over clocking a P166 to 200... chance of success?

Posted on 2022-10-14, 17:38

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hi there guys.. ive got an old pentium system that im wanting to put a p200 (non mmx) in but havent been able to find one to buy .. ive got 3 p166's here and i thought why not try to run them at 200.. cpu 1 = su072 1996 week 34 cpu 2 = su072 1997 week 07 cpu 3 = sy016 1997 week 07 what do u guys …

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Re: Cheap IDE hard drives on Ebay - Worth trying?

Posted on 2022-10-14, 10:51

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ive bought about 20 ide drives ... about 1/4 of them were no good.. does that mean broken? (or bad clusters etc) If they are of the written spec of the drive they'd be ok broken .. these are drives from a recycling centre... not tested, just pulled straight from machines .. i paid very little for …

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Re: Cheap IDE hard drives on Ebay - Worth trying?

Posted on 2022-10-13, 13:36

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ive bought about 20 ide drives ... about 1/4 of them were no good..

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Re: AGP to PCI adapter

Posted on 2022-10-10, 16:03

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i dont understand the point of this .. agp cards are way easier to find than pci... i can see the need for putting an adapter that can make an agp card fit in a pci slot such as when your MB doesnt have an agp slot ... but what machine has an agp slot and no pci slots? give me an adapter so i can …

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steering wheel / joystick inversion... why

Posted on 2022-09-25, 15:36

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in DOS

ive got logitech wingman formula gp wheel ... old thing without force feedback and gameport plug.. (pic is just off the internet / not mine ... mine is a gameport not usb) in need for speed (the first one) when u connect the car steers in the opposite direction to what it should (left is right and …

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15kHz why does it matter,what is the fuss about?

Posted on 2022-09-23, 03:46

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

so i was playing chex quest on my P120 with a newish 22inch widescreen LCD and it makes the images look pretty awful.. apparently chex quest runs in 640x400 but that doesnt seem right to me given it is based on doom, and i thought doom was a 320x200 game..(vanilla doom).. so i went looking for a …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D shareware version back in 1996

Posted on 2022-09-20, 04:23

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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MrFlibble wrote on 2022-09-19, 16:43: To answer your questions in order: id give u a like or thumbs up if i could for your response ... very thorough ... ill check out that list .. interesting

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win 95/98 Disk Management tool inbuilt

Posted on 2022-09-17, 15:09

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ Software

does 95 98 have the inbuilt disk manager that shows you graphically the partitions and hard drive info.. it was diskmgmt.msc in xp 7 etc ... i seem to remember it from back in the day but am not sure now after spending an hour googling it trying to find the name to type in the run dialog box

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-17, 08:28

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My bare bones windows 95 system with a pod 83 and 32mb of ram goes straight to swap file for basically anything I do lol. Unfortunately 32mb is max supported. Unless I am reading system monitor wrong. But it says around 36mb usually. Thankfully I am running a 15k rpm scsi :p 15k rpm scsi... is that …

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Re: Problems with voodoo 1, errors and crashes

Posted on 2022-09-16, 02:02

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yeah this sort of thing is only going to get worse as time goes on. im looking for a voodoo1 here in australia and the price is around $200 for a card that has most of the time not been tested properly or not tested at all, and as you know showing a POST screen is not properly testing. If I buy from …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-14, 16:45

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PD2JK wrote on 2022-09-14, 12:25: a Dell XPS T500 with a voodoo3 3000D. hey i recently got the exact same model.. oh well its an XPS T500 but it didnt have a voodoo, just some S3 thing .. 🙁

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Duke Nukem 3D shareware version back in 1996

Posted on 2022-09-14, 14:29

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Milliways

DN3D was first released as shareware back in Jan 1996. The "commercial" version was released in Apr 1996.. question : if you registered the shareware version back in Jan/feb/mar 1996 and paid some money did you have access to the full game? or did the public have to wait 3 months for the full …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-13, 08:25

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

start of the year was $960 ... by the end it was $180... what a ride

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-13, 08:23

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

here is the historic price of RAM 1995 to 1999 price is for 32MB in US $...

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-13, 03:25

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Max out to the cacheable limit would be my advice, it's what I almost always do. other than looking up the manual how would i know what the cacheable limit is... from what i remember they dont always tell you the cacheable limit do they.. the chipset would determine the limit wouldnt it? and then …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 14:35

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thats all part of experience that we had back then.. i did read that in dos mode playing doom, that anything above 8mb made no difference.. maybe in windows desktop environment it makes a difference more? thing wont be in windows much ... its primary purpose is 94/95/96 gaming, not sure how much …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 09:37

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With 64MB you can turn off the HDD swapping and that relieves stress on the ancient hard disk. For DOS stuff, be more careful as there are have titles that may refuse to run with this much ram... There 16 or even 8 might be the better choice. yeah i would like to go easy on the drive... it is the …

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WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 02:55

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hi guys, im in the process of getting together a P120 build and trying to keep it period correct .. its going to be a christmas 1995 very late present.. back then a very nice upper end PC was a 120 (with the 133 being at the top) with 16 mb RAM.. ram was incredibly expensive with 32MB being around $ …

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Re: i bought a motherboard and didnt realize the BIOS chip was missing

Posted on 2022-09-11, 14:39

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

well i paid $25 for it with a 166 cpu and 2 32mb ram sticks ... no great loss i guess ill keep the cpu and ram and not worry about the board... live and learn

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i bought a motherboard and didnt realize the BIOS chip was missing

Posted on 2022-09-11, 13:21

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by kennyPENTIUMpowers

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hi, picked up a shuttle HOT-553 motherboard https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/shuttle-hot-553 the other day and looks like the BIOS chip has been removed at some stage.. wondered why it wouldnt post so started looking over the board and according to the site above it should have an award bios.. …

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