Re: Matrox Parhelia 256 PCI-X Performance

Posted on 2015-07-16, 13:54

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feipoa - thank you for testing this out. I've always wondered if the PCI-X Parhelia was "special" for PCI-X systems, but based on this it would seem that conventionally "good" PCI cards (e.g. FX 5200, Radeon 9250, etc) would be comparable, or better, and likely much cheaper. I'm also curious about …

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Re: Graphic cards and CPUs history trees, wanna help?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 13:51

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Basic AMD tree done. Think im mising some modern Embeeded cpu's, but rest should be done (i hope). Now i have to move to something older and easier (zilog?, nextgen?). Not sure yet... Full image as always at http://vgamuseum.info/images/doc/cputree.png Very cool. :exclamation: :happy: One thing I …

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 13:46

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 13:37

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How long did that take to complete? Would I be accurate if I guessed 30 minutes?

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Re: Rage Fury MAXX fairly viable in classic gaming?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 13:27

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It was a decent card for its time, but It doesn't work in dual GPU mode in Windows 2000 or XP - just fine in 98SE though. I've never heard that before - very interesting to learn. Is it a driver problem or something with the way 2k/XP changed how 3D accelerators are treated? Admittedly I don't know …

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 13:23

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 02:15

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Re: My XP box!

Posted on 2015-07-15, 23:42

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The example of this board I got to toy around with some time ago had a Pentium D 800-series in it - they do work. At the time that was latest-and-greatest from Intel, but nowadays I'd probably just skip over Pentium D and go right for Core 2 Duo if given the choice.

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Re: Far Cry

Posted on 2015-07-15, 23:31

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Now I'm thinking of what crysis was meant to run on. Maybe a good period correct system would be: Q6600 NFORCE 680 8800GTX x2 Vista 64 For 2007 (Wikipedia says November '07), I'd probably fudge a little and say 9800GX2 (Wikipedia says March '08), or two. Or at least switch out to 8800GTS 512MB. In …

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Re: Best PCI GFX for P-III?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 23:17

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All of the FX 5200 cards I'm seeing these days are gimped 64-bit memory bus. The Dell OEM GeForce4 MX 440 card is very nice (I have acquired several). Good build quality, fast, 64MB RAM, 128bit bus and inexpensive. Anything from the Ti series is nice, I am waiting for my Quadro4 700 XGL's to arrive …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-15, 22:41

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candle_86 wrote: oh yea, one of them being HDR, real HDR not 24bit Bloom That's probably why I wasn't aware of it - the HDR in Oblivion always looked garish to me, so I never enabled it. 🤣

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-15, 22:29

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Yeah I am aware of how 6800 Ultra and X800/X850 stack up. Another thing to think about with R4x0 vs. NV4x is the SM2 vs. SM3 perspective. I played Oblivion on a X850XT and it is missing a number of effects. This was a problem that 6800 didn't have. Bioshock actually caused a little uprising when it …

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Re: Best PCI GFX for P-III?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 22:18

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My bad then. Very thorough explanation, thanks! Worth pointing out: that Anandtech article is based on AGP cards. While the PCI FX 5200 was able to hold its own with AGP GeForce 2 Ultra (in my admittedly limited test), I'm not sure to what extent it is or isn't being bottlenecked on PCI (e.g. would …

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 22:11

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Re: Best PCI GFX for P-III?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 21:08

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Isn't the FX5600 also the same GPU as FX5200 and FX5500, but with different clocks? PCI GeForceFX cards aren't cheap, so I'd suggest finding the cheapest 128bit model and then see how high it clocks. I had an FX 5600 XT that was actually slower than a vanilla FX 5200 (not the 64bit one). It was …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-15, 20:42

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I thought NV40 and R400 were on fairly equal footing. Sure there were games where one side would win but there wasn't anything really extreme as with the previous gen. NV40 and R420 sure - the 6800 Ultra and X800Pro/XT are pretty comparable. X800XT Platinum and X850 are another story altogether …

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Re: Best PCI GFX for P-III?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 15:02

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In the absence of a FX5600 PCI (very hard to find) Radeon 9100 PCI, preferably by Visiontek because their version has higher clocks on the core and memory. A FX5500 PCI would also be a better choice than a FX5200. Forgot about the elusive 5600s - that would be faster indeed. FX 5500 is the same as …

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Re: Best PCI GFX for P-III?

Posted on 2015-07-15, 12:11

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I'd vote FX 5200 PCI. I benchmarked one of them (I forget what I titled the thread so I'll have to dig for it :lol: ) - it performed better than many older AGP cards, at least in a P4 system. And it will do DX8 which GeForce 2/Voodoo3/etc will not do. Just make sure you get a 128-bit card (from what …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-14, 20:54

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An interesting aspect of Radeon 9500/9700 is the heatsink doesn't actually make contact with the die. There's thermal phase change "wax" filling the gap. I don't know if it matters but that always seemed a bit strange for a rather hot chip. The 9700s I've seen start artifacting were "fixed" with a …

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Re: Plastic lubricants in Logitech mouses?

Posted on 2015-07-14, 20:32

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It may have had grease on the springs, or it may have been an adhesive that has not aged gracefully. Does it feel/behave significantly "rougher" or "worse" since being taken apart and cleaned of this yellow substance?

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