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^^ Wonder if that utility is what ended up becoming ClockGen, or vice versa - a little software tool that would let you mess with CPU/RAM overclock in Windows to test stability, instead of constantly tweaking BIOS > save > test > tweak again > save > test etc...
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BOOTY-ADE posted:^^ Wonder if that utility is what ended up becoming ClockGen, or vice versa - a little software tool that would let you mess with CPU/RAM overclock in Windows to test stability, instead of constantly tweaking BIOS > save > test > tweak again > save > test etc... It was called cheepomemtweak lol.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:3.8 ghz, but they they expected to reach 10 ghz. if that had happened, everything would have been ok. a 10 GHz P4 actually would have been pretty competitive, even with the horrible pipeline bubbles and poo poo. with enough liquid nitrogen they hit 7, maybe 8, don't remember 
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Wild EEPROM posted:this is the perfect computer to install dos on, then upgrade to 3.1, then upgrade to 95, then upgrade to 98, then upgrade to 98 se, then upgrade to me, then upgrade to 2000, then upgrade to xp. iirc winME is a dead-end that can't be upgraded out of
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Bloody posted:iirc winME is a dead-end that can't be upgraded out of hosed up and massive lols if true
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you can do 98/me to xp, if you want to go to 2000 first then you have to go from 98
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Bloody posted:iirc winME is a dead-end that can't be upgraded out of
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Bloody posted:iirc winME is a dead-end that can't be upgraded out of no, i used winme as the base for my xp upgrade disc
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Aug 29, 2016 19:40
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loving K7S5A and FCKGW go hand in hand....  True baller AMD box would be an Asus nForce2 with an Athlon XP.
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Aug 29, 2016 22:14
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with a thermoengine on top, guaranteed to break a corner off the die
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pretty sure dad bought a win2k upgrade disk for our ME 1ghz pent 3, but yeah, didn't work. ME is missing heaps of stuff that 2000 and XP ended up keeping - mostly MS-DOS compatibility stuff iirc but probably more
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krooj posted:loving K7S5A and FCKGW go hand in hand.... no. abit nf7-s with either a 2500+ barton or a 2600+ mobile barton. getting kinda far removed from y2k box tho
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axp1700m clocked to gently caress  after the 2000 build we can do the "peak counterstrike 1.3 rig"
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i tried loading 1.5 off an old backup a while ago and despite the won network having shutdown over a decade prior i pinged some servers and played against 2 people 
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yellow borders posted:i tried loading 1.5 off an old backup a while ago and despite the won network having shutdown over a decade prior i pinged some servers and played against 2 people Lmao holy moly
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yellow borders posted:i tried loading 1.5 off an old backup a while ago and despite the won network having shutdown over a decade prior i pinged some servers and played against 2 people how did you find the server if won was not working? were they cached?
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Raluek posted:no. abit nf7-s with either a 2500+ barton or a 2600+ mobile barton. getting kinda far removed from y2k box tho that and the asus A7N8X were definitely the top 2 boards then. but now abit is dead and asus carries on! i overspent getting an A7N8X ~*~deluxe~*~. it had firewire, you see, amongst several other other features i never, ever utilized!! i never even loving overclocked the thing, lmao. my idiot highschool self really should have put that money towards an extra 256MB RAM.
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krooj posted:True baller AMD box would be an Asus nForce2 with an Athlon XP. linux support was always buggy as gently caress forcedeth lol
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lol i remember based on people's posts in SH/SC back then, with the K7S5A you basically had a 50/50 chance of either "just works" or "buggy and unstable as gently caress" and this was one of the good chipsets / boards amd was obsessed with getting "partners" to do chipset development, but said partners screwed the loving goose on the thunderbirid. the amd 761 chipset was a desperate, last-ditch attempt at an in-house chipset in order to keep their processors despite the laziness of partner firms it didn't work very well amd's hapless fanboys were very, very grateful for a chipset that almost worked, 50% of the time i was the poor sucker who bought one.
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SO DEMANDING posted:i overspent getting an A7N8X ~*~deluxe~*~. it had firewire, you see, amongst several other other features i never, ever utilized!! i never even loving overclocked the thing, lmao. my idiot highschool self really should have put that money towards an extra 256MB RAM. I'm *still* guilty of doing this when I buy motherbords. Of course I need that Thunderbolt port on my Windows PC 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:was the poor sucker who bought one. I built a lot of PCs with these while working a shop in high school / college. There was a good chance the system would come back in a year with dead caps. It was never clear if the PSU that came in the $30 case was the culprit or just the cheap-poo poo ECS caps. I never had a K7S5A customer spec an Enermax PSU... I recall the situation getting so bad we started batching RMAs to ECS. Nothing was worse than MSI, though. Worst QC I've ever seen. It's a miracle that company is still around.
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nforce 2 abit was too good for this world.
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remember the nforce firewall? it was garbage lol (mlmp)
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Wild EEPROM posted:nforce 2 yeah. my nf7-s was way more stable than my friend's a7n in high school. i still have a cache of like 2-3 working boards at my parents house, just in case, lol spankmeister posted:remember the nforce firewall? it was garbage lol (mlmp) that was on the later nforce3 or 4. the 754/939 boards. good ole nforce2 was a beast. soundstorm
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the best y2k computer Kryotech SuperG 1Ghz Athlon http://www.anandtech.com/show/432
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krooj posted:I built a lot of PCs with these while working a shop in high school / college. There was a good chance the system would come back in a year with dead caps. It was never clear if the PSU that came in the $30 case was the culprit or just the cheap-poo poo ECS caps. I never had a K7S5A customer spec an Enermax PSU... Which is funny, because MSI seems to be pretty well regarded these days
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krooj posted:I built a lot of PCs with these while working a shop in high school / college. There was a good chance the system would come back in a year with dead caps. It was never clear if the PSU that came in the $30 case was the culprit or just the cheap-poo poo ECS caps. everything had dead caps in this era remember the failed industrial espionage thing
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French Canadian posted:I recall motocross madness (among others) letting me pick either video card for 3D acceleration. Yes the v2 didn't handle 2D but it was redundant in many 3D games which supported both glide and d3d. And at the very least I didn't notice a difference with either rendering engine. Unreal engine games were the big ones later on. IIRC for the original the OpenGL renderer was kind of lovely, and the D3D renderer just straight up didn't work. Diablo 2 also looked better on Glide. Bloody posted:with enough liquid nitrogen they hit 7, maybe 8, don't remember Yeah, the final revision of the P4 was 65nm/89W TDP, and the d0 stepping dropped to 65W. People clocked those to the moon. Cedar Mill was pretty much what Prescott should have been. SO DEMANDING posted:that and the asus A7N8X were definitely the top 2 boards then. but now abit is dead and asus carries on! lol did yours have the talking POST?
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Rawrl posted:lol did yours have the talking POST? sounds horrifying
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All this talk of Athlon XPs and nforce2 made me snap and ebay a replacement capacitor kit for my asus A7N8X-E, I somewhat doubt it has survived all those years on the wall but it might be a fun experiment anyway
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Skim Milk posted:dfi lanparty you gotta post a pic of the box  Rawrl posted:lol did yours have the talking POST? ahahahaha holy poo poo i totally forgot about that thing, probably because i turned it the gently caress off forever after the first couple boots. Power on self test complete! System now booting from operating system!!!
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dfi lanpartys owned and lanparties also owned, rip early 2000s
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Whoa this asus board is way more functional than I expected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTn8QjTHAgo This thread is going to end up setting my house on fire
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error1 posted:This thread is going to end up setting my house on fire god drat it, im going to see my parents over the long weekend; youre gonna make me dig my poo poo out and join the
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i have an msi kt266 somewhere and I think it still has a cpu on. need to have a search for it
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SO DEMANDING posted:you gotta post a pic of the box hah we had a computer which did this too I just thought it was how most computers worked
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Skim Milk posted:dfi lanparty i had one of those, that pictured northbridge fan stopped spinning at some point, then melted and the destroyed husk of a plastic fan fell to the bottom of my case when i moved it.
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