Re: Dream XP PC - ASUS P6T SE - I7 930 - Radeon 5870

Posted on 2022-07-28, 10:16

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by mastergamma12

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After building a Windows 98SE PC, I realized that a lot of the games I wanted to play were bitter fit for a Windows XP pc. I didn't waste any time and started to hoard parts for a overkill XP PC that will be able to run anything from 2002 to 2010. Apart from the SSD and PSU I tried to buy parts …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2022-07-27, 18:39

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Here's my current rig with specs AMD Ryzen 9 5950x (H115i Platinum) EVGA X570 FTW Asus Geforce RTX 2080 Ti Strix Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB DDR4 3600mhz (4 Sticks) Samsung 960 Pro 512GB NVMe SSD Samsung 860 Evo 500GB 2.5 SSD WD Black 2TB WD Black 4TB Creative Sound Blaster ZxR Seasonic Prime TX-850 …

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Re: What is your most hated/feard task in building a (retro)PC?

Posted on 2022-07-25, 00:10

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by mastergamma12

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Making sure the GART driver doesn't go stupid.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-13, 00:07

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by mastergamma12

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JustJulião wrote on 2022-07-12, 17:47: The Holy Grail of 440BX boards in my opinion : EPoX EP-BX7+100 Hardly goes under 400$ on eBay. Got this one on a local website f […] Show full quote The Holy Grail of 440BX boards in my opinion : EPoX EP-BX7+100 Hardly goes under 400$ on eBay. Got this one on …

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Re: [SOLVED] Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?

Posted on 2022-06-09, 23:12

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by mastergamma12

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BIG UPDATE I heard from the Korean eBay seller and, indeed, he provided me with a working, Tualatin-compatible BIOS update. He's a really nice fellow and seems super helpful. I can wholeheartedly say that I am glad to have bought one of his pre-modded CPUs. It works great and, until now, it's been …

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Re: Post photos of your Unique Custom CPU/GPU fan

Posted on 2022-06-09, 09:19

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by mastergamma12

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I suppose my cooling solution on my Pentium 3 system would count

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Re: 2008-era Win XP build

Posted on 2022-06-01, 17:30

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by mastergamma12

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If you do the 1366 rig, it should perform like mine, a little slower but still.

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Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?

Posted on 2022-05-16, 21:25

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by mastergamma12

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We haven't tried other BIOS's but Intel being Intel, I suppose chances are very slim indeed that it'll work with an unmodded BIOS. I had a D815EEA2 a few years back, Had to use an older bios or it would display a shutdown in 10 sec message whenever a Tualatin was inserted, ended up dumping the …

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Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?

Posted on 2022-05-16, 21:19

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by mastergamma12

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Looks like you'll have to track down a P3C-E if you want an 820 with Tualatin.

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Re: Ati Rage Mobility M1 Laptop find and story, help with games

Posted on 2022-05-15, 18:28

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by mastergamma12

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This chip is not powerful at all and barely has memory to run age appropriate games but being 8mb of vram it can still do something. For example, I also had a toshiba portege 3440ct with only 128mb of ram, pentium iii at 500mhz and a S3 Savage graphics which is also 8mb of vram, minecraft did run …

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Re: Ati Rage Mobility M1 Laptop find and story, help with games

Posted on 2022-05-15, 18:01

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by mastergamma12

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Yeah, you're expecting far too much from this laptop, I've got a Thinkpad X21 and I also used to have a Thinkpad A22M with that chip but with 4mb of vram and yeah, game compatibility can be slim pickings. A lot of the stuff I've got on my Tuala-Bus rig in my sig can barely run on here at all.

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Re: Which driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium for Win10/XP?

Posted on 2022-05-14, 00:33

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by mastergamma12

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Daniel K for both.

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-05, 08:46

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by mastergamma12

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Tetrium wrote on 2022-05-05, 06:50: mastergamma12 wrote on 2022-05-05, 03:51: If you want to use EAX and have more than 4gb of system ram, avoid XP 64. Is there actually any reason to pick XP64 over XP32 anyway? From my experience, no. On my XP rig, If I need to access more than 2-4gb of ram, I …

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-05, 03:51

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by mastergamma12

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If you want to use EAX and have more than 4gb of system ram, avoid XP 64.

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Re: P4 HT 670 / Asus P5P800 / FX5950U + V2 SLI / Audigy 2ZS + Vortex2 + X2GS / Win98

Posted on 2022-04-28, 01:49

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by mastergamma12

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How did you port the drivers? Ended up using a modified version of XP. That worked for me too. I followed your signature links to this page which links to a modified version of Windows XP POSReady 2009: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Optional+Patch+Integrator+script%22 I now have Windows XP …

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Re: P4 HT 670 / Asus P5P800 / FX5950U + V2 SLI / Audigy 2ZS + Vortex2 + X2GS / Win98

Posted on 2022-04-26, 19:21

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by mastergamma12

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I tried putting together a Z270 based Windows XP system over the weekend and that was a recipe for pure frustration. I mostly tried this since I already had a Z270 system assembled. I was able to get it to install XP, but I couldn't locate drivers for most devices, and it crashed after installing …

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Re: P4 HT 670 / Asus P5P800 / FX5950U + V2 SLI / Audigy 2ZS + Vortex2 + X2GS / Win98

Posted on 2022-04-26, 10:02

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by mastergamma12

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I tried putting together a Z270 based Windows XP system over the weekend and that was a recipe for pure frustration. I mostly tried this since I already had a Z270 system assembled. I was able to get it to install XP, but I couldn't locate drivers for most devices, and it crashed after installing …

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Re: Water-cooling Windows 7 Gaming Rig

Posted on 2022-04-25, 22:46

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by mastergamma12

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Oh that thing looks sweet. I was considering doing GTX 480 SLI on my Windows XP/7 rig but that would've required me to drop either my USB 3 card or my Wifi Card. Funny that you mention that... one of the primary reasons for water-cooling my 480s is to make them single-slot cards. I even got single- …

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Re: Water-cooling Windows 7 Gaming Rig

Posted on 2022-04-25, 02:30

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by mastergamma12

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Oh that thing looks sweet. I was considering doing GTX 480 SLI on my Windows XP/7 rig but that would've required me to drop either my USB 3 card or my Wifi Card.

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Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 08:57

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by mastergamma12

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I assume "don't much care for" means what it says and not outright hate. Skyrim It's sad to see how entry-by-entry the series got "streamlined" to "increase accessibility" and "achive greater market penetration". It's got to the point where Skyrim is just plain boring. I don't have faith in the …

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