Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

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Sphere478 wrote on Today, 02:18: I found a 775 to 478 adapter 🤔 Think this could help make some records? A socket 478 in an LGA775 board? How would that challenge LGA775 Netburst cpus at 4+ ghz? 🤔

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Re: 775 Xeon fun

Posted on 2024-05-23, 07:43

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chinny22 wrote on 2024-05-23, 07:27: As the Xeon 5xxx family has SMP capability, you now need to wire up a 2nd socket somehow 😉 I'm pretty sure, that of all users here, Sphere478 would be one to take that challenge 🤣

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Re: Thinkpad, A Better Place to Think.

Posted on 2024-05-23, 05:57

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I still have the T43, I used for work in my storage somewhere ... 😀 It was cool as it had a dedicated graphics card. Remember playing Colin McRae Rally 2 on it back in the day ... [Edit] I think that was the one, I succesfully baked back in the day, to get the GPU working again ...

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Re: Budget King AMD-K6 with 3DFX Voodoo Banshee

Posted on 2024-05-22, 21:06

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From what I recall, the Celeron 300A was the top-runner when it come to price/performance for 1998. Especially clocked at 450 😎 but was it out in 98? Remember buying one with an ABiT BH6 some time in 99 🤔 maybe I just wasn't a first mover :lol: [Edit]: according to Wikipedia, the Mendocino core …

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

Posted on 2024-05-21, 18:15

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And just because I've had tons of problems with old dodgy spinning rust as well, I'm giving the old Deathstar the full treatment first

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

Posted on 2024-05-21, 18:12

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Just trying to build a P233MMX for some kicks and giggles as a Voodoo rig for a retro party. Still not sure if 95OSR2.1 is the right choice over W98SE, albeit probably more period correct? 20gig Deathstar, with 2 2gig partitions for cd copies, I can't handle installing from a dodgy disk in an old …

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 20:02

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If it helps, these were the prices in RON I paid for most of my BX boards. - ABIT BP6 + 2x Celeron 333- 422 RON - ABIT BE6-II - 225 RON - Soyo 6BA+IV - 20 RON - LuckyTech P6BX2 + 700MHz P3 on Slotket - free - FSC D1107 systemboard - free - ASUS P2B - 200RON Was that recent? It's like US$100 for the …

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Re: Show me your testbench

Posted on 2024-05-20, 19:56

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Decided to finally build myself a test bench platform. While putting components directly on my workbench was fine, it definitely wasn't optimal for space. I'm hoping to stack the PSU and drives underneath the motherboard will give me more space to work with. Nice work. Wish I had the tools (who am …

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 05:49

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Thank you guys. The motherboard issues you mention feel a tad discouraging, which is a bit of a shame, since the case is in really good shape and not yellowed at all. For 100$ (or 20$ more) I could get this one instead: https://www.olx.pl/d/oferta/pentium-iii-800mhz-512mb-ram-20gb-hdd-sb-128-pci- …

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

Posted on 2024-05-19, 13:55

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Migrated my Tualatin/440BX rig to my 11y old SandyBridge case. I need to make some space and could not throw nice CM Silencio case away. It still has all relevant legacy bays. Everything fit perfectly except MB power arrangement since it uses modern bottom PSU layout and P3B-F MB ATX power …

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-19, 11:15

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Yuri_Yslin wrote on 2024-05-19, 10:39: Thank you, that's very helpful. The one I noticed has a ASUSa P2B-AE board, and 128 gigs of RAM. Looking good? Must be 128 megs 😉

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-19, 11:14

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Katmai went all the way to 600 MHz, so up to 600, it may be either Katmai or Coppermine, with the latter being preferred in my opinion. Also Coppermine goes all the way down to 500, so the only ones to be certain of, are the 450 -> Katmai and 650+ -> Coppermine

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Re: 6x DVD drive okay for gaming?

Posted on 2024-05-17, 05:46

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Probably a 6x DVD drive will read CDs faster than 6x, I would guess, but I might be wrong. That said, I wouldn't want a too fast CD-ROM drive for games, as the spin-up time often tends to be a bigger annoyance than actual read speeds. And oh, the noise of those 52x CD drives are excruciating 🤣

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2024-05-16, 14:33

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magicmanred wrote on 2024-05-15, 19:39: Optical: Creative CD5230E 52X CD-ROM & Creative RW8438E 32X CD-RW Floppy: Epson SD-800 Combo 5.25 & 3.5 Floppy drive Other Disk Drives: Iomega Zip 100MB IDE & Iomega Jaz 1GB SCSI Drive That's just awesome looking overkill! 😎

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Re: 386 Board RAM type

Posted on 2024-05-15, 07:52

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Bringing this back to life. How did you go with the RAM? I just bought a 386 system that appears to have same motherboard. Do you know what model is it? Is the manual you found correct? Link? I want to expans the ram, currently has 4x1mb so will try to source some SIPP modules. I stumbled across …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2024-05-13, 12:29

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Oh, there are soooo many places that could go wrong ... If I am not wrong, it's carbon coated connectors on the PCB? Be careful with those. There could also easy be a break just next to that metal bar, where it goes from being full flexible to being held rigid by the bar ...

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

Posted on 2024-05-13, 11:36

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I'm sure the difference between a 2.8 512/533 P4 and a 3.06 512/533 CPU isn't much, but I wanted to max out the CPU in my P4 Win98 system. It seems that the 2.8 GHz CPU that I wanted to replace with the 3.06 is the highest speed CPU this very basic motherboard can use. I was hoping that the Ebay …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2024-05-13, 11:27

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The original gateway keyboard (not in picture) is broken, basically the entire row of alpha keys starting with A do not register, as well as a couple in other rows. It looks kinda dingy so I will strip it down to clean the keys and circuit membrane/PCB, and hopefully that might repair it as well. …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 22:05

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So, I ran a Slot-1 Celeron on an Abit BH6. A 300A@464, until upgrading it to a 600 MHz Coppermine Celeron in a slotket, running 900. 1004 MHz unfortunately wasn't stable. As for dual Celerons, I had an Abit BP6, which was just that. Ran it for a while with 366s at 550. Actually I ran it today (well, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-08, 12:50

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BetaC wrote on 2024-05-08, 05:22: Today I grabbed two things. First was a cute little Blue Lightning. IMG_3394.jpg Has it been remarked or something?

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