Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 05:45

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by Munx

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I see some cooling discussion here, so I'm just going to add a link to a Socket 478 adapter that would help if you got access to a 3D printer: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6109363 As others mentioned, getting a motherboard for a good price is not easy - when not the initial price, its the …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-08, 10:05

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Another weekend, another find at the flea market. Its about time to start finding more AM4 stuff out there, its been out for 8 years now. For 30 moneys I got myself a whole PC, just without a storage drive. Asrock A320m-DGS, Ryzen 2200G, A single 8GB stick of DDR4-2666 RAM, all packed in a beat up …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-29, 13:56

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Just picked up this Cube. Seems to be in really nice condition. Only minor scratches, that probably can be polished off. One USB port is missing the plastic part in the center. Looks like normal off-the-shelf part, so it might be possible to replace for cheap. Bigger headache is the missing power …

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Re: Audician 32 hanging midi

Posted on 2024-03-11, 16:15

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by Munx

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I've used a couple of different midi boards on my Audician 32 (Dreamblaster S1 and a Roland one, I forget the model) and had no issues. Never tried an external midi player, though.

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Re: Do discrete sound cards have any gaming utility in modern computers?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 15:50

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Built-in audio in my B550 board is very quiet and cant drive proper headphones so I fixed it with a used Sound Blaster Z.

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Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?

Posted on 2024-02-26, 09:25

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Close to a decade late, but I got there eventually :D -Got essentially scammed into buying a new AGP system in ~2006 -Bought a gaming laptop ~2009 (geforce 9600M graphics card was actually removable, but I never found any outlet that would sell one at the time) -Finally switched to a proper PCIe …

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Re: EAX support on Windows 7 laptop?

Posted on 2024-02-19, 09:23

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by Munx

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I would just stick to Windows XP here, considering the specs and that you want to play pre-Vista games anyway. For me OpenAL/Creative Alchemy never worked that well any time I tried it.

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Re: Help me rebuild an XP era retro-gaming machine! (AMD Athlon XP 2000)

Posted on 2024-01-28, 12:56

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by Munx

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To keep it simple I'd recommend a S478/Pentium 4 machine instead. While later Socket A motherboards often used 12V power, S478 had that as standard. This way you can use any new power supply and not worry about rails.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-09, 12:10

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Nice, I keep seeing R5 2600s pop up for decent prices here, but used AM4 motherboard pricing in my local market is wacky. Stuff people panic bought at high covid prices and now want 100% of their money back after beating on it for two years, umm, no. Though weirdly the GPU pricing is somewhat sane, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-08, 14:45

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Got a Diamond FireGL 4000 with wopping 31MB memory. Came out in 1997. As far as I know, it can only do OpenGL 1.1 on Windows NT4. No DirectX. IMG_20240108_152025512.jpg It has a connector for VR glasses - where the hell do I get one of these now? :) IMG_20240108_152207224.jpg I'll dump the driver …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-08, 12:47

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Felt a little regretful after selling my old R5 3600 - afterwards spotted an A320 AM4 motherboard for sale for just 25 moneys locally. Still grabbed it and then got an R5 1600 (12nm AF variant) to go with it for 30. So overall, I still got both for less than the 3600, which I sold for 70. The DDR4 …

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Re: Shuttle 591P (Apollo MVP3), Windows 98SE and 3D graphics

Posted on 2024-01-06, 20:55

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by Munx

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What is the BIOS date? In my experience early MVP3 BIOS's are very unstable when using AGP graphics and updates very often fix all issues.

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Re: Games or demos to benchmark Windows 95 performance under DirectX 5 / OpenGL?

Posted on 2023-12-26, 07:14

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by Munx

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Turok has a (rather lengthy) benchmark.

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Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-12-18, 07:45

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Shponglefan wrote on 2023-11-26, 14:40: I wonder if such clauses have ever been challenged in court. If they are against the law, they can very easily be used against a publisher. See: how Valve now offers refunds for Steam purchases

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-16, 14:32

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Decided to max out my AM4 B550 system - upgraded from an R5 3600 to an R7 5800X3D.

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Re: AMD R7 240 poor performance comapred to HD8490

Posted on 2023-11-23, 20:04

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by Munx

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CoP also has a DX8 shader left over for GeForce FX cards, which is pretty wild when you think about it - from DX8 all the way up to DX11.

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Re: AMD R7 240 poor performance comapred to HD8490

Posted on 2023-11-22, 18:20

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Are you sure its an R7 and not R5? Wikipedia says the 1GB model is the 64-bit R5 only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Radeon_200_series If your HD 8490 is the GDDR5 version, it has twice the memory bandwidth of an R5 240, which could explain the performance …

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Re: 40-Pin Cf Compact Flash Card To 3.5 Ide Converter - PC wont get past Detecting Drives

Posted on 2023-11-07, 09:05

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by Munx

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1. Often these CF adapters dont like sharing IDE channels with other drives. Try it on its own. 2. Some CF cards are iffy with old motherboards. Try a different CF card.

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-11-03, 10:18

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by Munx

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Go with a dual-core system - some games will take advantage of 2 threads, some wont. Most will not run faster on more than 2, so 2 cores are optimal. Intel is preferable - some engines (For example Unreal, whatever Fallout 3 runs on) need tweaks to run properly on AMDs multi-core setups. Don't go …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-11-01, 07:50

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awgamer wrote on 2023-11-01, 00:18: I thought all Europeans drove Ferraris. Nah its just all Italians

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