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Reply 300 of 311, by luckybob

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Well, the 5500 isn't really an agp board if you dig into it. It's closer to a 66mhz pci video card with an agp connector

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 301 of 311, by Socket3

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feipoa wrote on 2012-07-13, 00:08:
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VIA couldn't even get the basics right. I can only imagine how shitty one of their "server" chipsets must be.

That is my first thought as well, but I still have a glimmer of hope. Has anyone had ANY experience with the VIA Apollo Pro 266T chipset?

I don't have any dual tualatin boards, but I do have a Chaintech 6VJD Apollo Pro 266T and I'm very happy with it. I've never encountered any stability or compatibility issues, but my builds are very run-of-the-mill so keep that in mind. My setup has a 1.4GHz tualatin, 256MB of DDR400 running at 266MHz, an 80GB IDE Maxtor Diamondmax HDD, a Palit Geforce 3 Ti200, an Aureal Vortex 2 sound card and one 12MB Diamond Voodoo 2. It runs windows 98se, has loads of games installed, and so far it's run everything flawlessly. It also has a 3com PCI lan card but I's disabled, and I haven't had the PC on a network for over 2 years. I still pull it out from time to time when setting up a lan party, and it's served as my main win98 gaming PC from 2015 to 2016.

Performance-wise it's on par with my other Tualatin build which is based around an Abit ST6.

Reply 302 of 311, by MadYoshi

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Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the sockel 370 and the Apollo chipset with a Pentium III-S no attention. For my ASUS CUV266-DLS i can say, the AGP performance is normal.

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Reply 303 of 311, by Meatball

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MadYoshi wrote on 2023-01-19, 22:39:
Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the so […]
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Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the sockel 370 and the Apollo chipset with a Pentium III-S no attention. For my ASUS CUV266-DLS i can say, the AGP performance is normal.

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Now that is a nice, impressive, looking interior!

Reply 304 of 311, by Sphere478

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Seconded, very nice! Impressed!

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Reply 305 of 311, by Standard Def Steve

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MadYoshi wrote on 2023-01-19, 22:39:
Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the so […]
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Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the sockel 370 and the Apollo chipset with a Pentium III-S no attention. For my ASUS CUV266-DLS i can say, the AGP performance is normal.

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Holy hell dude! You beat the PIII-S 3DMark01 score I've been bragging about for years, and at stock CPU clocks to boot!
Yep, 266T is the only VIA P3 chipset with up to par AGP.

P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium.
Tualatin: PIII-S @ 1628MHz | QDI Advance 12T | 2GB DDR-310 | 6800GT | X-Fi | 500GB HDD | 3DMark01: 14,059
Dothan: PM @ 2.9GHz | MSI Speedster FA4 | 2GB DDR2-580 | GTX 750Ti | X-Fi | 500GB SSD | 3DMark01: 43,190

Reply 306 of 311, by sirotkaslo

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MadYoshi wrote on 2023-01-19, 22:39:
Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the so […]
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Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the sockel 370 and the Apollo chipset with a Pentium III-S no attention. For my ASUS CUV266-DLS i can say, the AGP performance is normal.

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Nice build! Mind telling me which CPU coolers you are using there? MSI Pro266TD's got a really awkward socket positions so i'm kinda limited at what I can use. I have tested it with my GF4 yesterday and it also behaved as expected.
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As you can see, V5 goes perfect with it.

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Reply 307 of 311, by MadYoshi

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sirotkaslo wrote on 2023-01-20, 06:55:

Mind telling me which CPU coolers you are using there?

This are Cooler Master HHC-L61. I can also recommend Cooljag JAC 102C.

The lovely MSI Pro266TD. In my opinion, the Bios on it, is more fully developed.

Reply 309 of 311, by Mamba

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I am playing around a Supermicro 370DLE.
Got two LinLin and a pair of SL5XL.
No AGP for me so I am using a PCIe to PCI adapter (I would love a PCIe to PCI-X one… Anyone??).
Using a GTS450 LP card for it has external power, so power delivery of pci slot is not an issue.
It works, but bandwith is pcie x1 and 3D Mark result is showing (6700 points)

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Reply 310 of 311, by Skorbin

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Actually your GTS450 is running at a slightly slower speed: PCIe 1.0 x1 already can do 2,5 Gbit/s, while the Adapter probably could use maximum 66MHz/32 bit from the PCI-X bus, in which case it would be limited to 2,133 Gbit.
But this is still way better than my HD5450 PCI in my TYAN S2505t, as the PCI bus there runs at 33 MHz and the graphics card shares the bus with all other PCI components.
Anyhow, my system managed to get 6700 3DMarks in 2001 SE as well, so I assume that your adapter actually uses 32 bit as your graphics card should be way stronger than mine.
But I think that my system will be getting noticibly slowdowns if there is a lot of PCI activity in parallel (network card, harddisk access, etc).

Reply 311 of 311, by Mamba

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Skorbin wrote on 2023-05-31, 12:40:
Actually your GTS450 is running at a slightly slower speed: PCIe 1.0 x1 already can do 2,5 Gbit/s, while the Adapter probably co […]
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Actually your GTS450 is running at a slightly slower speed: PCIe 1.0 x1 already can do 2,5 Gbit/s, while the Adapter probably could use maximum 66MHz/32 bit from the PCI-X bus, in which case it would be limited to 2,133 Gbit.
But this is still way better than my HD5450 PCI in my TYAN S2505t, as the PCI bus there runs at 33 MHz and the graphics card shares the bus with all other PCI components.
Anyhow, my system managed to get 6700 3DMarks in 2001 SE as well, so I assume that your adapter actually uses 32 bit as your graphics card should be way stronger than mine.
But I think that my system will be getting noticibly slowdowns if there is a lot of PCI activity in parallel (network card, harddisk access, etc).

Nah… It was a bad bridge I was using.
Watch this:

A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin