As mentioned, the old irongate slot-A boards had issues with higher-power AGP cards. You had to set the AGP rate to 1x, and turn fast write and other settings off...and even then it wasn't completely stable. I had a couple different 750 boards and none would work with anything like a GF1 or GF2. I …

And to give credit where credit is due...since then, intel is the superior product, but during that time they couldn't touch AMD.

And "not considering Athlons due to awful chipsets is plain wrong". The slot-A athlons had the old irongate chipset that had issues with providing enough voltage to more demanding AGP cards, but after the move to socket-A, every chipset was rock solid. That trend continued with 754 and 939. All …

I know this is an old thread but I wanted to make some comments. First of all, a GF4 ti4600 is not a "great windows 98 card for games between 1997-2001". Seriously? The GF4 line was released in 2002, so really you're looking at 2001-2005 or 2006. I ran a GF4 even after that and it still played most …

Here is a pic of the Tyan board and the K6-3+ 😁

Well I decided to work on the socket 7 rig for a bit and I actually found an old Pentium classic 133! FOr now I'm gonna play around with that instead of the k6-3+. Maybe I'll do a dos install for that CPU...hmmm..

Here are some pics of the system. Its kinda a ragtag setup right now as I used what I had laying around (including a zip drive!!!). But she is humming along at 2300 Mhz and has passed every test I've thrown at it. I'll probably try 2400 or more in the future. MSI K7n2-Delta 2-FSR board AMD Athlon XP …

Yeah, a lot of those friends that had P3's had them housed on 440BX boards. They were rock solid. I really couldn't say the same for a lot of the S7 systems I built. The strange thing was I remember a lot of the older S7 boards being much more robust than a lot of the later SS7 ones with AGP and …

Hey everyone! Just in time for the new year, I am making my first post! I am new to the forums as a mamber, but I have been perusing them for a while now. I have had a long hiatus from computer-related tinkering and whatnot though I have recently gotten the bug again! My first computer was a 486 …