Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-17, 03:26

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by Meatball

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-05-17, 02:08: Going from 0kb to 512kb should help a lot. There is also k6-3+ If you want even more 😀 Not for this board... 200MMX is as fast as it will go... all kinds of roadblocks on this ill-advised purchase...

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-16, 23:12

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I wasn't aware those 2*8 chipped PC-66 32MB SDRAMs had become so hard to come by. These weren't exactly rare back in the day. The 16MB modules (the ones which are basically half the 32MB PC-66 ones) were more uncommon. It's quite the limitation from the 430VX chipset. Back then I always saw it more …

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-16, 16:50

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Cache has diminishing returns moving from FPM RAM, to EDO, to SDRAM - with SDRAM, the burst speed is the same, but the cache delivers the start a few cycles quicker But it does always have some return, even with SDRAM. Why not go for 64MB SDRAM if you can - the max cacheable range of the VX chipset …

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-16, 00:07

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Cache has diminishing returns moving from FPM RAM, to EDO, to SDRAM - with SDRAM, the burst speed is the same, but the cache delivers the start a few cycles quicker But it does always have some return, even with SDRAM. Why not go for 64MB SDRAM if you can - the max cacheable range of the VX chipset …

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Re: 3DMark99 gives nearly same results 640x480 as it does 1024x768. CPU limited?

Posted on 2022-05-15, 01:15

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Try forcing max AA, Ansio, and max image quality within the Nvidia Control Panel and see what happens.

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Re: Help with 32MB SDRAM Selection for ECS P5VX-A VER 1.0

Posted on 2022-05-14, 01:22

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by Meatball

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Any of these sticks has 8 or 16 chips in brand label? Cheers, Both 8 and 16 - Single-sided w/8, Double-sided w/16. The only 2 modules which have somewhat functioned have 4 chips per side. The order I placed for 16 modules has a number of DIMMs with 4 chips per side, so I am hoping one (or more) of …

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Re: Help with 32MB SDRAM Selection for ECS P5VX-A VER 1.0

Posted on 2022-05-14, 00:23

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by Meatball

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Try brand name on a label sticker modules like micron, samsung. Eg: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/273187029729?hash=item3f9b3742e1:g:RNEAAOSwVtta527s Cheers, Thanks! I wish it were this easy... I have a pile of just about every name brand ever sold - Samsung, PNY, NEC, Elpida, Infineon, Siemens, Kingston …

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Re: Help with 32MB SDRAM Selection for ECS P5VX-A VER 1.0

Posted on 2022-05-13, 22:17

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I have a single 64mb sdram module with 32 chips like the one shown in this thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=87072, they are rare to see, in my case the chips are marked by IBM, it comes from an IBM PC 300gl with 430vx chipset, in this computer it works perfectly but on another …

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Re: Help with 32MB SDRAM Selection for ECS P5VX-A VER 1.0

Posted on 2022-05-13, 22:15

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by Meatball

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If it were me, I'd throw in the towel and buy a pair of EDO SIMMs. I actually have 64MB of EDO (4x16 MB) Believe me, I was close to that a while ago. This purchase was a classic buy now, look at what it can do later... I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I didn't look at any of the …

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-13, 21:51

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I updated the post with additional ISA options; should I change them up, or I was thinking to use the ProAudio Spectrum for MIDI (and SCSI) duties instead because of your points? That MediaVision sound card isn't PAS16 compatible but that one can be used for MPU-401 duties. If you can deal with the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 21:45

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Almost a daily ritual to get a lousy 32MB of SDRAM operating in an Intel VX-based ECS motherboard. Stick rolls in, I test it out, then toss it onto the island of misfit RAM. It's getting crowded there.

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-13, 21:05

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by Meatball

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Having at least 256KB of motherboard cache vastly improves the performance (around 25% aprox.) on the Socket 7 platform. For video hardware I would go for the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro 4MB + Voodoo Graphics combo as it is the most compatible. PowerVR PCX could also be added as a third accelerator …

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Re: Experiences Upgrading Socket 7 Cache from 0KB -> 512KB? Recommended Video Card? Best 1993-98 Games for Pentium 200M

Posted on 2022-05-13, 20:16

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Any suggestions?

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Re: Help with 32MB SDRAM Selection for ECS P5VX-A VER 1.0

Posted on 2022-05-13, 19:01

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"The Intel VX doesn't have enough Memory Address lines to drive the higher integration DRAM technology, be it EDO or SDRAM. 16-MBit is the highest density supported, while the parts on a 64-MByte EDO SIMM are 64-MBit (eight chips) Do the math - count the SDRAM chips on your DIMM (the large ones) [ …

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Help with 32MB SDRAM Selection for ECS P5VX-A VER 1.0

Posted on 2022-05-13, 18:07

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by Meatball

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I have this motherboard: https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/2165 ECS P5VX-A VER 1.0 - It supports 1 stick of 32MB (max) SDRAM. The manual says it follows early JEDEC specifications and later versions WILL NOT work. Max FSB is 66MHz. This board is extremely picky about SDRAM modules. Every …

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Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-12, 18:03

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The "Golden Age" was 1990 - 2006; beginning with Windows 3.x and the premier series of Upper Deck 1990-91 Hockey Cards and sunset-ed with the end of support for Windows NT 4.0 and the release of Windows Vista and NVidia Geforce 8800 Series cards. There's a special place in my heart for '95-'00, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-12, 17:18

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I saw Radical Vision's post to be a perfect example of elitism considering the silly statements about the PCB color and size XD and how he was disregarding budget (or value) and low-end products. It isn't surprising why Tetrium replied that way. Right. My point was only the "big d*** measuring …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-12, 15:34

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by Meatball

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Tetrium was taken WAY WAY out of context and this post was a response to Radical Vision's post. I've been perusing this form for years, and I haven't seen posts from Tetrium to be anything but jovial. An exerpt of Tetrium's response from page 2225 of this thread: "And do you even realize that …

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Re: [How to Fix] Windows 98SE setup gets stuck

Posted on 2022-05-12, 14:48

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Search for the Internet for 'REMOVED' and you can find a Windows boot disk (or bootable ISO). You can use any version of 95/98/ME floppy disks for any version of Win9X without hassle if you start the computer with CD support and then navigate to the D:\WIN95, WIN98, or WIN9X directory and run setup …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-12, 14:43

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I'm about to begin my build, and I will record the performance at its defaults along with incremental changes up to submission.

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