PIII 933 and GF3 Ti200 are a nice match, a slighty faster CPU wouldn't hurt, maybe a Tualatin, if your motherboard has support for it. Or change the motherboard and the CPU, a good socket A board and any Athlon XP should be faster, easy to find and cheap. Try Quake 3 on your machine, Unreal …

That's not true at all. As already stated above by oohms, the graphics chip has nothing to do with that. I have a no-name S3 ViRGE 325 card that has better image quality than even the best Matrox cards. But then again I have three ViRGE/DX cards which are all crap. A Savage 4 I own also has so-so …

Old thread, I know, but maybe people will still want to know information about this. I had Rage Pro back in the days, no quite when it was released, a bit later, but it was still relevant (from mid 1999 until late 2000). The exact model was AIW Pro 8 MB PCI. For me it was a great card. The 2D …

I think it can be done, slot 2 xeons are basically nothing more than PIIs or PIIIs with extra cache (some are even with the same amount of cache). It seems that slot 1 to slot 2 adapters exists: https://www.anandtech.com/show/318 Slot 2 to slot 1 could be done, power requirement might be a problem, …

In real life I replaced my CRT (Samsung 757DFX) with an LCD (Packard Bell 220WDV) in 2007, quite late. It was affordable, but in some ways it was a step back: -the resolution was inferior (757DFX could do 2048x1536, while Packard Bell could only do 1680x1050 (it had the option to do 1600x1200, but …

Thanks, it's a nice document. I think Intel wants to be "safe", as Intel always does, they probably listed "the worst" scenario. I don't like to destroy hardware, especially old hardware, and Pentium II is my favorite CPU, so I won't test a CPU by inserting/pulling out in/from the slot 1, mostly …

True. like the Slot1 CPUs are designed by Intel for about 50 insertions. After this number, the thin gold coating disappear and the contact isn't as good. I wonder how much insertions PCI/ISA cards are designed for. I guess they are really more tolerant to bad contacts than CPUs though 50 …

Crysis can't even start on this GPU (it works fine on 9800 XT). Crysis might "work" on 9800XT, but I'm sure it doesn't work "fine" :) When Crysis was launched I had a 6800 Ultra and it ran like crap on that card. And 6800 Ultra is much faster than 9800XT (in some games in high resolution even more …

Supply and demand, it's that simple. It doesn't matter too much if it sucked or not, it matters how many cards are "in the wild" for sale and how many potential buyers. If there are more buyers than cards and if some of those buyers are willing to pay a high price... it will sell at a high price. At …

V5 6000.

That Korg daughterboard 😲

I had two V2 working in an IBM PC Server 330 (dual PII 300, 256 EDO), that was in 2003 or 2004. Later I tried a V5 5500 PCI, it was also working fine. The motherboard had S3 Virge (or something like that onboard, with 1 MB, upgraded to 2 MB by adding two 512 kb chips (identical with those found on …

1. Voodoo2 - huge performance increase from Voodoo1, plus in SLI it was even faster and able to render in 1024x768. It was still a beast even after new generation was launched (V3, TNT2) and competitive even after another generation (V4, GF256). 2. 8800GTX - very big performance leap, could play …

Very interesting topic, I've read all posts and everyone has good points. I collect hardware since 2003, for me right now there are four periods. 1. Pre-Pentium era, I can't give a specific time period, but probably before 1995. For me that's the really vintage period, but also I'm not interested in …

Typically however, the TV out doesn't happen unless turned on by the drivers or OS, the only cards I know will do TV out from power on are Geforce 3s with the TV out option. That's not true (at least from my experience), example: Voodoo3 3000 will output signal when booting. I had a S3 card back in …

I had a similar problem a while ago, I was testing a socket 7 motherboard and I was using one AT PSU "installed" on the table. So nothing was installed in a case, everything was on the table (wood table, by the way). I connected the PSU to the motherboard, then I plugged the power cord on the back …

Yes, it can.

I managed to make it run and tried Carmageddon. It works, but it looks exactly like in software mode (no bilinear filtering) and it's slow (playable, but slow). I'm running CARMAV.EXE, tried to copy in the game folder the OVL from the patch and from dgvoodoo, same result. If I don't copy any glide2x …