Re: How many working computers do you have right now?

Posted on 2021-04-05, 23:26

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Here's a list of the stuff that's currently on a desk, hooked up to a display, and seeing at least weekly use. -Main desktop: Ryzen 9 5900X @ 5GHz, GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB DDR4-3600, 2TB NVMe SSD, 8TB HDD, Gigabyte 34" 3440x1440/144Hz display -Shared desktop in the living room for emulation, gaming, music …

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Re: Retro PC for WinXP 2D performance optimization - Tom2D

Posted on 2021-03-31, 20:10

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Athlon 64 3800+ with a GeForce 7800GS scores 6530. Slotting the above video card into an Athlon XP 2800+ nets 5082. PIII-S (@ 1.63GHz) with a 6800GT gets a 3109. My main setup is only scoring 3865. Spanked by an Athlon XP - wonderful.

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2021-03-30, 21:36

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For higher end cards that prioritize DP, just get a $5 passive DP to HDMI dongle. You should go active if your display is anything above 1920x1080, as most passive adapters max out there. I'll admit, I've never used the passive dongles that I so highly recommended in my previous post. Or any DP …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2021-03-30, 15:25

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Shouldn't video cards come with 2 hdmi. One for the monitor, one for the receiver? Some midrange and HTPC oriented cards come with 2 or more HDMI outputs. I haven't pulled my HTPC out of the component rack in quite some time, but I'm 95% certain that the GTX 1650 Super in that thing has no fewer …

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Re: P3 1.4GHz "performs like a P4 2GHz..."

Posted on 2021-03-28, 18:04

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Do you mean the SSE2 instructions? I don't think there is anything particularly special about "netburst" other than maybe the bandwidth that rdram provided (something that quake3 loved). What about a Pentium 3 with RDRAM? As far as Netburst... Bleh. The pipeline was too long and from what I …

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Re: Seemingly hard to find video cards like Radeon 9700, what the reason?

Posted on 2021-03-25, 03:09

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I still have the 9800 Pro that I bought new back in 2003. It's still using the puny factory HSF and thermal paste (or thermal pad? I've never looked), and it works just fine. I believe that being driven at a nice and leisurely 2x AGP transfer rate by a 440BX Dell machine for well over a decade is …

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Re: Thumb drive transfer speeds - win9x/me vs xp

Posted on 2021-03-22, 16:22

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I actually noticed a difference in USB 2.0 performance when I first upgraded to Win10, going from 38 MB/s (Win7) to 42 MB/s (Win10). Yet USB 3.0, which was limited by the speed of my external HDD rather than the interface itself, performed identically under both operating systems. So I absolutely …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-20, 23:40

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I didn't buy these (retro) hardware today; rather, a friend gave me this green Inspiron after he bought himself a sleek new XPS 13. Before the XPS, he had been using this Inspiron as his daily driver since 2009! https://i.imgur.com/d2W3CUc.png Specs are: -Core 2 Duo T9600, 2.8GHz, 1066FSB, 6MB L2 - …

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

Posted on 2021-03-17, 02:25

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I beat my own record for the number of flamin' hot Hawaiian pizza slices wolfed down during a screening of Ready Player One: Nine and a half. And they were huge . Now thats a record I want and I need to beat. I can only eat 4 so far. lol That's impressive. Last time I did something similar is when …

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Re: Have anyone actually gotten hardware damaged due to using old PSUs?

Posted on 2021-03-16, 18:48

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I had a 2007 era Corsair HX 620 slowly kill two boards, but not in the way you'd expect a PSU to take out a motherboard. In both cases, the motherboards slowly started failing, piece by piece, in exactly the same way. It around two months for each board to completely fail after the first symptoms …

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

Posted on 2021-03-13, 21:04

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I beat my own record for the number of flamin' hot Hawaiian pizza slices wolfed down during a screening of Ready Player One: Nine and a half. And they were huge.

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Re: Anyone try USB 3.0 vs. USB 2.0 on conventional PCI slots?

Posted on 2021-03-10, 20:21

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Any idea which chip is on it ? might it be this one ? Renesas/NEC - μPD720202 Can definitely check this out once I get home. Thank you for that info . What motherboard is it and what are you using as an internal drive and controller ? Could 52MB/second be a limit of the write speed of your internal …

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Re: Anyone try USB 3.0 vs. USB 2.0 on conventional PCI slots?

Posted on 2021-03-10, 19:51

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I have a USB 3.0 PCI card in an Athlon XP 2800+ machine. It's...OK. When I copy a single large file from my external 4TB HDD, I get around 48-52 MB/s. The onboard USB 2.0 ports are good for 27-31 MB/s. This same external hard drive is capable of a near-constant 165 MB/s when used with any of my …

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

Posted on 2021-03-07, 04:04

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Got my hands on a Dell CRT today, so I fired up the 486 and took it for a test drive. Unbeatable contrast, razer sharp, and bright even at 40% - this one's a keeper! Oh, and as a bonus, I also managed to beat Realms of Chaos. I remember rage-quitting this game when I was like 13 years old because I …

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

Posted on 2021-03-04, 05:56

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Ignore the walls, this room is a WIP. lol Gonna take care of that as soon as it gets a bit warmer and I don't have to risk getting the drywall wet with snow. And yeah admittedly not computer related but definitely vintage. lol Putting together this 90's setup! TV is a Symphonic from 1990, Kenwood …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 16:44

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Some results : 640x480x16 low detail (textures & geometry) with Vertex lighting : 73fps (DRAM : turbo) 640x480x16 low detail (textures & geometry) with Lightmap lighting : 66fps (DRAM : turbo) 640x480x16 high detail (textures & geometry) with Lightmap lighting : 63fps. (DRAM : turbo) 640x480x16 …

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Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II

Posted on 2021-02-11, 17:40

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I would of liked to see some other games besides Quake bench marked so it seems it favors the apollo 266 in overclocking test. But In stock speeds its more of a toss up in reality. To the point that the conclusion might be if you are not overclocking than it really doesn't matter and if you are …

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Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II

Posted on 2021-02-10, 23:47

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+4fps ! Moving the needle over there, eh ? :D 1.63ghz is awesome. What are you running this on ? 800 something, sis ? Apollo Pro 266T, on the stupid-fast QDI Advance 12T motherboard. Seriously, of all the PIII boards I've played with, this one is easily the fastest. Clock-for-clock, it's around 8% …

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Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II

Posted on 2021-02-10, 19:25

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by Standard Def Steve

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+4fps ! Moving the needle over there, eh ? :D 1.63ghz is awesome. What are you running this on ? 800 something, sis ? Apollo Pro 266T, on the stupid-fast QDI Advance 12T motherboard. Seriously, of all the PIII boards I've played with, this one is easily the fastest. Clock-for-clock, it's around 8% …

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Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II

Posted on 2021-02-10, 04:14

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@Standard Def Steve Offline Q3A (and all games from that time i can think of) when running on a P3 hardware with AGP video cards up to GF 6800# (last AGP compatible ?) is CPU limited. There is no difference if you use GF/Quadro 2, GF6800U/Quadro FX 4000, or anything in-between really. At least …

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