Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-11-06, 13:55

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I just did the LinX test with the same settings as every other here on a 3 Ghz Pentium 4 Hyperthreaded machine with 1.5 GB RAM in our office. I was in a hurry and didn't make screenshots (will do so next time). This machine was not reinstalled since 2007 yet it got a score of slightly over a minute. …

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Re: jwt27's Retro Laptops

Posted on 2013-11-06, 09:24

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Well, obviously Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be slow as hell with 256 MB RAM. The problem with your Pentium 4 is not the CPU but the small RAM, and if you use SP3, the version of the system you are using. People run Windows 7 on Atom machines with the speed of a Pentium 3. RAM is the critical …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2013-11-04, 08:10

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Sad thing is, my 2009 Compaq Mini with Atom and GMA950 gets lower 3DMark 2001 scores than your 700 mhz Pentium 3 rig. Funny how a "hyper threaded" 1.6 Ghz CPU cannot beat a single threaded 700 Mhz CPU, and funny how it has hyper threading but cannot even do a basic Pentium feature like out of order …

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Re: Ye Olde Synthe i486

Posted on 2013-11-01, 22:05

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the day care i went to as a kid had a gateway 2000... So, a 486 system of unknown speed and quantity of RAM... ...running Windows 95... ...in 1998... ...along with whatever other software/malware/adware was present in what was surely a highly-regulated environment... = Gateway sucks. Please forgive …

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Re: Ye Olde Synthe i486

Posted on 2013-11-01, 22:02

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Please delete duplicate post.

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Re: Ye Olde Synthe i486

Posted on 2013-11-01, 22:02

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The guy who "doesn't see the point" of your 486 is probably just green from envy. For sure I am 😀 . Beatiful setup and machine.

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Re: Ye Olde Synthe i486

Posted on 2013-11-01, 22:02

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The guy who "doesn't see the point" of your 486 is probably just green from envy. For sure I am 😀 . Beatiful setup and machine.

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Re: IBM VGA speed

Posted on 2013-10-31, 23:22

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Sorry to ressurect an old thread, but I still don't know just how slow it was compared to other cards... anyone masochistic enough to try Quake or 3DBENCH on one 😀 ?

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Re: Duke Nukem games

Posted on 2013-10-30, 11:45

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About five years ago when I saw the gaming world going in the direction it did, I realized that most game critics were already just waiting to give DNF a bad review . Why? Because a title like "DNF - Worst Game of All Time?" is good link bait , just like Jerry Springer is good TV . It doesn't …

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Re: Duke Nukem games

Posted on 2013-10-30, 11:39

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Many people back then played it with an awkward control scheme like arrow keys for moving+turning, seperate strafe button, shoot on CTRL and open on space because... well, it was default! It depends on your point of view. My love for old shooters started when I was a kid, because I have a …

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Re: Fastest (yet most FSAA-compatible) Windows XP machine possible?

Posted on 2013-10-30, 11:29

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Why not just dual boot Windows XP on your main rig? I ran 64-bit Windows XP for a while on my i7 rig as it had some problems that prevented a reinstall of Windows 7 (later discovered to be a dying hard drive) and it ran with no issues, despite the 64-bit version of XP being supposedly one of the …

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Re: Fastest (yet most FSAA-compatible) Windows XP machine possible?

Posted on 2013-10-29, 09:30

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You guys want a GTX Titan to run MDK, a game that runs at 30 fps in software mode on a Pentium 90, just to destroy an old classic games with "smoothing" effects? And you wonder why I sometimes think you guys have waay to much money and spare time.

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Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-10-28, 09:58

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I actually rather like netbooks. My super-slow netbook was quite fast with a fresh install of XP SP3 (must reinstall it ASAP). For me, a tablet is useless as I need a small, portable computer to write down notes in college lectures. That means it must have an actual keyboard (you cannot write down 5 …

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Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-10-27, 21:41

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Core Duo is awesome. My mother uses a laptop with that and Windows XP, and she never found herself wanting a newer one. Intel Atom however, is to CPUs what the S3 Virge was to 3D acceleration. Sure, it has nicely named features like multithreading, except that means performance in single threaded (= …

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Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-10-27, 21:26

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So what I don't get, is why didn't they just create a multicore version of the Pentium M architecture, and maybe implement it on a smaller process? Surely that would have been a much better mobile architecture than the Atom. Because they wanted to create something shittier relatively to mainstream …

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Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-10-27, 20:49

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I wonder, how does an Intel Atom or AMD C-350 compare to a Pentium M? Obviously the AMD and the Atom have multithreading support, but from the sounds of it they're less powerful in every other way. :P Atom? About 1/2 as powerful per clock as Pentium M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom# …

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Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-10-27, 20:41

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LinX results for my 2009 Compaq Mini netbook, behold the "awesome" performance :lol: . http://i42.tinypic.com/dvt24z.jpg Yeah, really. That benchmark run 12 minutes and 11 seconds, so the N270 is really a dog after all. That would place it somewhere close to ... a 600 Mhz Pentium III with integrated …

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Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-10-27, 20:00

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The fact I didn't reinstall it in 4 years probably doesn't help either :lol: . That, and don't Atom devices power down the CPU a bit when running on battery power? The AMD C series however absolutely beat Atom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7lerjK-P64 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF9upCH5ATg …

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Re: New hardware that feels slow

Posted on 2013-10-27, 19:22

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The Atom you benchmarked is a relatively new model. I have a netbook with an Atom N270 and it is absolutely, utterly, horribly slow. I'll do benchmarks as soon as it recharges. Atom is basically a super-high clocked 486, AFAIK, it does not only do out of order execution badly, it does not do it at …

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Re: A kickass 286 system

Posted on 2013-10-27, 14:08

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Very nice system, and very cool video. But why the surprise a 286 16MHz could do this? It's accompanied by a relatively fast VGA card, which is something that a 286 of the era wouldn't have under it's chassis. Some games were designed specifically with the 286 in mind, and in others it is quite …

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