Re: Athlon XP VS Pentium 4 (478 Prescott) for 2003 build?
Posted on 2020-10-12, 16:59
Interesting I didn't know that, thanks!
Re: Athlon XP VS Pentium 4 (478 Prescott) for 2003 build?
Posted on 2020-10-12, 16:24
If I had to build a Athlon XP config with the 3200+ I'd go for the rare KT880 chipset mainboards having dual channel ram support and SATA. But still the Pentium 4 @ 3,4Ghz Prescott has something to say considering having SSE3 support too with the right chipset and DDR2 even possible Socket 478 rare …
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 clone with x86 basis
Posted on 2020-10-11, 16:32
Interesting having both x64 Win and Linux freedom to install compared to the usual arm SBC but beside I don't like the UEFI bios concept, the solution would be nice for a modern light desktop replacement. Maybe not for retrogaming.. as I tested with Win 8.1 even 32bit version with old games it was …
Pentium G2130 vs i5 650 vs Celeron G1820 vs Core2 E8600
Posted on 2020-10-07, 11:36
Hi, trying to build a "modern" low-res (720p.. 1024x768..) game config with the components I got already, I was thinking to buy some cheap nobrand mobo and use one of these cpu adding some middle end modern GPU to that. What would you choose? I already have the mainboard for the E8600 but no double …
Re: Video card for Core 2 Quad build
Posted on 2020-10-06, 13:59
But what about a more modern middle-end card? Would it work and give an higher boost? Cause I have the same situation and was thinking if using an old DDR3/G41 board as a base for a "modern low-res game machine".
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-10-03, 19:27
It probably have to do with both the modern o.s. and the game engine not well optimized as other games heavier than this. It's because it's running on a lazily ported Xbox codebase, on a extremely bad fork of the Unreal Engine. (known as Unreal Warfare) There's really nothing that can be done to …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-09-30, 12:52
I'm sort of trying to play Thief Deadly Shadow (3) but it's a very strange game to run at a good frame rate in modern o.s. I've tried modern patches but the games always seems to run not smooth even if the Geforce 210 PCI I'm using beside a very low end card should eat that game. I've tried Win8.1 …
Re: PCI Latency Timer info
Posted on 2020-09-29, 10:22
Thank you for the answer. Unfortunately I don't know how to monitor or check the real speed of the chipset > gpu connection considering there're two bridges in the middle. This is an industrial mainboard and the only way I had to push the system speed was to install a modern low end video card. At …
Re: Anyone went nuclear and replaced all AT PSUs with ATXs?
Posted on 2020-09-28, 09:06
Even if I got a couple of good AT psu that works ok, I'm using an Enermax 2003 ATX one that has the -5V line because I might have been unlucky but I've got a 386 mainboard that seems to need that or maybe the whole config prefers having that. Strangest things happened to me without that voltage rail …
PCI Latency Timer info
Posted on 2020-09-27, 16:32
Hi, considering I'm using a PCI modern Geforce 210 card on a mini-itx board having a single PCI old type bus that use an Intel PCI bridge on the chipset to connect it to the native PCI-EX1 (no reason why they did that when a better faster native PCI-EX1 bus would have been possible) and the vga …
Re: GT520 PCI compatibility
Posted on 2020-09-27, 12:05
I got less than 5600 points on a Geforce 210 PCI and a dual core Atom with Win 8.1 but I suppose these old bench and modern gpu simply aren't somehow comaptible to be rendered in the way and speed they were intended to like on older o.s. and on older GUI. For example things get even worse with …
Re: Any way to optimize a modern PCI (old) vga? (update)
Posted on 2020-09-22, 19:52
I just had a thought about a really hacky workaround . If your board has no PCI Express slots but does have a free mini PCI Express slot for a WIFI card, you can get an adapter that should allow a PCI Express video card to work in that at x1 speed . I know this not answer any questions about why …
Re: Any way to optimize a modern PCI (old) vga? (update)
Posted on 2020-09-22, 18:59
I would be curious about seeing results in Windows XP and the officially supported Windows 7 starter edition . The ICH7 82801 variant is limited to 33MHz legacy PCI operation according to the datasheet I've seen. Interesting but how linux would start it to 66Mhz then? In the bios the only thing …
Re: Any way to optimize a modern PCI (old) vga? (update)
Posted on 2020-09-22, 17:25
I would be curious about seeing results in Windows XP and the officially supported Windows 7 starter edition . The ICH7 82801 variant is limited to 33MHz legacy PCI operation according to the datasheet I've seen. Interesting but how linux would start it to 66Mhz then? In the bios the only thing …
Re: Any way to optimize a modern PCI (old) vga? (update)
Posted on 2020-09-22, 13:27
Update: 3dmark05 in Win 8.1: around 1000 points 3dmark05 in Linux with Wine: around 2200 points I checked and in the system win devices there's a MS default drivers for the Intel 82801 PCI bridge but I don't see any drivers or sign of the PLX vga bridge. Could it be maybe I'd need some official …
Re: Any way to optimize a modern PCI (old) vga? (update)
Posted on 2020-09-22, 10:16
Interesting . Out of curiosity, what motherboard are you using and do you know what model PCI bridge chips your video card and motherboard (assuming it is using one) are using ? I am wondering if perhaps your PCIEX, PCIEX-PCI, PCI-PCIEX, PCIEX "sandwich" might be PCI 66Mhz capable, but your BIOS …
Re: Any way to optimize a modern PCI (old) vga?
Posted on 2020-09-22, 08:18
You really, really don't want to be using a PCI GPU for any OS newer than XP. The display composition routines that newer OSes employ was never intended for such a slow bus. When I tested my GT520 PCI in a C2D E8600 machine, I couldn't even get YouTube playing smoothly at 360p. Even the lame …
Any way to optimize a modern PCI (old) vga? (update)
Posted on 2020-09-21, 16:24
Hi, I'm trying a Geforce 210 512mb ddr3 into an old but modern dual core 1.9Ghz/ddr3 industrial mini-itx board. The board has only one single PCI old style connector and I thought to try pushing its limits with this card being theorically faster than the on-board one or the FX5200 PCI I already had. …
Re: Radeon 9250 vs GF 6200 vs FX 5200 for Win98?
Posted on 2020-09-14, 17:35
The only thing that I wonder is how much the 6200 faster card would stress the PCI bus power wattage considering the other PCI cards that were usually installed into an old system maybe three or four PCI connectors?. The FX 5200 I'm trying already seems to require all the 25W limit measuring the …
Re: Radeon 9250 vs GF 6200 vs FX 5200 for Win98?
Posted on 2020-09-14, 16:36
Lately I'm trying the FX 5200 PCI (256MB 128bit) but on a modern Win 8.1 and forcing Vista drivers. It works I suppose cause already written for the WDDM 1.0 driver model and to make things more difficult I'm using a low power Atom system. Anyway I've seen most old games didn't really use a lot of …
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