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First post, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-02-12, 11:21

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Continuing from my wonderful 486 machine, I completed my dual Socket 7 build!

Tyan Tomcat IVD (S1564D) Motherboard
2x Pentium MMX 200MHz SL2S9
64MB EDO RAM
Rendition Verite 2200 8MB PCI
Canopus Pure3D 6MB PCI
3Com 3C905-TX PCI
CMI8330 ISA with NEC XR385 DB
Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold ISA with Roland SC-55ST
Seagate Barracuda 40GB HDD
LG CD-RW Drive
Windows 95 OSR2
(Going to dual-boot with NT4 or 2K, not sure which!)

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From right to left: Rendition, Voodoo, NIC, CMI8330, AWE64.

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Reply 1 of 23, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2012-02-12, 11:28

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That's bad ass 😀

Love the tower, looks very sturdy.

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Reply 2 of 23, by F2bnp

Posted on 2012-02-12, 11:57

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Oh man that is so awesome. Always wanted one of those multiprocessor mobos! Hope you have fun with it!

Reply 3 of 23, by Malik

Posted on 2012-02-12, 14:23

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Nice...Very Nice!.... 😀

That's a nice front of the casing too!

😁

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Reply 4 of 23, by cdoublejj

Posted on 2012-02-12, 14:45

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What OS?

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Reply 5 of 23, by sgt76

Posted on 2012-02-12, 15:21

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Some real dedication there... both systems are superb!

Reply 6 of 23, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-02-13, 11:48

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OK, just installed Windows 2000, and it seems to run pretty well.

Got this puppy on CPU-Z as well:

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Reply 7 of 23, by GXL750

Posted on 2012-02-14, 01:05

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Nice system; I'm envious. Also of the 486. What do you plan to do with this computer?

Reply 8 of 23, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-02-14, 01:49

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It'll mostly get used to Win95 and DOS games with the enhanced MIDI options available there, and Voodoo1 games on the Pure3D. Windows 2000 went on mainly as a curiosity, and I'll probably try out some Rendition Verite 3D games as well at some stage.

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Reply 9 of 23, by Shodan486

Posted on 2012-02-14, 08:37

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It's a very nice setup, I myself have the ASUS version, can't remember the name, but these two are very familiar. One thing though - Since you're using a SMP system, an SMP ''compatible'' OS should come in handy. And since this goes under the lowest cpu power SMP setups, I advise you to try Windows XP FLP, it's downloadable from the MS page directly I recall, but anyways bittorrent sites help all the time.

MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5

Reply 10 of 23, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-02-14, 12:33

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I have Win 2K on there, works pretty well! 😀

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Reply 11 of 23, by maddmaxstar

Posted on 2012-02-15, 21:13

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Very nice! Me likey!

= Phenom II X6 1090T(HD4850) =
= K7-550(V3-3000) =
= K6-2+ 500(V3-2000) =
= Pentium 75 Gold(Voodoo1) =
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= TI486DLC-40(T8900D) =
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Reply 12 of 23, by feipoa

Posted on 2012-02-22, 03:25

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I've always had a soft spot for dual socket7 rigs. Can you successfully run dual Cyrix MII's in there? That would be unique if you can, and perhaps the only such system in the world.

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Reply 13 of 23, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-02-22, 03:30

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The manual specifically says that only Intel chips are supported in SMP. 🙁

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Reply 14 of 23, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-02-22, 10:49

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I upgraded to 112MB of RAM, and Win2K runs beautifully.

(That's two sticks of 32MB, and 6 sticks of 8MB)

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Reply 15 of 23, by feipoa

Posted on 2012-02-22, 16:08

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Is it all cached?

Does any dual socket5/7 support dual Cyrix CPUs? I figure any Intel-chipsetted motherboard might not support non-Intel chips in SMP mode?

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Reply 16 of 23, by bushwack

Posted on 2012-02-23, 01:39

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Ah nice rig there, I'm partial to Socket 7's myself.

Motherboard made in USA? Now that's retro!

SquallStrife wrote:
Continuing from my wonderful 486 machine, I completed my dual Socket 7 build! […]
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Continuing from my wonderful 486 machine, I completed my dual Socket 7 build!

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Reply 17 of 23, by bushwack

Posted on 2012-02-23, 01:40

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Reply 18 of 23, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-02-24, 10:24

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feipoa wrote:
Is it all cached?

I guess so? Hold on I'll run cachechk and see.

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Reply 19 of 23, by iulianv

Posted on 2012-02-24, 11:07

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It should be - the manual says that "the mainboard has an 11 bit tag built on board so cachability of main memory is to 512MB.'

Now, what would really look nice is identical HSFs 😉...

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