Re: Is 440BX the best chipset for Mid 90s to early 2000s gaming?

Posted on 2012-10-22, 23:03

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What slowdown program did you use? I remember having to install a win9x-based slowdown app on this one P3 1GHz box I had to get Warcraft II running correctly (it ran, but waaaay too fast XD) War2 I have Battle net edition which worked fine. Warcraft 1 gameplay was also fine but scroll speed was …

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Re: Cause For Concern

Posted on 2012-10-22, 22:47

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by chinny22

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What does that make me? I just picked up a bunch of NT4/Backoffice 4.5 books off the street 😊

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Re: My New-Retro PC build Woot Woot :-)

Posted on 2012-10-05, 21:33

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

You can tell that case as seen a few builds inside, its stripped of anything that can comes off! It’s a sweet system for the late Dos games though. What games you gonna play on it? The TNT may hold it back for windows games. For your DOS setup you can checkout Dos 6 conventional memory tricks post …

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Re: Is 440BX the best chipset for Mid 90s to early 2000s gaming?

Posted on 2012-10-04, 22:42

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by chinny22

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I’ve just finished playing Warcraft and now half way through Warcraft 2 on my P3 1Ghz on a BX board and a Gforce Ti 4600 :happy: BX is rock stable in any OS, if you get a high end P3 and later graphics card like the one above you can play all the C&C’s up till Generals and Blizzard games up to …

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Re: Is there really a need?

Posted on 2012-09-25, 22:51

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by chinny22

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I rekon if you really want to minimise then a P4 does a pretty good job. Most hardware round that time still had Win98 drivers so you can always duel boot. About 3 years ago I ran a Win98 P4 with 768MB Ram without issue, and the extra bit of ram helped when in WinXP, Was only playing the 1st …

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Re: EMERGENCY! Windows 98se Floppy Boot Disk Needed!

Posted on 2012-09-24, 23:15

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by chinny22

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I thought the OEM disks on the site were the correct ones? Dont know havent used a proper MS disk in years. I just a generic boot disk and run setup manually that way you get the bonus of using switches to skip the scandisk before setup starts If you have a working copy of Win98 you can always do …

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Re: EMERGENCY! Windows 98se Floppy Boot Disk Needed!

Posted on 2012-09-22, 22:14

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by chinny22

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http://bootdisk.com has loads of 'em!

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Re: My Dual Xeon PC

Posted on 2012-09-22, 22:08

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by chinny22

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I’m building a Prescott based system but just still collecting the parts, most of what you have got is on my wish list! Especially the case/PSU but can’t justify getting it while in the UK just to ship back to Oz in a few yeas time also want corsair ram but its just so expensive! I like how the …

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Re: Not sure what to do with my p3

Posted on 2012-09-18, 19:11

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by chinny22

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The CT4760 is a high end SB Live 5.1 card which supports Dolby playback but only supports up to EAX 2.0 (Hardware based) The Audigy SE basically replaced the SB Live! Value range and doesn’t support Dolby but is able to use EAX 4.0 (Software based) What does this all really mean? Unless the games …

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Re: Is it possible to have 2 graphics cards installed at the same time?

Posted on 2012-09-12, 09:32

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by chinny22

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Could you not just disable the ISA card in device manager in Win98? forcing it to use the PCI card? Sorry if that’s a stupid suggestion I'm 1/2 asleep 😵

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Re: Best Video Card for Pentium II 450MHz Build?

Posted on 2012-08-14, 18:45

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I upgraded from a 16MB TNT to a GForce 2 MX in my P2 400 which seemed to be a good match, which lasted right through till 2006, GTA3 lagged was quite playable. The P2b is an awesome board for Win98! depending on what you want to play I’d drop something like a P3 700, plenty of power for any Win98 …

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Re: windows8

Posted on 2012-08-14, 17:35

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by chinny22

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I do think Windows has lost the edge to Mac and has lost focus trying to get on top again with the focus on making everything more pretty rather than performance. I am so sick of waiting for the pretty icons to load on 2008, it’s a server it doesn’t need to have high res everything! XP is still my …

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Re: Help needed with getting this 486 to work (LPX osborne)

Posted on 2012-08-13, 00:13

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by chinny22

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That was our 1st PC! (well the DX2 66 variant) still sitting in the garage back home. It was the sole PC till I got my very own P2 400 in 98, even then the osborne was more reliable But enough going down memory lane. Mine has a Mpower4 board which seems much the same just accepts newer processors ( …

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Re: Dos easy installation CD

Posted on 2012-07-21, 22:05

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by chinny22

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I did have my Dos folder backed up on a cd just copy the folder on a newly formatted drive. That worked for 2 PC’s the only difference was sound drivers. The rest like Network, CD-ROM, Mouse drivers were all the same anyway. Windows 3.11 was also on the CD so no more feeding disks but never worried …

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Re: Can this be done... Windows 2000 SP4 + DOS boot disk [floppy]

Posted on 2012-07-21, 21:49

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by chinny22

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yeh its still that easy. Back in the day I duel booted with Win98 for games and 2k for everything else. Like Zup said the key is to have your 1st partition Fat32 and install Win98 on that. THEN install 2k which will detect Win98 but leave it alone if you tell it. If you install Win2k on your last …

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Re: My DOS/Windows 98SE PC

Posted on 2012-07-21, 21:35

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by chinny22

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fair enough then, really Win9x games came out when 128MB was alot, 256 was about the time people were moving over to XP 512 just gives you extra to play with, but your not going to miss it. EAX gives better sound effects in games like background noise, more defined echo’s in tunnels, stuff like that …

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Re: My DOS/Windows 98SE PC

Posted on 2012-07-21, 19:23

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by chinny22

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Nice basic case with no over the top “styling” I like it! Good build too. Only thing I would change is 512MB RAM (just casue windows likes it) and a Sound Blaster Live or above for EAX (depending on what games you play that is) but really there isn’t much this PC won’t be able to do I remember when …

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Re: Is the old stuff still worth learning?

Posted on 2012-07-20, 16:50

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by chinny22

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I’m not sure what my job is as I get e new title with each new job! “(outsourced) IT guy” seems to follow me so maybe that? Basically something IT-ish doesn’t work I come and fix it So from my experience Old hardware sticks around till it breaks so I think basic knowledge is worth it within reason. …

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Re: IDE SATA Converter Video Review

Posted on 2012-07-20, 15:41

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Quite interesting, thanks! I salvaged a PCI SATA card the other day even though I don’t have any SATA drives but as you say in your video IDE is starting to get rare. This is a much neater option though, will definitely keep it mind for the future!

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Re: What kind of system?

Posted on 2012-07-18, 23:39

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ok found a copy of Urban Chaos I only played the 1st few missions but this is what I found Glide only supports 800x600 even though I have a SLI setup (I even double checked its working with NFS3) Frame rate was usually mid 20’s low 30's which plays pretty smooth on that game. It dis drop to mid …

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