Just been doing a little reading on PIII compatible socket 370 mainboards and one thing I've noticed is a lack of references to the AGP slot. Its been so long since I've had one I can't even remember what said slot looks like. Did they come as standard on those old boards or do the writers of these articles just take it as granted the reader knows they are there as would be the case with something obvious like a cpu socket!
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It depends what those games are really.
AGP arrived on the early Slot 1 Pentium II boards and was the only standard around during the S370 era. I wasn't really until S775 that PCIe became widespread.
You might even find an AGP Pro slot, which hardly anyone used...
You might even find an AGP Pro slot, which hardly anyone used...
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Sounds more complicated making a "old" machine. Although I've probably had a machine in the past with all or some of those bits in it sounds like black magic to me!!
I run my old game on a VirtualBox on my Linux box. Not often mind, if I want some old school fun I just turn to Steam and the HL1 stuff like CS or DoD they happily run on my W7 64bit system. Anyhow this doesn't answer the question, any reason your not going AMD, The old K6II's were my fav back then. I had a K6III 350MHz screaming at 600MHz, fans making a hell of a racket. Or am I going too old school for you?
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Haha awesome thread. Very unsual but awesome xD
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Erm. No.
Last PC I had with VESA was a 486-DX2. Last PC I had with a PCI graphics card was a P200MMX.
i went from a 486 dx4 100 that had a vesa card in it to a duron 900 that had a pci in it so i thought that most off the stuff in between those chips would have been a mix of both, i missed all the intel chips until core2 after the 486 lol
Run into a slight problem folks. I have a PIII socket 370 board (came from a Toshiba equium 8000s desktop).
I can't seem to fit the heatsink though, I can position it over the cpu but there doen't seem to be any way to secure it to the board.
Could somebody take a look at these pics and tell me where I've gone wrong? Is that even a 370 heatsink?
http://flickcabin.com/public/viewset/14439
Thanks.
I can't seem to fit the heatsink though, I can position it over the cpu but there doen't seem to be any way to secure it to the board.
Could somebody take a look at these pics and tell me where I've gone wrong? Is that even a 370 heatsink?
http://flickcabin.com/public/viewset/14439
Thanks.
This thread is interesting.
I have an old Pentium 2 (Slot1) with a Voodoo2 card in it - I also have the original Gravis Ultrasound i'm going fit in to it.
I may then do some Gravis Ultrasound midis for YouTube as everything on there is emulated, and I want to show the real thing in action.
I have an old Pentium 2 (Slot1) with a Voodoo2 card in it - I also have the original Gravis Ultrasound i'm going fit in to it.
I may then do some Gravis Ultrasound midis for YouTube as everything on there is emulated, and I want to show the real thing in action.
LOL. Good old heatsink clips, even more fun trying to get them off without drawing blood.
None of these modern new fangled clip in retention mechanisms or screws nonsense back in 1999!
Indeed. I think the previous owner might have bent or warped the middle of clip taking it off as I can't get it over both tabs on the cpu socket. I'll remove the fan, slip the clip out give it a slap or two back into a more flexible shape
Really good idea! I have a fairly old desktop which I wanted to upgrade. But after finding it only supports DDR RAM it was too outdated to upgrade. May have to go back to win98 tho! When I was about 4 my computer had win98, its a good OS. Used to spend all my time defragging the HD, or playing some old games. Wolfenstein 3D ***!!
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