Re: Matrox G450 PCI any good use?
Posted on 2025-04-22, 06:37
HiNT/PLX chip used for PCI/AGP "translation" It's a PCI-PCI bridge chip. All AGP cards work as PCI cards by default anyway.
Re: Radeon X1900 XTX broken, any chance of recovery?
Posted on 2025-04-19, 08:19
New memory and new GPU. Probably some other small components too. Non-functioning DVI most likely leads to fried GPU.
Re: Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro repair report
Posted on 2025-04-16, 14:50
From my observation, most of them die from bad BGA memory.
Re: matrox video card for DOS
Posted on 2025-04-16, 14:48
There is a hardware patch. It's called Millenium.
Re: Best gaming CPU for LGA 775 + Windows XP
Posted on 2025-04-15, 00:36
myne wrote on 2025-04-15, 00:18: Q3a had minor benefits from 2 threads. I believe it was the simpler stuff, like the AI and sound that was split out. Unfortunately SMP in Quake 3 is highly unstable even on period appropriate hardware.
Re: Shopping for a graphics card for around the year 2000...
Posted on 2025-04-14, 16:34
Nope. I don't recommend to pursue any "period authentic" builds, but that's what you've asked. There are certain benefits of owning GeForce 2 cards specifically, but they are very arguable.
Re: Shopping for a graphics card for around the year 2000...
Posted on 2025-04-14, 15:15
The best you could get in 2000 was P4 1.6 GHz. The fastest card was GeForce 2 Ultra, but more realistically GeForce 2 GTS.
Re: Socket 370 (Non ISA) Pentium 3 still relevant in 2025 ?
Posted on 2025-04-13, 17:14
Early P4 motherboards used the same south bridge which was used on i815E - ICH2. So again, late Intel chipset motherboards is a majority without ISA.
Re: Socket 370 (Non ISA) Pentium 3 still relevant in 2025 ?
Posted on 2025-04-12, 05:51
CC-Adam wrote on 2025-04-11, 22:14: They run cool and sip power unlike the Athlons and P4s. Athlon XP had a whole Geode lineup with power consumption in 6-14W range.
Re: Socket 370 (Non ISA) Pentium 3 still relevant in 2025 ?
Posted on 2025-04-11, 21:11
There are many PCI sound cards that have driver workarounds to play sound in DOS, as long as the system allows access to internal ISA bus.
Re: Socket 370 (Non ISA) Pentium 3 still relevant in 2025 ?
Posted on 2025-04-11, 08:02
Socket 370 without ISA is mostly irrelevant due to existence of Athlon XP, which can be both much faster and much slower with unlocked multiplier options. And Pentium 4 is overall better platform.
Re: How durable are Pentium III crystals, dies? (and other CPUs with heat spreader like Athlon, Duron and etc.)
Posted on 2025-04-10, 17:14
so I definitely expect all later Pentiums to also have some sort of thermal protection. You can easily burn Pentium III Katmai without cooler. That's obviously hard to achieve unintentionally on Slot 1 CPUs though. Also, I wouldn't put my faith on anything but Intel chipset boards of that era, when …
Re: How durable are Pentium III crystals, dies? (and other CPUs with heat spreader like Athlon, Duron and etc.)
Posted on 2025-04-10, 10:52
Depends on your luck: Crimes Against Silicon: Scuffed CPU/GPU cores
Re: Is it ok to use a Pentium III 800EB (133Mhz FSB x 6.0) like a regular Pentium III 800 (100Mhz FSB x 8.0) ?
Posted on 2025-04-09, 07:45
So I guess I will have to buy the $50 dollar P3 800 (100Mhz FSB version) if I want the best CPU for this Board. Which is on top of a Pentium III slotket which I also need. Buy a cheap 1Ghz P3 and run it at 750 MHz. Problem solved. Although I'm no sure if this board has support for any Coppermine …
Re: Is Windows LTSC a viable option for using Windows 10 safely after Microsoft drop their Windows 10 support?
Posted on 2025-04-08, 19:55
Well, not mass migration, but the percentage of Linux users is steadily growing thanks to Valve. Windows 10 EOL is an interesting sucker punch due to Windows 11 requirements.
Re: Is Windows LTSC a viable option for using Windows 10 safely after Microsoft drop their Windows 10 support?
Posted on 2025-04-08, 10:09
It would be really funny if they follow through with the planned EOL in October 2025 with such large install base. Could probably motivate a lot more people to try Linux.
Re: Is Windows LTSC a viable option for using Windows 10 safely after Microsoft drop their Windows 10 support?
Posted on 2025-04-06, 19:17
I guess something similar to UpdatePack7R2 will be implemented for normal Windows 10 Pro to integrate security updates from LTSC. Then again, Windows 10 install base is still very large, so Microsoft could probably change their mind and tie LTSC and normal support to 2027.
Re: NVIDIA's 32-Bit PhysX Waves Goodbye with GeForce RTX 50 Series Ending 32-Bit CUDA Software Support
Posted on 2025-04-06, 09:56
Nvidia: "I don't want to play with you anymore"
Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread
Posted on 2025-04-05, 16:47
Issues with VIA AGP driver implementation on Win 9x. You'll get better score with PCIe X800. VIA zero bytes AGP memory bug | Navigation thread
Re: Best WinXP Video Card
Posted on 2025-04-04, 18:40
Quadro M6000 has tighter power budget and also it's a pain to tweak the clocks and power, because all Quadro Maxwell cards are locked.
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