Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 16:56

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I already made an edit with some speculation on my part :P TLDR: Depending on what manufacturers ended up doing to the cards they produced, who knows what obscure castrated designs may be floating out there 😋 Damn edits! :-D Yeah, sounds plausible, especially for cards that look like ... uhm... …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 16:50

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can easily tell which cards have the full 128 bit memory bus and which are gimped: 64 bit cards of this era have only 4 memory chips instead of 8. Jokes on you! I have that "gimped" card with 128-bit memory bus (see above) =P Wow! That's... weird. So your card is an 128 bit card even though it …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 2 MX200 64MB AGP compatibility

Posted on 2022-06-18, 16:42

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I for one have this Colorful GeForce 256 (32 MB / 64 bit), and... yeah, it's SLOW compared to my other 128 bit models (and I'm not even gonna mention the DDR models, they're in a completely different universe). I would say that in many cases it's very similar to a TNT2 M64. You can easily tell which …

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Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 15:02

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by bloodem

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I'm refering to this video: https://youtu.be/KtyLkfvozck?t=484 Yeah, that was a strange issue, it might be related to a specific BIOS version that Phil is using, or maybe the "non-Deluxe" A8V board has some other quirks. I've never had any driver issues with my Asus A8V Deluxe build on which I have …

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Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 14:36

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I have chosen the that version because according to a phil's video with similar configuration he was unable to use the 45.23, but sure I can try them, any tip about how can I clean win98 from that drivers? Thanks Not sure which video that is, but any drivers that support that specific video card …

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Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 14:16

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by bloodem

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I suggest installing WinXP as a dual boot option and then comparing your benchmark results between Win98 and WinXP using the same drivers. If you see a significant difference between the two (as in 50%) then you may have encountered the issue described in this thread: https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 13:56

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by bloodem

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Yo boys boys... something is wrong... I'm testing the gf4 ti42000 (at 4400) on X2 and I got those results at 1024x768x32: no aa no af: 32 fps, aa4 af8: 11 fps?! Are you sure the chipset driver was successfully installed? Seems like the AGP driver is missing and you're running in "PCI mode". What …

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Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 13:28

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by bloodem

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no doubt but that wasn't my point. Well, as I understood, your point was that the Athlon 64 CPU @ 1.5 GHz will be a bottleneck... which it won't be, especially not in conjunction with a GeForce 4 Ti. Now, I'm also not a big fan of underclocking these CPUs (mostly because, even at their default …

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Re: Geforce4 vs Geforce5 with athlon 64

Posted on 2022-06-18, 13:06

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by bloodem

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I have a Pentium 3 1.4s @ 1.6 and even at that speed a GF4 Ti 4800 is CPU bound (Same with a FX 5700 Ultra) and the Athlon isn't going to fare much better at 1.5ghz regardless of GPU used You do realize that the Athlon 64, even when running at 1.5 GHz, is going to be MUCH faster than your Pentium …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-06-17, 19:46

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by bloodem

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My system is plateaued between 4,500 to 4,600 points, and I guess it will remain there unless I buy another K6-2+ 570 and win the CPU lottery with a chip that will do 672 MHz. Is SDRAM Bank Interleaving enabled? If it's not, you could squeeze a bit more performance out of the system (make sure to …

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Re: The moment you were hooked

Posted on 2022-06-17, 10:31

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probably Monkey Island, the PC speaker intro tune will be stuck in my head for eternity. Amen, brother! Monkey Island and Loom... both intros are also imprinted in my mind for eternity. Still, nothing comes close to Prince of Persia and the lasting impact it had on me personally. I was 6 or 7 years …

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Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002

Posted on 2022-06-14, 17:04

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I wouldn't trust anything that has mx on it because I have a geforce 2 mx 400 and it has about 10 fps on quake 3 A real GeForce 2 MX/MX400 can sustain 60+ FPS in Quake 3 @ 1024 x 768 x 32. And even the ‘fake’ GeForce 2 MX400 cards (the ones with half the memory bandwidth, which are actually GeForce …

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Re: Problems with Yamaha YMF744 using WDM drivers and sound effects in some older games

Posted on 2022-06-14, 05:41

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by bloodem

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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-06-14, 05:28: None of the Yamaha PCI cards work with this particular motherboard when using VxD drivers (system hard locks or bluescreens), so this is not an option. Got it. Yeah, encountered this issue myself when using it on more modern motherboards (with the Intel 865 …

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Re: Problems with Yamaha YMF744 using WDM drivers and sound effects in some older games

Posted on 2022-06-14, 05:23

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by bloodem

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Are you doing these tests in Win98? If yes, any reason why you’re not using the VXD drivers? They work great on most platforms.

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Re: SE440BX-2 won't work with Celeron 300A

Posted on 2022-06-12, 19:00

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally, I’ve never encountered a Celeron 300A that doesn’t do 450 MHz. Some might need a slight voltage bump, though (in which case the motherboard is also important, since not all motherboards offer voltage fine tuning). Another thing to keep in mind regarding overclocking (which is not …

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Re: ATI Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition

Posted on 2022-06-08, 16:38

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by bloodem

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Thanks a lot, I got a 250W PSU already, gonna try it out first and see. Just two more questions. Is there a guide to install SATA SSD to W98 machine? And is it enough just put the sound card to PCI slot and will it work just fine, or do I need to plug a cable in to make the sound work? Enter the …

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Re: ATI Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition

Posted on 2022-06-08, 16:14

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by bloodem

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So here is my latest build; MoBo: Asus P5KPL-AM SE CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 GPU: ATI RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition RAM: 2x 1GB 800MHz CL5 DDR2 SSD: 128 GB SATA SSD Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS My question is, how many watts do I need for this machine, I need a PSU. Would 300W …

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Re: Ti 4600 vs FX 5600 Ultra/5700

Posted on 2022-06-07, 04:31

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by bloodem

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The GeForce FX 5600 Ultra should be "the best" (but make sure that it is, in fact, an "Ultra"): - generally faster than both the Ti 4600 and FX 5700 in Win98 titles (although, depending on the game and settings, it won't always be faster than the Ti 4600, - since it only has 4 TMUs, compared to the …

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Re: A smol K6-II+ /Voodoo build

Posted on 2022-06-06, 14:08

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I haven't tried benchmarking it yet (I'm not usually the person to run benchmarks and all that, just build and have fun playing games on it) , but so far I don't see any slowdowns in the 3D games (Monster Truck Madness 2, Tank Racer, NFS IV and Porsche 2000 are a few that come to mind, but from …

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Re: A smol K6-II+ /Voodoo build

Posted on 2022-06-06, 13:30

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Strange, maybe it was a issue with Aladdin V chipset? Mine runs on VIA MVP3 and I never had issues with the NEC USB 2.0 card dropping performance. No, the issues I'm referring to happened to me on multiple VIA MVP3 boards. What benchmark numbers are you getting (GLQuake, Quake 2, Quake 2 software …

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