Best motherboards for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-09-28, 08:20

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I'm thinking on building a real Tualatin 1.4GHz system someday. It needs to be rock solid, support more than 512MB of ram, ISA is nice but not required, and AGP is a must. Well made capacitors are also a deciding factor. My friend said the boards made with the Apollo Pro 133 and 133A chipsets are …

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Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-25, 23:43

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btw. Your crazy OC'd Celeron D scored better than my dual core Atom D525 on Windows 7 WEI (4.9 vs 3.5) Seriosly ? Dual Core with HT is that much slower than my OC'd Celeron D ? Wow... maybe In-order Atoms (basicly : a pre-PentiumPro idea with new twist), should be added to worst CPUs ever created …

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Re: Short circuit protection

Posted on 2016-09-25, 13:36

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So when brands like Seasonic claim to protect your components, it's all lies?

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Off Topic: Most recent music video you liked

Posted on 2016-09-25, 13:25

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Oh yeah man! Playing it old school like Tom Jones! 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRZBa4cKWA

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Short circuit protection

Posted on 2016-09-25, 13:04

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When did the first power supplies with short circuit protection appear? (Where the PSU just dies upon failure, but won't harm your components)

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Re: Most reliable hardware eras?

Posted on 2016-09-25, 12:55

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I tend to trust old PSUs from 15 years ago more than modern ones. I know this sounds crazy, but I've had more luck and reliability using power supplies salvaged from old Pentium 4 Dells, for example. I've tried brand new modern PSUs, but I’ve had problems like unstable rails on a new Seasonic, and …

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Re: Most reliable hardware eras?

Posted on 2016-09-21, 16:00

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I also guess that the older the hardware is, the more 'bad apples' have already been weeded out. As in: the bad hardware broke down and was thrown away already. All that has survived has to be pretty reliable by default. That is a good observation to explain why the sentiment "back in the day, …

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Re: Most reliable hardware eras?

Posted on 2016-09-21, 15:55

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I think it depends on what hardware you look at. Eg, early PCs were expensive and generally of good build quality. However, the very early ones had under-specced and unreliable PSUs. Replace the PSU though, and it can last a long time. In the late 286 era/386/486 era, cheap Taiwanese clone hardware …

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Which old hard drives were high or low end?

Posted on 2016-09-21, 15:45

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All I know is some 2000-ish Seagates underperformed for their UDMA rating and Quantum Bigfoots were slow too. I'd like to have some comparisons please so I can make better retro rigs.

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Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-21, 15:36

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The worst of the worst I had was a gifted celeron 266mhz covington (no cache) on a motherboard with integrated Ati Rage and 16mb of ram and a notorious slow Quantum Fireball Harddrive to even slow it down more :happy: It was so bad I am thinking about rebuilding it, still got the board and the cpu, …

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Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-21, 15:04

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keenmaster486 wrote: 386DX with a CGA card and an AWE64, running MS-DOS 4.0 on XT-IDE with a 128GB CF card, divided into 64 2GB partitions. LoLz to dat build, but I don't see whats wrong with an AWE64.

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Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-21, 14:43

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Silly you know, post your idea of worst computer builds and compare 'em.

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Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-21, 14:37

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Pentium 4 1.3 or Celery 766... I don't know which is worse. I'd say try jerry rigging itto an old FX board with SIMM memory and see just how horrible it can be... (Talkin about the 766) As for the 423 Willametes, theres simply no words to describe how crummy they are! HAHA

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Most reliable hardware eras?

Posted on 2016-09-21, 11:06

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Some say Pentium 1 systems can resist ESD versus later platforms, lower heat buildup increases lifespan for any computer, Athlons ran too hot, many millennial mobos had bad caps. Despite this and any other positive or negative hardware claims, the old stuff was said to be more reliable in general. …

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Re: Preventing bad caps

Posted on 2016-09-21, 10:27

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Hey I noticed that on every slot 1 cpu there is a single yellow tantalum cap. (on the cpu board) Would the thing eventually blow up?? Has this ever happened to anyone?

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Re: Please help me find software to back up my huge CD collection

Posted on 2016-09-18, 23:23

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I store all of my data on my file server at home that has 11 6TB hard drives That's a huge amount of p0rn, you know! *runs away* Anyway, back to the topic, I usually use Nero to store my CD's to .NRG image. Reason being is Daemon Tools and Alcohol 120 can mount .NRG, but Nero Image Drive cannot …

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Re: i486 DX2 66 vs Am486 DX2 66 and the winner is...

Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:56

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What strikes me about intel's DX4 chips is how poorly they overclock - if at all. A 66MHz AMD DX2 will often OC to 100MHz Oh really? That's more of a 'luck of the draw', or at least having a very late model, built on a mature process, more than anything. I had an early Am486DX2-66 back in the day, …

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Re: Preventing bad caps

Posted on 2016-09-18, 22:40

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LoL well I guess that’s better than electrolyte caps leaking over..

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Re: Preventing bad caps

Posted on 2016-09-18, 07:33

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ODwilly wrote: Bad tantalum caps are fine, as far as I know. At least until they literally EXPLODE. (no joke) Is there a way to detect upcoming failures? I surely hope so.

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Re: Preventing bad caps

Posted on 2016-09-18, 07:31

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Now I’m kinda afraid of using tantalum based parts.. They are very common on just about every computer component, even some hard drives! 😲

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