RetroTechBytes

Retro games, hardware, software, and more! Sometimes modern stuff too! I cover it all on YouTube! Feel free to get in touch: [email protected]

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1/ Here's something you don't often see:

Dual Socket 5.

With EISA.

Yep.

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@ChartreuseK It’s absurdism at its finest today. I feel like there’s no willingness to optimize code today. It really makes you miss the days when broadband was growing and the internet flew because everything was optimized for dialup! Web apps are a whole other rabbit hole I could go down!

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1/ Well, I guess I'm going on a Pentium III bender right now. And boy is this a whacky board (as is par for the course, if you've come to know me and the channel here).

Introducing: A Pentium III with DDR (and SDR)!

But why? Because science.

And why not?

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@ChartreuseK Truth be told they really should be more than enough still, but it’s just unfortunate that they’re not. Athlon XPs are pretty powerful, but the internet has changed so much that it’s just impossible to use anything not from ~10 years ago today. And hey, hindsight is 20/20 hahaha

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@ChartreuseK Best of luck with it! Socket A boards are always an adventure!

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@ChartreuseK Oh very nice! The ALi Magick 1 is a cool chipset. I’ve been curious about how it performance. SDR was pretty okay on Athlons, as shown by the KT133/A

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@ChartreuseK Very true! I’m just not sure why MSI would have included SDR and DDR slots for any reason other than such; most other boards like the Chaintech in the Vogons thread I linked or the ASUS CUV266 are DDR-only. I feel like you’re right in that this is much more commonplace on Athlons

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@YodasRaytracing DRM is just nauseating at this point

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1/ Alrighty, feels like it's been a while since I wrote about something I'm interested in, but here's something and, welp, I'm interested!

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@YodasRaytracing Very cool! That's extremely impressive work. Over 30GB is wild for Jedi Academy haha!

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@JikissGamer Oh, this is awesome! ROTT is underrated and needs some love for sure. I can't wait to see your vids man!

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@RetroAmateur Generally, they don't always. Socket 423, nice! Best of luck in your build!

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12/It helps and, while not the end-all, be-all, it's a neat alternative to the other chipsets out there, kinda like AMD's own AMD 760 chipset! Good stuff!

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11/ VIA's solution isn't anything to laugh at either. DDR on a PIII may sound ludicrous, and it probably is since the PIII's FSB is again limited by its single-pumped bus, but that's okay, and truthfully there is a notable impact in using DDR SDRAM on a PIII.