser, and it's too big to curl up in bed with so it's a bad e-reader. Out of curiosity, have you actually used one, or is that hearsay? Having owned Galaxy Tab and iPad, I can tell you that the lack of Flash has next to no impact on like 99% of …

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

Posted on 2011-05-10, 21:01

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Yup, teenagers were enthralled. I was there. Yeah I'd imagine Heretic wasn't a relative success among them considering you lift up heavy doors with chesty men on them which almost appears like you tried to reveal his loincloth. You'd expect Sin to carry the same success in 1998 among the teenagers …

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Re: 1st complete socket 7

Posted on 2011-05-09, 19:42

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by SavantStrike

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when I was chronologically advancing through years LMAO!! :D Anyway, yes I reckon many of us Vogoners wanted something when it was unavailable to us and now want to find out what they were really like ;) I was once doing repairs on my mothers computer and happened to spot that the guy (one of those …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-09, 19:39

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by SavantStrike

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Ipads are definitely becoming the new Ipod. How does Apple get in the with the mindless consumers so well? People see a tablet and automatically ask if that's the Ipad? Is it because it's on the evening news and all over fashion magazines? I picked up a Nook Color and modded it. I've been asked a …

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