Re: Bought a PowerMac G4 450 AGP - Now what?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:11

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dr.zeissler wrote on Yesterday, 11:28: no, don't use gf2mx! stick to the rage128, it's a fantastic card. It's supported on various apps like "geomame". you can also use morphos with the ati, with nvidia no support on morphos. I second this.

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on Yesterday, 20:34

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that's cause someone said how much of a difference amd did. well.. they sell 50% more cores for about 500% more price. (amazon prices without tax don't count outside usa) Dude. Really. You have to know this is false. If you insist on the "AMD is 50% more expensive" argument then at least have the …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

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Living wrote on Yesterday, 11:46: Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-01-14, 15:39: Why compare a 4 core to a 6 core? because that's what fanboy's do Indeed

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-14, 15:39

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zen 6 cores is still way more expensive than regular intel 4 cores :) Core i3-10100F 4 cores- about 100 $ AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6 cores - about 500 $ No. That isn't remotely close. Ryzen 5600 is selling NOW for $379 on Amazon. Ryzen 3600 is selling now for $199 on Amazon Ryzen 2600 if you hunt can be …

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Re: advice for mid-2000s winXP build

Posted on 2021-01-13, 15:39

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You have a pretty wide swarth to cover for XP era. So first thing is to pick what games you would like to play on the rig and then decide if you need to go early XP era with a Athlon XP/64 or P4 or what have you, or later era and focus on Core2 or Phenom era. if you are going to focus on the later …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-13, 15:25

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Well I am glad that Intel is trying to compete at every given price point. Competition is good for all of us, a monopoly is not. I for one couldn't care less about SATA AHCI drivers. My OS is on a nVME drive, my data drives are SATA, and they all work just fine. I had a R7 1700, and now have a R7 …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-12, 19:34

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@mockingbird: AMD has some severe ups and downs. I was extremely happy with my Athlon XP and Athlon 64 back in the day. But their Phenom processors shit the bed so horribly, I didn't even think about AMD as a purchasing option until the goodwill towards the Ryzen 3's became too overwhelming to …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-12, 18:40

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Furthermore, the only way Rocket Lake will overtake Ryzen 5000 on IPC is by pure clock speed. Even with their IPC improvements they are still going to be 3-4% behind AMD clock to clock. Now thats still a impressive jump, but if they can only maintain 5.3ghz on one core for 60 seconds at a time....im …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-12, 17:55

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just amd sells their doubled cores at the price of xeons If you are talking about Threadripper...then no they don't. They are roughly equivalent to Intel's HEDT sku's , at least as far as price is concerned. They "smash" the hell out of Intel's HEDT platform in every other metric, speed, power …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-12, 17:14

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I don't trust Intel's marketing slides...and even IF i did how much power and heat will these things put out? How much will they cost? AMD can double the core count in ten seconds and be back on top in a jiffy if necessary. Intel is floundering until they get on a modern process. No one wants …

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Re: AMD Ryzen CPUs dominate TechReport's May 2017 System Guide

Posted on 2020-12-01, 22:43

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Well necro post...but.. I find it quite interesting how fast many of these talking points have changed since the release of Zen+ and Zen2. Interesting in my opinion anyway.

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Re: Helping an old ATI Rage Pro PCI

Posted on 2020-12-01, 15:30

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Yes isopropyl and a q-tip should do the trick. Use the most pure you have, 90% or higher is best. Also you can use the eraser of a standard no. 2 pencil to clean the contacts, just rub gently until they shine.

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Re: What if Intel made a new 64-bit 386 or 486. . .

Posted on 2020-11-11, 17:50

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If they did I bet it would be built on a 14nm process! 😉

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-09, 21:59

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lafoxxx wrote on 2020-11-07, 19:02: That's why I decided I would stay away from water cooling solutions -- dang ol' air still does the job good enough for me. My next build will be air cooled. They replaced the AIO with another like model so I kinda had to stick with it or buy something else....and …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-07, 18:15

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I was reading Ryzen 5000 reviews this morning when I should've been doing actual work. Holy smoke! They actually managed to take back the low-res gaming crown, all while running at lower clocks than Intel and using less power. As crazy as this might sound, I'm seriously thinking of selling my "old" …

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Re: Direct3D gaming with a PCI videocard on an AMD K6-2 platform on windows 98se

Posted on 2020-11-06, 22:21

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For those interested, did a whole bunch of benchmarking on the Packard Bell AMD K6-2 500Mhz with the Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo Banshee (PCI) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RHycaMm67D14CtHDZICxYcgIBU5FDc6Oit0CmY-fVXI/edit#gid=868122597 Just watched your "part 3" video (Youtube). Aside from …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 21:48

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I was reading Ryzen 5000 reviews this morning when I should've been doing actual work. Holy smoke! They actually managed to take back the low-res gaming crown, all while running at lower clocks than Intel and using less power. As crazy as this might sound, I'm seriously thinking of selling my "old" …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 17:22

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I'm running a 3700x on a b350 board, having been a early adopter I was previously running a 1700. The 3700x was a major upgrade but I'm at the end of the road for this board. No real need to upgrade yet unless I also upgrade my GPU. It's a Vega 56 and I might opt in for a 6000 series GPU but unsure …

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Re: Biostar mb-8500ttd k6-3+ Support

Posted on 2020-10-27, 13:49

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There could be different revisions with changes in the jumpers. Did you follow feipoa's comment on removing the TAG from cache and other things mentioned in that topic ? The board was never designed to run a K6-3, even with BIOS support there are issues. Why not try a K6-2 333 or 350 ? Found a …

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Biostar mb-8500ttd k6-3+ Support

Posted on 2020-10-26, 23:07

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Using this post as a reference https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=68290 I flashed my BIOS with the linked Jan Steunebrink BIOS patch. But no matter what I do I can't seem to get my board to POST with my k6-3+ chip. The board works just fine with my Pentium 166mmx, and the K6-3+ chip works just …

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