Re: Would a GTX 1060 be a good card for DX9-DX10 games?

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GTX 960 is excellent for this on XP. But for current games on Steam, not so much. My father recently (Jan 2023) got on a War of God and it is kicking the poor GTX 960, I had to drop to medium or low IIRC. Cheers, there have been some driver issues with the 900 series I think, I saw that on Halo …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2023-02-05, 18:15

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I would think you have some pretty low clocks on that 9550 but it should be capable of some OC.

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Re: Would a GTX 1060 be a good card for DX9-DX10 games?

Posted on 2023-02-05, 18:12

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the older cards with XP drivers I guess could have some advantages like, from the top of my mind, without modding Far Cry has wrong water reflections on anything newer than windows xp and it is a dx9 game.

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Re: Pentium 4 chipsets for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2023-01-28, 17:53

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I still don't understand a "fast" P4 for a Win98 only build. By that point almost everyone had moved on to XP. And any late 98 games can be played just fine (and likely better) in XP. Actually large numbers of late 98 games had issues on WinXP. Many were optimized and tested for Win98, and large …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-27, 17:48

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The memory latency was really quite dreadful on my AM2 system. I had always wondered if the GeForce 6150 iGPU had anything to do with it, or perhaps the way it was plumbed in to the memory bus. I remember it being really slow for Windows Aero. Like, even worse than Intel GMA 3000 somehow. As others …

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Re: Best GPU with S-Video out

Posted on 2023-01-26, 15:10

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Geforce2 and Geforce3, and 4 have S-video output, some FX 5xxx do. Cheers, And these are real s-video outputs that i can plug in directly? Not weird proprietary ViVo dongles? my FX5900 has an svideo out, it supports those splitters for component and whatnot, but a straight svideo or svideo to …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-21, 18:34

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some AM2 boards released during the k8 days got bios upgrades to support Phenom and Phenom II, while running Phenom II with DDR2 had a performance drop I don't think it was that massive, well, the original Phenom II 920 and 940 were DDR2 only CPUs. the cheaper AM2 A64s like 4000+, 5000+ used to be …

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-16, 23:17

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I've played with 760G before. That was basically a second spin of 690G and with a newer southbridge. You can play some oldies pretty well on it. It's D3D9 SM2, similar to a Radeon X600. Honestly the 780G-890GX IGPs aren't much of an improvement. I think a Phenom II / Athlon II still makes an …

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-15, 00:25

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760g, 780l, 780g, 790gx all share the same basic IGP with certain clock variations and video decoding block being not present in some.

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-15, 00:14

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I used for a long time a Phenom II 1100T with a 990fx and 16gb ram, the last graphics card I used in it was an RX580 and the lack of instructions left me with no other option than to change the equipment. As always, it depends on what the computer is used for. The last "modern" game I tried on that …

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Re: What to do with an Am3 / AMD 760G Chipset Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-01-14, 18:16

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if some kind of graphics card it could be a competent gaming PC for windows XP games, with an SSD it might be passable for web browsing could also be used to emulate old platforms,

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Re: Geforce FX 5200 upgrade?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 20:53

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amxcs wrote on 2023-01-04, 16:44: Hmm.. https://i.imgur.com/6LD8dWv.gif […] Show full quote Hmm.. yep, this is a 64bits 333MHz DDR card, pretty low, same memory bandwidth as a Voodoo 3 128bits 400MHz+ ram FX 5200 would be a lot faster, even if still not a great card.

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Re: Geforce FX 5200 upgrade?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 15:27

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most 5200s you find floating around tend to be 64bit memory and low clocks, check the specs on your card to have a better idea.

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Re: Quad Pentium III computer, what can it do in 2022

Posted on 2022-12-22, 19:18

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if you look around youtube some people have experimented with dual P3s and faster AGP graphics (HD 3850/4670) on newer games, and in general it's not very good, those CPUs are going to be very limited by the FSB/memory bandwidth and they lack SSE2 even, 4 CPUs would probably not help much with games …

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Re: Windows XP how many people still use for it their MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-12-12, 19:18

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Seriously guys, the time for XP compatible browsers is over. The web simply has become too bloated and 32-Bit editions were hard to compile to in ~2010 already. As far as I remember from the news back then, a Windows 2000 machine used for compilation had to use all kind of tricks to get Firefox 32- …

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Re: Feedbacks on my Pentium IV&GeForce FX 5700 Rig? (3DMark Score)

Posted on 2022-12-11, 22:07

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I would expect that card to easily go over 10k, maybe 12k with a more equivalent CPU, FX 5700 is mid range 2003, for that you would probably have closer to a 2.4-2.8GHz P4 or around 2GHz AXP.

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Re: "Fake AGP" slots?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 20:51

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well, if it is 66MHz that is an actual good benefit over a regular PCI card, but I seem to remember seeing 33MHz, any good ways to test this bandwidth?

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Re: "Fake AGP" slots?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 14:43

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afaik it's running like typical pci 32bit 33mhz.

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Re: "Fake AGP" slots?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 14:00

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I'm using a PC Chips A31G (761GX) with a "fake" AGP, the card just behaves like a PCI card, at least the ones I tested did (9250, MX4000), still a nice option to have in terms of compatibility I guess, but not a good solution for performance. I think other than having a chipset with native AGP …

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Re: Gpu advice needed for a WinXP build.

Posted on 2022-11-25, 17:04

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GTS 250 is a very fast card for 2007-2008, Pentium 4 only made sense until around 2004/5

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