Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-01, 18:40

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I would go with a a Conroe board if thats what you are looking at. It should smoke the AMD board. The tricky part is finding one for sale. It's easy to find pictures. Another thing to find an Intel 865 chipset conroe board on ebay for cheap or at all. Remember it is very rare to find Core2 boards …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-01, 18:30

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ur welcome. Here is a page that has benchmarks. This is not necessarily facts because, the testing methods are probably not scientific. I would probably ignore a lot of the low numbers on the chart and ignore the high numbers. Numbers I would look at are towards the middle to upper middle. When I …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-01, 08:25

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For audio, you want at least an EAX compatible card and a Vortex 2. Northwood is not period appropriate for 2000, nor is Tualatin. The major cores available in 2000 were Thunderbird, Willamette, and Coppermine. Of these, Thunderbird is generally considered to be the performance leader with the P4 …

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Re: Recommended Format for troubleshooting posts

Posted on 2018-03-01, 05:30

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It's helpful thanks, that make the positive change.. I think when someone asks a question though usually they don't know the answer. Circular reasoning leads me to think that if they were technical to provide all the info that you listed they could be technical enough to trouble shoot their own …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-01, 05:03

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Just my opinion but if you have deep pockets and just want the very best of 2000 ERA historically appropriate hardware this would be my pick Motherboard with AGP 4x For GFX card nvidia geforce 3/4 Sound Creative Audigy 1 > or a SB LIVE the 5.1 version CPU If you want strong single core performance …

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Re: Issues with sound driver on my new IBM ThinkPad 380XD

Posted on 2018-03-01, 04:43

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Have you tried the generic VxD drivers? http://origin.cirrus.com/en/support/drivers/audio/OS21.html VxD Driver for CS4235 4/2001 : 955 Kb Provides Windows 95 and 98 (initial release) support for CS4232, CS4235, CS4236B, CS4237B, CS4238B, and CS4239.

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Re: Laptop crashes in some situations but not in Windows

Posted on 2018-02-28, 20:00

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Seems like people aren't really reading. Good luck finding heat pipes or a GFX card in a Toshiba Libretto 110ct ... This is 99.9% a software issue. Ok. You should not bash other peoples advice if you have no idea what you are talking about. neomagic magic graph 128 is actually a discrete graphics …

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Re: Modern graphics slot advice for old dinosaur

Posted on 2018-02-28, 17:44

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agp pro 50 isn't modern tho it's just obscure, like scsi, and pcix was for average users because they were only used in high end computers.

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Re: Laptop crashes in some situations but not in Windows

Posted on 2018-02-28, 17:34

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should dismantle the laptop and clean with compressed air. Remove the heat pipes, and heatsinks, clean with alcohol, apply new thermal paste. You said you checked the memory wasn't bad, I hope that this was done with memtest86 Should check that you do not have IRQ sharing issues between the hardware …

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Re: Hard drive with previous Linux install won’t boot DOS

Posted on 2018-02-28, 17:28

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Use ccleaner drive wiper "entire drive" Active@ Kill disk or a similar program to zero out an entire drive to avoid issues like this in the future with 2nd hand disks. Linux like later versions of windows installs a boot loader or recovery partition to a hidden partition on a HDD. Windows 98 and DOS …

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Re: Biostar motherboard help.

Posted on 2018-02-23, 23:57

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cant' blame a motherboard until you've changed the ram and the graphics card.

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-20, 03:22

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windows 9x can use up to 4gb of ram with patches from R.Loew http://rloew1.us.to/ Optimizations for XP. Use Tweak UI 1.33 Version General settings Disable optimize Hdd while Idle In general settings tweak UI disable everything except beep on error. Under Explorer tab disable smooth scrolling, …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-19, 23:05

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It's not just 'bloat'. New OS actually do more stuff. More stuff that's useful to the user in many cases. Plus, hardware gets not only more powerful, but also more complex, requiring more stuff to be done to keep things stable and smooth (see above remark on how fast XP boots on PIII). As long as …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-19, 19:18

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Vanilla XP is less bloat true, also unstable. XP was notoriously unstable until SP2 while Service packs made the OS more stable it also added more bloat. The same has been true with every Microsoft OS including 2000 vanilla is unstable service packs added stability and security. Patches fix bugs. …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-16, 00:01

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You played WOW 12 hours a day, what IT certs do you have besides playing videos games in your mums basement or real world IT experience for that matter. I don't see this discussion going much further you disguise your onion as facts and you try to disguise the facts I list as my opinion, you have …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-15, 23:16

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As someone who owned 2 P4 systems when they were new, your statements have a grain of truth, but are misguided to say the least. I also had AMD prior to that and I can confirm, AMD certainly were better VALUE . 423 P4's were horrible value, and the bad decision to use rd-ram compounded this. The …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-15, 16:26

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Broadcom cards are great too. In fact Broadcom fabed 3com chips and bought out that part of 3coms business in the early 2000s. The last pure 3com chip with the etherlink II, after that they were rebranded broadcom chips.

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-15, 15:53

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It's unfortunate that you went with XP, I also would of suggested that you should of went with windows 2000. I don't know why people on here seem to think the dual PIII 1ghz is better suited for XP. When a P3 with sse is like the minumum system requirements for XP. You cannot even install XP on a …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-15, 06:03

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It's unfortunate that you went with XP, I also would of suggested that you should of went with windows 2000. I don't know why people on here seem to think the dual PIII 1ghz is better suited for XP. When a P3 with sse is like the minumum system requirements for XP. You cannot even install XP on a …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2018-02-14, 17:59

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Best card that works out of the Box is a GTX 960. If you modify the last official Geforce drivers for a 960 you can install a GTX 970 and or a 980. These are the best GPUs you can get for XP. Op makes the case about you shouldn't pick the fastest card becasue of CPU bottle neck. But that is cherry …

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