Re: Recreating our third Family PC - 1997 Pentium MMX 166

Posted on 2025-03-08, 19:13

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However, with L1 cache disabled via SetMul, it seems that the scrolling issue no longer occurs. I think the whole “DOS compatibility” table from Gona should be taken with a grain of salt. It also doesn’t favor ATi because of some obscure edge-cases while they often do a good job at internal …

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Re: Turning a failed e-waste XP build to a powerful Win 98 rig

Posted on 2025-03-07, 22:04

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OMORES wrote on 2025-03-07, 21:09: I’m not even sure what the last big title officially released for Win98 was. From 2005 I know Prince of Persia Warrior Within and Worms 4: Mayhem. They both list it under system requirements

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Re: Super Swanky Cyrix Media GX Minuet

Posted on 2025-03-07, 19:21

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Hi does this chassis have pre-mounted mobo standoffs? Maybe you shorted something on the flip side? I’m really surprised for such a modern case to have latching power switch. Maybe it’s just broken? Low-profile ISA cards are not a thing (well there are small cards but you still have to 3D print a …

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Re: Turning a failed e-waste XP build to a powerful Win 98 rig

Posted on 2025-03-06, 22:17

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OMORES wrote on 2025-03-05, 22:38: For Windows games, a 7000 series GPU gives you max FPS, it can't get any better. Which games do you mean? Like 2000-2001?

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Re: Turning a failed e-waste XP build to a powerful Win 98 rig

Posted on 2025-03-05, 08:37

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but once you get them set up, you’ll get the best performance and some crazy scores in 3D Mark, With GeForce 7 you also get bad compatibility with older games and fullscreen MS-DOS prompt screen corruption. I’m yet to see if anyone manages to successfully get FM out of one of those PCIe 1x bridged …

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Re: A snappy Win XP build using inexpensive parts

Posted on 2025-02-19, 09:25

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Interesting choice of parts, great cable management My next goal is a Win 95 system(OSR 2). One which is preferably fast and stable but does not require me to give up an arm and a leg. Win95 (any OSR) doesn’t boot on 350MHz or faster CPUs but there are patches. It is very fast on any Pentium with …

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Re: Turning a failed e-waste XP build to a powerful Win 98 rig

Posted on 2025-02-17, 19:18

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agent_x007 wrote on 2025-02-16, 16:58: Note : 915P chipset does have Win98 drivers ICH6 no DDMA sound

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Re: A snappy Win XP build using inexpensive parts

Posted on 2025-02-17, 17:43

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Interesting choice of parts, great cable management

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2025-02-15, 13:24

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by Bruno128

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You still have to drop fsb a few % though

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Re: Cleaning and Upgrading My First PC (486 DX4 100) which I've had since 1994

Posted on 2025-02-07, 14:31

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Irinikus wrote on 2025-02-06, 16:12: The M919 does look to be a super cool board! Are you trolling? M919 is a meme board for its fake cache

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Re: Intel Advanced AV/EV with P55C?

Posted on 2025-02-03, 15:13

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Darmok wrote on 2024-01-20, 05:56: It has been running P-MMX 233 for many years without an additional VRM. As in, single voltage 3.52v powered pmmx? That’s surprising. Kind of reminds me of how people ran K6-2 at 2.8vcore.

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Re: Splinter Cell (1) Projected Shadows?

Posted on 2025-02-02, 13:37

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-02-02, 13:13: ou can see some of my screenshots Hoi yes I saw your screenshots and specifically pointed out that the most use of this feature is limited to first level (probably for reviewers) which doesn't have enemies. Final stage is a shooting gallery. Just my two …

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Re: Splinter Cell (1) Projected Shadows?

Posted on 2025-02-02, 12:55

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While playing through Splinter Cell I took some footage of those famous shadows on real hardware. They've gone over the top with this feature in introduction mission, later in game you see it less. There were no levels where I found it critical or important for gameplay. Arguably some of the …

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Re: Overkill Pentium 4 and Athlon motherboards with (provable) Universal AGP (3.3v + 1.5v) support

Posted on 2025-02-01, 19:21

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by Bruno128

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Nemo1985 wrote on 2025-02-01, 15:14: I use a 3.06ghz p4 It’s must be a very strong +5V psu you are using. A modern one would suffer.

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Re: Weird CPU/GPU combos and old hardware reliability

Posted on 2025-01-31, 18:41

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dual booted WinXP + Win10... but found I just ended up using Windows 10 all the time on that system. This is because the only situations I could find where the overkill system is better than the normal system were cases where Windows 10 improved my quality of life over XP For the sake of the …

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Re: Dell Latitude D620 as Windows 98 laptop

Posted on 2025-01-31, 05:22

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by Bruno128

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Does this driver work with dos games ran from 98? If yes where did you get it

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2025-01-29, 17:00

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how well do dos games run in the dos mode of 98se with this board? It depends on other factors Video card (VBE) Sound card (DSDMA / TSR) Amount of RAM installed and HIMEM configuration CPU speed / slowdown capabilities In itself the chipset of the board is officially supported by win98 drivers.

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Re: Weird CPU/GPU combos and old hardware reliability

Posted on 2025-01-27, 15:15

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OM606 wrote on 2025-01-26, 09:18: not to be too much of purist and know when to stop and just enjoy and play games Are you though? Is there any disadvantage to using gtx960? Its not a very hot card.

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-01-27, 11:55

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what you are trying to argue here That if your starting point is emulating eax and whatnot you may as well go with modern hardware it won’t matter. There is Alchemy and dsoal and whatnot. It’s not like you can trick the system by buying 8738 (literally the cheapest option) and claim “hardware a3d” …

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Re: SFF CRT "DOS/9x/XP" sleeper time machine

Posted on 2025-01-27, 10:02

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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-27, 09:42: Even EAX 1/2 and A3D 1 is better than shitty on board Audio AC97, besides EAX 3 can be emulated in software as required should the soundcard not be capable of it This is one big fallacy you don’t understand what is a subset of what.

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