Re: Any games a Pentium 4 PC can play that a modern PC can't?
Posted on Today, 01:39
Yeah, these old CRTs are too valuable for casual use. I only use mine when I need to test something. The rest of the time I use VGA.
Re: Bum Simulator
Posted on Yesterday, 23:51
Video games do cause violence. See this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlhpxsXgR3U
Re: games I should play on dual cpu servers
Posted on Yesterday, 23:39
No, I don't think anything named "Poweredge" was ever released with an AGP port. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Dell used another name (Precision?) for its workstation-class machines.
Re: games I should play on dual cpu servers
Posted on Yesterday, 15:50
I really like my HP dual 604 rig because it's like the steroidal big brother of the S478 P4 I was using 20 years ago. Mine however has PCIe slots which gives it lots of options that the OP's machine lacks.
Re: Dual (SLI) Voodoo2 1000 worth it?
Posted on Yesterday, 04:50
Faulty IDE controller?
Re: games I should play on dual cpu servers
Posted on Yesterday, 02:49
I see the Powerwedgie 2600 has only PCI slots, no PCIe. That's a big limitation. If it had at least a PCIe x8 slot then you could get some newish games running on it. But with PCI, forget it.
Re: Did you miss any significant period of computer development?
Posted on 2021-09-18, 05:10
yes, my history is similar. A 486 in 1994 then a P2 in 1999. Matrox Millennium G200. However I DID get into Quake in a big way. It was my most-played game until the cheaters ruined it.
Re: 32-Bit is dead
Posted on 2021-09-16, 00:40
I've never seen an Itanium system. The fatal weakness seems to have been its inability to run x86 software.
Re: Did you miss any significant period of computer development?
Posted on 2021-09-14, 17:58
Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?
Posted on 2021-09-14, 13:38
The Matrox Productiva G100 MMS supports four monitors and I believe it came out in 1998, a year before the G400.
Re: What is the recommended spec for CPU and RAM for DOS game?
Posted on 2021-09-13, 22:45
Q2DOS wants 48 MB
Re: Latest PCI vga with bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-09-12, 21:08
The 1333 MHz GeForce GT 610 PCI @ 33 MHz with 512 MB VRAM actually outperforms the equivalent 1066 MHz PCIe x16 with 1 GB in 3DMark 11 And the 1600 MHz GeForce GT 520 PCIe x16 outperforms all the other cards in all benchmarks. (I don't know if Zotac ever released a 1600 MHz GT 610.)
Re: 32-Bit is dead
Posted on 2021-09-12, 15:24
Re: Latest PCI vga with bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-09-11, 21:05
Be aware that the PNY GeForce 8400 GS PCIe was produced in two versions, with memory clocked at 666 MHz and 800 MHz. The equivalent PCI card was only produced in a 666 MHz version. ETA: Also watch out for this with the Zotac GeForce GT 520/610 cards. The PCIe cards were produced in versions with …
Re: Problem with Pod...
Posted on 2021-09-10, 18:11
I remember that POD used MMX for sound, and was one of the first games to do this.
Re: GTA on Pentium MMX 233 + Voodoo2, unplayable?
Posted on 2021-09-08, 10:20
I have a similar rig but I've never tried running the game under pure DOS. I run the DOS version under Window 95C. No problems.
Re: CED disks
Posted on 2021-09-07, 07:13
It arrived in the early 80s and so had to compete with video tapes, laserdiscs and CDs. If it had come out a decade earlier it would probably have succeeded.
Re: What graphics card for a Pentium II 400?
Posted on 2021-09-06, 21:21
dataino.it wrote on 2021-09-06, 20:39: In australia you have to ask Ben ,,, before he destroys every computer on Australian soil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrXAghbkcEU&t=129s That's a NEC PowerMate 1 Plus (APC-H2010F). How much are working 286s selling for nowadays?
Re: Core2Duo or Core2Quad?
Posted on 2021-09-05, 15:47
@BitWrangler I have two of those chunky ASUS cards, a GT 730 and GT 710. They're nice because they're PCIe x8 and so fit in old servers which only have x8 slots. However, being servers, they have very efficient (and LOUD) cooling, so overheating is not a problem.
Re: Core2Duo or Core2Quad?
Posted on 2021-09-05, 15:28
Yes, look for something like this: https://www.staples.ca/products/2840481-en-global-win-system-card-cooler-caf-12 (I have several of these which I bought many years ago for a lot less than $20. They are very useful and I wish I had more.) You can also buy a cheap Zotac PCIe card of the same …
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