Re: AMD cpu for Win98SE rig

Posted on 2015-11-11, 10:50

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a good system would be a socket A board with an Athlon 1000 , should be more than enough (depends on the graphics card of course) for games even in 2001. you could get something faster like an Athlon 1400 , but you need some very good cooling for that one (very fast though)

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Re: Horrible box art

Posted on 2015-11-04, 21:36

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So bad , its great. I see no problem with this. I mean, what else are you going to put on the box for "Ninja Golf"? The premise of the game itself may not have been very well thought through, but if that's what you have to work with for the art? Bang on. I think the fact they used an actual actor …

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Re: DOS/W95 High-End Build

Posted on 2015-10-31, 16:28

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I don't know why a PPro would be recommended for DOS. The best part about the PPro is the SMP support and running pure 32-bit code. Although, other than being exotic, there's no reason to run a PPro over a PII. The PII is all around a better processor, and if you want exotic, there's always the …

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Re: DOS/W95 High-End Build

Posted on 2015-10-30, 18:04

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eFatal2ty wrote: Should I downgrade to EDO RAM 32-64MB 60ns? I dont see any advantage in downgrading

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Re: Completing Fallout 3 as a baby.

Posted on 2015-10-26, 10:10

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I knew games were simplified nowadays. even a baby can complete them 😜

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Re: Advantages of WinME over Win98SE?

Posted on 2015-10-23, 22:34

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nicer looking UI is one advantage I guess ,WinME pretty much took Windows 2000's look , which is nicer looking in my opinion.

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Re: Athlon 64 X2 Quad SLI + Ageia PhysX Build Log *Photo Heavy*

Posted on 2015-10-23, 12:36

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I had a rig with quad SLI with the 7950gx2. Still have the cards. I remember that running two cards had little advantage over single card. part of it would be drivers, however I can also imagine a situation where there would be a severe CPU bottleneck (a C2D would probably still bottleneck a single …

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Re: K6-3+ 550 vs early Athlon/Duron

Posted on 2015-10-21, 22:00

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from my experience, going from a K6-III 450Mhz to a Katmai 450Mhz , paired with a Voodoo3 card, yielded close to twice the frame rate in most 3D games. It was rather sad to watch the K6 struggle with games like Sin and Quake3 , while the Katmai did much better. general OS tasks didnt seem much …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-21, 21:55

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due to the Radeon X1900XT in my HP XW4400 machine having thermal issues (it keeps on freezing , and I know its not the temps in the machine itself) I went and replaced the card with a Radeon X1950XTX 512MB. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTgxWDkyOA==/z/aeMAAOSwMmBV2g5o/$_57.JPG for whatever reason , the …

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Re: How much better is 512MB than 256MB Video RAM?

Posted on 2015-10-19, 08:41

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yes , its mainly games from 2005 onwards that show any real benefit from 512MB of VRAM , although I think Doom3's "very high" setting benefits quite a bit from 512MB , so there were some exceptions with the very high spec games of 2004. the Geforce7 series (or rather , games that would really …

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Re: Horrible box art

Posted on 2015-10-16, 18:37

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So bad , its great.

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Re: Windows nt on early pentiums

Posted on 2015-10-13, 10:31

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it should be adequate, so long as you have 64MB of RAM . not necessarily the optimal choice but it will work

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Re: Best PCI video cards from 1993 to 1996?

Posted on 2015-10-02, 17:50

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for the best compatibility , an S3 Virge based card would work well. The main problem however, is that the image quality and performance isnt the greatest (it varies from card to card) , so I personally prefer either a Matrox Millenium , or an ATI Rage card, both of which tend to have better image …

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Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx

Posted on 2015-10-02, 10:19

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the PC I had at the time , a Pentium Pro with 32MB of RAM (later 64) had no 3D acceleration at all , I was running games like Tomb Raider II and Thief in software mode , though surprisingly it mostly ran decently. it was only around 2000 that the lack of acceleration really started to affect what I …

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Re: Scariest Level Ever?

Posted on 2015-09-25, 14:19

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not PC games per se, but D and Enemy Zero on the Saturn (D was also on PS1/3DO , Enemy Zero did get a PC release), those games in general were very creepy.

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Re: Is 2GB enough for games up to 2007?

Posted on 2015-09-22, 15:39

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2GB is fine, I run my WinXP era games on an HP Core2Duo workstation , which has 2GB of DDR2 , and all the games work just fine. remember people were complaining that even some later games like Skyrim were unable to address more than 2GB.

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Re: if Intel or AMD decided to make a limited version in 2015 of an oldschool cpu, what would you want to exist?

Posted on 2015-09-22, 14:53

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philscomputerlab wrote: I'd prefer if they did some new motherboards + CPU limited edition bundles 😀 386DX for sure, 486DX2 or DX4 would also be cool. an ATX 486 board would be wonderful , no doubt about that.

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Re: Does more ram make up for slower cpus?

Posted on 2015-09-20, 11:12

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in most cases no . Unless youre doing alot of crazy multitasking, but of course in that case you would also be CPU bound. in the case of XP in particular XP can run very happily with 512MB of RAM. and the kind of games/applications that need 1GB of RAM will also cause that 450Mhz PII to run away in …

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Re: Worst video card ever, again

Posted on 2015-09-13, 09:04

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The worst one ive used was probably the original S3 Virge . Slow 3D , average 2D , and what I would consider to be sub par image quality (maybe I was spoiled by the Matrox , ATI and 3DFX cards).

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Re: Usual RAM sizes back in the 386/486/Pentium years

Posted on 2015-09-09, 15:46

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well for the first PC I actually owned in 1997 , it had 32MB of RAM , and that was for a Pentium Pro system my dad built for my birthday. I remember thinking it was quite alot given previous machines Ive used had 8 or 16 , so 32MB seemed very substantial. in 1999 it was upgraded to 64MB. in an …

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