Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-05-30, 20:26

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by Standard Def Steve

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My 9250 is the official, built-by-ATI 128-bit version, and it's actually a good bit slower than this 9100. It only scores 6080 in 3DMark01. That is because the 9100 is a whole different beast Radeon 9100 is a rebaged Radeon 8500 LE (full blown R200 core) Radeon 9000, 9200 and 9250 are cut down 8500 …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-05-29, 23:15

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by Standard Def Steve

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My 9250 is the official, built-by-ATI 128-bit version, and it's actually a good bit slower than this 9100. It only scores 6080 in 3DMark01.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-05-29, 21:58

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by Standard Def Steve

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Found another Dell Dimension 2400 in the alley today. I was about to pass it up, as these low end PCI-only P4 machines are about as boring as they get. However I noticed a DVI port on this one. I cracked it open to check out what video card the poor schmuck who owned this thing installed back in …

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

Posted on 2020-05-28, 15:27

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by Standard Def Steve

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Took a bit of a risk yesterday and updated all of my regular-use machines to the 2004 build of Win10 that was just released. No issues at all, and that was on 6 different configs ranging from a Core 2 E8600 to a Ryzen 9 3900X!

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

Posted on 2020-05-26, 04:53

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by Standard Def Steve

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I installed an ISA MPEG decoder in my 486. To put it through its paces, I transcoded my Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Blu-ray to a 352x240 MPEG1 stream and burned it to two CDs. Man was it weird seeing such a recent film play in a Windows 3.1 environment. But it played! In all its blocky, 2 channel …

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

Posted on 2020-05-25, 02:31

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by Standard Def Steve

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Chili cornbread. It's magically delicious.

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Re: Windows XP/2000 GUI without graphics drivers

Posted on 2020-05-23, 17:21

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by Standard Def Steve

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I don't know the technical reason for what makes XP's basic VGA driver so slow compared to Vista and later versions but... ...if you think Vista/7 basic VGA is fast, you should see it on Win8 and 10. With a fast CPU, it absolutely flies. I remember setting up Win8.1 and not even realizing that I was …

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Re: Windows 2000 on single Pentium Pro

Posted on 2020-05-19, 01:51

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by Standard Def Steve

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I ran 2k on a P2-266 with 192MB for the longest time, and it was fine, even with SP4 bolted on. However RAM upgrades are so easy you may as well bump it up to 256MB or more. The CPU's fine.

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-19, 01:39

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by Standard Def Steve

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Last 6: Young MC - Bust A Move Blue - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Limahl - The NeverEnding Story Chairlift - Bruises Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody Jack Johnson - Upside Down

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Re: DOSBox speed vs real DOS PC?

Posted on 2020-05-17, 23:32

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by Standard Def Steve

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Can't give you an exact figure, but the three machines that I use DOSBox on easily outperform a Celeron-1400. These are a Ryzen 9 3900X @ 4.3GHz, a Haswell i7-4790 @ 4GHz, and an Ivy-E i7-4930K @ 4.6GHz, all running regular DOSBox 0.74 under Win10 v1909. In Duke Nukem 3D @ 1280x1024 , the Celeron- …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-17, 08:32

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by Standard Def Steve

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Last 6: Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart Skipworth & Turner - Thinking About Your Love Prozzak - www. nevergetoveryou Bob Sinclar - Love Generation T. Rex - Baby Boomerang Lily Allen - Alfie Oh, foobar2k random play. I just love it. I don't think I've listened to Prozzak since like …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2020-05-14, 05:23

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by Standard Def Steve

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And here are the 3DMark2000 and Aquamark results. Same clocks and drivers as the 3DMark01 result up above. Filename PIII-1628-6800GTOC-3D00.png File size 100.2 KiB Views 55 views Filename PIII-1628-6800GTOC-aquamark.PNG File size 837.07 KiB Views 55 views

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

Posted on 2020-05-12, 05:00

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by Standard Def Steve

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As I was casually browsing through Device Manager today, I noticed that there was an Nvidia USB 3.1 and Type-C controller listed there. Thinking no wai, I took a peek behind my PC and, sure enough, there was a USB-C port on my graphics card! I didn't even notice that port when I installed the thing …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-10, 06:42

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by Standard Def Steve

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Last 6: Backstreet Boys - Larger Than Life Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now ZZ Top - Tush 2Pac - Do For Love Neil Sedaka - Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen Green Day - Minority

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2020-05-10, 01:58

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by Standard Def Steve

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Another 5 MHz of FSB, another few hundred points. The 6800GT is slightly overclocked, at 385/540. This particular card is a pretty bad overclocker, but it's enough to push this machine over the 14K mark. PIII-S @ 1628MHz (155MHz FSB, AGP @ 77.5MHz) QDI Advance 12T motherboard - VIA Apollo Pro 266T …

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Re: PowerDVD vs WinDVD for Win9x/ME

Posted on 2020-05-09, 16:47

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by Standard Def Steve

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I can highly recommend PowerDVD XP/4.0 along with any Radeon video card for older systems. It even allows a weak P2-300 or K6-2 500 to play DVD smoothly. Here were some CPU usage numbers I saw whilst playing DVD on the following systems, all with PDVD 4.0: K6-2 500MHz, Radeon 7000, 128MB SDRAM, …

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Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II

Posted on 2020-05-09, 00:57

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by Standard Def Steve

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Awesome job! And yeah, VIA chipsets really, really depend on the board's BIOS implementation. They can be really slow, and they can also be faster than 440BX. This makes me want to rip the 6800GT out of the Barton 3200+ machine that I've been toying with lately and put it back in my PIII-S. The last …

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Re: Pentium II/III VS K6-III+

Posted on 2020-05-04, 14:40

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by Standard Def Steve

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kolderman wrote on 2020-05-04, 11:11: Try Wing Commander 1 on the 486. Or 2001 games on your p3. 2001's a piece of cake for my P3. I built mine to handle games from 2000-2005. 😜

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

Posted on 2020-05-03, 20:58

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by Standard Def Steve

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Well, it's that time of year again. The time I suddenly become obsessed with non x86 hardware for a month or so. Grabbed my two PPC macs outta the closet and started benchmarking them. One, a maxed out dual processor G4 MDD with the following specs: 2x G4 CPUs overclocked to 1.5GHz, each w/ 2MB of …

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Re: What NAS are you using ?

Posted on 2020-05-02, 21:17

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by Standard Def Steve

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-Pentium M (Dothan) @ 2.66GHz -2GB DDR2 RAM -26TB of main storage drives+ 26TB backup drives. -Ubuntu 16.04 Most of that storage is used for BD rips. The 1080p movies use 15-40GB each; 2160p UHD movies run at around 40-70GB. On my movie watching rig, every compression artifact shows. I don't bother …

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