- Oct 10, 2017
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Hi al,
I've been feeling nostalgic recently; That's why I'm planning on building something similar to what I had in my "prime gaming era". I was playing everything from Delta Force to Warcraft 3, CS1.6, UT99-GOTY, COD2 and AA2.5 and SWAT4; I stopped gaming around the time COD:Modern Warfare came out but recently started gaming again with BF1 and GR:Wildlands. While gaming on a current (2017) rig is fun too, I would like to get a dedicated pc for playing those older titles. (Complete with casemod, glow in the dark IDE cables and noisy fans)
The best CPU I ever had was a somewhat hated underdog; A Duron 1800. It performed very nicely until I had to go 64 bit.
So... I want to go full 32-bit retro on this one, but I'm adding an extra challenge; I want to get some extra performance from the Duron platform. I've been doing a lot of research; From (S)MP hacks, to L2 Cache hacks and overclocking.
I am able to find a lot of < 1Ghz Duron overclocking resources, but Applebred resources seem to be scarse. Since I'm planning to use a Motherboard that doesn't have overclocking capabilities (Since it has gigabit ethernet on a 64 bit bus I really want); I'm left either do pin modifications and/or L-bridge modifications.
I've been doing a lot of research, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of info on tweaking/hacking the L-bridges or pin-modding applebreds.
- I would like to get the Duron 1800 to around 2.2-2.4Ghz. Is there anyone that achieved this with a Duron 1800 or other applebred?
- Do the Athlon (XP) overclocking pin-mod guides work for the Applebreds or not? ( like this one; http://www.ocinside.de/workshop_en/amd_pinmod/ )
Regards,
nls.
I've been feeling nostalgic recently; That's why I'm planning on building something similar to what I had in my "prime gaming era". I was playing everything from Delta Force to Warcraft 3, CS1.6, UT99-GOTY, COD2 and AA2.5 and SWAT4; I stopped gaming around the time COD:Modern Warfare came out but recently started gaming again with BF1 and GR:Wildlands. While gaming on a current (2017) rig is fun too, I would like to get a dedicated pc for playing those older titles. (Complete with casemod, glow in the dark IDE cables and noisy fans)
The best CPU I ever had was a somewhat hated underdog; A Duron 1800. It performed very nicely until I had to go 64 bit.
So... I want to go full 32-bit retro on this one, but I'm adding an extra challenge; I want to get some extra performance from the Duron platform. I've been doing a lot of research; From (S)MP hacks, to L2 Cache hacks and overclocking.
I am able to find a lot of < 1Ghz Duron overclocking resources, but Applebred resources seem to be scarse. Since I'm planning to use a Motherboard that doesn't have overclocking capabilities (Since it has gigabit ethernet on a 64 bit bus I really want); I'm left either do pin modifications and/or L-bridge modifications.
I've been doing a lot of research, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of info on tweaking/hacking the L-bridges or pin-modding applebreds.
- I would like to get the Duron 1800 to around 2.2-2.4Ghz. Is there anyone that achieved this with a Duron 1800 or other applebred?
- Do the Athlon (XP) overclocking pin-mod guides work for the Applebreds or not? ( like this one; http://www.ocinside.de/workshop_en/amd_pinmod/ )
Regards,
nls.