Re: Best Socket A or 478 Chipset for Windows 98 Compatibility
Posted on 2020-09-14, 23:27
the nforce 2 boards that I had from abit and msi had the 12v connector
Re: P III vs P4
Posted on 2020-09-06, 18:20
So, going with the Pentium 4. Socket 478 or LGA 775? Is there an advantage one over the other? if you use both of these with the same chipset and kind of CPU performance will be the same, what is different is compatibility, lga 775 obviously has better compatibility with newer stuff, 478 with older …
Re: Super Mario 64 for MS-DOS
Posted on 2020-09-06, 01:44
when I saw all the ports of mario 64 being done I thought that it would be cool if someone made it work on win9x, but DOS is beyond that, very cool
Re: Story about 3 P3 CPUs (DIY cooling, temps and yellow crusty substance included)
Posted on 2020-09-05, 17:37
the 2 slot 1 CPUs that I have are a p3 750 with a common coolermaster cooler (similar or the same to this https://images.esellerpro.com/2131/I/528/44/DCP_9722.JPG), and a PII 400 with the Intel cooler, sadly my P2B doesn't present me with any temperature reading for the CPU, but my finger tells me …
Re: dogs in video games
Posted on 2020-09-05, 17:12
Re: Did PC-Chips ever release a high quality motherboard?
Posted on 2020-09-03, 22:38
I have a m538 and and a couple of m598LMRs, they all still fully work, and these were always paired with the cheapest possible PSUs in terms of durability I think they were fine, it's just that... they never had the fastest or bug free experience, well that's more for the 598s, the 538 seems pretty …
Re: AliExpress AGP cards
Posted on 2020-09-03, 14:47
actually, did anyone here buy one of those 7600s from aliexpress? I'm curious if it can overclock to regular 7600 levels at least
Re: AliExpress AGP cards
Posted on 2020-09-03, 03:17
266MHz is very low for a 7600, don't expect regular 7600 performance from it I think it's far better to look for a card on ebay or locally from a known brand
Re: Crysis Remastered hitting Epic Store
Posted on 2020-09-02, 12:29
the main problem with original Crysis is CPU usage, it's limited to really 2 cores but it's very heavy even for the latest 5GHz CPU at times, that's what I expect this remaster to fix, but the specs are certainly looking pretty high, RX 470 on the minimum side!? ouch one thing that is very …
Re: Asus P3B-F and GeForce Ti 4800? tualatin?
Posted on 2020-09-02, 11:08
I assume that the small AGP 2x bandwidth is going to be the bottleneck, because the Ti4800 was designed with AGP 8x in mind. You're probably not going to see a lot of improvement compared to e.g. an AGP 4x MX440 with 128 bit memory interface (does this even exist?). I have a similar system, but …
Re: Asus P3B-F and GeForce Ti 4800? tualatin?
Posted on 2020-09-01, 20:07
4800 should work fine. 4800 is a rebrand from the 4600.. They will perform the same. 4600 use AGP x4 4800 use AGP x8. 4800 looks faster on the digits, but actually it performs the same. There isnt really a performance difference between AGP x4 / AGP8x.. Or isnt noticable. The bottleneck is really …
Re: Asus P3B-F and GeForce Ti 4800? tualatin?
Posted on 2020-09-01, 12:05
is your GF2 MX a 64bits SDR model? because outside of that I don't see how it could be slower than a tnt2u!? the ti 4800 should be compatible with AGP2x, and as far as I know respect the power specs, but it's probably near the limit.
Re: Usability of this K7 3dfx Compaq I found and HW questions
Posted on 2020-08-28, 16:51
very cool PC, shame about the missing front cover for the CD drives, main con was mentioned which is the lack of ISA slot, I would totally keep this thing (after some cleaning!), but I have a soft spot for this era of Compaq.
Re: What is the purpose of "Restart into MS-DOS mode" for you ?
Posted on 2020-08-27, 21:44
at some point I enjoyed launching whatever was a dos program from actual dos, but at the moment I just use win9x for whatever runs in it without problems, reverting to DOS when I encounter compatibility issues only.
Re: P III vs P4
Posted on 2020-08-26, 11:26
I did have issues installing some programs due to lack of SSE2, but not the OS (XP) itself, I think I tried firefox 52 ESR and it failed for lack of SSE2, also a video player software, so yeah p4 would have an advantage with that alone, but for playing old games that's not really a factor.
Re: P III vs P4
Posted on 2020-08-26, 10:19
P4 lowest desktop model was 1.3GHz but faster models were a lot more popular, clock for clock P4 is slower, but it can be clocked much higher on average, and have access to a faster bus/ram, so in general it's easy to say P4 was faster, still, lower models P4 can be slower than some P3s, as for …
Re: Benchmark of my several vintage PC with different videocards ( i will update the first post )
Posted on 2020-08-26, 06:25
you have to edit some value on registry for Glide, even NFS Porsche has a glide mode that might run faster (but I think it looks worse than d3d mode maxed), NFS3 might also require a patch, by default it should be running in D3D yes with the V3, which is likely not the most optimized option,
Re: Today is Windows 95 25th Birrthday. Share your memories
Posted on 2020-08-25, 06:07
I remember fairly well that my father had acquired a new Compaq CDS524 earlier that year, which came with windows 3.1, but as far as I know with the promise of a free windows 95 update, I remember it was delivered half unexpectedly months later it was a big box version, 7 years old me was even …
Re: Benchmark of my several vintage PC with different videocards ( i will update the first post )
Posted on 2020-08-25, 05:50
I compared them a while back, so don't have exact numbers right now. However, there was a very noticeable difference in all my usual tests (GLQuake, Quake 2, Expendable, NFS 3, NFS4, 3DMark 99/2000). For GLQuake / Quake 2 it wasn't a big issue, because framerates were still very high, however for …
Re: Benchmark of my several vintage PC with different videocards ( i will update the first post )
Posted on 2020-08-24, 18:50
@SPBHM, on a Coppermine, at lower resolutions, even the GeForce 2 MX is faster than a 4 MX (not to mention FX 5200). CPU overhead with newer drivers was always a thing (and it probably still is today, although to a lesser extent... since technological progress has not been as fast as it used to be …
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