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by AlleyViper
Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:35 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Manual
Replies: 6
Views: 14844

by AlleyViper
Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:19 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: K6-II 550Mhz vs. K6-III 400Mhz
Replies: 5
Views: 10218

Acording to this post http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/732 ... mhz-advice , it should be 256MB. But still, you should be looking for a cpu with L2 cache instead.
by AlleyViper
Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: K6-II 550Mhz vs. K6-III 400Mhz
Replies: 5
Views: 10218

I really wouldn't bet on it. If your MB supports, go to a k6 2+ instead if you can't get a III+, both should be quite cheap now. Depending on your MB cache, a regular K6 2 will slow down your system too much due to it's maximum cacheable memory cap, which can be limited as some measly 128MB* if you ...
by AlleyViper
Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:20 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Does anybody know anything about the ATI 9800 All in Wonder
Replies: 9
Views: 10809

If you are on the AMD side and looking for the oldest, probably anything like a VIA KT133 and up will do, due to agp 4x support. I don't know about KX133, because these older slot A boards had some signal issues at 4X even though I didn't experience them at the time with GF2s. These boards still exp...
by AlleyViper
Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Where is everyone?
Replies: 52
Views: 106709

*sneak peaks*
by AlleyViper
Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:05 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: 9600XT or 9800XT + ASUS P5A rev1.03, works?
Replies: 6
Views: 8943

I thought the 9700 Pro series where the best and last ATI cards to officially support agp 2x at 3.3V :?:
by AlleyViper
Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: This place is still going that awesome.
Replies: 22
Views: 48112

Once in a while, and even tough my k6-III+ box has been resting for a long time, I always take a look around here too ;).

Still, the amd bug is going strong around here, a top 754 system is going to replace an older one, and I'm starting to adventure in the am3 land.

k6 lives!
by AlleyViper
Fri May 29, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Maybe I found the King of the hill??
Replies: 87
Views: 344375

If I can help you, the HSI bridge is a device made to bridge native pci-E gpu based cards with agp slots. They actually run quite hot, and sometimes are handicaps themselves to the data bandwidth that modern cards provide, so overclocks are almost a recipe to failure. As they were made to be used on...
by AlleyViper
Sun May 10, 2009 9:30 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Maybe I found the King of the hill??
Replies: 87
Views: 344375

Though I have heard from others that the 8500 Radeon is the best card a Super 7 can use. Both nvidia and ati have way faster compatible cards than the 8500. Even the ati 9700pro (http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9700/radeon9700pro/specs.html) says it's k6 and 3.3v compatible, same for the first ro...
by AlleyViper
Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:17 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: some more detailed view on k6 cpus
Replies: 15
Views: 18234

Just to add some old samples: K6 200ALR , has 2300242000 CA printed in black ink next to LL in the middle, 1997 under PD PD: C 9735GJCW LL: 25755 UR: 200MHz K6-2 333AFR - Mayal, 1998 under P date UL: Z481523 (seems a Z to me, same assumption for cpu's under) PD: A 9840APDW LL: 26050 UR: 333MHz K6-II...
by AlleyViper
Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:32 pm
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: "The Bios Patcher"
Replies: 30
Views: 55937

I might be wrong, but lha shoud be lharc, a dos prompt program to compress/decompress such as zip.com . "cbrom" is a program to extract/delete or include modules in award bios files. In another thread, I commented that I had no space to include a pci adapter raid bios in my mb's one,: it w...
by AlleyViper
Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:15 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: socket7 new controller card: sata-II / usb / firewire / lan
Replies: 13
Views: 13106

No matter what sil chipset you chose, always ensure with the cards manufacturer if the rom chip is programmable with the software provided by silicon image. To make sure you can swap bios to trim out problems, or convert the card to raid or atapi for proper support of single or odd drives.
by AlleyViper
Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:45 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: socket7 new controller card: sata-II / usb / firewire / lan
Replies: 13
Views: 13106

Oh well, a few days ago the pci card arrived but it doesn't suit my my needs. The via vt6214L ain't a problem on my board, usb 2.0 is working fine as the vt6212L which was there before. The problem is the via vt6421L, as I can get only the pata+sata ports inside windows as the card seems to have no ...
by AlleyViper
Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:01 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Epox MVPC2 and 160GB Hard Drive?
Replies: 18
Views: 19208

I was talking about hdspeed to check bandwidth and reads realtime, at http://www.georgebreese.com/net/softwar ... ed_014.zip , for a better program with complete stats try hdtach, cheers!
by AlleyViper
Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:56 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Epox MVPC2 and 160GB Hard Drive?
Replies: 18
Views: 19208

BuonaDomenica, have you installed the card meanwhile? if so let us know your experience and also give us some benchnumbers. a very handy and small hd-test program is dskbench. needs no installation, just opens a cmd-window and tells you about read/write sequential and block scores. also tells cpu-u...