Re: How do you feel about old hardware in modern cases?

Posted on 2017-05-05, 06:13

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I do agree with your conclusion. In my personal opinion the advantages of a carefully chosen modern case vastly outweigh the disadvantages (mainly being period-incorrectness). For my recent builds I used one of the last "new" atx desktop cases in white/beige for the oldest system (Pentium Pro), and …

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Re: P4 S478 compatible coolers

Posted on 2017-04-27, 12:10

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One of the best coolers for S478 is the Thermaltake SI-120 or XP-120. Its easy to find on Ebay for a good price. I think it is Thermalright ;) However, I used the XP-120 quite some time on a P4 3.0GHz CPU being very happy with it but found it too weak for the 3.4GHz EE. The Mugen 2 Rev. B. would be …

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Re: P4 S478 compatible coolers

Posted on 2017-04-27, 11:32

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I'm about to start putting together a 2GHz P4 98SE PC but I'm having problems getting my hands on what could be considered a decent S478 cooler. I'd say one of the last (pretty good) coolers that still has socket 478 compatibility is the Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B. This is a socket 1366 compliant cooler …

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Re: Circa 2002 gaming rig (P4 based)

Posted on 2017-04-25, 13:31

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I also plan to run Doom 3 on this configuration. May I ask why you want to do that? Is this solely for benchmarking purposes? The GeForce 4 is not capable of Shader Model/Pixel Shader 2.0 which is an important tech level for the id Tech 4 engine. I used a GeForce 5900 Ultra when Doom 3 was released …

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Re: Re-defining my builds

Posted on 2017-03-02, 09:57

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gdjacobs wrote: Hmm, interesting. Any downsides to the patch or is this a 100% resolvable issue? No downsides I know of. The modification just corrects the CPU speed check, nothing else is touched. It works just fine on my i7-4960X @4GHz.

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Re: Re-defining my builds

Posted on 2017-03-02, 09:19

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Does anyone know any Win9x or newer era games that don't run properly on a high clocked CPU? I haven't personally found any, but I think it's an important question to answer for the purpose of this topic. NFS Porsche Unleashed comes to mind. It won't give you high-detail textures when your CPU has …

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

Posted on 2016-12-13, 09:04

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Welcome to vogons. Sorry, didn't see this post between those hwbot related ones. Thanks a lot :) But PIII is seriously bottlenecking V5 6k... 2380 points in 3DM01 is lower than my V4 4500. AGP2PCI might be tricky to get working properly. The easiest way to get decent CPU performance is probably …

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

Posted on 2016-12-13, 07:21

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All of what was included in the PCI rework? Every single soldered component was removed, verified, and resoldered? No, it is only a minor change to the card (component wise, but it definitely can render the board inoperable when not successful). The PCI rework was developed by 3dfx engineer Hank …

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Re: Intel P6 Gen. 3 Retro System

Posted on 2016-11-25, 15:37

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Yes, I know about the issues of the added height of PC-PGA2. I'm the one who wrote the s370 IHS-page on Vogonswiki about it lol Good to know :-) I'll go add this soon as I think this is a cheap and easy fix for a problem that might turn into disaster (think along the lines of the CPU HSF breaking …

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Re: Dell Precision 380 (Pentium 4 workstation)

Posted on 2016-11-25, 07:38

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PhilsComputerLab wrote: BX form factor? I'd say, given the I/O panel position in relation to the add-in card slots, definitely BTX, yes.

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Re: Dell Precision 380 (Pentium 4 workstation)

Posted on 2016-11-25, 07:29

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I do like the idea of such a P4 system very very much :-) Starting with Northwood, and especially when Hyper-Threading was introduced, the P4 was a really good CPU. Although Prescott is in my opinion not that good, I'd prefer Cedar Mill when going with the Socket 775 P4 (of course it is another …

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

Posted on 2016-11-25, 07:03

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Cool :-) Yeah, no problem. The next time I'll include v.control. If there's anything else you'd like to have for the team account just ask. I honestly have a hard time asking you to bench the card given its rarity. The only other benchmarks I could ask for are 3dmark 99. If your alright with that. …

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Re: Intel P6 Gen. 3 Retro System

Posted on 2016-11-25, 06:22

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I think it's a nice touch having the 1400 in LED on the front panel lol. [...] And I think a white/beige DVD drive suits your build well. Thanks :-) Apparently this could even power an Athlon XP? Nice! How did you get your Tualatin running in that board? The PSU is from my Pentium 4 EE system back …

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

Posted on 2016-11-24, 22:36

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Thanks! I have your scores up! Hopefully they will stay up. Usually hwbot needs more gpu info in the screenshot. But I think given the card and the photo it should pass! If you post any new scores can you add v.control to the screen shot? http://hwbot.org/submission/3375268_vogons_team_acount_ …

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Re: Intel P6 Gen. 1 Retro System

Posted on 2016-11-24, 09:40

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3d mark 2000 and 2001 will be OK. If you can, can you fallow these rules and I'll post your scores on the team account if you OK with it. http://hwbot.org/news/4255_application_26_rules/ http://hwbot.org/news/874_application_1_rules/ The reference drivers are OK. thanks. Of course I'm OK with that …

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

Posted on 2016-11-24, 09:35

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Since Jade Falcon asked for it, I performed a quick run with 3DMark2000 and 3DMark2001SE although the reference drivers are not that good for a Voodoo5 6000. I'll perform additional runs when I have found the best driver for my system configuration. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=543055# …

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

Posted on 2016-11-24, 09:31

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

Posted on 2016-11-24, 09:31

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

Posted on 2016-11-24, 09:31

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Hi there, This is it, my retro system containing my rarest and most beloved piece of hardware... An original 3dfx Voodoo5 6000. It is a Rev. 3700A, with Full PCI Rework. Tested to be fully stable @183MHz with 8x FSAA working! Although I will never use it at that clock speed. I run it at the standard …

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Re: Intel P6 Gen. 3 Retro System

Posted on 2016-11-24, 09:09

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