Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-13, 18:35
Muppets4 wrote: a Crystal chip from Packard Bell. Both ISA bus. That's Aztech OEM card. It's similar to AZT1605 I38-MMSN822.
Re: Athlon vs Duron
Posted on 2019-02-13, 17:43
because Win 9x allows a direct hardware access No, it doesn't.
Re: Voodoo pass-thru Option #431987
Posted on 2019-02-13, 16:29
They're equivalent lengths Original cable is shorter due to long VGA connector base, which is not bendable.
Re: AMD X5-133 Engineering Sample
Posted on 2019-02-13, 14:56
There's also possible attempt to destroy AMD part number which is 25462.
Re: AMD X5-133 Engineering Sample
Posted on 2019-02-13, 03:05
Looks like blatant rip-off, not the real engineering sample. AMD-X5 wasn't trademarketed.
Re: DX7 gpu conumdrum
Posted on 2019-02-12, 22:51
Does EMBM also work on R7000? On any Radeon. One of the few cases where third TMU is probably used.
Re: Athlon vs Duron
Posted on 2019-02-12, 19:46
L1 cache is huge on both CPUs and L2 cache on K7 Athlons is comparably slow. Due to that, size difference between Duron/Athlon doesn't hurt as much. But no I don't recall ever coming across anything in a game that made SSE super exciting to have SSE is also supported by drivers. Although the …
Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series
Posted on 2019-02-12, 18:06
Ther're much better for the old stuff. That's why GFX is more appreciated right now.
Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series
Posted on 2019-02-12, 17:51
The FX series had equality as powerful DirectX 8 performance as ATI. They didn't. Even shader model 1.4 was mildly slower, especially with AA, due to how FX were designed. R300+ pipeline was overall more flexible. it's irrelevant since nobody ran anything DirectX9 in Windows 98 back in the day Win …
Re: NOTICE FOR IBM XT OWNERS
Posted on 2019-02-11, 19:10
If they were actually THAT bad, they wouldn't still be in use Actually some top-tier modern motherboards use ONLY tantalum.
Re: Using Voodoo 1 or 2 cards on "modern" systems with PCI slots in FreeDOS. Should this work or not?
Posted on 2019-02-11, 16:37
Voodoo 1 - no. Voodoo 2 - yes.
Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory
Posted on 2019-02-10, 05:54
Overclocking memory does get tested at their rated speeds It does, but OCZ had very high failure rates. Either way.. after 10+ years, a lot of ram modules seem to fail because of old age.. i've thrown out 20+gb of DDR2 of all sorts of brands/speed ratings Even on low voltage? Most of OCed memory …
Re: Best LGA 775 Motherboard with AGP and DDR400?
Posted on 2019-02-10, 02:52
Also BH-5 ram is fun to play with on these old 865 boards if you have done the vdimm mod VDIMM mod is usually not enough for that RAM.
Re: Voodoo pass-thru Option #431987
Posted on 2019-02-09, 18:30
30cm is perfect, not too short or long. Should be better compared to most original cables, which are shorter.
Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory
Posted on 2019-02-08, 20:39
Not sure why you need 16 gigs though, because for games it's useless. If you want to really max out - 8 gigs with FSB overclocking should be much better. It is well-known: This has nothing to do with "black markets". OCZ was just pushing chips too far without proper testing, which eventually lead to …
Re: DX7 gpu conumdrum
Posted on 2019-02-08, 18:21
You can play EMBM games like Expendable on Radeon 7500.
Re: Best LGA 775 Motherboard with AGP and DDR400?
Posted on 2019-02-08, 18:13
I'm seeing little to no benefit with the Mushkin Redline XP4000 evn with the volt mod Try to push it 1:1. With some luck 270-280mhz 3-3-2-8 could be achieved. Also probably try out xp64 Not worth it.
Re: Overclocked Pentium 3 Tualatin BSOD issues and other things
Posted on 2019-02-05, 17:44
so it should be a bit of higher quality than the CWT built Corsair CX500M Corsair does not make PSUs. And your current PSU might as well be rebranded Seasonic.
Re: Overclocked Pentium 3 Tualatin BSOD issues and other things
Posted on 2019-02-05, 15:53
but the new PSU will certainly help at giving the computer a bit of extra headroom It won't help you in any way. Despite the popular believe aka PSU hysteria, you can run even dual core CPU paired with 1950XTX on a proper 420w-450w ATX 2.0 PSU. And when it comes to anemic Tualatin power draw - you …
Re: What is the best benchmark for PCI VGA cards?
Posted on 2019-02-05, 15:12
Final Reality.
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