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well I missed that auction for the voodoo 3 today... mad bid war in the end anyway, oh well I'm not in a hurry anyway 😀 I'll just have to keep looking 🙁

Re: Carpet + retro junk = static electricity problem?

Posted on 2011-03-05, 15:48

by TheMAN

in Milliways

yes, sounds like a bad idea to me I lay my things on ceramic tiles or the wood floor for a reason 😉

Re: Fast DOS box: 1 ISA + Athlon XP

Posted on 2011-03-05, 15:24

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the Thoroughbreds get very unstable once you overclocked the shit out of it... I have an XP 2100, but I made it run at 2.1ghz real speed.. so that was basically "XP 2600"... I up'd the FSB but lowered the multiplier... it was a bit faster but overtime the system got more and more unstable I used it …

Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-05, 10:28

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what in the world is this thing? http://cgi.ebay.com/intense-3dfx-voodoo-/2207 … =item336590f32d

Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-04, 23:42

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

that's true.. but I was just ranting about nvidia's shortcomings 😀 guess I'll try to find any of the old skool geforces then... as long as I can get them cheap!

Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-04, 22:35

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

not blurry, but the color rendering/quality overall... ATI tends to have better gamma control and color correctness in my experience

Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-04, 22:11

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

if I were to take something older... I rather have a GeForce over a TNT2... still a faster/better GPU too bad nvidia's 2D video quality always sucked compared to ATI

Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-04, 22:02

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

other than the piss poor FPU, the K6-III 400 or faster actually performed about the same as a PII edit: just looked on egay... voodoo 3s are way more expensive than even the crappy geforce fx 5200 pci! so I guess I'll just settle for the radeon 9250 still... GLide be damned 😒

Re: Geforce FX Super Thread

Posted on 2011-03-04, 21:51

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my K6-3 is in a 430TX board... not any fancy super7 board... why is it this way? because I was too pissed off 3 months after I got the board that super 7 came out, and I didn't know it (back when information was harder to get)! it works fine and is rock solid for what it is... for one thing, there's …

Re: Old Win9x games on WinXP - is it just early DirectX games that can be problematic?

Posted on 2011-03-04, 21:36

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I rather play FF7 on a hacked bleemcast or something 😁 anyway... this is why dual booting is the best.. if the game doesn't work right in XP, boot into 98! I can only imagine half the dx games will work in XP, which will be better overall if it works

Re: Broke my PCI VGA card :(

Posted on 2011-03-04, 21:32

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

epic fail

Re: Quick ISA GA card roundup

Posted on 2011-03-04, 09:14

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

too bad I killed my OAK VGA card, but then again it as a good thing because I wouldn't have gotten a ATI Graphics Pro Turbo ISA otherwise 😀 would be good to test both of my cards side by side, but that isn't possible.... I do have a WD card pulled from some old compaq though

Re: Broke my PCI VGA card :(

Posted on 2011-03-04, 08:45

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you need to stop doing anything when you're dead tired go to sleep! if it's not work related, forget it till the next day!

Re: A gallery of strange sound devices

Posted on 2011-03-04, 05:26

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ System Specs

well I was talking about the one MS sold... I know the "compatibles" were basically the same thing since they all used the same chip 😀

Re: A gallery of strange sound devices

Posted on 2011-03-04, 03:57

by TheMAN

in Marvin \ System Specs

so who has a real WSS? nobody really bought those things! I remember those ATI cards.... and I think my mach32 card does the same flash rom settings crap too... not sure because it's been many years since I used it