Re: PCI Video cards benchmark: Electric Boogaloo Edition

Posted on 2021-11-14, 20:19

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Ooh, that's super interesting. I still have a ton of those old cards stashed away and never knew that was a thing with them. Well, that's just my speculation, but SIS card was new old stock and never used before. Then is just broke after Tiberian Sun tests, which doesn't have any frame cap on …

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Re: Palit GTX460, why such high prices?

Posted on 2021-11-14, 00:18

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Intel GPUs won't do jack sh*t on prices, because they also order chips from TSMC.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-11-13, 22:05

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while the Nvidia card threw such a huge fit. Probably has something to do with one of the worst linear filters (see my link above) at the time. It's still interesting how the 3DFX and ATi cards handled filtering without too many problems ATi has practically no problems in this shot, with letters …

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Re: 9800 pro cooler

Posted on 2021-11-13, 20:51

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Noise levels are a concern. Zalman had passive cooler - ZM80. But there are some others, including early Thermaltake and Thermalright solutions.

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-11-13, 20:26

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Actually, that difference is applied to all transparent textures on screen, which includes letters. I think the problem is due to how card apply linear filtering to transparent textures, with more modern ATi and Nvidia cards softening edges, maybe because of ignoring some rendering flags. But it's …

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Re: GTA Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is not very good

Posted on 2021-11-13, 20:10

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Third-party shady stores will probably have a field day selling keys to original Steam releases. That being said, you still can buy them on PS3, which are original PS2 images.

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Re: PCI Video cards benchmark: Electric Boogaloo Edition

Posted on 2021-11-13, 09:48

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I forgot to include one interesting observation which may be purely anecdotal, but still worth mentioning. Apparently you can damage or kill old 2D video card by pushing it too hard with GUI acceleration on a CPU which far exceeds period correct hardware. SIS 6326AGP SDRAM (PINE PT-5968-98) and ATI …

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Re: Is a broken FX5900U worth repairing?

Posted on 2021-11-13, 09:29

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VRAM just don't randomly go bad sitting in a closet, but capacitors certainly do.

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Re: GeForce 7800GTX SLI Running Hot

Posted on 2021-11-13, 09:09

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I wasn't able to hold my fingers to the heat spreaders on the back of the cards for more than a few seconds, I am going to guess 90-100 C *chuckles* I would like to be able to run Crysis on this rig without it melting Not possible in any combinations of GeForce 7 card. This game is just too heavy …

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Re: 🧟 Frankenstein's Radeon 9700 Pro - Help needed for indentification

Posted on 2021-11-12, 03:08

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There were Radeon 9800 cards on Radeon 9500/9700 PCBs (mostly in SE form), so it's not all that surprising that someone decided to manufacture R300 on new Radeon 9800 PCBs. Most likely some old stock R300 chips were just laying around.

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Re: Terrible 3Dmark2001 scores on P3-S 1400 system

Posted on 2021-11-12, 02:50

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Looks like CPU is constantly busy with some background processes. Could be USB flash stick.

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Re: Motherboards to underclock Pentium 2

Posted on 2021-11-12, 02:40

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Maybe even 1x50mhz is possible? Minimal multiplier for P6 is 2x. It seems likely that Pentium 2 <333 MHz made before week 34 1998 are unlocked. Deschutes also had 300 Mhz model.

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Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 02:36

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8GB is simply not enough these days. You can improve that by storing pagefile on NVME SSD, Intel Optane or some LSI WarpDrive. Latter even has official XP drivers.

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Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-10, 15:12

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And then we have capitalism... That's actually the reason we had CPU stagnation in mainstream market from first Core i7 release and up to first Ryzen release.

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Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 17:23

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Even for modern gaming, GPUs are usually a much bigger bottleneck than CPUs. Most of the most demanding games will play just fine on a several generation old i7 with a current high end GPU. That's because we had very anemic console generation and current generation with decent CPUs are still not …

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Re: 32 megs of ram is enough for a DX4?

Posted on 2021-11-05, 22:06

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You're missing the wonders of 3D accelerated 486!

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Re: TERRIBLE NEWS!

Posted on 2021-11-05, 20:01

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Yarrr!

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Re: 32 megs of ram is enough for a DX4?

Posted on 2021-11-05, 08:22

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by The Serpent Rider

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Errius wrote: Mobi says Q3 needs 64 MB Well yes, but actually no. Some large vanilla maps require 64 Mb, but not all of them. Same applies to Unreal Tournament. So you totally can launch Quake 3 on 486DX4 in glorious 5 fps!

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Re: 32 megs of ram is enough for a DX4?

Posted on 2021-11-04, 20:44

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32 Mb is enough to launch Quake 3, MDK2, Tiberian Sun, etc.

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Re: ga-500 super socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2021-11-04, 05:12

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Buffered RAM must be supported by chipset.

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