Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-07-25, 01:56

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Also can't have enough AGP GeForce 6600GT cards. IMO a fantastic card for a Pentium 4 Northwood build. I prefer 6800GT's, because they were designed for AGP and don't have the PCI-E --> AGP conversion chip onboard. ;) 6800 ULTRA! I got lucky and managed to pick up a rare eVGA 6800 Ultra Extreme. …

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Re: Leaked Windows 9 screenshot

Posted on 2014-07-24, 15:42

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holier than thou developer attitudes... Amen to that. You should have seen the attitude they got when I dared to question the dropping of the nx586 from support. Do you know what their first response was? "That chip was never released so we don't need support for it." Never released? I have 3 …

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 vs 3000 bench

Posted on 2014-07-24, 15:28

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Gateway V3-1000? I have one of those, its 8mb and it really hurts its usability. Never seen one without a heatsink tho. There are V3 1000's with 16mb that are built on the same circuit board as the Banshee. V3 1000 http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/5274-2/3dfx_voodoo3_1000_compaq_16mb_agp_front.jpg …

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Re: Geforce 2 MX vs MX200 vs MX400

Posted on 2014-07-24, 15:12

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Everything you ever wanted to know about nVidia graphics cards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units According to the chart, the GeForce 2MX is older than the MX200 and has more memory bandwith because it utilizes a 128-bit memory bus while the MX 200 use a 64-bit bus …

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Re: Humble Bundle Square Enix bundle

Posted on 2014-07-23, 17:41

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The email I got said Square Enix so that's what I posted. Complain to the people at H-B for the misleading title. 🤣

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 vs 3000 bench

Posted on 2014-07-23, 17:27

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Is that AGP vs PCI? I have PCI, versions of both these cards and a couple agp ones. The PCI 2000 is an overclocking wonder, and can run stable at 200mhz. I'm pretty sure its pin style heatsink is more effective then the Flat ones found on the 3000,3500-PCI/AGP, when air is hitting it. There are …

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Humble Bundle Square Enix bundle

Posted on 2014-07-23, 03:41

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https://www.humblebundle.com/

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-07-22, 15:33

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OMG I actually remember that game bundle with QEMM.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-07-21, 04:51

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It got me excited :blush: When I got my boxed Wing Commander, it got me pretty excited, too. I picked up an Atari game, actually three Atari games, and it's actually for Atari and C64. I got the Paul Norman Adventure Trilogy including Aztec Challenge, Forbidden Forest and Caverns of Khafka. …

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Leaked Windows 9 screenshot

Posted on 2014-07-21, 04:39

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http://mashable.com/2014/07/14/windows-9-thre … creenshot-leak/ The Start menu has returned, and it's not the half-assed, bastardized one from Windows 8.1!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-07-17, 15:54

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Received a Diamond Stealth SIII S540 for my '99-00 Pentium III build. Not the quickest card I know and the drivers are poor - but I was interested in the S3 Metal drivers for Unreal. Its boxed, although not in the best condition the card was brand new - never been used. http://i57.tinypic.com/ …

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 17:58

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4-80-6

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Re: Video card for Athlon XP?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 17:21

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Yea the 6800GT was a beast when it came out. It put Nvidia back into pole position after they struggled a little with the FX series. Radeon X850 is faster than any 6800 with AA/AF turned on high and at 1600x1200. The 6800 only barely edged out X800 without AA/AF and at resolutions lower than 1600 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-07-14, 17:19

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Voodoo3 3000 and Voodoo4 4500 have the same memory bandwidth, fill rate and triangle throughput. My guess as to why the 4500 is faster at higher resolutions is that it has more RAM so less texture swapping is going on - the 3000 only has 16 MB and it doesn't really use any AGP features so texture …

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Re: What kind of music do you guys listen to when working on computers?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 04:18

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I prefer the music of silence. Even when I'm gaming, if there is an option to turn off the sound, in most cases I will use it (unless it's a game with really cool sounds like the many fabulous quotes from the Duke Nukem games). 🤣

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Re: Super7 or Coopermine Build for DirectX 7

Posted on 2014-07-13, 18:05

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I did a few tests last autumn, you guys can have a look: PII/PIII VS K6-2/III+ The synthetic benchmarks make the K6-III+ look more competitive than it really is. That's why I don't pay much attention to them. The actual game based benchmarks are more accurate. For a gaming rig, it's how it performs …

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Re: Choose an ISA video card

Posted on 2014-07-13, 14:03

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Nobody tried testing a Mach64?

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Re: Pentium 4 or Celeron D?

Posted on 2014-07-13, 13:57

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At first I thought that too,but then I found this on Wikipedia: "Despite its many improvements, the Prescott core of the Celeron D had at least one major drawback - heat. Unlike the fairly cool-running Northwood Celeron, the Prescott-256 had a class-rated TDP of 73 W, which prompted Intel to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-07-13, 13:55

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Installed a newer, punchier power supply into the Pentium II project this forum has been helping me with. Fancy, black, braided cables and way more SATA power than I need, but you can't tell there's anything weird from the front. http://i.imgur.com/m8JfDijl.jpg Also, with the new power supply …

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Re: Turtlebeach Montego II (Vortex 2) S/PDIF Pinout?

Posted on 2014-07-13, 02:24

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sliderider: great info there! It does indeed look like the "plus" from the pictures you linked. Are they like Sound Blaster cards in that any daughterboard can be mated to the PCI card via the I2S link? Or is it not that "universal"? That card only connects to the one that it came with as far as I …

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