Athlon xp 2400+ fast enough

Posted on 2020-05-05, 16:58

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I been thinking my Athlon xp 2400+ is not fast enough for the some of the games I plan to play on the system. The board will be a abit kg7 with a fx 5950 ultra amd 512mb of ram running 98. The games I question are , UT03 and 04, doom3, resident evil 4, KOTOR2 with mods.Wile doom3 will be held back …

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Re: What's the "signature thing" to do after installing an OS?

Posted on 2020-05-05, 15:11

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xcomcmdr wrote on 2020-05-05, 14:58: Almoststew1990 wrote on 2020-04-30, 22:49: Disable UAC Bad and dangerous advice. UAC is broken. or at least in 7. its not hard to by pass it.

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Re: Holy 5v rail batman

Posted on 2020-05-05, 14:18

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Here is another photo from the listing. Not your run of a mill PSU from the looks of it.

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Re: Holy 5v rail batman

Posted on 2020-05-05, 14:15

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...if it actually delivers on the promise. Don't recall ever having seen "Turbo-Cool" before, which makes me take any specs quoted with a big pinch of salt. Simple test: a PSU with these specs should be spectacularly heavy due to high component count, big components and even bigger heatsinks to …

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Holy 5v rail batman

Posted on 2020-05-05, 14:03

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by austinham

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I was looking for a PSU for my Athlon system and came by this for sail on eBay and just had to post a photo of it. 70 flipping amps on the 5 volt rail. 😳 s-l1600.jpg Its an AT PSU too, what kind of AT system needs that much power ? Any thoughts? I'm guessing a 6 or 8 CPU Pentium pro system?

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Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2020-05-05, 13:57

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If you keep an eye out you may be able to find new old stock PP&C turbo cool power supplys on eBay every now and then. Such as this one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Turbo-Cool-510-atx-pfc-T51x-AW4-510w-650w-max-Power-Supply/352980355516?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 Unlike …

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-05-01, 17:32

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The build as it stands 5-1-20 I bought a few 3.5" hdd to 5.25" bay adapters just in case I needed more room for the rads in the case. I also snagged up a nice antec Easy USB bay device. its rather nice as it adds 2 frond USB ports to a older case wile still be able to use the bay for a 3.5" device …

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Re: PCI video card recommendation for AMD K6-2 system?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 15:21

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by austinham

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voodoo2?

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Re: What is your everyday driver ?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 14:31

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My daily PC was built out of necessity of needing a PC to work from home. i7-9800x 2 gtx 780Ti’s in SLI 16gb ram 512gb msata ssd. old chieftec case water cooled with a d5 pump and 360mm rad. I was going to find a bigger case for the build but i ended up having to use the NOS case I had set aside for …

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Re: Custom BIOS Splash Screen Graphics

Posted on 2020-05-01, 13:56

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I believe I seen this feature on a few Asus boards too. Also alot of older HP elite books have it too.

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-05-01, 02:55

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The build as it stands 4-30-20 part 2. I got the raptor drives today. I don't think I'll need to water cool them, but they do run on the warmer side so they will need some cooling. I also removed the stock fittings on one of the 80mm rads. I'll be putting 3/8" fittings on it for my CPU loop. The …

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Re: What's the "signature thing" to do after installing an OS?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 16:15

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Dose no one here install the drivers for the system? 🤣 haha. Anyway I start by installing the software for the system.

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-04-30, 15:48

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Hey i really don't want to piss you off :) Nah, you're cool. Once I get the case I can start planing the mods. It all hinges on how the case is put together. I'm hoping the case has a outer shell that the motherboard and I/O panel rivet into. The case looks like its built that way but I can't be …

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-04-30, 15:41

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It all started a few years back when I put a 980ti in my gaming system, long story short I hated that card as it did not like some of the early DX3d games I play. Very cool build! Out of curiosity, which games were giving you trouble with the 980 Ti? Quite a few. Its been a wile since I had the …

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-04-30, 14:09

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The case will be properly converted to ATX and not destroy or wrecked. I find those commits somewhat insulting considering my sheet metal work skill level. Once done most no one would be able to tell it was ever an AT case. I don't think any insult was meant here. It's just that such huge AT towers …

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-04-30, 13:03

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The build as it stands 4-30-20. I got the PSU last night, sadly it was dead. Not only that but I came from a smokers home and was full of tar. I did take a peek inside and found that the DC output caps were vented quite badly. Not on;y that but they were well know fake caps from back in the day. I …

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-04-29, 23:15

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The case will be properly converted to ATX and not destroy or wrecked. I find those commits somewhat insulting considering my sheet metal work skill level. Once done most no one would be able to tell it was ever an AT case.

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-04-29, 18:23

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photos of the rads.

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Re: Windows XP rig, suggestions

Posted on 2020-04-28, 17:31

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Problem of dual boot 98/XP PC is, that you're handicapping yourself with GPU like crazy, once you actually boot into XP. With official drivers, you can go as high as X850 XT PE or 6800 Ultra, and that just isn't cutting it for playing late XP games in high resolutions. There's also problem of AGP …

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-04-28, 04:30

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The build as it stands 4-28-20 I received the evercool radiators today. Not to bad for old mid range rads. I removed the junk stock fans and put some better old led fans from back in the day on them. They’re so old the led’s are hot glued onto the fan.  I also cut some tubing for the NB and gpu …

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