Re: I have a question about weather or not a laptop computer came with a USB type C c
If you're asking about power supplies I've used several HP chargers P/N 671R3AA with just about anything from phones (both qualcomm quick charge and not, including Xiaomis with their weird half proprietary quick charge) to power delivery capable laptops with no issues.
They're probably one of the few good products that HP currently makes
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Re: Topcat's Other Misc Weird Build Thread
They would have been wasted anyway. i945 does not support memory remapping, so you'd get 3.something GB usable anyway.
How much the .something is depends on the motherboard and gpu, but I've even seen 150 megs or less, I did sometimes use such machines to "dispose" of useless 512MB DIMMS (2x1 + 2x512)
Just for laughs, if you have a PD 915 or 925 (and some aluminium tape) at hand try modding it to run at 1066FSB. All the PD 925s I've seen would happily run at 1066/4GHz at stock voltage with...Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
It's a non-issue as the board misbehaves and it's most certainly not worth the effort to troubleshoot, but in my opinion if someone needs/wants an overkill 9x box without going either poor or mad with hacks upon hacks to make the system behave, a 754 K8M800 system with a good Sempron or a A64 and Win ME (yes, I said it) is a solid solution.
You don't get the heat and power issues you'd get with a K7 or a P4 and as the IMC is in the CPU even the crappiest, lowest end boards will mostly behave and have fine performance (think...Last edited by whatamidoing; 09-10-2023, 03:58 AM.Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
I did successfully convert an Award BIOS 970A-DS3 1.0 to UEFI just by flashrom'ing the AMI UEFI from the 970A-DS3P 1.0. The USB 3.0 controller was different but thankfully the USB 3.0 toggle in the BIOS just acted on the PCIe lane the controller was attached to and did not use any chip-specific commands, so everything works 100% as if it were a proper DS3P.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could do the same on your board....Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
I'm told Fujitsu also does it (or used to do it rather, I think nowadays they only do servers), but only on the WWAN side. I've replaced the WLAN cards on a S7110 and a E752 with no problems....Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
I can see a Phenom II X4 on a good AM3 board running somewhat tight DDR3 being as good as a Q9550, but a Propus Athlon on a circa 2007 low-midrange board (sure, it's not an nForce 410 Asrock, it's well built and has that "trustworthy" feel that's hard to explain, but it's still a 690G.) with 800-5-5-5-18 DDR2 and integrated graphics that eats into the memory bandwidth? There's no way it's as good.
Q9550s, Q9650s and the equivalent Xeons (or a 3 GHz Q6600 for that matter) are fast....Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
I had a PC-Chips M810LMR, which is the same board just sold under a different name. Mine was a revision 7.1, with official support for Athlon XPs. I ran it for quite some time with an Athlon 2000+ running at 150FSB and a Geforce2 Ti, when it was the same as Core 2 today, old enough to be worthless but still perfectly usable and too good to throw away.
The only "issue" I ever had with it (other than caps) was the fact that the onboard sound was incredibly noisy.
Yours seems to be an earlier revision, with...Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
Try the enhanced-h264ify extension if you don't use it already. It forces Youtube to use h264 and it does miracles on the older stuff, if you're lucky and the GPU/drivers/browser/moon phase combination are supported it will even use HW decoding...Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
You know, I recently build a machine out of scrap parts to use as a "testing"/messing around without dirtying my main computer.
It's an Asus M2A-VM HDMI, with 6GB of DDR2 and an Athlon X4 640 that i paid a whole 10€ from China. I'm still running the onboard X1250 graphics (hey, at least it's not an nForce). I say all this so you understand that any half-decent C2Q build will run rings around it.
The only thing I bought new for it is a Patriot 128 SSD, chosen using the industry standard of "Price...Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
Yes NUSB is mostly ME stuff, with some 2000 dlls added later on. But as far as i recall came out rather late in the 9x lifecycle, around 2004ish? Before that USB on 98 was still a bit of a mess, with some vendor provided drivers with a modified .inf to work with other USB sticks and stuff.
Now that I think about it, "a bit of a mess" is quite an accurate description for the entirety of the 9x range...Leave a comment:
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
Hello,
i810 should take "high density" memory, 2x256 HD Sodimms ought to be cheap, as the cool 440BX retro laptop guys can't use them, and the iBook G3 people probably have long upgraded to those rare but existing 512MB modules.
(yes, I know high density means nothing, and RAM density is measured in megabits per chip, I'm talking about 256MB sticks with 4 chips per side)
I have a personal theory that i810 and i815 were the only machines they actually tested ME on, and on those it seemed...Last edited by whatamidoing; 12-15-2021, 04:04 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: New Members - please post your introductions here
Hello,
I created this account a long time ago, mostly so I could see pictures, and I've been lurking this forum since then.
Only today I realised it might have been polite to come here and say hello.Leave a comment:
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