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Re: Matrox VLB?

Everyone knows Matrox from their Mystique days. But how where they early on? Where these cards fast like a ET4000 VLB. Couldn't find too much online. Pretty horrible when it came to DOS performance. Here's a quick benchmark of various VLB videocards I did with a Pentium 200. I've used Quake 1.08 …

Re: Dungeon Siege 1 running poorly

if its a gigabit lan card i recommend limiting it to 100mbit to keep bandwidth for the i/o to cope with AGP and comms with your SSD. or even 10mbit when not using ftp. A 3COM nic has its own cpu so it doesn't use as much cpu to run through drivers. autopatcher tweaks your system.ini file to optimise …

Re: Matrox VLB?

untested means bunged up every time for me (just saying) if it wasn't fully functional it'd be the memory is what all the gpu's that were screwy had issues with for me. you know, you could ask if it came from a complete system that would give the deal more confidence. It wasn't one of the best if …

Re: Dungeon Siege 1 running poorly

unofficial sp3 I don't recommend for starters. its full of bugs. Autopatcher '97 is by far the best it also has tweaks for yourAGP arpeture, memory and disk DMA. Also the most stable option. Its something I would do a fresh install of 98se about its just that bad. unofficial sp3 is notorious on …

Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.

I discovered by mistake once that the shortest possible IDE ribbon to disks gives better signal gain for these old things. Custon ribbon kit was what i used when accidently breaking a cable plug. Though I wouldn't have it with the disk right on the motherboard; short as possible to limit slck is …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

in Milliways
PC's aren't really overpowered but seemingly so for 5 years as they are under supported. Every time they bring ou new tech the softwares are lagging behind. for example MMX II became supported more in xp than 2000 but was around in the 2000 support phase.

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