Re: Good specs for late 1998-early 1999 Pentium 200 MMX

Posted on 2019-11-21, 08:50

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the ati rge pro 8mb came out in august 99 and its probably much better than the i740 from jan 98 - 2x the core clock speed and 3x the throughput. real cheap on ebay. No, the Rage Pro has terrible IQ compared to i740 due to incredibly poor dithering; moreover they are both roughly Voodoo 1 levels of …

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Re: Ideas for my best windows 98se build

Posted on 2019-11-21, 06:34

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Regarding Sound: You can just use a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or Terratec DMX XFire 1024; you get both A3D (1.0) and EAX (2.0) as well as a decent software wavetable and much better sound quality than either the Aureal or Creative cards. In the past I used to go with either an Aureal 1/2 or a Live/ …

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Re: Good specs for late 1998-early 1999 Pentium 200 MMX

Posted on 2019-11-21, 06:10

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I had a Pentium II 300 with 32MB RAM in 1998, 64MB for 1999 is OK. Pentium MMX though, is not. As I said, the low end Pentiums and a lot of Celerons had already totally replaced the Pentium MMS by 1999. Once Celeron 300A hit the market, that was game over for Intel Socket 7. You really don't want to …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2019-11-21, 05:59

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I'll be building a KX133 Slot-A Athlon or a KT133 Socket-A Duron system soon, I will test it out and let you know if you are willing to try developing in that direction. 😎 I am hoping disabling L1 cache on either CPU would bring it down to a nice 386/486 speed..

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-20, 23:05

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Dual Celeron 533 is an NT4/Win2K thing IMO..

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-20, 14:48

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I've been looking for an MSI KT3 Ultra for years now and finally my efforts have born fruit. It's not an Ultra, but rather an Ultra2 but aside from an updated southbridge they are the same. Universal AGP on a 333MHz DDR Bus with DDMA support.. Hopefully one day I will have a Voodoo 5 to use with …

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Re: What would Windows 9X do with a Blu-Ray drive?

Posted on 2019-11-20, 13:56

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What filesystem do BD-ROMs use anyway?

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Re: Fastest 486 CPU with 8k L1?

Posted on 2019-11-20, 12:46

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AMD Am486 DX4-120 has 8KB WT and WB variants, I don't think any faster CPU has less than 16KB cache.

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2019-11-20, 10:55

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Can anyone confirm whether Setmul can disable the cache on Slot-A or Socket-A processors?

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Re: Voodoo3 Build: KX133 vs KT133 (vs KT333?)

Posted on 2019-11-20, 10:39

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Does Slot A offer anything that Socket A does not aside from the cooler/rarer aspect? Goldfinger device maybe? Motherboard agnostic solution for CPU tweaking. Setmul work with Slot A and Socket A Athlon/Durons? Slot A multiplier is hardwired, you can change it only physically, via soldering or …

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Re: Voodoo3 Build: KX133 vs KT133 (vs KT333?)

Posted on 2019-11-20, 04:55

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Part of the reason why I was (and still am really) leaning more towards the KT133.. Does Slot A offer anything that Socket A does not aside from the cooler/rarer aspect? Inquiring one more time, how does Setmul work with Slot A and Socket A Athlon/Durons?

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Re: Voodoo3 Build: KX133 vs KT133 (vs KT333?)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 16:00

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I want this system to be my daily driver; Daily driver without sse and sse2 is total aids. No sse 2 is bad enough, no sse is useless as a daily driver. SSE/SSE2 didn't hurt AMD that much back in the day, but these days id say SSE is mandatory and SSE2 is borderline. Even though XP will run without. …

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Re: Voodoo3 Build: KX133 vs KT133 (vs KT333?)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 10:16

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Some responses and general thoughts: Slot-A sure is the rarer and more interesting platform to build among them but I want this system to be my daily driver; ie. it has to be as stable and non quirky. Is Slot A such a platform? Also the Pluto 800MHz is the only Slot A CPU I have, is it fast enough …

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Voodoo3 Build: KX133 vs KT133 (vs KT333?)

Posted on 2019-11-18, 20:33

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I am considering building an ATX PC to replace a vast majority of my retro systems with. I know that this is in practice impossible to achieve but I will try to end up with something with as wide a range of coverage as I can make happen. For this purpose I decided on a Voodoo 3 AGP as the video card …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-16, 19:55

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Skanque wrote: The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators […] Show full quote The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators AUS 3DP-V264GT/PRO ATI Rage II+DVD PCI Ahhhh.. I have been looking for this card for soo long... Lucky …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-11-16, 19:50

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It's IDE, so yes, it supports every IDE device. But the BIOS won't see it, because 1. it's not a primary/secondary IDE channel, and 2. the IDE port has no resources assigned at that time of POST at all. Do I understand correctly, that the HDD connected to the sound card will be accessible in …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-11-16, 19:48

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IDE on ESS cards can work as secondary or even primary. Sorry, but that is complete nonsense. The IDE port has nothing to do with the ESS chip itself, so such a general statement can never be true in the first place. Whether the IDE port can be primary or secondary depends on how the card …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-16, 13:45

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One of them looks like a 9000 series ATI AIW card, thats it AFAIC..

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-11-16, 13:42

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An HDD can work off the soundcard, but you need special software to get it going. The easiest way is probably the XT-IDE BIOS (AT Version), because it supports tertiary and quaternary IDE channels...unlike most system BIOSes which at most support secondary. IDE on ESS carda can work as secondary or …

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Re: Non Creative Sound Cards for WinXP

Posted on 2019-11-15, 19:40

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There are several great m-audio cards for cp. I own this one for example and it is amazingly good.

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