Re: Voodoo 5500 Socket 478 Win98SE Project
Posted on Yesterday, 21:12
Yes, MX300 is an obvious choice.
Re: Voodoo 5500 Socket 478 Win98SE Project
Posted on Yesterday, 18:41
Wth SIS chipset, any common DDR400 memory from reliable brand will do, since it will work just fine at DDR333 speed on CL2 timings. SB Audigy 2 ZS Gold Might as well install Aureal Vortex 2 for A3D 2.0 support in Win9x environment.
Re: Very old Linux native games on modern Linux
Posted on 2021-07-19, 23:41
I wonder if it's possible to launch original Quake 3 Arena linux distro on something like Mint.
Re: Video playback on retro PCs
Posted on 2021-07-19, 19:31
Re: Early Video Codec Comparison with Samples
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2021-07-19, 18:39
It's not 90s generic mid-tower computer, if insides are not spaghetti.
Re: Video playback on retro PCs
Posted on 2021-07-19, 18:25
Or you can grab PCI video card with native MPEG2 decoder. BTW your video card has MPEG1 acceleration.
Re: Windows 98 Sata SSD
Posted on 2021-07-19, 18:01
also seems to sound like it was part of the sata II standard No, AHCI protocol and SATAII are not tied together. For example, Nforce 4 didn't had it. It is safe to assume that any external SATA before 2005 also didn't had AHCI.
Re: Fastest video card for DOS, Socket 3 VLB / Socket 5 / Socket 7 / Slot 1 FPS comparison
Posted on 2021-07-17, 17:00
VLB is almost exclusively linked to 486.
Re: Chips & Technologies F64300 VLB vga question
Posted on 2021-07-10, 09:07
Both have decent compatibility, but 542x series were just slow budget chips targeted at OEM and had no real benefit from 2 Mb of video RAM, due to crappy DAC. F64300 is similar to ET4000/W32i.
Re: Need advise on a new build if a Rise MP6 is worth trying
Posted on 2021-07-09, 18:58
While it's certainly interesting CPU from historical point, its performance is quite average. Not worth investment, if you're just curious and don't have it already in collection.
Re: Riva 128 vs TNT vs M64 Pentium MMX
Posted on 2021-07-08, 12:23
In most cases, TNT2 M64 is faster, due to increased clock speed. Riva 128 is not something you would want to use unironically in any system.
Re: defragging ssd
Posted on 2021-07-03, 20:43
All data on SSD is fragmented by design, because it functions like RAID0 massive. There are few exceptions to that though. If SSD in question is using one planar NAND chip , you can expect it to write data similar to how HDD does it. doesn't mean that Windows can handle massive fragmentation as it …
Re: voodoo 5 5500 or NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra
Posted on 2021-07-03, 20:35
Pirates or ninjas?
Re: Is Vista now Retro
Posted on 2021-07-02, 12:04
BTW some motherboards from Vista period had onboard NAND for ReadyBoost: https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/8283-asus-m2n32-sli-premium-vista-edition-motherboard/?page=2 I think many of the Vista visual themes can be ported to Win7 or somehow made to work there You can port Vista theme even on …
Re: Best PCI VGA for a K6-III+
Posted on 2021-07-02, 10:16
Yes, Evolva has T&L and also DOT3 Bump mapping, which is supported by all GeForce cards. Potentially could run decently on K6-III.
Re: Leak of Windows 11
Posted on 2021-07-01, 19:12
Wasn't there major vulnerability discovered in Ubuntu 20.x and few other Linux distros? Something something about privilege escalation.
Re: Best PCI VGA for a K6-III+
Posted on 2021-07-01, 19:06
Quake 3 supported transformation part, but not lightning. sure the Duron core was another planet Not only that, but Athlon and Duron had minor difference in performance between each other. Yes, Duron had very small L2 cache, but it was slow anyway and K7 depends more on large L1 cache, which both …
Re: Leak of Windows 11
Posted on 2021-07-01, 13:44
Windows 11 seems to be one to skip for me. You can't skip it. Because, for sure, this time it will be last last Windows!
Re: Best PCI VGA for a K6-III+
Posted on 2021-07-01, 10:56
and the T&L should help a bit on bench and some games Sure, if you want to play something like MDK2 with questionable performance. And it's already quite light for a game with T&L support, i.e. no crazy geometry or shadows.
Re: Are K6-iii chips obtainable?
Posted on 2021-06-29, 10:01
FX 8xxx/9xxx aged somewhat well, if we consider Spectre and Meltdown problem, but at best they can compete with stock 2500K/2600K.
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