Re: NVIDIA TNT PCI Card Use

Posted on 2016-12-12, 20:47

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by melbar

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't forget Riva TNT PCI is slower than regular AGP. My tests show AGP is 40% faster... so PCI TNT lacks quite a lot to match V2 performance. Interesting!! Is this the average from your benchmarks? You have done a lot of benchmarks... even with a faster Athlon XP, you would never pair with a TNT …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-12, 18:03

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It appears to be a Biostar M7NCG 400 (NVIDIA nForce2 IGP / MCP) its got an 1.2ghz Athlon XP. Also had a maxtor usb 2.0 external 80gb drive. There is no 1,25GHz XP desktop version from AMD available. There are 1,2GHz embedded versions, but they have 12x multi. It seems that you have maybe an Athlon …

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Re: 775/771 systems old school or not?

Posted on 2016-12-11, 20:25

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think it's easy... there are older retro hardware and newer retro hardware. It depends on every perspective, but when you look at the average perspective, a Voodoo or PIII is more retro than a 775 core 2 quad, looking at the median. An example with old cars: Where i live, every car which exeeds …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-05, 20:44

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have got this interesting old AT-tower during the last days. It's a Colani Tower. The manufacturer was Highscreen back in the day. Searching for these Colani tower, the main design was looking like the following picture, i remember this design back in the day, it was amazing but out of my range ( …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Rev. 3700A, Full PCI Rework

Posted on 2016-11-28, 21:54

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by melbar

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The case is still a TBD item. I prefer a desktop-style mainboard mount because the add-in cards are then “standing” and not “hanging”. But all desktop cases still available today either have no top window (because I’d like to be able to see the Voodoo5 6000 at any time ;-)), have ridiculous prices …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-28, 19:34

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have the successor of 8K5A3+, the 8K9A3+. Due to 1.5V AGP not compatible to old high-end cards like V5 anymore... The four additional IDE port were a reason to buy it, i thought, but later i saw that i've never used more than 2 harddisks... Caps on motherboards and other parts

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Re: DreamBlaster X2 and S1 BLACK Editions Available Soon / Pre-Order / Black Friday Bundle

Posted on 2016-11-27, 21:25

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ Sound

Have ordered also the X2+S1 bundle. It's good to have options for MIDI boards these days. Thanks dreamblaster!!!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-27, 20:31

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got these two cards. Maybe they will come together as a dream team (3dfx+nvidia) for me... My first V2. Never heard about ATC before. I have seen a lot of Diamond and Creative advertising back in the day... ATC-2455 with 12Mb edo ram. http://i.imgur.com/cfgJ2BT.jpg Hercules 3D Prophet II MX PCI …

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Re: need advice about 3d graphics card

Posted on 2016-11-18, 23:10

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ Video

Hmm, a 1GHz PIII, normally with SDRAM -PC133, combined with: geforce 5950 ultra (475 MHz core, 1900 MPixel/s, 3800 MTexel/s, 356 MVertices/s, with 256bit DDR and 30.4GB/s) No, would not do that. A faster PIV or XP from AMD (>2,0GHz) is much better for the Ultra. A geforce 2 or 3 is much more time …

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Re: Best DOS video card?

Posted on 2016-11-17, 17:51

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ Video

Does anyone have maybe a list (link) of 3dfx cards, where the different models from each company are decribed? Especially for voodoo2 VGA cards?

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Re: Soyo 5TE2 any good?

Posted on 2016-11-15, 19:08

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the info's. Problem solved !!! The old SIMMS's i had, one from NANYA and three from NEC, has shown 16Mb of RAM on the post-screen. Now, i have tested again my old NANYA SIMM with the NANYA i've bought the last week and the result is: 32Mb RAM :happy: So, according to these tests, the best …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-14, 19:05

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chose007 wrote: MSI 3Dfx V3 onboard, looks kaput but will see Nice board !!! Have a MSI board with similar layout, but ATI instead of 3dfx onboard, and S370 instead of slot 1.

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2016-11-13, 22:49

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ Video

Sure, it's a matter of taste. I have all these cards already. Only want to say, it's not easy to decide sometimes when you have several possibilities. Cause the PIII tualatin are relativly expensive and i was searching for a cheap CPU, i have now a Tualeron (celeron 1000A). I think overclocking to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-13, 19:05

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought several cards the last weeks. Here the pictures: Voodoo 1 from Diamond http://i.imgur.com/goDpqBy.jpg S3 ViRGE/DX (Hercules Terminator 3D/DX with 4Mb ram) http://i.imgur.com/Z0wZyy7.jpg Geforce4 Ti4800SE (Asus V9480) http://i.imgur.com/Hw35QlT.jpg Geforce 9800 GT green edition (from Club 3D) …

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Re: Soyo 5TE2 any good?

Posted on 2016-11-13, 16:56

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have some questions: During my test's today with this socket7 board (soyo 5TE2) i am little confused. Maybe somebody with more experience regarding FPM RAM or EDO RAM can help me. I've bought these three 72pin (should be EDO RAM) with each 16MB capacity. - 2x Texas Instruments TMS417409DJ -60 - 1x …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2016-11-13, 11:51

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ Video

Which AGP card would be best for a CPU for example a P4 (northwood core) with 2000 to 3000MHz? OS can be Win98 or XP. - GF 4 Ti4400 / 4800SE - GF FX5700 - GF 6800 - Radeon 9800 Pro - Radeon X800 (Pro) - Radeon X850 XT

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2016-11-13, 11:45

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ Video

Which AGP card would be best for a CPU for example a 1200MHz tualatin? OS is Win98. - GF 2 Ti - GF 3 Ti200 - GF 4 Ti4400 / 4800SE - GF FX5700

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Re: XP retro build

Posted on 2016-11-10, 21:20

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by melbar

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The SNDS should not happen if you clock <= 3.0GHz at stock Vcore, or not? I have a P4 example with 2.66GHz. Should be no problem to clock up to 3.0?

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Re: XP retro build

Posted on 2016-11-08, 18:46

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Interesting haul! Considering performance benchmarks, for example at 1280x1024 resolution (without AA & AF image improvements), the Radeon X1650 Pro should perform at the same level like the Radeon X800. I remember that i've upgraded from a Radeon 9700 to a Geforce 6800 LE for my Athlon XP back in …

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Re: Soyo 5TE2 any good?

Posted on 2016-11-07, 19:10

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have the same board. Got it also with an AT case, but the condition of that case was really bad so i've scrapped it. Recently, i thought to sell this board, but now i want to re-built a (non super) socket 7 system. The chipset is the first Triton (430FX). Disadvantage is: you cannot use any MMX -CPU …

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