Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-30, 10:53

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by obobskivich

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Here's what we used to use [win2k generally, eventually xp]: - ut2004 used to be playable on a 1ghz p3 with ti4 - warcraft3 was fine with p3 866 and mx440 - dawn of war played well with athlon xp2000/ti4800 or xp3000/6600 i didn't think doom3 was fluid until i got a 6800gt with athlon x2. UT 2004 …

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Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-30, 10:44

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by obobskivich

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Most DX9 games will run fine under Windows Vista and later (like Doom 3 or Half-Life 2) and most of the more popular DX8 titles will be patched-up as well (like WarCraft 3). But that seemed to be somewhat beside the point, unless I'm missing something. I will tell you that I have *never* gotten ORB …

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Re: slot or socket

Posted on 2014-03-30, 06:20

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I prefer 370 for faster P3s for the simple reason of more interoperability with Socket A (462) for heatsinks (I have both kinds of machines btw). There's quite a few nice blocks of copper or heatpipes that were sold for Athlon and later AthlonXP that can do wonders with the lower-wattage Pentium 3. …

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Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-30, 06:04

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by obobskivich

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@Mau1wurf1977, that's what I was worried about. I guess I won't know until I try I guess. What about Dawn of War and Warcraft 3? Oh and Postal 2?! How good was that game!...still got memories of running around urinating on people until they threw up. No wonder it got banned. Dawn of War requires …

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Re: Advice on upgrading a socket A platform.

Posted on 2014-03-30, 05:20

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by obobskivich

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I didn't say it is crappy, I asked if it was ;) I seem to recall there were agp problems with certain ASRock motherboards from that time period. I don't know if it were these though. Those "AGP/PCIe" combo boards were minefield - if they use the VIA PT800 family chipset there's a good chance that …

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Re: PSU bother

Posted on 2014-03-30, 05:11

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by obobskivich

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It shouldn't be a huge problem as long as it can physically plug-in - the PSU you have may be designed for ATX and the board your Pentium II has may want an AT PSU. That'd be my primary question - but I'm assuming things *do* plug together, else you wouldn't be asking. What did the Pentium II …

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Re: Recommendations for PCI graphics card

Posted on 2014-03-30, 05:05

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by obobskivich

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This from THG might be useful, I don't know how many of these cards are available for PCI though: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/multitalented,144.html Also no idea how a Pentium Pro would fare with one of those cards and the lack of MMX ++ being older than most of those cards/GPUS/etc by a …

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Re: FX5200 vs 9800

Posted on 2014-03-30, 04:51

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by obobskivich

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MX 4000 is decidedly worse than the FX 5200; still makes a nice auxiliary card to add more monitors (at least, it did before Aero and everything being 3D/graphics-intense/etc; even back in ~2005 it wasn't bad though). FX 5200 is something competitive to the Radeon 9000/9100/9200 cards, but claims …

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Re: What to do with a busted CRT?

Posted on 2014-03-30, 04:28

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by obobskivich

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Safe answer: recycle it and clean up any glass debris. Not safe answer: build a CRT Jacob's Ladder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va1LkxQx3Zc (afrotech has changed too much to link to that, but they used to have a guide)

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Re: High-End Headphones Recommendations?

Posted on 2014-03-01, 05:19

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Passive isolation is fine. Since you mentioned studio monitors, are there any particular models you recommend? Koss MV1, DJ100/200, or PRO4/AA. Or M-Audio Q40 (unless they've changed something dramatic, which I feel like they may have). Or Audio-Technica ATH-M50. The Bose TriPort and AE2 are also …

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Re: Ideal Voodoo 2 SLI configuration?

Posted on 2014-03-01, 03:29

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by obobskivich

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I'd say Diamond V2s are among the best Voodoo 2 cards. Unlike cheaper cards, they use "100Mhz" 25 ns RAM chips, which is great for overclocking. They also have no tall conponents on the PCB, so you can attach whatever large heatsink you like. But 25 ns 100mhz edo ram is standard for voodoo2 cards. …

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Re: Ultimate DirectX-9 Setup

Posted on 2014-02-28, 10:41

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Let's see if I can 'trim the fat' and try to cut out large sections to reply to here. Thankfully you've helped me cover the majority of my concerns already. :happy: Glad to help. *nod* I'm planning to add another high-performance pump to match the one I have now, (redundancy and probably needed to …

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Re: Ultimate DirectX-9 Setup

Posted on 2014-02-28, 09:25

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The length of these replies man... :lol: I was a little off then, x3700 wolfdale 12mb xeon 775 is only 148 watts @ 4400 mhz & 1.47v, however i7-920 is 275 watts @ 4400 mhz & 1.55v. Still a bit much though. I usually refer to this for power figures: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/tools.jsp That's …

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Re: Ideal Voodoo 2 SLI configuration?

Posted on 2014-02-28, 07:04

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If I remember right, cooling was actually not all that common on Voodoo2 boards. I have a Creative (single board) and it doesn't have any sort of cooling attached. Certainly I'd always use a case fan in a build with it installed, and it wouldn't be too hard to attach a few heatsinks to it either. As …

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Re: Ultimate DirectX-9 Setup

Posted on 2014-02-28, 06:45

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I currently already own an Intel Dx48BT2 "Bonetrail" LGA775 motherboard. I had originally bought it cheap for $30 off ebay (new old stock - bulk pack) and thought I might just use it for a while for this plan, as it used DDR3. But ultimately once I got it here and had a lot of time to spend with it …

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Re: Ultimate DirectX-9 Setup

Posted on 2014-02-27, 12:30

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Some thoughts from owning such a machine: - On the motherboards: For LGA 775 the king-of-the-world for nVidia is the nForce 790i Ultra, which supports DDR3. There are only a few boards I'm aware of that ship with that chipset - eVGA and XFX make two of them. The nForce 780i is basically the same …

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Re: High-End Headphones Recommendations?

Posted on 2014-02-27, 10:54

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I agree with "every purchase of something expensive that you don't often need to make should improve upon the previous" very much. IMHO the more expensive pairs of headphones aren't that much about fulfilling a functional need; functionality/performance pretty much plateaus at the $100-$200 mark. …

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Re: Exploring Socket A

Posted on 2014-02-27, 10:19

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by obobskivich

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Yeah the AGP freq is a good thing to note - forgot to bring that up with the K400. The board's BIOS has to be able to run a divider or lock the AGP frequency if you're going to get into serious overclocking. A lot of NF2 boards seem to support this feature, but I'm not sure about VIA based boards. …

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Re: High-End Headphones Recommendations?

Posted on 2014-02-27, 06:41

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by obobskivich

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What does ending in "9" have to do with anything? I'd be very cautious if you go after the 5x5 or 5x8 series I was referring to that. :P Oh. What I meant was specifically the headphones that started out as the 515/555/595 - they tweaked them into 518/558/598 (which got a hideous new paint job) a …

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Re: Exploring Socket A

Posted on 2014-02-27, 06:21

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I've seen 2000 run pretty successfully on ~500MHz Pentium 3s in the past; my 1GHz Coppermine came with it installed, and was pretty zippy. I've never built a gaming box with Windows 2000 though - honestly have never seen the point, because most of the games that'd warrant such a modern OS have …

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