Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-10, 16:10

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by havli

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today at local radio market i got something unusual(at least for me) First one - GF2 mx400 as sticker says its made by Tiga Vision,at least it posts,gonna complete tests bit later (whats unusual? look at memory),gpu-z says its SDR http://i.imgur.com/16oLjWyl.jpg Nice catch! I had no idea SDRAM was …

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Re: Overclocking team

Posted on 2016-01-09, 11:22

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by havli

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Putas wrote: But what about the graphics card, they are the limiting factor. Decent TNT2 will be always limited by Slot A CPU in 3DM99. Current TNT2 record is 14500 points. http://hwbot.org/submission/2166350_christian … pro_14526_marks

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Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!

Posted on 2016-01-07, 12:14

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by havli

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Both of these scores looks kinda slow. My best superPI 1M on 486-class HW is 37 min, 47s. AMD 5x86-P75 @ 160 MHz + Abit AB-PB4 + 64MB EDO, win NT 4.0. http://hwbot.org/submission/2341999_havli_sup … min_47sec_761ms Maybe there is some kind of a bottleneck in your system?

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Re: Overclocking team

Posted on 2016-01-07, 12:03

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by havli

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Better cooling than air or water is not really needed here. Unless you have the goldfinger device and/or Athlon >900, motherboard is the limiting factor. Most of them tops out at 110 - 120 MHz FSB. Btw, I'm already participating in this competition... first place in 3DM99 at the moment. 😀

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Re: Where to get AMD CPU microcode updates for BIOS MOD?

Posted on 2016-01-07, 00:49

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by havli

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WHY did they release it like this? I wonder if disabling the northbridge-speed L3 cache will show any speed increase... BTW how did you get the NB clock that high? I was thinking of trying to OC the northbridge alone and run benchmarks. This screenshot is not mine, I found in on local PC forum. …

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Re: Where to get AMD CPU microcode updates for BIOS MOD?

Posted on 2016-01-07, 00:07

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by havli

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FPU is not the bottleneck imho... the whole cache subsystem is. Small write-through L1, high latency L2 and slow + high latency L3. Even old Nehalem is much better in these aspects. http://img16.rajce.idnes.cz/d1602/9/9907/9907637_3b670a07d68a28717bf2445109bea646/images/cachemem.jpg?ver=2 http:// …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-05, 14:18

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by havli

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PhilsComputerLab wrote: 7900 GTX SLI Microstuttering generator. 😈

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-05, 01:59

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by havli

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P4 1.8A (Northwood core). Sorry for the lower photo quality, these things are not very camera-friendly 🤣

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2016-01-02, 16:38

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by havli

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Our family PCs: early 1990's - 386DX-40 1997 - Pentium 200 MMX 2002 - Pentium 4 2.0A GHz My own: 2004 - Sempron 2400+ (K7 based) 2007 - A64 3700+ (s939, my main PC) 2007 - Opteron 165 (s939, my main PC) 2008 - Pentium E2160 (my main PC) 2009 - Pentium E6300 (my main PC) 2011 - Core i5 2500k (mostly …

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Re: What are your favorite games from a musical perspective?

Posted on 2015-12-29, 01:29

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by havli

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Interesting topic! :happy: Good music is important part of the gaming experience. You just reminded me to fire up my ThinkPad 600 and hear some of them. Grand Prix Circuit (1988) The cycles (1989) Wolfenstein 3D Doom 1/2 Duke Nukem 3D Stargunner One Must Fall 2097 Age of Empires GTA III GTA Vice …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-12-28, 21:06

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by havli

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GeForce 6800 GS - now I have matched SLI pair. 😀

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Re: G80 supports full MPEG2 bitstream decoding!

Posted on 2015-12-27, 15:39

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by havli

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G80 is 6 months older than R600, comparing it to R580 is perfectly valid.

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Re: Post your 2015 retro year in review

Posted on 2015-12-26, 14:51

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2015 was (still is :D) a good year. I managed to get many interesting PC components, some of them could be considered retro, others not so much. Other than hoarding stuff I also spent quite a lot of time benchmarking CPUs. :happy: Every year I count how much stuff hardware arrived that year... here …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-12-22, 17:49

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by havli

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Epox EP-8RDA3+ Interesting NF2u board, Barton 2500+ is under the heatsink. I'm curious how it will perform in overclocking compared to Abit NF7. 😀 Abit SD7-533 One of the P4 boards supporting AGP 2x 3.3V.

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Re: Fastest Windows XP System

Posted on 2015-12-22, 17:29

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by havli

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Sandy Bridge / Ivy bridge is indeed very good for XP PC. I'm using it myself as an universal pci-e based winXP gaming platform. I just plug in videocard that fits my current needs and the machine is ready to go. :happy: Just a side note... stay away from SLI or Crossfire, it is only suitable for …

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Re: Let's do this right this time. Dual 462 system.

Posted on 2015-12-20, 01:58

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by havli

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I'm not sure about A7M266-D VRM configuration, but my Tyan Tiger MPX draws power from both 5V and 12V rail. Half of the VRM are connected to 5V (first socket) and the rest to 12V (second socket). Two Palominos 1600+ measured power consumption (CPUs only) is 95W combined on both 5V and 12V line (12, …

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Re: 6800xt preventing me from overclocking my cpu.

Posted on 2015-12-18, 23:23

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by havli

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Perhaps this 6800 has NV42 GPU (+ HSI bridge of course). NV42 is native PCI-E part, just like NV43.

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-12-16, 11:24

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by havli

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Resolution With Nvidia cards you can create a custom resolution of 1600 x 1200. This will give you a very crisp, sharp and detailed image. I'm not sure if AMD supports this, but likely it does! Would be awesome for someone to test this. It should work on AMD too. Of course you need to have …

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Re: Win 9x/ME on tablet/netbook

Posted on 2015-12-14, 19:31

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by havli

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I don't know why... but it simply don't work, tried it many times on different 775 chipsets with IDE HDD and 512MB DDR2. At some point of the install process, the installer will just hang or crash. Same thing happens when you just connect HDD with win98 already installed using older PC - on LGA775 …

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Re: Win 9x/ME on tablet/netbook

Posted on 2015-12-14, 18:49

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by havli

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Next to impossible, win98 won't install even on late LGA775 systems. Virtualization might work.

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