Radeon 1900XTX Geforce 8800GT Geforce gtx 280 Radeon HD5870 Geforce GTX 780ti Nice to see the cards already ordered by performance. Considering that you'll go with an E8500 I'd say: 1900 XTX: The weakest of them, most likely be the limiting factor. Would put it in something slightly slower. Athlon …

What a surprise. Just earlier today I looked into a video about exactly that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEge5r6-mg Basic result is, that even a GT 520 loses between 30 and 60% of it's performance compared to PCIe x1 and between 30 and 80% compared to PCIe x16. The tests were run on a …

Went with a Radeon 9600 Pro for a while, but had isues with some older games. Later got a GF 3 Ti 200 and everything is running fine since then. So depending on how late you want to go, keep the card reasonable aged. While the 7800 GS might be faster, the 9700 Pro will have better support. (There is …

On a sidenote: I recently did some comparisons with cache disabled and kept it disabled when finished for more tests later on. (P3 sig in my sig) Well, 2 months later I wanted to run some Unreal and was surprised. Without L2 Cache the game actually ran pretty fine. around 40 fps for the most part. …

And don't forget that 7zip (the application, not the format) is better ad making zip archives than winzp and better at making rar archives than winrar. In the end it doesn't really matter anymore. Most programs nowadays can open more than one type or archives, and zip, rar and 7z are most used …

How much will such an old machine benefit at all. More than ATA-66 would be ludicrus compared to the rest of bus speeds inside the system. Nothing against using what is around. There basically a couple of solutions: Native IDE HDDs (Supported natively, but drives are loud, usually used, not the …

There is another one nobody seems to notice: IMG_20180128_110832~01.jpg Pentium 4 505J 2.66 GHz (20x 133 FSB (533 QDR)) Prescott E0 (SL85U) 1 MiB L1 $ 84 W TDP, 67.7°C Tcase EMT64, NX-bit, Intel VT Why go for the fastest Pentium 4 for a socket, if you can go with the slowest one. (This in fact came …

Are we talking about pure DOS or a moxed DOS/9x environment here? I bought a boot rom for my 3com 3c509 some time ago for that exact purpose, but yeah I never managed to do anything with that :( I hope somebody will find out how that works someday ^^ Got a 3c905C-TXM around and just needed to plug …

I'd say measure the space around your socket first. All Socket A coolers that use clamps should hold on the socket, but the space around it could be tight. Got an CUSL2-C, which has around 83mm x 87 mm clearence around the socket (all around to the closest part higher than the socket itself, like …

The slowest I had to actually use as a "main" system, as in using it for the usual daily tasks was quite a nightmare, neccesary out of issues with anything faster at the time. It was late 2016 and consisted of: Pentium 4 505 (Prescott, 2.66 GHz) running on 3.4 GHz 3.73 GB RAM (Chipset limitation) …