Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-23, 10:42

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by dirkmirk

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From what I've read, there are conflicting stories on these. Some say the 133mhz is an AMD chip. Others say it could be a Cyrix chip. The boxes do mention branch prediction which could lean towards Cyrix but I don't know how else to confirm without unsealing it. Here's the start of a previous …

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Re: Fellow members, tell a random fact about your country.

Posted on 2016-12-17, 08:35

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by dirkmirk

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Houses are bloody expensive in Australia, The median house price in Sydney just hit 1.1 million Australian dollars or about $810,000USD, Median Unit prices are $710,000AUD or $520,000USD, A block of land 60km from the city will set you back around $1,000 per square meter, Generation Y are told to …

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Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2016-12-17, 08:22

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by dirkmirk

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I would buy ZEN because I'm an AMD fan boy even if it does'nt live up to the hype the cpu is not as important as it has been in the past.

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-12-13, 10:58

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by dirkmirk

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Do you think a 9100 is a better catch than an FX600? I dont know my card is only 64meg and has a 250/250(500ddr) cpu/memory clock 8gb memory bandwidth, looking at the gpureview website the main advantage seems to be 8 texture units vs 4 on the Geforce cards which equates to texture fill rate of …

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-12-13, 08:04

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by dirkmirk

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"It would be interetsing to see how your radeon card runs games like" Like what? Your sentance got merged with another at this point. I never realised how much these PCI Radeon 9000 series cards had going for them. Were they buggy in games? Its only the 9100 thats high end for PCI its the same card …

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-12-13, 06:18

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by dirkmirk

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Are you sure thats an FX5500? I thought it was only the 5200s with memory clocked as slow as that and thats surely the reason why the performance is so bad, you could download rivatuner and try overclock the memory to 200/400mhz. Good to see the FX600 performing similar to the 6200 I dont see a …

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-12-11, 23:23

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by dirkmirk

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I was making good progress until my system died.... The 9100 is no good at Doom 3 getting like 9.1fps in the timdemo (17.5fps for 6200) at 1024x768,i t also struggled big time with the battle of proxycon in 3dmark 2003 4.3fps. Quake 3 timdemo four 190fps 1024x768 & 168fps @ 1280x1024, Max Payne high …

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Re: Name of a old pc game

Posted on 2016-12-08, 06:17

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by dirkmirk

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Shadow Knights? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOTXxmVBwCw

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-12-01, 14:39

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by dirkmirk

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128 bit cards should'nt be hard to find, in saying that, I dont know how to identify the cards from one to the next next. some preliminary results..... 3Dmark 2001SE 6200 (64 bit)- 7,295 9100 (128bit) - 6,485 3Dmark 2003 6200 - 2,457 GT1 - 70.0fps GT2 - 12.9fps GT3 - 11.6fps 9100 - 1,947 GT1 - 89. …

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-12-01, 08:09

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by dirkmirk

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Yeah never heard of the FX600 before and I read quite a few forums to find out the fastest PCI card for windows 98se! The other extremely rare PCI card is the FX5600 but I've never seen one, that should be the fastest PCI card followed by the Quadro fx600. In saying that, according to wikipedia the …

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 09:31

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by dirkmirk

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Its hard to look past the FX5200/5500 as they're cheap & plentiful, the problem is you don't have another suitable solution for a DX8 hardware card apart from the 9100 which is comparable to a Geforce 3(In AGP form). AS above the 6200 cards have compatibility issues in windows 98SE I couldn't get …

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Re: High end PCI video card for Tualatin?

Posted on 2016-11-29, 07:24

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by dirkmirk

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Good question and I haven't got around to extensive testing yet, I have a pci 9100,5500 & 6200. In my underpowered Pentium pro system I found the ATI significantly slower in DOS quake 1 timedemo, in windows it would be a different story but I suspect the best card will be the FX5500 if you wish to …

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Re: Work in progress: 486 VLB system

Posted on 2016-11-20, 08:36

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by dirkmirk

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editL wrong thread

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Re: Work in progress: 486 VLB system

Posted on 2016-11-19, 22:27

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by dirkmirk

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I like this alot as Im going to build a very similar system! First of all that motherboard should be plenty good enough for what you want to do as the sis chipset is highly regarded, the biggest hurdle will be enabling write back cache for optimal performance, have a look through this website, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-15, 11:21

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by dirkmirk

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The other Phenom CPU to look out for is the Phenom X4 965BE, Quad core 3.4ghz with unlocked multipliers I believe at stock speeds it was a better gaming CPU than the X6 1090T. I thought the X6 used the same cores as the Phenom II X4 6 cores vs 4 think that's the only difference, as suggested most …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-14, 10:37

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by dirkmirk

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The other Phenom CPU to look out for is the Phenom X4 965BE, Quad core 3.4ghz with unlocked multipliers I believe at stock speeds it was a better gaming CPU than the X6 1090T. edit: Funny when you look back at some old forum posts where people say "just buy an i5 system", Back in 09 I purchased a …

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Re: Which Vesa Local Bus graphics card?

Posted on 2016-10-21, 23:01

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by dirkmirk

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S3 trio64 with 4mb of ram would my pick or s3 868 with 2meg is fine, their are other high end s3 cards basically you hit a cpu limit with vlb. You wont see much if any difference between other chipsets like the et4000.

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Re: What makes real hardware.. "real"?

Posted on 2016-10-21, 21:16

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by dirkmirk

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ElementalChaos wrote: What is it that draws people to real hardware? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus Don Draper could be talking about a retro pc in his sales pitch to Kodak, well worth watching if you haven't seen it.

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High res dos gaming - ISA for sound card importan?

Posted on 2016-10-16, 04:26

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by dirkmirk

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Been thinking about building a high performance dos to play high res video modes for games like Quake or Duke Nukem3D/Blood etc at around 1024x768 or higher if possible and I'm pretty sure my Tualatin rig was not up to the job. I've read some comments that later dos games don't have problems with …

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Re: Intel PR-440FX sound drivers / Win XP

Posted on 2016-10-06, 07:42

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by dirkmirk

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Any reason why a Celeron 766/66? wont work edit: with the latest bios do you get any memory timing settings? I tried to flash my board but it didn't work for some reason perhaps a jumper that I cant access to inside the case.

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