Re: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy1

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Joseph, how did you know the motherboard has VT8237R Plus southbridge? The manual speaks only of VT8237R and so does the text on the chip, at least on the image I googled. Even the CPU-Z image you posted shows only VT8237. It obviously does have the Plus version since you are rocking modern SSD's …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-17, 20:00

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On a similar note - greetings from Estonia... we just had the legendary electricity spike of 4EUR per KWH.🙇‍♂️ Greetings from Romania! But... damn, man! And to think that I was complaining about paying now 0.62 lei (~ 0.13EUR)/kWh, when a year ago I was paying 0.24 lei (~0.04EUR)/kWh. I promise I …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-17, 17:02

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What annoys me is the noise when the fans on the card ramp up during gaming (I have a Gigabyte card), if I don't set an aggresive fan curve this card gets really hot, even after replacing the stock thermal paste. I know AMD says they can run up to 110C without throttling but I don't really like …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-17, 16:35

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I will never buy a 600+W GPU (that surely has 1kW+ transient spikes). I have a Seasonic Focus GX 850W PSU, which would maybe handle the load, I also have a 230-240V / 32Amp electrical system at home, but... still, no thanks. Also, I live in Europe, and we are kind of going through a major energy …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-17, 11:19

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stef80 wrote on 2022-08-17, 05:39: BTW, 45.23 driver is very nGlide-unfriendly on FX5900 (memory violations and such). I'm using 71.89, skipped 5x.xx which may also work. Even more reason to not use it. 😁 Even if it fixes one game, hundreds of others will stop working with 71.89.

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Re: Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis no speech

Posted on 2022-08-17, 08:13

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Hmm weird i had no problems playing it on my p1 200mmx Cpu. As Captain Barbossa would say: "it's more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules" :-D This is precisely the situation with these old games. Sometimes, a specific hardware combination (even though faster) can give better results for …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-17, 04:45

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You can try nGlide with patched game. Uhm, if I were to do that, might as well just do it on a modern rig with Windows 10/11 (which, in fact, I have already done years ago) :-) When it comes to Win98 retro gaming, for me personally, using something like nGlide kinda defeats the purpose (and I've …

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Re: Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis no speech

Posted on 2022-08-16, 17:15

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Yeah CD is in and it is the first CD drive. I guess maybe it is fast CPU problem it being Pii 300mhz like leileilol suggested? This game has issues with anything faster than a low end 486. Unfortunately, that PII300 is not a very flexible CPU. If you slow it down by disabling the L1 cache, it will …

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Re: eBay Experience....

Posted on 2022-08-16, 14:10

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I've never sold anything on eBay (I'm generally just a buyer, not a seller), but it always seemed to be like being an eBay seller is very risky, especially in the past 5 years or so. Don't get me wrong, I like and trust eBay as a buyer, they always handled my cases with great professionalism. On the …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-15, 16:24

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Gothic might be an outlier, but I'll be on the lookout for more games which may have rendering issues on the FX, just in case. I still like the improved AA/AF performance that the 5900XT brings, so I'll keep it in this build. And when I decide to replay Gothic the next time, I can always switch …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-15, 13:51

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Well, looks like I found another minor compatibility issue with FX cards. Gothic inventory icons render incorrectly as shown here . I wasn't expecting this, since the icons worked fine on my GeForce4 Ti4200, but it looks like some of the architectural changes in the FX series caused this. It's not …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-15, 12:57

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Back in the day, I played Splinter Cell on a GeForce3 Ti200, also fully maxed out but using a much lower resolution of 640x480, and had similar results. Come to think of it, that card was Leadtek branded too. Same :-D! I finished Splinter Cell on a Palit Daytona GeForce 3 Ti 200, but did it at 1280 …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-15, 11:47

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Yup, the cooler is excellent, and it's not worth messing with it just to get that sort of information. BTW, how are your temperatures on the A2 card? Idle and full load? I just ordered two Noctua case fans which should hopefully help a bit with mine. Very good question! I didn't do any …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-15, 09:10

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Can you check the speed of the memory chips on the C2 card? If I'm not mistaken, the A2 revision uses 2.8 ns chips. According to old forum posts, some later 5900XT cards were built on 5950 PCBs and use faster 2.2 ns memory chips. Well, both cards come with what appears to be identical chips: Hynix …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-15, 06:19

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Very interesting! I think my results match your A2 card. Maybe the C2 revision is higher clocked by default? Or it could be due to the newer BIOS version on that card or something like that. In any case, I did manage to do some benchmarks with my card using 45.23 and 53.04 drivers: Both cards have …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-14, 18:20

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Another round of benchmarks, this time with different cards & different (faster) platform (a Leadtek A350XT GeForce FX 5900XT rev A2 128 MB and a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256 MB). Both were tested on the same platform (Asrock 775i65g + Pentium Dual Core E5800 @ 3.6 GHz). There is something VERY funky …

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Re: How much power for 5V supply to VLB 486?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 14:31

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Horun wrote on 2022-08-14, 14:22: Most Media Vision PAS, PAS16, etc need -5v, for the audio amps iirc Yes, the PAS cards I've seen do need -5V (don't own any, though). But then again, those aren't really cards that non-collectors would want in their retro PCs.

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Re: How much power for 5V supply to VLB 486?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 13:58

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I was thinking more along the lines that if you are building a 486 then its possible OP has ideas to play around with hardware from that era, I know if I had a nice 486 Id definitely want to check out the likes of Adlib and such which does want -5v, so yes its not a "need" but rather nice to have, …

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Re: How much power for 5V supply to VLB 486?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 13:47

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Well I guess you could use a different sound card that doesnt need it. You'd definitely want to use a card that doesn't need it, because SB 2.0 (the only card I've ever tested that actually needs -5V) is not really suitable for a 486 (or even a 386). A 486 works very well with a SB Pro 2 or even a …

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Re: How much power for 5V supply to VLB 486?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 13:38

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[...] what's important is -5v [...] It's really not (unless you want to use one of the very few cards that need it - such as a SB 2.0). :-) [...]but most 486 era sound cards wanted -5v to work[...] Most? The only one I know of is SB 2.0. Earlier (SB 1.5) and subsequent sound blasters work just fine …

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