Re: Intel GMA 500 for retro, what can and can't be done? XP lowest? PowerVR useful?

Posted on 2025-02-14, 18:06

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afaik the drivers are a complete disaster on this Intel implementation of the powervr design, it's practically useless and performs very poorly on anything, the GMA 950 and its variants is far better it's very difficult to find info, but it's for a good reason there are some performance numbers for …

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Re: Is my CPU done for?

Posted on 2025-01-26, 16:14

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as said the rubber things are not essential for it to work, running without paste is not ideal but if it was touching it probably helped to cool it down, and unless you were doing some prime 95s or something I think it will be ok? back in the early 2000s I had this to "protect" the die, maybe …

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Re: Any late era Win9x AGP GPUs with good backward compatibility?

Posted on 2025-01-03, 16:07

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the funny thing is that the MX400 was AFAIK artificially limited, like Nvidia allowed DDR 64bits or 128bits SDRAM for the MX400 (which works out at around the same bandwidth), but afaik, technically it could run 128bits DDR, but since the card was almost entirely ram bottlenecked that would've made …

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Re: Any late era Win9x AGP GPUs with good backward compatibility?

Posted on 2025-01-01, 14:06

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GF2 GTS 64bit? I've never heard of such a thing before, is it a damaged card or something? if it does exist, it will end up performing mostly like an MX400 since all of those early geforces are badly limited by memory bandwidth I have an MX400 with my P3 750 atm, it's a nice card at low res.

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2024-12-26, 22:14

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I wouldn't really focus on Crysis with Win XP stuff. Why not? XP users outnumbered users of Vista at the time of Crysis' release. It wasn't until Windows 7 that people really started moving away from XP. So I think most games from that period would support XP and Direct X 9? I mean I used XP back …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2024-12-26, 15:25

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I think medium looked fine, good even, for the time, low looked awful there are some pics here, https://www.gamespot.com/articles/crysis-hardware-performance-guide/1100-6182806/ I think medium preserves enough of the aesthetics, while obviously not as good as high and very high, but low ruins it... …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2024-12-25, 20:01

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for period hardware it's better to play the game at medium settings tbh

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Re: ode to windows 98 and office 97

Posted on 2024-12-16, 01:13

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I think I quickly replaced office 97 with 2000 when that was a thing, but, to this day I use office 2007...

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Re: Best Drivers for GeForce4 MX-440

Posted on 2024-12-01, 23:43

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As a long time MX440 user, I can't understand some of the modern hate for the card (yeah, when it was released it was misleading - it was not a true GeForce4 card, but we all know that). It's a 2002 budget card that can work as a flagship 2000 card - almost like a GeForce2 Ultra, to be more precise …

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Re: Cpu for 1155 XP build

Posted on 2024-10-22, 13:56

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large cache is not needed but still improves perf, I think the i3 is plenty fast for XP games, but you would get some higher 3dmark scores or whatever (even if only using 1 core) with an i5 or i7 due to clock and larger cache. in saying that even a Pentium G620 will likely perform on the same league …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2024-10-03, 15:22

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indeed, imo NVSLI/CF was only good for benchmarking, for the user experience it's not worth it, even more pairing 2 budget cards, when it was 2 high end cards at least you could justify because you are achieving more than was possible with single gpu at the time, obviously 3dfx sli was a different …

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Re: S3 Graphics CHROME 530 GT

Posted on 2024-08-26, 18:10

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Nemo1985 wrote on 2024-08-26, 17:59: Impressing, where did you find it? A Pci express s3 card WOW around 2007-2008 S3 had the Chrome line, 400 and 500 series which was a DX10 GPU more or less competing against the 8400GS

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2024-08-25, 18:27

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970 is much nicer on the power/heat front and if you try to dual boot on newer windows/linux the 970 is much nicer but yeah, also I think a good working 970 is easier to find?

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Re: Are Abit back?

Posted on 2024-08-14, 22:30

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some "Soyo" boards are sold in China, they are all rebranded from other things I could see the same happening to Abit I suppose

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-08-03, 00:53

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zuldan wrote on 2024-08-02, 13:17: Nice video from Phil on mouse emulation https://youtu.be/GiyuoIrxi5U?si=cvrprJKawLJSDEIJ that's awesome, that really makes me want one, good mouse emulation and soudcard emulation, hmmmm

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Re: Top AGP GPU for 98se PIII Tualatin 1.4

Posted on 2024-07-22, 15:08

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the geforce 4 ti was released 1 month after the p3 1.4GHz seems pretty period correct, but it will be bottlenecked if you want glide wrapper I think you need a geforce fx no? so a FX 5900se or something should be ok

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2024-07-08, 16:22

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I think the only new CPU I owned new in the past 15 years is the Celeron n3350 inside my mini PC!

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Re: 775 fastest storage option?

Posted on 2024-07-06, 16:29

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ich7 doesn't offer AHCI and is limited to sata II speed, but it's ok in general. other than using the PCIE x16 (no graphics card?) I don't see an easy better option than just using those sata ports

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Re: I found a 775 to 478 adapter

Posted on 2024-05-24, 15:14

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some relevant material here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthrea … U-Transfer-Card

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 14:17

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I mean, even before AXP, the Athlon 1.4GHz was very often faster even then the fastest Willamette, but... not always, and P4 was the king in Quake 3 and some other things, I don't think that there was clearly one that was faster, but, P4 was a bad buy because it was way too expensive with rdram and …

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