Upgrading and Tuning Socket 7 to the Max

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[MashedPotatoBrain]

I'd love to see you do this with a super socket 7 board. The agp and higher bus speed should be a bigger difference.

[MarcoGPUtuber]

Phil's Computer Lab tunes my knowledge to the max!

[Dr.C-UTS]

I didn't know about the S3 speed boost. Thank you Phil!

[FizzoDizzo]

Thank you, Phil. Cheers from Singapore. 🎉🎉

[someguy]

Wow, you kept showing a step higher! awesome

[MarcoGPUtuber]

Love the Gigabyte Super Socket 7 boards. I have the GA-5AX

[retropuffer]

Your recent 90s era PC vids are really triggering old memories! 😁

[SneakiestDuke]

Very useful video. Maybe I will return to my socket 7 motherboard and try it again with these tweaking. I will waiting for video about ISA gpus.

[evergreengamer]

Maxing a platform out is what did it for me when first got into retro computing back when dos/win9x era systems were abundant in dumpsters or at yard sales it always felt good to take parts from all these systems gathered up and see what they could do. Often tested Tomb Raider on those systems but until years later only had the demo on 2 floppy disk.

[madson-web]

Those AMD K6 are such a pretty processors.

[framebuffer.]

That 66MHz FSB seems to be impacting Quake performance quite significantly, I measured 77.4 FPS with a K6-2 450 (ASUS P5A-B, Matrox G400DH 32MB)
Anyways this was very interesting and informative, great work Phil!

[Dr.C-UTS]

It seemed so simple back then. Games were good. Hardware was dropping in price. I miss that.

[tofuguru]

It's always a great day when PCL uploads a vid!

Love me some Socket 7.
My heart will always be with the Gigabyte GA-5AX Rev 5.2.
Still have mine with a K6III+ 500Mhz APZ 1.8v running 115fsb, 633Mhz @ 2.2v
Beast of a machine and can hang with the slower PIII's in some instances.

[arcticfox]

I remember my AOpen 430TX board. With a K6300 and a Savage 4. First build such good memories.

[keulloe]

Gotta love Socket 7 with its huge compatibility over different CPUs. :)

[el_yemo]

😊 This is a really cool video. I do miss my old pentium 3 rig, the good old voodoo 3 was the best. Man, I miss those days.

[Synthematix]

Ive never owned any socket7 stuff, but i remember at the time they were pretty good, think the oldest cpu i owned was a duron

[DarkLordValmar]

I love those IDE to SATA adapters, $10 all day in stock at MicroCenter, I bought all of them they had in the store (I love supporting the few remaining B&M stores that sell the kind of stuff we use)

[fanprocar]

Your voice is calming when you talk about computers CPUs etc

[peterilling]

Awesome video Phil brings back old. Memories. Setting up my old Unreal Tornament server running old Pentuim 3 a d voodoo 3 3000 graphics .Cheers from Turkey mate.