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Re: Is my IBM 300GL PC compatible with a Voodoo2?

Posted on 2022-07-28, 10:47

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If the Voodoo 1 worked, the Voodoo 2 should also work, I also did some tests with a Chinese Rage XL on it. A Voodoo card is perfect for these computers because the integrated graphics card is already good enough for 2D. I was very sad when the Voodoo 1 died. :( On my 300gl, the hardest part was to …

Re: Is my IBM 300GL PC compatible with a Voodoo2?

Posted on 2022-07-28, 09:22

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I also have a 300gl 6282 with a Pentium MMX 200 and I used a voodoo 1 with no problems for some days but from one day to the other the card died, in my case I think it was the power supply because my DMM was reading 3,61v on the 3.3v line that is connected to the PCI/ISA riser. I already tried to …

Re: What is your most hated/feard task in building a (retro)PC?

Posted on 2022-07-24, 12:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For me this has been my only hobby for many years, so if I hated or feared something I wouldn't do it. It is about enjoying and many of the things that have been mentioned here are precisely the most interesting. It only makes sense to me to complain if it's a job, because you need it to live or, …

Re: MSI P35 Platinum Motherboard - Anyone has it?

Posted on 2022-07-19, 09:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Once it occurred to me to use it with a gas torch to disassemble a heatsink of a laptop out of curiosity, it was disassembled by desoldering the different parts and the heat pipe swelled shortly after and after a little more it began to expel liquid on one side. One way to know if the heat pipe has …

Re: SSE4a and latest 3DNow instructions question

Posted on 2022-07-17, 12:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some time ago, I also created a thread similar to this one, because it caused me frustration to think that when it was suddenly important to have more than four cores, the Phenom II could not take advantage of it because of the lack of instructions. A six-core processor that was released when some …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-17, 11:54

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In my country it is said like this "ignorance of a norm does not exempt you from complying with it". That is, breaking a law without knowing it does not free you from legal consequences. It seems that in all parts of the world where freedom and laws exist, it is like this or very similar. and the …

Re: SSE4a and latest 3DNow instructions question

Posted on 2022-07-17, 11:09

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

An example that sometimes the issue of the instructions is more a matter of carelessness, you will see if you investigate what happened with Resident Evil 7 and Final Fantasy XV that at launch did not work with "old" processors and then received a patch than to fix the problem. In the case of …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-17, 11:00

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in Milliways

First, I want to express that this is my opinion and I don't want to offend anyone. I think that the moderators or the owners can not be blamed for what the users do, it is enough that someone invests money and a lot of time to keep the forum running. If there is not, there could be a rule that …

Re: SSE4a and latest 3DNow instructions question

Posted on 2022-07-17, 10:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had to replace my beloved Phenom II 1100T as the main gaming computer precisely because of the lack of instructions. Until around 2016 at the latest, video games did not require SSE 4.1 or other instructions that the Phenom does not have and precisely when the six cores began to be relevant, …

Re: Chinese Rage XL PCI mods, improved compatibility and looking for a good overclock.

Posted on 2022-07-11, 17:12

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I don't have good eyes for those things, I really don't know what to look for, and I have never worried too much. I didn't notice anything in the native resolution of the monitor I used (1280x1024), nor in MSDOS. In lower resolutions it would not be valid to say that I did not notice anything since …

Re: Chinese Rage XL PCI mods, improved compatibility and looking for a good overclock.

Posted on 2022-07-10, 13:17

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in Marvin \ Video

My idea was to come up with a simple method to make these cards more compatible; so any method seems interesting to me, and the more affordable the better. My interest was also in overclocking, for that reason I used the 1117 with its capacitors and the xl4005 to regulate the voltage. I'm curious …

Re: "Modernish" board is not retaining bios settings EDIT

Posted on 2022-07-03, 20:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One schematic of the ver 3.1, https://howtofixlaptop.com/msi-970a-g43-ms-76 … -3-1-boardview/ And Boardviewer, http://boardviewer.net/ Even if it's not the same version, it's something.

Re: CCP style extremest internet censorship coming to the UK. Please read.

Posted on 2022-06-25, 17:37

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From my point of view, it seems related to the Brexit abandoning EU's laws. That was predictable.

Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2022-06-25, 16:11

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in Marvin \ Video

They are cheap, it's the only definitive conclusion we are reaching. 😀

Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2022-06-25, 11:12

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in Marvin \ Video

The two cards I have came from eBay and from different sellers, it seems that I was lucky. I still want to buy another one or two, but I'm on other projects right now, time and money are the limits.;) I think that the OP should test the card on a newer computer, without the mod of course, that's the …

Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2022-06-25, 09:24

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in Marvin \ Video

I'm not going to say that the graphics card is not defective, but in the data sheet of the 1117 it says that it needs more components to work correctly. In my case the two graphics cards I modified worked fine on all motherboards I tested, from 430FX to KT133. It would be a good idea to test the …

Re: It might be a good idea to open a session for Apple

Posted on 2022-06-21, 14:43

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Although I have tried, I have never been able to understand the philosophy behind Apple. On the one hand they are capable of creating very very good quality hardware but then their target user seems to be only the user without real knowledge of hardware apart from appearance, it is as if they …

Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-20, 21:26

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I too have those issues with controls and I really hate coming across PC games that seem to prioritize gamepads; maybe I'm old fashioned but in my head the main controls for a computer are keyboard, mouse and joystick. The games that I found that prioritized the gamepad, I returned them instantly, I …

Re: It might be a good idea to open a session for Apple

Posted on 2022-06-20, 18:13

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I see Vogons as more dedicated to x86 and x86-64 based hardware, I believe that only compatible PCs have the level of backwards compatibility, and the almost infinite level of customization, which is so much enjoyed and talked about in this forum. I don't know much about the Apple environment but I …

Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-18, 21:33

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I would consider the download size issue to be normal. the same could be said in 2012 with respect to 2002 and in 2002 with respect to 1992, well in this case maybe a little less. It has always been that way, and it will continue to be. A texture from a current game occupies what all the textures …

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