Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-19, 13:24

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:lol: What a mess. If I remember right it was quite a scandal in its day too - I remember people were up in arms about the GTS 150/250 designators putting the cards in the same "family" as the GTX 280. The GTS 250 1GB is what I'm chasing. 250 is a good card. I think the "Green" card may be …

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Re: SB0090: is this the "real" Audigy?

Posted on 2014-02-19, 10:12

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If this card is going to run in Windows XP or later, I'd honestly suggest stepping up to the Audigy 2 or later (Audigy 2, 2 ZS, or 4 Pro) - they fixed the SRC bug and introduced EAX 4 with the Audigy 2, and introduced improvements with the ZS and 4 Pro (my understanding is the "Pro" is the only …

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Re: Any experience on using Voodoo cards with modern systems?

Posted on 2014-02-19, 09:43

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My motherboard has PCI slots so I can easily put a voodoo 2 card into my system but I'm more wondering can it actually interface with a modern DVI only GPU when you use the VGA->DVI plug? DVI only, as in digital (DVI-D) only? That wouldn't work. It must be a DVI-I output (have the "analog cross") …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-19, 04:56

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On Swedish "Ebay" cards like the 7600 GT and 7800 GTX still sell for $7.50 - $15. And isn't that a bargain for cards that cost several hundred dollars back in the day? I'd say yes. For my P4/3.6 rig I got a 7900GTX 512mb for $20, but I was impatient and I wanted a specific version. That's still a …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-19, 01:11

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This thread made be look for some of the faster and newer PCIe (vintage :lol: ) video cards. I got all these cards with minimum bids: - 7800GT 256 - 7800GT 512 - 7800GTX 256 - 7600GT - Geforce 4 Ti (not sure which one) I then forgot about an auction and let a Radeon 9700Pro AIW slip through my …

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Re: Movies 80's and 90's and Computers

Posted on 2014-02-18, 21:53

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Did not realize there were so many. Thank you all. :-) more than I can chew... Do all of these have the computer with a main role? I went to see Electric Dreams and the argument it revolves around the computer, and also "the Net" and "You've got mail" and "Wargames" too. I'm not looking for movies …

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Re: Goldmine or old junk?

Posted on 2014-02-18, 21:51

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Agree on the bottom two graphics cards likely being TNT2s (they look relatively similar to mine), can you flip the other unknowns and look for either FCC ID tags or some other number marking? (Or take higher rez pictures of the front/back) Alternately just make AIDA read them - it'll take a few …

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Hard drive and 3dfx questions

Posted on 2014-02-18, 08:19

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So after weeding out a lot of hardware, and seeing what's left that works, I've come to the conclusion that the best scenario for my "retro rig" is to conflate what would've been three machines into one. And luckily there's enough hardware to do that! :happy: Hopefully it won't break too much stuff …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-18, 08:10

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Very nice find there! Especially the case! I'm guessing most of the heat is probably the 8800GTX; if memory serves the Cedar Mill are actually not much worse-off than some of the higher-spec Core 2 chips in terms of heat output (80-100W), versus the 100W+ that some of the Prescott and Presler (oh …

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Re: Movies 80's and 90's and Computers

Posted on 2014-02-17, 18:32

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Thought of another one - The Lawnmower Man.

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Re: Redundant collecting (AKA hoarding)

Posted on 2014-02-17, 07:04

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Very interesting - and thanks for tracking that kind of stuff; it's always useful to have that kind of information. Guess I shouldn't be so hasty to recycle my 939 hardware either...

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Re: AGP Aperture Size and video performance!

Posted on 2014-02-17, 02:22

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http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=59067 Good answer. Looks like what I said (about taking away system ram) is only true for demanding games that will actually use the large amount of aperture memory. At that point you'd have to determine if cpu or video memory was the first …

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Re: Redundant collecting (AKA hoarding)

Posted on 2014-02-17, 02:03

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On the other hand, it's pretty certain that new machines won't be able to run pre-DX10 titles in a few years. There's going to end up being a huge catalog of games released between the DOS era and the DX10/Vista era that will only be playable by people who held onto their old gear. Scary but I …

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Re: Movies 80's and 90's and Computers

Posted on 2014-02-16, 23:05

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Slept on it, looked through my DVD tower, etc, came up with part 2 (some are 1970s or 2000s - I didn't feel like separating them out by decade though; the majority are 1980s or 1990s though): Jurassic Park, The Terminator, Terminator 2, Mission: Impossible, Small Soldiers, The Jackal, Office Space, …

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Re: Empire Earth (performance issues)

Posted on 2014-02-16, 03:20

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I think I got it, here's what I did: It's set to compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 3), and run as Admin. With either of those unchecked it will fail to start. Once in the game, I went into the settings option, and under graphics, I selected the drop-down where its says "Select Renderer …

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Re: Movies 80's and 90's and Computers

Posted on 2014-02-16, 02:44

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In no particular order: Hackers, Tomorrow Never Dies, Johnny Mnemonic, Wing Commander, Demolition Man, The Matrix (you said 1990s and computers...), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Weird Science, Short Circuit (has sequels), Flight of the Navigator, The Last Starfighter, Galaxy Quest, Final Fantasy: …

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Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2014-02-15, 21:00

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sliderider wrote: Handbanana? […] Show full quote rodimus80 wrote: Mine speaks to those who know... 🤣 Handbanana? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75kHq9cHSEg That's exactly what I thought of too... 🤣

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Re: My little pony and bad language?

Posted on 2014-02-15, 20:57

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@leil I remember so,waning vaguely familiar to that, can you find a link or clip to when he say that saying and maybe I can remover or catch what you think he was saying? I always had in the back of my mind mishearing something one if the Disney characters saying. I know you asked Leileilol, but if …

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Re: What's your favorite driver for what graphics card?

Posted on 2014-02-15, 20:26

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Bit of an ATi contribution, for the Radeon HD 4000 cards: Anything from the 9.x and 10.x family are worthless if you run CrossFire; one of the middle 11.x (I think either 11.2 or 11.3) was reasonable, and the second-to-last "Legacy Driver" (13.1 I believe) was/is the best choice - any issues that …

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Re: AGP Aperture Size and video performance!

Posted on 2014-02-15, 19:48

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My understanding is that AGP aperture size has more of an influence on GPU performance when the graphics card has a relatively small amount of memory (16-32MB), and as VRAM increases, AGP aperture does not need to increase. For cards that only offer ~32MB of VRAM, in my experience it should be set …

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