Re: Windows 98 SE Vs. Windows 2000

Posted on 2014-07-28, 15:53

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short answer : no , stick with Win98 the long answer is that you could dual boot , and a few games will get a boost in speed (Quake 2 and 3 engine games for instance) , but its fairly pointless, with a Pentium II (and I don't know what speed) Windows 2000 will probably not run as well as 98SE , and …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-28, 09:45

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ok , ran the tests 3dmark2000 (1024X768X16) - 4366 , interestingly If I picked the "3DNow optimization" as opposed to the standard Athlon ones, the score is lower, 3dmark2001 (1024X768X32) - 1876 well its an improvement , though Im not sure its as high as it could go (given the V5500 can usually …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-28, 08:11

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hmm , I will run 3DMark2k and 2k1 to see if there is any difference

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-28, 06:52

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joacim's score makes me think there is something wrong with my system , because I can't imagine the Athlon 1000/V5500 being beaten by a PIII 933/TNT2. obviously not a competition , but it makes me wonder if the some settings are wrong, and Im not getting the most out of it. suppose it could also be …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-26, 10:09

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Nice, score, Via chipsets for AMD stuff isn't that bad. Perfer them over messing with Nforces, and there stability quirks in 9x. overall its not bad at all , although there 2 issues Ive found 1)there is no option to disable the L1/2 caches, which makes slowing down the PC for some older DOS games a …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-25, 23:44

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made some big changes to my Win98 machine, I wanted a 1Ghz machine, but native 1000/100Mhz PIIIs are extremely rare and expensive, and I couldn't find any decently priced powerleap adapters either. I ended up going the Athlon route and getting an Abit KT7-RAID, which has a useful ISA slot , and a …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-14, 20:19

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managed to get 3DMark99 to work on my Win2K machine Abit NF7-M motherboard AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Barton 2GB Corsair Platinum DDR RAM Geforce 5900 Ultra 256Mb Audigy 2 ZS Win2000 SP4

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-14, 16:43

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ah I see it, thanks, I will try it out sometime soon.

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Re: Building a machine for DOS & win95-98

Posted on 2014-07-14, 16:33

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as others have said, all games is going to be tough , some games will dislike a CPU thats too fast, although there are ways to deal with that. imo you won't go wrong with a Katmai based PIII machine, most games up to , say Thief, Sin , or even System Shock 2 would run fine, it should be easy enough …

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Re: Video card for Athlon XP?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 16:15

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if I remember correctly, the first game to really strain my Athlon XP 1800+ I had at the time was C&C3, to the point where the FMV's audio and video were out of sync, , this 2800 should do a better job though I really have no interest in running that game on this kind of machine. the PSU I currently …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-14, 15:36

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my Win98SE machine Abit BX6 r1.0 800/100 mhz Coppermine PIII @ 824Mhz 512MB PC133 SDRAM Voodoo5500 AGP (latest official drivers) AWE64G SBLive 5.0 http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/darkman_019/3Dmark99_zps4ae03f56.png I find that Voodoo2 SLI + 3.2Ghz P4 result very interesting, obviously thats …

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Re: Video card for Athlon XP?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 15:18

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6200 will be way too slow. 6800GT is quite powerful, should handle Doom 3 quite comfortably at 1024 x 768 resolution. A good compromise would be the 6600GT :) Id reckon a 6800GT should be able to do even better than that, my Athlon XP 2800 + 5900 Ultra 256MB can run Doom3 pretty well at 1024X768, …

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Re: Super7 Build for DirectX 7

Posted on 2014-07-02, 22:44

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as others have stated, an SS7 build will be pretty severely underpowered for that era no matter what GPU you use. a Coppermine 700Mhz PIII or above would be much better

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-06-30, 13:26

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my circa 2003/4 machine is finished, due to a faulty GF4 4600, I replaced the graphics card. Abit NF7-M AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Barton 1GB DDR PC3200 RAM Geforce FX 5900 Ultra 256Mb (running the 93.71 drivers) SB Audigy 2 ZS OS of choice was Windows 2000 , I wanted to put XP on this, but given that I …

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Re: Athlon CPU tempratures

Posted on 2014-06-26, 19:39

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so a little update, I decided to initially go and try to find an Athlon XP 2400, but then instead for for the same price an Abit NF7-M , along with an XP Barton 2800. I figured it would pretty much max out that GF4 4600. also that Motherboard is nforce2 based, which is probably better than the VIA …

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Re: can these benchmarks/games/applications run on 486 rigs?

Posted on 2014-06-21, 17:22

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depends on whether you like slideshows. in all seriousness, no , none of those would run on a 486 of any kind. Here is a video of Unreal running on a similar system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQDiQH6gfM0 those kind of games really need at least a higher end PII to really be smooth (and thats …

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Re: TNT 16mb too fast for early 90's?

Posted on 2014-06-21, 13:22

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The CPU will defiantly be too fast for early Sierra games and you will run into timing bugs. You can disable the cache in the BIOS which will slow down your machine, but it will be super slow. Like a 386SX. Better suited is a Pentium machine. Here you get a 386DX when you disable the cache. would …

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Re: Athlon CPU tempratures

Posted on 2014-06-19, 00:36

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I remember trying to cool my Athlon Thunderbird overclock, 1Ghz to 1.4Ghz. I ran a Thermalright cooler with a Delta fan on it... It was loud! What cooler do you have on it? As said above the temps look OK, they do run hotter than the P3s. Do you have a rear case fan pulling out the hot air. Rear …

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Re: Athlon CPU tempratures

Posted on 2014-06-18, 20:33

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seems like there isn't much difference in terms of consumption between this and an Athlon XP 2400 or 2600, might be worth going with that just to get the most out of that 4600. thanks for the help

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Re: Athlon CPU tempratures

Posted on 2014-06-18, 19:46

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interesting, Ive heard rumors that the Athlons and XPs ran hotter and were quite power hungry (then again , Intel had the Prescott , so I guess they weren't saints in that regard either) would one of the higher end Athlon XPs (like the 2400 or 2600) run hotter? this board supports it (I have the r2 …

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