Re: Video card for K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-22, 09:33

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Thank you for your answers. Until now I've tried a Kyro2 that's obviosuly very limited by the cpu (1050 points at 3dmark2000) and then a Radeon SDR and a Radeon DDR. The board is a ATC 5220 on VIA MVP3 chipset. The performance are not good imho considering using a 550Mhz K62+, I was expecting a bit …

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Video card for K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-21, 20:12

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Hi, I'm curious to know your opinion on which is the fastest video card for a K6-2+ 550Mhz where I can still see few improvements in frame rate for both Dx6/Dx7 game, frame more , frame less. I was thinking about the Radeon 9500 as a possible choice. I imagine a Geforce 2 MX will already be limited …

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Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?

Posted on 2018-01-19, 17:33

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What about the K6-2? Anyway it looks like the same old story. After so many years someone find a bug, that in next version will be patched until in the very next years some other guy will find another one that has been out there forever. Software bug or hardware it doesn't change the usual news …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-17, 18:05

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+1 for Puppy also try OpenELEC and CrunchBang++ I've seen that Puppy Linux exists in different version based on different sources (Ubuntu etc..). Considering that most versions didn't support i586 (no PAE, no CMOV cpu) which one will works? Anyway after trying it still freeze even with IceWM. …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-16, 22:44

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Update: I am still trying Debian 8 for this office test machine. Debian up the 8.x version runs with the i386/i586 kernel without the need of the CMOV or PAE cpu instructions. But LXDE gui imho is still too much even with fully supported cards like the Radeon 64MB SDR or the Geforce 2 MX. I imagine …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-15, 20:09

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I imagined that not being supported and patched there could be problems, but realistically are these old 16bit kernel based os still target for any possible sw bugs out there in a world of arm based linux based machines? One way to find out... It's a valid question in fact, but I wouldn't suggest …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-15, 18:46

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Here I am. Basically mine was more a build test to see if I could actually live with an office PC (mail,web,music etc) based on this architecture. I knew modern web would be impossible on this machines, but the original idea was to use some light browser like Midori or Epiphany from the experience …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-15, 14:08

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Here I am. Basically mine was more a build test to see if I could actually live with an office PC (mail,web,music etc) based on this architecture. I knew modern web would be impossible on this machines, but the original idea was to use some light browser like Midori or Epiphany from the experience …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-14, 15:03

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Even lightweight GUIs on a modern linux will be sluggish on that system. I once tested a lightweight Xfce distro on a P3-933 with 512MB and GeForce FX5200 128-bit and it was terribly slow for anything but basic text. For sure you'd need something much lighter than Xfce. I went for the LXDE gui on …

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Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-14, 12:20

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Hi, I'm trying to build a "modern" pc using a VIA MVP3 motherboard with a K6-2+ 550Mhz and 768MB of ram. The idea was to use a Linux Debian 8.x version that still support i586 kernel architecture and maybe also dual booting a WinME os. The actual config has also an SSD 30GB disk with a Promise …

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Pentium 4/D/Duo chipset questions

Posted on 2018-01-01, 13:50

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Hi, I'd like to ask some questions about Pentium 4/D/Duo chipset cause I don't understand some things. I'm trying a P4M800 ECS mainboard that supports up to Pentium D Socket 775 cpu with DDR 2 memories and AGP 3.0. I thought this was almost the most modern AGP solution but than I've seen the Intel …

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Re: P4X266E chipset and best cpu

Posted on 2017-12-06, 16:12

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I have never used that motherboard but a quick search and looks like your best bet are Northwood core P4. Some motherboards did not like the hyper threaded variants and I cant find any reference online of anyone using one. Though saying that if you shop about you can normally grab them cheap so it …

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Re: 20pin atx connector to 24pin motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-06, 16:08

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The 4 pin power connector that sits right next to the cpu is connected right? Just to be sure that is connected properly you can wiggle it in a little bit. Is there anything that may cause short circuits like those metal stand offs in the case? The connector is stable and the mobo is outside the …

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Re: 20pin atx connector to 24pin motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-06, 10:48

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It looks like there's something wrong with the board a MSI MS-7525 on socket 775. With a 24pin power supply it still can't boot. The fan move a bit and then stop.

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P4X266E chipset and best cpu

Posted on 2017-12-05, 21:14

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Hi, I've this Biostar U8568 Pro mobo with the P4X266E chipset. I've read the best cpu I can use is the Pentium4 2,8Ghz 533Mhz Socket 478 and with 2x1GB DDR1 266Mhz, and beside these ram I don't have, the cpu is the one I'm testing right now. Are any other better options like running a 800Mhz FSB cpu …

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Re: 20pin atx connector to 24pin motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-05, 20:18

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havli wrote: Yes, 20pin will work just fine. This make me think something is wrong with the mobo cause there's no way. I tried also a powerful Enermax 20pin for Athlon XPs.

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Re: 20pin atx connector to 24pin motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-05, 20:07

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LR35902 wrote: Just to be sure, is there a 4 pin cpu power connector on the board? On the mobo there's the usual 24pin atx connector and separately the 4 pin 12v connector too. 😉

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20pin atx connector to 24pin motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-05, 18:51

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Hi, I'm trying some different 20pin power supply on a 24pin motherboard (supporting dual core intel / ddr2) leaving the last 4 pin of the mobo connector obviously open. I read somewhere that beside some heavy power requirements it should still boot so I used a 1,65ghz low power dual core cpu but no …

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Re: Voodoo 1 and Quake 2?

Posted on 2017-10-26, 09:30

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A Voodoo's fine. There wasn't really performance complaints about it with Quake2 then because it was probably the hottest game to play on that card when it came out, having lightmapped colored lights available for your pleasure in 1997. 60fps spoiling wasn't a general thing until the following year …

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Re: Voodoo 1 and Quake 2?

Posted on 2017-10-25, 17:24

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anthony wrote: non sli, single tmu v1 scores about 30fps in q2 with swapinterval=0. if swapinterval=1, there should be about 24fps As I imagined. And I would not be surprised to see it still runs good in OpenGL standard.

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