Re: Aftermarket or replacement cooling solutions/fans for graphics-cards

Posted on 2023-01-25, 11:42

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From the look of it, it seems like a northbridge heatsink should fit but per se it looks like these holes are made for small heatsinks and small fans which usually ends up producing a high pitch noise, in the past i 3d printed brackets that gave me the possibility to attach bigger fans than normal …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-01-25, 09:43

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by iraito

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If someone is interested, i'm giving away a slot 1 motherboard. Not the most practical one to use due to its form factor. IMG_20230115_114427.jpg Detailed pictures here : https://retro.user-unfriendly.net/Parts/XXX_Sell_Or_Test_XXX/To%20Sell/Motherboards/Slot%201/HP%20KZM-6120/pictures/ Slot 1 OEM …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 09:26

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Arkham asylum on my gtx 570 system, it's way different from the sequels with its smaller scope and i like it quite a bit, i'm also impressed by the amount of visual details in a game released at the initial steps of a new generation at the time, it's also surprising to notice how unoptimized phsyx …

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Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 09:21

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Daily whenever possible, i created builds for all major generations and to appease some of my nostalgia since i had those PCs at the time, i play games and upload my longplays for fun and posterity (how did the game run on a period correct PC?) when i was streaming (not too long ago) i actually …

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Re: Matrox G450 PCI any good use?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 09:09

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by iraito

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DOS compatiblity doesn't correspond to the one reported in the wiki for matrox cards, i checked those games myself and by playing on an actually slow CPU the games show no issue whatsoever, for case uses i would go for a DX6/7 system no XP in tandem with a voodoo 2.

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 09:02

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Yep it does just that and take into account that the pictures you see posted are passing through a generic capture card that's a bit blurry and has a horrible red channel resolution, the results are incredibly crisp and you can center the picture in pretty much all cases, i was also able to upscale …

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2023-01-24, 16:20

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by iraito

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Hello everyone. I am also interested in vga to hdmi scalers for ms-dos games in order to record them. So far, by looking into lots of youtube videos and websites (vogons included), I haven't found answers yet. I use a Avermedia Live Gamer Mini for the capture. I have bought a cheapVGA2HDMI adapter …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-01-20, 12:10

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I wanted to test some Phenom II on a motherboard I recently acquired, a socket AM3+. The seller sold it as broken as it wouldn't POST, but it worked perfectly when I tested it. It wasn't anymore and it kept stopping at the same point. I tried to press somewhat on the cpu and it would cycle further …

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Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-13, 09:54

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This is how it looks like. Oh oh, i would not place a passive Ti 200 inside. Except you plan to drill some holes for Air Intake. Is this nforce2 shuttle ? i have the same machine i think. With Mobile Athlon 1800+ (200Mhz FSB) installed (45W), HD3450 AGP Active cooled, and SSD. I ran passive GeForce …

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Re: G-Police unplayable

Posted on 2023-01-12, 22:13

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by iraito

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Sometimes newer cards show worse performances with previous APIs, also it sounds like the CPU was indeed one of the issues, try to use hardware mode while limiting the speed.

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Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-11, 20:52

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That can't run passive, even a passive low profile GPU would struggle if the rest of the system gets too hot, if anything i would mod the case to improve and add airflow.

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Re: G-Police unplayable

Posted on 2023-01-11, 20:47

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Bubu2000 wrote on 2023-01-11, 18:51: Software rendering just crashes immediately. Sound is set to lowest possible quality. Ok let's start by slowing the cpu with something like cpugrab, then try again software mode.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-01-11, 15:44

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I just finished installing a GTX780 in an older sytem i'm building, i can already imagine the sag that will happen over the years so i started building an antisag device and also modding the case to install it.

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Re: G-Police unplayable

Posted on 2023-01-11, 15:31

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The system is overpowered for the game in question so no problem there, did you check if there's any patch available? also try to disable audio accelleration in game. Try also software mode, there could be some CPU incompatability.

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Re: Memories of Win 8.1 as it goes EOL

Posted on 2023-01-11, 15:07

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It's the only win i skipped since i started using windows in 95, but it looks solid and funny enough i finished building a retro pc (if it's 10 years old it's retro to me) that would be perfect with win 8.1 (i5 3570-GTX780) The only thing that truly scares me every single time a thread like this …

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Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-11, 13:56

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I'm also for the GF3 ti200

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2023-01-09, 14:50

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This is a setup i still use and gives me great results (it's an old reply in the VGA capture thread) Spoiler After getting all the pieces together i was able to create the cheap capture setup i had in mind, i'm using a VGA2SCART ---> GBS control ----> vga to hdmi converter to get these results, i …

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Re: ipibl-la motherboard behaves as if the CMOS battery is depleted

Posted on 2023-01-07, 21:45

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by iraito

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Absolutely, i checked way too many times, somehow the motherboard behaves as if the battery is not inserted.

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Re: Preparing to say goodbye to my 5155 "Luggable"

Posted on 2023-01-07, 19:59

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by iraito

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This is one of my favourite rules on Vogons because it affects the community atmosphere in such a positive way. Vogons is a system and removing elements from the system produces less chaos, and humans like less complex systems since they're simpler to understand, more comfortable to explore and …

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ipibl-la motherboard behaves as if the CMOS battery is depleted

Posted on 2023-01-06, 12:28

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by iraito

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The motherboard works wonderfully but if i cut off the power the bios settings go back to default, i changed the battery 3 times already and the pins are set correctly.

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