Re: Drive bay extinction in cases, PC chassis, accelerating ???

Posted on 2024-03-23, 16:27

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The last cases I bought were two NOS LianLi Lancool K59 for 30€ each, two because my wife wanted another one when she saw mine. :) These cases are quite heavy and resistant with 0.9mm-1mm sheet metal, quite comfortable for assembly with many thumb screws. Aesthetically, I can't say that I like them …

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-03-23, 15:32

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I have a Voodoo Rush with the AT25 chip and it is one of the many reasons why I don't like anything about 3DFX, I don't understand how they could release something so poorly designed. The issue of the default frequency of the AT25 in the Rush left me stunned, having to modify the registry to lower …

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Re: 486DX4 at 5v… instantly fry?

Posted on 2024-03-18, 15:09

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I had a DX4 100 for a while at 5v with the typical use of testing and retrogaming, the last time I used it I changed the voltage and the minimum it went to was 2.7v, so I would say that it is not easy for 3,3v 486 to burn at 5v as long as it has good cooling. I have a heatsink and fan on it.

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Re: How to remove this backplate safely?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 16:10

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Is that motherboard working properly? It's got a bad looking scratch next to the hole on the top right.

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Re: Secret Weapons Over Normandy slow performance

Posted on 2024-03-13, 15:07

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Today I tested the game in WinME, a Pentium 4 2Ghz and a FireGL 8800, here I had to reduce the details and the resolution to make it fully playable. I also tried it on Windows 7 32bits, an Athlon II X3 450 and an R7 260X. It works perfectly, it's so easy to play, totally arcade, as I remember, I …

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Re: Secret Weapons Over Normandy slow performance

Posted on 2024-03-11, 23:18

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I played it at the time and I remember it frequently, a not very difficult arcade game with decent graphics for the time and many curious details about planes and weapons that I didn't know at the time, it made me investigate the subject. I feel like playing it again, it's been so long. The computer …

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-03-11, 17:58

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At that time I fell into the advertising of the Mystique 220 and used it for a couple of years, I played some games with it, the one I remember most is Redline Racer, on an MMX200 it was very fluid, I remember the great feeling of speed it offered, The Mystique was quite fast, but even without much …

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Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 18:30

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I just tried Doom 3 1.1, it doesn't seem very playable to me on this graphics card. We all know that the FX line was garbage in DX9, even at 800x600 and overclocked to 434mhz core and 566mhz vram; It's very slow, pretty sure it's only around 20fps. Yes, 52 Cº is on the desktop and after playing for …

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Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 13:07

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Well, I think something is wrong with that graphics card, because mine does not heat up at all with the default frequencies, between 43 and 52 degrees, and it is even quite good at overclocking, +100 MHz core and +66 MHz ram, I think it can go even higher, but I only did it to check if it would …

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Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 20:53

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A curiosity is that many of these chips of the time were slightly convex, perhaps you could try the thermal paste grain of rice method in the center and let the pressure of the heatsink spread it out. I have the same card, if I have time I will take a look at it and see what it does. What version of …

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Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files

Posted on 2024-02-29, 19:53

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I'm curious, what type of computers are you using these PCI graphics cards, Rage/II/Pro/XL? In the video he uses a Pentium III and mentions an i810 chipset, which in my experience the integrated graphics is faster, on Windows, than the ATI cards mentioned.

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-02-21, 21:45

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Were 423 motherboards with SDRAM so unusual? I thought that motherboards with RAMBUS would be even less common and 423 motherboards with DDR would be very rare. It will depend on the area of ​​the world where you live, like so many other things I imagine. Here RAMBUS was exceptionally expensive.

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-02-21, 16:44

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my 2pack netburst team, 775 and 478, pentium 4 northwood and cedar mill, waiting for my 423 willamette board. Mark: Friday, February 16, 2024 Hopefully that motherboard is with SDRAM, reviewing the different scores on the first page, although they are not updated, I am very curious about the …

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-02-14, 22:19

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Now it's ATI's turn, the FireGL 8800 with its 3.3ns memory is one of the fastest R200s, my graphics card already has a fairly high base frequency for the GPU with very little headroom, the memory has more headroom. Both the Geforce 3 and the FireGL were released in 2001. The R200 takes an advantage …

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-02-10, 21:15

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-02-10, 20:57: That's not a bad overclock for a 1.6 socket 423! Thank you, it is my first experience with Socket 423, at the time I ignored it, only 462,370 and 478.

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-02-10, 20:12

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I think there are not many tests with SDRAM, so even though there is not much movement in this thread, I share my tests. The CPU-Z voltage is wrong, my DMM reads 1.69v on the processor's VRM coils. Since it is stable with less voltage and I think the limit is in the chipset, not the CPU, I made a …

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Re: GA-K8NS Ultra-939 (NForce3 Ultra) + Win10 x32

Posted on 2024-01-21, 21:26

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You can take a look here https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/nvidia-opti … r-win7-10/21787, never tried anything newer than Win7-64, but the drivers from that page always worked well for me.

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Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2024-01-13, 15:25

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In my case, it seems to be some problem with the laptop's sound driver, if I increase the channels to 12 in the options it crashes a few seconds after starting the tutorial and if I lower the channels to 4 it always hangs after the second test in the moment to open the gate. But I'm not worried, I …

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Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2024-01-11, 22:12

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Thief and Thief II can run in the legacy Directx6 mode using the newer engine and a specific DirectDraw fixing app. But Directx9 mode that would increase a lot fps has two biggest problems; game menu are almost impossible to work with this iGPU driver and in game rendering will crash soon because …

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Re: Zida 5STX-J98 Rev 1.01 Mainboard with latest 2.6 Bios Problems

Posted on 2024-01-10, 19:37

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I also have a Zida 5STX that came to me with a burned out mosfet. The manual specifically states that you have to change a jumper if you use a normal Pentium or a Pentium MMX and that if you don't change the motherboard it will burn out. I have never felt like trying to find what mosfets it uses …

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