Re: Radeon 9250 vs GF 6200 vs FX 5200 for Win98?

Posted on 2020-09-17, 18:31

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Interesting results. I would just be suspicious of the 77.72 drivers with pre DirectX 8 games. The heatsink on the 6200 probably rocks around because the chip has the small exposed die whereas the 5200 is the older design enclosed in plastic with a central metal heatspreader. So the 5200 is a much …

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Re: K62-500 overclocking

Posted on 2020-09-16, 06:00

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Yeah the K6 architecture had a practical limit around 600 MHz.

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-15, 22:01

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I got out the Avermedia C127 (Game Broadcaster HD) that I bought around 8 years ago and found its VGA input is now purple-shifted. I guess there is damage somewhere on the card but I can't see it. I tried different cables, VGA cards, drivers and even different PCs for the capture card (plus Win7 vs …

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Re: K62-500 overclocking

Posted on 2020-09-15, 17:34

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I would try to run it at 112 MHz bus and drop the multiplier down to keep the CPU clock around 500. That chip is really bottlenecked by RAM and motherboard cache.

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Re: Radeon 9250 vs GF 6200 vs FX 5200 for Win98?

Posted on 2020-09-14, 17:27

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You should get the best image quality from the 6200 and it should be fastest by far among those cards. Theoretically the 5200 is useful for Glide wrappers because it has the perfect feature set with 8-bit paletted texture support in hardware, but the 6200 should still be faster. The 5200 does have …

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Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost

Posted on 2020-09-10, 03:27

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Voodoo5 doesn't have anisotropic filtering as something you can force, and to run 4X FSAA you basically need to play games at 640x480 because it is extremely heavy on the card's limited fillrate. 2X FSAA is not really worthwhile. DGVoodoo2 can force anti-aliasing but not specifically AF. It can …

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Re: Is it safe to use a low noise adapter on a gpu fan from a geforce 4 ti 4200, long term?

Posted on 2020-09-06, 15:01

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They are effective but do make the card use two slots. The Thermaltake cooler on it is already considerably beefier than stock so should be ok with reduced fan RPM. It looks like it might even be actual copper instead of copper-colored aluminum.

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Re: Abit BX133-RAID BIOS issue, bad caps or something else?

Posted on 2020-09-06, 05:11

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The AGP slot is going to be troublesome with 133 MHz FSB because of 440BX's 2/3 ratio. It's questionable product labeling. I'm fairly sure I saw a BX133-RAID with bulging caps already in 2004 or so, and my BF6 was leaking at that point too. It is amazing to see some of these boards for sale with no …

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Re: Early Video Codec Comparison with Samples

Posted on 2020-09-04, 19:33

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I wonder if AVIsynth has some dithering capabilities, plugin or special custom function. Or if FFMPEG could be useful for dithering.

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Re: Is anyone excited for the Nvidia 3000 series cards

Posted on 2020-09-03, 17:08

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I might go for a 3080 or possibly 3090. I have a 1080 Ti. The main motivation is to bring complete smoothness to my HP Reverb's 4320x2160 @ 90fps and add some room for supersampling. Frame rate is really critical with VR. But on the other hand there are still very few really interesting VR games and …

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Re: Usability of this K7 3dfx Compaq I found and HW questions

Posted on 2020-08-28, 05:51

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I think it's a great find. That's a sought after bit of kit for 1999. Slot A is an interesting beast. K7-500 is the original Athlon release and is similar to a P3-600. Hopefully it can be cleaned up and and work for you. There are a few people around with SD11, including myself. Voodoo3 1000 would …

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Re: Custom ATI drivers for Mobility M6, ATI X1000. Omegadrivers?

Posted on 2020-08-23, 22:16

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Way back I had a Mobility Radeon 9600 in a notebook and used the Driver Heaven Mobility Mod Tool. It modifies the official Catalyst drivers to install on Mobility Radeon chips. http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=869&menustate=0

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Re: Best software to test 3D acceleration?

Posted on 2020-08-21, 18:44

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Some ideas... Turok and Jedi Knight are pretty flexible for early 3D cards. Fury3 is one of the earliest D3D games. It will run on S3 Virge for example. Demos should be available. I think the 9525 is based on 3D tech earlier than Blade 3D (aka 9880) which means it's quite limited and I am skeptical …

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Re: Supersocket 7 (MVP3) and AGP video

Posted on 2020-08-18, 22:51

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Thank you guys. I'll try with Geforce and see how it goes. I found a lot of video cards... All of them with cracked capacitors. I also found Matrox G2+, what do you think about this card? Looks like trash, what I found from the internet. I grabbed it in Goodwill computers long time ago, it cost 1 …

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Re: Supersocket 7 (MVP3) and AGP video

Posted on 2020-08-18, 21:58

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GF4 MX is also popular. Though I usually prefer a Voodoo3 in K6-level machines because Glide will help you get the most from that CPU, and you're not going to have AGP related problems with a Voodoo3.

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Re: KT400 & Radeon 9700: No-Go?

Posted on 2020-08-18, 20:33

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Try out Catalyst 7.11 too. Catalyst 7.12 and beyond have changes to OpenGL and Direct3D that aren't really in the best interests of your old games. KOTOR 1/2 won't render some things (yet again) for example because they drop some old OpenGL extensions. From what I gather they overhauled the OpenGL …

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Re: dedicated Gameport PCI cards - do they exist?

Posted on 2020-08-17, 02:44

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-08-17, 01:05: Yes, but most of them are junk. There are a few that don't have latency issues. This actually reminds me that I bought a Mayflash USB adapter to run N64 controllers on PC and have not tried it yet....

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Re: dedicated Gameport PCI cards - do they exist?

Posted on 2020-08-17, 00:41

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by swaaye

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Is there a USB gameport adapter?

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Re: Shiny pad on Slot 1 heatsink

Posted on 2020-08-16, 15:34

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I found the Intel Thermal Design Guidelines for Pentium II SECC1. It's clear their preferred TIM is paste, but suggest a thermal pad might be adequate too. http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x86/Pentiu … II/24333102.PDF I imagine a pad is the cheapest, easiest cooling option for the assembly line.

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Re: Shiny pad on Slot 1 heatsink

Posted on 2020-08-15, 03:50

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Various thermal pads were popular on the mid-late '90s CPUs because they didn't need extreme thermal conductivity. They are easy to work with and last forever.

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