Re: your last purchased retro graphics card or any of your collection

Posted on 2022-11-15, 16:25

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by Standard Def Steve

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Retro only? Pre DX10? Separate card that didn't come with a machine? I believe that would be the Quadro FX 4500 for my PowerMac G5 Quad, over a year ago.

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Re: Christmas 1999 build - What's under YOUR tree?

Posted on 2022-11-07, 04:00

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by Standard Def Steve

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Very, very nice! I would've loved a 733MHz P3 or Athlon in 1999! Hell, a K6-2 with a decent tailwind would've been a substantial upgrade over the Toshiba Pentium 100 (or was it a P75?) laptop I used in my first year of university. That thing could barely whip the llama's ass and run Word at the same …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-06, 03:38

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CwF wrote on 2022-11-04, 14:01: Standard Def Steve wrote on 2022-10-25, 23:16: But what really makes this 8c/16t CPU special is the unlocked multiplier. Guess Intel thought that Mac owners would never sell their old processors to PC users eager to overclock the snot out of them. All E5's are …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-11-06, 03:30

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by Standard Def Steve

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The cloud infrastructure directly above my house dumped a ton of snow on us today, so I stayed inside and did cozy computer stuff. My greatest accomplishment? Why, the yearly backup of my 486, of course! An up-to-date copy of both hard drives--that's 1.1GB of DOS gaming goodness--now safely resides …

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Re: Nvidia adaptergate

Posted on 2022-11-02, 17:30

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Yeah, AMD's drivers are fine these days. Which is why I'm hoping & praying that the RX 7000 delivers at least RTX 3090 level ray-tracing performance. If it does, I will totally be picking one up! Ah hell, even if it's a little below the 3090 in RT, I'll still pick one up, assuming stellar …

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Re: 98 Beige box time capsule - unlocked Pentium II Klamath or odd Motherboard? What do you think?

Posted on 2022-10-27, 16:04

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by Standard Def Steve

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Aren't most Klamath CPUs unlocked? I have an unlocked 233 and 300. The 300 will do 333 (and heat a room). If I remember correctly, Intel started locking all of their CPUs with the Deschutes core. To answer your question, multiplier control is entirely dependent on the CPU. No motherboard will ever …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-25, 23:16

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by Standard Def Steve

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Picked up the PIII-S of LGA2011 today: a Xeon E5-1680 v2. Got it from a guy who was selling a bunch of his old Mac gear because the latest OS wouldn't run on it. What is it, Venturi? Ventura? Nine out of ten pet detectives recommend it? Anyway, really nice (and knowledgeable!) fellow. I even learned …

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Re: Newest possible systems for Windows XP and Windows 7

Posted on 2022-10-23, 17:19

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by Standard Def Steve

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I'm a fan of XP on Haswell. The CPUs have AVX2, which no XP app ever uses, but ...Intel did have to turbo-charge the L1 caches to keep its 256-bit single-cycle FMA unit fed. Haswell's L1s are roughly twice as fast as Ivy's when measured in AIDA64! That makes for some silly high frame rates in XP …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-10-12, 18:02

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by Standard Def Steve

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Now that is a perfect back drop for some DOS gaming. You have quite the beautiful yard. That is a sweet spot, from one "buckeye" to another. I'm in Bama these days tho but still migrate up north to see family couple times a year. Hey thanks guys! But man, the upkeep is almost like a second full …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-10-10, 18:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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My favourite spot for fall DOS gaming is right under this Ohio Buckeye, especially on a holiday morning like today. I always get a kind of neat feeling bringing out a mug of cocoa & playing DOS games out here as the sun rises. This morning, the tree happened to shed half its weight; the golden …

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Re: 478 vs 775 insurrection

Posted on 2022-10-06, 22:06

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by Standard Def Steve

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🙋‍♂️ Tualatin DDR owner here. Yeah, going from 694T (SDR) to Apollo Pro 266T, I saw a quite significant boost in system performance across the board. However, I believe most of the extra performance comes from a more refined memory and AGP controller, rather than the raw bandwidth of DDR itself. …

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Re: How many builds adequately covers the DOS-era of gaming?

Posted on 2022-10-02, 03:41

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by Standard Def Steve

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I play all of my DOS and Win9x games on two machines: A 486-80 running DOS 6.22 and a Celeron-1400/A3D/V3-3500 running Win98SE. The two machines handle my DOS/9X games splendidly. The 486 runs the 1984-1994 DOS games, while the Celeron takes on tough SVGA DOS and Windows games up to around 2000.

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Re: Windows XP on pentium II 300(66)mhz, 256MB?

Posted on 2022-09-30, 18:10

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by Standard Def Steve

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XP RTM or SP1, use the classic/2K theme, and don't connect it to the Internet. It'll run just fine on your machine. Better than 98, even.

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Re: Modern bundle offer, price is right?

Posted on 2022-09-28, 23:58

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Ooh, definitely!! I recently picked up a similar bit of kit: 8700K, Asus Prime Z370-something motherboard, 8GB of cheapy DDR4-2666, and a GTX 750Ti with a worn-out fan. I paid a local seller $300 CAD (226€) for the bundle. Thought it was a screamin' deal. I believe the Ryzen 1600 is similar in age …

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Re: simplify the collection: 486DX2 and P4

Posted on 2022-09-27, 06:52

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by Standard Def Steve

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Can't you find a CPU support list for your motherboard? I have an old SiS-based Gigabyte board with unofficial 533MHz bus support. Gigabyte added "O.C." in parentheses next to each 533FSB processor on the CPU support list. It will attempt to run 533FSB CPUs at full speed (automatically even, which …

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Re: DXVA question on XP

Posted on 2022-09-20, 03:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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Hell… https://www.avsforum.com/threads/7600gt-agp-does-not-do-wmv-hd-acceleration.915497/ Hmm according to that PDF my AGP 6200 does have it (H.264 Decode Acceleration) as well as my 6600GT and 7800GS. This topic is interesting and am not concerned with VC-1/WMV support (Microsoft's VC-1 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-14, 15:18

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by Standard Def Steve

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PD2JK wrote on 2022-09-14, 14:46: To my knowledge yes, but I don't know if there are any differences to a 'normal' 3000. It get just as hot, and it seems that the clock speeds are the same. I had one of those 3000Ds. The Dell version lacks the s-video output present on the retail 3000 - that's it.

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Re: Shipping gone wrong, our stories.

Posted on 2022-09-08, 22:20

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by Standard Def Steve

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I once absolutely did pay enough shipping fees to cover protective packaging and I got the item wrapped inside a plastic bag rolled to a ball with tape, no box whatsoever. So much for the shipping fee, I'm sure the seller found some better use for that money. OMG, same. I ordered a cheap (modern) …

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Re: How do you cool your "computing area?"

Posted on 2022-09-04, 20:19

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by Standard Def Steve

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The original 1978 section of our house is cooled by a 3.5 ton Daikin heat pump. The newer 2001 section has a 1.5 ton cooling-only Trane. Both units are hooked into gas furnaces. We keep the 1978 section cooled to 21.5 C all day and night. On a really hot day, the heat pump will generally run at 60- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-09-03, 17:44

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by Standard Def Steve

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Spent the day Installing a Pentium II Overdrive into my socket 8 system, damn is this a chonky boi of a CPU, had to then alter the exhaust shroud as it would fit over the fan on the cooler XD. Still waiting on the new ECC EDO memory to arrive at which point it'll have 512mb of ram, going to 1 gig …

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