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

Posted on 2023-01-14, 18:16

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if some kind of graphics card it could be a competent gaming PC for windows XP games, with an SSD it might be passable for web browsing could also be used to emulate old platforms,

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Re: Geforce FX 5200 upgrade?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 20:53

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amxcs wrote on 2023-01-04, 16:44: Hmm.. https://i.imgur.com/6LD8dWv.gif […] Show full quote Hmm.. yep, this is a 64bits 333MHz DDR card, pretty low, same memory bandwidth as a Voodoo 3 128bits 400MHz+ ram FX 5200 would be a lot faster, even if still not a great card.

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Re: Geforce FX 5200 upgrade?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 15:27

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most 5200s you find floating around tend to be 64bit memory and low clocks, check the specs on your card to have a better idea.

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Re: Quad Pentium III computer, what can it do in 2022

Posted on 2022-12-22, 19:18

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if you look around youtube some people have experimented with dual P3s and faster AGP graphics (HD 3850/4670) on newer games, and in general it's not very good, those CPUs are going to be very limited by the FSB/memory bandwidth and they lack SSE2 even, 4 CPUs would probably not help much with games …

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Re: Windows XP how many people still use for it their MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-12-12, 19:18

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Seriously guys, the time for XP compatible browsers is over. The web simply has become too bloated and 32-Bit editions were hard to compile to in ~2010 already. As far as I remember from the news back then, a Windows 2000 machine used for compilation had to use all kind of tricks to get Firefox 32- …

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Re: Feedbacks on my Pentium IV&GeForce FX 5700 Rig? (3DMark Score)

Posted on 2022-12-11, 22:07

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I would expect that card to easily go over 10k, maybe 12k with a more equivalent CPU, FX 5700 is mid range 2003, for that you would probably have closer to a 2.4-2.8GHz P4 or around 2GHz AXP.

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Re: "Fake AGP" slots?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 20:51

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well, if it is 66MHz that is an actual good benefit over a regular PCI card, but I seem to remember seeing 33MHz, any good ways to test this bandwidth?

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Re: "Fake AGP" slots?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 14:43

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afaik it's running like typical pci 32bit 33mhz.

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Re: "Fake AGP" slots?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 14:00

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I'm using a PC Chips A31G (761GX) with a "fake" AGP, the card just behaves like a PCI card, at least the ones I tested did (9250, MX4000), still a nice option to have in terms of compatibility I guess, but not a good solution for performance. I think other than having a chipset with native AGP …

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Re: Gpu advice needed for a WinXP build.

Posted on 2022-11-25, 17:04

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GTS 250 is a very fast card for 2007-2008, Pentium 4 only made sense until around 2004/5

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Re: Windows XP how much people still use for MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-11-24, 16:20

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feels windows 7 is the lowest you can go with good compatibility with new software tbh, and windows 7 x86 is pretty good with running with XP era drivers, like my AC97 onboard audio never got Vista drivers but works fine with XP drivers on 7 x86, also kind of worked with XP video drivers (with aero …

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Re: List of GF3 / R8500 era games that actually put DX8 hardware to good use

Posted on 2022-11-24, 16:16

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any thoughts on rallisport challenge? I remember the cars looking fairly impressive with detail and reflections, it was an xbox game ported to PC and required DX8 GPU to run. GT legends looked fairly good on my FX 5900 in DX8 mode

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Re: Core2 to replicate A64 preformance

Posted on 2022-11-21, 03:08

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e6300, e4300 stuff like that will be slower than the faster a64s in a bunch of things, but probably use less power. if you want to be even slower there are things like Pentium E2140, Celeron e1400 and so on, I'm running a Celeron 450 (with a VIA chipset with single channel ram) and it feels pretty …

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Re: Newest possible systems for Windows XP and Windows 7

Posted on 2022-10-18, 19:56

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people have managed to install windows xp on much newer systems with good success, even the Haswell (4th gen Intel) drivers exist afaik, even for the IGP.

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