My souped-up Dimension T550 DOS/Win9x gaming machine

Posted on 2013-01-11, 10:45

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by Standard Def Steve

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Thought I'd show off the souped-up Dimension T550 I found in the trash a few months ago. I use it as a DOS and early Win9x gaming machine. As found in the garbage: Katmai P3 - 550MHz Voodoo3 3000 AGP - 16MB 37.5GB IBM DeskStar Turtle Beach Montego PCI sound card 56K modem and SOHOware 10/100 NIC …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2013-01-03, 09:32

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The write speed seems quite high. Do you have a screenshot image for this? Is your PC133 memory stick capable of CL2 or CL3 at 133 MHz? It will say on the chip specification sheet. I would even be surprised if a CL2 stick can be run at 152 MHz (in CL2) for an error-free system. I'd feel safer with …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2013-01-02, 02:49

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P3-S at 1.6GHz (152MHz FSB) on Asus TUV4x (Apollo Pro 133T): 1.5GB of generic PC133 @ 152MHz Memory read: 851.4MB/s (1.2ns/byte) (7.5 clks) Memory write: 575.1MB/s (1.8ns/byte) (11.1 clks) Effective RAM access time (read) is 9ns Effective RAM access time (write) is 12ns L2 cache write: 7644MB/s (0. …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2012-12-31, 00:55

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Do you really get much benefit out of overclocking a Tualatin board from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz? Made a big difference in my system. The overclock made many of my games run noticeably faster, and it even made 720p AVC playback completely smooth. I think the increased bus speed is what did it; P3's SDR FSB …

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Re: DVD accelerators compared

Posted on 2012-12-23, 19:05

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I use a Radeon 7000 PCI for MPEG2 acceleration on my old Deskpro 4000. Specs are P2-300, 440FX, 192MB EDO, WinME. With PowerDVD XP (4.0), the Radeon 7000 handles most DVDs just fine. Fast motion doesn't appear to be a problem, but slow-moving scenes with lots of fine detail sometimes lag just a bit. …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2012-12-23, 05:48

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I couldn't get it to work in any MSI 6905, some other boards it ran fine but didn't achieve my targeted o/c. Finally I achieved a rock solid 1.6ghz in my Jetway 618AF ! Do you really get much benefit out of overclocking a Tualatin board from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz? Made a big difference in my system. The …

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Re: Introducing my socket 2 system: Dell Optiplex 4100/LE

Posted on 2012-12-08, 05:09

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by Standard Def Steve

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That's an interesting machine. Definitely the first 486 I've heard of with a 20-pin power connector. Does it support soft-off and WOL, or is it mechanically controlled like an AT PS?

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Re: My CPU History last 20 years

Posted on 2012-12-02, 22:24

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The CPUs in computers I purchased or built for personal use: AMD 286-16 Pentium II 233MHz Pentium 4 1.8GHz Athlon 64 3500 Core 2 Duo T5600 (laptop) Opteron 185 Core i7-2700K other CPUs I've collected over the years: Intel: 286-10 with 287 FPU 486SX-25 (soldered--all-in-one Compaq) 486DX-33 486DX2-50 …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-11-25, 00:41

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Voodoo3 3000D AGP on Dell 440BX board, Tualatin-1200 @ 900, 512MB, Win98SE, Amigamerlin 2.9 driver

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-11-08, 19:32

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Thought I'd post a single 3DMark 2000 shot just because of the insanely high CPU score. This is 3DMark2k on a PIII-S at 1575MHz with a Radeon 9800Pro. 732 is BY FAR the best 3D'00 CPU score I've ever seen from a P3. In fact, my Athlon 64 3500+ only scores 817 on this test. 3DMark00 was one of the …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-11-08, 19:07

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Same specs as in sig. Changed drivers to nForce 45.23. Was previously running 56.72. Best run on 56.72 Best run on 45.23 That's very impressive! Your 784/112 Xeon scored exactly the same as my 1000/133 with a 9800 Pro (page 1). 3DMark01 must like the extra cache. Makes me wonder what a 2MB Xeon …

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Re: X-Fi and CMSS-3D - start collecting

Posted on 2012-11-07, 03:34

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-Boosted 3DMark01 score from 11,340 to 11,610. -No more occasional pops/clicks in games. All from a sound card upgrade. Whodathunkit? I think this is bullocks. Sorry mate, but 3Dmark doesnt use sound for benchmarking purposes. By default, it is only enabled for demo. It may be though, that your …

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Re: X-Fi and CMSS-3D - start collecting

Posted on 2012-11-05, 20:06

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I recently upgraded my Tualatin-1575 rig's sound card from an SB Live! to an X-Fi and I was actually very impressed by the difference it made. Not only does it sound much better than the Live, but it also seems to have increased overall system performance. -With the new X-Fi installed, CPU usage …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-10-23, 23:32

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Just got my Geforce 5950 Ultra in the mail. I fired up 3Dmark 2001SE on my P3 BX440 rig with the following specs: Asus P3B-F v1.03 (440BX) PIII-S 1400mhz 1024MB SDRAM PC133 CAS2 Geforce FX5950 Ultra (standard clock) Windows 98SE Score: 8498 That's quite a system! Though I'm a little surprised it …

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Re: Hardware that makes you drool - Your wish list

Posted on 2012-10-15, 20:33

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by Standard Def Steve

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Tyan Tempest i5000PW Dual Socket 771 workstation board. If for no other reason than it reminds me of the Slot-2 Xeon boards lol. http://imageshack.us/a/img600/7519/tyantempesti5000pw.jpg I actually thought that was a Slot 2 board with a pair of CPUs installed before taking a closer look and reading …

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Re: Hardware that makes you drool - Your wish list

Posted on 2012-10-15, 17:46

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-MSI Master 266 board (dual PIII-S, up to 4GB of DDR, AGP 4X). I occasionally see them on eBay, but $150-200 is far more than I'm willing to pay. -An XFX GeForce 7950GT AGP for the Master 266. -The ultimate BX system: P3-S at 1.58GHz/150FSB, 1GB of CL2 SDRAM, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra at 100MHz AGP ( …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-10-04, 19:31

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Completely off topic, but do you guys know if there are any i830 based desktop boards out there? I think the 830 would be a great chipset to build a killer P3 system around. Native Tualatin support, AGP 4x, up to 1GB of memory, and of course the speed and reliability of an Intel chipset. I once had …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-10-04, 19:14

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by Standard Def Steve

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So that's how Sandy Bridge with XP performs. 😮

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-10-01, 19:36

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by Standard Def Steve

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With the same 4600 Ti and a 1.4S Tualatin @ 1.6ghz, I got 9715 marks in 3d mark 2001SE. Hmm... I must admit that I'm a little disappointed. I expected more from Tualatin. Ah well... I'll stick to Socket A :) Thanks for the benchmark! Edit: BTW, I suppose you did the test with SDRAM (i815)... Can …

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Re: Baby AT Socket 370, and where are all the Pentium IIs?

Posted on 2012-09-24, 03:53

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I had one of those AT Socket 370 systems as well. Celeron 800 on a very slow SiS-based board. And here's a 478 AT board! :shocked: http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/20030531/etc_p4xb.html PIIs were common in my area back in 2006 or so. I think I had five or six PIIs I rescued from the …

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