Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on Yesterday, 18:41

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by swaaye

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What cards have you guys used that work reliably on old boards? I have a card with a VIA controller and it isn't even detected by 440BX or AMD 750. It does work on newer chipsets like KT266 though. Stupid question... Why did you want to connect this? For speedy USB 2.0 access to a flash drive. But …

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Re: using SSD drives on Windows 98 installs Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 and some issues

Posted on 2024-04-24, 16:50

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by swaaye

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Did you re-partition the drives when moving them between motherboards? I've seen some BIOSs detect different addressing methods (CHS, LBA, LRG) and so sometimes partitioning doesn't work right unless it is recreated. Or perhaps if the BIOS will let you force LBA and you can keep that the same on …

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Re: Plastic gotten sticky around laptop keyboard.

Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:59

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by swaaye

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I've seen it with a few things including mice. My old 2010 ASUS G73JH notebook melted too. I experimented with some fixes but in the end bought an aftermarket skin set to apply over it.

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:41

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by swaaye

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T&L style tech wasn't super useful until Direct3D 8 anyway. It was very well marketed though and the tech review sites ate it up. The other thing is a some games were still favoring Glide. Voodoo5 runs Unreal Engine 1.x games with great performance, quality and efficiency. A GeForce 2 does not. And …

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Re: Any Extended 3Dnow video players out there?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:34

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by swaaye

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I'm pretty sure if you dig up an old enough version you can find a Media Player Classic that doesn't require SSE. I used it on a K6-3 in the early 2000s. K-Lite Codec Pack 3.45 supports Win98. Maybe it has DXVA-HD support. Will the video drivers allow H.264 acceleration without even SSE1 though....

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Re: Matrox Mystique and Millennium plus successors

Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:26

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by swaaye

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https://vintage3d.org

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:40

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by swaaye

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2MB was one of the Pentium II Xeon CPUs.

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Re: Asus K7V Slot A hi-lo-hi-lo beeps

Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:30

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by swaaye

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BIOS beep codes https://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm Since it appears to be Award BIOS, this seems to be a CPU error of some kind. It could be entirely the motherboard causing it. Do the CPU edge connector and slot contacts appear clean? Does reseating the CPU change anything? I have a Slot 1 P3 …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:08

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by swaaye

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They run memory bandwidth and FPU intense games really well, usually faster than a similarly clocked Pentium Classic or MMX. SVGA simulations come to mind. Quake. DOS, Win9x, whatever. PPro had some weak early chipsets though. Even 440FX should have Fastvid loaded if possible to massively speed up …

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Re: Norton Utilities 4.0 for Windows vs 2001 for Windows

Posted on 2024-04-17, 19:42

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by swaaye

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I think it depends on if you are going to run an older MSDOS like 5.0. Norton Utils was useful before Microsoft did their thing and brought out equivalents. I used Disk Doctor and Defrag before DOS 6. I think it had a system info tool that was ok too but there are better options. The Norton stuff …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Posted on 2024-04-06, 17:54

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by swaaye

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On the compatibility issues in general, KOTOR was mainly an Xbox game and Bioware was Nvidia-centric with their older games too. It was built for that GeForce 3/4. So it's a bit like Splinter Cell in that way. If you play it on a GeForce 3 - 7 it should run without any compatibility problems but I …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Posted on 2024-04-06, 17:36

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by swaaye

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Quincunx AA looks too blurry to my eyes, and it tends to also affect the game's UI, which is a big turn off for me. Granted, I only tried it a few times on a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 card, and quickly gave up after seeing the initial results. I really liked it with Voyager Elite Force at 1600x1200 or …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Posted on 2024-04-05, 21:41

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by swaaye

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Yeah but a 6800 Ultra should be able to do that too. I wonder what your GPU core and memory controller utilization is. That shouldn't be much of a load for a GTX 970. Driver hang ups with OpenGL 1.4 could be a problem though. I don't remember if you can force SGSSAA with OpenGL games but that might …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 970 / X-Fi

Posted on 2024-04-05, 19:20

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by swaaye

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Have you tried running it with the oldest drivers possible for the 970? I don't know if I've tried the game on anything newer than a Radeon HD 2900. Also, I think I usually set this game up for single core affinity. VBO are a performance optimization. It's interesting that this would cause problems …

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Re: Old PSU Fan Direction

Posted on 2024-03-27, 19:35

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by swaaye

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It may not really matter. Just see how it works out. Typically the PSU does blow out of the PC. It ingests the PC's heated air and blows it out with its own heated air. Modern cases with bottom mount PSUs have changed this so the PSU gets cool external air and the dedicated case fans deal with the …

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Re: Best AGP card for PeniumMMX 233 ?

Posted on 2024-03-25, 16:08

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by swaaye

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laios67 wrote on 2024-03-25, 12:49: Vanta is in abundance . 16 mb card is it worth to test ? Sure. It's essentially the same product as a TNT2 M64 but with somewhat lower clock speeds. They should be cooler / lower power than a TNT2 M64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_ … its#Pre- …

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Re: Best AGP card for PeniumMMX 233 ?

Posted on 2024-03-25, 04:00

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by swaaye

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Hey there's also the NV Vanta (TNT2 M64 like) and the original TNT.

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Re: Best AGP card for PeniumMMX 233 ?

Posted on 2024-03-24, 16:54

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by swaaye

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Banshee or any of the Voodoo3 cards (including V3 1000 8MB) would be great too. Of course prices are nuts these days. The issues with NVidia cards are many have blurry VGA, if they have a fan it probably needs to be replaced, and they don't get you Glide and that is unfortunate for early 3D games.

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Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 17:55

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by swaaye

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Back in the days of antiquity, I ran a Matrox Mystique alongside a Voodoo1. I would sometimes run games (like Jedi Knight) on the Mystique instead of the Voodoo. The lack of bilinear filtering creates a perception of greater detail. It reminds me of how a noisy audio resampler / filter can make …

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Re: Asrock 775i65G R2.0 or 4CoreDual-VSTA

Posted on 2024-03-14, 17:44

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by swaaye

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I used to have a 775i65G (R2.0 I think). It worked well. I preferred to use a 800 MT/s CPU in it though because with a 1066 MT/s processor the POST initialization time was dramatically longer. I never tried a quad.

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