Best overclocking RAM of it’s time. 250mhz FSB with 2/2/2/5 timings!Nice, I've been meaning to have a look around for old PC parts to see if I could make some sort of retro-rig like that up without having to spend much money.
I found my old Corsair 2x 512MB XS3500 BH5 DDR1 ram that I used to run at crazy low timings, but not sure what else I still have lying around in boxes/drawers etc.
I've been running a 2600k @ 4.8Ghz / Asus P8P67 Deluxe as my main PC since 2011, I'll be upgrading soon and will need to stash them away to use as a future retro build in 20 years or so, lol.
Been putting together a quite unusual Pentium III Socket 370 Machine. Board is an ECS P6S5AT, which is a board based on a SiS635T chipset which interestingly supports DDR memory. I currently have it setup with 512 DDR 3200, Pentium III 850 Coppermine at 1.13ghz and a Geforce FX 5900XT. This board is know to actually have a 166fsb with correct dividers for AGP spec which if the chip can run would be 1.4ghz. Having fun playing about with it.
Expect you'd get better performance from Intel chipset but can't remember if they were still using RDRAM in this era of CPUs?
RAMBUS was very late socket 370 PIII, but offered almost no performance gain at all. Early P4 (socket 423) was where RAMBUS really became mainstream, but again many argued that the performance benefit was small (and certainly not worth the cost).How is an ECS board still alive after this long?
I remember buying a stack of really cheap motherboards back in the day with a view to flip them as cheap systems. It was after they arrived I discovered the cost of those ram modules over normal ones
Already ordered a IdE to SATA adaptor for it, it's been softmodded in the past so switching to a 120gb SSD shouldn't be too hard. 2 controller ports, remote control receiver built in. Add some quieter fans and jobs would be a good'un. Going to get a component to HDMI cable, shorten it and change it to a panel mount socket and then put it on the back, just tidy it up.
