TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[lexluthermiester]

Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot ms dos 6 and windows 98? I have read that I would need to have an FAT16 partition for DOS.

Yes as long as your motherboard has a boot-time boot menu(commonly on F12, you board may vary), you can install DOS6 to one drive and Win98 to another and boot to one or the other during the POST sequence.

Beyond that, the post above by @jak_2456 seems a good option to.

 

[wolf]

I guess that it's "enough 486" for the BIOS to report it as such.

Did you guys have a 750 Ti? I had one only for a while as a backup back in 2017 when I sold my 970 SLI setup and I got the 750 Ti from my friend.

I have a Quadro card that performs near to a 750ti. It's kinda inbetween a 750 and a 750ti. It's a great Windows XP card.

I have a 750Ti, I should bench it too, but I think the one @lexluthermiester is talking about is the Quadro K1200 - bloody fantastic XP card, especially being a 45w LP part you can make a very efficient system. It's basically a slightly cut down 750Ti so I should compare them to see how big the difference is.

 

[micropage7]

Microsoft Account: Uses two-step verification, where you receive a code via SMS or authenticator app, which you must enter along with your password.
It is a pain for me,I have had this account for 18 years thats longer than i have had a PC.I must admit i have a very weak password on here not 1234 or anything like that.

i use mobile phone as recovery, but somehow it looks not work anymore

 

[Ruru]

I have a 750Ti, I should bench it too, but I think the one @lexluthermiester is talking about is the Quadro K1200 - bloody fantastic XP card, especially being a 45w LP part you can make a very efficient system. It's basically a slightly cut down 750Ti so I should compare them to see how big the difference is.

Looks like that Quadro has 750's shader and other unit count, but higher clocks and 4GB of GDDR5.

Wonder how a K2200 would perform vs. 750 Ti since it has the full GPU but also 4GB of VRAM.

 

[mtosev]

 

[jak_2456]

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What PC are you putting this in?

 

[lexluthermiester]

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Looks like a solid combo! What system are you pairing it with?

but I think the one @lexluthermiester is talking about is the Quadro K1200 - bloody fantastic XP card, especially being a 45w LP part you can make a very efficient system.

Due to site issues, I couldn't respond to this earlier. I was talking about a different card...

Wonder how a K2200 would perform vs. 750 Ti since it has the full GPU but also 4GB of VRAM.

...this one. The K2200 Dell version is an excellent card. I could swear I ran it on XP at one point but can't find the NVidia drivers now. Maybe I'll have to look on Dell's website. Dell's famous for doing their own thing.

 

[wolf]

Due to site issue, I couldn't respond to this earlier. I was talking about a different card...

...this one. The K2200

My bad! my mind jumped straight to the one I already own, the K2200 would of course be even better and in retrospect it seems more obvious you were talking about that one.

I'm also chasing a K620 so see how the littlelest Maxwell can do in XP

 

[lexluthermiester]

My bad! my mind jumped straight to the one I already own

The K1200 is a very good LP, single slot card. I've been looking at one for a Dell 3090 SFF system. It's currently got a K620. I've also been looking at the P620 or P1000.

NVIDIA Quadro K620 Specs

NVIDIA GM107, 1124 MHz, 384 Cores, 24 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 2048 MB DDR3, 900 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA Quadro K1200 Specs

NVIDIA GM107, 1124 MHz, 512 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1250 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA Quadro P620 Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1354 MHz, 512 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 2048 MB GDDR5, 1252 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA Quadro P1000 Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1392 MHz, 512 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1502 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

I'm trying to decide if I need the extra 2GB of VRAM. Likely going to just pull the trigger on the P1000.

I'm also chasing a K620 so see how the littlelest Maxwell can do in XP

I can't find XP drivers for that card. It's starting to annoy as I'm fairly certain they existed at one point.
I think I might have figured it out though. The K600 does certainly have XP drivers and is a reasonable performer.

NVIDIA Quadro K600 Specs

NVIDIA GK107, 876 MHz, 192 Cores, 16 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 1024 MB DDR3, 891 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

The limitation is the 1GB of VRAM..

 

[wolf]

The K1200 is a very good LP, single slot card. I've been looking at one for a Dell 3090 SFF system. It's currently got a K620. I've also been looking at the P620 or P1000.

NVIDIA Quadro K620 Specs

NVIDIA GM107, 1124 MHz, 384 Cores, 24 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 2048 MB DDR3, 900 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA Quadro K1200 Specs

NVIDIA GM107, 1124 MHz, 512 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1250 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA Quadro P620 Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1354 MHz, 512 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 2048 MB GDDR5, 1252 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA Quadro P1000 Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1392 MHz, 512 Cores, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1502 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

I'm trying to decide if I need the extra 2GB of VRAM. Likely going to just pull the trigger on the P1000.

For XP unfortuantely it won't support pascal but I'd hands down go for a Pascal card if it's supported.

I can't find XP drivers for that card. It's starting to annoy as I'm fairly certain they existed at one point.
I think I might have figured it out though. The K600 does certainly have XP drivers and is a reasonable performer.

NVIDIA Quadro K600 Specs

NVIDIA GK107, 876 MHz, 192 Cores, 16 TMUs, 16 ROPs, 1024 MB DDR3, 891 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

The limitation is the 1GB of VRAM..

K600 seems quite slow like GT710/730 DDR3 territory, K620 I am very keen to test against my GT710, GT730 and K1200 to find the deltas.

FWIW I had to perosonally mod the drivers to get the K1200 working in XP, I'd imagine it's the same for the K620. It's a super easy process at least just adding some strings to a text file.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Another score from Italy. ABIT KR7A, the version w/o RAID.

 

[jak_2456]

Another score from Italy. ABIT KR7A, the version w/o RAID.
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Glad to see it works. I remember you mentioning that you suspected that the caps were bad. What's the story with that?

 

[MaxiPro800]

Glad to see it works. I remember you mentioning that you suspected that the caps were bad. What's the story with that?

Boiled down to sellers PSU being flaky. I installed mine and it POST'd straight away with no PCI cards inserted.

It does need a recap down the line tho - Nichicon HM from yhe bad batch around CPU and Teapo everywhere else.

And another win, this time with my MSI MS-6168 again. Apparently MSI took a 16MB board and crippled it to 8 by not populating the registers for 16MB, defaulting it to 8MB.

The RAM chips on my board are Samsung KM4132G112Q-7. Roughly the same chips used for Matrox Milennium G400, model G4+MDH4A16G, except the ones on the Matrox are rated for 166MHz. Not that it really matters since the 143MHz chips can also do 166 flawlessly as seen above.

 

[sasamkd]

In vino...

 

[mtosev]

What PC are you putting this in?

Looks like a solid combo! What system are you pairing it with?

Pentium 2 450MHz, 128mb ram, GeForce 2 mx 200, 10gb HDD.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Another BX addition. ABIT BX6r2 + P3 650MHz SL3XK and 512MB SDR

 

[Apocalypsee]

GeForce2 GTS? My dream card! Even the name sounds cool like a sport car

 

[MaxiPro800]

GeForce2 GTS? My dream card! Even the name sounds cool like a sport car

Technically... yes and no lol

The core is indeed made from GTS, but the card itself is the Geforce 2 Pro variant from MSI (all searches of the said card return as Geforce 2 Pro).

I do wish to land my hands on a 3D Annihilator 2 but you've guessed it already - prices are steep af.

 

[Courier 6]

Does anybody remember PCChips? I just found a mobo that i forgot that I had, it´s a M825G, it even had the CPU still installed, AMD athlon a0900amt3b , sorry I don´t have pictures, my phone is broken

PC CHIPS M825G SERIES MANUAL Pdf Download

View and Download PC Chips M825G Series manual online. M825G Series motherboard pdf manual download.

www.manualslib.com

AMD Athlon 900 Specs

Thunderbird, 1 Cores, 1 Threads, 900 MHz, 50 W

www.techpowerup.com

 

[jak_2456]

Does anybody remember PCChips? I just found a mobo that i forgot that I had, it´s a M825G, it even had the CPU still installed, AMD athlon ADFA0040BPDW , sorry I don´t have pictures, my phone is broken

I have a PCChips M848LU Socket 462 mobo. It's not a good board, though; it will just randomly freeze the whole system. PCChips ended up getting bought by ECS ages ago.

 

[wolf]

GeForce2 GTS? My dream card! Even the name sounds cool like a sport car

I was extremely lucky to stumble onto a GeForce 2 Ultra some months back, a 3D Prophet variant. Seller seemed like he didn't much care what it was or what it was worth, and accepted my offer of $50 AUD immediately and couldn't wait to hand it over. I got very lucky.

 

[DR4G00N]

My GF2 GTS gave up the ghost while sitting around, it was a GTS-V variant though (Underclocked) so no huge loss.

Luckily I still have my Quadro2 Pro/Geforce2 Ultra for all my GF2 needs.

 

[Courier 6]

I have a PCChips M848LU Socket 462 mobo. It's not a good board, though; it will just randomly freeze the whole system. PCChips ended up getting bought by ECS ages ago.

I have a M871G that did freeze too, but I think it was a memory issue, it still has the CPU too, probably working

 

[masterdeejay]

Old-new Toshiba U200 notebook.
My friend rescued it from the trash and gave me for free.
I took off the foil from the top!

12" 1280x800 (brightness is fine)
T5600, 512+2Gb ram (upgradable to 4Gb)
80Gb Toshiba HDD (i upgraded with an used 256gb low end ssd)
stock charger
Intel IGP
bluetooth, wifi, fingerprint reader, sd card reader, express card, dvd writer, firewire, 3 usd, dsub.....
Battery wear is just 6% according to aida64, and works for 2-3h!!!

It runs Win7 32bit very well, and with firefox it can be used for light browsing.
But is is not my taste, i much prefer the Dell Latitude/Precision with matte high res display in this era.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Pentium 2 450MHz, 128mb ram, GeForce 2 mx 200, 10gb HDD.

Nice retro setup! 32GB is solid for a Win98SE/ME setup. I would definitely nudge you toward another stick of 128MB or even a 256MB to give Windows a bunch of room to play in. Only a suggestion though.