Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 10:26

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As much as I bash PCChips, they have some okay-ish boards as well. M577 and M726MRT (the combo slot version w/ 370 and Slot1) seem to be fairly stable, although a bit slower than usual boards (MVP3 and Aladdin Pro 2) Ah, the M577 is actually my super 7 testing board of choice! It's a bit slower …

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Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 21:45

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PD2JK wrote on 2024-03-13, 21:43: A7N8X-E Deluxe: Lacking the 4-pin CPU power connector, Silicon Image 3112 SATA controller stability issues when using RAID. The -X version isn't any better (I run one at the moment of writing this post). I do wonder, does the 3112 and 3114 have this issue on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-13, 21:42

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Gigabyte GA-686LX3, rev1.8. Specifically bought for the mythical 100FSB selection that's on there - I'll be laughing if this thing manages to run 100FSB stable, poly-recapped or not. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=188046 A shame LX can't do SSE - so far any LX mobo I've tried …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 21:37

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Found out about "Windows ME Second Edition". Figured I'd give it a spin on a Athlon XP 2500. Fairly obvious why it's running so well compared to original WinME 🤣 "Feels like Millennium, runs TOO WELL to be Millennium" 😁

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Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 20:52

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As much as I bash PCChips, they have some okay-ish boards as well. M577 and M726MRT (the combo slot version w/ 370 and Slot1) seem to be fairly stable, although a bit slower than usual boards (MVP3 and Aladdin Pro 2)

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Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2024-03-12, 22:46

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Aye, lemme dig: - ABIT IP35 Pro - rare for me to mention one. But GOOD GOD I've seen myriads of these. Specifically one of the RAM FETs runs at alarmingly high temperatures. - any ECS-made ABIT - yes, these exist. They're only any better than the original ECS boards. - P5K, as @Socket3 mentioned - …

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Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2024-03-12, 11:42

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Eagle Power586 NEC Power TX based on chineese counterfeit chipset. https://theretroweb.com/expansion-chips/645 You'll be laughing but I had one of those. It was so awful it wouldn't even boot off any HDD I threw at it. The only CPUs it took were ceramic Pentiums (100 through 150 as that's what I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-12, 10:29

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Hmm, now me, I would consider a DUAL boot Win98 + WinXP build for this mobo. With an AGP GF 4xxx card for win98 and.... PCIE, not sure which one, for the WinXP part (GTX 2xx card ? FX5xxx/GTX 79xx) XP wise I can go as high as possible - even a HD7970 will work. (tested R9 280x which is same card, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 20:13

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Some of the Geforce 7k series have win98 driver hacks I think, you'd have to look by model. They're the following cards: - ASUS EN7200GS 256M - Palit 7300GT 256 - Winfast 7800GT 256 - ASUS 7900GTX 512 Not having high hopes for the last two, but I suppose the ASUS 7200 and Palit might be working …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 16:51

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Trying to come up with a slightly uncommon P4 based 98 build. Any suggestions for what GPU should I go with? Quite literally ANYTHING goes - AGP or PCI-E. For a couple other less common suggestions, maybe a Savage4 Pro (e.g. Diamond Stealth III 540) or Kyro II? While it's a little bit out of place, …

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Re: My Stupid Retro Builds [New: Dual Slot 1 P3-1100MHz!]

Posted on 2024-03-11, 12:59

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Interesting, a 440BX approach. I unfortunately had to go VIA694D on mine - 768MB felt a bit slow for me, especially with 2x 10K RPM drives inside. (WD Raptor 74GB SATA2IDE + Seagate Cheetah 10K 36GB SCSI) Also thanks to your post, I might give my BP6 a go with a V3 3000. I always used a Ti4200 on it …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 12:46

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Yeah... unfortunately neither seems to be available locally, save for some M9140 PCI-E cards that don't have support for anything lower than XP for Matrox - the 3Dlabs is out of my league price-wise. ($330... even the mobo I plan to use wasn't that expensive 🤣)

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 12:24

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Not really. The only criteria is that it has to work under 98SE.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 11:39

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Trying to come up with a slightly uncommon P4 based 98 build. Any suggestions for what GPU should I go with? Quite literally ANYTHING goes - AGP or PCI-E. So far, these are the parts I've come up with, short of a GPU: - ASRock P4Dual-915GL - P4 2.8GHz (Northwood) -2x256MB DDR400 -120GB SATA HDD (set …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-10, 17:24

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Tested an very cute SBC - Advantech PCM-4823. POSTs fine, someone ripped the 3.6v battery tho and I have to figure out what kind of IDE it uses. Guess I got myself a (very smol) 5x86 machine in my hands lol Heh I was gonna congratulate you on that in the other thread. How can you tell it's a 5x86? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-10, 16:41

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Thanks, almost finished testing them all. So far, aside from the P5K, all work fine. P5K has bad BGA on the socket (had a P5K-V long ago with same issue). It'll cycle on and off endlessly. The MSI needs a bit of deeper cleaning as it won't POST with certain RAM configurations; The SBC works but I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-10, 11:36

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Tested an very cute SBC - Advantech PCM-4823. POSTs fine, someone ripped the 3.6v battery tho and I have to figure out what kind of IDE it uses. Guess I got myself a (very smol) 5x86 machine in my hands 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-10, 11:19

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Haul today. Picks: - HP s7000 - T2250, 1.5GB DDR2 - Advantech PCM-4823 - Aureal Vortex 2 - ASUS P5K, MSI P45 Neo3, ASRock P4Dual-915GL

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 21:41

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Just go for a Live card. They're swiss army knives at this point. My BE6-II used to run one of these (the CT4830 as a matter of fact - it wasn't until last year that I had gotten a SB0100 Live card I think) and it was about the only thing that went as far as even giving me the XP installation theme, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 21:26

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As someone who has nearly gone white hair at soon to be 24 with these Audigys, I can feel your pain. God, I still feel dizzy from the amount of fiddling it took me to finally get the Audigy 1394 working. First it'd force the driver from Audigy 2. Then, when I got the proper driver, it'd force WDM …

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