Re: Powerful passive AGP card. Which to choose? Also CPU tip.

Posted on 2017-01-29, 20:48

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

So 6200 it is then? It's a cutie, just like the MX440. I won't be removing the heat sink, so it should not break. As for the CPU, I found one for sell: AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ AXMH2500FQQ4C. Will it be good with 6200? Now, which MoBo should I pick for this CPU? ASUS? ASRock? Other? What cooler models …

---

Re: Troubleshooting a Voodoo2, help wanted

Posted on 2017-01-28, 22:09

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Just noticed something in my own PII 450, 440BX chipset, Voodoo 2 SLI windows 98SE machine, I got a new(old) Geforce2 GTS card in today, so decided to check that out and run a benchmark. Drivers installed fine, card seemed to be working(at least boot up, desktop, resolutions etc). I fire up 3D Mark …

---

Re: Troubleshooting a Voodoo2, help wanted

Posted on 2017-01-27, 17:32

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

3D Mark 99 max does work with single voodoo 2, (and SLI of course) The presence or absence of the passthrough cable should make no difference to Device Manager or any dialog box in 3DMark. Yes you are correct. Is there a possible resource conflict, maybe with a sound card, could be stopping the …

---

Re: Troubleshooting a Voodoo2, help wanted

Posted on 2017-01-27, 17:17

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

3D Mark 99 max does work with single voodoo 2, (and SLI of course) The presence or absence of the passthrough cable should make no difference to Device Manager or any dialog box in 3DMark. Yes you are correct. Is there a possible resource conflict, maybe with a sound card, could be stopping the …

---

Re: Troubleshooting a Voodoo2, help wanted

Posted on 2017-01-27, 16:00

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Try the latest official 3dfx voodoo 2 drivers, and that the VGA passthrough cable is connected.

---

Re: Choosing graphics card for Pentium 200 rig

Posted on 2017-01-25, 17:09

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I've found the Trio 3D/2X to be very good image quality wise and compatibility but S3 cards are hit and miss my Virge DX is terrible quality wise, you could try the Savage and see what it's like. If you want quality with windows and DOS it'd best to go with a Nvidia card it seems. I'm on the look …

---

Re: Pentium III 733 and ATI Radeon 9600XT

Posted on 2017-01-24, 15:43

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

best thing to do is get some benchmarks done, XP will run fine although probably better suited to 98SE, a 733mhz PIII i ran for a while with a 9800XT and it worked fine although the CPU was holding the card back, I changed the card out for a Matrox G400 Max, just to balance things out a bit with 2 …

---

Re: ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB Low Performance

Posted on 2017-01-23, 22:02

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The athlon 1600+ is probably holding back the 9600XT

---

Re: Another Help me pick a Graphics Card / GPU thread.

Posted on 2017-01-23, 21:43

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Moved to Video. Thanks, Didn't actually notice the Sub forums for Video / Sound etc, are they newish? It's not on your list but I would seriously consider the S3 or Cirrus Logic paired with a Voodoo1 or maybe a Voodoo2. I'm pretty sure the that would handle any 3D games you would throw at it and …

---

Another Help me pick a Graphics Card / GPU thread.

Posted on 2017-01-23, 20:32

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Need some opinions on which GPU setup to run on my Super Socket 7 Machine, it'll mainly be used for MS-DOS games, but including later MSDOS titles such as Tomb Raider and Quake, alongside older titles, such as DOOM, Dark Forces, some flight sims, Duke Nukem 3D, Lucas arts adventure games, Crusader, …

---

Re: ATI Rage 128 GL PCI Win98 drivers

Posted on 2016-11-01, 15:22

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are so many variants of the Rage 128 cards out there, was a pain getting on 128 pro ultra 32mb working, eventually got working drivers from dell, but still had to do a little edit to one of the files, the card has a different vendor / device id that isn't covered by the official drivers, so …

---

Re: power supply

Posted on 2016-10-08, 08:12

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i use a corsair cx430 in my p3 machine and FSP 300w PSU in my PII machine / Athlon XP machine. Although i should probably swap the CX430 into the Athlon XP machine.

---

Re: PCI GPU Benchmarks of 9200SE, NVS280, MX4000

Posted on 2016-10-02, 13:48

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cards I'd recommend checking out, Radeon 9000, 9500. 9550, 9700pro 9800 pro 9600pro 9600xt 9800xt, kyro II 4500. Most of those are not PCI? But yeah, i would like to get my hands on some 9250 128bit PCI cards. My issue is that i tested these cards for 5 computers im building that i would like to …

---

Re: PCI GPU Benchmarks of 9200SE, NVS280, MX4000

Posted on 2016-10-01, 23:20

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cards I'd recommend checking out, Radeon 9000, 9500. 9550, 9700pro 9800 pro 9600pro 9600xt 9800xt, kyro II 4500.

---

Re: AGP vs PCI - S3, Nvidia, 3dfx, Matrox - Graphics for DOS\9x system

Posted on 2016-09-27, 07:17

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

S3 cards have great compatibility but some are made cheaper than others as I've found out, both my PCI and AGP S3 cards have issues using LCD monitors (they'd probably be fine via CRT) one is overly bright and the other is overly bright with weird wavy lines. I'd go with a 3dfx Voodoo card, or a …

---

Re: Joystick and Gamepad options for DOS Gaming

Posted on 2016-09-26, 16:16

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested out the Saitek 6 button pad, it works but only as a 4 button pad which kinda sucks for the likes or Mortal Kombat If I'm not mistaken, Mortal Kombat versions before Trilogy only support 4-button controllers anyways. yeah when using the joystick option in game but keyboard binding allows use …

---

Re: Joystick and Gamepad options for DOS Gaming

Posted on 2016-09-26, 14:54

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested out the Saitek 6 button pad, it works but only as a 4 button pad which kinda sucks for the likes or Mortal Kombat, will be playing some fighters, looks like there are(unofficial) DOS drivers for sidewinder pads and joyToKey like software so that could be a nice option.

---

Joystick and Gamepad options for DOS Gaming

Posted on 2016-09-26, 12:55

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I Currently have a Saitek 6 Button microswitch Gameport Gamepad although not tested this is MS DOS it does work in windows 9x, and a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 1 Joystick, although I don't think this works in DOS due to the funky microsoft drivers and how the game port is used, although I …

---

Re: Software equalizer

Posted on 2016-09-22, 20:52

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Other than the creative one, I don't know of any. I think the Audigy sounds pretty decent, although i don't use it for music, just games.

---

Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???

Posted on 2016-09-22, 08:22

by

by synrgy87

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've not tried the AWE32 but the AWE64 GOLD does put out some very nice sound, also a very nice looking card, if you find one for a good price I'd go for it, very capable in both DOS and windows 98, currently have one in my P3 rig. Edit: the AWE64 is also free of the hanging note midi bug and had …

---