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Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2023-06-03, 18:59

It seems the lower teir 4000 series are not selling great. Reviews for basically every card, Nvidia and AMD, have been pretty poor tbh, mostly based on value. Nvidia and AMD now pre-scalp the price for your convenience but seem to have forgotten they need a desirable product or a genuine fear of …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-06-01, 21:17

It seems that Ubisoft Connect has unceremoniously dropped Windows 7 too. Downloading the latest version (which it does even if you use an older setup exe) and it just comes up with a kernal error. It seems there is a work around but it's only that and won't stay up to date. What adds insult to …

Fallout 3

Posted on 2023-05-22, 16:48

I am trying to get Fallout 3 working on a Windows 7 machine. This is a well known crash-y game but weirdly I've never had any excessive crashing playing it over the years, whether an GfW disk version, Steam and then GoG... until now. I've tried it on a couple of platforms recently and it will crash …

Re: Ultimate Windows XP Build (Intel i7-3770k / GTX 980Ti / 24" Asus ProArt display / X-Fi Titanium)

Posted on 2023-05-09, 15:16

Ha I've got my XP build in that same case. I've managed to wear our the labelling on the front panel cables so I can never tell what is the power switch cable, reset switch cable etc! Currently got a Core 2 Duo E8500 but I'm tempted to drop in my 1155 Xeon 1240 (which is a i7 2600 basically) board …

Re: NUCs (and other really small PCs)

Posted on 2023-05-07, 10:47

What is the oldest operating system does it support? Does it support, say, Windows XP? I remember Phil discussed a lot about mini PCs that still support odd things like sound in pure DOS, Windows 98 support, or extra PCI slot that you can use a 3dx card in the said mini PC. I wonder if your NUC is …

NUCs (and other really small PCs)

Posted on 2023-05-06, 08:47

I replaced my Dad's old Windows 7 PC that I built for him probably over a decade ago (Phenom ii x2 based) with a new PC and originally I was just going to build a basic desktop as he couldn't be convinced to walk into Currys to buy some kind of prebuilt PC. I then came across Beelink who make NUCS …

Socket P Windows XP PC

Posted on 2023-04-20, 19:13

Felt like making a small XP PC so I bought an Aopen i45gmt-HR Socket P motherboard complete with Core 2 Duo T6600 (2.2GHz / 800FSB/3mb) and 4GB of RAM for £10. Crucially it came with the heatsink and fan, all ready to go. I put it in my small case along with a passive DDR2 9500GT of all things and …

Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-03-28, 07:17

my Windows 7 project PCs are getting more useless. First Spotify no longer works and now steam - the two programs I use the most. It was only a couple of months back that Spotify stopped working on XP! I am surprised that EA didn't take the opportunity to have their new EA App not support Windows 7 …

Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2023-03-24, 20:16

I'm listening to 2Advanced on youtube. They've slowed down or remixed, or something, a load of old Need for Speed songs. But more than just whacking it down to 0.8 in Windows Media Player (unless it was just me who did that with my MP3s!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNEm6pTybU&list= …

Re: Socket 939 XP project

Posted on 2023-02-27, 17:37

Nice set up on the way! I have a similar Athlon 64x2 with 3GB of DDR1, an Audigy 2 ZS and various graphics cards including a 1950XT with the growling cooler. I stick mine in my modern case with loads of fans, an AM4 cooler left over from my 3700X build and Sata everything. I get a bit confused when …

Re: MSI Afterburner development halted

Posted on 2023-01-11, 17:50

I use AB literally daily in my project PCs. It's such a good resource into finding out what your PC is doing when gaming from CPU thread utilising, clock speed for CPU an GPU (useful in this day and age of thermally limited hardware), how much VRAM is in use, how much bus interface is in use / …

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