Re: Diamond Stealth 2500

Posted on 2021-06-06, 15:55

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by The Serpent Rider

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"what shenanagins is this?" Middle of the pack GUI/video accelerator card. I think AT24 and A3D (later rebranded as AT25) share identical 2D core. They are somewhat obscure and that's their only defining trait at this point.

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Re: Old Videos Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-06, 15:45

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by The Serpent Rider

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It should be noted, that GeForce GTX 280 is already 13 years old. Originally launched in June 2008.

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Re: PIII Tualatin vs PIII Celeron

Posted on 2021-06-06, 12:30

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by The Serpent Rider

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Why would such a comparison be incorrect? Because Tualeron, Coppermine and desktop Tualatin have identical L2 cache size, which is 256 Kb.

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Re: PIII Tualatin vs PIII Celeron

Posted on 2021-06-06, 11:56

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by The Serpent Rider

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Comparisons between Tualatin-S and Tualeron are incorrect. Former has 512 Kb L2 cache.

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Re: PIII Tualatin vs PIII Celeron

Posted on 2021-06-06, 10:10

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by The Serpent Rider

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Long story short - Tualatin Celeron = desktop Pentium 3 Tualatin, but with 100 Mhz FSB.

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Re: Old Videos Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-06, 07:16

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by The Serpent Rider

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It's counter-productive to use hardware below DirectX10 in Windows 10 environment.

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Re: Windows 98 program to list all D3D display modes?

Posted on 2021-06-06, 06:46

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by The Serpent Rider

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Powerstrip.

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Re: Mobile Pentium 3 - Socket 370 adaptor [update: designing a new one]

Posted on 2021-06-05, 16:24

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by The Serpent Rider

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True, but could they be 'binned' better than desktop parts? Hardly. Mobile chips usually had very conservative ratings.

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Re: Reasons for Glide?

Posted on 2021-06-05, 16:16

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by The Serpent Rider

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You can emulate Glide at acceptable quality with DirectX 8.1 hardware and at excellent quality with DirectX 10 hardware. So arguably it's not required even within borders of pure Win9x game setup.

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Re: Old Videos Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-05, 16:11

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by The Serpent Rider

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Nvidia Fermi cards can still work somewhat decently. Can't say that for first AMD DirectX11 cards, once AMD inproduced GCN family of chips, they've fallen from grace pretty quickly. Something like Radeon 7970 still works fine.

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Re: Monitors for MS-DOS gaming and certain size

Posted on 2021-06-03, 17:54

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by The Serpent Rider

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DELL 2007FP 70-75 Hz - frameskipping.

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Re: Tseng mdram different models

Posted on 2021-06-03, 00:56

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by The Serpent Rider

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Yes, but 909 is absolutely useless in 4 chips configuration. Those additional 0.5 Mb can't be used for anything, especially on ET6000 with poor 135 Mhz RAMDAC.

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Re: Intel G41 8GB low density ram limit (?)

Posted on 2021-06-02, 20:32

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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8 Gb limit was specified for practically all chipsets, both for DDR2 and DDR3. 4 Gb modules weren't mainstream at that time. On practice, P43 and P45 can accept most 4 Gb DDR3 modules and some DDR2 modules.

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Re: Monitors for MS-DOS gaming and certain size

Posted on 2021-06-02, 20:22

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by The Serpent Rider

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Probably NEC 20WGX2.

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Re: Tseng mdram different models

Posted on 2021-06-02, 20:14

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by The Serpent Rider

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908 = 1 mb 909 = 1.125 mb 909 chips are rarely used outside of cut-down versions without 4 sockets.

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Re: Hilariously overspec RAM on an Nvidia TNT2 M64 Vanta16...

Posted on 2021-06-02, 16:42

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by The Serpent Rider

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I have a GeForce2 MX400 with 4ns EtronTech modules, rated at 250MHz but stable only at 223MHz; still well over the default 166MHz (or 183 for some models) but also far from the nominal speed of the chips Also have a Voodoo3 2000 with usual 7ns 143MHz modules capable to run at 192MHz (or at least …

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Re: Tseng mdram different models

Posted on 2021-06-02, 16:38

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by The Serpent Rider

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Apparently there are ET6000 with the 120 installed Yeah, both of my cards have 120ns.

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Re: Asus A8V deluxe and win98.

Posted on 2021-06-02, 16:34

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Minor update to my statement: you also can set practically any Hitachi/HGST and corresponding rebranded Western Digital SATAII/III hard drives to SATAI mode via some utilities. AFAIK you also can jumper WD Velociraptor to SATAI mode (only with Icepack).

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Re: Non-obvious DX version requirements in graphics drivers

Posted on 2021-06-02, 08:47

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by The Serpent Rider

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GeForce3/GeForce4/GeForce FX cards will work with DirectX 7.0a. Anything lower and Direct3D games could freeze or crash. I think Radeon 9700+ and corresponding drivers will accept any DX8 version. Funnily enough, late Rage Pro drivers also will have various problems without DX7.0a installed.

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Re: Hilariously overspec RAM on an Nvidia TNT2 M64 Vanta16...

Posted on 2021-06-02, 08:39

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by The Serpent Rider

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Benchmark crappy old Vanta16 That one is actually quite nice. I think it's based of Nvidia reference and has smooth and crispy VGA output. With 200 Mhz chips, it can easily beat any OG TNT card.

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