Re: Best gaming CPU for LGA 775 + Windows XP

Posted on Yesterday, 23:22

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There's no reason to get an N100 when Ryzens exist. For general purpose? Sure. But AMD is a very distant third when it comes to media engines. Intel comes out on top for inexpensive and extremely lower power draw, NVIDIA matches it in capabilities, but requires discrete cards and uses much more …

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Re: Best gaming CPU for LGA 775 + Windows XP

Posted on Yesterday, 16:05

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And in the summer I do the opposite - I bring out the cooler and more power-efficient stuff out so that I'm not sweating like a pig when I'm using my PC. I don't have A/C here, so that's another reason to bring out the cooler PCs. The "hot" ones, aside from warming up my place too much, also may …

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Re: Best gaming CPU for LGA 775 + Windows XP

Posted on Yesterday, 14:29

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The vast majority of XP era games that support multi core capped out at dual cores. And one that used more threads were pretty unbalanced where yes cores 3 and 4 ran something. But they were mostly idle so the extra cores didn't help versus a dual core that could sustain a higher clock. Video …

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Re: The Main Three (Retro PCs)

Posted on 2025-03-22, 15:44

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What are you using the 486 for that a K6-2 or the 233MMX can't do? Your CL-5446 and Diamond Voodoo 1 are the exact cards in my DOS era build. I run a 233MMX and can slow it down to 386 speeds to run Wingcommander without issue. Your Win98 machine overall looks good, but you have a big gap going from …

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Re: NVIDIA's 32-Bit PhysX Waves Goodbye with GeForce RTX 50 Series Ending 32-Bit CUDA Software Support

Posted on 2025-03-22, 14:27

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Also, Arasaka Nvidia corp is not very friendly to open source software. I think the first attempt to create a repository on GitHub will get a strike. They already did that themselves. https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX SDK and documentation are there. With copyright saying you can use and …

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Re: LIfespan of DOS-based games post Windows 95

Posted on 2025-03-22, 13:53

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2000 is NT5, XP is NT5.1, Vista is NT6. You can see from the numbers that XP is a minor upgrade to 2000. Vista is ahead of both, as much as both are ahead of NT4. People tend to be quite confused about XP, calling it an unique os, calling Vista a polishing upgrade, in reality it it reversed. XP is …

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Re: Best gaming CPU for LGA 775 + Windows XP

Posted on 2025-03-21, 15:30

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Multithreading support in games during that time period ranged from either non-existent to woeful. Crysis being the first big game with "multi-core support" was often criticized for how poorly it was implemented. In those early days the only thing that mattered was single core performance. Dual …

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Re: Best gaming CPU for LGA 775 + Windows XP

Posted on 2025-03-20, 13:16

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If you're sticking with LGA 775, then go for an E series dual core. If you want the fastest XP PC for 2007/2008, then switching to LGA 1155 and getting a 2nd or 3rd gen i-Series can give a large CPU uplift versus a Core 2. There's no correct answer in 2 vs 4 cores. A small number of games will in …

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Re: How can i get PhysyX games to work in Windows XP/ Gtx 980ti

Posted on 2025-03-15, 14:19

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It did work for Josep, he is using a Gtx 970 on his windows xp machine and he only modified one inf file in the whole process. At this point I think I have no other option than do what he is saying which is doing a re-install of Windows xp, and do a fresh install of the nvidia driver modified. …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2025-03-13, 22:46

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Is it possible to access MPU-401 intelligent mode through the wavetable header if the card it is attached to supports intelligent mode, such as a PCMIDI? Intelligent mode MIDI just sends data over the regular signal lines. There no additional inputs needed. I've played intelligent mode required …

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Re: ZuluIDE: A proper IDE device emulator for retro PCs

Posted on 2025-03-13, 11:37

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I am buying one with the DAC addon, i hope i can install it on my old 486 and attach it to my soundblaster card i dont have a 3d printer, so i will just use an old broken cdrom and figure out out how to mod the front to take the sd card out. if i have doubts on the zuluide.ini file i will just ask …

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Re: Ok, I give up. What is this? Yamaha PCB

Posted on 2025-03-09, 22:29

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As it contains almost nothing on it, then i would assume its a breakout board for some other card and connects via the ribbon cable just behind the connectors. Agreed, with the mention of Wave Table on the silk screen. I wonder if it's a break out for a wave table header. That would expose MIDI IO …

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Re: How can I erase data and overwrite with 0 (zeros), but only a portion of the disk?

Posted on 2025-03-08, 17:02

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yes, it is a HDD. A pretty heavy brick too... :) Let that fall on your foot! LOL Dude, I really need to learn stuff. You are mentioning things I'm unfamiliar with (i.e. no clue). I just copied a few .raw files of my walks in the woods to test the write speed of the disk. Like 300GB at best. …

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Re: How can I erase data and overwrite with 0 (zeros), but only a portion of the disk?

Posted on 2025-03-08, 13:43

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Since it's a 6TB, is it an HDD rather than SSD? If so, and you didn't delete the files yet you might be able to use the information in this post. It mentioned shred which overwrites a files multiple times with random data, or the wipe tool. https://askubuntu.com/questions/57572/how-to-delete-files- …

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Re: Best Windows 98 rig for specific games

Posted on 2025-03-07, 22:28

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I'd just look for whatever is cheapest if you're dead set on a dedicated system, you're not going to need some exotic setup assuming you just throw in a soundblaster live/audigy and an older AGP card. Pentium 4s are plentiful and will have enough speed to handle later win9x games if you do want to …

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Re: Help me find a childhood PC

Posted on 2025-03-07, 20:41

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Micron Millennia Xku's were from the right time period and did use Pentium IIs as well as being available as desktops. https://archive.org/details/micron-millennia- … ers-manual-1997

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Re: Best Windows 98 rig for specific games

Posted on 2025-03-07, 19:37

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The games you mentioned are DOS games not Windows. The later release supports SVGA. 93 asked for a 386, and 2 wanted a 486. I haven't seen anything about there being an speed sensitivity issues. Any Pentium or faster machine should be fine. Even though you don't want to use DOSBox. I suggest you set …

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Re: How can i get PhysyX games to work in Windows XP/ Gtx 980ti

Posted on 2025-03-04, 22:29

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There was an official 980Ti driver for XP. Lemme see if I can find it. Somebody had mentioned it in another thread on here. 344.11. Only 970 and 980 is listed, but that means it should be fine for the 980Ti as well. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/77838/ [Strings] DiskID1 = "NVIDIA …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-03-02, 16:33

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Can PicoGUS run a McCake and external midi device simultaneously? If I connect the external midi connector to an SC-55 will it work alongside the MT32 emulation on the McCake? Yep, I run that exact setup. The McCake will continue working. So you'll need to mute the daughter board MIDI channel if …

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Re: NVIDIA's 32-Bit PhysX Waves Goodbye with GeForce RTX 50 Series Ending 32-Bit CUDA Software Support

Posted on 2025-03-01, 19:32

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Yeah, I know about the CPU code. Which is why I'm surprised they didn't convert it to Cuda code. It's not likely to cost any noticeable performance PhysX's hardware accelerated mode has been using 32-bit CUDA from all the way back in 2008 when Nvidia acquired Ageia. Only Nvidia cards can run CUDA, …

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