Re: Building my dream-Windows XP machine
Posted on 2022-04-14, 19:28
in terms of user experience, I don't think crossfire is a benefit in there, but, it's fun to play with I'm sure, and welcome
Re: Recommended 2D/3D card for a 233MMX PC
Posted on 2022-04-12, 08:27
FIFA 99 has 3d acceleration and works well, I think it's fixed at 640x480 but I played it like that in a modern card in d3d a few years ago and it just worked (well, modern = HD 5850 on XP I think) but back when it was new I played in a Pentium 133 in software mode, I remember it playing fine.... …
Re: Favorite 4:3 games from the XP-era?
Posted on 2022-04-11, 17:31
even Doom 3 was not widescreen I think
Re: Recommended 2D/3D card for a 233MMX PC
Posted on 2022-04-11, 11:42
I know that the 233 is capable of playing early 3d accelerated games Ok with a Voodoo 2 for example, but... I just treat it more like a DOS+ machine, I think your 2MB card is probably very adequate for the games the 233 mmx can actually run really well, in any case, when I had the voodoo 2 with the …
Re: Albatron KX18D Pro II - Socket A SLI Reverse Sleeper
Posted on 2022-04-10, 02:44
great looking build, I have a lot of nostalgia for the later socket A days, and nforce 2 was great; I totally remember Albatron, but it wasn't one of the.. hype brands like DFI, Abit, or perhaps Asus and so on, but that seems like a good board. lots of great components in there; do you have a locked …
Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread
Posted on 2022-04-06, 18:00
Finally got around to setting up the 12900k. i12900k_rtx3090.jpg Is 3DMark2001 even multithreaded? Also, have you tested P covers vs P+E cores vs E cores for this? 3dmark 2001 is not really going to benefit from more cores, but... the 12900k is a single core performance beast, and windows should be …
Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?
Posted on 2022-04-06, 17:58
exactly right now, Owl House, Shenmue the Animation, Pachinko, Komi Can't communicate and Arcane; and a lot more that I'm waiting for new episodes....
Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread
Posted on 2022-03-31, 01:23
when someone decides 32bit memory bus is a good thing for a MX4000... but really without OCing the memory the result was 39FPS, so that's a decent gain from memory OC (well kind of cheating since I saw the memory chips are 5ns ones and expected something like that, but the stock clock for the 32bit …
Re: Is the GeForce FX 5900 ZT NV35 or NV38?
Posted on 2022-03-27, 21:38
afaik nv38 and nv35 are the same with perhaps different binning and higher stock voltage for 38 (for the higher clock), so maybe software will just not detect properly on less common cards?
Re: nVIDIA TNT2 M64 and Pentium III 866 - good combo?
Posted on 2022-03-25, 20:52
it's a valid combination for up to late 90s and older games, not the best video card but also not terrible at all,
Re: The Changeling 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500
Posted on 2022-02-01, 23:04
that's a pretty amazing card and some nice results in there, thanks for sharing
Re: Best Drivers for GeForce4 MX-440
Posted on 2022-01-28, 13:59
it's very similar to the AGP8x MX440, but it was launched a while after so driver compatibility (with old versions) is a little worse I think
Re: Half-Life Performance Issues
Posted on 2021-12-22, 20:24
Munx wrote on 2021-12-19, 11:35: Didn't they remove OpenGL from the original HL/goldsource engine in favor of Directx? afaik OGL is there and the default option on steam.
Re: Just saw this about 3DFX this morning
Posted on 2021-08-05, 07:02
probably just a fake, but it would be funny if someone tried to rebrand some geforce g210 as a "voodoo 6 pci"
Re: Windows 7 Retro?
Posted on 2021-06-16, 13:46
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-06-16, 13:39: I'd be shocked if it ran on my 775 system. I've been planing a Ryzen build the past few days but the lack of affordable graphics cards is kinda killing my plan I will be shocked if it doesn't run on my lga 775 systems
Re: Leak of Windows 11
Posted on 2021-06-16, 13:34
as for the way it looks, I don't really have much to say about it, it looks... OK, whatever, similar to 10 they still give you the option to align the icons to the left, the start menu is something I haven't really used much in a very long time outside of typing something using the search
Re: Leak of Windows 11
Posted on 2021-06-16, 12:25
Re: Windows 7 Retro?
Posted on 2021-06-15, 17:32
2019 feels retro by now, back in the day when you could buy new graphics cards for ok prices.
Re: What is better: used HDD from a server or used HDD from a home computer?
Posted on 2021-06-13, 16:23
I have a samsung HD103SJ which I ran as my OS drive from late 2009 until 2018, and it still runs as my second drive, it's clocking 88980 hours and 3899 power counts, with 0 smart errors... hard drives can last a very long time, I wouldn't be too worried on power on time alone at this point, it still …
Re: Which cpu is faster?
Posted on 2021-06-12, 18:55
well the OP didn't specify anything other than faster, I suspect overall the Pentium Pro is a faster chip? but it's much harder to get.
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