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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-24, 06:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

right, for some reason I thought Nvidia had clearly released an XP driver but https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/783386/geforce-drivers/geforce-960-970-980-windows-xp-drivers/3/ according to this thread people have working drivers for the GTX 980 for XP and there are no memory problems, but if …

Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 19:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mobile versions of core 2 had chips with 133 & 166 fsb so depending on your board you should be able to get a desktop that low. 6x133/800mhz, 6x166/1ghz. for C2D mobile I think the lowest was 166 (like my t7200), but I think most people would run desktop chips so the lowest was 200, yes you can …

Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 10:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the AMD CPUs tend to be better for this, controlling clock/voltage on windows I don't where you get this idea, back to core 2 can soft change the multiplier to get 800mhz -1GHz. the ones that I have only go as low as 6x multiplier with a 200 or more FSB (so it would require me to lower the fsb on …

Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 09:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the GTA SA PC port was a little strange, for this game it's probably worth to download some community made fixes/mods frame limiter on, for no good reason limits the game to 25 FPS, even the PS2 version would run at 30FPS (well, the NTSC version at least) also the physics seems to change with the …

Re: After games that are DX9, but support DX10 features (patch)

Posted on 2015-12-23, 08:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think Far Cry required DX9c for HDR (geforce 6), same as HL2:LostCoast and CS Source, the effect would not work with Radeon 9000s (not even X800 as far as I can remember?), I don't remember playing anything with just DX9 (SM2.0) advertising HDR? There are different ways to implement HDR. I'm …

Re: After games that are DX9, but support DX10 features (patch)

Posted on 2015-12-23, 07:37

in Milliways

in Milliways

Funny that they weren't providing HDR lighting earlier. It was introducted with DX9 and the Radeon 9700 cards. They were, in fact, even Far Cry has HDR. I meant they have *better* HDR. I think Far Cry required DX9c for HDR (geforce 6), same as HL2:LostCoast and CS Source, the effect would not work …

Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 07:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

one thing that I forgot and I think I should mention is that my H61 Sandy Bridge board is running with a bios from November 2010, I know there are a lot of changes with the newer bios with ivy bridge support, maybe they affect compatibility with XP?

Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-23, 05:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

as far as I know even Haswell works well with XP (but the drivers are "beta") not sure about Haswell-e or Skylake, but I guess a 4790K with OC would be "the fastest" for XP gaming. for the graphics card, I think the current cards (like even a GTX 980) still have updated drivers. so realistically …

Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-10-19, 22:43

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

it would be a lot faster with dual channel memory and winxp but still kind of fun to see, I remember doing all sorts of overclock experiences to reach 15K back in the day

Re: The best way to dual boot windows 98 with xp

Posted on 2015-10-19, 22:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the way I used to do was install win98 first and after it winxp which would automatically add a boot menu for you to choose, at the moment I just have them on different drives, if I want to switch I use the bios settings, because I'm not switching between them all that much.

Re: Windows 8.1 incompatible with Socket 939

Posted on 2015-07-22, 11:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

strange, 8.1 should work with the same requirements as 8.0 (8.0 also requires the hacks for older p4 for example) I have an AM2 A64 working fine with 8.1 x64

Re: Still much old hardware available?

Posted on 2015-07-14, 01:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

over here you can find old PC Chips based PCs, but more than that it gets tricky, and yes, 286-486 era hardware was easy to get maybe 10 years ago, right now they are pretty rare,

Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-14, 00:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember loading that "Real Time HDR" demo on the FX 5900SE (at 450MHz or so) and the results was not even half of my previous card (9500NP 64MB at 370Mhz and 8 pipelines), but at the time, for DX 8.1 up until Doom 3 I think the FX series was very competent, also vanilla Hl2 DX9 vs DX8.1, I don't …

Re: HD 2900XT

Posted on 2015-07-13, 02:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

interesting graph I thought I should add http://i.imgur.com/bNqJYgA.png

Re: CPU Challenge - Windows 98

Posted on 2015-07-11, 02:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

probably you guys where right and this is very limited by memory, if a tualatin 1400 is only a little over 2x the PII 400 (but both have the same chipset/memory)

Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-10, 21:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wouldn't expect VSR on XP, their XP driver lack a lot of these features, like eyefinity, they even had OpenCL and removed it at some point (I still have it working with 11.x driver)

Re: Please advise me on a Tualatin motherboard?

Posted on 2015-07-10, 01:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

is it clearly the best? the cubx-e that I got seems like a solid board, probably one of the latest BX boards made, it feels very modern with jumper free OC, no need for slotket adapters, also have a ata100 controller and 4 ram slots... only problem is, the one I have is not 100% stable anymore ( …

Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-07-09, 01:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is pretty easy to determine if Flash is using the GPU. HTML5 is mysterious. CPU usage is a good indication, and DXVA checker shouldn't show anything on trace log if hw acceleration is not being used I think (disabling manually the flash hw acceleration on firefox does that) but even when using …

Re: CPU Challenge - Windows 98

Posted on 2015-07-08, 23:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium II 400, ASUS P2B, PC100 2-2-2-8, win98se 1280x960 = 9.2 fps 640x480 = 26.5 fps

Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-07-08, 21:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in-browser video is extremely complicated, but yes, IE11 seems to have the better use of GPU acceleration here for HTML5 and flash, this should be helping the Atom. I would say Firefox is very inefficient for video compared to Chrome and IE11 the problem is that different browsers, OSes and drivers …

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