Re: LG "gh20lp20" super-multi - no CD audio in DOS
Posted on Today, 02:17
Does this apply to the last PATA models from other manufacturers too?
Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on Yesterday, 19:11
Absolutely. We ran NT4, and I think even going back, NT3.51 on Pentium machines. And NT wasn't fast in those versions either. It was just better stability, more features for the purpose of the machines, I suppose. Win2k was great, but even then, unless you had the best hardware of the day, it did …
Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on Yesterday, 13:45
Win2k shows memory usage around 67MB in task manager when booted clean to desktop and 61MB free. In general usage for housekeeping it is fast and smooth, as fast as Win98 and much more stable. This surprised me, but it's probably down to using an SSD with DMA enabled, which was not available in the …
Re: Best inexpensive Windows 98 CD-RW drive
Posted on 2024-05-24, 21:33
I actually put a PATA DVD-RW into my Win98/W2K dualbooter recently. The only thing it lacks that earlier CD-ROM drives had is the audio control. I loved having a headphone jack and volume control on the front of my oldschool CD-ROM drives. And... I guess that means you lose the audio for games like …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-24, 02:24
Does the Asrock 775i65G support Core2Duo? The website doesn't list them among supported processors, but the manual does... :thinking: Depends on the revision? I think Rev 3.0 is one of the few i865 boards that supports 45nm C2D/C2Qs, or at least those with 800/1066FSB. Isn't that the board that was …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-24, 00:17
Meanwhile I will continue hoarding decent 875P boards... yep, I'll bet my BX motherboards these will become the next defacto reto PC starting point for many in the coming years Are all i875 boards socket 478, or did some enterprising folks do an LGA775 i875 board? LGA775 i865 boards, or at least …
Re: IBM Aptiva 2144 won't boot from hard disk
Posted on 2024-05-23, 21:48
Did you do a fdisk /mbr?
Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.
Posted on 2024-05-23, 04:07
This is a good point and I'm not sure either! and with my PC in storage I can't check if I have the R or not. Although I slightly disagree that Win2k is a bad choice of OS. I dual boot Win98 and 2k on my slower P3 600 and only use 98 for games that don't work as 2k is so much more stable I have a …
Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.
Posted on 2024-05-22, 21:48
My goal with the system is to run Quake III Arena at 60+ FPS and if possible run UT2004 too. My OS would be Windows 2000. Quite honestly, that's the wrong machine. Why are you going into the sweet spot of 98SE, even DOS, machines (ISA, PIII, etc) to run Win2000 and try to play a game that is four …
Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.
Posted on 2024-05-22, 21:37
My best bet is to get a 733MHz CPU for it not to melt my wallet. 733MHz is going to be 133FSB, so that's a problem. You want 700 or 850MHz on 100MHz FSB. One other thing I want to raise that I don't know the answer to. Dell sold XPS Txxx systems with Katmai processors and XPS Txxxr systems with …
Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.
Posted on 2024-05-22, 21:35
You could however skip all of that palava and switch out the motherboard for a socket 370 dell motherboard, which has an Intel 815 chipset and is compatible with your computer's case and Dell-specific PSU. The two I can see come with decently fast 133mhz FSB CPUs and heatsinks. But then what do you …
Re: smallest computer that can run windows XP with supported hardware (especially video card?)
Posted on 2024-05-22, 21:32
If you want W98 support out of the box, you'll basically have to look for something Netburst based. Then forget power efficiency and cool running. In my experience, it's possible to get almost any W98 game running in XP too though. I went looking for 98SE Shuttle XPCs a while back, and... the …
Re: smallest computer that can run windows XP with supported hardware (especially video card?)
Posted on 2024-05-22, 01:40
You could try looking for Shuttle XPC units. Finding Win98-friendly ones is a challenge, but there should be a lot more XP-friendly models out there... try to find a later model one from the late 2000s... Edit: I just did a search on eBay and the first thing that turned up were Ivy Bridge units. …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-20, 16:10
Frankly, with the benefit of hindsight, I would argue that 2001 was a bad year for PC buying. If you had a PII/PIII from 1998 or so, you would have had a lot better options in 2002 - Athlon XP, Northwood, GeForce 4, etc. Then you keep that system with a few upgrades until 2006 and Conroe... (and …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-20, 13:35
AthlonXP was released in 2001 so a P4 was not the best PC you could buy in 2001.. Depends on the month... and Wikipedia has the Athlon XP as released in October, 2001, so that's 6 months after this magazine's publication. In October 2001 your Intel choice would have been a Willamette s. 478 1.9 or …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-20, 13:04
Which sound card? Also which magazine thought a Williamette S423 with RDRAM was the best system? :D Some Hercules thing, I think it was, with a crazy external breakout box. (And I call it a "crazy external breakout box" as someone who owned an Audigy Platinum eX at the time... this thing is much …
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-20, 11:24
Linus did a Pentium 4 video. It's over, bros. Not really. He did a 'let's dig up what a magazine said was the best system 23 years ago and build it' build, not an ultimate retro anything. And it looks like he landed at a 1.8GHz Willamette socket 423 with 512 megs of RDRAM. Odd place to land if you …
Re: Pentium3 to look for?
Posted on 2024-05-19, 19:53
Truth be told, every board is gonna go upwards of $100+. People caught on that their dusty mid-late 90s PC may be worth $$$ and it's only gonna get worse. Retrocomputing seems to be everywhere now... e.g. Linus Tech Tips on YouTube, which normally talks about new stuff, just did a video today about …
Re: Pentium3 to look for?
Posted on 2024-05-19, 16:39
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- …
Re: Pentium3 to look for?
Posted on 2024-05-19, 12:56
As for the ASUSa P2B-AE you mention: I don't like it at all. It is from a Sony Viao, the documentation is not available and there are no BIOS updates. Without the original case you would have to guess the front panel IO. And no ISA... (Isn't ISA a main reason to go 440BX/Slot 1 rather than, say, …
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