Re: memorable CPUs

Posted on 2011-05-05, 20:02

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by Iris030380

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I didn't own a "good" CPU for a long time after I started with PC's, but ... P200 non-mmx ... stole it from the guy who ripped me off when I bought a PC from him, and it was amazing. Played all my games perfectly and was a great daddy to my Maxi Gamer Voodoo 1. P2-266 ... Just had much more grunt in …

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Re: Quake Level

Posted on 2011-05-05, 19:56

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TA is greater than SC, but not by a great margin. It's like comparing a Ducati 996 to a yamaha R1 ... it's personal preference which is better, but only a fool would argue that the Duke is not a better engineered and impressive machine. Shame that SC2 is leagues ahead of Supreme Commander. Seems TA …

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Advice on paint effect

Posted on 2011-05-05, 19:52

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by Iris030380

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I need to do an entire case shell as close as possible to the texture and colour of the morrowind menu screen background. How would I most easily achieve this, being that i'm quite a novice sprayer but not unconfident, and I don't own an airbrush. Check pic here if you don't know what the texture I …

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Re: How's this look for a early-2000's WinME box?

Posted on 2011-05-05, 19:37

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by Iris030380

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I just installed Win98 SE on a K6-2 500 build that I finished before the case modding commences. That way I can just strip it, mod it, put it back together. After installing 98SE I installed the unnoficial service pack for 98SE (for the first time ever, I didn't know they even existed until …

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Re: PCI graphics in windows 95

Posted on 2011-05-03, 19:11

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by Iris030380

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Problem Solved! I booted up another recently aquired PC and as it turns out it has an S3 Trio 3D2X installed! So I'm removing that for the P200MMX. The PC the Trio was in is a total gem. It's an AMD K6-2 500 with AGP2x support. My designs for this PC is my TNT2 Ultra and 2 VooDoo 2's in SLI. So the …

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Re: PCI graphics in windows 95

Posted on 2011-05-03, 16:25

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by Iris030380

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Exactly! A geforce card in a pentium 200MMX is far past overkill. I am looking for a 2D only card. The rage 2 c's are as expensive or even more so than the diamond stealths on ebay. I have a few cirrus logic cards lying around but I don't think they can hold up to a matrox for 2d quality. I would …

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Re: PCI graphics in windows 95

Posted on 2011-05-02, 22:31

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by Iris030380

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Someone sell me a Matrox Millenium 2! 🤣

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Re: PCI graphics in windows 95

Posted on 2011-05-02, 22:29

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by Iris030380

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3 Trio 64V+ around £12.99 -£20.00 on ebay right now. I can get a mystique for just over £5.00 ... the problem there is that when running some games (such as hyperblade) I know from experience that the PC will automatically chose the Matrox to render the game. Same thing with Dungeon Keeper D3D. I …

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Re: Hardware you regret parting with, or you wish didn't die

Posted on 2011-05-02, 22:24

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by Iris030380

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Regret parting with my pair of Dell Dual P3 slot 1 550Mhz boxes which I had in lan quite a few years ago. They were the most robust and easy to work with PC's I've owned. Also a dual P2-450 server I had for quite a while in a 4' tall steel case (which I had to carry about 2.5 miles to get home). …

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PCI graphics in windows 95

Posted on 2011-05-02, 22:15

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by Iris030380

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Hi Just aquired a compaq Pentium 1 desktop with a 200MMX CPU and 64MB EDO ram. It has 1 ISA and 2 PCI's on a riser card, all of which are empty. There is onboard video, but I was wondering, what would be an ideal PCI card to buy and install to run alongside a 3DFX voodoo 1? I was looking at the …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, quick test.

Posted on 2011-04-25, 18:34

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by Iris030380

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if you want a 9800pro. there is one on ebay that is being sold by an idiot that will probably go for cheap. aftermarket cooler too! http://cgi.ebay.com/Video-Card-PN-109-a07500-00-cooling-fan-/180657596654?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item2a100828ee I will never buy a card with an aftermarket cooler. …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, quick test.

Posted on 2011-04-24, 21:22

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by Iris030380

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They really were not that pretty. But few cards were back then. But theyre lacklustre appearance hides the awesome power these cards hold. I still need to buy a 9700pro and 9800pro for my collection, but they still fetch way too much money on ebay. And it seems people are holding on to them for a …

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Re: The Hoarde

Posted on 2011-04-24, 21:17

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by Iris030380

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I edited it... looked ambiguous. I meant 1 AGP 2x slot. 😁

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The Hoarde

Posted on 2011-04-24, 21:13

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by Iris030380

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BONUS Bought a local lot from ebay of 10 unfinished PC's the other day for just £50. It also including a small bag containing mainly IDE leads and power leads but also 2 old CD-Writers in mint condition, one being a Plextor with a cool tray mechanism. Also a large box of bits that I don't think I …

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Re: Geforce 3 Ti200, basic info.

Posted on 2011-04-11, 18:42

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by Iris030380

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I love the Geforce 3 series of cards. They were perfect for the time, handling everything for over a year on full detail and just so reliable. The original vanilla GF3 was the best, although not quite as fast in raw 16bit opengl as the GF2 Ultras (but the GF2 Ultras were insanely expensive). The …

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Re: 486SLC - how good is it?

Posted on 2011-04-07, 21:47

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by Iris030380

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My second PC was a 486 SLC 33 and it was absolutely abysmal. It cost almost as much as the 486 DX 33 but the man in the shop assured me that the SLC was almost as powerful. How he lied... My friends had a 486 DX 50 and a DX2 66 respectively. With my SLC I could only play Doom in low detail and by …

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Re: DVI TO HDMI?

Posted on 2011-03-30, 23:03

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by Iris030380

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I ordered a mix and match of cables and dongle to try them out. Bottom line I only need 1 cable for our own media centre, but as I'm building a couple more I'll need the others. Meantime I will test all the cables with my machine and let you know the difference. Prices of my items range from £2.33 - …

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Re: DVI TO HDMI?

Posted on 2011-03-28, 23:31

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by Iris030380

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Thanks for the reply. I think I'm gonna jump in and order some cables tonight. Been promising the Missus some HD movie nights in for ages. And the best part, can't wait to watch some HD disney with the little one when the other half goes out to her boring parties. Thanks for the advice. :happyhappy:

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DVI TO HDMI?

Posted on 2011-03-28, 23:08

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by Iris030380

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Hi all. I'm trying to work out how I can connect a PC with dual DVI on the graphics card to an LCD HD TV with HDMI. I was looking for a DVI (male) to HDMI (male) converter and then thinking I could just use an HDMI cable to link the PC to the LCD. Will this work ok? Will it be able to display 1080p? …

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Re: Game Suggestion to Test Voodoo 1

Posted on 2011-03-24, 23:15

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Yeah if possible, VooDoo games always worked better in DOS. Everything was faster in Dos to be fair. Tomb Raider, Carmageddon, Screamer 2 ... all seemed to be 5-10fps quicker than running in Win95. And it always felt sort of rad playing a voodoo game in DOS. It just felt like raw power. Bring back …

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