Re: 3D Accelerator Comparison Thread

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:54

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EscapeVelocity wrote: This thread should be a sticky! I think if we make every very interesting posts a sticky, we'll need "super"stickies to supersticky the normal stickies or we won't find any of the normal topics. At least not on the 1st 3 pages!

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Re: About the "Arcade" section.... can we change it to ...

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:50

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I'd like a hidden section as well. Thing is, who will receive access and who decided who gets access? And what would be the purpose of this "VIP"-section? Anyhow, I think it might be a good idea to not have any public links showing the forum with a cute little "locked" icon or people will start …

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Re: Roland RAP-10

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:43

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Any of you guys have driver for this card to DOS? I was unable to find any... Without driver, the midi section works, and games with native RAP-10 support, finds the card at 330H, DMA5. As I've seen some screenshots from win9x, where the card is listed as SB compatible card, so with driver I assume …

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Re: -5V power supply rail?

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:42

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-5v is only used by some particularly old ISA cards. It is kinda rare. True that. I agree with having a PSU which has -5v is handy, but I wouldn't consider them more valuable then a later -5vless PSU. Still, if the price is low enough and the rest identical, I'd prefer one of the -5v ones (though I …

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Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:36

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The FX 59x0 cards are the only ones even worth consideration but even they have a hard time against a lowly Radeon 9600 in some games. Let's not even ponder the inefficiency there lol Does that include the 5600's? Wouldn't they be roughly equal to the midrange GF4's? Those cards aren't the ones I'm …

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Re: VL-Bus 3D card????

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:35

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retro games 100 wrote: Pippy P. Poopypants wrote: Review here: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~idr/graphics/3D%20Bl … LB%20review.jpg Two interesting things about that review. Firstly the price: over 500 US $, and secondly the score: 20% Don't we just love having hardware that used to cost k's of money? 😁 …

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Re: What was the oldest ATX motherboard ever made?

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:34

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Almost all of my 486 boards are either UMC or SiS. UMC seems better then SiS but the SiS boards aren't that bad. Even if their performance is less then the UMC, it's still a 486 non the less ;) See my Intel mobo thread. :D http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=21987 Cheers! :D I'd forgotten about …

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Re: Help me ID this 486 chip. If you can. + cache question too..

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:32

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Any pic of the socket and the chip is good. Please include a pic of the board and the heatsinked CPU.

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Re: Internet Explorer 9

Posted on 2011-03-21, 20:31

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I like Google Chrome these days. If you must use IE, then IE9 at least has better support for modern HTML/CSS. PNG with alpha, and CSS rounded corners finally! Rounded corners is nice, but I don't like it's very annoying bugs and the instability. At least you can *sometimes* get your browsers back …

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Re: Help me ID this 486 chip. If you can. + cache question too..

Posted on 2011-03-21, 13:25

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The socketed chip seems interesting, but without any pics of the chip or the socket itself, it's hard for us to tell.

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-03-21, 13:15

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AMD-K6-2-66-4.5-300-Tekram-P5T30-i430TX-512kB-PCI-ATi Rage LT Pro-8MB-Olivil-170.9 Isn't it kind of low for a K6-2@300MHz? EDIT: Just tested this in Win98SE, I get 150.2 :oops: Do you have more then 64MB memory installed? The TX chipset can't cache any more then that. Also running it on a 66Mhz fsb …

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Re: About the "Arcade" section.... can we change it to ...

Posted on 2011-03-21, 06:43

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better idea... why not make the section hidden only to registered users and lurkers won't even see the section on the index? unless of course you want to make the drivers section open to guest posters, but that brings the "drive bys" and spam problem there isn't an easy solution to this, but hidden …

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Re: My retro rigs and not-so-retro-one

Posted on 2011-03-21, 06:41

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Nice rigs! And about the black faceplates, I'm kinda having the exact same problem. Almost all recent things are black! I kinda solved this by buying beige DVD drives in a second hand store where they sell for like €2 each (no guarantee it's not defective, but hey...only €2 right? :D ). Voodoo's …

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Re: -5V power supply rail?

Posted on 2011-03-21, 06:26

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Turns out the TUSL2 board is a dud. I managed to get my P2B to boot on the same power supply, just swapping out the RAM stick and changing the FSB jumper to 66 MHz. Don't really trust buying old hardware on ebay anymore, ugh Buying 2nd hand is ALWAYS a gamble. You can minimize the risks (like …

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Re: Mau1wurf1977's first 486 PC - Lot's of pics - Tell me what I can do with it

Posted on 2011-03-21, 06:24

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Hmm maybe I should, I'm definitely sure its been abandoned since its just sitting just inside a building with a dell p4 which has only a motherboard which apparently doesn't have a working IDE controller. I guess the problems I for see with the PS/2 is the HDD not working and the battery being dead …

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Re: Mau1wurf1977's first 486 PC - Lot's of pics - Tell me what I can do with it

Posted on 2011-03-20, 23:34

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Even when I was dumpsterdiving almost daily back in 2002-2003, most computers I found were some variety of Socket 7 with only the occasional Socket 5 and 486. My guess is that there were simply many more Socket 7 systems sold, so many more to toss out also. Pentium 1 boards are so plentyfull …

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Re: About the "Arcade" section.... can we change it to ...

Posted on 2011-03-20, 23:19

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Making old games run on "modern" OS's often require you to find a particular version of a driver for your hardware as newer drivers tend to be less suited for "obsolete" hardware and, apart from people like us here, nobody cares about these old drivers. That said, if such a section is ever created, …

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Re: Quick question about underclocking a Pentium 2

Posted on 2011-03-20, 15:11

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retro games 100 wrote: Tetrium wrote: Btw, slowest I've gotten a P2 is 100Mhz (probably 2x50Mhz?) It would be very interesting to learn how you did this. Can you remember any details please? Thanks. I'm pretty sure I just lowered the fsb to 50Mhz. Many 440LX boards support that fsb but many BX's …

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Re: Found some hardware today

Posted on 2011-03-19, 14:22

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The MSI K7N420 seems to be one of the most modern XP boards, so any Athlon XP could do. What you need to do is find out what the maximum FSB is this board supports. This will effectively limit what CPU's aren't supported. Very brief intro to Socket A DDR boards: Simplified, there are basically 3 …

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Re: Gravisultrasound.org help needed!

Posted on 2011-03-19, 12:30

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Thats a lot of pictures, 🤣

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