Re: Better video card options for this Super Socket 7 build
Posted on 2022-09-07, 22:52
I think $20 for a GTS is a decent deal. Nice find.
Re: 486 DX4 100 Help needed with setup.
Posted on 2022-08-28, 22:49
Any chance your VLB bus is set to 40mhz or 0 wait states and your video card / initial I/O card just can’t handle it? Try 33mhz / 1ws?
Re: Unisys 386-dx system (16 mhz)
Posted on 2022-08-23, 14:01
Curious would anyone call a 386dx-16 rare? I don’t recall seeing a lot but my interest in computers was just getting started. 386sx-16 seemed much more popular.
Re: Reference/Recommendations For a 2MB VLA/ISA Card?
Posted on 2022-08-19, 12:13
I’d look into this but you might be hurting your performance with 128mb ram (mostly on Win9x, Dos / Win3.x might not notice). I don’t think most socket3 boards could cache that much. I’d bet that S3 864 is your best video option as well.
Re: Windows 95 Gaming?
Posted on 2022-08-10, 22:33
Win95 always worked well in my experience. Definitely faster on older hardware. I basically use USB (or lack of) as the determining factor for my Win95/Win98 decisions.
Re: Voodoo 3 build-advice needed .
Posted on 2022-08-10, 19:47
Personally I think SS7 / early P2 / early celerons are perfect for a Voodoo3. Im sure you can get some better performance by going faster but I also don’t like holding a system back and P3’s will always do better with something like a GeForce1/2/2mx class card.
Re: Opening a Conventional Memory can of worms
Posted on 2022-08-10, 18:50
I would look for the drivers with the smallest memory footprint. I know in the early 90s, I didn’t have access to as many cdrom/mouse drivers as I can find on the web now.
Re: Which isa video card for gateway 2000 with pentium overdrive?
Posted on 2022-08-09, 00:37
Is cpu-z the only time it crashes? I’d run a whole bunch of other tests first. Maybe you just hit a rare incompatibility or there’s another issue.
Re: Which isa video card for gateway 2000 with pentium overdrive?
Posted on 2022-08-09, 00:24
If you don’t have PCI or VLB then your best bet is sticking with the onboard Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428. I’d bet it’s on a local bus which will make it faster than anything ISA.
Re: Problems with Sound Cards
Posted on 2022-06-20, 19:15
Any chance the ISA slot is bad? You have anything none sound card, like an ISA VGA card you could test?
Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002
Posted on 2022-06-12, 17:48
Geforce 4, Radeon 9700 even a geforce 2 is faster than a V5 6000. Thanks for the suggestion, a Radeon 9700 could be a good choice since its 128 mb like the 6000, and it's not an incredibly ridiculous price. I wouldn't get a Geforce 4 since it's 64 mb like my Geforce 2 mx 400, and actually runs …
Re: Is there anything better than a Voodoo 5 6000 from 2002
Posted on 2022-06-12, 17:24
I think, although most people here would love a Voodoo5 6000, that most people would also admit that Nvidia/Amd’s 2002 flagship cards would be better overall.
Re: Should I use Win98 or XP for my Build?
Posted on 2022-06-11, 17:04
Don’t get me wrong, 2001-era-Me would have been rushing to install XP but 2022-era-Me would stick with Win98. Or have multiple OS. Win98, XP, and some lightweight Linux distro.
Re: A... very standard Duron 1600 build...?
Posted on 2022-06-10, 10:56
Not that it makes any sense in a performance or budget scenario, but I’d look for a Duron 1800 just so I could call it “The Last Duron”.
Re: What was the most surprising/odd thing you've found on an old computer?
Posted on 2022-06-09, 04:09
I had purchased a computer of EBay that had its hard drive intact that was obviously used as a photo editing/development kiosk in a retail store. None of the photos were particularly scandalous but just the massive quantity of different photos was interesting.
Re: Windows 2000 Pro only seeing 300Mhz from AMD K6 III+ @ 600Mhz
Posted on 2022-06-02, 22:53
“ Just came back to say i sorted it out (APM rather than ACPI.) “ https://arstechnica.com/civis//viewtopic.php?f=17&t=772255 Sounds like this guy had the same issue, maybe reinstall with ACPI disabled?
Re: My 15 Retro PC KVM Setup
Posted on 2022-06-02, 22:43
Love the rack setup.
Re: Windows 2000 Pro only seeing 300Mhz from AMD K6 III+ @ 600Mhz
Posted on 2022-06-02, 21:10
If you benchmark it - does it score like a 600mhz cpu or 300mhz cpu?
Re: 2008-era Win XP build
Posted on 2022-06-01, 14:53
No experience, it does appear that Nvidia provides XP and XP 64bit drivers for the Quadro FX5800. Gaming performance might absolutely suck tho. I still want to try it someday.
Re: 2008-era Win XP build
Posted on 2022-06-01, 07:37
I’d love to put a Quadro FX 5800 into a similar build, technically it meets the 2008 requirement (Nov 08) , it’s got 4gb vram which is ridiculous for that era, and the original list price was $3499 but can be found on EBay fairly cheap now.
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