Re: How to make a Voodoo2 SLI cable
Posted on 2013-04-02, 04:06
Re: Best Graphics Card for an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ machine
Posted on 2013-04-02, 04:04
Radeon 9700/9800 Pro if you don't care about SM2.0 I feel that a 1800+ would be nice alongside a Geforce 4 Ti.
Re: Last year of gaming to support Pentium III?
Posted on 2013-04-02, 04:01
I agree on 2004, 2005 was already SM3.0, dual core and the preparation for the Xbox 360... but 2004 was when Doom 3, Far Cry and Half Life 2 were the best, and these games can be played on a fast Pentium 3, obviously a high end CPU from 2004 would do better (Athlon 64)
Re: Absolute minimum rig for browsing and such; what do you guys think?
Posted on 2013-03-30, 19:22
I think anything bellow a a fast dual P3 will have a hard time with newer websites and 480p youtube...
Re: Your most shitty motherboard?
Posted on 2013-03-29, 01:34
PC chips M598... slow, unstable...
Re: Calling 440BX (and LX) users...
Posted on 2013-03-29, 01:32
have anyone tried a Viper II z200 (savage 2000) with the 440BX? I remember this card used to work fine with my P3V133 back in the day, but now it just doesn't work at all with my p2b.
Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?
Posted on 2013-03-29, 01:26
it was seriously bad in 1999, some 133MHz Pentium with a Trident 1MB card... in early 2000 I upgraded to a p3 600 coppermine, what a nice jump. but still, as slow as that p133 was, I could play most games I wanted...
Re: New Stuff :D
Posted on 2012-11-14, 10:03
I had no idea how fast that q8300 actually is. If I took my i3 back to stock speeds (3.06ghz) I think the q8300 is probably on a par with it gaming wise, and most definitely faster than my i3 in multitasking and encoding. Seems he got a really good deal! :D Presuming I get any spare money around …
Re: A sad day...
Posted on 2012-11-13, 01:47
I use a mousepad with my good old MS optical mouse, but unfortunately it's not as cool as duke nukem mousepad, it's just a mousepad from a local computer store from many years ago.
Re: New Stuff :D
Posted on 2012-11-13, 01:42
you are lucky, the q8300 alone is probably worth some $100 I live in a part of the world where is hard to have access to old hardware, so I basically rely on the high prices from ebay or something similar to get access to some parts I need/want 😒
Re: Found a desktop style Baby AT case, future P1 build
Posted on 2012-11-09, 07:42
this motherboard looks exactly like one I have (with a 166MMX), there is no clear indication of brand, but I think it's form PC CHips/ECS... anyway, mine have the Intel 430VX, not "VX pro"!? but Mitac? I think I have one socket 7 MB from this company, with the VIA MVP4 chipset
Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!
Posted on 2012-11-09, 07:40
I'm sorry, my bad, this is the correct link of the rankings http://hwbot.org/benchmark/superpi/rankings?hardwareTypeId=processor_1457#start=0#interval=20 . Many of them seem to be using stock clock speeds on these processors. Even so i'm not really sure if my SuperPi times are correct for the cpu …
Re: Monster 3D II, stability issues and strange resistor.
Posted on 2012-11-06, 20:17
The QS5244 is a buffer/driver with very low skew and very strong outputs. It is used to buffer important high speed signals like clocks around the board. Based on GENDAC datasheets and card pictures the memory clock output is buffered and that line has the extra resistor attached, most likely to …
Monster 3D II, stability issues and strange resistor.
Posted on 2012-11-06, 07:31
I've owned both these Voodoo 2 8MB for a long time, my older card is working well, I can even OC it a little bit, the only major problem is overheating (if it overheats the image will fail, textures will have wrong colors and other issues, but, with a fan near the card it works stable "forever", …
Re: Voodoo 5 5500 safe to test
Posted on 2012-11-04, 19:12
just keep in mind this card is AGP 2x, (3.3V), and most "newer" boards are AGP4x or higher with 1.5v, so you can have problems with that.
Re: Sound cards - from best to worst
Posted on 2012-11-04, 02:19
OK, thanks for the help, but I think my card is defective, I tested a network card on the same slot and it worked 100%, so I need a "new" card, from the options I found for a reasonable price, which one is more interesting? Ct3620 (sound blaster 32) Ct2980 (vibra 16?) 50% more expensive: CT2230 ( …
Re: Sound cards - from best to worst
Posted on 2012-10-29, 01:14
MaxWar wrote: On what type of system are you working, what version of windows are you running? Do you also plan to use it in pure DOS ? the motherboard is a Asus P2B (Pentium II), Windows 98SE for now, I'm not trying to use the card on pure DOS. thanks!
Re: Sound cards - from best to worst
Posted on 2012-10-28, 13:10
to be honest I'm pretty new when it comes to old sound cards, my first sound "card" was already integrated on the motherboard in 95 or 94, after that I had a few PCI cards, so I'm struggling a little with the ISA card I have at the moment was the Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova 16 any decent? also is there …
Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!
Posted on 2012-10-26, 18:19
Pentium II 400 Asus P2B 96MB PC100 cas 3 Win98SE I used to overclock this CPU to 498MHz without a problem, but I lost all my PC133 ram, and I just can't achieve the same OC with the current ram 🙁
Re: 3DFX coolers (Small guide)
Posted on 2012-10-26, 16:02
For V2's, if you can find them, you want the Tennmax Stealth V2 coolers. I have a bunch of V2's and they really can get hot - but I never managed to overheat them to such degree that a cooler was needed though. Are these really there for cooling purpose, or just standing there as modding eye-candy? …
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