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Re: My First "Retro" Build Athlon 1000 Slot A

Posted on 2020-12-20, 22:20

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

go with your goal becasue XP will be so slow on this system, and games of the XP era will be too slow. idk anything about that power supply. Suppose you could open it up and check for damage, and leaking caps. It looks like a nice enough motherboard, I don't want to comment much. As long as it plays …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-20, 20:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice haul. i like the grey pcb on the triplex cards, definitely out of the ordinary.

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2020-12-20, 09:53

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

i840 Northbridge gets exceptionally hot, surprised theres no heatink. The slots are even closer together it seems than the reference board.

Re: Help me plan out a Pentium 166 build

Posted on 2020-12-20, 09:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have a billion computers and others have MMX than I guess its up to you what you want to do with it, Personally I wouldn't drop anything less than a 233 MMX CPU in that board if I was building a windows 95 computer. I can't really comment on the Matrox Mystique, as the only matrox cards I …

Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install PICS

Posted on 2020-12-20, 08:44

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

it's fine, it would have been the same if someone said, the Pentium pro, or Pentium mmx was the start or the 9x era so thats what 9x should run on. Which is the same thing. I could of just as well said well a Tualatin or a 1ghz pIII runs 9x like a champ tho. Then the person could be like naw 1ghz …

Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install PICS

Posted on 2020-12-20, 02:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

"Revelations from former members of the P4's design team, as well as my own off-the-record conversations with Intel folks, all indicate that the P4's design was the result of a marketing-driven focus on clock speeds at the expense of actual performance and scalability. " source https://arstechnica. …

Re: Custom 486DX2 (99.9%) Finished.

Posted on 2020-12-19, 06:23

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

30 FPS Max Settings in DOOM. The Turbo panel is 100% custom made, I cut a hole in a blank for the display, and drilled holes for turbo toggle switch, reset button and HDD Led. The 3.5 cover with fake wood is actually a black cover which is why I covered it. Not to copy LGR but thanks anyways for the …

Re: Custom 486DX2 (99.9%) Finished.

Posted on 2020-12-19, 06:19

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

More pics.

Custom 486DX2 (99.9%)(Christmas Special) Finished.

Posted on 2020-12-19, 06:18

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

TLDR: I made a 486. About a $300.00 Dollar build. I can probably part it out for twice this amount.

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2020-12-19, 04:13

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

There was some motorola 840 with dual s370 with isa slots, and onboard scsi. No chance to ever find that. Looks pretty awesome tho. Motorola PATX5000 http://mediaserver.voxtechnologies.com/FileCa … t-969840331.pdf

Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install PICS

Posted on 2020-12-18, 11:48

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Depends what your idea of "modern" multi threaded work environments is. My experience as know a C2Q pegs at 75% CPU utilization just to play a 4k video on youtube, and that is considered a menial task by todays standards.

Re: VT586VXC Socket 7 Won't Install Windows 2000

Posted on 2020-12-18, 04:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can change the HAL by pressing F5 during beginning of install. And select Standard PC. Instead of ACPI PC. I'm guess that boards ACPI doesn't work right.

Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install PICS

Posted on 2020-12-18, 04:08

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

OP was just saying XP is more suited to a P4. I was like Core2 is period correct for XP also. p4 is trash. OP explained I want to push my system to its limits. You value backwards compatibility more. I value forwards compatibility. I was like I see your point, but if I wanted that I just build …

Re: With all of great new ISA sound cards coming out (even with FPGA), what is theoratically stopping a PCIE implementat

Posted on 2020-12-18, 03:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Theres some PCI to 8 Bit ISA adaters on aliexpress. Not sure the last intel chipset that supported PCI/ISA bridges tho. Could work with a riser + Ribbon. Probs ICH5

Re: With all of great new ISA sound cards coming out (even with FPGA), what is theoratically stopping a PCIE implementat

Posted on 2020-12-18, 03:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you can find a board with Super I/O chip and a parallel port there is always that hope that you could use that Parallel port OPL3 thing. Thats probs the best bet. https://www.serdashop.com/OPL3LPT

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-18, 02:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I found and bought a Slot 1 to S370 adapter with adjustable voltage that will go as low as 1.4V, the AOpen FC-PGA . AOpen_FC-PGA.jpg (Photo shamelessly taken from here ) I will use it with a 440BX board and a Tualatin CPU, but haven't decided yet whether I'll just mod it or shell out some …

Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install PICS

Posted on 2020-12-18, 02:25

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Not mean to be condescending. I just don't do TLDRs. No one would read it. Youre right that intel did learn some lessons with P4, Hyperthreading which is still around today. Hyperthreading was more of a band aid fix due too an excessive pipline length. To be fair, the Pentium 4 was never really …

Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install PICS

Posted on 2020-12-18, 01:17

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

dr_st wrote on 2020-12-17, 23:10: forward compatibility. Youre right. I guess thats the difference. If I wanted Forward compatibility Id just build a new computer with a Ryzen 5 series on it, that will be compatible with everything in the foreseeable and non foreseeable future.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-18, 01:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I found and bought a Slot 1 to S370 adapter with adjustable voltage that will go as low as 1.4V, the AOpen FC-PGA . AOpen_FC-PGA.jpg (Photo shamelessly taken from here ) I will use it with a 440BX board and a Tualatin CPU, but haven't decided yet whether I'll just mod it or shell out some …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-18, 01:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gratz, if you want drivers, let me know. I've modded several. Ye, we've already discussed it in a separate thread, I currently own the same model but with Savage video... Btw, just to be 100% sure, I bought Toshiba Satellite 2805-S603, specs say that it has Yamaha Sound chip; AKM4543 Codec Chip as …

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