Re: Upgrading my current Windows XP build

Posted on 2020-01-14, 13:46

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by Koltoroc

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Hwcompare is a poor resource the GTX 460 is slower than a 285, a 460 sits just below a 275 in performance. Anything that won't run on newer than XP a 285 can Max out handily,it was able to run oblivion at 2560x1600 at ultra as well as crysis at 1080p dx10 ultra and maintain above 45fps. Why? What …

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Re: PC-3200 2GB DIMM Non-ECC, does it exist?

Posted on 2020-01-09, 10:33

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by Koltoroc

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I distinctively remember 2GB DDR1 dimms have been for sale years and years ago. They became available when DDR2 was already a thing, were stupidly expensive and only worked on some machines, I'm not sure they were even PC-3200 I believe they were slower. There was no point to them at that time as I …

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Re: Nvidia Ageia PhysX PCI Card in 486? win98?

Posted on 2019-07-19, 23:55

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by Koltoroc

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Only XP or higher is supported. But even if for example 9x drivers existed, why? there is no game that could even run on 486 or pentium that supports physx. We are are talking about mid to late 2000s games after all.

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Re: Radeon 9800 XXL. anyone got one?

Posted on 2019-07-10, 01:18

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by Koltoroc

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to be honest, its incredible that a 9800 pro with stock cooler survived after so many years. Not only because of cooler and heatsink, also they used to glue the heatsink to the dye, so its common that when you open it you will find some kind of yellow glued and hard thing on the dye. That is not …

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Re: Old hard disk data recovery - swapped controller board, still nothing (SATA WD GREEN drive)

Posted on 2019-06-13, 14:12

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by Koltoroc

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luckybob wrote: Side note: When the hell did a 750gb drive become OLD? Years ago, when multi terabyte HDDs became widely available. Personally I consider everything below 8TB old and outdated now (exempting SSDz).

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Re: Anyone try a new off-brand PSU w/ strong 5v rail?

Posted on 2019-04-23, 14:39

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by Koltoroc

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Don't buy off brand PSUs at all. They are usually the cheapest chinesium crap you can imagine, they skimp on component quality, particularly on the caps, they have terrible construction, questionable regulation at the best of times and worst of all, they lie about their specs If there is a single …

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Re: DOS/Win95/XP PC with Roland SC-155 and Voodoo support

Posted on 2019-04-20, 11:41

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by Koltoroc

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The "MT-32" emulation of the SC-55 based modules is pretty worthless for games. What it does have is an alternate instrument map to match the default mapping of the MT-32. While that sounds useful, it misses a major feature of the MT-32 and that is the ability to dynamically reprogram the …

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Re: Did you Overclock back in the day? Pencil Mods etc?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 01:04

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by Koltoroc

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The thunderbird was the one with the pencil mod, later models had some laser etching to make it more difficult and you needed conductive paint to do it reliably. And yes, I did that to mine, just not very succesfully. The thunderbirds I got were not very cooperative while overclocking. My 1200 did …

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Re: Nvidia 6800

Posted on 2019-04-03, 14:53

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by Koltoroc

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Bige4u wrote: GT or Ultra... sticker labeled as GT, but it has two molex power connecters like an Ultra, any idea which is it? Thanks most likely a GT. Some manufacturers used the same PCB for both IIRC

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Re: what keyboard connector is this

Posted on 2019-04-03, 14:51

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by Koltoroc

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I may be wrong here, but didn't the PC jr. use a connector like this?

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Re: Foxconn 945P7AA - Can't install windows. BOOTMGR is missing

Posted on 2019-03-28, 15:20

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by Koltoroc

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you can't change an installed OS to another system, because the HW are totally different, then the OS try to install all the new HW and boom, BOSD or loops. you can't change AHCI mode to IDE/SATA on an installed OS, they crash on boot (because the HDD controller are different). windows 7 and up are …

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Re: Underclocking PIII Coppermine 1Ghz

Posted on 2019-03-17, 21:35

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by Koltoroc

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The only problem with underclocking is with dynamic processors (like most Intel processors are) is that the clock gets too low so that the internal processor memories refresh (i.e. registers, cache, etc) cycles get too long, so that the data stored there gets lost. Just guessing from the things …

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-17, 18:41

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by Koltoroc

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At least, that was my reasoning. Though now, based on what you say, I'm thinking because bumps are so small, so close to the heat source (while also producing heat themselves) and opposite side of the cooling surface, that active versus passive cooling likely doesn't have much influence on thermal …

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-17, 00:59

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by Koltoroc

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I know it, that's the issue with the macbooks, Louis Rossmann made a nice video telling about, i guess it was a reply to linus from linus tech tips, cause in one video linus baked a gpu back to working order, and like we know, it will fail again eventually. Yeah, I've seen that video and you are …

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Re: nForce 1 thread

Posted on 2019-03-16, 22:34

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by Koltoroc

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AMD 750 perhaps - it is hard to get worse than KX133. :lol: But AMD 760 I'm not so sure. Maybe it is just my board (Tyan Thunder MPX)... but its performance is trash. Roughly on par with KT133A, which is rather bad considering AMD 760 is DDR chipset. And of course miles behind nForce2 or even …

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Re: nForce 1 (220/415/420 aka Crush 11/12) thread

Posted on 2019-03-16, 22:15

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by Koltoroc

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I didn't mean I would prefer to use AMD chipsets during the nForce 1/2 era. I meant I don't choose nForce chipsets for modern hardware. But if I were to use vintage hardware, then I would go with an Intel chipset and motherboard. nvidia chipsets are vintage hardware. There haven't been any new 3rd …

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Re: nForce 1 thread

Posted on 2019-03-16, 18:24

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by Koltoroc

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AMD chipsets FTW, because they have pretty sick performance. For audio systems, I prefer Realtek HD Audio, because it has great audio quality. Other than that, nice project :happy: neither of which were a thing when the nforce 1 and 2 were a thing. AMD chipsets weren't useful since they were only …

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-16, 16:39

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by Koltoroc

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it isn't the whole flip chip bga issue? like on a series of macbooks that the gpu suddenly dies and you can't even reball it properly cause it is a flip chip bga ? It is the same issue and it is misunderstood. It is NOT the BGA balls that are the issue. that is why reballing doesn't help. The " …

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Re: Athlon 64 questions

Posted on 2019-03-16, 14:57

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by Koltoroc

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Because they are flawed by design chips, which will die eventually by loosing BGA contact between the crystal and its PCB. Increased heat will only fasten the process. only half correct. The BGA balls are not the issue here, the solder bumps between the die and the chip carrier are. The reason is …

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Re: ati radeon cards win9x game compatibility

Posted on 2019-03-03, 20:52

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by Koltoroc

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Final fantasy 8 is an example. The reason is, that ATI cards don't natively support 8 bit palletized textures and table fog. One of the 2 had a software emulation but I don't remember the deatails. The same problem will occur in geforce cards newer than the Geforce 5 (FX) series, as that is the last …

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