xplus93 wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

Gave an IBM ThinkPad T42 to my cousin as a birthday present. Loaded it up with a bunch of games he loves, eg. Sims 2, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc. He's very happy. Nice XP gaming laptop

Sims 2? I thought the T42 had a radeon 7500 at best.

Thinkwiki say they could have a 9600

xplus93 wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

Gave an IBM ThinkPad T42 to my cousin as a birthday present. Loaded it up with a bunch of games he loves, eg. Sims 2, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc. He's very happy. Nice XP gaming laptop

Sims 2? I thought the T42 had a radeon 7500 at best.

Nah, mine has a 9600 with 64MB video RAM

oeuvre wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

Gave an IBM ThinkPad T42 to my cousin as a birthday present. Loaded it up with a bunch of games he loves, eg. Sims 2, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc. He's very happy. Nice XP gaming laptop

Sims 2? I thought the T42 had a radeon 7500 at best.

Nah, mine has a 9600 with 64MB video RAM

The T42P can even have a 9700 IIRC.

Delidded an K6-200. No observable improvement in terms of overclocking.

lazibayer wrote:

Delidded an K6-200. No observable improvement in terms of overclocking.

Just now, I realise that a delidded K6 looks industrial and mean. Good work by the way. 😀

Successfully re-capped an Enermax EG365P PSU. First PSU I've ever re-capped. Needless to say, it was a tense moment turning on the power for the first time when I had finished and re-assembled everything! I brought everything outside just in case, heh. All seems to be good so far. Will be using this PSU in a Socket A build that is almost complete (waiting on just one last thing to arrive).

lazibayer wrote:

Delidded an K6-200. No observable improvement in terms of overclocking.

Nice try, at least!

brostenen wrote:

Just now, I realise that a delidded K6 looks industrial and mean. Good work by the way. 😀

clueless1 wrote:

Nice try, at least!

Haha I was just bored and it seems that there ain't many pictures about K6 delidding. Apparently K6 has more glued area than K6-2.
I was surprised by how big the die is.

lazibayer wrote:

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brostenen wrote:

Just now, I realise that a delidded K6 looks industrial and mean. Good work by the way. 😀

clueless1 wrote:

Nice try, at least!

Haha I was just bored and it seems that there ain't many pictures about K6 delidding. Apparently K6 has more glued area than K6-2.
I was surprised by how big the die is.

IDK, I like the look of K6 processors. Otherwise they look like the socket A trash that came afterwards and started more than a few house fires,

oeuvre wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

Gave an IBM ThinkPad T42 to my cousin as a birthday present. Loaded it up with a bunch of games he loves, eg. Sims 2, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc. He's very happy. Nice XP gaming laptop

Sims 2? I thought the T42 had a radeon 7500 at best.

Nah, mine has a 9600 with 64MB video RAM

My R40 has a 7500 in it that has 16MB video RAM and it does play Medal of Honor Allied Assault without issues, and some of the other games do play, but not very well, and for the system, it's not bad at all. It just needs a RAM upgrade to 1GB since XP runs slow, and 98SE doesn't seem to do dual-band wireless that the laptop has. I even have a Slot-loading DVD burner in the system.

I spent ages last night figuring out why I couldn't get Tomb Raider to work with the 3dfx patch on my Voodoo 3000. Turns out the disc needs to be in the primary disc drive (but only with the 3dfx patch!).

Working with old systems is such a maze sometimes, but I love it.

Decided to start allocating my high-end card into their new homes.

My 2xPPro 200/1M system got:
Voodoo2 8MB
Adaptec PCI SCSI

My "PII" system (PIII-700) got:
Voodoo2 12MB
Diamond Monster Sound
RealMagic MPEG2
GF2-Pro

and my PIII system got it's Ti500 back

Finished installing games on the DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 CF card in my P133 system. Tomb Raider looks great with the Voodoo patch, wish I'd been able to afford one at the time when they came out.

Also decided to turn my old Compaq Armada M700 into a retro gaming laptop with a fresh install of Win98SE, after realising it's either the same or better spec wise than the desktop system I took to university in 1998 (PIII-450, BX chipset, 8mb Rage Mobility, 320mb RAM, 120gb HD, DVD ROM). It was running very smoothly with all the right drivers installed, but then I installed Unofficial SP3 from Majorgeeks and suddenly it took ages to boot. Given that it's not going anywhere near the internet I've decided to go with vanilla 98SE, DX7 and the latest USB mass storage drivers. From searching this forum I gather that I may run into difficulties with audio on DOS games, but seems it can be made to work.

Replaced two caps from a really badly treated Aztech AU8820 card (were completely missing, only the legs were there) and one from a STB Voodoo2 12MB. Set up quickly an Asus P2B with an SL2WB 450MHz for testing. Success 🤣

I was working my ass off to end Via C3 vs Via C7 at equal clocks comparision in more or less modern benchmarks, and with discrete graphics. Spoiler alert: C7 isn't always faster 😉

EDIT:

Little spoiler:

C3 doesn't support SSE2 and SSE3 so there are no results.

For comparision, 20% higher clocked Celerons:

Tualatin working in legacy x86 mode is faster than VIA C7 using SSE3... I know, I know, they are not supposed to do heavy work but still 🤣

Installing Windows 95C on my Pavilion N3350 and trying to figure out how to disable the display stretching forever on the laptop since games and stuff don't look good stretched out on the 12.1" display.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Installing Windows 95C on my Pavilion N3350 and trying to figure out how to disable the display stretching forever on the laptop since games and stuff don't look good stretched out on the 12.1" display.

It's usually an Fn combo that does it. At least it is on my Dell Latiudes.

xplus93 wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

Installing Windows 95C on my Pavilion N3350 and trying to figure out how to disable the display stretching forever on the laptop since games and stuff don't look good stretched out on the 12.1" display.

It's usually an Fn combo that does it. At least it is on my Dell Latiudes.

The only Fn keys are the numeric keypads, display contrast, volume, standby, suspend, HDD, switch display, and scroll lock.

xplus93 wrote:

lazibayer wrote:

Haha I was just bored and it seems that there ain't many pictures about K6 delidding. Apparently K6 has more glued area than K6- […]
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brostenen wrote:

Just now, I realise that a delidded K6 looks industrial and mean. Good work by the way. 😀

clueless1 wrote:

Nice try, at least!

Haha I was just bored and it seems that there ain't many pictures about K6 delidding. Apparently K6 has more glued area than K6-2.
I was surprised by how big the die is.

IDK, I like the look of K6 processors. Otherwise they look like the socket A trash that came afterwards and started more than a few house fires,

What year is it? Still this nonsense?

bjwil1991 wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

Installing Windows 95C on my Pavilion N3350 and trying to figure out how to disable the display stretching forever on the laptop since games and stuff don't look good stretched out on the 12.1" display.

It's usually an Fn combo that does it. At least it is on my Dell Latiudes.

The only Fn keys are the numeric keypads, display contrast, volume, standby, suspend, HDD, switch display, and scroll lock.

Have you checked the BIOS setup to see if there's a setting to disable display scaling? I remember old Toshiba laptops having that option so it's worth a shot to check.