Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-06-17, 03:01

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by obobskivich

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

if i buy a 939 pcie board, but i want an SLI one so later on i can toss in dual 7900GTX's lol While 7900GTX is fine for gaming, and will actually work well in Windows 7 (at least based on my 7900GS), there is minimal to no video decode functionality (it can do DVD, and has "partial offload" for h. …

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Re: How to scan in books without ruining them?

Posted on 2015-06-16, 16:31

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by obobskivich

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Lo Wang's advice is dead-on for over-sized books and things you don't want to damage; its more tedious though. For books that can be easily replaced and you just want an electronic copy, strip the binding off (if its a perfect-bound book you can do this with a guillotine) and run'em through an auto- …

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Re: Introducing the cool and quiet GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: The way FX is (really) meant to be played!

Posted on 2015-06-16, 16:11

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by obobskivich

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I just remembered that there's some precedent to this blower nonsense. There was an Abit GPU cooler branding named "OTES" starting with GeForce4. They were not entirely dissimilar to FlowFX. They were very loud. Yes, OTES - there's actually an OTES 5800 (it isn't an Ultra). I've read all sorts of …

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Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-06-16, 16:04

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by obobskivich

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well checked the 939 opty supports SSE3, so there is that, so I'll try to find a PCIe 939 board, if the GTX 960 wont work, I do have a 9500GT DDR2 I could use in it That would all work well - both 960 and 9500 will handle full decode acceleration; the 960 may be more somewhat more efficient with VC …

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Re: Introducing the cool and quiet GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: The way FX is (really) meant to be played!

Posted on 2015-06-16, 00:23

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by obobskivich

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seems almost criminal to replace the Flow FX with anything else, it's what made the 5800 Ultra a 5800 Ultra lol. I actually expected you to say something like this. :lol: Honestly there was a degree of "this is sacrilege" while dismantling Flow FX from the card, but on the other hand the end result …

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Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-06-16, 00:12

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by obobskivich

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Don't you have a motherboard with a PCIe slot? Getting flash acceleration with AGP cards might be impossible (I don't know if the bridged ATI cards have it) I can confirm Flash/h.264 support does work on bridged ATi cards, at least with newer ATi AGP Hotfix drivers - I have an HIS HD 4350 AGP 512MB …

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Re: My mother died last week

Posted on 2015-06-15, 23:58

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by obobskivich

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My condolences Kreshna; sorry to hear this. It was a very nicely written tribute as well. 😀

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Re: Introducing the cool and quiet GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: The way FX is (really) meant to be played!

Posted on 2015-06-15, 23:53

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by obobskivich

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Introducing the cool and quiet GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: The way FX is (really) meant to be played!

Posted on 2015-06-14, 10:33

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by obobskivich

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Re: Some nVidia cards and 3DMark2001

Posted on 2015-06-13, 07:45

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by obobskivich

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-12, 09:12

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by obobskivich

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Yeah, I think this one is the FIS2R model that supports 3.2Ghz EE Pentium 4 (SL7AA S-Spec) as well. Not sure I wanna swing $55+ bucks for one though... Don't see the 3.4Ghz EE (SL7CH S-Spec) listed however... http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-MSI/865PE_Neo2_S__LS__FIS2R_%28MS-6728%29.html I have not …

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Some nVidia cards and 3DMark2001

Posted on 2015-06-12, 02:55

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by obobskivich

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Re: Non-upgrade Windows

Posted on 2015-06-12, 01:20

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by obobskivich

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Back when '95 came out we just had to sys the C: drive so we could get a command prompt, run a generic CD-ROM TSR, run the setup on the Windows 95 Upgrade disc, and when it looked for a previous version of windows, it would ask for the install location, and all we had to do was insert Disk 1 of the …

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Re: Anyone here have Dark Forces II Jedi Knight (US) they purchased at or near launch?

Posted on 2015-06-12, 00:42

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by obobskivich

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I have an older-ish copy of this game, I do not still have the box and I'm not sure if I even have the CD case; what are you after?

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Re: Non-upgrade Windows

Posted on 2015-06-12, 00:39

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by obobskivich

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For older versions of Windows (e.g. XP) you just need the older CD; in 7 it wants to see a previous version of Windows installed, HOWEVER it will still install straight-up from an upgrade disc (the Microsoft MVP is wrong/lying) - it doesn't complain or anything (and there is no "hack" or "trick" to …

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Re: Floppy cable length?

Posted on 2015-06-12, 00:32

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by obobskivich

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I've never seen like a 6ft floppy cable, if that's what you're asking, but I've also got a two drive cable with an extension (it came out of a Compaq server) that's probably over 30" long and has never given me problems.

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Re: HDMI to VGA at 1600x1200@75Hz/HDCP on CRT

Posted on 2015-06-11, 10:22

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by obobskivich

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Yeah - I'd probably look to either replace that CRT for HD viewing, or use another display; keep the CRT for gaming or other tasks. As far as HD/video not working if not all displays are HDCP - that's nothing I've ever encountered. I do stream from Amazon VOD relatively often, and it doesn't seem to …

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Re: HDMI to VGA at 1600x1200@75Hz/HDCP on CRT

Posted on 2015-06-11, 06:52

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by obobskivich

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Yeah HDMI links used to be limited to 165MHz pixel clock which equaled 165MHz link clock but later on they could use 225 MHz link clock but it only increased color depth to 10 or 12 bits instead of 8, so the pixel clock limit was still 165MHz. Nowadays you can get 340MHz link and pixel clocks, in …

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Re: Phoronix tests P4

Posted on 2015-06-11, 00:58

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by obobskivich

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There was a similar highly publicized article like this at I think TomsHardware or something like that. I've seen the one where they took Core 2 chips and compared them to Core i5/i7 stuff, but not one with P4. I don't remember there ever being such fascination with comparing newer CPUs against the …

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Re: HDMI to VGA at 1600x1200@75Hz/HDCP on CRT

Posted on 2015-06-11, 00:13

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by obobskivich

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Im pretty sure HDMI only goes up to 60 HZ, might be wrong tho No it can go higher. Just not at 1600x1200 on single-link connections (which are limited to 1600x1200 @ 60Hz or 1920x1200 @ 60 Hz). I've run 75Hz and 85Hz on HDMI into a compatible monitor with no problems, but that's at 1024x768 or …

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