Re: Trying to get newish PCI Graphics cards working on pre AGP motherboards

Posted on 2018-04-21, 05:52

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by BinaryDemon

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Phil’s FX5500 might have been questionable but you can still buy FX5500 pci on Newegg that shows GeForce/Nvidia branding (ok it ships from HongKong so..) but a quick google shows legit manufacturers made PCI models like PNY for example.

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Re: Via C3 Build Help Needed

Posted on 2018-04-20, 21:37

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by BinaryDemon

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Some of the early epia boards also have built in Sound Blaster compatibility, so you wouldn’t even need a sound card.

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Re: Trying to get newish PCI Graphics cards working on pre AGP motherboards

Posted on 2018-04-19, 13:47

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by BinaryDemon

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The two newer ATX style boards do have AGP bus, but its tied to their dedicated on-board (and crap) GPU's :/ That would defeat my theory since those boards would atleast have the ability to use the AGP protocol. How much memory do these K5/K6 systems have? I was wondering if it could be an issue …

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Re: Trying to get newish PCI Graphics cards working on pre AGP motherboards

Posted on 2018-04-19, 13:06

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by BinaryDemon

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I was watching one of PhilsComputerLab videos the other day about the FX5500 and they pointed out that the PCI version wouldnt work in a system without an AGP slot. I would guess its the same issue with your FX5200 since it's same generation. I don't know why this is, I'm guessing modern (starting …

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Re: SLI PCI-e... which 2 cards would you use, for this mobo?

Posted on 2018-04-15, 23:51

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by BinaryDemon

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What’s your goal? Gonna build something period specific? Honestly SLI wont get you the best performance, an Athlon X2 4800 is going to bottleneck anything moderately powerful. In this case a single semi-modern card would result in the best performance, SLI just adds additional overhead. But if it’s …

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Re: SLI PCI-e... which 2 cards would you use!?

Posted on 2018-04-15, 14:44

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by BinaryDemon

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Seems like a super vague question, I'd would want to know more about the motherboard and possible CPU's it would be running with so as not so suggest something extremely out of balance. BUt here's some ideas: Cheap, common config, slightly retro : 2x 9800GT's. Evga recently had it's Bstock 9800GT's …

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Re: Geforce FX5800 Ultra - Serious, Serious £££

Posted on 2018-04-13, 11:22

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by BinaryDemon

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Ha, Phil made a video out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIWde5VugNM

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Re: Geforce FX5800 Ultra - Serious, Serious £££

Posted on 2018-04-09, 23:55

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by BinaryDemon

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Agreed, I hate seeing people pay so much for a product that even back in the day wasn't worth it. Originally I stuck with my overclocked Geforce4 Ti 4200, and unless my build had to be period specific for exactly 2003 I certainly would go for either Geforce4 Ti 4600 or a Geforce 6600 GT.

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Re: Terrible performance help, 486SX-33

Posted on 2018-04-07, 13:39

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by BinaryDemon

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Could this be one of those situations where you added more memory than the motherboard supports? 20mb isn’t a very typical 486sx-33 oem configuration. I’d try with 8mb.

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Re: Weird monitor behaviour in Kontron IP Lite Color laptop - please advise

Posted on 2018-04-04, 11:39

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by BinaryDemon

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Does the laptop have vga output? Might help determine if it’s a lcd issue or gpu issue.

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Re: Float vs Double in counting nanoseconds(which go up to a second) with cycle accurate emulators?

Posted on 2018-03-29, 12:46

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Disclaimer: I have no answers your post just got me curious. What hardware / OS is this emulator running on could that support nanosecond timing with any sort of accuracy?

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Re: Any PCI SSD for old motherboards?

Posted on 2018-03-18, 09:27

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by BinaryDemon

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PCI SATA controller seems overkill. I would definitely go with the pata ssd, although keep in mind most of those are 44pin you will likely need a 40pin to 44pin adapter. You can find 16gb 40 pin DOM modules that won’t break the bank but I doubt these are even capable of maxing out the ide spec.

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Re: Pentium CPU problem with 66MHz clock

Posted on 2018-03-17, 19:58

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by BinaryDemon

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I would have called it solved when you didnt experience any problems at 180mhz. 😀

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Re: VIA EPIA-M mITX build attempt for retrogaming

Posted on 2018-03-15, 14:13

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by BinaryDemon

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It might be worth it to try the VDMSound for Win9.x - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=900 I have no experience with this. DOSBox is definitely an option. I have some Wyse V90LE thin clients with Via C7 Eden 1.2ghz cpu's and the performance is very similar to DX4-100. I would guess your …

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Re: Robinson's Crate - my mini Voodoo 2 rig based on Transmeta Crusoe

Posted on 2018-03-11, 23:59

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by BinaryDemon

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Very cool and unusual build. Ive been eyeing up thin clients with sound blaster compatibility lately, I think the WT941GXL is probably the best available but I haven’t seen them on eBay for < $50.

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Re: Something a little different, blasphemous and pointless

Posted on 2018-03-05, 02:37

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by BinaryDemon

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Yea Diamondville/Pineville Atoms suck, they are next to useless. You could probably make a killer DOS gaming rig if you threw a SB compatible PCI card in there. Or use DOSBox on your Win7 install it would emulate out to something like a Pentium 66 class chip which is still good enough for most DOS …

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Re: Parallel Port Compact Flash card reader for very old PCs

Posted on 2018-02-28, 22:14

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by BinaryDemon

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A very interesting read, I'm sure your detailed research will end up helping others.

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Re: Industrial PC (EPSON IM-425) as Retro Gaming Device

Posted on 2018-02-28, 17:22

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by BinaryDemon

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I would have to paint the white faceplate on floppy drive. Other than that, it looks great. 😀

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Re: SFF DOS box with VIA C3 (Neoware CA2)

Posted on 2018-02-13, 21:20

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by BinaryDemon

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Thanks for the reply.

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Re: Memory Use

Posted on 2018-02-09, 16:44

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by BinaryDemon

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Is there any chance the file you were trying to load was manipulated externally either by you or the host operating system (windows, linux, whatever your using)? I think DOSBox assumes the files are not changing unless it's changing them, that's the whole reason for the shortcut: CTRL-F4 Update …

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