Re: Best OS to use? Slot 1 dual CPU build

Posted on 2016-04-17, 02:17

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by Standard Def Steve

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I'd actually go for XP. I use XP SP3 on my PIII system, a single CPU Tualatin-1575 with 2GB and it's plenty snappy. I use the Windows Classic theme, though there was absolutely no difference in performance between Classic and Fisher Price. The various 3DMarks and synthetic benchmarks scored roughly …

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Re: 16x9 CRT HDTVs

Posted on 2016-04-15, 16:36

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by Standard Def Steve

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Panasonic 34" CRT HDTV. I'm at work, so I can't give you the exact model, but it's part of the Tau series. It doesn't have any fancy digital inputs, but it does take up to 1080i through component. It weighs a frickin ton, but produces a fantastic picture. Great color saturation, and the …

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

Posted on 2016-04-12, 07:12

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by Standard Def Steve

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Was playing around with extremely high bit rate audio on an old 450MHz Katmai machine. I had it play two albums as I did work around the house and in the yard yesterday. One was ripped from DVD-A (5.1 MLP) and converted to 5.1ch, 96/24 FLAC with an average bit rate of 8.1 Mb/s. The other album was …

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-04-08, 02:52

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by Standard Def Steve

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I didn't like Windows ME and 98. They just weren't stable enough even for home users. Way too many bizzaro BSODs and illegal operation errors. Poor network stack. The multi-threading was just plain terrible. Try opening the start menu when you have a video playing in the background. No matter how …

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Re: Creative Fatal1ty fps vs Fatal1ty x-gamer?

Posted on 2016-04-07, 02:38

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by Standard Def Steve

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I think Creative's AC3 encode/decode support has always been CPU driven. Maybe I'm wrong though. The AC3/DTS decoder on the PCI X-Fi is hardware based. To use it you have to tell your playback software to use S/PDIF output, and enable the internal decoder in Console Launcher. It definitely has a …

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Re: Creative Fatal1ty fps vs Fatal1ty x-gamer?

Posted on 2016-04-05, 21:10

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by Standard Def Steve

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Why did creative disable Dolby and DTS on the 2nd gen SB046A? Copyright protection? Or Is it just not needed anymore since current players can decode both. I don't know the exact reason Creative disabled it, but I could never get the hardware Dolby/DTS decoder to sound 100% right on my X-Fi Extreme …

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

Posted on 2016-04-05, 19:41

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by Standard Def Steve

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Testing and benchmarking an Asus P5Q3 mobo I recently acquired. Yeah, I consider Core 2 stuff kinda old. So far I'm very happy with it. It overclocks and performs much better than my old P5N-E SLI (nforce 650) board. Intel chipsets truly are the bee's knees. In fact, this board takes Core 2 IPC …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:14

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by Standard Def Steve

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Here's an overclocked Yonah strutting its stuff. Intel's decision to not make the Core Duo available to desktop users was such a crime. It beats the Pentium D by a mile and IPC is even slightly ahead of the K8. But Core Duo does have one major disadvantage: because it's essentially a dual-core …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2016-04-01, 22:06

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by Standard Def Steve

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Here's a "Yonah" Core Duo T2600 on a desktop board overclocked to 3.08GHz. The IPC is right between K8 and Core 2. The performance is really impressive when compared against Intel's desktop processor at the time - Pentium D.

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

Posted on 2016-03-29, 07:50

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by Standard Def Steve

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I've been overclocking the Core Duo T2600 I recently bought. Despite being very similar to Dothan, Yonah is a much better overclocker. I could only get Dothan (Pentium M) up to 2.72GHz. So far Yonah has been nice and stable at 3.06GHz on my i975 based AOpen Socket M board. And man, this baby just …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-28, 08:06

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by Standard Def Steve

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Got a Core Duo T2600 (Yonah) processor for benchmarking and overclocking on my AOpen i975xa-YDG board. I think it'll be kinda interesting to see how it stacks up against Core 2 and K8-X2 clock-for-clock. I consider Core Duo the last and greatest P6 processor. It's basically a dual core Pentium M …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2016-03-26, 18:35

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by Standard Def Steve

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All right, finally did a WinXP run on my x1950 AGP + A64 3700+ @ 2.75GHz. It didn't break the 30K barrier like I thought it would, but very close. http://i.imgur.com/i5Nmco0.png Seeing all your scores there makes me want to boot my AthlonXP system just to throw it into the ring and see how it …

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

Posted on 2016-03-26, 04:31

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by Standard Def Steve

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I found an old JVC S-VHS deck at the thrift store for $8 a few weeks ago. Yesterday I did a Blu-Ray to S-VHS conversion, to see the format at its absolute best. I hooked up the S-VHS deck to the S-Video output of the 8800GTS in my Opteron SLI system. I then played the movie John Wick in MPC-HC ( …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2016-03-23, 02:55

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by Standard Def Steve

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The Celeron D 335 couldn't quite match my insanely over-the-top PIII-S setup in Doom3, but it does take the lead in 3DMark 2001. Celeron D 335 (2.8GHz, 533FSB, 256K L2), 1GB DDR333 CL2.5, 6800GT @ 385/540:

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-03-20, 08:21

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by Standard Def Steve

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Here's your first Celeron D result. Celeron D 335 2.8GHz, GeForce 6800GT AGP (81.98), 1GB PC2700/CL2.5, Dell i865 mobo with absolutely no tweakability, onboard audio, XP-SP3 1024x768 Ultra: http://i.imgur.com/rYCNftT.png It's almost twice as fast as the completely hopeless Northwood Celeron, but …

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Re: What CPU buses are there?

Posted on 2016-03-18, 21:19

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by Standard Def Steve

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Also with the off-die memory controllers. This makes me wonder how current CPUs would perform with their caches disabled. According to memtest86 (which may not be accurate) the memory controllers on modern Intel CPUs provide quite a bit more bandwidth than the caches of older CPUs like the P4 and …

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

Posted on 2016-03-17, 18:57

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by Standard Def Steve

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Chapter 8 in replaying old games maxed out on modern hardware: BioShock! Fun as hell, though I don't think I'm gaining anything by running it on newer hardware (other than the joy of revisiting the classics, of course :P). I seem to recall that the Opteron+8800 SLI setup I used in 2008 had no …

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

Posted on 2016-03-15, 07:04

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by Standard Def Steve

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Started playing another old game that my computer at the time couldn't max out: Dungeon Siege. The minimum requirements called for a PII-333 and 8MB graphics card. Pshaw! The 1.8GHz P4/Radeon 9600 Pro that I used back then often dipped to around 15 fps when there was a ton of action on screen and …

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

Posted on 2016-03-12, 21:50

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by Standard Def Steve

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Watched An American Werewolf in London. Fun movie. Jenny Agutter was hot as hell.

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2016-03-08, 20:44

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by Standard Def Steve

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Here's that same rig running XP. It's not doing bad at all for a single-core CPU--it's one frame faster than the Pentium D 830/GTX 560! A64 3700+ @ 2.75GHz, Radeon X1950 Pro AGP (Cat 10.2), 2GB PC4000 @ 500MHz/CL2.5, Gigabyte K8NSC-939 (NF3 250Gb), onboard audio, XP-SP3 http://i.imgur.com/rrgdyIT. …

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