Re: Any benefit of 50 ns memory on Pentium Pro board, Intel VS440FX ?

Posted on 2021-11-02, 16:26

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by The Serpent Rider

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1) Is it safe to adjust the RAS precharge time to 3T on the PR440FX with 50 ns BUFF ECC EDO DIMMs? If it works - why not? Although difference is so minuscule, that I personally wouldn't bother. What response time is necessary for EDO SIMMs to safely use RAS to CAS = 0 clock on the VS440FX? You need …

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Re: Want to max out RAM on an ASUS P5Q PRO Turbo for XP x64...

Posted on 2021-11-02, 10:14

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zapbuzz wrote: Another way to increase speed where memory capacity cannot provide is a RAID 0 disk set of at least 2 identical hard disks; 4 allowing exta confidence of raid 10 Windows XP x64 can use unofficial NVME driver. No need for SATA RAID. SolidSonicTH wrote: Is it even worth doing? That …

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Re: Any benefit of 50 ns memory on Pentium Pro board, Intel VS440FX ?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 20:30

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by The Serpent Rider

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I doubt that RAS To CAS delay is available for 50ns on PR440FX or most of 440FX boards.

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Re: failing AGP, FIC PA-2013

Posted on 2021-11-01, 20:13

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2.0 and 2.1 are identical and use the same PCB - 2.0 E-O036. 2.1 is minor revision which confirms to PC99 standard (see link), while 2.0 doesn't, because ATX I/O and ATA connectors are not color coded.

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Re: Any benefit of 50 ns memory on Pentium Pro board, Intel VS440FX ?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 19:56

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by The Serpent Rider

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The chipsets for the two boards look similar. Well duh, they are identical - 440FX From what I saw in Everest/AIDA, Intel already set optimal timings. DRAM Read Burst Timing 2-2-2 DRAM Write Burst Timing 2-2-2 RAS To CAS Delay (tRCD) 1T

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Re: Will SDRAM Work in a 168pin EDO RAM system?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 15:01

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by The Serpent Rider

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(the notches are on different locations) Only one notch in different location.

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Re: Will SDRAM Work in a 168pin EDO RAM system?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 14:39

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by The Serpent Rider

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Memory controller must know how to work with SDRAM. Which chipset we're talking about? If it's 440FX - no, it won't work. 168 pin EDO ram seems to be fairly hard to find. Workstations modules, with different notch placement (compared to SDRAM) are relatively easy to find. You probably can mod it by …

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-10-30, 21:10

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Tyan S2466 board I think that's the main culprit. I would not even consider 6600gt for Athlon XP 3200 in directx 8&9 games because the performance is way to low! 6600GT is faster than FX 5900 in almost all scenarios, which is a card of choice for beefy Win9x/early XP oriented systems. It has …

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Re: failing AGP, FIC PA-2013

Posted on 2021-10-30, 06:30

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by The Serpent Rider

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and I believe that games that need TnL That includes a lot of OpenGL games though. Quake 2 can use TnL engine. This element gets hot as high as 80C when the AGP slot is occupied. Most likely not normal and it needs to be replaced.

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Re: Power a DX2 at 3.3v

Posted on 2021-10-30, 05:26

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Less heat, won't break.

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Re: failing AGP, FIC PA-2013

Posted on 2021-10-30, 05:14

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by The Serpent Rider

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isn't much of a performance difference More than 50% performance penalty in games which can utilise transformation engine.

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Re: Visitor frequency down?

Posted on 2021-10-29, 21:11

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by The Serpent Rider

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I would argue that retro computing is starting to become mainstream. Retro consoles certainly already are.

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Re: Just bought a “new” mobo

Posted on 2021-10-29, 20:53

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by The Serpent Rider

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I thought they all had a external cpu cache and internal northbridge cache Apparently internal TAG RAM in E revision is borked. There are some G revision motherboards which had external TAG too, but to my knowledge all Gigabyte boards had only 512 Kb L2 cache.

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Re: Just bought a “new” mobo

Posted on 2021-10-29, 09:56

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by The Serpent Rider

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Not sure, I don’t have it yet. But the OP pic I believe is the actual board in question but image quality is lacking. Board is revision 2.2 Even from that picture I can tell, that it has external TAG chip, so it's early chipset revision and only 128 Mb RAM can be cached.

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Re: Gigabyte GA-7VRXP or ECS K7VTA3 ?

Posted on 2021-10-29, 09:32

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by The Serpent Rider

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The KT400 is more like the 333A like the 266A revision of the 266 to fix it's bugs... VIA modified their chipsets gradually. Original KT333 was nothing more than glorified 266A with added multiplier for DDR333 memory. Later revision made available official 333 FSB and improved south bridge, which …

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Re: Visitor frequency down?

Posted on 2021-10-29, 09:06

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by The Serpent Rider

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BETTER DEAD THAN RED!

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Re: Jump from 486 to WinXP?

Posted on 2021-10-28, 22:41

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by The Serpent Rider

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"Modern" laptops are not flexible enough for Windows 9x Although you're comparing apples to oranges. That Pentium can use DOSBox and run circles around 486, specifically in some heavy Build games like Blood.

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Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-28, 15:24

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by The Serpent Rider

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Jo22 wrote: from the other side You got friends on the other side, eh?

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Re: Agp to pcie adapter

Posted on 2021-10-28, 09:10

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Is it possible? Yes, Nvidia adapted some AGP cards to PCIe with HSI bridge. GeFofce PCX 5300 , GeForce PCX 5750 , GeForce PCX 5900 , GeForce 6800GT , GeForce 6800 Ultra. Can you make one today, which can be fully functional AGP? Not really. Not only you need to make AGP-PCIe bridge from scratch, but …

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Re: Visitor frequency down?

Posted on 2021-10-27, 19:49

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Every site we reach is DEAD

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