Re: What is "AMD only" DDR2 RAM?

Posted on 2022-02-07, 21:46

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I have an MSI 785GT-E63 (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/785GTE63/Specification) that supports 16gb DDR2 officially, it lists two 4gb modules on the official memory tested list. Samsung M378T5263AZ3-CE6 DDR2 667 (Samsung K4T2G084QA-HCE6) Kingston KVR800D2N6/4G (Elpida E2108ABSE-8G-E) DDR2 800 I …

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Re: Descent 1/2 control scheme

Posted on 2022-02-06, 20:25

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Joystick with hat for slide and two buttons for forward and backward, that was my way of playing six degrees of freedom games for years, Descent 1,Descent 2,Descent 3,Forsaken and Overload.

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-05, 13:23

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Do not confuse physical sectors with logical sectors. The physical sectors are determined by the hard disk firmware, almost certainly in this case the physical sectors are 512 bytes, until the Advanced Format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format) standard was created that established the …

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-04, 22:02

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That's really strange, never seen that, can you post a photo?

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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-04, 17:25

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You cant trie HDAT 2 https://www.hdat2.com/, can be booted from cdrom and only the hdd.

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Re: Repairing IBM (model M I believe?) keyboard

Posted on 2022-01-31, 10:33

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To clean that kind of stuff I use a soft rubber eraser, usually when you find that kind of stuff in some place of the keyboard, you'll find it in other places, so take a look at the rest of the keyboard and "erase" any track that's not light grey and clean it with alcohol.. Then to fix the traces, …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 19:38

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Whatever Terascale was at the time of DX10 era and early DX11, it doesn't for very long time now. Radeon 4xxx support was dropped rather quickly, unlike Nvidia Tesla family of chips. 5xxx/6xxx are only decent if you live in the past, otherwise GCN 1.0+ cards are magnitudes better when it comes to …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 18:16

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Exactly and nVidia wants to push TDP even further for Hopper ..they are likely to push stock power draw well past 600 watts per GPU since they are using MCM, we might have to start using AIO cooled GPUs, I know an AIB is making a 1kw 3090ti for overclocking. If that's true, what is wrong with …

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Re: Cooler for GeForce 6600 GT

Posted on 2022-01-29, 17:34

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Didn't know that, I've had an 7600GT with an VF700 copper, and it had an independent cooler for the bridge, but I also had a 6600 that used a single cooler for the GPU and the bridge.

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 17:29

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Never had any heat problems with my Gigabyte HD 6970(6950), it has a Gelid icy vision rev2 and never reached 60 degrees Celsius, my Saphire HD7970 died because one fan failed and my XFX RX580 needed to be undervolted and an aggressive fan curve to stay under 65 degrees Celsius, wile I have an 5870 …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-29, 16:00

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Terascale was fucking great.. HD4850/5850/6850 - you can't go wrong with any of these. Amazing workhorse cards for their time.. Don't say it too loud, let them continue to think they were bad so that everyone wants an Nvidia, and so they are cheaper ;) Well because of this thread it occurred to me …

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Re: Behold this gem: USB to ISA adapter!

Posted on 2022-01-28, 14:14

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Maybe it is because of the translation, but the Spanish advertisement says that it can be used to exchange data between two computers. I understand that it works the way most people would like. The CH375B is also used on USB interface cards for Arduino to read/write from it.

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Re: Cooler for GeForce 6600 GT

Posted on 2022-01-28, 10:39

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That graphics card needs a cooler for the GPU and another for the bridge, those bridges get very hot so don't forget it, the bridge was the damnation of all the ATI X series and newer in the AGP bus. But I don't know where you can buy one cooler for the bridge, I usually make my own cooler in this …

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-28, 10:31

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This is what I have been doing for many years, not going crazy with the size and resolution of the monitor. I have an R7 260x on a Core 2 Duo E6700 with a 1280x1024 17" monitor which is 1310720 pixels total. The newest thing I've played here at the moment is Crysis 2. I have an HD 5870 on a phenom …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-27, 19:53

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The GPU sector needs a big boycott from users.

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Re: A pentium 4 with low tdp?

Posted on 2022-01-25, 14:38

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I have an Acer aspire 1600 with a P4 2.4, https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium_4/Intel-Pentium%204%202.4%20GHz%20-%20RK80532PE056512%20(BX80532PE2400D).html . And the fan is working hard almost all the time. It's the lowest TDP P4 Northwood desktop processor I think, 59,8W, the 2.8 is 69,7W and …

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Re: Indexing names of local files and folders

Posted on 2022-01-23, 18:42

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For any topic that has to do with cataloging files of any kind, I use "Cathy" , it's free, you can find it on this page. http://rva.mtg.sk/ The last use I have given it was to catalog the hard drives of my NAS computers, I have three, and I don't feel like having them on all day, so if I need …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-20, 15:46

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Well, it would be interesting to know how much it really costs to manufacture, for example, an RTX 3090. Just as it has been investigated how much it costs to manufacture an iPhone and how much an iPhone is sold for later in the store. The same would be true for graphics cards, what real benefit …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-20, 14:32

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Well, it would be interesting to know how much it really costs to manufacture, for example, an RTX 3090. Just as it has been investigated how much it costs to manufacture an iPhone and how much an iPhone is sold for later in the store. The same would be true for graphics cards, what real benefit …

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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-19, 22:12

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Like many other things, as long as there are people willing to pay a high price, the price will remain high, as someone already mentioned, this was started by Nvidia with its $1000 Titan graphics cards. When they found that they were selling well for $1,000, they decided that they could ask for $1, …

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