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  • RJARRRPCGP
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    Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

    Originally posted by Topcat
    A pentium3 won't be 1998 era, thats more 2001-ish.
    And anyone that encounters a pre-2000s Pentium III is encountering a "Katmai". "Katmai" was the first generation Pentium III that's pretty much a Pentium II with SSE! They aren't socket 370 at all!
    They are cartridges! (slot 1) "Katmai" came out in 1999, IIRC...
    Last edited by RJARRRPCGP; 08-18-2016, 07:54 PM.

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  • mariushm
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    A year or so after my parents bought that system with k6-2 cpu (which had a 24x cd-rom) , i was given an older 486 for free which came with a Mitsumi 1x cd-rom on SCSI with the ISA based SCSI card from Adaptec.

    That was cool stuff, you pushed on a button on the drive's case (similar to the ones on ball point pens) and a cartridge would come out, then you lift the top cover and put the cd in, close the cover and push the cartridge back in.

    Yeah , it was pretty much this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUBeHWVHh9U

    The guy that owned the company my parents bought the computer from had a 2x external HP CD writer, which was transferring data to the drive using the parallel port.
    Slow as hell (took something like 40-50 minutes to burn a CD), but quite something for that time.

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  • TechGeek
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    O.o

    Today, you can get a Blu-Ray burner for about $100!

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  • diif
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    Originally posted by mariushm
    Oh the old times... I remember my first PC ever with AMD K6-2 333 Mhz ( ? x 66 mhz) and overclocking it to 350 Mhz by going with 100 mhz bus and 3.5x multiplier.

    The board was also one of the best in my country at the time, a PC Chips Elipina m577 : http://www.amoretro.de/2011/11/pc-ch...on_pm9900.html

    Good times...
    I had the same CPU in my first PC, I don't remember the motherboard, but i do remember paying £200 for a 2x CD burner for it.

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  • mariushm
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    Oh the old times... I remember my first PC ever with AMD K6-2 333 Mhz ( ? x 66 mhz) and overclocking it to 350 Mhz by going with 100 mhz bus and 3.5x multiplier.

    The board was also one of the best in my country at the time, a PC Chips Elipina m577 : http://www.amoretro.de/2011/11/pc-ch...on_pm9900.html

    Good times...

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  • Topcat
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    Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

    Originally posted by TechGeek
    Or a Pentium III at 1.2GHz?
    A pentium3 won't be 1998 era, thats more 2001-ish.

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  • eccerr0r
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    I overclocked my P3 so much it says %&2 MHz.

    True story.


    --


    Actually it's not really overclocked much. Nor do I don't recall what characters it printed there, but the multiplier and FSB speed combo isn't in the table of supported frequencies so it went past bounds and printed garbage.

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  • TechGeek
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    Or a Pentium III at 1.2GHz?

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  • electromaster84
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    Why not a K6-III+ at just 1 jiggahertz?

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  • Heihachi_73
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    Nothing for a month, is it time to bring out the violins for the brave old Pentium III who wanted to run at two jiggahertz?

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  • eccerr0r
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    I remember swapping crystal oscillators once to overclock... this was circa 1994, however.

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  • dmill89
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    1998 huh.... Let me guess DIP-switches to set the frequency?

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  • TechGeek
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    OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

    Hi all. I'm OC'ing a motherboard from '98, and I want to show you how it's done. It's going to be awesome, and photos/instructions are coming later.

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