Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-02-03, 09:14
X86 wrote on 2022-02-03, 04:07: in search of a voodoo 1 that doesn't cost an arm and a leg You, and the whole "remember when.." generation 😒
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-03, 07:34
BitWrangler wrote on 2022-02-02, 17:18: Why does nobody ever consider the Rage Fury MAXXXXXX 🤣 It's an awesome card but the only specimen I ever had was broken, and I only managed to break it further by trying to bake it, which resulted in dislocating all SMD components while removing it from the …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-02-03, 07:33
Is there even a point to DDR memory on the PCI bus? Like a GeForce2MX with 32MB of SDR more than saturates the bus, and can barely run Morrowind at 640x480 lowest settings. I need to find a 64MB DDR AGP card to compare against, but it seems like 64MB + DDR + AGP is a rare combo. Most AGP cards only …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2022-02-02, 09:00
Sounds like a lot of the clunky interface shit from the first two have carried of to the third.. I hope at least the combat is a lot less infuriating? The combat in the first game was the worst swordplay implementation that I ever played to be honest..
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2022-02-02, 08:29
I tried playing the original STALKER twice and stopped at around the 2 hours mark both times, the game was not immersive enough to withstand the masochism it required for me, personally.. I h ad the same issue with The Witcher 1 as well - absolutely ass gameplay for a very unimmersive experience. It …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-02, 05:56
Retro? Probably not quite. Still, a couple of things I picked up for my NetVista/AM2 build..
Re: What year did Dual Core become inadequate for PC Gaming?
Posted on 2022-02-01, 13:55
Dual core inadequate for gaming in 2009? There are still far too many single-threaded titles in 2022... If you're aiming for 2009, at that time the Nehalem Core i7s were pretty much undisputed champions of gaming performance, with the only question being whether higher bandwidth of the So1366 beat …
What year did Dual Core become inadequate for PC Gaming?
Posted on 2022-02-01, 13:01
After being content with using a dual core Athlon X2 5000+ between 2005-2008 I moved onto a Phenom X3 8750 in 2009 but I also vaguely remember that the move did not really help much with gaming at all . I then moved on to an Athlon II X4 640 in 2011 and I remember that actually was a worthwhile CPU …
Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank
Posted on 2022-02-01, 06:25
Question for dreamblaster and others here: After the X2GS, which would be the best sounding General MIDI wavetable board available on Serdashop? I know this question is somewhat subjective, but I'm gathering opinions and recommendations. As I said a while back, I don't like the legal restrictions …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-01, 06:22
Ah man I didn't see this and already decommissioned it, the GPU and single case fans had to work so hard to keep the GPU at 80c I lasted one night of using it. Dont worry the Dimension will get it's own build at some point soon. Iv got a Aptiva SS7 board that needs a home ;) I've tried something …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-02-01, 06:19
To be fair those old caps also look OK, why replace them?
Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?
Posted on 2022-01-29, 11:31
Terascale was fucking great.. HD4850/5850/6850 - you can't go wrong with any of these. Amazing workhorse cards for their time..
Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?
Posted on 2022-01-28, 17:45
HD5750 was the only reasonably priced option I found for my Athlon II build..
Re: The frustrations of the GPU market
Posted on 2022-01-27, 19:51
Call me stupid but I'd rathet get the 6500XT if I can get it at MSRP, it's a better deal for the money and on PCIe 4.0 its bandwidth problems are nonexistant.
Re: ECS A780VM-M2 BIOS needed
Posted on 2022-01-26, 12:29
Found this: https://www.ecs.com.tw/id/Product/Motherboard/A780VM-M2/download Which if you scroll past the "Driver for Windows XP 64bit edition" there's "BIOS & Others", just the one download from 04/22/09, which seemed to download ok (A780V422a.zip). I swear this was returning 404 errors yesterday, …
ECS A780VM-M2 BIOS needed
Posted on 2022-01-26, 09:43
I am building an AM2+ system with the ECS A780VM-M2 motherboard and the one I have comes with a custom BIOS from a local OEM, I want to replace it with a generic BIOS and was wondering if anyone has it? The ECS website's links appear to be dead I'm afraid..
Re: new old computers
Posted on 2022-01-26, 07:21
I have an LGA775 PC with an X800XT PE that is my main Windows 98SE rig, it's perfect for DOS and Win9x gaming. I also dual boot it to Linux (AntiX 19.3) and do file transfers and the like. Double plus good. I also recently built an Athlon II X4 640 PC inside an IBM NetVista case using a mATX AM2+ …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-26, 06:59
$400 for an AWE32? You crazy, man. I have one AWE32, a CT3980 so a PnP model with OPL3. Not the best, not the worst. I found it on sale for next to nothing in a second hand PC parts shop; it was in miserable shape, missing its bracket, a voltage regulator, a few caps and had broken SIMM slots. I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-25, 22:36
$400 for an AWE32? You crazy, man. I have one AWE32, a CT3980 so a PnP model with OPL3. Not the best, not the worst. I found it on sale for next to nothing in a second hand PC parts shop; it was in miserable shape, missing its bracket, a voltage regulator, a few caps and had broken SIMM slots. I …
Re: Help needed repairing Radeon 9250 PCI
Posted on 2022-01-25, 21:47
I replaced the broken cap with a 100nF 16V 0805 and the card now POSTs 😀 Thanks.
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