Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-04, 13:47

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forces them out of the x86 market in a couple of years. No. Competition's important As counter-intuitive as it sounds AMD by themselves in the x86 market would probably be more innovative than Intel being the dominant competitor again sometime down the line. Just look at the shit we've been through …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-04, 13:42

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Finally it arrived. This is a board I've been looking for for a long time now, but I finally have it.. https://i.postimg.cc/Dyq1DLN8/MSI-KT3-Ultra2.jpg MSI KT3 Ultra2 Three swollen 1000uF 6.3v Teapo caps need to be replaced (I would replace all of them but lazy). Also a DDR clip is missing but I …

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-04, 11:33

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I shelled out 1000€ for my now aging i7-5960x cpu and now a first generation Ryzen 3 cpu is even faster when playing csgo. Ryzen 3000? Possible. 1st gen Ryzen 3 (1200 or 1300X)? I don't think so. He says 1st gen Ryzen and you go directly to 1200? Some weird logic there. Ryzen 1800X would match …

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

Posted on 2019-12-04, 10:00

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My P133 case's speed display had an LR41 battery in it that had leaked all over the battery holder and circuitry, eating it up to a state that was unrecoverable. As a result, I had to remove the LR41 holder, solder in an AA battery holder to parts of the board that still had any traces left, and it …

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Re: All you need is a nice chassis

Posted on 2019-12-04, 07:57

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How is a Multimedia 286 complete without a Sound Blaster?

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-04, 07:51

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I haven't bought a non-AMD CPU since Athlon days. I wish I knew about AMD in the 486/586/686 era. I knew about Cyrix, but conventional wisdom was that Cyrix 386/486 PCs crashed and burned and their 6x86 CPUs 'sucked'. What a load of bullshit in hindsight. I wasted a SHITLOAD of money on useless …

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Re: Benchmarking DOSBox on latest machines

Posted on 2019-12-04, 07:47

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Are Ryzen numbers still needed? Just noticed this thread, I can post some stock Ryzen 2600 results tonight.

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Re: Strange nVIDIA 4x.xx+ win9x bug

Posted on 2019-12-04, 06:07

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If it's a USB Keyboard try a PS/2 one, could be a VIA chipset issue?

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Re: Can't determine what to keep...

Posted on 2019-12-04, 06:04

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- FIC PA-2013 v2.0, VIA Apollo MVP3, which I tend to keep, pairing with an AMD K6-2+ 500 - Asus P3B-F v1.04, Intel 440BX, which I also tend to keep, pairing with a Pentium III 1000B If you can spare room for one more, keep the 430TX but your K8M800 Socket 754 renders the rest obsolete. Pop an X800 …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-03, 13:27

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I really can't justify investing in anything older than 386SX, it does everything XT/AT systems do, and more. The 386SX is a 286. At least to the 286 ecosystem. It runs on its chipsets, has same 16/24-bit addressing etc. On top of that: 386 and 286 had same "parents" (as had 386 and original 486 I …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-03, 13:16

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I really can't justify investing in anything older than 386SX, it does everything XT/AT systems do, and more.

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2019-12-02, 22:31

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MSI B450 Tomahawk AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz AMD Radeon RX480 8GB Crucial BX500 240GB SSD Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD ASUS DRW-24B5ST 24x DVD-RW FSP Hydro 600W Bronze Zalman Z3 Plus White Case Windows 10 Pro / Linux Mint (Cinnamon) 19.2

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-02, 22:14

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:dead: Bought a SiS 6326 8MB PCI with S-Video out because I needed a decent 1996/97 PCI card with TV-Out for capturing DOS. It cost me $8 so it wasn't cheap considering how useless it is for anything else. I'm not sure how good a card for DOS it is, but considering my second option is an ATI Rage …

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 12:18

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jheronimus wrote: I'm limiting myself to Glide games on Win9x, but otherwise I think Morrowind would be a good example of a game that would require a really out-of-period system to run well. Does Morrowind run 'well' on anything?

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2019-11-29, 12:16

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I suppose this doesn't deserve its own thread so I will pose the question here even though it's not exactly capturing 'vga'.. but.. Do PCI VGA cards like the ATI All-In-Wonder Pro output on their TV-Out by default (ie. in BIOS, MS-DOS, etc.) or do they require some kind of Windows 9x driver …

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 08:21

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9800PRO doesn't choke on Far Cry It chokes heavily with anti-aliasing and high resolution. 40+ fps at 1600x1200 is not choking AFAIC. https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/6600gt%20review_09070410954/4392.png because if you enable HDR you can't enable FSAA. You can, that's only GeForce 6xxx/7xxx …

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 08:16

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Far Cry can't be maxed out on Radeon 9800. Patch 1.3 implemented HDR support, which can't be rendered on Shader Model 2.0 hardware. That's a moving goalpost, by the same token Half Life 2 added HDR with Episode 2 as well. Out of the box Far Cry works just fine with a 9800PRO. Also, you can't max …

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 08:08

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9800PRO/XT don't choke on Far Cry or Half Life 2. In fact, they are playable even at 1600x1200. https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/6600gt%20review_09070410954/4392.png https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/6600gt%20review_09070410954/4408.png Doom 3 and Halo are where I draw the line for 9800PRO. …

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Re: End of an Era

Posted on 2019-11-29, 07:06

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GLQuake is when MS-DOS died for sure. Halo 2 is what killed Windows XP. Ok, ok, that one was a joke.

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Re: On "time-accuracy," and whether it's worth it.

Posted on 2019-11-29, 06:47

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Since everyone is sharing their personal views, I may as well I suppose. I approach the matter in two ways, because there are two different kinds of builds I do. One is the (mostly) time accurate builds I have in my signature. These are made to run software from a (usually) three year period and …

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