Re: Opinion on Ati X800/850 on Pentium 3/Tualatin?

Posted on Today, 01:43

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by lordmogul

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On the same machine with the same installation and monitor? Is there any major difference from the 4-1-4-4 R200 and 4-2-4-4 RV300 design to the 16-6-16-16/12-6-12-16 R400 design that could cause the issues? Perhaps on the video output part. Might as well stick with the 9600 XT then. There shouldn't …

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Re: What to do with old modems and gateways

Posted on Today, 01:10

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by lordmogul

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If the switch-capable boxes have wifi, they might do job as repeaters. Or throw storage at them. I already got that they don't have USB hosts in them, only clients. Butr network linked storage might work. Depending on the exact models, perhaps they could even run some embedded Linux and become …

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Re: Checkmate SFX-200w - newly produced ATX PSU for Retro PCs?

Posted on Today, 01:00

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by lordmogul

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looking at that I feel like I made a good decision with using an FSB350-60 HHN in my CuMine build. Just as comparison: PSUa.png And that thing was 15€ after rebate. New, full price it's about 30€, so much cheaper. Connectors are 20 pin ATX, P4 plug, 2x Molex, 3x SATA, 1x Floppy. It also has all the …

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Re: Does anybody have an idea on how I can further upgrade my system?

Posted on Yesterday, 23:55

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by lordmogul

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I think the DVD drive is playing up though. It's not reading discs and keeps opening the tray, even with no disc. When I push the tray in, it stays closed for about 2 seconds then opens a few millimeters. I don't use it much, but I've just added a fourth OS (XP) on the system and the install disc …

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Re: Integrated graphics good enough for windows 98?

Posted on Yesterday, 23:03

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by lordmogul

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I'd say highly variable. The first question is: What kind of games and at what settings and resolution. The second question is: Which integrated graphics. Most would probably think "Integrated? So those shoddy Intel ones?" And while that might be a good start, even they can vary a lot. Starting at …

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

Posted on Yesterday, 20:12

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by lordmogul

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More of a retro-ish activity: Been testing cycle settings in DOSBox to see how close I can get to real hardware. Cylces are supposed to be KIPS (or rather 1000 cycles -> 1 MIPS), and the theoretical performance for many old CPUS is known, so I try to get presets that are as close as I can get in …

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Re: Opinion on Ati X800/850 on Pentium 3/Tualatin?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:08

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by lordmogul

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No luck, definitely its acting very strange whatever the reason may be. For very old DOS games it says invalid format on my 40 inch TV, and on bit newer DOS games its splits screen in 3 small screens and beneath are pixelated mess. It may be the card is corrupted or something but on XP all games i …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2024-08-30, 21:53

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by lordmogul

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in Marvin \ Video

if you gonna dualboot, I say it makes more sense to dualboot 98se with XP, than XP with 7 or 10, because, most of the games you would need XP for, would be made for 4:3 aspect ratio, so then you can have one desk set up with a CRT and your harrdware for winXP and below, and another desk with your …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2024-07-28, 00:47

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by lordmogul

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Many are looking at high end cards for that, but I'd suggest a midrange card from one or two generations later. So instead of a 9800 GTX, take a GTX 260, instead of a HD 4870, take a HD 5770, instead of a GTX 285, take a GTX 460, instead of a GTX 580, take a GTX 670 etc. The newer midrange card will …

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Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2024-07-27, 10:50

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by lordmogul

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have two ES1371 cards as well, and while the FM synth is far from great, PCM sound is fine, especially when using appropriately mediocre speakers. Oh, and for those, don't get the drivers from the Creative site. They only have one driver for 9x, and that lacks the MPU-401 emulation part. So hunt …

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Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-03-20, 10:27

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by lordmogul

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Now my challenge is finding the bloody cards eBay can’t seem to tell the difference between pci and pci-e or agp, I’ve found a 5500 for £50 but most available are $200 -$500 from America Do you mean a Voodoo 5 5500 or a Geforce FX 5500? Because there will be quite the difference. A Voodoo 5500 will …

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Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-01-23, 10:34

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by lordmogul

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PCI cards are obviously an option https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcMvJSMWIs he also tested PCIe x1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEge5r6-mg The fastest card would either be a GT 710 (for PCI x1) or GT 520/610 (on both PCI and PCIe x1), and afaik someone even made a GT 640 on those old slots. If …

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Re: Noob problem with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650: DGVOODOO startup crash though card is listed as 10.1 compatible

Posted on 2022-11-29, 12:53

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by lordmogul

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Yes, looks like it, Windows 10 provides some native driver for that card, but it's not a complete supported driver by ATI, so it's probably because of that. There is no vendor driver support for this GPU for Windows 10. The laptop came with Windows 7 originally, which still had driver support for …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2021-11-16, 08:22

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by lordmogul

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In my Socket 370 system (i815 chipset, 98SE/XP dual boot) I'm running a USB 2.0/IDE/SATa combo card with VIA VT6214L and VT6421A chips. No idea which one das what, but so far I had no issues using the USB and IDE ports on it, and drivers for 98 SE are available. Looks like this (picture from the …

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Re: Can you help me build a Windows 98 SE gaming machine?

Posted on 2021-11-07, 18:46

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by lordmogul

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The E4700 is a great choice, pretty much the fastest stock supported dual core you can find. 98 won't use more than one core anyway, and there are few XP "optimized" games, that need a quad and have issues on more recent systems. By the time games made good use of quad cores, you start going into …

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Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2021-05-03, 19:14

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by lordmogul

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm currently in the process in running it through my P3 rig at different clocks and cache settings and the speedsys results are a bit confusing. In the spreadsheet the faster systems are getting smaller values, The P4 NW sitting at 1.55 and a 486dx-33 at around 1070, but my result is around 1150, …

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Re: Real hardware DOS gaming console for HDMI displays

Posted on 2020-12-09, 06:39

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by lordmogul

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

[*]Reconfigurable wireless controller that can play almost all DOS games without compromises (means mapping keyboard keys, not just a 4-axis 4-button joystick) Remember to write some sort of on-screen keyboard for those games that rely on stuff like a text parser and can't be controlled by setting …

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Re: My poor 300mhz Kalmath core Pentium 2 has spent 23 years like this

Posted on 2020-07-22, 11:02

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by lordmogul

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Reminds me of DAU alarm, they have a big gallery of stuff like that. Foils left on, chipped Athlons, machines drowned in conductive paste, no paste, paste in the socket, more chipped Athlons, coolers mounted the wrong way, even more chipped Athlons. Warning, will break your mind and never place down …

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Re: PIII for Win98 gaming

Posted on 2020-07-22, 10:47

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by lordmogul

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A few years back I found a couple of passive Medion Geforce 3 Ti 200 and snatched one of them. Great card, but maybe a bit too much for your setup. On the other hand it would mean you could drive up the resolution and play everything on 1280x960 or something crazy like that. The MX 460 also seems a …

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Re: Anyone collect foreign computers?

Posted on 2020-07-22, 10:39

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by lordmogul

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd love to get my hands on some machines that were common overseas like a PC-98 or Tandy. Sadly prices and compatibility are a bit of an issue.

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