Re: Is the 3870x2 1gb or 512mb

Posted on 2018-07-23, 02:56

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by oohms

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Am i to guess that when you crossfire two gpus that the vram doesn't combine but DOES clone each other? Meaning both gpus have the same information in the vram? Pretty much. Like you said, it is like having 2 separate 3870's (in crossfire), putting them on one card and using the display outputs of …

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Re: K6-III~500 vs slower AND faster alternatives

Posted on 2018-07-23, 02:51

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I count on having to buy most rarer parts from overseas. My K6-3+ was bought ~6months ago off ebay from a guy who sourced a lot of them for embedded use and re-pinned them. The K6-2+ and 3+ were very popular in the embedded market

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Re: Sound Blaster 32/64 questions

Posted on 2018-07-22, 14:48

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by oohms

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It depends what you mean by 'support'. You can still use them as a standard stereo sound card for newer games providing that the operating system has drivers for the card.

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Hard Drive?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 13:20

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by oohms

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How do you know it is 8 GB? How do you manage to triple boot your Core 2 Duo E4600 with three operating systems? I used an 8gb SD card in the toshiba I also use the regular 40 pin version with my other 2 pcs and swap SD cards to change OS, so one SD card for each OS and a secondary drive to store …

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Re: What games Required a Geforce2 ?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 06:06

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by oohms

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The geforce 2 was a big step up in performance and supported high res textures and bump mapping compared to the voodoo cards. I remember upgrading from a voodoo banshee to a geforce2 mx and looking at how detailed the walls were in soldier of fortune

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Re: Which PCI Sound Card for DOS (SB, FM and General MIDI)?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 06:04

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My understanding is that the vortex 2 adds support for A3D 2.0, but dos functionality would be the same

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Re: Good card to pair with Voodoo-2 PCI ?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 05:58

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by oohms

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A 486 with pci is much to slow for nearly all 3d accelerators. Stick with an S3 or cirrus logic card and enjoy good dos/win3.11 compatibility. Stay away from matrox, they are overhyped and have compatibility issues

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Hard Drive?

Posted on 2018-07-22, 02:12

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by oohms

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The link doesn't work, but a lot of drives have those extra 4 pins, which you can just ignore This is a better solution that works great for my toshiba of the same era, an SD to IDE adapter and an 8gb SD card: https://www.ebay.com/itm/253358575521

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Re: K6-III~500 vs slower AND faster alternatives

Posted on 2018-07-22, 01:57

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by oohms

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I finally decided to swap that K6-III+ for a VIA C3 Nehemiah 1200 at 1500MHz and a 440BX board with an ATA66 Promise controller. I went from obscure to even more obscure, at 1500MHz (15x100) these C3 Nehemia chips run about as fast as a PIII 733 :lol: . It's certainly a nice upgrade over the K6-III …

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Re: Universal Voodoo 2/3 driver ?

Posted on 2018-07-18, 05:09

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Why? The voodoo 2 and 3 are fairly different cards, at least you can get one driver for all voodoo 2's and another for all voodoo 3's

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Re: Win98se essentials for gaming ?

Posted on 2018-07-13, 07:27

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by oohms

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sound, video, chipset drivers unofficial service pack 2.1 nusb33.exe usb storage driver directx 7 or 8.1 (the older the better) opera browser winrar daemon tools enable DMA on hard drives network card + install netBEUI, tcp/ip and using a windows XP machine as a file server for games and disk …

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Re: ASUS CUBX-E / L with Pentium III 1000Mhz SL4MF (coppermine)

Posted on 2018-07-06, 13:50

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by oohms

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Try setting the dipswitches manually to 7.5x100

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Re: Sound Cards for different Windows / Eras

Posted on 2018-07-06, 07:44

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by oohms

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Unless you want 3D sound, you can use something like an AWE64 for all windows versions, providing it has driver support.

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Re: RAM with TIN vs GOLD connectors compatibility

Posted on 2018-06-22, 02:06

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by oohms

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Fascinating, i did not know that!

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Re: Hardware for Win3.11

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:14

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by oohms

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The drivers are going to boil down to Sound, video (if you want SVGA), and ethernet/modem. This is spot on Windows 3.11 is very unique, fun and nostalgic - it was also at the very start of the CD-ROM era, so there are compilation CDs out there with lots of windows 3.11 games that you can try. I …

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Re: RAM with TIN vs GOLD connectors compatibility

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:04

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by oohms

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Gold doesn't corrode or react with the vast majority of substances - it only gets dirty Tin plating is used instead of gold plating to save on costs

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Re: Analogue DVI cables

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:00

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by oohms

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Those common DVI to VGA adaptors should work both ways - allowing you to use a vga cable between 2 DVI-I connectors

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Re: The best 4:3 monitor?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 22:29

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by oohms

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I'm using a Benq G2400W, which is a 16:10 24 inch LCD monitor, but it has a handy 1:1 aspect ratio scaler built in. It also has very little input lag and no noticeable motion blur. At 1920x1200, it scales 1600x1200 nicely

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Re: Let's build some retro pc!

Posted on 2018-06-20, 00:32

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by oohms

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cyclone3d wrote: Why not the V5-5500 over the V3-3500? I suppose you can.. but it would really benifit from a much faster cpu in a windows build

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2018-06-20, 00:15

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It gets a bit silly with modern hardware i7 2600K @ stock speeds GTX780 Ti @ stock speeds Windows 7 801.7 fps 3840x2160 resolution 😉 Filename q3demo.jpg File size 220.58 KiB Views 3220 views

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