Re: Conroe865PE Set up (Quad 775 and AGP)

Posted on 2016-01-24, 09:46

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Ok, now with a more robust set Up (a Silverstone s12 psu) my system is more stable with 4 sticks of ram. The memory divider is 3:2 by default, can do nothing about that. I am using the Bliss 7800GS+ (G71), with latest legacy drivers and I find it really slow.... On Crysys it is totally crushed be a …

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Re: Native AGP 8X card

Posted on 2016-01-21, 11:18

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

for my main old gaming PC (440BX) I currently have 3 usable video cards, a diamond stealth64 2001 4mb, which seems to be fine on DOS, but no win98 support (also it's 2d only), a 9500PRO, which seems to be good on windows, but not good for DOS, also I tend to think it's worse than average when it …

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Re: Native AGP 8X card

Posted on 2016-01-17, 05:53

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since it's for windows9x I don't think there is much point in going for stuff much faster than the 9600XT, and since Nvidia is known for better compatibility you might want to look at something like an FX 5900, but the 9600 should be fine for most games, I haven't tested my 9500PRO much with older …

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Re: Compaq cds 524 - upgrade info [help]

Posted on 2016-01-11, 04:25

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I have a CDS 524 since 95, unfortunately it no longer works (it works, but there is no display, the monitor stays all green), I think at some point I had near 32MB of memory, maxing the slots + onboard memory, the original HD died in 2008 so I used a 2GB quantum hard drive (but I only made a 1GB …

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

Posted on 2016-01-09, 23:48

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I decided that it would be a good idea to clean some of the old PCs that I don't use, in doing that I decided to test a 286 that I have since 2008 and never managed to use it, it was left here by the previous house owner, when I tested it originally the PSU didn't like the idea and just decided to …

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Re: Core2 / AMD Phenom board legacy support (floppy, serial, parallel, etc.)

Posted on 2016-01-09, 01:52

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It's a middle of the pack chip on a cheaply made board, but with AM2 the board often doesn't have much impact on stability or performance when new unless it's truly deficient. It'll have a limited number of power phases and the caps might be lower tier and should be watched. The 6100 chipset had …

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Re: Any good 3D pci graphic's card out there?

Posted on 2016-01-07, 17:12

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from the more common cards I think the FX 5200 would be a good choice. if you have as slower CPU, wants to play some glide games I kind of like the V4 4500 PCI that I have, but the GPU is not as good as a geforce 2 and compatibility on DOS is not perfect for me at least (artifacts, horizontal lines …

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Re: Conroe865PE Set up (Quad 775 and AGP)

Posted on 2016-01-05, 17:39

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by SPBHM

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember some boards having trouble with 400 x4 ram and running ok with 333 x4, have you tried 166 fsb with 1:1 divider?

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2016-01-04, 22:53

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

until the P4 it was shared with the family, I will not mention secondary PCs, test parts or stuff that I kept only for a few weeks, or things that were used 95 - 486 DX2 66 97 - Pentium 133 2000 - Pentium 3 600 2002 - Pentium 4 2GHz 2003 - AthlonXP 2600+ 2005 - Sempron64 2600+ 2007 - Athlon 64 X2 …

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Re: Video for CPUs - The Software Decode Reference Thread

Posted on 2016-01-03, 16:39

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I've used this video for 4k60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXZ3qWAvbVs (it goes up to 4K60 with VP9, with h264 only 1080P60)

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Re: Does PCI Voodoo3 2000 make sense in a DOS machine?

Posted on 2016-01-03, 16:24

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my Voodoo 4 4500 is kind of not ideal on DOS, it gives me some artifacts with many 320x200 games I think (higher res seems fine), not sure if it's just the combination that I have (440BX, V4 PCI) or what, but it would make me worried about using a Voodoo for DOS

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Re: Video for CPUs - The Software Decode Reference Thread

Posted on 2015-12-30, 18:24

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regarding VP9, you can force youtube on chrome to use h264 (and you would want to do that if you have a GPU with fixed function acceleration and slow CPU, but h264 on chrome is a lot more demanding than running it on a program like MPCHC) by using a simple extension called h264ify, since only the …

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback and normal steering wheel - installation CD

Posted on 2015-12-29, 19:42

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I can't imagine iRacing on one of those things, especially oval superspeedway racing! I spent most of the time with the MX-5 and it was great, the only problem I remember is that a few times when starting a race it would reset the wheel to the silly auto center spring thing (which mutes the FFB and …

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback and normal steering wheel - installation CD

Posted on 2015-12-29, 12:45

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I have one of the force feedback wheels with pedals in the closet. I think that I have a couple different CD's. IIRC, XP and beyond compatibility isn't great since you also lose the ability to separate the pedals onto different axes. I've since moved on from the 220° rotation and lack of a clutch …

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Re: Do the old retail Source games need steam.

Posted on 2015-12-28, 17:06

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I thought Counter-Strike Condition Zero was the big Steam launch game? probably I remember it being on Steam early on, but I think the game that attracted more people to Steam initially was CS1.6 beta, that's the reason I created my account in 2003 Half Life 2 also required Steam at the time I …

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback and normal steering wheel - installation CD

Posted on 2015-12-28, 11:41

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I have the 4.0 software (downloaded from some website, I don't have the CD), it seems to be from 1999 it's for win9x but it works (most of it) on windows XP, as far as I know there is no native XP driver for it. If drivers are WDM (no VxD), chances are they may work even newer Windows. I can't …

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback and normal steering wheel - installation CD

Posted on 2015-12-27, 18:26

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I have the 4.0 software (downloaded from some website, I don't have the CD), it seems to be from 1999 it's for win9x but it works (most of it) on windows XP, as far as I know there is no native XP driver for it.

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-12-27, 12:01

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the atom result is not to far from the Broadwell i3 when I tested it, on win8.1 with single channel 1600 and doom 3 1.3.1 1024 ultra Filename doom 3.jpg File size 253.85 KiB Views 1411 views

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Re: PCI to PCIe x1 adapter

Posted on 2015-12-26, 13:23

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there are x16 Adapters with additional Power Connector, of you can add it yourself. So this is no issue. The Mainreason for using a 8400GS whas to add video encoding in hardware to Atom Like platforms And PCI had enough bandwith for encoding video streams :) yes, the video acceleration works well …

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Re: PCI to PCIe x1 adapter

Posted on 2015-12-26, 07:58

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I'm trying to wrap my brain around how this thing would possibly work, software wise. Even my AGP Radeon HD3850 needs a special driver to cope with its PCIe-AGP bridge, and it's a factory designed & built card specifically made to do that. Is there a driver for this that does the bus translation in …

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