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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on Today, 01:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The P3 doesnt need the high bandwidth you get with RDRAM. The pairing makes little sense. Which is exactly why they dropped it on the P3 after just over a year of trying to push it. Intel was in partnership with RAMBUS, so they had to push it but they quickly realised it just wasnt working and …

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on Today, 01:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When you say obsession how did that manifest itself in the real world? I mean Intel being the ones in charge of their own production schedule did they decide to stop the production of say the 810/815 chipsets to make the 840 chipsets and then go on to force those 840 chipsets onto the world? Or did …

Re: What memory benchmark tool did I use back in the beginning of the 00s?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Could it be Everest (now AIDA64)? In all fairness, I haven't seen what its memory benchmarks look like, but I feel like that was a common tool back then...

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on Yesterday, 00:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When you say obsession how did that manifest itself in the real world? I mean Intel being the ones in charge of their own production schedule did they decide to stop the production of say the 810/815 chipsets to make the 840 chipsets and then go on to force those 840 chipsets onto the world? Or did …

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-17, 00:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's a common knowledge among 3rd party motherboard makers and DIYers that 440BX can be overclocked to 133 MHz comfortably as long as you've got a decent motherboard. OTOH Intel has never officially recognize 440BX at 133 MHz. How could Intel sell more 810/815 or any successor chipset if it …

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-16, 00:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know if it makes sense to choose a more powerful graphics card since the processor may limit the card. And is there a difference in the quality of maxpayne 2001 on a Pentium3 PC, 512MB RAM and a GF2mx and GF4ti graphics card? The other factor, then, is price/supply. GF4 Tis, at least in …

Re: Old inkjet printers - XP drivers

Posted on 2024-09-15, 15:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@VivienM: Yes, the business 'model' of the inkjet manufacturers is schidd (= cheap printer - expensive ink). But what can i do? I have to print about 10 pages every 2nd or 3rd year, so costs of an inkjet are: 60 or 80 $/€ for the device incl. fresh cartridges = 20 or 30 per year. Lasers are too …

Re: Old inkjet printers - XP drivers

Posted on 2024-09-15, 14:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why not look at acquiring a laser printer? 1) Laser printers are a lot more durable so you might be able to find an older one. 2) Laser printers are more likely to support PCL/PS/etc which allow for more generic drivers. I would not put any money/time into restoring an old inkjet printer. These …

Re: Some games run laggy on 66 MHZ FSB

Posted on 2024-09-15, 13:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what interests me, the game with i was fiddeling was Grand Prix 2. on my 667mhz the game run perfect. clocking down to 333 via FSB had some struggles especially in Monaco. The same results with the Celeron. Is it possible that 300-400 mhz is just too slow? i mean this game was made for P1 CPUs and …

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-14, 18:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

P3 800-866mhz, 512mb ram, Radeon9000 The Radeon 9000 is not period-correct for a PIII; I am trying to remember what the ATI option at the time was. Dell had a super-duper-low-end option that was ATI, below the TNT2 M64 in the lineup. But the high end was a nascent NVIDIA and a struggling 3dfx. 9000 …

Re: Mac mini G4 1.25 1GB - can it retrogame?

Posted on 2024-09-14, 18:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

why would I want to run the Mac version on a G4? I like to explore unfamiliar retro stuff :) I.e. me not knowing things. I get what you mean. ;) IDK, maybe it was the then hype catching up to me 20 years later, or boredom. And if you want to explore unfamiliar retro stuff on a Mac, you want the …

Re: Mac mini G4 1.25 1GB - can it retrogame?

Posted on 2024-09-14, 16:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

And more stuff. I thought I could do more with a 1.25GHz cpu. I have a powerbook and 4 lamp imacs but I never tried retro stuff because of space constraints on my bench. I'm gonna buy an Intel based mini and install Windows. A small box for some tinkering isn't bad. But I'll have to learn before I …

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-14, 12:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

P3 800-866mhz, 512mb ram, Radeon9000 The Radeon 9000 is not period-correct for a PIII; I am trying to remember what the ATI option at the time was. Dell had a super-duper-low-end option that was ATI, below the TNT2 M64 in the lineup. But the high end was a nascent NVIDIA and a struggling 3dfx. Also …

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-14, 00:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

440BX supports more than 512MB of RAM; the Intel boards used by the Dells of the world had three slots and could support 768MB. I have seen Taiwanese boards with 4 slots, not sure if they can go up to 1GB. Yup but it needs to be low density dual rank sticks of no more than 256Mb each. I have a ASUS …

Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-13, 20:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

440BX + Excellent stability, compatibility, and overclockability + Full ISA bus support (usually 2+ slots) - Only supports up to 512MB RAM - Only supports AGP 2x - Only supports 2 USB ports - Only supports UDMA 33 - 100MHz FSB can be overclocked but doing so might interfere with AGP 440BX supports …

Re: What are these cards?

Posted on 2024-09-13, 01:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-09-13, 00:56: OK if anyone has the drivers for the graphics card that would be awesome post the link if you have one Thanks www.nvidia.com ? (I'm not trying to be facetious, but it seems to be offering drivers for the TNT2 family to this day... don't think the Dell cards …

Re: Late 90s or 2000s games - CRT or flat panel (widescreen) ?

Posted on 2024-09-11, 22:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So unless space was the prime concern due to moving or rearranging your space, then it made total sense to hang onto big CRT some 5 years after LCD were "default" with new systems. I would probably add another reason that contributed to migrating off CRT rather early for me - heat. When you are …

Re: What are these cards?

Posted on 2024-09-11, 22:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Stuff like UT, half life, early 2000s 3d, 2d games Assuming this is indeed a TNT2 M64 - I had a Dell TNT2 M64 in 2000-1 and I thought it was perfectly adequate for things like UT at 1024x768 or whatever resolution it was that I played it at. Coming from a lousy ATI soldered chip with bad drivers on …

Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11

Posted on 2024-09-11, 02:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yeah but there was no fun in buying it, it was all part of the fun back then... You would have to have been there to appreciate it though. For some weird reason people didnt like to let you borrow their VLK. Not sure why. Removing the bloat is as simple as running a powershell script from GitHub …

Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11

Posted on 2024-09-10, 23:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

I was thinking about this. If you have to have a micro$soft account to use Win11, I am willing to bet it requires MFA? So what happens if your phone is lost, stolen, compromised, whatever - at the point you would not even be able to get into your computer to access your files? I don't think it …

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