Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-01-07, 08:00

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An old Toshiba laptop I just found: Mobile P4 532 (3.06GHz w/ hyper-threading, 1MB L2, 533MHz FSB) 1GB DDR333 CL2.5, Radeon 9000 IGP, onboard audio, XP Pro SP3 640x480 Med: 10.3 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 5.3 fps

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-01-07, 07:56

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An older Toshiba laptop: Mobile P4 532 (3.06GHz w/ hyper-threading, 1MB L2, 533MHz FSB, 88w TDP) 1GB PC2700/DDR333 Radeon 9000 IGP

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Latest Dumpster Find - 3GHz laptop in mint condition!

Posted on 2015-01-07, 07:37

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I typically don't keep P4 based stuff, but this latest dumpster find was just too good to pass up. So here it is - a Mobile Prescott based Toshiba laptop in pristine condition. This machine was either taken very good care of, or barely used at all. I mean, it has a 88w Prescott in it! This thing …

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Re: vinyl making a comeback?

Posted on 2015-01-03, 06:52

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I can't say I'm a fan of vinyl's "warm, analog sound." I've heard several records--old and brand spanking new--played back on decent equipment (a good friend of mine is a vinyl collecting hipster :happy: ). With the exception of CSNY's excellent album Deju Vu , all of the vinyl I've heard just …

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Re: Just curious..what is your oldest computer still in daily use for actual work?

Posted on 2015-01-01, 19:06

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by Standard Def Steve

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Two pentium M systems, both with MSI Speedster i915 boards. One of them has a Pentium M 755 overclocked to 2.66GHz and a GTX 260 video card; I use this one as a "background noise" PC in my workshop. Handles everything from music playback to 1080p YouTube just fine. The other one has a slightly …

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Re: I'm using onboard audio and the sky has not fallen

Posted on 2014-12-09, 09:14

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by Standard Def Steve

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I actually prefer the sound of the ALC898 "SupremeFX" built into my Asus mobo over my old X-Fi Ti Fatal1ty Pro card. Slightly less bright and a little more Hi-Fi sounding IMO. I have it hooked up to an absolutely marvelous sounding 1994 Kenwood mini component system. I just use the reference Realtek …

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Re: 6800 Ultra SLI scaling with newer drivers / CPUs?

Posted on 2014-12-01, 07:50

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by Standard Def Steve

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I experimented with G80/8800GTS (640MB) SLI scaling on my 4.3GHz i7-4930K recently. I bought these cards back in 2006 and originally used them in a rig with a S939 Opteron 185 overclocked to 3GHz. In that system, SLI generally increased performance by 10-50% under XP and -5 (yeah, negative five) to …

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Re: The Pentium 4 Windows Vista experience.

Posted on 2014-11-27, 15:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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I experimented a bit with Win7 on my 3.73GHz P4 recently. General Windows performance was quite OK, but an Opteron 185@ 3GHz on Socket 939 and C2D E6600 easily outclassed it on the Internet. Driving a 2560x1440 monitor, the P4 definitely had frame rate issues when scrolling through certain web pages …

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Re: power consumption kings of socket7 and 8

Posted on 2014-11-25, 09:33

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noshutdown wrote: and the ppro200 1mb, draws 15 amp at 3.3v, yielding 50 watts, considering its running at 200mhz! Dang! And I thought PII-300 at 43w was bad!

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Re: Poll: parts that have spontaneously died?

Posted on 2014-11-22, 02:23

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My Audigy 2 just started increasing DPC latency and causing hardware interrupts one day. It was working just fine a year ago, but when I took it out of its anti-static bag for testing recently, I noticed that 10% of the CPU was being eaten by hardware interrupts and deferred procedure calls. Didn't …

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Re: Your favorite hardware generation

Posted on 2014-11-16, 08:21

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Socket 939, baby! I built my first "enthusiast" machine on that platform and still use it as an HTPC for the basement. It's actually quite amazing how fast the old rig is on today's internet. The dual-core Opteron 185 @ 3GHz still has enough power to handle things like 1080p YouTube and 34Mb/s MKVs …

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Re: Raven - Pentium 4 yet again

Posted on 2014-11-07, 05:32

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san andreas will play at high on an fx5200 and Athlon XP on windows 7 @1024x768 possibly 2084x1024 It choked already on my old 8800GTX @ 1440x900. :-/ Must've been a weak CPU holding it back. San Andreas is not a very GPU intensive game. I ran it at 1920x1200 on an Athlon X2-4600 with an x1950Pro …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-10-31, 03:48

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Radeon 9800 Pro, Athlon64 3700+ @ 2.64GHz. Not quite as fast as Intel Dothan running at roughly the same frequency (30053 3DMarks, 63737 CPU Marks) http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m139/Standard_Def_Steve/3dmark99/3D999800cat4123700264_zps118ee709.png Radeon 9800 Pro, PIII-S @ 1585MHz A little …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-10-30, 07:01

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The 9800 Pro is completely stretched to the limit with an Athlon 64. The S939 A64 3700+ was overclocked to 2.64GHz, the highest frequency it could handle at default vcore (1.35v). But even when pushed to 2.8GHz (1.425v), the score only increased by 14 points, indicating a completely maxed out video …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-10-26, 06:04

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Here's the overclocked PIII-S pushing a PCI Radeon 9250 to the limit. System specs are listed in the post above. This one was built by ATI themselves and has a 128-bit memory bus, according to GPU-Z. Default core speed is 240MHz, but I gave it a slight bump to 250MHz, effectively turning it into a …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-10-22, 03:41

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Overclocked 6800GT + Overclocked PIII-S + Ancient driver = 13K in 3DMark01 :-D PIII-S @ 1585MHz, 151MHz FSB, 512K L2 1.5GB SDRAM @ 151MHz, 2-2-2 EVGA 6800GT @ 385/540, Forceware 81.98 X-Fi Extreme Music Asus TUV4X (VIA 694T) XP Pro SP3 By the way, a stock-clocked 6800GT scores 12646. The synthetic …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-10-20, 04:59

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Voodoo3 in an upgraded Dimension T550 Celeron-1400 on a Lin-Lin adapter on a Slotket. 512MB of PC100 2-2-2 Voodoo3 3000 AGP Dell version of the Intel SE440BX-3 SB Live! Win98SE

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Re: Best AGP graphics card for Windows XP?

Posted on 2014-10-20, 02:08

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x1950 Pro 512MB gets my vote. Yes, it uses a bridge chip, but I haven't had a single problem with it. It has been a completely stable and high performer in everything from a VIA 694T-based PIII-S system up to an nForce 3 Athlon 64. Works great in Intel chipsetted systems too. I used to have an …

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Re: What resolution did you use in your games and desktop back in 2001?

Posted on 2014-10-17, 05:07

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by Standard Def Steve

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1024x768 for the desktop and 640x480 for games (well, for the ones that would actually work on my sorry ass computer 🤣 ). All I had back then was a 266MHz PII with a 4MB Rage Pro.

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-10-12, 21:21

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by Standard Def Steve

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Athlon XP 2400+ (2GHz, 266MHz FSB), 2GB DDR333 CL2.5, nForce2, 6800GT AGP (182.06), onboard audio, XP Pro SP3 640x480 Medium: 49.0 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 48.6 fps 1280x1024 Ultra: 48.2 fps Only 7 frames faster than the overclocked Tualatin. I was expecting a little more out of this one. Still, it goes …

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