Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-11-26, 23:57

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-11-26, 22:29: I mean yes, but is that stable in practice? Ie 5900/ultra on 5950 or 5900zt? How do you pick which one, chip ID/model? Also, aren't manual drivers usually .inf only, so no NV control panel?

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-11-26, 16:13

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-11-24, 13:05: According to Phils 98 driver lists, 5950 and Q4000 and some other AGP ones start with 5x.xx drivers, that's kinda why I asked, afaik 5x50 are somewhat better than originals, and some xt/zt are somewhat cheaper and easier to find, but 5x.xx and on only.

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-11-21, 18:52

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Meh, that creates a driver split between older FX5s/FXQs making older ones a relatively better W98 choice at the cost of some speed. Man do I not like FX series. I've never gotten the PCIE-based cards to work properly with any driver version before 61.xx including my Quadro Fx 1300. I think Nvidia …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-11-19, 15:51

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-11-12, 11:57: There is no difference for both. I'm asking in the sense thst some FX5s/FXQs came post 45.xx drivers. Can they be forced to work stable with 45.xx by forcing them to be installed as an older card?

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-11-10, 14:39

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I mean, you are running driver hacks, ID/RivaTuner, and BIOS flashing it, maybe the issue is forcing it into PCX5900 exclusively, maybe 5900xz/zt/xyzt would work? Judging from my experience with similar Quadro cards of that era, there's no practical benefit in trying to modhack Quadro FX to GeForce …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-10-31, 04:20

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I still prefer the FX1300 visually in DOS games to any other PCI-E card, Radeon or Geforce I've tested. It's very crisp were the other cards look rather blurry. One thing I find odd is that Rloew's Nvsize app is listing this cards CFG PCI Size as 256MiB, the other 3 listings have the correct size. …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-10-30, 21:52

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1. Anyone compared performance a same game with this and in PCem/86box (and/or Dosbox)? 2. Where do a huge amount of likes for this project?

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Re: +5V Load Balancer?

Posted on 2023-10-30, 19:24

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Some mobos had power problems, but this thread isn’t about those, it’s about power supplies that need suplimented. You can simply tap into the atx connector or I’m recalling some hard drives had a sata/4 pin molex power connector that could be used as a bridge maybe. It’s all over thinking though. …

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Re: +5V Load Balancer?

Posted on 2023-10-30, 13:00

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So there's no way to take 12v rail and DC-DC to 5v and get that into the mobo? Also, 24A +5V is 120W, not really that much, seems okay, but nothing special, no? The EVGA PSUs I'm looking at have 24A for 5V, but there are some other vendors, including Corsair (from the PSUs I could find specs of), …

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Re: +5V Load Balancer?

Posted on 2023-10-29, 17:45

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This is *NOT* a load balancer. Load balancer means a device have many outputs that is regulated individually to each load. Remember current is different on each load regardless of voltage. Good example: Charging battery per cell to keep them balanced. What this you are looking at is, this device is …

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Re: +5V Load Balancer?

Posted on 2023-10-28, 22:50

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Might help. Curious if it backfeeds the 5v or only supplies it to the three aux connectors. You could also make one pretty easily by buying a 12v to 5v converter and installing a molex on it. Pulls 12v and backfeeds 5v back to the 5v rail (multiple 5v sources in parallel, which is fine, we do this …

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+5V Load Balancer?

Posted on 2023-10-28, 15:49

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Not an advertisement for this product. Found this while random googling for strong +5v rail modern PSU. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/accessories/cp-8920275/corsair5v-load-balancer-aca-a-100w-capacity-cp-8920275 Is this useful for running modern ATX PSU with 90s (P3s/Athlons) builds, does it …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-15, 00:54

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-07-11, 07:06: No, both require free third-party utilities to set SATA mod manually. Can't thank you enough for your insights, don't mind if I don't do a "Thanks!" post for every one of your gems! Like this one 😀

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Re: 478 vs 775 insurrection

Posted on 2023-07-14, 14:07

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TrashPanda wrote on 2023-07-14, 12:47: You could indeed cook steak on them .. even seen videos of it being done, and weak VRMs did have issues with the Pentium D CPUs. Would a modern cooler ala Scythe Mugen 1/2 s478 handle these monsters? And maybe some ghetto small coolers and/or small heatsinks …

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Re: 478 vs 775 insurrection

Posted on 2023-07-13, 11:43

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they where not glued together , 1 PCB , 2 dies (worked like dual Xeon 604) 90nm Pentium D were actually glued together. Your second picture is a die shot of the Smithfield core. It also has additional data bus to poke neighbors L2 cache. I'm still a bit confused how'd these use the shared FSB, but …

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Re: 478 vs 775 insurrection

Posted on 2023-07-12, 23:06

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ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-07-11, 10:21: Thanks. By early, do you mean "before they got Service Packs and better support" or "early programs didn't run as good per se"?

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-11, 01:17

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Thanks for that info VDNKH. The 775Dual VSTA does not appear to be effected by that bug. AGP Texture acceleration is enabled in Dxdiag. 2mg I’ll give rivatuner bootstrapping a shot but I don’t think it will change much. It didn’t change much if I remember, it just gave me different control panel …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 18:42

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VDNKh wrote on 2023-07-10, 17:05: Thanks for the insights, I've some PT880 mobos so this might be a lifesaver! I've read something here about it's Southbridge counterpart having some issues with IDE/Sata in W98 too, can't seem to find it...

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-09, 20:31

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Any "how-to" on this? Also, which GPUs you running on that? The only chipset driver you should need is the via_hyperion_4in1_v456v.zip on Phils site. It installed everything chipset related. I don't know about LAN and the AC97 audio as I don't use those. I was running the Quadro FX 3000. As other …

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Re: 478 vs 775 insurrection

Posted on 2023-07-09, 20:14

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Slight necro, but can someone ELI5 how did pre-C2D Intels with 2 "cpus glued together" actually handle FSB? Did they share it, aka could one "core"choke the other, or was is 1/2 FSB speed split per "core"?

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