Nexgen NxVL fpu a rare one?

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Blackfury



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:36 am    Post subject: Nexgen NxVL fpu a rare one? Reply with quote

got this Nexgen, is it a Fpu?

Is it a rare one?

and i can see that it's not on Cpu world

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is a seller on ebay with many of these. He sells them for $29.99 each the last time I looked.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Remember that Nexgen chips did not use standard sockets so Nexgen designed thier own motherboard chipsets as well. This is the Nexgen motherboard chipset. This one was for Vesa Local Bus. I think there was PCI version of the chipset.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's only the chipset, yes.



On the PCI motherboards the chipset is in a standard plastic package.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

...those are nice find minuteman Cool










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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think Nexgen NxVL is rare. Someone asked me if I'm interested for 10 EUR. I think that is max price for that chipset. 30 USD is "crazy eBay" price
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ahh I see that Nexgen used an Intel PCI bridge.

I love old motherboard photos! I wish there was a forum just for old motherboard photos!
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Nexgen NxVL fpu a rare one? Reply with quote

I got two Nexgen VL boards with Nx 586 P90 CPU yesterday(about 35 USD totally).they are the same boards as the minuteman's . However, the socket for NxVL is empty. The man told me that these two board was working-pull .

So these board could work without the NxVL chips?! (just disable the VL function ?)
I do some google but do not find the answer.
I am planing to have these board fire on again. But i just wonder now which type of RAM i should use. FP or edo ? with or without parity check ?
Thanks in forwards!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:39 am    Post subject: Re: Nexgen NxVL fpu a rare one? Reply with quote

lither wrote:
I got two Nexgen VL boards with Nx 586 P90 CPU yesterday(about 35 USD totally).they are the same boards as the minuteman's . However, the socket for NxVL is empty. The man told me that these two board was working-pull .

So these board could work without the NxVL chips?! (just disable the VL function ?)


No! Definitely not. Without a NxVL chip, the motherboard won't work.

lither wrote:
I am planing to have these board fire on again. But i just wonder now which type of RAM i should use. FP or edo ? with or without parity check ?


Except for the newest PCI boards, all NexGen boards require FP (fast page mode) RAM. But in practice, all the EDO RAMs is tried did work, too. Of course, there is no speed gain over FP, but EDO are much more common an thus easier to get.
For details, look into the Nx586 VESA/ISA System Board User's Manual.

When you succeed booting the boards, please check the BIOS version for me. It is displayed on the screen while booting and looks something like "005q033s" or "v06e033w". If your version is not listed on my web page I'd like to get a copy!
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