Re: 3dfx Voodoo2 Woodgrain Cooling Shroud

Posted on 2019-12-03, 00:30

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by Shagittarius

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When Voodoo 2 was released 2 of them died from overheating in my P200 MMX. They always needed active cooling or a case with major airflow. Ultimately i put active cooling on my Voodoo 2 board after the 2nd one died, 3dfx was willing to keep sending me replacements but I didn't want the hassle. You …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo2 Woodgrain Cooling Shroud

Posted on 2019-12-02, 19:27

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When Voodoo 2 was released 2 of them died from overheating in my P200 MMX. They always needed active cooling or a case with major airflow. Ultimately i put active cooling on my Voodoo 2 board after the 2nd one died, 3dfx was willing to keep sending me replacements but I didn't want the hassle.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-12-02, 15:04

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Knocked a couple off my active playlist during the end of November thanksgiving holiday. Assassin's Creed: Origins - This game was good, except for the end, everything from the moment of 'No Return' felt rushed and disconnected from the rest of the game. In the end an open world of to-do lists can't …

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 20:21

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I like the following so far but I'm still open to suggestions arguments for the perfect gaming test suite. I think we need to stick to out of the box experience and maxed out graphics at 1024x768 - 1600x1200. Win98 : Farcry, Morrowind (More to be added) What do you guys think about Arx Fatalis for …

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-11-29, 18:21

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Only going from memory I know when C2D first came out it was slower than the P4 for single core processing. I know I didn't upgrade until subsequent releases of the C2D when they got the frequency up.

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 07:53

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I'm playing Farcry maxed out (including water reflections) and its entirely playable on my Radeon 9800pro 128MB. 1024x768. Giants is nothing on a 9800 Pro , it runs fully playable at 1920x1080 fully maxed out.

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 07:10

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I'm not counting things you can tweak, just simply games that came out with support for the OS. I was thinking personally Farcry might be a good cut off for Win98, even though it came out after XP it was close enough that many people may have run it on 98.

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End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 06:14

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I was just doing some thinking about what games mark the end of the power requirement for an OS. For example if you were building a Win98 machine, what would be the one game you would use to say, "If it can run this, it can run anything I would want to on this platform". I guess I'm asking for the …

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Re: On "time-accuracy," and whether it's worth it.

Posted on 2019-11-28, 06:08

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I've got a DVD-ROM drive on my IBM 5170. It of course can't read DVDs its just what came in the external SCSI enclosure and I use it for CD-ROMS which in itself would be a bit off.

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Re: On "time-accuracy," and whether it's worth it.

Posted on 2019-11-28, 03:56

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Personally I had more fun with the first upgrade cycle that happened after all the latest game releases. I would go back and replay all the new games when I got a new video card because back in the day even the latest video card really couldn't handle the latest games flawlessly. So it was most …

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Re: NVidia GTX 1080ti on Win XP

Posted on 2019-11-27, 21:53

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Thanks for the info, maybe i'll just stick with the 780ti. I guess it would be fun to run an SLI setup that way possibly too.

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Re: NVidia GTX 1080ti on Win XP

Posted on 2019-11-27, 21:32

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I currently am using a 780ti which is fine. I just wanted the better performance when running the Windows 10 boot. If I were to put both cards in there do you have a method for it automatically determining which card to use per OS? Hardware or otherwise? I don't want to use a switchbox if I can …

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NVidia GTX 1080ti on Win XP

Posted on 2019-11-27, 19:53

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Hey, just checking in to see if anyone has had any experience with this. I'm wondering if I add my GTX 1080ti to the last version of XP drivers that Nvidia released if I will be able to get it to run on XP. I know it won't be optimal but do you think it would run decently enough with the supported …

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Re: Half-Life Alyx

Posted on 2019-11-27, 19:33

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I wish someone would update Trespasser to work with VR, that would be hilarious and awesome at the same time.

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Re: FAst XP gaming PCs - socket 1155, 1156, 1366?

Posted on 2019-11-25, 16:30

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Having just upgraded my XP rig from a Core 2 Quad to a Xeon x5690 I can say that as far as games go there was no need to upgrade, I also went from a GTX 580 to a GTX780ti which did net me performance but it wasn't performance I needed , the old rig already ran all XP era games plenty fast. However, …

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Re: I remember this as a kid "Cant delete files in dos - no room"

Posted on 2019-11-23, 03:51

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Kinda sounds like the kinda thing doublespace might say.

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Re: Bring out your swag

Posted on 2019-11-23, 01:32

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Got lots of fun stuff. Here's one I got for pre-ordering back in the day. Filename 20191122_194028.jpg File size 198.56 KiB Views 1767 views File comment Front Filename 20191122_194059.jpg File size 249.07 KiB Views 1767 views File comment Back

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Re: DOS 6 22 vs DOS 7.1

Posted on 2019-11-18, 17:07

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Dune 2 runs perfect for me in DOS7.1 with QEMM.

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI weirdness.

Posted on 2019-11-18, 16:58

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Theres no notable scaling at any resolution. It scores the same in the benchmark regardless of SLI or single or resolution. I also don't think its sync because 3dMark doesn't come close to 60 FPS while Quake III will routinely go up to 90+ FPS. However no FPS increase in SLI. So 640x480, 800x600, or …

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Re: DOS 6 22 vs DOS 7.1

Posted on 2019-11-17, 22:30

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Prepare to burn me at the stake, On my Pentium 90 I'm running DOS 7.1 with the latest version of QEMM. and I like it.

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