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Re: What AMD processors did beat their Intel counterparts?

Posted on 2017-07-14, 06:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think someone answered already, but AMD was beating Intel in performance from the Athlon introduction until the Core2 CPU's finally came out. It would be nice for competition to happen again like that time period- it was an incredible 5-6 years. I've heard about Ryzen- It's more cores, but I …

Re: AMD Ryzen CPUs dominate TechReport's May 2017 System Guide

Posted on 2017-07-14, 06:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

Glued together 🤣. I wonder what kind of glue they used for Pentium 4 Dual Core chips..

Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2017-07-13, 19:39

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I just realized I may have benched with vsync o .. I need to check that in the 3dfx panel and rebench if necessary this weekend.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-13, 14:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have Voodoocards for trade, but apparently it is hard to get a swap deal outside amibay. I need ISA/WT MIDI stuff :D @topic I finally got an LS-120 drive Hopefully it it is from 1997! :cool: I have ISA sound cards if any might interest you and need a Voodoo 1.. No WT/MIDI specific stuff though :(

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-13, 08:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If itś really cheap I try to buy all AT systems I find. The cases are getting rare these days, also I'm always curious anout the config (but it always turns out to be a crappy VX-based board with a Pentium 133 haha. This one has an ALi chipset though. Any idea on the specifications? Also, I kind of …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-13, 07:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone know if this is a nice system to get? Cleaning and upgrading it could be a nice project, it's an AT board with PS/2 connectors.. Can get it for cheap, but the case needs a lot of cleaning. http://image5.sahibinden.com/photos/61/78/56/4616178568kb.jpg http://image5.sahibinden.com/photos/61/78/ …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-12, 20:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow nice cases, a shame.. I wish I could find beige cases in such good condition around here, the ones I find are either terribly filthy (one had rat shit in it) or incredibly yellowed :( Anyway, I got these today, not sure if they qualify as hardware? http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/ …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-12, 13:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That Electromyne shit worries the hell out of me. I'm afraid that's site is the beginning of commercialized overpriced retro computing. They want nearly £100 for $40 dollar cards like V3 3000s. The idea for a site like that (I thought) should be to have the lowest prices on the net for that stuff. …

Re: What AMD processors did beat their Intel counterparts?

Posted on 2017-07-12, 10:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I disagree with majority of this but I really don't enjoy discussing this with you when you are in this attitude, so it is what it is.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-07-12, 07:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know how image quality relates but we can just get any modern nvidia card (even up to like the entire 900 series, and Titan-X Maxwell), load WinXP-32 and WinXP32 drivers and run up to 32x Super-Sampling AA for any older game to a point. Some older games won't run under this but most will. …

Re: Origin System's transition from MT-32 to General MIDI

Posted on 2017-07-12, 07:11

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Tyrian was composed in OPL AFAIK and sounds rather assy with an MT-32.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-07-12, 05:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just scored an Apple IIe and a few Packard Bell boxes plus a pair of NOS Packard Bell speakers and a keyboard. Also I should note it's not yellow at all, it's my damned lights. For some reason these early LED bulbs I bought years ago look yellow. http://img01.deviantart.net/18d0/i/2017/192/6/6/ …

Re: What AMD processors did beat their Intel counterparts?

Posted on 2017-07-12, 05:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That is not my memory of the time at all, but I guess it could be a Europe vs US thing. IBM/intel symbiotic relationship and the establishment of x86 as an open OEM ecosystem (although not really intentional) is well documented and did go a long way towards eliminating competing architectures but …

Re: What AMD processors did beat their Intel counterparts?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 22:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually, the fact that x86 was basically complete shit compared to all the competing architectures, illustrates all the more that x86 operated in a vacuum. The vacuum created by IBM. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. So, businesses bought x86 machines by the truckloads. There was no …

Re: Windows 98 graphics card choices

Posted on 2017-07-11, 22:31

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Alec M wrote: Where should I get DX9? Also, I am running 98SE. Download and install this: http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/downloads/Dir … _64-Dec2006.zip

Re: Windows 98 graphics card choices

Posted on 2017-07-11, 22:28

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'll try getting a new DX version. And as voodoo47 said, I was wrong about the current version, It's DX6.1 Install DirectX 9.0 on your Win98 and enjoy your GF3. If you are using Win98FE then install the Jul 2004 version of DX9. If you are using Win98SE then install the Dec 2006 version. The card …

Re: What AMD processors did beat their Intel counterparts?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 22:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The first time Intel was actively pushed because of competition was when the K7 came around. Which was way after this period. Before the 386, the x86 was not exactly 'established' as the defacto home computing chip - it was facing competition from a lot of other chip makers. Motorola's 68K for …

Re: What AMD processors did beat their Intel counterparts?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 18:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, Intel would have managed just fine on their own. They're Chipzilla now, they would only have grown even faster and larger if they didn't have to share with the second-source manufacturers. Yeah we've seen how well Intel innovates when there is no competition to drive them. Like, the last five …

Re: Windows 98 graphics card choices

Posted on 2017-07-11, 17:02

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

All the GPUs on that list are AGP cards that I own. As of the time that I posted I thought all of them worked, but it looks like the GeForce4 MX440 and ATi Radeon X1600 PRO are dead. The only problem I've run into with the GeForce 3 Ti 200 is that it doesn't support DX7. Also, what forceware …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 11:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why would you sell your only V5500? It's from an era that I have no interest in. My retro sweetspot is 1990-1998. I'm not much for collecting for the sake of collecting, so I'd rather someone else get some use out of it. I've also got a Voodoo3 3500TV I'm trying to rehome for the same reason. …

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