Re: RG100 Does Socket 7?

Posted on 2010-04-14, 16:52

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by swaaye

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I really have a powerfully tangible dislike for VIA chipsets joined with AGP cards. :D You really don't want to mess with anything other than a Voodoo AGP card in a VIA mobo because they will be unstable in some way with just about anything else. And the strangest bottlenecks can occur too because …

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Re: RG100 Does Socket 7?

Posted on 2010-04-14, 16:46

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by swaaye

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Yes CuteMouse will run PS2 and serial mice. MSMouse will work too. In Windows 9x and later you can just use the included generic drivers for each. Win 3.x and older use DOS drivers. I don't like serial mice because PS2 ports spoiled me with their faster report rates. Serial mice are literally choppy …

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Re: Half Life 1- what didja first play it on?

Posted on 2010-04-14, 16:35

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by swaaye

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P2 266 (could've been a 300@450 at that point, not sure) Abit BH6 Matrox G200 Voodoo1 AudioPCI 64MB 4GB+1.2GB Win98 😀

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Re: RG100 Does Socket 7?

Posted on 2010-04-13, 18:39

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by swaaye

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That's one of those Intel designed OEM motherboards. Tiger Eye TE430VX . It's probably a nice board. Some of them have onboard S3 Trio chips (and lose a PCI slot for it). I highly doubt it will run anything but an Intel CPU though. Intel makes sure the CPU has their "Genuine Intel" string. And yup …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2010-04-13, 18:29

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by swaaye

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But is there any other indication such as stepping or manufacturing date? E.G. which product numbers are verified to be locked/unlocked/limited? I really don't know. I was unaware of the 300 MHz Klamath chips being locked. I always thought that the Klamaths were all like the older Pentium CPUs with …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2010-04-13, 04:12

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by swaaye

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I've run my current PII Klamath 233 at 2x66, 3.5x66, 4x66, and 4.5x66. If you can get a Klamath cheap, why not try it. They don't run exceptionally hot, but they are somewhat hotter than the Deschutes chips. I'd just get a CPU that has a cooler included to keep things simpler. There are a couple of …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2010-04-12, 23:53

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by swaaye

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All of the Klamath chips are multiplier unlocked and 66 MHz FSB. Last Intel chip like that until they brought Speedstep to the desktop, I think. So I would think Klamath is the clear choice then? I've run one at 133 MHz to do my 133MHz challenge. The only mobos without FSB selection in jumper or …

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Re: RG100 Does Socket 7?

Posted on 2010-04-12, 18:21

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by swaaye

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Ok I brought back my sig just for u. 😁

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Re: Diamond Firegl1000 pro

Posted on 2010-04-11, 22:30

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by swaaye

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The usual almost completely useless VESA feature connector. It just looks special here because they gave it a plastic shell. I believe that card uses 3DLabs Permedia 2. It's probably around the speed of a Voodoo1. It wasn't really a gaming chip and was meant as a low cost CAD chip.

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Re: Sound Blaster PCI128

Posted on 2010-04-10, 18:38

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by swaaye

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Does the chip on the card say ES1370? I had him try the original Ensoniq AudioPCI drivers that are on E-Mu's site, but they didn't work apparently. Could have been missing the device id. Creative can be such a pain in the ass.

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Re: RG100 Does Socket 7?

Posted on 2010-04-09, 18:26

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by swaaye

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Cool can't wait for Xtreme megaThread. BTW, nice STB Nitro 3D w/ Virge GX. I've got one of those myself. Too bad all of the S3 S3D API games refuse to run on it!!!!! An aspect that I like about the older sockets is that there is a wide variety of CPUs. More than just AMD and Intel stuff to play with …

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RG100 Does Socket 7

Posted on 2010-04-09, 04:28

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by swaaye

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😁:D:D We need a huge megathread of troubleshooting stuff from that era now methinks!!!

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Re: Help with sound cards and sound in general

Posted on 2010-04-07, 21:20

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by swaaye

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FM (frequency modulation) synthesis uses mathematics to simulate musical instruments. Some instruments are easier to recreate than others (ie bells are very easy while strings are nigh impossible). Roland MT-32 uses another form of simulation, called linear arithmetic synthesis. Wavetable (aka …

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Re: Sound Blaster PCI128

Posted on 2010-04-07, 19:07

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by swaaye

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Some mobos have absolutely horrible PCI implementations. A combination of shoddy chipset design, board design and poorly programmed BIOSs. You just don't notice this with anything other than RAID and sound cards because most PCI cards don't need lots of bandwidth or tight latency. And sound cards …

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Re: Sound Blaster PCI128

Posted on 2010-04-06, 21:41

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by swaaye

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Which of course is ridiculous because they produced products based on the tech for years. There are about 6 different sound cards and there are also motherboards with the chips.

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Re: More fun and games with VIA's KT133/A chipset

Posted on 2010-04-06, 19:40

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by swaaye

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That's an insane amount of PSU power for that hardware. 😁 A 300 Watt PSU was what ATI listed as a minimum requirement. But if you go overkill and still have problems, I suppose that will tell you the problem is elsewhere.

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Re: Sound Blaster PCI128

Posted on 2010-04-06, 19:08

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by swaaye

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Creative has a few old cards like this with hard to find drivers because they couldn't be bothered to put together an all inclusive package for every card revision.

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Re: Sound Blaster PCI128

Posted on 2010-04-06, 04:19

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by swaaye

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If it's ES1370, try the drivers for Ensoniq AudioPCI. The "upgrade to PCI 64" pack. http://www.emu.com/support/files/download2.as … cy=0&Platform=1

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Re: More fun and games with VIA's KT133/A chipset

Posted on 2010-04-05, 23:08

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by swaaye

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I have a old PC Power & Cooling Turbocool 300W from 1999 that I think I was running a 9700Pro on. That PSU is pretty decent so it didn't have any trouble. But I went up to a Thermaltake Purepower 420W in 2003, I think. Those two were of the high 5v power era. I recall putting my 9700 Pro in a …

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Re: very good reason why packard bells sucked

Posted on 2010-04-05, 19:00

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by swaaye

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I used to work on them frequently. Friends had them. So yea they do bring back memories. But they were just slow rigs because the hardware was subpar frequently. If you at least got some L2 cache they weren't terrible. One of my friends had a ~1993/4 PB 486 with no cache or PCI/VLB slots. It was all …

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