Socket 7 VX mb worth keep them?

Posted on 2019-09-12, 20:30

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, since I have just 2 AT cases I want to get rid of my VX motherboards, they were useless back in time and imho they still are now. First is a Full Yes 82430VX with coast module installed, without mmx support and fsb max 66mhz, 4 simm slots and 1 sdram slot Second is a Lucky Star 5I-VX1F rev …

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Re: Asus PVI-486SP3 or Shuttle hot433

Posted on 2019-09-12, 17:59

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by Nemo1985

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BUMP, in the end I have chosen the Asus, now I have some little problems: 1) It came with a glued heatsink on the cpu, I have 2 amd 586 to try but I can't find any suitable heatsink, I noticed that this mb has clips too, any chance to find a suitable heatsink in Europe? 2) I have some dispaired simm …

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Re: Asus PVI-486SP3 or Shuttle hot433

Posted on 2019-09-08, 10:30

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by Nemo1985

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The UMC and SiS are both pretty good chipsets, but the Asus board has a better reputation. Depends on what revision of HOT433 you have. I've never owned one, but I heard some of them can be pretty flaky. Thanks for the answer. I can't find any info about the rev of the HOT433, the only thing I can …

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Asus PVI-486SP3 or Shuttle hot433

Posted on 2019-09-08, 06:55

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, today I need your advice about which from that 2 mb I should prefer. They both have coin cell battery, the asus is rev 1.2 and plus it has all the cable it needs. I will use it with an AMD 5x86 cpu, some edo ram and I need to find a suitable hard drive, virge pci video card. What are the pro …

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Re: AOD790GX/128M memory issues

Posted on 2019-09-04, 23:11

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by Nemo1985

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bump

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Re: SOJ40 DRAM dilemma and Voodoo2

Posted on 2019-07-26, 18:09

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by Nemo1985

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Please update us when you get them 😀

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Re: Amd 5x86 ADZ vs W16GBC which best?

Posted on 2019-07-22, 11:31

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by Nemo1985

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kixs wrote: About OC... you can never tell. I've tested around 30 5x86-133 cpus and best were ADZ. BGC and ADW were in the same boat. You are right, every cpu is different... despite of this there are batches that are usually better, unlucky I can't test them since I lack the mb, for now.

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Re: Amd 5x86 ADZ vs W16GBC which best?

Posted on 2019-07-22, 10:48

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you all for the precious answers 😀

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Re: Amd 5x86 ADZ vs W16GBC which best?

Posted on 2019-07-21, 21:06

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by Nemo1985

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derSammler wrote: Both are the same. The BGC is a later model, but it's still the same CPU and rated for 105°C, just like the ADZ. Thanks, in your opinion since it is a later revision are there any chance it will be more overclockable?

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Amd 5x86 ADZ vs W16GBC which best?

Posted on 2019-07-21, 18:41

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by Nemo1985

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Hello everybody. I have those 2 cpu, I was wondering what is the difference between the first and the second. The ADZ has manufacturing date 962xxx (can't read because it's scratched) while the W16BGC has manufacturing date 9811GPB. Another difference is that on the first one it mentions 3.45volt …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2019-07-12, 07:07

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by Nemo1985

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By any chance you have been able to enable the HT on asus p4s533-e? no sir if im correct sis didnt give there p4 boards ht support till 651/fx i think. i know im probably missing some other matx board that probably have ht support but eh. 533 p4 with ht is better on a granite bay or 850e in my …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2019-07-12, 06:38

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by Nemo1985

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By any chance you have been able to enable the HT on asus p4s533-e?

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Re: Advice for 20 pin psu with beefy v5 and v3.3

Posted on 2019-07-10, 09:13

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by Nemo1985

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seasonic and the FSP are the only brands in your list id personally let touch any of my computers. They are both okish brands, nothing great but good enough if they are good model numbers. zippy/emacs is a good power supply for retro computers if you can find the right one for good price. that part …

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Advice for 20 pin psu with beefy v5 and v3.3

Posted on 2019-07-10, 06:00

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, I want to change the psu of my 2 configs that use a 20 pin connector and they need beefy 5v rails. One is the MSI KT3 Ultra2 (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/KT3_Ultra2) with a power hungry cpu and I will probably use a FX 5900 as videocard. Second is ECS P4S5A/DX+ (V5.1A) (http:// …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2019-07-07, 01:47

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, some days ago I received a Radeon HD 4650 AGP, I wanted to try it on ECS P4S5A/DX+, everything went fine until I installed the windows xp driver, according to amd the only available drivers are: AMD_Catalyst_13.4_Legacy_Beta_WinXP, but when I tried them they were unable to find the card, so I …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2019-06-26, 04:07

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by Nemo1985

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It's possible the GPU's memory controller can't stably clock higher. It's likely this way, but also the most unsolvable. I always thought that the main bottleneck was the RISC core, but according to the results I got, I must admit that it isn't so, the card seems to be well balanced, if I increase …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2019-06-25, 00:42

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by Nemo1985

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I'm having issues with overclocking, I tried 55\128 (I want to find the limit of memory before push the risc core) but it hangs when 3dmark starts... I don't get why... Anyway overclock the card is very easy, there is a program called: rendclk and I use an excel file (found somewhere), after …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2019-06-24, 14:07

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by Nemo1985

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Here is a further update: The card who had memory issues has been sent to Tiido and he not only repaired it, but also upgraded to 16mb, so this is the only existing Rendition Verite v2200 with 16mb. Here is the final picture of the card (with added heatsink): https://imgur.com/a/5nfprTO While those …

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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2019-06-24, 11:14

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by Nemo1985

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Here is a further update: The card who had memory issues has been sent to Tiido and he not only repaired it, but also upgraded to 16mb, so this is the only existing Rendition Verite v2200 with 16mb. Here is the final picture of the card (with added heatsink): https://imgur.com/a/5nfprTO While those …

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Re: Radeon 9800 pro broken pushpin

Posted on 2019-06-18, 20:05

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by Nemo1985

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That's another solution. For now I used a push pin that I took from the heatsink of a gf4mx, I used it and the card works fine, tested with various 3dmark versions. At least I know the card works while I wait for a definitive solution. Thanks for all suggestions

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