Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-03-19, 10:07

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by nd22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Windows 9X driver for Geforce 8 and later graphics cards. It has become impossible to find any card that is Windows 9X compatible at a reasonable price! Even for geforce 5200/radeon 9200 prices are going up and up! I was lucky to start collecting 9 years ago and now I have a lot of cards - today …

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Re: Blue Lightning - blue themed socket 370 build proposal

Posted on 2024-03-07, 08:40

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by nd22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A geforce 4200 would smoke very game up to 2001 and would be a perfect match for this system together with 98SE. If it is hard to find or expensive a geforce 6600 standard would provide an even bigger performance at a lower cost. I do not know much about sound cards but I think Creative live would …

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Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 07:46

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by nd22

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I purchased a brand new system with AGP in 2004: ABit kv8 pro, athlon 64 2800, geforce 6600gt - simply because pci-express was commanding a huge premium back than. I stayed on the same AGP video card until 2006 when I upgraded to a E6400+AW9D-MAX+7600gt and was very happy! Performance was excellent …

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Re: Internal USB/Card Reader/Windows XP 32-bit/cannot use 128gb SD cards

Posted on 2024-02-28, 07:46

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by nd22

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That must be why the Abit Media XP Pro is not reading the 64 and 128gb sd cards! It was released in 2003 and for sure there was no SD cards that large back then. I thought it was broken; it recognizes USB sticks up to 128gb but no SD cards I put in is recognized. IEEE 1394 is also working fine. Does …

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Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-19, 08:35

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by nd22

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Great build! Some pictures please. I don't think Radeon 7500 is a card from 2000, rather from 2001! Also I think the CPU and the board, while very good , are actually from 1999 - that makes your build the 1999 dream machine. I also got a Slot A build that I hope to finish some day: the same Athlon …

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Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-14, 07:40

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by nd22

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For me anything older than LGA 775 with Core 2 latest version/ socket AM2+ with Phenom II is vintage because of missing instruction sets required by today software. Phenom II has only SSE3 functionality and is obsolete. Core 2 45nm has only SSE4.1 and many programs nowadays require both SSE4.1 and …

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Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-12, 10:46

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by nd22

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For me anything older than LGA 775 with Core 2 latest version/ socket AM2+ with Phenom II is vintage because of missing instruction sets required by today software. I mean I could install Windows 10 on a Pentium 4/Athlon 64 but it would not run the latest software. I consider the original socket AM2 …

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Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-06, 09:57

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by nd22

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If we consider everything that can be put into a socket, regardless of compatibility, than I think LGA775 saw the biggest jump from single core Pentium 4 to quad core! However a 915p/925x/945p-with some exceptions/955x does not support core 2 quad and you are forced to buy a new board. Today one can …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-02, 10:17

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by nd22

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I started playing in whatever little spare time I had last night Dark reign, a game I remembered for its incredible difficulty. The game installs just fine on my 98 machine but for whatever reason it refuses to install on XP. The game is just as I remember: beautiful and unforgivable! The computer …

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Re: Show me your testbench

Posted on 2024-01-25, 10:31

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by nd22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Cooler master haf xb evo can be configured as a test bench, "normal" pc, taken to a lanparty; it's stackable... you name it!

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Re: Acrylic 2003 build (January 2024)

Posted on 2024-01-25, 10:26

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by nd22

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Nice build, always a pleasure to see an Abit board put to work! I understand from the screen shots that you have an Athlon XP 3000 FSB 400 CPU?

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Re: What do you stockpile?

Posted on 2024-01-25, 08:31

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by nd22

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I collect Abit parts: mainly motherboards but also video cards, uguru panels and special parts like AirPace music. Also I collect period correct components from the "Abit era". I transformed the basement into a storage unit - kind of - and as of 2024 I collected most - over 90% - of the parts the I …

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Re: Most modern hardware for a standalone XP Pro SP3 x86 machine in 2023?

Posted on 2023-12-07, 11:26

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by nd22

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In my opinion X79 is a wild card: it may work or it may not work with all the required drivers. I am sure there are many here who are experts in installing XP on much newer hardware but for a production system I would go the safe route and choose something with official support! The most sensible …

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Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2023-12-07, 08:21

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by nd22

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I never did a head count so here it goes: Matrox 1. Matrox Millenium II 8mb PCI Nvidia 2. Riva TNT 16mb AGP 2X VGA only 3. Riva TNT 2 ultra 32mb VGA only 4. Riva TNT 2 ultra 32mb VGA only 5. geforce 32mb SDR VGA only 6. geforce 32mb DDR VGA only 7. Abit geforce2 mx400 64mb VGA only 8. Abit geforce2 …

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-22, 06:24

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by nd22

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I have a quite a few Abit motherboards supporting P4. My question is: Cedar mill is allowed or only Willamette/Northwood/Prescott? All of netburst. Ill make new brackets as the benchmarks come in. With that said, you still need to participate in aiming for the stars. Stock benchmarks will no longer …

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Re: Aiming for the Stars, Next platform?

Posted on 2023-11-21, 06:58

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by nd22

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Probably it has been done countless time but I am going to suggest it anyway: socket 462 split into Thunderbird/Palomino/Thoroughbred/Barton sections.

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-21, 06:48

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by nd22

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I have a quite a few Abit motherboards supporting P4. My question is: Cedar mill is allowed or only Willamette/Northwood/Prescott?

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Re: Searching for a good and fast LCD 4:3 (vintage gaming)

Posted on 2023-11-08, 07:09

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by nd22

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21.3 inch are the largest commercially available 4:3 LCD monitors; most of them are premium models made for the professionals to use in CAD/medical applications and so on. I have an Eizo S2100 monitor - 21.3 inch - with 1600*1200 at 60hz max resolution; it has DVI and VGA inputs only, so no speakers …

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Re: Good 4:3 LCD Monitor

Posted on 2023-11-07, 06:41

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by nd22

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Good luck finding one! Even 21.3 inches has become expensive and rare today let alone that Viewsonic which must be something of a unicorn!

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Re: Annual specs for Ultimate Gaming Rigs from 1992 to 2000

Posted on 2023-11-06, 07:34

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by nd22

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Going back to the subject of the topic, I think we can all agree the the ultimate machine available each year was out of reach for 99.99% of people. Only those with very deep pockets could afford it. A different matter were the machines bought by companies. Those could afford to pay big bucks when …

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