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Re: Crysis 1 lag with 7950GT

Posted on 2016-11-29, 01:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

7950 GT should be enough for Full HD on Low preset or 1024:768 with Medium preset (that Medium just barely tho). Radeons X19xx series are A LOT better for Crysis (from D9c only cards). If you want fluid High settings with Full HD resolution, you will need at least Radeon 4870 or GTX 260. Our …

Re: Crysis 1 lag with 7950GT

Posted on 2016-11-29, 01:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks all for chiming in! I assumed since quake 4/Doom 3 ran great on it then Crysis would. Question is if I upgrade the 7950GT to a GTX 280 will that break the earlier age games (say 2003-2006)? Nope. The 7950 itself breaks compatibility with a small few 1998-1999 titles but those are meant to be …

Re: Crysis 1 lag with 7950GT

Posted on 2016-11-28, 15:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 7950GT (and in fact any 7xxx card) is too slow for crysis. It's a 8800GTS/GTX game really. If you want to really enjoy it I'd recommend a 4890 or GTX 280. If you want to max it out graphically and get a perfectly smooth experience run it on a GTX 480 or HD 5870

Re: Fellow Vogoners, tells us a little more about yourselves!

Posted on 2016-11-28, 11:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

clueless1 wrote: me.jpg I love that t shirt.

Re: Slowest PCI graphics cards

Posted on 2016-11-28, 11:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check mine benchmark part od site - there are some, but not many. Usually because of bugs (Rendition) or aiming purely at Windows performance (Matrox), or they just use for dos separate lowcost chips.... http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks/diag-graphic http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/ …

Re: need advice about 3d graphics card

Posted on 2016-11-28, 11:15

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Lol, I wish I had the skills to do the same to my E30, it's currently in a rather sorry state: http://i.imgur.com/OR9i5yy.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LxkQ5Ka.jpg It's pretty much factory stock and I'm only doing what's needed to keep it on the road, but it's already starting to give me some trouble, and …

Re: need advice about 3d graphics card

Posted on 2016-11-26, 23:39

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I suspect the M50 is a substantially better engine and worth the upgrade regardless of the condition of the original. yes and no. The M20 had gobs more torque. My build was a 2.7 ETA with a high compression (12:1) 731 323i porterd and matched cylinder head, larger intake valve, double valve springs …

Re: need advice about 3d graphics card

Posted on 2016-11-26, 23:12

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Amazing work! One helluva job cleaning up that rust. Thanks :blush: Did you go with an M50 or M52 block? M50B25 S1 out of a 1993 525i. It's engine management harness plugs directly into the E30's wiring harness and everything works w/o the need to cut wires and connectors. I would have liked to …

Re: Motherboard / Card Recommendations

Posted on 2016-11-26, 19:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As for the turtle beach card - they're VERY expensive. I'd rather use a Yamaha DX-XG witch is a lot cheaper, supports Sensaura 3d audio as well and use the leftover cash for a pair of Voodoo 2 cards. - but that's just me. VERY expensive? What? There is one in Amibay for 15 euros. If you have a …

Re: Motherboard / Card Recommendations

Posted on 2016-11-26, 18:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- if your CPU is socket 370 stay away from the 440bx as it's slower then newer socket 370 boards and it will require a slotket to run a socket 370 cpu - to big a pain in the ass. Any late model socket 370 board will do. If you want something nice find an Abit ST6 or Asus CUV4-X or Asus CUSL2, but …

Re: need advice about 3d graphics card

Posted on 2016-11-26, 18:29

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I hope so. I think I'll try to attach a small fan on the heatsink and see if I can overclock it a bit. Was busy earlier, will test it out in a moment. offtopic: @kanecvr that E30 on your avatar yours? looks cleaner than mine, how much work did you put into it? ..... I apologies in advance to the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-25, 19:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

overseer wrote: c0keb0ttle wrote: Finally got the card I wanted for my Win 98 build: Voodoo3.jpg What a treasure you got there...a card much harder to find than a V5...especially a boxed one. Dunno about that - I found one way before I got a working V5. Also, nice avatar. Homeworld fan?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-25, 19:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have never been a big user of ATI cards, can you give me some advice on this card? Maybe I can use it in one of my XP builds. It's one of the fastest AGP cards aver made, seconded only by the HD 3850 and the 4670. It's a lot faster (twice?) then the rare 7800GS AGP. Thanks kanecvr, I'm glad to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-25, 15:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kadath wrote: I have never been a big user of ATI cards, can you give me some advice on this card? Maybe I can use it in one of my XP builds. It's one of the fastest AGP cards aver made, seconded only by the HD 3850 and the 4670. It's a lot faster (twice?) then the rare 7800GS AGP.

Re: Fellow Vogoners, tells us a little more about yourselves!

Posted on 2016-11-25, 09:40

in Milliways

in Milliways

I also believe I'm a dragon cursed to live the lives of useless human beings, but let's not get into that... I can totally get why you'd feel that way. When I was a teenager I used to think that real life was a dream I was stuck in and if I could wake up, I'd be happy. Thinking back on it now, I …

Re: Fellow Vogoners, tells us a little more about yourselves!

Posted on 2016-11-25, 09:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

I am 40 (41 by Feb.) and retired before time. So my income is a small pension. This is due to the fact that I was diagnosed with a-typical aspergers syndrome in mild degree. I was finally diagnosed at the age of 38. Yay me... :lol: I have allways gotten tired over nothing, can't do more than one …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-24, 19:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just noticed the boxed TI4400... *hides boner There's a lot of stuff in there that brings back memories... not only the boxed 939 CPUs, but the boxed Ti 4400, the KT266 board... those are from a time I remember fondly...

Re: Fellow Vogoners, tells us a little more about yourselves!

Posted on 2016-11-24, 17:38

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hello Everyone ! My name is Iakov Khalip, Jr. First of all I'm a photographer - I gain money with Digital Camera and prefer to make pictures for the Art in film... I work in the MAMM Museum in Moscow. My grandfather was a classic of Soviet Photography, he worked in photography from mid 1920s to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-24, 17:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Btw, what's so special about the BH6 board? I thought BX boards weren't really that special (but they're still very solid boards most of the time). Well back in the days there was a legendary CPU codename "Celeron 300A" that could achieve 450Mhz easily with a little bit of voltage boost(usually 0. …

Re: need advice about 3d graphics card

Posted on 2016-11-24, 12:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

It looks like a V3-2000. It's still a good card, you won't disappointed.

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