TheMobRules wrote on 2024-10-24, 04:41:

The problem with cards like the Viper is that they're dog slow on DOS (on VGA mode which most games use at least, not sure about SVGA/high-res) since the OTI chip is used instead of the Weitek for that. Not just slow but like crappy ISA VGA slow. The primary purpose of that card is as a Windows GUI accelerator.

For 1993, a Paradise WD90C33 or Tseng ET4000/W32 are miles ahead in terms of speed and compatibility when it comes to DOS games.

I had one in a 486 DX2-66, and it was not great in DOS VGA. In DOS SVGA modes it was super fast, the CPU was just lacking the grunt needed to render at 640x480. FMV games like Under A Killing Moon and Wing Commander IV worked great until the gameplay started up, though!

2006 called, asked if I wanted a New Old Stock case for $18... couldn't say no.

Welp, so much for me trying to get OPPainter's settings to work on my KG7-RAID 🤣.
I likely need some VERY GOOD RAM sticks, as it seems not even switching to 2GB worth of ADATA Vitesta + Corsair ValueRAM (both which were absolute ROCK SOLID on two NF7 boards).

That, or I really have no idea why they don't work. The only thing that has ever changed since I found the guide was switching from a 100FSB Athlon 1GHz to a 133FSB Athlon 1.13GHz.

I think you want something like Samsung TCC3 or TCCD for these, what nForce preferred was different somehow to what Via and everything else AMD liked. That's why it's not very well known that these boards will run fast, they came out along with the first of the DDR RAM which was DDR200 really, and overclocked at 266, so going much harder on it wasn't going to end well... then when everyone had moved onto the new shiny there were a few guys messing around with much better RAM in them and coming up with these tricks.

edit: you might want to look at BIOS dates too, something around the time of that OC Workbench post should be okay, but IDK what they might have updated to break it after. Though I must have been running a fairly late one on my KG7 lite, because I was doing it with a thoroughbred.

I have about ONE release higher than the one used in the OCW post - mine POSTs with the 5W string. I have yet to update to the latest.

I'm unable to use a T-Bred though, due to XPs requring registered ECC RAM at all costs (or so I was told by this review of the board ) which I currently can't get.

I also wonder if I should ditch the GF4 Ti4200 and maybe switch to a Radeon 9600 or heck, even 9700 Pro.

I'm reading that as saying he thinks it's a weird fault with his example of the board, because it's not happening for anyone else.

New stuff i bought this october:

Expertdata 4044
Asus PVI-486sp3
Not sgure.. cirrus logic graphic card.

Antieon wrote on 2024-10-24, 17:32:

2006 called, asked if I wanted a New Old Stock case for $18... couldn't say no.

Neat. Didn't know NZXT had been around since that long.

Nexxen wrote on 2024-10-23, 21:06:

Complete 939 system for 10€
Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and 4 gigs of ram.

Absolute steal. You got the fastest x2 cpu for the platform. What board was it?

G-X wrote on 2024-10-25, 10:40:

Nexxen wrote on 2024-10-23, 21:06:

Complete 939 system for 10€
Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and 4 gigs of ram.

Absolute steal. You got the fastest x2 cpu for the platform. What board was it?

ASUS A8N5X -- not great.
110W for this cpu, but I have plenty of heat pipes to make it work flawlessly.
PSU is a no brand with a 20 to 24 adapter "waiting to blow up" and "my soul weights more than this" price bracket.

Got this beautiful Slo1 board, a Soyo SY-6BA+ III which should be one hell of an overclocking board if all the reviews are to be believed.

Likely paid too much for it but I doubt Ill ever have another slot 1 board with this many options for Overclocking. Comes with a Slotket and CPU, I think its a 466 Mendicino which I will change to a nice 600E Coppermine and likely a new Slotket since IIRC MS6905 Ver 1.1 doesn't support Coppermine. (I have a 800 I can try as well thats also 100FSB)

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-10-25, 14:18:

Got this beautiful Slo1 board, a Soyo SY-6BA+ III which should be one hell of an overclocking board if all the reviews are to be […]
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Got this beautiful Slo1 board, a Soyo SY-6BA+ III which should be one hell of an overclocking board if all the reviews are to be believed.

Likely paid too much for it but I doubt Ill ever have another slot 1 board with this many options for Overclocking. Comes with a Slotket and CPU, I think its a 466 Mendicino which I will change to a nice 600E Coppermine and likely a new Slotket since IIRC MS6905 Ver 1.1 doesn't support Coppermine. (I have a 800 I can try as well thats also 100FSB)

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just corious how much was that board ?

ciornyi wrote on 2024-10-25, 15:12:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-10-25, 14:18:

Got this beautiful Slo1 board, a Soyo SY-6BA+ III which should be one hell of an overclocking board if all the reviews are to be […]
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Got this beautiful Slo1 board, a Soyo SY-6BA+ III which should be one hell of an overclocking board if all the reviews are to be believed.

Likely paid too much for it but I doubt Ill ever have another slot 1 board with this many options for Overclocking. Comes with a Slotket and CPU, I think its a 466 Mendicino which I will change to a nice 600E Coppermine and likely a new Slotket since IIRC MS6905 Ver 1.1 doesn't support Coppermine. (I have a 800 I can try as well thats also 100FSB)

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just corious how much was that board ?

$300 AUD which is like ~200 USD.

Was expecting it to go for more as its not a common board.

Purchased today a batch of two pre Pentium CPUs, it is an AMD 486DX4-100, a very common CPU at the time, it was the economical alternative to the Intel DX4s, the 75 also exists in other frequencies, a strange 90, and the fast from 120 MHz, the subsequent 133, instead changed their name (5X86), in that period the 486DX4 were AMD's flagship CPUs, later they were abandoned, giving way to the K5 and K6, which were very different from the Intel CPUs, although in their own way, they were quite efficient on integers.
The other CPU is an AMD 386DX-33, this one in the early 90s cost relatively little, and had good success, with this CPU the 33 MHz speed was exceeded for the first time, a 40 MHz version was released, a frequency that Intel he never supported, who knows why???

By 1990, Intel was about done developing 386, and had the idea that they could make people buy a "punching downward" 486 at 20 or even 16 Mhz. Because we rarely see those, you can guess how that went. AMD managed to create enough FUD about 486sx25 performance to sell ppl 386-40s instead.

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Antieon wrote on 2024-10-24, 17:32:

2006 called, asked if I wanted a New Old Stock case for $18... couldn't say no.

Neat. Didn't know NZXT had been around since that long.

Nexxen wrote on 2024-10-23, 21:06:

Complete 939 system for 10€
Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and 4 gigs of ram.

Absolute steal. You got the fastest x2 cpu for the platform. What board was it?

NZXT opened in early 2004. They had some nice cases even way back then.

I got another laptop computer 😀 A Samsung SENS Pro 500 - a pretty nice Pentium laptop that's fairly equivalent to the Toshiba 430CDT, except it's got L2 cache and is completely passively cooled. The passive cooling appears to not be the best idea since the laptop gets REALLY toasty from prolonged use, which would be why it's got flip-down legs at the back to raise it up.
It was faulty but it was a nice fault to fix with just a bad LCD cable connection. It looks like the main NiMH battery leaked long before I got it but it was removed and the PCB for the battery connector is separate from the main PCB so it's still in great condition.

The BIOS battery was a CR2032 hidden underneath the power board and getting the palm rest off was kinda funny. The laptop is designed in such a way that you have to disassemble and remove the screen before you can get the palm-rest off, yikes. But the BIOS battery is now replaced with a fresh CR2032 spot welded onto the original tabs / cable.
Then the CD-ROM drive didn't work, wouldn't spin but that was resolved simply by opening up the back of the drive and re-seating the ribbon connectors.

Also, I got a slotket that's supposed to be coppermine capable. I was pretty annoyed when I got it because I overpaid and instead of coming with the P3 in the pictures and an Intel heatsink, it came with a cooler master heatsink and a Celeron 633... But then I spotted the original paperwork in the box... It's a 370SPD Rev 1.0 CPU Card and that confirms it's suitable for coppermine. Probably not one that Intel would've approved, probably put some voltages out of spec idk. I wanted it because I got a Pentium III 1GHz SL5QV CPU but don't want to waste my MS6905 slotket on it.

Oh! AND what I think is a sealed original 3DFX Voodoo II SLI Cable. Looking forward to testing it 😀

BTW, did you guys know that someone in the US on the bay is selling 70x SL5QV Pentium III 1GHz 100FSB CPUs for $20 each? I'm on the wrong continent for it to be worth it to me but it's nice to see such a cool CPU easily available once more.

Yup 20 USD with a 70 USD shipping charge for international ...yeah thats a hard pass.

There is an alternative seller that is selling SL5QJ Intel Pentium III 1Ghz CPUs for $11 USD that dont have the outrageous international shipping costs, they are Coppermine-T CPUs so they do require a 133FSB.

Finally! Got myself an x850XT PE
It took so long to find one..... PCIE, not AGP, but happy nevertheless.
Crossing fingers it works....

Wes1262 wrote on 2024-10-26, 10:33:

Finally! Got myself an x850XT PE
It took so long to find one..... PCIE, not AGP, but happy nevertheless.
Crossing fingers it works....

hrmmm has dead in the image file name ...not a good omen 🤣

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-10-26, 11:36:

Wes1262 wrote on 2024-10-26, 10:33:

Finally! Got myself an x850XT PE
It took so long to find one..... PCIE, not AGP, but happy nevertheless.
Crossing fingers it works....

hrmmm has dead in the image file name ...not a good omen 🤣

Oh sh...... 🤣

It might be actually damaged. The PCI bracket plate seems very distant from the fan exhaust