Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-02-04, 12:42

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by Nemo1985

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Where does MVP4 fit in all of this? Is it comparable to MVP3 aside from not having a free AGP Bus? I have no idea, personally I never had interest in MVP4 or ali aladdin 7. mvp4 is reckoned to have similar memory performance to the mvp3, but it was targeted to lower end market so most boards were …

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-02-04, 10:18

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by Nemo1985

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appiah4 wrote: Where does MVP4 fit in all of this? Is it comparable to MVP3 aside from not having a free AGP Bus? I have no idea, personally I never had interest in MVP4 or ali aladdin 7.

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-02-04, 09:36

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by Nemo1985

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I've finally ended the test with Gigabyte GA-5AX rev 5.2. Here is some notes: 1) Tillamoook doesn't work, again... I also thought the cpu could be defective but it was working, I will test it somewhere else. 2) Cyrix cpus, the linearburst option is enabled by default, no bios option. 3) The system …

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Re: Bought a faulty V2

Posted on 2019-02-04, 06:10

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by Nemo1985

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How much did you pay for it? Personally if it was less than 20-30 euros (USD) I would risk it and try to fix it myself. Take pictures close (like a macro shot ) of what is broken, if possible use Paint to draw a Red circle on the damaged area. And argument that it was not clearly shown on the …

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Re: Bought a faulty V2

Posted on 2019-02-03, 05:00

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by Nemo1985

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If you paid with paypal you can get your money back, however you will have to pay yourself the shipping cost for sending it back to the seller. Just take as much pictures and video as you can so you can show PayPal when you open a Claim with them. Thank you for the tip, do you think the pictures I …

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Re: Bought a faulty V2

Posted on 2019-02-02, 16:14

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by Nemo1985

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Baoran wrote: I thought everything had that "ebay money back guarantee" even if the seller does not accept returns. It has, I suppose, I paid with paypal, but it's something I never had to use in such unfriendly way...

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Re: Bought a faulty V2

Posted on 2019-02-02, 15:53

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by Nemo1985

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I'm on a phone and I cannot see the pictures very clear as I would. However from the photo on imgur looks like the main chip has a little bit of corrosion on the right side. What I would recommend is get some isopropyl alcohol and a very soft brush and try to clean all the card as good as you can. …

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Bought a faulty V2

Posted on 2019-02-02, 11:27

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, I received 2 days ago a v2 that I bought on ebay, it was sold as working and in perfect condition. Unlucky it's not true, the card is missing 2 of the 4 lateral pins where you hook the video cables and even worse some pin of the chipset are bent, they touch each others, but even worse one is …

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-01-24, 23:04

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by Nemo1985

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I can agree on the Epox board, I only have Mvp3g2 version but it is quick and seems to be a tiny bit faster as my DFI and Aopen board with the same chipset. (Epox 1mb vs 512kb DFI and Aopen). However...the Ga-5ax is a very nice board but it is not the fastest. At least in my 3dmark99 and 2000 …

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-01-24, 20:39

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by Nemo1985

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feipoa wrote: GF2 has no problem? Only a problem with GF2+V1. What about GF2 + Voodoo2? I don't have any v2 in my collection Edit: I forgot to mention that I changed the gf2 mx with a permedia 2 card I received some days ago and I didn't have issue with the tomb raider 3dfx demo.

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-01-24, 20:19

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by Nemo1985

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I've finally completed the round up with the first mb. Here is some notes: 1) The Tillamook won't work with latest bios, I've asked if it's possible to add the microcodes and i'm waiting for an answer, which may arrive or not, it's weird because with the other and older Epox (EP-51MVP3E-M) it was …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2019-01-23, 20:53

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by Nemo1985

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Just for reference, the tillamook doesn't work on Epox EP-MVP3G5 (and probably EP-MVP3G-M or EP-MVP3G2), with the latest bios (vp3c0c21), but it works on Epox EP-51MVP3E-M with latest bios (vp300411). With mod I suppose? Yes, I did the yellow and red pin mod, it's the very same cpu I benchmarked …

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Re: Super Socket 7 issues with agp cards

Posted on 2019-01-23, 20:32

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Another day, another half issue... With Epox MVP3G5 a geforce 2 mx400 that never gave me issues (i'm doing some testing) when I mounted a 3dfx voodoo 1 (bought as untested) I started to have problems, the pc throws errors and bsod on windows 98 or hangs in dos, I changed the video card to a permedia …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2019-01-23, 12:09

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by Nemo1985

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Just for reference, the tillamook doesn't work on Epox EP-MVP3G5 (and probably EP-MVP3G-M or EP-MVP3G2), with the latest bios (vp3c0c21), but it works on Epox EP-51MVP3E-M with latest bios (vp300411).

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2019-01-22, 19:35

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by Nemo1985

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I'm not sure about 2.9 vs 2.2v cores in general, but I Cyrix did make modest modifications/tweaks that slightly improved performance for later revision parts: there's a bit on that mentioned here: http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44340 Not all MII are created equal - rev. 08h is faster …

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-01-21, 23:08

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by Nemo1985

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I can agree on the Epox board, I only have Mvp3g2 version but it is quick and seems to be a tiny bit faster as my DFI and Aopen board with the same chipset. (Epox 1mb vs 512kb DFI and Aopen). However...the Ga-5ax is a very nice board but it is not the fastest. At least in my 3dmark99 and 2000 …

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-01-21, 22:40

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by Nemo1985

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For Cyrix MII chips and running Speedsys, you might need to disable CPUID. There might also be a speedsys flag to use, but I don't recall off the top of my head now. Yes I read your advice in this topic, I just hope that when I will put the cyrix cpu in there will be an option to disable it from …

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Re: Super Socket 7: VIA MVP3 vs. ALi Aladdin V

Posted on 2019-01-21, 21:50

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by Nemo1985

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Sorry for the necropost. I'm doing some test with what I consider the best of both chipsets: Epox Mvp3g5 and Gigabyte GA-5AX (rev 5.2) both with following cpu: 6x86MX 250, MII 250, MII 300, K6-2 500, K6-2+ 500, K6-3+ 500, Pentium MMX 300. Cyrix frequency are real I have the mx pr266 (v2.7) and the …

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2019-01-02, 20:01

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by Nemo1985

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Check caps. Caps are perfect the issue could be the seasonic (but it works fine in a p4 rig)... Check caps on the PSU as well, especially output filter caps. The P4 rig doesn't put much load on the +5V rail, so it's a very different testing condition. The Athlon should be well within the …

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-22, 04:40

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by Nemo1985

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gdjacobs wrote: Check caps. Caps are perfect the issue could be the seasonic (but it works fine in a p4 rig)...

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