Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-24, 15:54

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by The Serpent Rider

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Unless you're specifically trying to shove it into low-end MicroATX board with 3-phase VRM without any cooling - 6400+ is fine. 125W is less than overclocked 939 dual-core or some high-end Pentium D.

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-24, 15:11

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by The Serpent Rider

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General consensus: 90nm - (GeForce 7 refresh, some chipsets, etc.) 80nm - all GeForce 8 series, especially G80, which was expected to work at 90C for prolonged periods of time. 65nm - GeForce 8 refresh (G92), GeForce 9 series and original GTX2xx series. Some 55nm chips (apparently, "Bumpgate" was …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-24, 12:55

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by The Serpent Rider

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Well, with Nvidia chipsets that is actually opposite, because SATA is in MCP and "south bridge" was just more PCIe lanes for SLI.

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-24, 12:21

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Azarien wrote: Both have faulty VGA inputs unfortunately: one has a very dim picture and the other seems stuck at some crazy gamma value which QuickGamma is unable to fix. Probably fixable in service menu.

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 11:22

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by The Serpent Rider

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Keep in mind that Philips is also 6-bit FRC panel, unlike old IPS office/professional panels. That was a major no-no for me. But pricing is decent.

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 10:12

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by The Serpent Rider

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Philips Brilliance 252B9/00 was recommended here a few times. Not so sure about ProArt though, because it's an overpriced 6-bit FRC panel.

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 09:26

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by The Serpent Rider

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Actually, scratch that. Each pixel is 5x6 cluster, which is fine for anamorphic nature of 320x200. But yeah, 640x480 scaling is sub-optimal with 2.5x factor. While 1440p panel can do both via DOSBOX.

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 08:51

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by The Serpent Rider

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Well, no. 1920x1200 panel cannot display horizontal 320 pixels as an integer in 4:3 format.

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 08:05

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That way, Win9x games can be played at the 1600x1200 resolution (needs beefy hardware) while DOS games have a fairly clean 6x scale on each axis. Also, 800x600 games looks pretty nice as well due to a clean 2x scale. I recently started using a Actually, you need 2560x1440 resolution monitor for …

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-22, 19:26

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Old PVA are mostly horrible, due to insufferable black smearing and noticeable colorshift, including some Dell revisions of FP panels. EIZO S2100 / S2133, NEC 2090UXi/2190UXi and previous NEC 2080 models are certainly better, because these are professional IPS monitors with ATW polarizer (early …

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Re: HD 3850 AGP Vram upgrade

Posted on 2023-02-22, 19:16

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by The Serpent Rider

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Technically possible with additional BIOS modding. Practically useless for such weak hardware.

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Re: Doom 86 fps on p200 ?

Posted on 2023-02-20, 12:17

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by The Serpent Rider

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Won't help. Doom is Mode X.

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Re: Doom 86 fps on p200 ?

Posted on 2023-02-20, 11:24

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by The Serpent Rider

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Trying to get more fps in vanilla Doom is a pointless endeavor, outside of academic benchmarking. The game is locked at 35fps. If you want more - get FastDoom source port.

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Re: NiCd battery leaked after 27 years

Posted on 2023-02-17, 13:47

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by The Serpent Rider

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So apparently these don't leak if no charge is applied, based on my sample size of one. I have a few boards with pristine looking batteries. That condition never changed after few years of laying around in my possession. So yeah, no charge = no destructive chemical reaction.

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Re: socket 4 cooler

Posted on 2023-02-17, 02:11

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by The Serpent Rider

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Any Socket 7 cooler + good modern thermal pad. Done.

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2023-02-17, 00:56

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by The Serpent Rider

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Award has universal flasher utility for Windows.

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Re: EVGA GTX 970 - Coil Whine and Disappointment...

Posted on 2023-02-16, 18:09

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by The Serpent Rider

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You don't play 3DMark06. I'm willing to solder on the 970 if needed Won't help you, unless you have good understanding of card schematics and inductors in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D6PKusyvUU ...or hot glue. Lots of hot glue.

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Re: S3 86C805 1024x768 High Color?

Posted on 2023-02-14, 05:51

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by The Serpent Rider

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Depends on external DAC specs.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-13, 21:34

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by The Serpent Rider

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bloodem wrote on 2023-02-13, 13:31: There are many other (more reliable) investment Literally. Because at the very least that V5 6K will require cap replacement.

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Re: Doom 3 Radeon FPS drops

Posted on 2023-02-13, 21:29

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by The Serpent Rider

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You can always use RivaTunerStatistics server (via MSI Afterburner) to see VRAM and GPU usage and other potential bottlenecks. Also stable 60fps are not possible on P4 3Ghz.

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