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Hlafordlaes
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« on: May 30, 2008, 11:42:45 PM » |
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Just celebrating my recent eBay acquisition of 768MB of Corsair PC150 RAM. Gonna put it in an Abit VH6T with a 1.4GHz Tualatin and a 6800GT and dedicate the build to legacy OCing and gaming (DOS and 98SE). Mobo even has an ISA slot so I can stick in my ooold HPIB interface card and access my HP150 Touchscreen drives (have two HP150s that I promise one day I'll learn to program in ASM). I'll even be back on the Apollo Pro chipset I love to tweak... I just don't get as much fun from my newer Core 2 Duo, even if it runs circles around my old gear.
Aaahh, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, DOOM and The Duke shall ride again! (Yes, most can be done in a DOS box, but the sound is crappy, and some, like Soul Reaver I, hate XP)
A Happy Hlaf
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tino
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 12:51:27 AM » |
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That all sounded great until you mentioned the 6800GT, it takes all the fun out of it don't you think ;-P
On a more serious note, I did't realise SD ram went up to PC150. Sounds like your going to have fun with that system tho, old school is always better I find.
Looks at his collection of Socket A PC's and G4 that he is currently typing from.
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Hlafordlaes
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 01:01:52 AM » |
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Yeah, PC150 was a OCer's tool for all of 5 minutes between PC133 and the advent of DDR. My Abit VP6 (mothballed) seemed to scream at the limits my PC133 was placing on it. Though I love that board, Win98SE can't do dual cpus nor > 1 core, so I am going with a single slot 370.
The 6800GT has been flashed to Ultra speeds :lol:
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tartin
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2008, 01:29:24 AM » |
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Ah nostalgia, Hlafordlaes. I've still got two 1.2GHz Tualatin's going, "loaned-out" to a couple of nice ladies.  One's in a Tyan Tomcat i815T and the other is in a ASUS TUSL2-M, both with CAS2 PC133 SDRAM. Often thought about, but never tried, putting a 1.2GHz Celeron (Tualatin) in the ASUS TUSL2-M, and O/C'ing to 1.6GHz @ 133MHz FSB. I reckon it would have seriously embarrassed most of the P4's of the same era. |
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Hlafordlaes
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2008, 01:42:11 AM » |
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Ah nostalgia, Hlafordlaes.
I reckon it would have seriously embarrassed most of the P4's of the same era. That's a-what I'm a-shooting for. I dig up really old benchies and try to beat 'em by tweaking like a mad man. I do have a dual tuallie as well, apart from the dual PIII VP6, but once I finally landed a used board, upon testing it kept on losing the IDE drives on the merest whisper of an OC. Once upon a future time I plan to pull that one out (MSI Pro266TD Master-LR) again, since I had one niggly doubt. The two cpus were of the same frequency, cache, etc, and certified by Intel datasheets as a match in a dual socket board, but they are of different steppings. I have a third tuallie chip that matches one of the steppings, so a rebuild with those two might prove more stable. But, ahhh, yes, nostalgia! |
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MrkXCeL
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2008, 02:04:19 PM » |
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Hlafordlaes,
You might have some issues with that 6800GT.
I tried building a RIG like yours, the thing that sucked, it seems the 6800GT doesn't have any 2D acceleration, or has some bug with PIII chips or driver bug and causes win XP or Win2K to crawl.
As you drag windows. you can see them being drawn chunk by chunk, like running safe mode or no drivers at all and scrolling a web page, etc, not quite as bad at some stuff, but it's painful.
Anyway, I could never figure out a fix. I went back to Geforce2GTS. 3D on the 6800 was fine, just not 2D.
Let me know how it works for you. BTW, I had older PIIIs not Tualatins so maybe that had something to do with it.
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Hlafordlaes
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2008, 02:19:31 PM » |
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@MrkXcel,
I had that card in the VP6 and had no troubles with it under XP. Your case might have been the quality of drivers at the time of the build.
But the real can of worms is driver support under 98SE. Sure, there are legacy drivers around, but if I ever want to drop in my current 7-series card when I upgrade my main rig, I'll have a choice of exactly one modded driver that enables it (as well as the 8 series) under 98SE.
At any rate, the games I'll be installing were all playable with a Geforce 256 on an old Tyan PIII 800MHz, so I think the 6800GT ought to work out fine. I'll report back when I finally get around to the build.
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« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2008, 08:35:50 AM » |
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LMK. cuz the rig I built is sitting in my closet, I've let someone borrow the 6800GT in the meantime, but I can get it back.
Like I said, just let me know if the desktop feels responsive, I'll be using the rig for a bit of audio server, internet browser, and games, so I'd like to get 2D working decently.
It's cool that you've got no issues, cuz when I built the rig, I found a bunch of old forum threads about the same exact problem. Everyone pointed to the core not having any 2D functions within it.
Those threads didn't have solutions, at least at the time 6800GT came out and problems arose. I dunno, I swore I tried a half dozen nvidia drivers and nothing worked.
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