Re: Best monitor / resolution for 2000 rig?

Posted on 2019-06-27, 16:15

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by mothergoose729

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1280 looks clearly better, but was not ideal on cheaper CRTs... also 1280x1024 is not even a 4:3 resolution. 1280x1024 wasn't used on CRTs, it was LCD resolution, which came after 1024x768 (and I really have no idea, why they gone from 4:3 to 5:4 ratio). That simply isn't true. Most OEM computers …

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is here!

Posted on 2019-06-26, 15:41

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The price is exactly the same as the 3B+ if your application is viable with a 1gb pool of RAM. It's not, as I said. The Pi 4 is 2 euros more. Not a big deal no, but the same it is not. The pi 3 only ever came with a maximum of 1gb. You were never in the market for the 3B+ in the first place : …

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Re: Building a P4 High end

Posted on 2019-06-25, 19:38

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I understand, probably my intent is to build a great (not high end if the GPU really costs too much) Pentium4 in the era in which it was the top and not just before the release of the cores. The only thing I want to take is to use P4 775 and not 478 because of the better production process. I think …

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Re: Building a P4 High end

Posted on 2019-06-25, 19:14

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i alredy have this mainboard, i wanto to buy a correct time P4 high end (that means i think, no pciexpress). I not want to overclock or something, i think that a maninboard that can use a Top P4 is ok for a high end P4 gaming... or not? Forget something? What exactly are you trying to do with this …

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Re: Building a P4 High end

Posted on 2019-06-25, 16:20

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Any 775 board should work with cedar mill. I have a ASrock quad core dual vsta and I really hate the VIA controller. If that is the board you have it should work just fine in XP, but if you are buying a board, I thing the 965 chipsets, some of which have AGP, is a lot better. You might also consider …

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is here!

Posted on 2019-06-24, 20:25

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I'm more curious on how far you can take Reicast, PCem and PPSSPP on it, and how capable VCVI really is (allegedly Vulkan was in the plans). Maybe it's finally powerful enough to run a web browser... The benchmarks I have seen show the new A72 cores to be at least 80% faster than the A53 cores. I …

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Re: Placing a bid under 5 seconds (Ebay)

Posted on 2019-06-24, 15:50

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I'm sorry but you're incorrect about sniping not being protection from the seller. It totally is, when you snipe, you put in the maximum bid you were going to and if your only competition is the shill seller then his only choice is to sell or cancel the auction. I know this is true I use to do it …

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is here!

Posted on 2019-06-24, 15:32

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The improvements to I/0 are the most welcome to me. Finally gigabit ethernet and USB 3.0. Any word yet on whether or not the micro SD slot support SDHC and images greater than 32gb? That really put the pi in the stone age, as far as internal storage. A high performance 128gb SD card would be a god …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2019-06-22, 15:59

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https://www.win-raid.com/t4093f45-Guide-How-to-install-Windows-XP-OS-on-Modern-Hardware-Z-Z-Coffee-Lake.html Thanks. I suspect it's more trouble than it's worth but you can at least get an installation on there. I'd be interested to see how the ACPI / IRQ issues affect performance, stability and …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2019-06-22, 06:28

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https://www.win-raid.com/t4093f45-Guide-How-t … offee-Lake.html

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2019-06-22, 04:41

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It is possible to install XP on a Z370 board (and probably Z390 or H77 too) but it requires modifying the image to slipstream intel ACHI drivers. Socket 1155 and I believe LGA 2011V-3 are the most advance sockets to reliably support XP.

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Re: Time period PC's vs the affordable norm

Posted on 2019-06-21, 15:21

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The first computer that was mine (or well, the family's anyhow) was a dell PC with a pentium IV northwood 2.66ghz. This was 2004 or 2005. I think it had 128mb of RAM with no dedicated graphics. Probably a 40gb hard drive. I think my parent's paid maybe 500$ for it and the monitor. My mother had a …

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Re: Calibrating CRT screens?

Posted on 2019-06-20, 18:12

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I think you may just be spoiled by the gift from the video gods that was DVI. There's a lot of romanticism about analog video and CRTs and all that, but they really were all just sloppy, flawed, picky contraptions that we only put up with because "today's" model was better than "yesterday's", for …

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Re: PCI OPL3 card?

Posted on 2019-06-18, 22:25

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Never heart of it before. The board does not have a parallel port. But with one of these its not a problem to add one: https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=64_77_83 Already have such a controller card in my workstation for the old HP LaserJet's :happy: 20-25 years old and …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2019-06-18, 20:27

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Is there a way to limit the amount of RAM in Windows XP the way you can in 98? For instance, I have been able to first install 512MB of RAM in a system, set a limit within the OS and then install a max of 2GB for another OS on a dual-boot. Can I do this in XP? I'd like to try to install XP32 on my …

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Re: Pentium 3 SMP setup and questions

Posted on 2019-06-16, 05:10

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There weren't many PCI X graphics cards. Apparently a firegl card exists, although I don't know the model. The only card I know of for sure is the Matrox Parhelia DL256. It is roughly the same speed as an 8500le. For windows 98 games, I think you would be better off with a PCI fx 5500. It might be a …

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Re: GeForce4 Ti 4600 vs GeForce FX 5900 (non-Ultra)

Posted on 2019-06-11, 03:05

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The 4x.xx drivers do have some cheats. They were cheating with 3DMark 03 and were caught for example. If you go newer though you can run into problems with some older games. The driver optimizations aren't all bad. I mean they were optimizing for new hardware after all. The drivers have a shader …

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Re: Looking at getting a dos machine for sierra games

Posted on 2019-06-09, 14:54

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Hi, I'm looking at getting a dos machine to play the older sierra games such as pq1 thru 4 and space quest series, commander keen etc.. I've also got a mt32 so might get a card to connect that. There is a machine i can get that works which is a hp vectra 486/33NI intel dx33. older pc's are harder …

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Re: KVM Switches

Posted on 2019-06-08, 17:51

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I have an IOGEAR GCS614A. It supports switching with keyboard input, which is pretty cool, but I haven't yet got enough computer running at the same time to really test it out much. It also will switches to whatever port happens to be on (scan mode), which has worked for me pretty well so far.

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Re: NuXT - MicroATX Turbo XT Motherboard - 9.55MHz, UMBs, XT-CF, SVGA, HD Floppy, Serial

Posted on 2019-06-06, 21:48

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This is awesome. I would very much like to be a customer someday. Do you have a fixed inventory? How long might these be available?

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