Re: Drive from 2008 reporting 60 THOUSAND power on hours?...

Posted on 2016-07-18, 01:28

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my main hard drive (Samsung 1TB) has been running since 2009 almost 24/7 so it also have lots of hours. I wouldn't be surprised if it just failed tomorrow, but still, hard drives can last a long time... some months ago I powered on a Seagate 40MB for the first time in maybe 20 years and it worked …

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Re: The problem with modern displays = Motion Blur

Posted on 2016-07-14, 15:41

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the technique to reduce blur on LCDs that started with the 3D Vision monitors is really interesting, but being tied just to Nvidia kills it for me, is this benq blur reduction method independent of driver support? just on the monitor side? that would be a nice thing to have, specially if it works …

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Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro - Better than expected!

Posted on 2016-07-13, 17:03

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Nice write up, Phil! How did the 32-bit image quality compare to the TNT2 and Voodoo3? I know you said it was a little weak in 16-bit. Voodoo cards prior to the Voodoo 4/5 cannot do 32bit color in 3D. I will also be looking at these cards a bit more closely myself. I have a few and tended to not …

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Re: Benchmarking tool thats fairly even across the GeForce 6/7/8 series cards?

Posted on 2016-07-10, 21:56

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Crysis on low is quite ugly but I think it only uses SM2.0, even a 9700 can run it, it might run well enough with the 6800 on low.

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Re: Benchmarking tool thats fairly even across the GeForce 6/7/8 series cards?

Posted on 2016-07-10, 19:42

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Far Cry used to run OK even on the geforce 6100 IGP when I tested it, but it was considered an advanced game back in 2004 for games like Oblivion and Lost Coast I think it's worth maybe running a test with HDR on and also with HDR off Haha a 6150LE IGP was what got me into PC gaming (and retro …

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Re: Benchmarking tool thats fairly even across the GeForce 6/7/8 series cards?

Posted on 2016-07-10, 14:53

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Far Cry used to run OK even on the geforce 6100 IGP when I tested it, but it was considered an advanced game back in 2004 for games like Oblivion and Lost Coast I think it's worth maybe running a test with HDR on and also with HDR off

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Re: AMD Athlon 1400MHz vs Intel Pentium III 1400MHz

Posted on 2016-07-10, 14:47

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if you give the Athlon the best socket A can offer (nforce 2, fast DDR)... I think I would take that over the P3 (back in the day, nowadays I think the Tualatin is perhaps cooler to have), but I might be wrong the DDR FSB from the k7 shroud help things,

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Re: What is your biggest Pentium 4 Collection?

Posted on 2016-07-09, 08:58

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Yes. On normal boards like P4P800 they are locked at 1600MHz (133MHz x 12) and SL627 does not have HT enabled. Source : LINK (it's german site, so google translator is recommended for those that do not speaking german ;)). There are 3 types of 3.06 GHz Northwood P4, the desktop one and two mobile …

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Re: What is your biggest Pentium 4 Collection?

Posted on 2016-07-08, 17:15

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the last P4 I had was in 2003! it was a Northwood 2GHz, after that I went all AMD until 2009... the P4 I always wanted back then was the 3.06 Northwood (first HT enabled desktop P4 and very fast against the Athlon XPs back then), I can find them cheaply on ebay and such from China, but they seem to …

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Re: 32-bit Windows OS 4gb Memory Limit

Posted on 2016-07-06, 19:57

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I used a ramdisk even when I had 4GB physical for the same thing (the page file), I just increased it to 4GB once I had 8GB total of ram, the method was extremely simple but I did years ago, and might need to check some things, but I'm almost certain I used "gavotte ramdisk"

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Re: Examples of better PCI-X video cards?

Posted on 2016-07-06, 19:51

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Realistically you'll probably find better options if you go with a 32-bit PCI card. It will slow down the clock speed of whatever bus you plug it in to, so check if there's a slot available on a bus where you wouldn't mind it having that effect. There are some 8400GS 512MB PCI cards made by Sparkle …

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Re: Where does the bottleneck begin? Ideal video card for a 1.4ghz piii?

Posted on 2016-07-06, 18:51

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Can't the fx5200 be unlocked to a 5500? I just bought a 128bit 5200 for the system for what I'm doing it would be best. But a GF4 cards do seem like a good idea, but I have noticed that a lot of them tend to die and have problems and they arnt as available as some other cards. But if you can get a …

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Re: 32-bit Windows OS 4gb Memory Limit

Posted on 2016-07-06, 08:12

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my XP SP3 install shows 2.99GB on system properties, 3136124KB physical on task manager out of 8GB and with a 1GB Radeon but also I have a 4GB ramdisk running with the pagefile I never really bothered looking into it, because I know the OS have this artificial restrictions, so I just use a x64 …

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Re: Where does the bottleneck begin? Ideal video card for a 1.4ghz piii?

Posted on 2016-07-06, 08:04

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in period even a ti 4200 would be commonly bottlenecked compared to a faster CPUs (like AXP 2ghz) but as the post above, I think it can benefit from a lot more than that if you run newer games (like the ones from 2004 mentioned), or higher res (back in the day 1024x768 was the 1080P basically) if …

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Re: Xp Pro x64

Posted on 2016-07-04, 11:12

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I never actually used XP 64, it was released to late, like 1 year before Vista... and for gaming, before Vista, I don't think anyone was running more than 4GB anyway. so I don't think it was at all that much of a relevant OS, specially not for gaming

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Re: Best DX9 VGA period correct for a 940 system

Posted on 2016-06-07, 18:26

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And still I am not convinced that two GTS450 are better than two G92 in DX9 games. a few dx9 games vs 9800GTX and GTS 250 http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/gts450_091210205112/24688.png http://tpucdn.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GTS_450_Amp_Edition/images/cod4_1680_1050.gif http://tpucdn.com/reviews/ …

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Re: Modded Voodoo4

Posted on 2016-06-07, 18:07

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I feel like the price is to high for a voodoo 4, but I can understand based on rarity and the work for the mod I have a v4 4500 PCI and I have mixed feelings towards it, maybe it would be a lot better if it was AGP or with PCI 66, but from my experience the card is to slow with anti aliasing, and …

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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2016-06-05, 10:16

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Why does it turn you off? Would AMD have survived GTX 680 if it was GK110? I don't think so. Imagine the 700 series up against the HD7000, AMD wouldn't have made it. Be glad Nvidia holds back on consumer it's useful to our wallets to let AMD compete I think GK110 was not quite ready for launch at …

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Re: Best DX9 VGA period correct for a 940 system

Posted on 2016-06-05, 10:06

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GTS 450 is generally faster than any G92 card, but still bellow a GTX 260, but it really varies from game to game (well, the distance). but keep in mind, anything k8 based is not really high end for 2007... I remember Athlon 64 X2 being pretty bad and causing some bottlenecks on some 2007 games …

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Re: Voodoo2 SLI Troubleshooting

Posted on 2016-02-29, 23:55

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the Monter 3D IIs I have, one artifacts due to heat after a few minutes, but with a fan near it works well, the second never artifacts but... it freezes after a few minutes, adding cooling doesn't change this behavior... so I think Voodoo 2s can have all sorts of weird hardware problems …

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