Re: Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro: weird output
Posted on Today, 08:22
Interesting. Those cards usually signal if 12V power connector is not connected or loose.
Re: Voodoo 1 + Athlon Question
Posted on 2023-09-17, 03:53
At regular clock, Athlon is too fast. As is Pentium III. You may see broken textures, I can confirm that for 1Ghz CPU. What was the upper limit ... Pentium II ~300Mhz ?
Re: Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro: weird output
Posted on 2023-09-15, 07:16
Not sure how you could check that, since BGA chips are used. Reference Pro comes with very hot Samsung 2.8ns BGA chips. Some vendors (Sapphire, FIC) also used Etrontech 2.8ns. I have one 9700Pro with broken in half mem chip. Broken textures in 3D, but no pattern like this. No immediate artefacats in …
Re: Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro: weird output
Posted on 2023-09-13, 11:28
Just did 😉. I guess I stopped reading after seeing garbled output pattern. BTW, reference design R300 cards were built like military-grade compared to everything else on the market at the time. I'm really interested to see what the issue is.
Re: Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro: weird output
Posted on 2023-09-13, 10:42
It's dead, Jim. Use known-to-work aftermarket coolers (Zalman VF700 / VF900 / FC-ZV9 or Arctic ATI silencer 1) or remove the shim.
Re: Help me to pick the right Voodoo card for my win 98SE gaming ystem
Posted on 2023-08-31, 16:32
I went with V3 and V5 for my P3 1GHz and Geode (k7) builds. PII 450 got V2 and GeForce256 SDR .... tested also TNT2, but GeForce was better even on PII.
Re: Help me to pick the right Voodoo card for my win 98SE gaming ystem
Posted on 2023-08-31, 07:45
Glide dlls.
Re: Help me to pick the right Voodoo card for my win 98SE gaming ystem
Posted on 2023-08-31, 07:40
Banshee drivers do not use 3DNow! ... not sure if that affects K7, or just K6. I suspect both.
Re: Help me to pick the right Voodoo card for my win 98SE gaming ystem
Posted on 2023-08-31, 07:33
GeForce2 GTS (good availability and prices) + one V2 12MB should cover most of the scenarios.
Re: Help me to pick the right Voodoo card for my win 98SE gaming ystem
Posted on 2023-08-31, 07:00
V3 - good availability and relatively "normal" prices V4- poor availability, which reflects prices V5 - good availability and high prices
Re: Which system to pick for maxing out a Voodoo 3
Posted on 2023-08-22, 06:33
I have very good experience running V3 3000 with Geode NX1750 on SIS chipset (DDR). CPU is cool (1.25V), SSE equipped and very fast at 1.4GHz. (I usually run it at 800 or 1000MHz, 1.4GHz causes various speed issues in some games).
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-20, 21:11
Have done some more research and price vice I will either go with a ati Radeon 9600pro or Radeon 9600 Se. I found both for a similar price. Which one would you guys pick? I think the pro would be the more powerful card right? A geforce 3 ti 200 or the geforce ti 4200 are not of the table either but …
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-18, 06:00
At least there are lot of 5500s available. (I see them offered). Not the case for 4500 or 3500.
Re: What CPU coolers are compatible with Amd Athlon 64 3200+ cpu (Socket 939) that can be bought today "easily"?
Posted on 2023-08-17, 20:10
So I got an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU with a broken cooling fan and I was looking for coolers. Are there any coolers that are compatible with the 939 socket and still relatively easy to buy new? It's really difficult to find just a cooler on the second hand market in my country for this socket and I …
Re: Most stable plattform/chipset for pentium 3 gaming
Posted on 2023-08-17, 19:58
Would probably be called TUV instead of CUV. Like CUSL / TUSL i815 models.
Re: Most stable plattform/chipset for pentium 3 gaming
Posted on 2023-08-17, 11:34
For i815, I'd say Intel Desktop Board :). Totally non-overclockable but usually high quality Japanese caps and decent build quality. Some of them came with integrated Creative sound chips. For slot-1, I'd say Asus is trouble-free in most cases. Abit had BH-6 that was not affected by capacitor plague …
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-17, 08:32
I think FX was last to support those features.
Re: old case and floppy question
Posted on 2023-08-17, 01:26
USB floppy drive? I know for Win7 you can use USB drive during install to upload driver, not sure about XP.
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-14, 12:08
There are many options. What late Win98 games are you targeting?
Re: Best gpu for maxing out a athlon 1400 ?
Posted on 2023-08-14, 07:30
GeForce3 is period correct for 2001. (Medion GeForce3 Ti 200 can be found for cheap). GeForce4 Ti 4200 is most accessible and cheapest to get. R300 based Radeons would probably give best performance (even on Athlon 1400). So: * Geforce3 / Radeon 8500/9000 Pro * Geforce4 (Ti) * GeForce FX (5700 or …
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