Re: AMD K6-2 500Mhz on Jetway J-542B - possible?

Posted on 2019-03-13, 15:50

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by dionb

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Yep, should work. I ran a K6-2 550 on this board back in the day. As for frying, voltage is the thing to watch. If you try to run too fast with stock voltage and decent cooling, it won't fry the chip, it will just be unstable or not boot. By increasing voltage you can increase clock speeds, but you …

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Re: Need GPU Advice

Posted on 2019-03-13, 11:52

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by dionb

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And if you particularly want GLide, the Voodoo Banshee is generally the cheapest 3DFx option and not that much slower than a V3.

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Re: Any reason to keep Socket 7 motherboards?

Posted on 2019-03-13, 07:00

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by dionb

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Hello i think that you can rethink again about that. In my opinion Super Socket 7 boards dont have enough compatibility with ISA 8 Bit ancient video cards. Some time ago i tried to connect a hercules video card to super Socket 7 with AGP integrated video without any kind of success. Probably socket …

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Re: Any reason to keep Socket 7 motherboards?

Posted on 2019-03-12, 23:04

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by dionb

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Tbh though, most of the more interesting So7 boards had non-Intel chipsets. At the time, the i430FX was spectacular, single-handedly making the Pentium faster than 486 at last, with i430VX pushing the envelope a bit further and the expensive i430HX offering unheard of RAM support. Then the i430TX …

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Re: Pre-VESA Proprietary 32-bit Local Buses?

Posted on 2019-03-12, 22:43

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by dionb

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So that explains the non functioning slot on the FX 3000D, eh? This is a pretty interesting post. I knew about some of these proprietary local buses, but the ones from Joindata and ECS are new to me. The ECS slot is particularly troublesome, since you'd have no damn way of knowing if you have one …

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-12, 15:07

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by dionb

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A Radeon 7000 "too slow" with a K6-2 400??? Sounds more like you are bottlenecking on CPU... If you're convinced it isn't the CPU and want to try a faster GPU, I'd stick to the same drivers you are using now - you could look for a Radeon SDR/DDR or a Radeon 7500. Theoretically a R8500 might also …

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Re: Dallas RTC compatibility

Posted on 2019-03-12, 14:29

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by dionb

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How did he know for sure it was a DS12887? Generally DS128(8)7 modules tend to be interchangeable, but DS1387 (Realtime RAMified, i.e. RTC with 4k SRAM) are a different kind of beast. Boards with DS1387 don't boot without DS1387 in there and don't even begin to post with a DS128(8)7 in the socket. …

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Re: Socket 7 SiS 5571 IDE controller problems

Posted on 2019-03-12, 13:51

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by dionb

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I have moved on to a new motherboard, but I just wanted to update this thread so that people can gain some insight if they are having a similar problem. I am not 100% sure, but I believe my problem with this mobo's IDE controller was that it was not UDMA compatible and thus will probably only work …

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Re: Windows 95 *actual* minimum system requirements?

Posted on 2019-03-12, 13:03

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by dionb

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As late as 1997, someone at the university I was studying at had the brilliant idea to upgrade the old computerlab Win3.11 install to Win95. This lab had 486DX-33 systems with 4MB of RAM. It was painful, very painful, but it worked, at least if doing a single, simple task on them. Unfortunately, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-12, 07:23

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by dionb

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Doesn't look like an Intel adapter, they were generally full-height ISA cards. This looks like a generic NE2000 clone, maybe a RTL8019.

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Killing spree stories+serial killers welcome. Rest in pieces.

Posted on 2019-03-11, 13:50

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by dionb

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Hmm, over the years I've killed quite a bit of hardware. The worst/stupidest I remember was when I killed a really nice Slot1 board, an AOpen MX64. How? Somehow while installing RAM I managed to jam the +12V line for the CPU cooler in the DIMM slot under the DIMM without noticing it, so feeding 12V …

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Re: Advanced Disney Sound Source prototype

Posted on 2019-03-11, 12:43

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by dionb

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Agreed. Some clones do do it justice - I have an Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro, which not only does SB(Pro)2.0 but offers Covox support as an aside. It's a horribly noisy (or rather: unshielded) card in general, but as it has a real OPL3 it's a good side-by-side comparison between Covox and SB, and I …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2019-03-11, 09:48

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by dionb

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[...] My NLX system also has a SiS 5598 chipset (Asus SP98N motherboard), including the integrated video option, and although the board itself is generally stable the integrated video is anything but. It uses an early shared video memory implementation that is ...wonky..., to say the least. After …

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Re: What the differences between XT and AT keyboards?

Posted on 2019-03-10, 23:14

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by dionb

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Also, communication with XT keyboards was one-way only, so no lock LEDs on the keyboard itself. AT was bidirectional, so you can have LEDs indicating stuff. Note that by the time the AT standard came along, basically almost everyone stuck to it, but that that wasn't the case in the PC/XT era, so any …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound MAX alongside Sound Blaster

Posted on 2019-03-08, 10:28

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by dionb

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There are some vastly more baroque setups mentioned here occasionally. I have a GUS Classic, PAS16 and Aztech NXPro (=SBPro2.0-compatible with OPL3, also supports Covox and DSS) working happily alongside each other, and would like to add an SB16 with CQM to the mix, but am having PnP headaches there …

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Re: Recommendable DOS network cards/chipsets for ISA bus?

Posted on 2019-03-08, 00:33

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by dionb

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1. The ISA bus itself can't do 100Mbps and no retro OS has anything like the optimized network stack to actually get close to that value anyway - and you're going to bottleneck on CPU anyway with systems where ISA bus is tied to CPU speed (as I suspect given your requirement 3). If you want one …

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2019-03-07, 23:09

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by dionb

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Ours arrived this afternoon. Let the fun begin 😀

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Re: Gotek floppy emulator colours?

Posted on 2019-03-07, 22:46

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by dionb

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Recently ordered a beige one and actually received beige. Was slightly surprised as last time I ordered beige I received black 😉

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Re: Modern sound card options with MIDI/Game ports..

Posted on 2019-03-07, 09:30

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by dionb

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Yes, lots of fanboys out there. So much the better for keeping other stuff nice and cheap for the rest of us. Admittedly this sort of card isn't geared to gaming, but in terms of SNR it's as good as any SB if not better, has better connectors and far, far simpler drivers. It's the same with …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 07:34

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by dionb

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Re the Windows 95 vs Windows discussion, when I started my second attempt at getting a degree in autumn 1997 the 'old' computer labs at the university had 486DX-33 with 4MB and somebody had installed Windows 95 on them. That was painful, really painful, but it ran. In another lab they had 486DX2-66 …

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