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Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-10-06, 21:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What do you think about these sets? Core2Duo E8500 Asus P5G41T-M 8 GB DDR3 1333 GTX 750 Ti I doubt that the processor will use the full power of the graphics card. Maybe we can find something cheaper i without a bottleneck for the cpu? i5 2400 gigabyte-ga-h61m-s2v-b3-CID99 GTX 750 Ti or GTX 960 Is …

Ideas for a DOS machine?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 16:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So... I'm thinking I might want one more retro machine for my collection. Thinking this one should be DOS 6.22/Win3.1/etc. Maybe Win95 too but... meh. Random musings/constraints: - Pentium MMX was where I was leaning. Huge Intel fanboy, never had a Pentium MMX (or any Pentium) on a main computer. …

Re: What would be the best AGP card that supports XP and 98SE or?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 13:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I guess for Pentium 4 specs games i will use just modern machine then. I`m not into having too much computers. I got this old machine for very nostalgic reasons that i could never even dream to afford Pentium 3 as kid in time of civil war in my country. I want to make overkill machine and enjoy in …

Re: What would be the best AGP card that supports XP and 98SE or?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 00:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Civilization III isn't a newer XP game though. It came out in 2001, same year as XP released. It should run quite decently on a Pentium III system. I played it on a PIII... 900, I think it was, laptop and briefly on a PIII 700 desktop. My recollection is that, like all the Civ games, the time it …

Re: What would be the best AGP card that supports XP and 98SE or?

Posted on 2024-10-05, 23:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh i see. I play 3D games as well of course, i just mentioned my experience so far on with some newer XP games. So its CPU problem. ;) Civilization III isn't a newer XP game though. It came out in 2001, same year as XP released. It should run quite decently on a Pentium III system. I played it on a …

Re: What would be the best AGP card that supports XP and 98SE or?

Posted on 2024-10-05, 23:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ATI 9700/9800 Pro seems to be rare in the retro community. Not entirely sure why, seems like many may not have survived. The standard options would be GF4s, GF FX5900s, etc. Note that Civilization 3 does not use 3D graphics; if it's slower than you'd like, that's a CPU issue, not a GPU issue. And I …

Re: 3com 3c905 tx internet?

Posted on 2024-10-05, 16:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well now I've got no sound in windows cuz of an irq conflict with the nic and my sound blaster... Welcome to the 1990s :) Anyway how do you get this card's drivers installed in dos? Do you really want to do DOS networking? In 2024? To connect to... what? Keep in mind - almost no one used TCP/IP, …

Re: [WILL UPDATE] Undisclosed Northwood on Socket 423 Adapter Mod

Posted on 2024-10-05, 01:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

stamasd wrote on 2024-10-04, 18:36: Likely only a voltage mod, as AFAIK apart from the lower core voltage and the larger L2 cache there aren't any significant differences between Willamette and Northwood. (at least not the first generation Northwood with 400FSB) Would it need a modded BIOS?

Re: 3com 3c905 tx internet?

Posted on 2024-10-05, 01:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry I'm a dummy when it comes to 90s internet/ethernet. There is absolutely nothing different. Except for the number of choices. I am pretty sure that TCP/IP was not installed by default in Win95. I am trying to remember which version of Windows was the last one to expect you to select protocols …

Re: Where is the rest of the world?

Posted on 2024-10-05, 01:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

This does bring up one interesting topic though - for those of you in the US, I don't think you realise how 'rich' you were in the 90s! When I see LGR videos of computers costing thousands of dollars and all the weird peripherals costing $100 or more (30 years ago), I do wonder if you guys know …

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-10-04, 00:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The top spec parts for a certain platform always would retain its value longer than the lower spec stuff. However in this case, I just suspect delusional Ebay pricing. I just did a quick eBay search for sold 8700ks, got around CAD$120 + shipping... I'm not sure if that's high or low for a top spec …

Re: Niedobory dzieci

Posted on 2024-10-04, 00:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And actually, good example of this - the CivVII system requirements were published today. Lowest system listed is an i3-10xxxx I believe. How does my i7-7700 with a much beefier GPU compare to that?! Who knows. I guess we'll find out when the game ships. While CPU-Z scores don't necessary equal to …

Re: Niedobory dzieci

Posted on 2024-10-03, 22:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember the summer of 2005 like it was yesterday. Back then I was using an outdated computer. All my friends had Pentium4 and AthlonXp. For this reason, I remember Athlon Xp as a powerful PC, but I know that lowend C2D is much better than even the best Athlon Xp. And none of these were …

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-10-03, 22:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IMHO OP has difficulties 1) deciding whether to build a system of 2005 or a system for 2005 games, and 2) telling apart components of old and new, budget or flagship, etc., otherwise wouldn't show distrust on C2D while praising AthlonXP. I'd guess the OP had few, if any, experience of buying …

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-10-03, 21:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What do you think about MSI P965 PLATINUM DDR2 775 ATX or IGABYTE GA-8P965UBH-RH 1.0 or Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R or MSI G31TM-P35? Are they low or high end motherboards ? Out of all these motherboards, I would say the GA-P35C-DS3R is in a class of its own. P35/ICH9R so that's the highest-end chipset …

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-10-03, 21:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I didn't check those boards, but isn't G41 typically paired with ICH7? That's lacking a whole bunch of things compared to the ICH10 that a 4-series chipset should be paired with. "whole bunch of things" are OC and upselling on number of IO/expansion options. Very important to people who want to eek …

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-10-03, 00:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those are low-end chipsets... Not when compared to 965. What exactly are you missing? and how much will scoring top of the line board cost? I didn't check those boards, but isn't G41 typically paired with ICH7? That's lacking a whole bunch of things compared to the ICH10 that a 4-series chipset …

Re: Niedobory dzieci

Posted on 2024-10-03, 00:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I didn't know motherboards could be high and low end. Does lowend motherboard is bottleneck for cpu? Does easier is buy cheap good motherboards for L775 or socket 1155? Look at the spec sheet of the chipset/motherboard. The higher end chipsets will often have more stuff - more SATA ports, faster …

Re: Childhood deficiencies

Posted on 2024-10-02, 01:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kocyk wrote on 2024-10-01, 09:22: I found these motherboards […] Show full quote I found these motherboards for LGA775 (E8400) P5G41T-M LX3 for Socket 1155(i5 2400) GA-H61M-S1 or ATX Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3V there are ok ? Those are low-end chipsets...

Re: Is the interest in retro PC hardware decreasing?

Posted on 2024-09-30, 01:40

in Milliways

in Milliways

That being said, I will note that smartphone concepts seem to have entered people's brains, e.g. you hear people wanting to 'factory reset' laptops. And... yes, Win8+ does have a reset mode now, but traditionally, you 'reset' a Windows machine by pulling out the restore media (or Microsoft disc), …

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