Re: Voodoo 5 5500/Socket A build.

Posted on 2017-05-31, 13:31

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Another useful feature of lian-li case is that is made of aluminium. So in fact it works as large HDD cooler (which has it downsides in this case as the drives are screwed right into chassis and transfer vibrations and noise), in my experience one slow 80mm fan at the front of the case, where is a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-05-31, 08:11

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Today I've picked up package with this card - MSI GeForce FX5900XT for roughly 10 USD. It will need only some heatsink cleaning and new thermal paste just to be sure. Bought from previous (and the only) owner, who had it from new - he bought it back then for about $280, seems little high for me as …

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500/Socket A build.

Posted on 2017-05-29, 07:44

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Cool case, I love those Lian-li (and not because I had a similar one, but smaller and served me well from 2003 to the last year 😁 ). You're lucky that you have also the original bezels, they cost me a fortune to buy them additionally back at the time.

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Re: Which is better, Pentium 233MMX, Cyrix MII 266 or K6-233?

Posted on 2017-05-29, 06:30

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We are talking about a Packard Bell PB820 motherboard to be specific. It can't do the lower voltages iirc. I've read it definitely cannot do the 2.2v CPUs. Here's where I got my info: http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/810.htm Hmm, I was curious what happen if you set all three voltage jumpers to ON …

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Re: Which is better, Pentium 233MMX, Cyrix MII 266 or K6-233?

Posted on 2017-05-29, 05:56

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K6-2 is not an option? If the motherboards support 233MMX it will go as low as 2.8V but maybe lower, like 2.5V (as is for example listed on my mobo as supported voltage for K5s) or even lower as an undocumented setting. Then K6-2 which interprets 2x multi as 6x multiplier would work. So 400 MHz ( …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2017-05-26, 20:20

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It looks like my GF4Ti survived 8) although it seems that it develops some coil whine under the load. But the image is rendered correctly. 3dmark01se_C28GFTi4800SE.PNG 3DMark2001SE score is 10956 which is nothing to write home about :( I will have to do something with it, Celeron is holding it back …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-05-26, 17:37

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I've experiences only with "BXcel", "BX100" or "BXpro" branded PCChips motherboards simmilar like this one - but those were Ali or VIA based. If this is i440LX or EX, then might not be so bad :-) In fact I've never seen running a slot1 CPU with EDO SIMMs, the CPU performance would be quite …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2017-05-26, 17:26

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With the third computer finaly running I've purchased MSI GeForce4 TI 4800SE 128 DDR AGP card for about $6.6 with postage. More or less standard long PCB similar to Ti4400/4600 card with NV28 chip and BGA RAM chips. The original HSF was replaced for something that looks like Socket370/A CPU cooler. …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-05-26, 09:07

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I've experiences only with "BXcel", "BX100" or "BXpro" branded PCChips motherboards simmilar like this one - but those were Ali or VIA based. If this is i440LX or EX, then might not be so bad :-) In fact I've never seen running a slot1 CPU with EDO SIMMs, the CPU performance would be quite …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-05-26, 08:00

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SaxxonPike wrote: I definitely won an empty case. It had a Bigfoot drive in it and this motherboard, that's about it. This is an era of hardware I am not familiar with. Looks like some Matsonic/PCChips AT/ATX board for slot1. Good to see it working, I had experiences that these were unreliable as …

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Re: K6-III+ 450 fastest overclock

Posted on 2017-05-26, 07:55

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That's a good point, I was running 75 MHz FSB with Cyrix MII back in the days too 😊

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Re: K6-III+ 450 fastest overclock

Posted on 2017-05-26, 05:51

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Motherboard will be FIC's VA-503+ rev. 1.2. I don't think I'll be able to run it at 112MHz FSB let alone 124MHz. That motherboard seems to have good voltage regulation :) So 112 should not be too big of a problem. Nice to hear, but the agp would run bit out of spec? Don't know if any of my cards …

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Re: MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2017-05-25, 15:02

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Replaced CMOS battery in the 775 motherboard and it is look like it's going to be OK. Now time to test and choose some OS drive for it. Looked into my drawer and find some :blush: The first two drives top left are sata, but unfortunatelly they are dead, or near death. The two top right IDE drives …

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MV's three retro PC builds

Posted on 2017-05-25, 14:15

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Hello everyone. Recently I've rescued three old PCs, got them for free. I discovered this great forum, so I decided to reminiscence good old times and have some fun with these older computers. I will try to log my all three builds (upgrades more or less) here, hope it won't get messy. Unfortunatelly …

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Re: K6-III+ 450 fastest overclock

Posted on 2017-05-25, 12:20

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Motherboard will be FIC's VA-503+ rev. 1.2. I don't think I'll be able to run it at 112MHz FSB let alone 124MHz.

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Re: K6-III+ 450 fastest overclock

Posted on 2017-05-25, 08:21

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Okay then, orderer an ATZ one from a german seller, he had only two left. So i was in a hurry that i wouldn't be able to buy my dream CPU since I've read this article on THW 17 years ago 😁 Albeit the shipping was a little high.

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Re: K6-III+ 450 fastest overclock

Posted on 2017-05-25, 07:55

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Thinking about getting a K6-III+ chip. Which would be better 400ATZ 1.6V or 450ACR 2.0V? I think my mobo doesn't officially go under 2V, so I'll start at 2.0V anyway. Dont' know wheter the low woltage chip overcloks better? I would be happy running 5.5x100 MHz; with 600 MHz I'll feel like a winner : …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-05-24, 19:58

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No, it had copper wire at the back, directly touching PCB with no isolation. And the second revelation was that there was no thermal paste and the heatsink was wobbling on the chip 😖 This card had a hard life. Filename DSC02072.JPG File size 495.06 KiB Views 1683 views

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-05-24, 19:29

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Nice find, so you could easily pick up things on a dumpster/recycling plant? This is impossible in our place, you can bring in, but not carry away 🙁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-05-24, 19:18

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Bought MSI GeForce 4Ti 4800SE. I wasn't looking exactly for this SE model, but it has classic 4400/4600 PCB with BGA memory chips, which i like. Basically it is 4400 with (useless) AGP 8X interface. It has some ghetto style heatsink mod, but it is too large. Originally it looked like this https:// …

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