Re: What display do you use for gaming ?

Posted on 2020-10-24, 02:56

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by Standard Def Steve

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I use a bunch of different display devices for gaming! 34" 16:9 CRT TV - 1080i - Older consoles, up to the original Xbox. 64" 16:9 plasma TV - 1080p - PS3/Xbox360, right on up to current gen consoles. 34" 21:9 LCD monitor - 3440x1440 - gaming on the main PC 32" 16:9 LCD monitor - 2560x1440 - gaming …

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Re: What display do you use for gaming ?

Posted on 2020-10-21, 06:18

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I use a bunch of different display devices for gaming! 34" 16:9 CRT TV - 1080i - Older consoles, up to the original Xbox. 64" 16:9 plasma TV - 1080p - PS3/Xbox360, right on up to current gen consoles. 34" 21:9 LCD monitor - 3440x1440 - gaming on the main PC 32" 16:9 LCD monitor - 2560x1440 - gaming …

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Re: Nvidia nForce 2 & ATI Catalyst Stable Driver Combination for XP?

Posted on 2020-10-17, 18:42

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I've had a couple of R300/350 generation Radeons suffer from stability issues when driven at the full 8x AGP rate, no matter what chipset. I've tried them on NF2, NF3, and 865. The cards that were fully stable at 8x, however, would not overclock nearly as high at 8x. Reducing the AGP speed to 4x …

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

Posted on 2020-10-14, 22:10

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by Standard Def Steve

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Having completed all of the games on my 486, I finally connected it to the network so that I could copy another 445MB worth of DOS gaming goodness from the file server. ISA network cards sure are poky. It took about an hour to get everything transferred. The machine's 1 gig hard drive is just about …

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Re: BENCHMARKS: Slot A (GA-7IXE & 750 MHz Pluto/700 MHz Thunderbird) vs Slot 1 (Gigabyte GA-BX2000+ & 750/1000 MHz P3 Co

Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:47

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Athlons had insane floating point performance, and well, games kinda liked that. 😀

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-10-11, 06:22

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Last 6: Pat Benatar - Treat Me Right Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom The Byrds - Mr. Spaceman Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Recess Cake - I Will Survive Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up

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Re: Probably the most boring standard retro PC :)

Posted on 2020-10-10, 22:04

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I like it! Those old BX based Dell machines are fantastic retro gaming machines. They just work, and are very upgradeable. My own 98SE machine is a heavily upgraded XPS T550 (uses the same chassis as your R400), with a Celeron-1400, Voodoo3 3500, Aureal Vortex SQ2500, and 512MB of RAM.

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Re: Is anyone excited for the Nvidia 3000 series cards

Posted on 2020-10-09, 06:06

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robertmo wrote on 2020-10-09, 05:47: sometimes its even slower than cheaper old intel Nope. Like Apple, I’m done with Intel. They’re just so goshdang boring these days. But instead of going ARM, I see a Zen 3 core in my future. 🙂 And now, back to RTX 3080 stuff...

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Re: Is anyone excited for the Nvidia 3000 series cards

Posted on 2020-10-09, 02:31

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https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-20-gb-currently-planned-for-launch-in-december/ WHUH-HO!! Glad I didn't buy that new GPU right away. Anyone else see the Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement today? A 19% increase in IPC and higher clocks to boot! Sounds like one hell of a CPU to pair up with a …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-10-08, 15:50

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by Standard Def Steve

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I wolfed down an entire pumpkin pie last night; one I had fully intended to save until Thanksgiving. Oops. Welp, guess I'll just have to eat another one on Monday.

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Re: Games require at least intel P3, but won't run on intel P4

Posted on 2020-10-08, 15:32

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Slightly off topic, but I had a few MMX enhanced games which would work on P-MMX to PIII, but fail the MMX check on P4s. Those dang P4s. 😜

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-10-07, 16:39

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by Standard Def Steve

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This is where I do my retro gaming. the 486 dx on the desk, but its usually not on the desk, thats where I usually have my work laptop. on the right bottom is my newest find , a Pentium 2 355 MMX Compaq Presario beside that is a new Pentium 2 355 non mmx Compaq deskpro next is my Pentium 4 and …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-05, 06:42

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by Standard Def Steve

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Currently working my way through: Main PC: Serious Sam 4, Flight Simulator (2020), Prey (2017) Super P3: Armed & Dangerous, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, NFS Underground 2 Win98: Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Thief: The Dark Project 486/DOS: Realms of Chaos, Albion Xbox: Spider-Man 2

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-10-04, 06:21

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Last 6: Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell Destiny's Child - Bootylicious The Super Mario Bros Super Show - Theme Linkin Park - By Myself Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping

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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-02, 22:46

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by Standard Def Steve

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Neato! An interesting "fact" I seem to recall about Tualatin--but can't remember where on earth I read it--is that it can cache up to 64GB of RAM. Coppermine could only cache up to 4GB. And yet another thing I can't seem to remember is if that extra cacheability only applied to PIII-S, or if all …

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Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system

Posted on 2020-10-02, 15:34

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by Standard Def Steve

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The 9600XT won't be severely bottlenecked by a Tualatin. In DX8 titles, it's a bit faster than a Ti4600, which is considered by many forum members to be THE card to pair up with a Tualatin system. At my 1600x1200 resolution of choice, a 9800 Pro is at least twice as fast as a 9250...and that's in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-01, 15:14

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by Standard Def Steve

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mpe wrote on 2020-10-01, 10:20: Got early QVision EISA card. Always wanted to test one of these: […] Show full quote Got early QVision EISA card. Always wanted to test one of these: Looks like it supports SLI! 😉

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Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system

Posted on 2020-09-30, 18:57

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Standard Def Steve: Darn, your P3 system really is superb. Kinda jealous, but I need to be happy with what I got lol. I have SDRAM only. :/ What motherboard does it use? Thanks man! It's a QDI Advance 12T motherboard. My experience in this matter is mostly based on 20+ year-old memories . Yours is …

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Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system

Posted on 2020-09-30, 15:23

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by Standard Def Steve

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I have a 9800 Pro that I sometimes swap into a system with a 77.5MHz AGP bus. Also a Radeon 9100 PCI that I've tested in the same system (PCI @ 38.75MHz). Both cards have never shown any signs of stress. I think that, as with nVidia, it all depends on the card, but most seem fine. I'd be shocked, …

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Re: Is anyone excited for the Nvidia 3000 series cards

Posted on 2020-09-28, 15:43

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60 fps is very optimistic, I would say 30 fps :P There's probably some truth to that. Flight Sim is such a CPU hog and seems to have a bit of difficulty scaling past...what is it, 6 threads? You need like 5GHz of clockspeed and a super high-end GPU to get a really smooth experience. Hope they can …

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