Re: AGP Card for MVP3 motherboard (FIC PA-2013)

Posted on 2020-01-20, 15:19

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by The Serpent Rider

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And is the 2.0 E-0036 ultimately OK with AGP cards? Should be. Also the north bridge on your board is "CE" revision, which supposedly fixed some VIA issues with AGP cards. I think the FAQ is more about the north bridge problems. Emphasis on "How do I make the board work with the card X". That …

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Re: AGP Card for MVP3 motherboard (FIC PA-2013)

Posted on 2020-01-20, 12:32

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by The Serpent Rider

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I'm not sure I understand the problem with this motherboard There shouldn't be any problems with Revision 2.0. In fact, here's some demonstration with GeForce 2 MX400 - http://yahoo.aleado.com/lot?auctionID=r297856504

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2020-01-20, 02:22

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by The Serpent Rider

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Will the Voodoo2 run at 66 MHz? Potentially yes. There was Obsidian2 AGP card, which seemingly works without any bridge chip of sorts.

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Re: Can you help me identify theese boards?

Posted on 2020-01-19, 19:42

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by The Serpent Rider

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Looks like a socket A mainboard to me. Socket A with black ATX panel? Never. ATX and SDRAM only but without AGP slot. S7 or SS7? From the looks of it, it's a SIS based Socket 7 board. Most likely SIS530, because there's a bulky southbridge. EDIT: That's ASUS P5-99VM . EDIT2: The PCI card is one of …

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2020-01-19, 15:16

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by The Serpent Rider

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SIS 496 don't have integrated IDE. It's provided via Winbond/UMC I/O chip. Which is, presumably, connected to ISA bus.

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Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use

Posted on 2020-01-19, 14:50

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by The Serpent Rider

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Windows 95 OSR2 should be snappy enough with SSD.

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Re: AMD AM486DX4-100SV8B and AM486DX2-66: Interesting observation

Posted on 2020-01-19, 14:43

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by The Serpent Rider

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I found another old thread with similar discussion, which never took off: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=34054 To summarize so far: All 25544 - 350nm, 16Kb WB L1 cache, 2x/3x or 3x/4x multiplier. All 25220 - the original N8VT, 700nm, hybrid 5v/3v core. All 25253 or higher - 486DX4 with 2x/3x …

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Re: Pentium III-S 1400MHz cooling with no IHS

Posted on 2020-01-19, 13:04

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by The Serpent Rider

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cooling without a IHS is better than with an IHs It doesn't matter for Tualatin though. TDP is too low.

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Re: Best video card to pair with a 133mhz system from 1996?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 20:47

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by The Serpent Rider

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Riva 128, Riva TNT/TNT2, GeForce 2 MX, S3 Savage 4.

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 20:08

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by The Serpent Rider

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Used small capacity Transcend/Apacer/InnoDisk DOMs are perfectly fine. And there's plenty of those circulating as new old stock too.

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Re: Should I Upgrade from Celeron to Pentium 3?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 20:01

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by The Serpent Rider

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Are Intel CPUs as fragile? If you worry about the damage, buy thin silicon pads or make pads from paper (multiple paper strips glued together). Place them around the crystal and you're good to go.

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Re: Best video card to pair with a 133mhz system from 1996?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 19:45

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by The Serpent Rider

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Voodoo 1 is not a video card.

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Re: Futuremark has released all their old benchmarks for free

Posted on 2020-01-18, 19:08

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by The Serpent Rider

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Well, I did not know that. Am I the only one? Well, pirated versions were circulating for decades now, so who cares =P

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Re: Futuremark has released all their old benchmarks for free

Posted on 2020-01-18, 13:43

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by The Serpent Rider

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Actually most of these benchmarks were made free long before 2017. 3DMark Vantage was added to the legacy page in 2017.

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Re: Colours problem ISA Graphics

Posted on 2020-01-18, 13:19

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by The Serpent Rider

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Apparently Acumos AVGA2/Cirrus Logic 5402 aren't very stable cards to begin with, because they had to rely on motherboard oscillator, which can cause problems. I think underclocking your system to 33 or 25 Mhz could help.

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 11:34

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by The Serpent Rider

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I haven't found a single better option then those DOMs. They are reliable, fast enough for all machines from that age and cheap. 32Gb SSD DOM is not meant for 286/386 machine, they work absolutely fine with SD/CF cards or small DOMs from Transcend, InnoDisk and etc. And for late 486 and newer, …

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Re: Best video card/cpu combo to play Blood (1997) in 800x600

Posted on 2020-01-17, 20:05

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by The Serpent Rider

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"Playable" probably means you got 20 fps or so You can't get only 20fps on high end Athlon XP or Pentium 4 3Ghz+, that's Pentium 3 Coppermine +/- 1Ghz level.

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Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use

Posted on 2020-01-17, 18:53

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by The Serpent Rider

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Unless you put a PODP5V-133 in. But at that point you're better off with a common Socket 7 board. Which is also much easier on your wallet this days, compared to average PODP prices.

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Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use

Posted on 2020-01-17, 15:25

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by The Serpent Rider

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I had a socket 4 system once upon a time and it would play anything a 486DX could. Yes, but 486DX4-160Mhz is better for stuff like Doom or Duke3D.

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Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use

Posted on 2020-01-17, 15:14

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by The Serpent Rider

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Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use None. Socket 4 stuck in a weird limbo, where it's not useful for old stuff, like top-tier 486, but still suck for later 3D titles.

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