Re: Voodoo 3 with P3 933?

Posted on 2023-07-20, 18:44

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by NostalgicAslinger

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Interesting, thanks! I don't understand why Asus doesn't offer an official 3.30V setting on the P3B-F, useless and unnecessarily more load on the PCI/AGP/SDRAMs/ if you don't use an FSB133 processor... On the K7V-T (VIA KX133), for example, Asus says that 3.31V is the default voltage and should be …

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Re: Voodoo 3 with P3 933?

Posted on 2023-07-20, 17:50

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by NostalgicAslinger

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Don't know which of p2-series motherboard you use. But you need download manual and find Vio jumper. Hint. If jumper are 3-position and have choose only 3.5 or 3.65, just remove the jumper. It was be 3.3V Would be interesting, if this trick also works on a P3B-F? I use a 1 GHz PIII SL4KL CPU with …

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Re: Pentium Pro

Posted on 2023-07-15, 15:01

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by NostalgicAslinger

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doublebuffer wrote on 2023-07-15, 13:05: Youtube has videos where they trash heaps of PPros... so painful to watch. They get maybe 50 cent worth of gold from each, destroying a 100$ cpu in the process. This is the modern consumer society.

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Re: Energy efficient old hardware for win98

Posted on 2023-07-15, 15:00

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by NostalgicAslinger

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HanSolo wrote on 2023-07-13, 17:02: It's around 40 Cent/kWh. So if the system including monitor 40 cents is a lot, I would never pay that much. The last 10 years I have paid max. between 6 and 10 cents.

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Re: Energy efficient old hardware for win98

Posted on 2023-07-12, 18:24

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Sound is going to be a problem as well as any 3d accelerated graphics. A decent choice would be a thin client with a Geode processor and a PCI slot for a video card. For Socket A, I would also look for a motherboard that allows undervolting down to ~1.1V VCore. An Athlon XP-M Barton with the IQYHA …

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Re: Energy efficient old hardware for win98

Posted on 2023-07-12, 18:10

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What is the reasoning behind wanting a super low wattage Windows 98 machine? Countries like Germany have very high energy prices because of the Ukraine war, so I can understand that. A mini-PC with a first-generation Intel Atom single-core should also be a good choice, but I don't know about …

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Re: Pentium 2 450 do I need additional heat sink?

Posted on 2023-07-11, 11:32

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by NostalgicAslinger

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Some low freq. Pentium II (< ~300 Mhz) can be passively cooled, but even then, the cooler is massive and requires a good airflow in the case. Only recommendet for the later produced Pentium II 266/300 CPUs with 250 nm Deschutes core (~18,6W TDP). I would not do this with the older 350 nm Klamath …

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Re: Pentium Pro

Posted on 2023-07-07, 17:00

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In my opinion, the Pentium Pro CPUs (the 256kb and 512kb versions, also have the highest gold content) are the most beautiful socket CPUs ever in CPU history.

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Re: Need help to identify Voodoo 2

Posted on 2023-07-03, 14:15

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by NostalgicAslinger

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Does anyone know the brand of this Voodoo2? I bought this card untested a few years ago. It works, but only with one disabled TMU unit (SSTV2_NUM_TMUS=1), and with boths TMUs are graphics glitches. Today, I have tried again (the first try was a 100% washing with water, because this card was very …

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Re: List of UNLOCKED Pentium II CPUs - A Quick Glance

Posted on 2023-06-28, 15:49

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by NostalgicAslinger

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Maybe an interesting locked Deschutes CPU: A Pentium II 350 SLU3 from 11 week/1999, Irland. This Deschutes CPU has the lowest multiplier of 3.5x. From 233 MHz until 466 MHz (66MHz FSB until 133MHz FSB). Also stable with 501MHz (143MHz FSB) at stock 2.00V voltage, the dB0 stepping makes ~500MHz …

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Re: List of UNLOCKED Pentium II CPUs - A Quick Glance

Posted on 2023-06-27, 18:35

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by NostalgicAslinger

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Thanks for your infos! I use a Pentium MMX 233 or my AMD K6-III+ system for speed sensitive DOS Games with SETMUL. Pentium MMX is still my favourite for this. For my Slot 1 Celeron Mendocino sys, the tool "Throttle" (http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle/DOS) is the way to go. Works good, but on too …

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Re: List of UNLOCKED Pentium II CPUs - A Quick Glance

Posted on 2023-06-27, 18:13

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by NostalgicAslinger

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I have tested this CPU on two different mainboards, the Slot 1 Oc King Abit BE6-II i440BX with the nice CPU Soft Menu III, which also allows L2 Cache Latency settings and the FIC VL-601 i440LX. No differences, so this 23/1998 Malay SL2S7 is really 100% locked! The PII 333 SL2QF is the only unlocked …

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Re: List of UNLOCKED Pentium II CPUs - A Quick Glance

Posted on 2023-06-27, 17:16

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Only my eralier produced Deschutes PII CPUs: Pentium II 333 SL2QF dA0 produced in week 29/1998 Malay unlocked from 2x until 5x (5.5x gaves me a black screen) Pentium II 400 Sl2S7 dA1 produced in week 23/1998 Malay, NOT unlocked, always runs with 400 MHz (100FSB) with 2x until 5x multiplier setting …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-06-26, 18:55

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Katmai 450 with later core stepping (kC0) should run fine with 600MHz with the default 2,00V voltage or maybe 2,05V. The earlier Katmai stepping (kB0) could need more voltage and also the L2 cache modules could be the limiting factor. There is a tool named "WCPUL2" from h-oda for L2 Cache Latency …

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-06-20, 18:20

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This good very small channel needs much more viewers: https://www.youtube.com/@retrosoftwarereviews

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Re: MS-6156 OEM Motherboard - Opinions on capacitors

Posted on 2023-06-19, 17:12

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by NostalgicAslinger

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I have a MSI MS-6147 Rev. 1.1 i440BX mATX board with no C letter on the Winbond I/O controller and have used a Pentium III 500@560 (112 FSB) Katmai for the last years. It has the SC1152CSW voltage controller, a newer version of the SC1152CS. Never thought, that this controller also supports <1.8V …

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Re: Overclocking PC133 SDR RAM: What is the best SDR memory?

Posted on 2023-06-10, 19:23

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by NostalgicAslinger

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@VooDooMan So you have tested with default voltage, which means 3.3V, right? The Asus TUSL2-C for example also allows 3,4 or 3,6V I/O Voltage . Default setting should be 3,4V on this mainboard. A higher I/O voltage could help, and maybe one stick makes the 166MHz with the sharpest timings? I have …

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Re: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and 16 bit rendering

Posted on 2023-06-06, 10:24

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by NostalgicAslinger

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Yes, you need for example a Pentium MMX CPU if you want to play Jazz 2 in 16-Bit mode. I always recommend a Pentium P54C non MMX if you only use DOS/maybe Windows 3.11 on this system for later demanding DOS Games and for Windows 95 and above a Pentium MMX P55C CPU. Here is a good video: https://www. …

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Re: A surprinsigly expensive LGA1336 motherboard. What alternatives are out there.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 13:53

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by NostalgicAslinger

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I still use the S1366 platform as my Main machine. I have bought this system in 2009. The Gigabyte EX58-UD5 (250€ was the price in Oct. 2009) still runs fine, only the original CMOS battery are died the last year and I have upgraded the CPU from a i7 920 D0 to a Xeon X5670 Westmere. The latest Intel …

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Re: TNT2 Ultra faster than Geforce 2MX on Slot A?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 16:32

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Expendable has the "Hardware Texture Compression" setting in the graphic settings, so a GeForce2 MX should run and look better than a TNT2 Ultra in this game, also all Quake 3 based engine games. The Detonator 6.31 is a good driver for the GeForce 2 series, also with less CPU overhead. The 1999 …

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