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by ctgeorge99
Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:56 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Crazy k6 3+ build
Replies: 3
Views: 8683

Re: Crazy k6 3+ build

Sphere, thanks for posting your results. As I stated, lots of people got standard SSD drives to work . . . I gather most saw similar results to me: much improved seek and read speeds, slightly slower write speeds, but nowhere near the capability of the SSD itself (mostly driven by PCI bus speed limi...
by ctgeorge99
Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Biggest k6 + news in twenty years.
Replies: 3
Views: 6190

Re: Biggest k6 + news in twenty years.

Of course . . . what would really allow us to do a lot with these chips today (which are great workhorses) is if there were anyway to work around or implement SSE2 to allow use for web browsing in today's world (outside of the .1% of web pages and really old browsers that do not require SSE2). Unfor...
by ctgeorge99
Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: Biggest k6 + news in twenty years.
Replies: 3
Views: 6190

Re: Biggest k6 + news in twenty years.

Really cool Sphere. Great work! Makes me wonder if there is really any difference between most of the K6-2+ chips other than how the temperature rating (which is big) and how well they did in quality control. I have overclocked my 550ACZ for nearly 20 years . . . I never bothered with a 570 ACZ befo...
by ctgeorge99
Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:11 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Crazy k6 3+ build
Replies: 3
Views: 8683

Re: Crazy k6 3+ build

Sphere, Thanks for posting your plans on a 'new' build! I am replying nearly a month past your original post so hopefully you are pretty far along in the slow and sometimes frustrating process of resurrecting old technology and finding the right mix of hardware, setting, bios, and software . . . esp...
by ctgeorge99
Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:31 am
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: FIC VA-503+ revisted
Replies: 47
Views: 108719

Re: FIC VA-503+ revisted

I do not feel particularly bad for resurrecting this thread as it is not nearly as old as my VA-503+ is. Does anyone have (or have a link to) the JE4333-APM BIOS for this motherboard? It is a user-created BIOS based on FIC JE4333 that supports APM and supposedly improves support for LBA hard drives....
by ctgeorge99
Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:55 am
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: Call for Links to Old Software
Replies: 5
Views: 9473

Re: Call for Links to Old Software

Nohr, dumped my cookies and it worked. Looks like it was remembering as a broken link and taking me to the old non-existent website. Thanks!
by ctgeorge99
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:48 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Voodoo 2 Quake
Replies: 13
Views: 35054

Re: Voodoo 2 Quake

I never had this particular card; it surprises me it would require anything anything to make it work in DOS, but the post here: https://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15868 seems to confirm that you should use glide.ovl library in DOS. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any of the links...
by ctgeorge99
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hi there dears! A new enthusiastic DOS gamer with Socket 7 here!
Replies: 1
Views: 7360

Re: Hi there dears! A new enthusiastic DOS gamer with Socket 7 here!

Biessea, una calorosa accoglienza! I'm in Belgium now and similarly have found extra time to spend tweaking my old game/software rig. I am not familiar with your board, but a quick search on Tom's Hardware indicated it might be capable of 100Mhz: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/motherboard-revi...
by ctgeorge99
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:08 am
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: Call for Links to Old Software
Replies: 5
Views: 9473

Re: Call for Links to Old Software

Thanks Nohr! Not sure how I have lived without Central Tweaking Utility for 20 plus years. The link to the latency fix still doesn't work, but I use a George Breese version that seems to do the same thing, so no worries. Anyone who needs the George Breese latency fix let me know.(usually in fixing g...
by ctgeorge99
Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:09 am
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: Call for Links to Old Software
Replies: 5
Views: 9473

Call for Links to Old Software

Predicting that I will have some time no my hands in the coming weeks I have decided to see if I can work at extending the life of my VA-503+/K6-2+ for 10 more years. It has been a reliable old gaming/software rig, but it no longer seems to want to run at main bus speeds over 100Mhz (I figure the ca...
by ctgeorge99
Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:26 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: WOW...I'm blown away, this site is STILL up!
Replies: 8
Views: 17376

Re: WOW...I'm blown away, this site is STILL up!

Skalabala, Thanks for posting your success links. Really like the modified heat sink . . . something that has always been limiting on my board. You inspired me to go fire it up and tweak with it some more . . . and success found with some additional hardware (these were just for fun) and software tw...
by ctgeorge99
Mon Dec 25, 2017 10:18 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Fic va-503+ driver help
Replies: 1
Views: 6782

Re: Fic va-503+ driver help

VIA 4in1 driver . . .also there is an aweutil file specific for the awe64. You might have to do some searching to find them. If you get it up an running I strongling recommend Windows 98se/me (Gives you me files) and KernelEx 5.4.2 (lets you load some 2k and XP specific programs including newer vers...
by ctgeorge99
Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:42 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: WOW...I'm blown away, this site is STILL up!
Replies: 8
Views: 17376

Re: WOW...I'm blown away, this site is STILL up!

I hardly check in on the site anymore . . . usually if I have a problem with my K6-2+. She is still going strong and is well loaded it up with all the old software that I can not seem to get to run on Windows 7 or Windows 10. Let me know if you get yours fired up.

Chris