Re: What are your thoughts about these specs

Posted on 2023-05-18, 16:26

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I think the most powerful socket 370 CPU you can use is P3 Coppermine 1 GHZ right? P3 -E(coppermine) differs from P3-E B (coppermine 133MHz FSB) in one pin - bsel_1 https://image.ibb.co/gcvhZw/bsel.jpg If you break off this pin, you get 133/100 = 1.33 performance increase. The unofficial limit of …

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Re: Help needed! nVIDIA 7900 GTX complaining of not recieving enough power.

Posted on 2023-05-18, 10:35

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For what it's worth, I poked my multimeter into the solder joints coming from the 6pin connector while the system was live. I read 11.92v between the 12v pins and the ground pins. You mast check connection from connector to mosfet at the drawn card. Most likely there is inductance. And check the …

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Re: GPU upgrade...or not... Legacy Nvidia G80 8800 GTX topic fix or not.... repair data in topic

Posted on 2023-05-16, 09:02

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ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-05-16, 07:55: These images seem to sugest tiny solder balls (BGA) .... not paste .... oh well who knows. Thermalpaste, not solder paste 😉 For example, some P IV Low-melting solder (gallium-based)

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Re: GPU upgrade...or not... Legacy Nvidia G80 8800 GTX topic fix or not.... repair data in topic

Posted on 2023-05-16, 04:17

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ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-05-15, 18:25: I always remembered it was the chip itself (gray). Gray and fried. Alas. These chips are all on thermal paste, not solder.

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Re: What are the Dosbench results for the Ultimate Pentium III-S?

Posted on 2023-05-15, 15:42

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Ultimate - is P3-S (stepping tB1) at 166FSB with 2-3Gb DDR RAM. And Sis 635T chipset based motherboard. SiS 635T (ECS P6S5AT) – Hail to the King Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard very rare rig, you know.

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Re: GPU upgrade...or not... Legacy Nvidia G80 8800 GTX topic fix or not.... repair data in topic

Posted on 2023-05-15, 14:44

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Second option would be to attempt a repair on 8800GTXs I have , one use to boot w/artefact's , but today did not. A legendary performance card with a legendary idiotic heat spreader. Look for a new chip, remove the heat spreader from it, solder it to the board, adjust the cooling system for thermal …

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Re: Need help ID'ng Missing Trancend 9800 pro capacitors

Posted on 2023-05-15, 09:11

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If you want it to work - 10u * 16V 1206, X5R or X7R If you want it to look "new" - 10u*16V 1210, but they are more expensive

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Re: Is any of these two slockets P III Coppermine compatible?

Posted on 2023-05-15, 07:21

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The board is a QDI 5 Advance (VIA chipset), bundled with a a 550 MHz P III. I strongly do not recommend contacting a VIA693, third-rate manufacturer besides. The chipset itself is very good, but the BIOS does not reveal it even by 50%. It may turn out that the PC133 memory shows performance like …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-05-15, 04:11

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To be honest, there are too many "urban legends" around EAX and Creative.

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-05-14, 15:04

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Alchemy is just a wrapper that copies dsound.dll to the game folder. In Windows 10/11, by the way, there is a ban on using system dlls from the application folder. You need to change the key in the registry so that the wrapper dsound.dll works. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls/ …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-05-13, 18:08

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-05-13, 08:59: But for EAX 3.0 and up, you pretty much need real hardware for all effects to sound correctly. Nope http://web.archive.org/web/20190609085410/htt … are/x-fimb5.asp Must have $29.99. Or "alternative vision of copyright" 😀

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-05-11, 13:39

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Can you please elaborate? What of headphones would you recommend for ut2004+x-fi as ideal? And what do you mean by neutral headphones? What headphones would be the opposite? https://recordingsofnature.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/hrtfs-overview1.png from here https://recordingsofnature.wordpress.com …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-05-11, 08:18

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PS. A flat frequency response for headphones is considered not linear, but the Harmon curve Thus, listening to 3D sound from EAX without headphones, at a level lower than the Sennheiser HD5xx series, is absolutely pointless. You will get the best results from EAX when using high-end equipment, no …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-05-11, 05:59

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All audio positioning and post-effects, such as EAX, are based on frequency response filters and delays. And well-controlled channel separation. Therefore 1. Without headphones, this is a profanation. 2. Without natural-sounding headphones, this is a profanation. PS. A flat frequency response for …

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Re: Unstable Slot-A build.

Posted on 2023-05-09, 13:13

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Does anyone have a list of "best" drivers to try? Thanks in advance! Is my hardware compatible with smoke.dll of Microsoft? This hardware is 20+ years old. Always start by replacing electrolytic capacitors. Even if they look "fresh, just from the factory" Then they check the power supply of the AGP …

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Re: What are your thoughts about these specs

Posted on 2023-05-09, 13:04

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It`s depend You collect hardware or running applications. If you want strange hardware, then this is one way. If you want to run certain applications with a certain level of expirience - another. A lot of things run under Windows 11 on modern hardware. But if you want, conditional, Unreal 99, with …

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Re: A way to repair vga bios externally?

Posted on 2023-05-08, 18:23

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Yes it is this card and i Would be very grateful if you dump the bios from gpu-z. thanks This card? https://www.classicvga.com/product-page/asus-ati-radeon-hd-3650-512mb-ddr2-agp 113-AB50900-101? See GPU-z screen, the second from end https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/29899/asus-hd3650-512-080222

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Re: What are your thoughts about these specs

Posted on 2023-05-08, 15:13

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@Joseph_Joestar, @predator_085 The most compatible with Windows 9x is the chipset from VIA - k8t800. In the "non-pro" version, Hypertransport is tied to AGP, i.e. you can forget about overclocking a entry/mid CPU to an top model. VT8237, except "R Plus", "S" and "A", do not detect SATA2 device - you …

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Re: What are your thoughts about these specs

Posted on 2023-05-08, 14:14

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Which cpu familiy would be the best bet for 97 to 99/2000 time machine rig? Teh athlon 64 , sempron or k8 athlon xmp? Most cool CPU to s754 is Mobile AThlon https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Mobile%20Athlon%2064%204000%2B%20-%20AMN4000BKX5BU.html But it's practically unreachable. Good choice is …

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Re: A way to repair vga bios externally?

Posted on 2023-05-08, 14:01

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https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architec … memSize=&since=

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