Re: Absolute fastest storage solution for socket 7
Posted on 2022-12-04, 23:18
Too true in specific cases as you said previously. Cheers,
Re: Absolute fastest storage solution for socket 7
Posted on 2022-12-04, 20:02
Your latest toy will have much better performance, really. The consumer PCI to SATA is dumb chips just to meet demand. Cheers,
Re: Asus A7V (KT133) and compatible cpu
Posted on 2022-12-04, 19:51
Not true. Typical SSD has less TBW, stress on total writes, to hit the price points, like 100 TBW. Meaning you can wear out the SSD easily if working with SSD heavily. Yes a counter, not years. You can keep using SSD with exhausted endurance but reliability plummets and easily corrupts the data. …
Re: "Fake AGP" slots?
Posted on 2022-12-04, 19:26
That's synthetic benchmark - not relevant. All the benchmarks make both cards fail more or less, and one game kills 8800. I'm not here to contradict you, but knowing that your weak lane will bite you someday is OK thinking, but knowing which combination of game and GPU(VRAM) is impossible, hence I …
Re: Interposer for mobile Pentium MMX Tillamook
Posted on 2022-12-04, 03:09
Soldering TCP by hand directly is impossible due to ultra delicate leads. You need to prepare the pads with solder including the center part for cooling *correct amount!* with solder (by heating them) washable flux, clean again, then lay the TCP atop with some washable flux and "bake" or carefully …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-03, 00:29
Bought PS3 SCPH-3001A, awaiting the shipping. Need to order HDMI port, our supplier does not stock these. I do this HDMI replacements all the time at work on consoles including Xbox series and PS5. Cheers,
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2022-12-02, 20:22
Go farther out, like 3 hours away or more and borrow a friend's car instead or rent a car to check out used car for sale, if like, buy it and travel back again with a friend and friend drive the other car while you drive the car that you found. Yes, I know what Toronto is and I also live east of you …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-02, 18:00
Yes to both. Can do MMX due to regulator. The 3.3V comes from ATX plug. This what my AN430TX did. Cheers,
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2022-12-02, 16:32
Chrysler or Toyota? Both are good makers. For us, (my family) drove three generations of Toyotas, first one was 1990 Tercel. Then next two was Corolla 2003 and 2021, both bought new. The 2003 was maintained twice a year and annual Krown applied and around 17 years, we gave it to one of our relative. …
Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!
Posted on 2022-12-01, 23:01
Have you confirmed that adapter's ground plane is not oscillating? For this, oscilloscope's ground clipped to the motherboard's ground and your probe on the adapter's ground plane? The processor's white noise is correct, but the voltage ripple is too much, all of this from linear regulator …
Re: Troubleshooting odd Compaq i440Bx board
Posted on 2022-11-30, 21:05
This board in particular was not reliable even at 350. I tried upgrading to 550MHz PIII, still crashing once in awhile back in the day when these COMPAQ pcs came out cheap on used market so I replaced Compaq with a core 2 duo, didn't recall but Asus board and in a generic case running XP. Stable and …
Re: Best stable VIA chipset driver for ASUS P4V8X-X (PT800 chipset) on Win98SE?
Posted on 2022-11-30, 20:59
VDNKh wrote on 2022-11-30, 18:13: pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-11-29, 23:48: What about the K8T800? Cheers, Yes the bug is present there too. Downgrading the BIOS also fixes it. But the board is not Asus, this one I have is a Fujitsu Siemens motherboard with K8T800 chipset, does this still have this …
Re: Building a WinXP PC
Posted on 2022-11-30, 00:00
cde wrote on 2022-11-29, 17:50: BTW avoid the G2 stepping, it has worse memory latency. This G2 stepping is Lima core, which is mostly all low end low power efficient Athlon 64 with "LE " "e" suffix? Cheers,
Re: Best stable VIA chipset driver for ASUS P4V8X-X (PT800 chipset) on Win98SE?
Posted on 2022-11-29, 23:48
What about the K8T800? Cheers,
Re: 230W PSU - keep it or kick it?
Posted on 2022-11-29, 23:28
The rectifier diodes for input AC to DC array upper left, two small heatsinks, TO220 transistors for chopper, outputs are diode rectifier in TO220 package and two soldered together diodes on heatsink is not rated for 230W and pair of main capacitors is undersized. 100W or less is about right. If …
Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!
Posted on 2022-11-29, 00:05
This upgrade module circuit board is sub optimal due to too much concessions due to circuit board when designed especially linear regulator and not enough capacitors closer to the VCC and VDD pins. If the guy knew the requirements, would keep this in mind when doing rough layout of all the …
Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!
Posted on 2022-11-28, 16:27
Linear regulators do need ceramic MLCC or tantalum capacitors right at the in and output pins to prevent oscillation, not electrolytic. This says so in the in any linear regulator datasheets. And in another datasheet for processor, these do state must have low ESR type, either tantalum or ceramic …
Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!
Posted on 2022-11-28, 00:53
He might had lighthearted about studying on EE. ESR, less is best since this allows least resistance to keep noise small due to able to supply high current spikes that processor imposes on the voltage rails. And paralleling many same capacitors goes around the impedance issue at high frequency ( …
Re: Compaq 486/33m Manual
Posted on 2022-11-27, 22:31
Remember, only part that is not obtainable is power supply board so if this dies, either repair the power supply or use 24 pin ATX power supply repinned to compaq pinout or use repinned 6 inch 24pin atx extension cable, just leave off power on (ground it to turn on), and 3.3V wires. This is a …
Re: Philips Brilliance 15a - model 15a12ta
Posted on 2022-11-27, 18:31
Yes, sync on green. Which means sync timing is inline between green video signal bursts. Not common in PC but common on specialized computers like SGI, Sun, etc. Cheers,
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