Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-10, 17:26

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by Baoran

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Just a guess: As far as i remember the VIA MVP(3) chipsets needed 2MB of L2 cache to cache 512MB RAM. This is probably also the case when L2 cache acts as L3 cache under a K6+ CPU. In case there´s only 512K or 1MB L2 cache on your board (you didnt tell us so far) - depending on the Soyo BIOS, L2 …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-10, 06:16

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by Baoran

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majestyk wrote on 2022-05-10, 05:58: What size is the onboard L2 cache? Are the two SDRAM sticks you tried the same size and what size? Is there an option in the BIOS to enable/disable memory interleave? 2 identical 256MB PC133 sticks. Originally taken from a duron system. There is no option for …

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SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-10, 05:13

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by Baoran

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On SY-5EMA+ motherboard and K6-3+ cpu when testing with speedsys things are normal with single 256MB memory stick and speedsys shows 3 levels of cache in the graph but if you add second 256MB stick the reading test stays the same but writing test becomes flat like all 3 levels of cache would be …

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Re: Win98 works on h87 performance(haswell), on z690 I get vcache protection error

Posted on 2022-05-08, 18:59

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by Baoran

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I limited ram to 512MB with my Athlon64 systemwith himemx, but I still get out of memory errors randomly in win98se just by opening normal file explorer windows and trying to copy files.

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Re: Advice on a best early Sierra (Space Quest, Kings Quest, Police Quest) era build?

Posted on 2022-05-08, 18:55

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by Baoran

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Either my 386 33Mhz or my 486 33Mhz connected to MT-32 seems to work fine for those.

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Re: Best way to transfer files to PC without USB?

Posted on 2022-05-03, 09:58

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by Baoran

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I often write cd-rw disk myself too. As long as you finalize the disk even basic mitsumi 8x drive seems to be able to read it.

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Re: Heatsink glue for Pentium 233MMX?

Posted on 2022-05-03, 07:30

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by Baoran

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Looking at the original picture in this thread it looks to me like there are possibly some leaky caps there too.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 issue...

Posted on 2022-05-01, 09:20

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by Baoran

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This should be in different section of the forum. There is different section for the sound stuff.

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-05-01, 04:21

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by Baoran

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When it comes to people who raise price when you ask a question you could also use it against them by asking question about things that you are not interested in and making them raise price which would make them much less likely to be able to sell it.

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 15:59

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by Baoran

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So the best counter for that would just to buy the item without asking any questions?

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-04-30, 05:13

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by Baoran

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Well, it is free market and it is only matter of how much people are willing to pay for things. It does not make someone an asshole if they ask for prices higher than what "normal" price is considered to be. It is just matter of if he manages to sell it at that price or not. I do know it makes buyer …

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Re: Difference of K6-III+ low voltage version.

Posted on 2022-04-29, 07:20

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by Baoran

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On an Intel spec compliant voltage regulator I believe 2.0V is the minimum if the high order VID signal to the regulator has been hardwired and not connected to a jumper. If it's fully jumpered then there would be 5 VID jumpers. If you were to dig into it it's possible you could find a way to add …

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Re: Difference of K6-III+ low voltage version.

Posted on 2022-04-29, 04:19

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by Baoran

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From looking documented jumpers on my motherboard it just feels like base voltage is 2.0V with all jumpers open and closing jumpers just add 0.1V, 0.2V, 0.4V and 0.8V to that so closing all of them would make it 3.5V total. On an Intel spec compliant voltage regulator I believe 2.0V is the minimum …

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Re: Difference of K6-III+ low voltage version.

Posted on 2022-04-28, 11:10

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by Baoran

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What socket 7 motherboards can reach to 1.8V and 1.6V voltages? Only motherboards I have that can run these cpus dont go lower than 2V. My 1.6V 400Mhz part also seems runs fine at 550Mhz at 2V, but after if I do "setmul 6" all dos programs I try to run crash with errors like "division by zero" and …

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Re: Difference of K6-III+ low voltage version.

Posted on 2022-04-28, 10:09

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I think the asus p5a 1.05 and 1.06 can do 1.3-3.5? So on Asus P5A only the newer revision can do voltages lower than 2.0? Too bad because my P5A is 1.03 or 1.04 and I was thinking on putting a low voltage K6-III+ there, but I guess I have to run it at higher voltage then. I wouldn’t give a second …

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Re: Difference of K6-III+ low voltage version.

Posted on 2022-04-28, 02:43

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by Baoran

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These numbers are from memory, but I think it's correct: AMD's datasheet lists 3 low voltage versions of the K6-3+ 400MHz 1.6V 450MHz 1.7V 500MHz 1.8V The faster parts from that list were guaranteed to also run at the lower speed/voltage settings. This means the highest quality parts were supposed …

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Difference of K6-III+ low voltage version.

Posted on 2022-04-27, 06:52

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by Baoran

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Anyone knows what is the actual difference of low voltage version of K6-III+ cpu? Both the ones I have are marked to be 1.6V. Is there some kind of physical difference to 2.0V version or are they just binned cpus that are judged to not handle higher voltages and clockspeeds as well as some others? I …

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Re: Cacheable Ram and performance

Posted on 2022-04-25, 10:50

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by Baoran

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I was also just running Sandra and I came to a conclusion that there has to be some kind of myth about that cacheable ram that I dont know about. The amount of Sisoft Sandra memory score drops when I add second 256MB stick is exactly the same amount no matter if I have external cache disabled in …

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Re: Cacheable Ram and performance

Posted on 2022-04-25, 07:47

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by Baoran

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Thank you for the info I originally put the both sticks in the system because it was a kit of identical modules from bit newer broken duron system so I thought it would be better to keep them together. socket7-a.jpg socket7-b.jpg In this test it did change the memory numbers quite a bit after I just …

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Cacheable Ram and performance

Posted on 2022-04-24, 19:21

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by Baoran

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I am building socket 7 system. CPU is K6-III+ and currently set to 5.5 x 66Mhz. Motherboard is SY-5EMA+ that has MVP3 chipset, 1024KB of L3 cache and there is currently 2x256MB ram sticks installed. I have been trying to find out clear information on effect of cacheable ram but I have found some …

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