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

Posted on 2017-05-18, 19:51

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by Standard Def Steve

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Bought an X-Fi XtremeMusic for $15. Still not sure if I got a great deal for something that may go into a build some day or overpaid for some junk I'll never use. I'd say you did well there. I've always been a fan of the X-Fi, especially for XP gaming. Great performance and analog audio quality. I …

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Re: directx 10/9.0c backward compatibility

Posted on 2017-05-18, 18:43

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I had rather bad experience with this chipset on socket 462. Did VIA made other chipsets that good for different CPUs other than AMD? Not really. I actually just received such a board (the 4CoreDual-SATA2) and have been putting it through its paces. It's measurably slower than Intel chipsets, …

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Re: AMD Ryzen CPUs dominate TechReport's May 2017 System Guide

Posted on 2017-05-18, 18:30

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This makes me happy.

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Re: My 3DMark03 Mega Thread

Posted on 2017-05-16, 06:13

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Messing around with a slow 4CoreDual-SATA 2 board. C2D E6600 2.4GHz/1066, 4CoreDual-SATA2 (VIA PT880 Pro) 2GB DDR2-533 3-3-3-9, onboard audio, XP SP3 With GeForce 6800GT AGP: Filename 3D03 6800GT.PNG File size 389.98 KiB Views 2292 views With Radeon x1950Pro AGP: Filename 3D03 x1950Pro.PNG File …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2017-05-16, 06:05

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Messing around with a slow 4CoreDual-SATA 2 board. C2D E6600 2.4GHz/1066, 4CoreDual-SATA2 (VIA PT880 Pro) 2GB DDR2-533 3-3-3-9, onboard audio, XP SP3 With GeForce 6800GT AGP: Filename D3 6800GT.PNG File size 407.34 KiB Views 829 views With Radeon x1950Pro AGP: Filename D3 x1950Pro.PNG File size 441 …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2017-05-16, 06:05

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Messing around with a slow 4CoreDual-SATA 2 board. C2D E6600 2.4GHz/1066, 4CoreDual-SATA2 (VIA PT880 Pro) 2GB DDR2-533 3-3-3-9, onboard audio, XP SP3 With GeForce 6800GT AGP: http://i.imgur.com/3Ez0KPq.png With Radeon x1950Pro AGP: http://i.imgur.com/abd3ufk.png With Geforce 9800GT PCIe (1.1 @ x4) …

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

Posted on 2017-05-14, 19:16

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by Standard Def Steve

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Today I had my recently completed PII/Win98 build hooked up to the AV system for some DVD action. Equipment list: Asus P3B-F motherboard PII-400 overclocked to 533MHz 512MB CL2 PC133 V2 SLI + GF4 Ti-4400 SB Audigy2 Samsung F8500 64" plasma Denon AVR-X7200WA receiver 7x Philharmonic Audio Affordable …

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Re: Are 1.5-2.5ghz pentium 4's relatively rare?

Posted on 2017-05-14, 18:31

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by Standard Def Steve

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Socket 423 P4s are quite rare outside of eBay. But the 478s? They're so common that I don't even bother with them anymore. I have eight 2.4 Northwoods in my CPU stash. As far as the stickers go, Socket 423/478 machines almost always use this type: Intel_pentium4_logo_original.jpg While the LGA775 …

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Re: OLD VGA card with molex connector? is this rare?

Posted on 2017-05-14, 18:24

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by Standard Def Steve

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That's very unusual for a 9550. Those things merely sipped power. I had a 9600XT that was completely powered by the AGP slot, and that was probably twice as fast as a 9550! If your card uses a standard 9550 BIOS, it probably won't complain if you leave it unplugged. However, if you ever decide to …

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Re: Modern technology and lifestyle

Posted on 2017-05-05, 08:37

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Yup, I love my modern technology just as much as the old gear. Once you get used to having 4.5GHz of processing power under the hood, there's absolutely no going back. My main PC and its 150 mb/s internet connection rips through bloated webpages much faster than my Pentium II and 1.5mb/s cable modem …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-05-04, 07:58

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by Standard Def Steve

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This wasn't a dumpster find. A friend finally upgraded and gave me his old rig. This system has one of those freaky AGP/PCIe, DDR/DDR2 motherboards, the ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2. http://i.imgur.com/6IpIXzN.png Other specs: Pentium E2180 (2GHz, 800FSB, 1MB L2) 2GB DDR2-533 in a dual-channel config XFX …

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

Posted on 2017-04-29, 22:54

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by Standard Def Steve

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The Socket 1366 platform needs memory speed (over latency but latency also matters) and IMC speed to really perform well in 3dmark 2001 and the like. I had my 920 running at 4GHz with some nice, toight CL6 DDR3-1600 RAM today. Man did that take a lot of voltage. Good thing I don't really give a …

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

Posted on 2017-04-28, 16:25

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by Standard Def Steve

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http://i.imgur.com/LofYjkd.png I was playing around with this JVC VHS deck, a product of my latest dumpster dive. I hooked it up to an X800 All-in-Wonder and made a VHS copy of Furious 7. The source file was an uncompressed BD rip playing on MPC-HC. I had MPC downmix the DTS MA 7.1 audio to a Dolby …

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Re: Asus N4L-VM Socket 479(m)

Posted on 2017-04-26, 20:32

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by Standard Def Steve

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-x64 support -Larger L2 cache (up to 4MB) -Slightly higher IPC with older apps. However, Merom does have a faster SIMD unit, so newer apps that use lots of SSE may give it even more of an IPC boost over Yonah. That said, Merom is so... mainstream. Yonah is definitely the more interesting processor …

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Re: Asus N4L-VM Socket 479(m)

Posted on 2017-04-25, 21:01

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by Standard Def Steve

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Yonah is awesome. They are actually more overclockable than the Pentium M. I run my T2600 at 3.08GHz on an AOpen i975 based Socket M board. The performance just screams. 50K in 3DMark01, and that's only single-threaded. Great for a very fast, energy efficient XP gaming setup.

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Re: Which one of these PCs would you keep for a downsized collection?

Posted on 2017-04-21, 07:04

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by Standard Def Steve

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Well, you guys have convinced me to keep both. I probably will regret letting go of the AGP 939 system a few years from now. I certainly wish that I hadn't thrown away that IBM PS/2 system 15 years ago. I'll just take the AMD system apart and put the components in storage for now. Thanks for all the …

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Re: Which one of these PCs would you keep for a downsized collection?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 18:02

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by Standard Def Steve

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I think you need to also put the word "small" in quotes, if the collection includes duplicates of these. :lol: Perhaps. :) Although, the duplicates are actually quite different. My other K8 system is an Opteron monster with SLI'd GF8800s, and the other PIII is built around one of those rare DDR …

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Which one of these PCs would you keep for a downsized collection?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 17:38

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by Standard Def Steve

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I hate asking this kind of question and you guys probably hate answering them, so I'm sorry. There, now that that's out of the way, here's my "dilemma." I've been downsizing. I've already sold and given away around half of my old computers. So now I have these two systems and I just can't decide …

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Re: Best browser on a P3?

Posted on 2017-04-14, 19:28

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by Standard Def Steve

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I actually use Firefox 48 on my TUalatin-1575 w/ 2GB. Some sites are pretty slow, but overall it's not nearly as bad as one would expect. 😜

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Re: Old cpu vs new cpu (single core)

Posted on 2017-04-14, 16:34

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I remember doing a 1GHz comparison between a Coppermine PIII and a San Diego Athlon 64 years and years ago. On average, the K8 @ 1GHz was around 1.9x faster than the Coppermine. I've also done some single-core comparisons between a Socket 939 Opteron 185 @ 3GHz and an i7-4930K at 4.5GHz. Taking into …

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