I received the Gigabyte Z370 HD3P I bought as a potential vanilla Windows 2000 retro rocket (and to multi-boot XP, Vista, and 7). I only had time to set up the board on a test bench for a quick test with an i5-8400 and 8GB of DDR4. For those interested in using newer Gigabyte boards with Windows 2000, I can confirm that this board has a MPS implementation compatible with Windows 2000.

Unfortunately, Windows 2000 didn't detect any of the PCI or PCIE devices in the expansion slots on the first boot (with the exception of the video card) , just like my experience with an Asus H310-Plus board. I kind of expected this since I haven't tweaked the UEFI settings yet. I also need to try adding a NVMe drive which allowed Windows 2000 to detect peripherals on my H310 board.

I also messed up the device detection on my Windows 2000 install and didn't set up AHCI controller support correctly. Now the drive won't boot. I'll need to re-image the drive and prep it for MPS and generic AHCI before doing more testing.

clownwolf wrote on Yesterday, 10:11:

Got a Gainbery P120 Upgrade CPU for socket 4. While I am happy to have it, there's not much use-case for retro computing. In my opinion the point of using a Socket 4 is to use the P60 or P66 after all.

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you said that like you didnt want to give "your existing pentium 60/66 mhz system advanced power and performance" 😀

Still, it is interesting and i guess i couldn't resist comparing speeds with various benchmarks just to see

It's from an interesting time, when getting some small increase in cpu speed could yield a big proportional difference in experience while avoiding buying a new pc

gerry wrote on Yesterday, 14:21:

you said that like you didnt want to give "your existing pentium 60/66 mhz system advanced power and performance" :) […]
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clownwolf wrote on Yesterday, 10:11:

Got a Gainbery P120 Upgrade CPU for socket 4. While I am happy to have it, there's not much use-case for retro computing. In my opinion the point of using a Socket 4 is to use the P60 or P66 after all.

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you said that like you didnt want to give "your existing pentium 60/66 mhz system advanced power and performance" 😀

Still, it is interesting and i guess i couldn't resist comparing speeds with various benchmarks just to see

It's from an interesting time, when getting some small increase in cpu speed could yield a big proportional difference in experience while avoiding buying a new pc

They did have a benchmark page... https://web.archive.org/web/19961105030738/ht … om/686bench.htm

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-05-22, 21:46:

Hmmm I'm confused becuase unless im reading the data sheet wrong these are 4MB chips x 8 on the card for a total of 32MB's of ram.

Whoops! Not sure why I thought it was a 64MB card... 🤦 Sorry for the incorrect information.

Bought a box of junk at a garage sale. This was in the box:

I also grabbed this guy:

It had all the parts, so I figured it would be fun. It takes full-size VHS, so I can actually play with this one if it works.

PD2JK wrote on Yesterday, 11:14:

clownwolf wrote on Yesterday, 10:11:

Got a Gainbery P120 Upgrade CPU for socket 4. While I am happy to have it, there's not much use-case for retro computing. In my opinion the point of using a Socket 4 is to use the P60 or P66 after all.

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It's nevertheless an interesting piece of hardware which I've never heard of. Did they make their own core or is it some Cyrix/AMD/you-name-it deriative?
And is it about twice as fast compared to the first gen Pentium?

gerry wrote on Yesterday, 14:21:

you said that like you didnt want to give "your existing pentium 60/66 mhz system advanced power and performance" :) […]
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clownwolf wrote on Yesterday, 10:11:

Got a Gainbery P120 Upgrade CPU for socket 4. While I am happy to have it, there's not much use-case for retro computing. In my opinion the point of using a Socket 4 is to use the P60 or P66 after all.

The attachment 20250523_025553.jpg is no longer available

you said that like you didnt want to give "your existing pentium 60/66 mhz system advanced power and performance" 😀

Still, it is interesting and i guess i couldn't resist comparing speeds with various benchmarks just to see

It's from an interesting time, when getting some small increase in cpu speed could yield a big proportional difference in experience while avoiding buying a new pc

I'll test the P60, P66 and P120 upgrade now and post the results on a new thread.

Actually I didnt need to test the P60 or P66, System Information already has P66 as a reference score. Also, this looks to be an actual P120 CPU they used. But cant be too sure unless I take the heatsink off, which is secured firmly.

Results show the Gainbery P120 upgrade as 80% faster than the P66 as per SysInfo 8.0, and a 25 FPS average on Doom Max Details Quake.

EDIT: I tried running tests again, buy SysInfo 8.0 no longer works. I am getting divide overflow error. I added a new screenshot for Speedsys 4.78 instead.

SysInfo 8.0

SysInfo 8.0

Doom Max Details Quake

Batman's Revenge Socket 4 Motherboard

Speedsys 4.78

My purchased arrived this week after a very long searching and fighting.
It this guy:

It work fine for both midi and pcm audio, i'm playing around with its mixer.

Probably the sound card with the biggest chips ever.