When did on board sound on motherboards equal in sound quality to older sound cards?

Posted on 2023-06-23, 18:02

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by Baoran

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Basically I am trying to find out when it is not worth it anymore to put something like old sound blaster x-fi card into a system. In my case it is motherboard from around 2012 with Realtek ALC1150 sound chip and I am wondering if it is still worth it to put sound blaster x-fi from around 2007 into …

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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-20, 14:55

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by Baoran

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If you need the XPDM driver, try earlier versions for XP. In addition, try through the device manager item "Install an old device". If you need standard device performance, it's easier to install drivers from Windows Vista: https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/2/en-us/ Or earlier …

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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-19, 23:22

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by Baoran

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I have not had luck getting geforce fx 5500 pci card to work in 32bit windows 7 properly. I manually installed winxp driver to it and it shows picture on desktop but display updates quite slowly and in device manager it has been marked as not working and in properties it shows error code "device …

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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-13, 12:45

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by Baoran

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nvidia drivers are very buggy on pci fx 5xxx serioes, especially the newer drivers (which you would need to run it on win7) so you should really keep yourself with xp or 9x at least I am running software on the system that was made with QT 5.11 and that windows xp only works with QT up to version …

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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-13, 11:34

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by Baoran

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Yes, it is. You will have to disable second card under each os (device manager), and use XP only one as "primary". DO NOT install two NV drivers on the same OS. What if you use the intel integrated gpu as the main one and only install nvidia XP drivers for the PCI card? Basically I am asking if the …

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Re: ISA riser-slot compatibility

Posted on 2023-06-09, 22:05

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by Baoran

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Yeah, lack of cache really hurts these machines. I had few in past too but the boards were old enough that they had no kind of provisions for cache. The one on the photo here looks like it can take something, assuming the slot is for a cache addon. I have been looking for the cache addon since I …

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Re: ISA riser-slot compatibility

Posted on 2023-06-09, 17:34

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by Baoran

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I have couple of those prolinea and they are otherwise good but they dont have any L2 cache which makes them bit slow and I have not been able to find the compatible compaq cache modules anywhere. Other than that they are pretty good with ps/2 mouse and keyboard ports and the ET4000AX chip on them …

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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-05, 00:59

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by Baoran

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You can install XPDM drivers on Windows 7, Windows 7 is last Windows OS to support them. Aero won't work but you can then use full screen NTVDM if you want. That is only for 32bit windows 7 though, right? If I understood correctly 64bit windows 7 requires drivers to be signed. Also I read that …

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Re: Best 'native' 5.25 floppy disk games

Posted on 2023-06-05, 00:44

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by Baoran

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My favourites were wing commander and M1 Tank Platoon, Airborne Ranger, Sierra games like Leisure Suit Larry 1-3, King's quest 1-5...etc and wasteland.

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Re: Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-05, 00:18

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by Baoran

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I was thinking of buying something like PCI Geforce FX 5500 for a haswell system that has the integrated Intel HD 4600 already and trying to install XP or Vista drivers to with 32bit windows 7 in it and get better compatibility with older games. Nobody has any idea what are the chances to getting …

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Older PCI gpu in newer system.

Posted on 2023-06-04, 18:46

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by Baoran

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Anyone has any experience of installing secondary gpu and 32bit windows 7 to newer system that has pci slots and trying to install windows XP driver for that PCI gpu for compatibility with older games? One use could be to install PCI geforce card that would support 8-bi paletted textures in those 4 …

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Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 18:06

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by Baoran

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VGA has no inherent resolution limit, you can push as high freqs as your video card allows and monitor can accept. The main limit is video card, they usually have 400MHz pixel clock limit on VGA output which makes it impossible to do stuff like 4k for example. 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz is not at all a …

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Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 14:30

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by Baoran

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Is it an artificial limitation when a manual of a motherboard for example says that maximum output resolution from d-sub in the I/O panel is 1920x1200@60Hz?

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Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-03, 13:24

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by Baoran

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IIRC, VGA does 2048x1536 at 85Hz max. (assuming RAMDACs on your card can actually cope with it). It doesn't support 2560 horizontal width, so you don't have to worry about signal quality at 2560x1440. I don't count downsampling/DSR/VSR in above. PS. Unless you thought 1920x1440 instead of 2560x1440 …

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VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.

Posted on 2023-06-02, 20:24

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by Baoran

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Anyone has experience of how much the signal degradation will affect the picture if you try to get higher resolutions like 1440p using a normal vga cable? It is hard to say if any of my vga cables are better quality in some way.

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 22:06

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by Baoran

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How much faster do you think a Ti4600 should be compared to a Ti4200? That is what I just said. ti4600 is about 20-25% faster than ti4200 depending on the game so if like in my case if there is still cpu bottleneck with 1000Mhz P3 then it seems logical that with a gpu that is only that much slower …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 4 4200 TI 128MB; overkill for a PIII 500MHz rig?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 09:34

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by Baoran

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I have a ti4600 on my 1000Mhz coppermine and that is also cpu bottlenecked clearly on my system and ti4600 is only like 20% faster than ti4200. If cpu bottleneck bothers you it might be good idea to get even faster cpu than mine in my opinion.

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 22:48

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by Baoran

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This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 21:57

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This thread made me wonder. Is there a good reason why people prefer using detonator 45.23? If I remember correctly nvidia increased the shader performance of FX cards in later driver versions. In reviews detonator 52.16 showed clear shader performance improvement over 4X.XX drivers in FX series …

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What would dos performaace of S3 P86C928 chip be like?

Posted on 2023-05-27, 21:37

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by Baoran

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I know S3 P86C928 chip is meant mostly for windows GUI stuff, but how well it would a vlb card with that chip do in dos? Would it be better to use an ISA card in dos like one with normal TSENG ET4000AX chip compared to that one?

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