Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-22, 02:50

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by Nemo1985

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I finally had time to test the Msi Kt3 ultra (with a 3000+ and radeon 9600 xt), but a weird thing happened. I tried to use the PSU with highest 5v ampere. I have those: Tagan 580w 3.3V 26a 85.8 watt 5V 30a 150 watt max combined power 180w Tecnoware 550w 3.3V 24a 79.2 watt 5V 24a 120 watt max …

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Re: Asus P5A very slow AGP / Video cards

Posted on 2018-12-19, 02:55

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you for the translation, too bad it considers a much more new mb and chipset, I did try to mess with agp utility while doing the round up benchmark comparison but with the tnt2 m64 I was stuck at agp 1x and all other settings didn't so much difference.

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Re: Help me to repair this video card

Posted on 2018-12-16, 12:20

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by Nemo1985

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Unlucky I have no flux, I never bought it because while watching tutorials they always mention to be dangerous to breath and should be used in open air. Also I'm watching the card and where the traces seems wiped off are traces from bios chip. While the bios screen is the one which is not corrupted: …

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Re: Help me to repair this video card

Posted on 2018-12-16, 10:19

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you both for the precious advices. I think I haven't the proper equipment for do such thing by my self, the tracks are so close that even the tinner solder tip I have would be too big. I can give a try with multimeter. Unlucky in my area I wasn't able to find anyone who do such repair, there …

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Re: Help me to repair this video card

Posted on 2018-12-15, 15:18

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by Nemo1985

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I fear that will be beyond my skill, I mean what is going to happen if the tin of a track will go over another one? Something bad I think :\ If it isn't a problem i'm going to write you a pm.

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Aladdin V drivers roundup

Posted on 2018-12-15, 14:47

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by Nemo1985

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So I finally ended the ali drivers comparative. The system: K6-2 500 mhz (100x5) Asus p5a rev 104 128mb ram pc133 (so I can use the fastest timings at 100 mhz) Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 20 gb hard drive Windows 98 SE Nvidia detonator_3_w9x-805 Every time I installed windows from scratch, enabled the DMA …

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Re: Help me to repair this video card

Posted on 2018-12-15, 13:52

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you for the tip. How do I clean off the bad soldermask? The only thing I have used to solder were some capacitators on the mb.

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Help me to repair this video card

Posted on 2018-12-15, 13:01

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by Nemo1985

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Hello everybody. A months ago I received this rare Rendition Verite V2200 with 8mb on board. It was mistreated, I gave it a clean and it starts but shows sing of memory corruptions. I wouldn't put so much effort if it wouldn't be so difficult to find such cards. Top of the card: https://i.imgur.com/ …

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 06:57

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by Nemo1985

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decided to buy a Gigabyte ga-7vt880-l, because seemd like the asus but with 4 pin connector. Too bad I just found it doesn't support the pci and agp fix Let's be realistic here. Most likely you won't push it far beyond official 200mhz bus (there are PCI/AGP dividers for that) - 220 at best. You …

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Re: Asus P5A very slow AGP / Video cards

Posted on 2018-11-30, 02:16

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by Nemo1985

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I'm having troubles with that mb too. I have rev 103, using a k6-2 500, 128mb ram and a tnt2 m64. I was doing some benchmark to find the best ali drivers. Everything was "fine" until I installed the driver agp v1.82, then I had to reinstall the video driver (that was adviced during the installation, …

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2018-11-27, 22:36

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by Nemo1985

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feipoa wrote: Very suttle differences. Do some of these driver versions use AGP fast write and sidebanding? Well to be honest i'm sure that the first version if installed in turbo mode enables fastwrite, but from v4.43, the option is gone, you can just choose if install the agp drivers or not.

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2018-11-24, 14:38

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by Nemo1985

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After the mvp3 round up, I tested my QDI Advance 10T (Via Apollo pro 133T) with some 4in1 drivers. The rest of the system is: Pentium 3 866, 512mb pc133 cl2, geforce4 ti4200 (I wanted a cpu limit condition), windows 98 SE. I tested 4in1 from v4.32 (the version used at the time on reviews), v4.43, v4 …

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Re: Lucky star 6VA694 ver 2 and Via C3

Posted on 2018-11-09, 08:32

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by Nemo1985

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A little update, I tried to patch the bios, but nothing changed. I really can't understand, the cpu is an 800A while the bios keep saying it's 800B (that according to my google search it doesn't exist). Filename 01.jpg File size 99.76 KiB Views 238 views File comment Bios screen Filename 03.jpg …

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Lucky star 6VA694 ver 2 and Via C3

Posted on 2018-11-08, 19:22

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by Nemo1985

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Hello everybody. Today I received a Via C3 800A Mhz (133x6.0) at 1.25v According to the info I found arount it's probably an Ezra-T, since the classic C3 at 800 mhz is rated v1.65. The problem is that the mb select automatically to give him v2! I tried to change the jumpers setting according to the …

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2018-10-28, 19:28

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by Nemo1985

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Garrett W wrote: Thank you for the results. Which video card did you use? Riva TNT2 m64 with 32mb

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2018-10-28, 10:52

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by Nemo1985

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I also thought 4.35 were the best for ss7 machines, until I tested them 😀 Here is the donwnload link https://web.archive.org/web/20010602161946if_ … oad/4in1426.zip

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2018-10-28, 00:02

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by Nemo1985

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Sorry for the necroposting, I did some tests with 4in1 while using tmc ti5vg+ that use the old good Via MPV3 chipset, those are my results with a k6-350 and windows 98 se: I also tested v4.35 but results are slower, I consider the 4.26 globally the best version for mvp3, unlucky not every 4in1 …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 23:20

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you for the clarification, so there is no hope to run it like a k6 plus cpu... I see...

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 22:40

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by Nemo1985

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I agree with you meljor, the main difference between vanilla mmx and tillamook is that the second has some oboard cache How can you say that the l2 cache on tillamook is working if it doesn't show up un speedsys, it should show just as it does with k6 plus cpu, don't you think so? On your …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 10:33

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by Nemo1985

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Actually yes, I thought it could compete against k6-2 at the same frequency, I would expect that having some l2 cache in the cpu (running at cpu speed?) could give it some advantage. I was probably wrong. To be sure if the cache is enabled I will test a pentium 233 mmx to 250 and underclock the …

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