Re: What is better: used HDD from a server or used HDD from a home computer?

Posted on 2021-06-13, 16:23

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a samsung HD103SJ which I ran as my OS drive from late 2009 until 2018, and it still runs as my second drive, it's clocking 88980 hours and 3899 power counts, with 0 smart errors... hard drives can last a very long time, I wouldn't be too worried on power on time alone at this point, it still …

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Re: Which cpu is faster?

Posted on 2021-06-12, 18:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

well the OP didn't specify anything other than faster, I suspect overall the Pentium Pro is a faster chip? but it's much harder to get.

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Re: Old Video Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-10, 22:08

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I moderately upgraded the video card a couple times, it now has a GTX285 in it. That's why I stick to GTX280, which can be software undervolted and is reasonably quiet after that. I wish I had that model. Being able to software undervolt this card would be really nice. The variants of these cards …

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Re: Old Video Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-10, 16:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I disable the hardware GPU decoder on the web browser anyway, I keep the rest of the acceleration turned on but the decode specifically forced off on my HD4670 PC I had to turn a flag on to turn hardware acceleration on for the browser (edge chromium) because by default it disables it since it's too …

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Re: Old Video Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-10, 00:11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my newest PC is hardware from 2012, sandy bridge forever... but looking at my PCs most of the GPUs are from the same era more or less as the platform

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Re: n64 emu software rendering

Posted on 2021-06-05, 00:17

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

What PSX emulator are you using that has software rendering? That sounds odd. N64 emulation is inherently difficult and I would not expect an emulator that does "software rendering" to have improved compatibility. It certainly won't be quick. In any case, as you may have noticed, there is not much …

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Re: Half life + Pentium II = Stutter ?

Posted on 2021-06-04, 21:12

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in Marvin \ Software

p2 450 will drop to the 20s or lower FPS in the bad spots of the game,

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Re: Intel G41 8GB low density ram limit (?)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 15:30

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

a Core 2 with 16GB of ram is a very rare sight, suppose you should be looking at p45 or x38/48 for that, another thing I forgot to mention, high end 775 boards tend to be very power hungry, even in idle state, the g31/g41 ones are much better in that regard which is something that I always …

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Re: Intel G41 8GB low density ram limit (?)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 14:56

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

early 2000s I was going for mid to higher end boards (mostly for overclocking) at some point I lost my interest for that and started going for budget boards, I mostly had a decent time with the cheap boards, coming from the 90s where cheap boards here were stuff of nightmares, really lacking in …

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Re: Intel G41 8GB low density ram limit (?)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 01:50

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hate to disagree but I have a Asus P5G41T-M and it is not "fine" by any good soc 775 standards. OK for a simple build but the limitations are just too many. Just my opinion. from the standpoint of building a basic PC it's completely fine, by that I mean, you pretty much get the full performance of …

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Re: Intel G41 8GB low density ram limit (?)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 00:25

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

G41 is limited to 4GB with DDR2 and 8GB DDR3, I did some research back in the day and found no evidence of anyone managing to overcome these limits... G41 is fine, the memory performance should be as good as P35 when not using the IGP, and the IGP is GMA 4500 which while slow at least has WDDM1.1 …

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Re: Half Life max FPS

Posted on 2021-05-29, 17:21

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in Marvin \ Software

100 is the default limit, I always played like that, apparently this developer 1 fps_override 1 works for CS 1.6, maybe it will work with some version of HL1?

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Re: SiS 530 A2 - no d3D / openGL

Posted on 2021-05-29, 16:53

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in Marvin \ Video

the sis 530 IGP is super awful, I had lots of trouble trying to run anything on it and when it did it was super slow, I just consider it a fine 2d adapter at this point, I think the last version of the driver had some sort of OGL support but it's very broken, I highly doubt that as a 3d accelerator …

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Re: Is it possible to force SecuROM DRM on Windows 10?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 09:17

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in Windows

in Windows

windows 10 32bit seems to be a lot more compatible with older stuff also, might worth a try?

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Re: A high end Multi Core (775 or AM3+) Windows XP build

Posted on 2021-03-12, 12:15

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wouldn't the x5470 bottleneck the 7870? in general yes, but really, it depends on the game and settings, if you go all out with resolution and MSAA you can make the 7870 perform poorly on some pre-2010 games I'm sure. a component being bottlenecked doesn't really invalidate the combination, …

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Re: Good value Win98 Graphic Card

Posted on 2021-03-09, 04:00

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in Marvin \ Video

someone posted in another thread some 3dmark results for the FX1300 under windows 98 and it was awful, way bellow an AGP card, it seems the drivers are very broken, with many games failing to work.

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Re: Intel 440BX and Pentium III 1.1 Ghz

Posted on 2021-03-08, 00:15

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the main thing to be aware with 440BX at 133 is that the AGP clock is always overclocked and some video cards might have issues that's one thing that lead me to get the 1100, but, FSB 133 is significantly faster. I would think a 933 can often beat the 1100.

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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2021-03-08, 00:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pci to pcie express adapters should work fine with soundcards under windows xp, I've used for a while that configuration with no problems.

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Re: Good value PC for Win98 - evading the RETRO TAX

Posted on 2021-03-05, 22:07

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a P4 build with an intel 865p chipset. Rock solid stable and great performance. Has SATA 1.5 support that works great with windows 98. USB 2.0. Gigabit ethernet. The works. An ATI 9600 is a cheap and very fast video card. The MX 440 or cheaper FX cards are a lot slower but in some ways are …

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Re: A high end Multi Core (775 or AM3+) Windows XP build

Posted on 2021-03-04, 22:17

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pretty sure I got the same amount of usable ram with a physical 4GB with either 1GB or 2GB vram cards, it was always around 3.2 or 3.5GB

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