End of an era - Anandtech is shutting down

Posted on 2024-08-30, 13:05

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https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell This makes me very sad, but I can't say I wasn't expecting it... "we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor , and has ended with the review of an AMD processor ." :-( At …

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Re: VIA C3 Ezra vs Ezra-T: Interesting Behavior of MTRR/FASTVID

Posted on 2024-08-30, 08:05

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I remember downclocking to 400mhz for glide games. This is with a voodoo2 and using glide patches. No problems in windows. Can confirm that the Nehemiah (probably because it has a much faster FPU compared to the Ezra-T?) must be downclocked to ~ 400 MHz / FSB100 (or even FSB66, IIRC) for older DOS …

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Re: GeForce3 - mixing memory modules

Posted on 2024-08-08, 08:26

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1.use old MATS/MODS for dos to get which memory module does not work. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pFuLLtwZX5fhwTupCkJDv4TiJKE_GWNw 2. i have a GF3 where is 4 modules (3.6ns) died on me when i did the 3dmark tests. i replaced with 4ns modules from another GF3 and everything works just …

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Re: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 GTO / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2024-06-27, 13:50

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-06-27, 12:40: Possibly a platform specific issue? Yes, this is also a possibility. Will need to dig deeper. 😀

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Re: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 GTO / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2024-06-27, 12:29

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Right now, I am hearing the card's fan wind up during gameplay, and getting quieter as soon as I quit to the desktop. But I'm guessing that's not what you meant. If that's the case, then it most likely works properly in WinME (which would be strange, since it's the same driver). In my case, I have …

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Re: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 GTO / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2024-06-27, 11:32

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I noticed something quite interesting with my X800 / X850 cards. Seems that the GPU / memory power saving feature does not work properly under Windows 98 (most likely because the Catalyst 6.2 driver only has preliminary/beta support for these cards), so GPU and memory ICs get quite hot even when …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2024-06-25, 16:27

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-06-24, 07:49: I figured I'd tag you again for the most recent NFS3 fog restoration. 😁 The game visuals now look great on Radeon cards, with high resolutions available if desired. That's awesome, thank you! Fun fact: I just installed NFS 3 & 4 on a Radeon X800XT PC, so …

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Re: intel is back!

Posted on 2024-06-13, 11:28

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robertmo3 wrote on 2024-06-13, 10:31: let's include the fact that ryzen is twice slower in dosbox than intel: 4285 / 2 = 2142 Man, I've seen bad trolling in the past, but this is ridiculous! 🤣

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Re: intel is back!

Posted on 2024-06-13, 09:09

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appiah4 wrote on 2024-06-13, 06:06: rmay635703 wrote on 2024-06-12, 20:25: I thought the author was an AI there is no I in this thread. dying... 🤣

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Re: intel is back!

Posted on 2024-06-12, 07:12

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I've read through this entire thread and I feel like my IQ dropped by 20 points.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2024-06-08, 18:14

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A bit late to the party, but I've been testing NFS: High Stakes on my Radeon X800 XT and encountered the same issue: it crashes at launch with Catalyst 6.2 drivers. However, I found a fix of sorts. You can take dx7z.dll from the "Drivers" subfolder of NFS: Porsche Unleashed, rename it to d3da.dll …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2024-05-27, 11:34

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Sphere478 wrote on 2024-05-27, 11:30: Cpu being cool doesn’t mean the voltage is good. In my experience, they are very closely linked. I've yet to see an overvolted CPU (be it retro or modern) that stays 'cool'. Sphere478 wrote on 2024-05-27, 11:30: But 2-2.1 is fine. Uhm, 2.0V is more than fine. …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2024-05-27, 07:19

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Most ppga I’ve seen can do 400 at 2-2.1 Yeah, it's very likely that it also works fine at 2.0, but I just went with 2.1, because the CPU is still stone cold at this voltage. In fact, I'm thinking of making this my first 100% passively cooled build. Later Edit: Yep, confirmed stable at 2.0V. I was …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2024-05-26, 13:31

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-05-26, 10:05: That's 83 fsb? Everything must be crazy fast then, if IDE controller etc holds up to that 41 MHz pci Yeah, it's amazing to see games like NFS 4 High Stakes being extremely playable at this frequency (in conjunction with a Voodoo 3 PCI).

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2024-05-26, 09:33

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Thanks guys, will try my luck and see how it goes. :-) Well, made it work, but not how I had hoped. In my case, the red connection "L2 (required on some boards)" actually prevented the system from posting ("----" on the post analyzer card). Also, I'm now stuck with the 4x multiplier :cry: . But, …

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2024-05-24, 05:01

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Thanks guys, will try my luck and see how it goes. 😀

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2024-05-23, 14:28

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I'm thinking of modding one of my Tillamook 266 CPUs, but after skimming through the thread, it's still unclear to me if the 4x multiplier mod would actually lock it to 4x (as in, without the possibility of selecting lower multipliers, which would be unacceptable to me). FYI, I'd like to use it on …

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Re: For Win98 games you don't need a build faster than [...]

Posted on 2024-05-16, 11:10

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Everything released in 1999 and later just works out of the box in 2K/XP at least D3D titles. "Everything" is a big word. There are many that don't work out of the box and need unofficial patches or workarounds (just a few off the top of my head: Nocturne, NFS 4, NFS Porsche, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater …

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Re: Upcoming Voodoo 3 rebuild- are the specs ok so far or what would you change?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 09:39

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Bruno128 wrote on 2024-05-15, 23:17: predator_085 wrote on 2024-05-02, 10:06: GA-7IXE AMD Irongate = asking for trouble. Unstable chipset, flaky boards. Not sure about other boards, but the Gigabyte GA-7iXE is a very solid, stable board (I have many). Not the best overclocker, though...

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Re: For Win98 games you don't need a build faster than [...]

Posted on 2024-05-15, 16:40

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For me this would be an Athlon XP or Athlon 64 coupled with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200/4400/4600. Faster than that is cool 'just because', but it will rarely bring any real benefit unless you target insane resolutions, AA & AF + very high framerates. My fastest Win98 PC has a Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 4 GHz, 2 GB …

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