Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2021-11-16, 08:22

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by lordmogul

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In my Socket 370 system (i815 chipset, 98SE/XP dual boot) I'm running a USB 2.0/IDE/SATa combo card with VIA VT6214L and VT6421A chips. No idea which one das what, but so far I had no issues using the USB and IDE ports on it, and drivers for 98 SE are available. Looks like this (picture from the …

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Re: Can you help me build a Windows 98 SE gaming machine?

Posted on 2021-11-07, 18:46

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by lordmogul

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The E4700 is a great choice, pretty much the fastest stock supported dual core you can find. 98 won't use more than one core anyway, and there are few XP "optimized" games, that need a quad and have issues on more recent systems. By the time games made good use of quad cores, you start going into …

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Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2021-05-03, 19:14

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by lordmogul

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I'm currently in the process in running it through my P3 rig at different clocks and cache settings and the speedsys results are a bit confusing. In the spreadsheet the faster systems are getting smaller values, The P4 NW sitting at 1.55 and a 486dx-33 at around 1070, but my result is around 1150, …

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Re: Real hardware DOS gaming console for HDMI displays

Posted on 2020-12-09, 06:39

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by lordmogul

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[*]Reconfigurable wireless controller that can play almost all DOS games without compromises (means mapping keyboard keys, not just a 4-axis 4-button joystick) Remember to write some sort of on-screen keyboard for those games that rely on stuff like a text parser and can't be controlled by setting …

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Re: My poor 300mhz Kalmath core Pentium 2 has spent 23 years like this

Posted on 2020-07-22, 11:02

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by lordmogul

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Reminds me of DAU alarm, they have a big gallery of stuff like that. Foils left on, chipped Athlons, machines drowned in conductive paste, no paste, paste in the socket, more chipped Athlons, coolers mounted the wrong way, even more chipped Athlons. Warning, will break your mind and never place down …

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Re: PIII for Win98 gaming

Posted on 2020-07-22, 10:47

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by lordmogul

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A few years back I found a couple of passive Medion Geforce 3 Ti 200 and snatched one of them. Great card, but maybe a bit too much for your setup. On the other hand it would mean you could drive up the resolution and play everything on 1280x960 or something crazy like that. The MX 460 also seems a …

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Re: Anyone collect foreign computers?

Posted on 2020-07-22, 10:39

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by lordmogul

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I'd love to get my hands on some machines that were common overseas like a PC-98 or Tandy. Sadly prices and compatibility are a bit of an issue.

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Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?

Posted on 2020-07-22, 06:55

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by lordmogul

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I can only speak from a SB 128PCI, which is rather bad for DOS, but at least works, when using the older drivers from Ensoniq (not the ones form the Creative site) Sound is really not that great, but it's a PCI card that will run in DOS (-mode)

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Re: Latest ATI Catalyst driver for Top AGP2X Radeon 9800Pro on Win95 ?

Posted on 2020-07-22, 06:21

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by lordmogul

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just because Win 95 ends with DX 8.0a doesn't necessarily mean it can't run cards that support newer versions. Think of it that way: XP only supports up to DX 9.0c, but the fastest/newest cards with driver support are the GTX 780 Ti/GTX 960 and R9 270X, which are all fairly beefy DX11 cards. Not …

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Re: Retro builds with modern conveniences

Posted on 2020-07-22, 05:58

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by lordmogul

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I slapped USB 2.0 and 100 mbps network into my P3 build for convenience, and a more than neccesary fan setup and a fairly recent PSU for ease of mind that it doesn't blow up. Personally I'm generally somewhere between "only period-correct hardware" and "if it works it's fine": Everything that makes …

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2020-07-22, 05:45

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by lordmogul

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I got one of these generic cards with VT6421A & VT6214L for 4x USB 2.0, 1x2 IDE and 2x SATA. While it has it's own known issues, there are drivers for 98 SE and all functions, USB & IDE & SATA, work fine. Bought it for the USB 2.0 but having some more ports for more drives doesn't hurt.

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Re: What's Underneath the X48 Chipset IHS?

Posted on 2020-07-22, 05:27

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by lordmogul

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Anyway, I doubt northbridge cooling will limit the system before anything else does. I got a X5460 running in 456 FSB, and had a E8400 on 467 FSB running on a P35 board. Not even that, but at 473 FSB my Corsair DDR2-800 OEM sticks are at their limit, so I haven't tried further. Pretty sure you will …

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Re: CPU Challenge - Windows 98

Posted on 2020-07-22, 05:04

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by lordmogul

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Did run it as well in all resolutions available on the CuMine in the sig: resolution software ogl 320x240 92.8 fps 230.0 fps 400x300 78.7 fps 232.1 fps 512x384 60.8 fps 235.4 fps 640x480 47.3 fps 234.0 fps 800x600 36.2 fps 236.2 fps 960x720 28.3 fps 234.6 fps 1024x768 25.3 fps 223.8 fps 1152x864 21 …

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Re: Poor performance on a 7900GS + Pentium D

Posted on 2020-07-22, 03:00

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by lordmogul

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Speaking of my CPU, how's this for the scores in CPU-Z? Is it normal speeds? Probably not. You asked for it so... Put my LGA775 build on the same clocks for a little check. (9x266, DDR2-667 CL5) CPU-Z Bench 2.4.png Seems about right. The Xeon is slightly faster, but mostly because Penryn is a tad …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-22, 02:03

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by lordmogul

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Will be interesting to see how it reacts to my Xeon setup (LGA771 on LGA775, but technically still a Core 2, so it should work, right?). Will give it a try there.

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-22, 01:28

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by lordmogul

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Today in 2020 it's still the 3570K that somewhat soon will have to make room for a nice Ryzen. In 2010 I think I was already on my E8400 (which is still sitting around here, waiting to be used for some benches) 5 years would actually be more interesting (adding a Intel heater in 2005, and the same …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-03-06, 04:48

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by lordmogul

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Not really odd, rare or unusual hardware, but I will put it up anyway for completion sake. hardware tested: CPU: Pentium 3 933EB || overclocked to 1035 MHz (148x7.0) Graphics: GeForce 3 Ti 200 Motherboard: Asus CUSL2-C (intel i915EP) RAM: 256 MB PC133 SDRAM (Infineon) CL3-3-3-5-7 || overclocked to …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H 1.1, Intel Core i7 3770K, MSI GeForce 960

Posted on 2020-03-06, 01:23

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by lordmogul

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Are we talking "not working at all, under no circumstances" or "needs tweaks to make work properly " or "works with limitations"? Stuff like EAX runs in hardware on XP, but can only be emulated in Vista and up, requiring either a software wrapper or need to be played without. That means any game …

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Re: Pentium 2 @ 133 mhz project ,help

Posted on 2020-03-03, 19:24

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by lordmogul

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About your cache issue on 2.0x multiplier: I read https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=293862#p293862 today and stumbled upon this: (...) In most cases, if you try to run a PII Klamath with a 2.0x multiplier, the onboard L2 cache will get disabled on motherboards with a chipset other than a 440FX. …

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Re: Huge "zoom out" games list

Posted on 2020-02-27, 01:51

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by lordmogul

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Since it says "games list" I think I can add something towards the "zoom out" part. Roller Coaster Tycoon can be run in any resolution in window mode. It will start in whatever is set in the game, but can be pulled bigger as far as the screen goes.

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