Re: PCI Soundcard impact on PCI Videocard performance (gaming)
Posted on Yesterday, 13:23
Which board?
Re: PCI Soundcard impact on PCI Videocard performance (gaming)
Posted on 2020-10-28, 17:53
Would it therefor make sense to use an ISA soundcard to maximize the performance of the system ? Depends. Poor ISA bandwidth could drop performance even more, especially if 44kHZ 16-bit stereo is considered.
Re: Windows XP on SD card
Posted on 2020-10-28, 17:22
We're talking about VM. Apparently you can use NVME at least on Windows XP x64 , but there's a possibility that it's highly unreliable. There's also possibility that some M2-to-PCI-E controllers could translate NVMe to AHCI, similar to M2-SATA adapters, but without SATA interface restrictions. EDIT: …
Re: Windows XP on SD card
Posted on 2020-10-28, 15:32
I wonder if, not so many years from now, there would be 1TB of ram on a computer such that you can have a whole XP machine emulated You already can "emulate" Win XP at blazing speeds with last gen NVME SSD. Running it fully into RAM subjectively won't feel any faster.
Re: Windows XP on SD card
Posted on 2020-10-28, 02:49
it's nice to know that one's still a reliable commodity. With how cheap and available SSDs, SDs and Compact Flashes now, obtaining old HDDs is redundant anyway.
Re: Did GTX260/280/etc cards have thermal pads on GPU?
Posted on 2020-10-27, 19:23
Pads are not applied as GPU thermal interface for a long time now. So it was most likely aftermarket solution.
Re: Did GTX260/280/etc cards have thermal pads on GPU?
Posted on 2020-10-27, 11:02
Too much thermal paste = bad. Common myth. It's doesn't matter.
Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz
Posted on 2020-10-27, 10:51
one more edit: Here's my 730w PSU that I'm currently using. Your PSU is enough for Athlon XP 3000+ working on 5V CPU rail board. KT600 only supports single channel DDR, while the nForce2 Ultra supports dual channel. Dual channel DDR is useless for K7 architechture. But Nforce 2 is just faster. If …
Re: Do I need a 3dfx graphics?
Posted on 2020-10-25, 22:56
My question is any game going to look better on the voodoo 2 cards with glide than in DirectX or OpenGL with GeForce4 Ti 4600? Yes and no. You can emulate Glide on a good level with GeForce 4 Ti card, with better color depth, resolution and other stuff like anti-aliasing, but texture filtering will …
Re: Recommendations for Pentium 4 3GHz HT?
Posted on 2020-10-25, 16:30
Unless you're not into overclocking and benchmarking as a hobby, that system is redundant.
Re: Chrome might be ending support for pre-SSE3 CPUs with Chrome 89 release
Posted on 2020-10-25, 00:26
They could quickly ditch SSE3 to SSE4, which is already happening in games.
Re: Best launcher for Doom for 486 and DOS
Posted on 2020-10-24, 23:46
The thing is, you can't properly play Doom on resolutions higher than standard 320x200 Mode X unless you'll jump all the way up to 640x400. Pixel scaling is completely wrong on sub-SVGA resolutions, except weird 320x400 mode. But unfortunately it would be slideshow on 486 133 with Cirrus Logic …
Re: Direct3D gaming with a PCI videocard on an AMD K6-2 platform on windows 98se
Posted on 2020-10-24, 17:23
For 3Dfx, it does not matter if PCI or AGP. AGP always matter, because it's a dedicated slot tied to north bridge, with very straightforward access to RAM and doubled exclusive bandwidth.
Re: Direct3D gaming with a PCI videocard on an AMD K6-2 platform on windows 98se
Posted on 2020-10-24, 17:19
The GeForce 2 MX (even on PCI) should be able to handle much more than 60 FPS in Quake 3 at 640x480x16. Eh no. GeForce 2-4 cards on PCI bus suffer quite greatly, when it comes to max FPS, which drags average FPS in Quake 3 timedemos below 100 fps even on much more powerful CPUs.
Re: Best launcher for Doom for 486 and DOS
Posted on 2020-10-24, 16:24
FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Re: Chrome might be ending support for pre-SSE3 CPUs with Chrome 89 release
Posted on 2020-10-24, 16:15
That would affect only P4 Northwood,130nm Athlon 64 (90nm CPUs on S754 are SSE3 ready) users and those few masochists who would want to use Willamette for browsing. P.S. Wake me up when Core 2 Conroe and Phenom II will stop being supported.
Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?
Posted on 2020-10-23, 19:25
Could be mix of motherboard, adapter and SSD hating each other.
Re: OpenGL help on Matrox G400
Posted on 2020-10-23, 19:19
Otherwise get the Matrox Technical Support Tweak Utility and force it to 1x. You can force specific AGP speed, sideband adressing and fast writes by RivaTuner on any card BTW.
Re: Direct3D gaming with a PCI videocard on an AMD K6-2 platform on windows 98se
Posted on 2020-10-23, 17:42
Fastest W98 PCI card is a FX5700 PCI (rare) But not with K6 processor.
Re: Abit AW8-MAX
Posted on 2020-10-23, 16:16
You don't need a fan installed to boot any Abit motherboard.
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