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

Posted on 2022-05-19, 11:43

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And my other question would be whether those DIP switches can set it lower than 1.6v? If so, this might be the biggest score for me, as not only I could dictate VCore at my absolute free will, but also I'd be able to run pinmodded Tualatins without any adapter, very likely. If there are 5 …

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Re: Building Retro 486

Posted on 2022-05-18, 14:30

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I think it's more accurate to say that certain steppings of late 486 chipsets "support" EDO RAM. I have seen different opinions if it's actually worth the trouble to bother. It is actually a good point I think. A Diamond Fastbus VLB board manufactured in the first half of 1993 that I once had ran …

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Re: Case Intake Fan

Posted on 2022-05-04, 10:46

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I got an old case for a Pentium 4 build that I'm doing right now. But the front of the case doesn't have anyplace for an intake fan in the front, only on the side. When your build is operational and runs too hot you can always add a harddisk cooler to an empty bay in the front: https://www. …

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

Posted on 2022-05-02, 11:26

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Tested a "crappy" Mendocino CPU I had laying around for some time. Turns out, it's not as worthless as I thought. It's the king of the Mendocinos. 8x66MHz. Is it a good overclocker or why pay people up to 20 bucks for this? Everything you always wanted to know about Celeron overclocking - according …

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Re: MS-6156 OEM Motherboard - Opinions on capacitors

Posted on 2022-04-09, 15:59

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According to my limited benchmark stats in 3DMark99 they are slighlty faster than PIII 850/100. But other benchmarks may of course differ. Unfortunately Celeron 950 didn't shine that much when I benchmarked it - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1055481#p1055481 . I used 3D Mark 99, 3D Mark …

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Re: MS-6156 OEM Motherboard - Opinions on capacitors

Posted on 2022-04-09, 14:54

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Unfortunately I started to get instability again, cold booted, and BIOS hung, booted again, said primary HDD failed (it hadn't). So back to AMI BIOS, 32GB HDD and 550Mhz, alas, it's just not meant to be! Pity... I didn't know it would run hot in all honesty, also expected all the SlotKets on ebay ( …

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Re: MS-6156 OEM Motherboard - Opinions on capacitors

Posted on 2022-04-09, 14:47

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Given this information the best option would be to downclock PIII 1Ghz to 750Mhz using 100Mhz FSB as at that frequency current draw will be only slightly higher than PII 450 and below 16 Amp. Celeron 1000 will be about as fast as PIII 750 anyway. According to my limited benchmark stats in 3DMark99 …

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Re: MS-6156 OEM Motherboard - Opinions on capacitors

Posted on 2022-04-09, 12:41

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I'm going for a 1Ghz Celeron Coppermine on a slotket, cheap as chips and should be a nice boost to what i have now, at least from what I can see on philscomputerlab benchmark unsung this CPU. There are two unmentioned aspects to consider. The VRM 8.2 type voltage regulator on early BX boards was …

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Re: Slot 1 voltage support for 1.65v with cherry cs5165

Posted on 2022-04-07, 14:38

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Besides that, when you look at the second part of the above overview you'll notice that there are two options for fsb 133, one with 1/3 and one with 1/4 divider. Therefore I do not think that the chipset is able to 'choose' at all - it is likely fully dependant on the signal from the frequency …

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Re: Slot 1 voltage support for 1.65v with cherry cs5165

Posted on 2022-04-05, 14:55

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Does anyone know how the PCI bus divider works on 440BX chipsets. I remember ~2000, plenty of people were running 440BX boards with EB model Pentium 3s, but I'm not sure if the chipset itself sets the 1/4 divider automatically, or if you need a BIOS that's configured for it. There are possibly …

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Re: Pentium II SECC cooler missing.. options?

Posted on 2022-03-22, 12:00

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The standard SECC1 heatsinks are attached via a clip-on system. They are still sold new on Ebay. Google [BRAND NEW OEM DIRECT SLOT 1 CPU HEATSINK WITH COOLING FAN - USA SELLER] for an example.

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Re: nVIDIA TNT2 M64 and Pentium III 866 - good combo?

Posted on 2022-03-14, 16:05

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I've got a TNT2 M64 floating around and someone has a Socket 370 ASUS motherboard (I think it's a CUSL2, based on the photos) they're going to give to me which has a Pentium III 866. I know that the TNT2 M64 was more of a budget card in comparison to the TNT2 but apparently the difference in …

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Re: Pentium II 300mhz - Pentium III 600mhz better for retro PC?

Posted on 2022-02-23, 11:53

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shamino wrote on 2022-02-22, 22:55: Back when they were easier to get, I bought a Celeron 1100 to stress test 440BX boards that I was selling, but I can't remember if I ever did that on the P2B. I think it would be fine though. It works fine on a P2B-S rev. 1.03 with BIOS 1014s.003 here: Filename …

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

Posted on 2022-02-22, 16:03

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Replaced the fans on a few Socket 7 coolers. Unfortunately the 40mm fan I put on one sounds too loud, so I wired it up to the 5V on the IrDA header instead of the 12V.. Which is not very ideal. So I probably need to add a resistor to the +12V lead to drop it to 5V or something, because it works …

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Re: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all :-)

Posted on 2022-02-18, 11:53

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Well, it's definitely something worth exploring (and I do have a 600 MHz Celeron SL3W8, which I've never tested - I hope it works :-D ). My early estimate is that it should be slower than the Ezra-T, because of the 66 MHz FSB (which becomes a severe bottleneck). The Celeron 600 would definitely be …

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-02-13, 17:09

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You are most likely right - I have no idea what these jumpers actually do. One old slotket review mentioned that it was meant to accomodate a soon to be released Cyrix Jupiter cpu.

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2022-02-13, 15:44

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Well that particular model is ...not on eBay at all, I did find one that might work its a 370 CPU card rev 3.2 https://www.ebay.com/itm/224762233292?hash=item3454df81cc:g:CCEAAOSwuPtg-cvU, I dont know enough about these things to determine if it will work or not. That is a Shuttle Hot slotket. It …

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Re: Win9x build, Fan header low voltage (6V), Voodoo 2 cooling, ABIT motherboard

Posted on 2022-02-02, 13:51

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So this is how it looks in my case now, havnt done the cable management yet. Do you guys think that the cooling is enough for the voodoos? When you are in doubt you could consider this rather elegant solution: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/gadgets/pc-laptop/3dfx-voodoo-2-sli-graphics- …

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Re: Does anyone recognize this pentium 3 PC from the brand Funai?

Posted on 2022-01-25, 14:23

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Impressive spotting dionb. Especially the CPU! Beginning to doubt that one as I've also found the original listing on a local ad site and it claims it to be a "P3". That said, that's definitely an SECC1 and I'm not aware of any P3 being released in SECC1. 8>

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-01-22, 14:59

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feipoa wrote on 2022-01-19, 15:50: Here's an adapter I haven't seen in quite awhile, boxed Powerleap P3/SMP Server pair. Was there much difference between the MSI MS-6905 and this Powerleap kit? The main difference is that the MSI MS-6905 'family' does not support Tualatin cpu's out of the box. …

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