yes, I think Northwood Pentium 4 (which supports SSE2) doesn't work with Windows 8 because of that, but the Prescott models should be OK.
and any K8 or newer.
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- Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:11 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
- Replies: 10
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- Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:11 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23587
Re: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
windows 8 requires SSE2 and a few other things... even Athlon XP can't run.
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:10 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: PCIe Video Card on PCI only motherboards? Maybe?
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Re: PCIe Video Card on PCI only motherboards? Maybe?
I have a PCI 8400GS, it's basically the same thing but all on the same PCB, it uses a bridge chip from PCIE 1x to PCI, but the card is problematic, compatibility is very limited, on my newer Athlon 64 it worked fine under windows xp, but using a newer OS I couldn't install any driver, also even unde...
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:41 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Sis530 and > 64MB cacheable area
- Replies: 8
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I tried for years to find a sis530-board with 1 or 2 mb of onboard cache but with no success. @hmbr: I can't imagine any system (even the new ones) running windows xp with only 128mb of ram satisfactorily - this is way too short of memory. BUT: once you use a k6-3 or k6-2+ cpu you do fine with thei...
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:36 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Sis530 and > 64MB cacheable area
- Replies: 8
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I have 2 PC Chips M598LMR... both only have 512k it seems... there is only one chip onboard and an empty space.... I don't know if it's because of that, but performance on Windows XP using 128mb ram is terrible, much worse than another board (a Mitac board from compaq using the MPV4 chipset) I have ...