Such an old thread. If anyone happens to stumble over such a Vectra mobo, it doesn't work without a VRM. It's needed to convert 5V to 3.5V and lower for Vcc and Vdd. Although it could run with a few jumpers instead of a VRM if the PSU had a P10 aux connector with +3.3V like HP did. That's not the …

PS. Am I missing something, or my board is missing one capacitor? Take a look on my photo above and: https://www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/de/687v.htm (above CPU) Could it be the reason? Sigh, your board has issues with many more than one capacitor in fact. I see at least 5 of them bulged. Must …

link wrote: appiah4 wrote: Which version if VIA Hyperion 4 in 1 do you have installed? I have read about this (broken agp drivers on anything newer). 4.17. It's recommended to use either 4.35 or the latest 5.24a. Although if the AGP status is working and there are no crashes, it shouldn't be an …

I'd say an AMD 5x86-X5-133ADZ is the most affordable high performance 486 solution. You can glue a heat spreader to it and run without active cooling even with some overclocking like 4x40MHz or 3x50MHz.

I have removed the heat spreader on my Opteron 185 and have a few questions. 1) Has anyone performed a delidding and left the heat spreader off, thereby placing the heatsink/fan in direct contact with the surface below? What was the outcome? Wouldn't this be better for cooling, that is, to remove …

Once you install Linux, you don't care what M$ supports and what not. A dual core Opty with 8Gb of RAM can handle all common everyday tasks. Can it use the graphics card to accelerate videos in a web browser? I am tempted to switch, though I have been tempted for decades. I think Linux supports it …

Once you install Linux, you don't care what M$ supports and what not. A dual core Opty with 8Gb of RAM can handle all common everyday tasks.

Thanks for the information. The GT 1030 has no XP drivers, right? So I couldn't buy it now, use it with XP for another year, then upgrade to some other Windows OS? I'd have to be fully committed to ditching XP, and I'm just not there yet. From your response, it sounds like the industry is migrating …

FX-60 and unlocked multiplier isn't that easy :) CPU multiplier is used to clock memory as well. So, an even multi will clock memory lower than odd multiplier (integer only memory frequency dividers). Things get even more complicated with half multipliers :D Nop, what's used to clock memory (and …

I have an Opteron 180 running at 3.0GHz almost at the default voltage. The mainboard is an Abit AT8-32X with 8Gb DDR PC3200R, that's ECC registered. The board has had a fair share of MOSFET/capacitor mods, but they are irrelevant to the CPU temperature. The cooler is a Zalman CNPS7500-Cu. No heat …

That's the later revision, D and E should be able to only cache up to 128mb. The G revision should do 512mb. I wonder if it works with k6-2+ and k6-3+ mobiles. It should work but can you test this? That's correct, rev. G has almost all bugs fixed. There should be no tag SRAM chip installed on such …

3Dfx had quality and volume related issues with their Mexican plant at Juarez after the STB purchase in 1998, so they outsourced some production to China. These cards are just as good as Mexican. At the very least, their GPU heat spreaders were glued better on average than on those Mexican cards.