K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build - updated now to include some 430TX vs. 430VX benchmarks

Posted on 2021-10-25, 02:09

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Recently I found an interesting AT case on ebay and ordered it straight away. I probably paid way too much (as usual) and after it arrived I had to find something to do with it. So I decided to build a better version of the first PC my parents purchased in 1996. That machine was a socket 7 430VX …

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Re: My youtube channel: Necroware

Posted on 2021-10-10, 04:26

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scorp wrote on 2021-10-09, 20:08: In case you guys are interested in some weird issue investigation on a 386 mainboard have fun with this one. I really enjoyed this repair, so I just have to share it with you 😀 https://youtu.be/koL3T5OAlIk Watching now, good stuff as usual so far.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-10-02, 04:16

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I've been playing the hell out of the new updated version of Quake 1 lately. Right now I'm working through the mission packs on nightmare difficulty.

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Re: CUV4X - Powerleap Tualatin Build

Posted on 2021-10-01, 22:32

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I know this is probably not in any way helpful to you at the time of writing this (you mentioned you wanted to sell your board and that was in 2020). I did read the manual and your DIMM was placed in the right most slot. You could have tried to put the SDRAm into the 1st DIMM slot (which is the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-23, 02:04

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I just ordered an Asus VX97 on ebay. Why do I do these things? 🤣

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Re: Has anyone gotten the GeForce FX Dawn tech demo to work on Windows 98/ME?

Posted on 2021-09-23, 01:49

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Alright I just downloaded dawn from the internet archive, copying to my P3/98SE machine right now. EDIT - Got an illegal operation error when I ran the "Dawn Ultra" shortcut in the start menu. EDIT 2 - Attached screenshot. This is on a CUBX-E motherboard with a Tualatin 1.4GHZ P3-S, 512MB of ram and …

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Re: Has anyone gotten the GeForce FX Dawn tech demo to work on Windows 98/ME?

Posted on 2021-09-21, 05:18

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I’ll try it tomorrow after work on my P3.

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-08-26, 04:07

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Duke Nudem. Apologies if it’s already been said.

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Re: Anyone ever paint their cases back in the day?

Posted on 2021-08-09, 15:55

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haha I sure did. Turned some beige boxes red and black.

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Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning

Posted on 2021-07-31, 17:54

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I tweeted to the fake 3dfx account that "it better have like 32 megabytes of ram!"

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-27, 19:08

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-07-27, 11:20: SLI with 8MB Voodoo 2s tends to be underwhelming.. I've had them forever, it was hot stuff new but I don't use them for anything these days. Also I'm using DVI on every screen I have at the moment so there's no place for them.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-27, 10:43

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Sweet, now you gotta go dual everything, two voodoo 2s feeding a dual monitor matrox, that soundblaster with dual OPL2s, two drives in RAID 0 ... I do have a pair of 8 meg Voodoo 2's... Eventually I'm probably going to put a couple of 512mb sd-ram modules in that machine and either a Geforce 3 or 4 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-27, 03:02

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Found a second P3 1ghz for my MSI dual processor board. $20 from an old friend.

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Re: Slotket (slot1 > s370): In need of finding retention brackets/stilts for slotket

Posted on 2021-07-27, 02:59

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Those eraser mounts are great!

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Re: Let's destroy the 440BX myth :-)

Posted on 2021-07-25, 19:14

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Quality boards are important just like any other chipset. I use an Asus CUBX-E with a P3 1.4S (133 fsb) for my retro gaming needs and it's quite nice. 5900XT graphics card. Asus CUBX-E + Tualatin CPU

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-25, 19:00

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Definitely check the caps on that board. When I got mine a few years ago, nearly every cap was bad :( And notice the one between the pci slots. With my board the pcb marking was wrong for the cap and the polarity switched Right now all of them pass a quick visual inspection, nice and flat on top. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-25, 14:20

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Picked this up from a local kijiji seller today for $60, it's an MSI 694D Pro with 2 Pentium 3 1ghz processors. I think I'll load Win 2k on it later and have the PC I always wanted back then. I was running a Celeron 466 overclocked to 583mhz when 2k was my main OS.

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Re: The Tuala-Bus (My 9x/Dos Rig) (Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 02:48

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mastergamma12 wrote on 2021-07-19, 00:24: I installed some more games on my 98 rig. […] Show full quote I installed some more games on my 98 rig. I remember seeing reviews of Outcast when it was new and it looked interesting to me. Is it a good game?

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Re: DFI CS65-EC Tualatin compatibility?

Posted on 2021-07-13, 21:46

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Don't know how accurate this is but I don't see any Tualatin processors listed here: https://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-DFI/CS65-EC.html

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-13, 04:11

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I visited a friend the other week and he's a Tetris obsessive, specially Tetris: The Grand Master. I haven't played in years but came away interested enough to download a ROM for NES Tetris and good lord its addictive. I'm not particularly good at it but have improved a lot - I've had to ban myself …

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