Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-28, 02:52

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The same thing goes for the BE and e core X2s though, my 5050e was only pulling 35W at the wall for the system on a GF6100 board, "95W" X2 were only showing 65W at the wall. I didn't believe the watt meter built into a UPS type thing so I used an amp clamp did the math and got the same numbers. …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-27, 21:37

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prime 95 numbers (so typical is much nicer) 4850e seems to be the sweet spot for 64 X2?

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-26, 22:09

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the power usage of the 6400 is not much different than one of the original Phenom II x4s so yeah, not good for ultra cheap boards, but fine for the better ones.

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Re: Another question about Windows XP videocard

Posted on 2023-02-15, 20:16

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8800GT sounds like it would be nice card for a XP era gaming rig, it's way faster than a 7900, it's not super rare or crazy on power, also it's just a more efficient evolution of the 8800GTX from late 2006. but, keep in mind, some games really push hardware on higher settings, with a HD 5850 I still …

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Re: Games that will run on more modern (old?) low performance systems

Posted on 2023-02-13, 16:52

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Fm1 CPUs can run XP afaik, they have up to a 320SPs GPU similar to the HD 5570.

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Re: Games that will run on more modern (old?) low performance systems

Posted on 2023-02-12, 16:00

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I've recently tried a couple of games in a n4020 laptop (5W chip or so from 2019) with the HD 600 graphics, I was fairly positive, played some Halo and Flatout very nicely, better than with high tier midrange hardware of the time I think.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-11, 01:08

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it's all about the board length I think

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 18:00

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the game (diablo 3) was on ps3 and xbox 360 a year after the PC, which are heavily pirated platforms, same for switch later on and as I said the PC launch was a mess because of the "DRM", definitely at the beginning the paying customer on PC lost more than gained with this server dependency You …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 17:30

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people did it on consoles or with switch emulators afaik, also afaik the PC diablo 3 was messy because of their "DRM" (keeping it very server dependent when not needed as the console versions show) When did they do it,years after D3 was released?Diablo 4 is also online only so it couldn't have been …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 17:17

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it does not affect people who pirate the game. Sorry but bs.How many people played Diablo 3 who didn't pay for it? people did it on consoles or with switch emulators afaik, also afaik the PC diablo 3 was messy because of their "DRM" (keeping it very server dependent when not needed as the console …

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Re: Would a GTX 1060 be a good card for DX9-DX10 games?

Posted on 2023-02-06, 20:30

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GTX 960 is excellent for this on XP. But for current games on Steam, not so much. My father recently (Jan 2023) got on a War of God and it is kicking the poor GTX 960, I had to drop to medium or low IIRC. Cheers, there have been some driver issues with the 900 series I think, I saw that on Halo …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2023-02-05, 18:15

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I would think you have some pretty low clocks on that 9550 but it should be capable of some OC.

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Re: Would a GTX 1060 be a good card for DX9-DX10 games?

Posted on 2023-02-05, 18:12

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the older cards with XP drivers I guess could have some advantages like, from the top of my mind, without modding Far Cry has wrong water reflections on anything newer than windows xp and it is a dx9 game.

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Re: Pentium 4 chipsets for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2023-01-28, 17:53

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I still don't understand a "fast" P4 for a Win98 only build. By that point almost everyone had moved on to XP. And any late 98 games can be played just fine (and likely better) in XP. Actually large numbers of late 98 games had issues on WinXP. Many were optimized and tested for Win98, and large …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-27, 17:48

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The memory latency was really quite dreadful on my AM2 system. I had always wondered if the GeForce 6150 iGPU had anything to do with it, or perhaps the way it was plumbed in to the memory bus. I remember it being really slow for Windows Aero. Like, even worse than Intel GMA 3000 somehow. As others …

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Re: Best GPU with S-Video out

Posted on 2023-01-26, 15:10

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Geforce2 and Geforce3, and 4 have S-video output, some FX 5xxx do. Cheers, And these are real s-video outputs that i can plug in directly? Not weird proprietary ViVo dongles? my FX5900 has an svideo out, it supports those splitters for component and whatnot, but a straight svideo or svideo to …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-21, 18:34

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some AM2 boards released during the k8 days got bios upgrades to support Phenom and Phenom II, while running Phenom II with DDR2 had a performance drop I don't think it was that massive, well, the original Phenom II 920 and 940 were DDR2 only CPUs. the cheaper AM2 A64s like 4000+, 5000+ used to be …

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-16, 23:17

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I've played with 760G before. That was basically a second spin of 690G and with a newer southbridge. You can play some oldies pretty well on it. It's D3D9 SM2, similar to a Radeon X600. Honestly the 780G-890GX IGPs aren't much of an improvement. I think a Phenom II / Athlon II still makes an …

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-15, 00:25

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760g, 780l, 780g, 790gx all share the same basic IGP with certain clock variations and video decoding block being not present in some.

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-15, 00:14

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I used for a long time a Phenom II 1100T with a 990fx and 16gb ram, the last graphics card I used in it was an RX580 and the lack of instructions left me with no other option than to change the equipment. As always, it depends on what the computer is used for. The last "modern" game I tried on that …

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