Re: Best and worst sound cards you have ever owned?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 07:18

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by mastergamma12

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I know it's a necro, sorry. Best would be my Titanium HD or my Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Worst would be a Recon3d, seriously those things suck. Thing sounds worse than integrated audio, and was just much worse than the EMU20k based products it was supposed to replace. Sound Blaster Z may've been …

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Re: Athlon XP based GPU testing rig

Posted on 2021-01-22, 09:12

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by mastergamma12

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Thanks guys! It's time for a little update 😊 I got my new Athlon 3000+ 400FSB and I also put Gail PC3200 4GB instead of Kingston, and Pentagram QC-80 Cu cooler. So everything looks a bit nicer inside 😊 I just need to work on some cable management. Second change is returning to IDE drives instead of …

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Re: Athlon XP based GPU testing rig

Posted on 2021-01-20, 22:54

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by mastergamma12

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Nice rig, I got the Abit version of that board.

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Re: Athlon 64 build for 2001-2006 Windows XP gaming

Posted on 2021-01-19, 05:06

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by mastergamma12

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-01-15, 21:48: That's a very nice Athlon 64 build. Those Nforce 4 DFI boards were fantastic they still are. I wish DFI still made motherboards for consumer PC's instead of just industrial PC stuff. Same, that's basically why I picked up my X58 Lanparty board back in Sept.

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Re: Was Deus Ex rough on contemporary hardware?

Posted on 2021-01-10, 21:03

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by mastergamma12

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I've played Deus Ex on my 98 Rig with a 1.4ghz Pentium III with a Voodoo5 on a RdRam build and it can chug at times.

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2021-01-02, 09:11

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by mastergamma12

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RedCharles wrote on 2021-01-01, 09:20: Have you had any compatibility issues with early 2000s games? Only game so far was Planet of the Apes 2001, graphic issues. That game runs fine on my 98 rig.

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2020-12-30, 17:21

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by mastergamma12

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RedCharles wrote on 2020-12-29, 19:40: How does XP run with the six cores. Does it ignore five of them? It sees all 6 cores and 12 threads As for ram, xp only sees 2gb's while 7 sees all 12gb's

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-15, 09:49

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Xicor wrote on 2020-12-14, 17:36: Arrived today my favorite motherboard of all time the EVGA 790i Ultra SLI : […] Show full quote Arrived today my favorite motherboard of all time the EVGA 790i Ultra SLI : Nice, I was using the EVGA FTW version of that before I swapped it out with my X58 Lanparty.

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Re: Socket 370 with ISA best motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-14, 22:46

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Option 3: Build an industrial PC w/ as many ISA + PCI slot combo as you wish. There's no such thing as "too many slots". 8) I understand those industrial ones don't support dma natively. And i need win98se. Depends on the PCI-ISA bridge chip. ITE chips definitely do. I have a Tualatin P3-1400S on …

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Re: What the heck is a Voodoo5 5800??

Posted on 2020-11-26, 08:51

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by mastergamma12

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From the box, it looks like a dual vsa 100 solution with each vsa 100 having a 64mb vram pool.

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2020-11-25, 17:19

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Put some more games on the machine.

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2020-11-24, 02:08

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by mastergamma12

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-11-24, 01:40: That looks like a great XP setup to me Thanks 😀

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Re: (The Tuala-Bus) Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+ Live, Voodoo5 5500 Rambus rig

Posted on 2020-11-23, 20:22

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by mastergamma12

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melbar wrote on 2020-11-23, 19:17: mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-07-16, 01:03: Changed to a Chieftec Dragon that I painted beige. What was the origin color of this case? Black

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2020-11-23, 08:44

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by mastergamma12

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Switched out the V850 for a Powerspec (Microcenter brand) 550 80+Bronze unit as I needed it for something else, I doubt I'm going to use SLI on here anytime soon. Might change the case to something that looks more like a late 2000's case down the road though.

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Re: Celeron 1100 on Gigabyte GA-6BX7+

Posted on 2020-11-23, 05:24

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I should have expressed myself more clearly. I am looking for a pinmod for this board. Do you happen to know any pinmod, that potentially could work with this board? Or can you provide me to a source? Thanks in advance for your help I'm afraid I won't be able to help you with that. Good luck though …

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Re: (The Tuala-Bus) Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus rig

Posted on 2020-11-23, 04:38

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by mastergamma12

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firage wrote on 2020-11-22, 16:01: Love the Tualatin + V5 build with RDRAM and an ISA slot, an Intel chipset and Asus board. Impressive. Very nice. Thanks 😀

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Re: Celeron 1100 on Gigabyte GA-6BX7+

Posted on 2020-11-23, 04:32

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If it can support 1.45v like my P3C-E can, you'd still need a converter or a pin modded Tualatin as I doubt the board is FCPGA2.

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Re: (The Tuala-Bus) Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus rig

Posted on 2020-11-20, 23:58

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by mastergamma12

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Here's a photo of the rig now.

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Re: (The Tuala-Bus) Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus rig

Posted on 2020-11-20, 23:48

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by mastergamma12

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I finally got around to upgrading the PSU, swapped it for a 500W PC Power and Cooling MKIII, the one with 24a on both the 3.3 and 5 volt rails. I'll post a photo later when I get a chance. I was going to mention the PSU, but happy to see that you already replaced it =) Very nice to see someone use …

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Re: (The Tuala-Bus) Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus rig

Posted on 2020-11-20, 08:48

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I finally got around to upgrading the PSU, swapped it for a 500W PC Power and Cooling MKIII, the one with 24a on both the 3.3 and 5 volt rails. I'll post a photo later when I get a chance.

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