Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-11-23, 19:35

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Who needs an RTX 3090 when you can have this? Time to benchmark my pancreas and see how it handles 4k... er, 4kg of sugar. Alright, what am I looking at? What you're looking at here is an honest-to-goodness Costco fruitcake. I usually start out the holiday season with the store bought stuff. But …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-11-22, 21:51

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Who needs an RTX 3090 when you can have this? Time to benchmark my pancreas and see how it handles 4k... er, 4kg of sugar.

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Re: I thought Fat 32 was 32gb max

Posted on 2020-11-20, 01:29

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32GB was just an artificial limit imposed by WinXP because MS wanted you to use NTFS. Win98 and ME (and maybe 2000...can't remember) were always able to create FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-17, 06:20

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Went to the store to buy cookies and fruitcake. Came home with this thing: https://i.imgur.com/sJddX3a.png Yeah, I know. There are far better ways to spend money, and I definitely felt a twinge of guilt at having succumbed to the temptation: Gee, Your Honor, the IPS LCD was bright and inviting and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-14, 18:37

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My wife and I decided to do something completely nerdy and different this morning: a Monster Bash race! We absolutely adore the Monster Bash DOS games, so we got up super early, made like a gallon of hot chocolate, and fired up two computers old enough to have floppy drives in them. Then we raced …

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Re: Computer Chronicles on YouTube - How far we have come since the early 1980s

Posted on 2020-11-13, 18:22

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Did you actually download them from Youtube? I'd recon it be easier and better quality from Archive.org I did download them from YouTube. I used WinX YouTube Downloader. I did not find any quality difference between Archive.org and YouTube that I could see. Archive.org also has massive (800MB-2GB) …

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Re: iPad Windows Alternative ?

Posted on 2020-11-12, 17:34

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I use a Surface Pro 4. Love the thing to bits and probably wouldn't trade it for anything else. I mean, having a tablet run the same OS and GUI as my desktop was the stuff of my dreams back in the 90s! Back then we didn't have ultra mobile CPUs anywhere near fast enough to pull it off, so I think …

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Re: What if Intel made a new 64-bit 386 or 486. . .

Posted on 2020-11-11, 07:37

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by Standard Def Steve

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C'mon now, we know Intel can't do 7nm. No, a 14nm+++++++ 64-bit, multi-core 486 without ILP, OoOE, SIMD, and all of the other cool tricks that make today's CPUs jackrabbit fast would not come anywhere near the performance of a modern CPU.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-07, 03:19

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I was reading Ryzen 5000 reviews this morning when I should've been doing actual work. Holy smoke! They actually managed to take back the low-res gaming crown, all while running at lower clocks than Intel and using less power. As crazy as this might sound, I'm seriously thinking of selling my "old" …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 16:57

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I was reading Ryzen 5000 reviews this morning when I should've been doing actual work. Holy smoke! They actually managed to take back the low-res gaming crown, all while running at lower clocks than Intel and using less power. As crazy as this might sound, I'm seriously thinking of selling my "old" …

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Re: Pentium 3 600 Katmai Voodoo 2 SLI System

Posted on 2020-11-06, 16:32

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I have a P3-based WIN98SE/XP system and a lot of DOS games work just fine on it. Same here with my 1.4ghz Tutalatin Rambus rig. Same here with my 1.4GHz stick of Celery (which, being installed on a slotket, a stick it totally is). :) OP - An AT Katmai in a case from the 386 days is nothing short of …

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Re: 10mb/sec on usb3 port and usb stick is good brand usb 3.0 on modern computer win 10pro, what is going on?

Posted on 2020-11-05, 00:09

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Yeah, most thumb drives are garbage at least in terms of write speed. My cheap 32 and 64GB Kingston sticks only write at around 15 MB/s. Read speed is pretty decent though: a steady 170 MB/s. Those speeds are consistent across all of the PCs that I use them on. Even USB-powered spinning rust …

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Re: What display do you use for gaming ?

Posted on 2020-10-24, 02:56

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I use a bunch of different display devices for gaming! 34" 16:9 CRT TV - 1080i - Older consoles, up to the original Xbox. 64" 16:9 plasma TV - 1080p - PS3/Xbox360, right on up to current gen consoles. 34" 21:9 LCD monitor - 3440x1440 - gaming on the main PC 32" 16:9 LCD monitor - 2560x1440 - gaming …

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Re: What display do you use for gaming ?

Posted on 2020-10-21, 06:18

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I use a bunch of different display devices for gaming! 34" 16:9 CRT TV - 1080i - Older consoles, up to the original Xbox. 64" 16:9 plasma TV - 1080p - PS3/Xbox360, right on up to current gen consoles. 34" 21:9 LCD monitor - 3440x1440 - gaming on the main PC 32" 16:9 LCD monitor - 2560x1440 - gaming …

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Re: Nvidia nForce 2 & ATI Catalyst Stable Driver Combination for XP?

Posted on 2020-10-17, 18:42

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I've had a couple of R300/350 generation Radeons suffer from stability issues when driven at the full 8x AGP rate, no matter what chipset. I've tried them on NF2, NF3, and 865. The cards that were fully stable at 8x, however, would not overclock nearly as high at 8x. Reducing the AGP speed to 4x …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-14, 22:10

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Having completed all of the games on my 486, I finally connected it to the network so that I could copy another 445MB worth of DOS gaming goodness from the file server. ISA network cards sure are poky. It took about an hour to get everything transferred. The machine's 1 gig hard drive is just about …

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Re: BENCHMARKS: Slot A (GA-7IXE & 750 MHz Pluto/700 MHz Thunderbird) vs Slot 1 (Gigabyte GA-BX2000+ & 750/1000 MHz P3 Co

Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:47

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Athlons had insane floating point performance, and well, games kinda liked that. 😀

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-10-11, 06:22

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Last 6: Pat Benatar - Treat Me Right Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom The Byrds - Mr. Spaceman Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Recess Cake - I Will Survive Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up

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Re: Probably the most boring standard retro PC :)

Posted on 2020-10-10, 22:04

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I like it! Those old BX based Dell machines are fantastic retro gaming machines. They just work, and are very upgradeable. My own 98SE machine is a heavily upgraded XPS T550 (uses the same chassis as your R400), with a Celeron-1400, Voodoo3 3500, Aureal Vortex SQ2500, and 512MB of RAM.

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Re: Is anyone excited for the Nvidia 3000 series cards

Posted on 2020-10-09, 06:06

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robertmo wrote on 2020-10-09, 05:47: sometimes its even slower than cheaper old intel Nope. Like Apple, I’m done with Intel. They’re just so goshdang boring these days. But instead of going ARM, I see a Zen 3 core in my future. 🙂 And now, back to RTX 3080 stuff...

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