Re: Is flashing a Mac G5 Radeon 9600 to work on PC possible?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 20:21

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by frudi

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Since Mac versions seem to go for about twice what PC versions sell for, you're probably better off just selling it and getting a regular PC version instead. But on the other hand the dual DVI setup is nice and you won't find that on regular 9600's. I'd probably keep it for this feature alone.

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Re: Strange behaviour from SD to IDE adapter

Posted on 2019-08-17, 15:47

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by frudi

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I also have a half dozen of these very same SD to IDE adapters and have had very good experience with them. The only problem I've encountered with any of them was when (optimistically) trying to partition a 128 GB micro-SD card (with another adapter to make it full sized SD) on a motherboard that …

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Re: Broken Asus P5A?

Posted on 2019-08-17, 11:17

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by frudi

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You can also disable monitoring of the -5V rail in the bios, that will get rid of the annoying error message.

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Re: Setting BIOS Date Early

Posted on 2019-08-14, 10:27

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by frudi

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Try setting the date through an OS of your choice, instead of through BIOS.

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Re: Best monitor / resolution for 2000 rig?

Posted on 2019-06-25, 13:09

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by frudi

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If you can get one of those 2007fp Dells for about $10, I think it's honestly a no-brainer. Even if for whatever reason you decide to use something else for this build in the end, a monitor like this is so versatile it can always find a use in many different retro projects. I wish I could get them …

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Re: Best monitor / resolution for 2000 rig?

Posted on 2019-06-24, 21:51

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The nice thing about 1600x1200 monitors is that they can also display 800x600 without major scaling distortions. They can also scale down to lower resolutions in whole integer multipliers, such as 400x300, 320x240 and 320x200, in case you also want to run DOS games on them. Scaling to 640x480 is not …

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Re: Time period PC's vs the affordable norm

Posted on 2019-06-21, 09:26

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Coming from a former communist country, that only gained its independence in 1991, the hardware market here in early '90s was in its infancy, prices were high and wages were low. So I only got my first PC in 1993, a humble 386 SX-25 with 2 MB of RAM and 512k Trident graphics. Which then, due to …

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Re: My Socket 7 System

Posted on 2019-06-14, 09:55

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by frudi

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A full TNT2 card would be quite a lot faster than a Banshee, though severely CPU limited by the K6-2 CPU at 333 MHz. But a TNT2 M64 is cripled by a narrow memory bus, which brings its performance down to pretty much on par with a first-gen TNT, which was also pretty much on par with a single Voodoo …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-09, 07:21

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by frudi

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If you feel comfortable picking out the right capacitors yourself, you can get them quite a bit cheaper elsewhere. Don't get me wrong, I really like the bundles badcaps put together and it's a really nice convenient service they're offering with them. It's just if you can sort your way through …

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

Posted on 2019-05-09, 06:37

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by frudi

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That sounds substantial. I will let it work in my mind. Although I don't understand why not using a GTX 480 or 580/590. As long as power consumption is the only con, then I will consider them as well. It's just a personal bias of mine. I don't like using obnoxiously power hungry cards for my builds …

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

Posted on 2019-05-07, 18:29

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by frudi

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I have slightly different thoughts about the time period. I focussed on early 2008. For it is the year before main support for XP ended. But yes - the hardware you mentioned is what I am thinking about. In that case I'd say the best platform would be a P35/P43/P45 motherboard (or X38/X48 if you …

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

Posted on 2019-05-07, 09:26

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Right! Just changed topic title to make my direction more clear. I will assume that XP Era Hardware means hardware released up to the release of the next consumer version of Windows, which would be Vista. Vista was released in January 2007, so that would be about the cut-off time I would consider …

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Re: Socket 370 or 462 - what would be the best choice

Posted on 2019-04-21, 15:14

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by frudi

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GA-6VTXE is a nice board, has the 694T version of the VIA chipset and it supports all Tualatins.

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Re: Which of these LGA 775 CPUs should I use for XP?

Posted on 2019-04-21, 13:17

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by frudi

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E8500 will give you far better performance and lower power consumption than any P4-based CPU. It will also easily outperform the Q8400 due to higher clockspeed and more L2 cache, all at a lower power consumption. And the extra cores of the Q8400 won't be of any use on anything you want to run on …

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Re: Socket 370 or 462 - what would be the best choice

Posted on 2019-04-19, 06:07

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by frudi

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Interesting, I hadn't realised XP chips could undervolt so well. That certainly makes them even more attractive. Does anyone know if Bartons can run on KT133A motherboards that support T-breds? I realise they're not officially supported, since they normally run at 333/400 MHz FSB while motherboards …

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Re: Socket 370 or 462 - what would be the best choice

Posted on 2019-04-18, 09:57

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If you're also looking at socket 462, there are a couple KT133A based models that come with (usually a single) ISA port and even support the Athlon XP family, including the Thoroughbred-B. Personally I don't think the regular Athlon or Palomino-based Athlon XP are worth using over the Tualatin, due …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-14, 13:47

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Picked up this bundle at the flea market today for 5€: https://i.imgur.com/JvJr3hD.jpg A QDI P5I430TX Titanium IB motherboard with a P166 MMX CPU, two 16 MB EDO SIMMs and a 3.2 GB Quantum Fireball ST. After a surface scan the hard drive unfortunately has 360 kB of bad sectors, but other than that …

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Re: Can you fix my Super Socket 7 MB ?

Posted on 2019-04-13, 07:03

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by frudi

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You will have to remove the sticker on the BIOS chip to see which exact type it is. It's the large DIP chip on the lower left, with the golden AWARD sticker on it. Just peel that sticker off.

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Re: Best way to transfer files over a network in Windows 95?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 06:56

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by frudi

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The simplest and most robust way for me is plain old FTP. No need for moving hardware around, no need for additional hardware (storage adapters, NAS, file servers, linux servers, etc.) or for installing unfamiliar software. And it's easy to access from any retro OS you might use, not just Windows 95 …

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Re: Did you Overclock back in the day? Pencil Mods etc?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 01:49

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by frudi

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That 9500 looks like it's using the 9700 PCB, so it might be unlockable. The simplest way to check would be to install Omega drivers from back then, they had the option of unlocking 9500, 9800 SE and later also X800 GTO cards. As for overclocking, yup, been doing that with basically every CPU and …

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