Re: Any way to physically tell...GeForce FX 5200 64-bit or 128-bit memory bus?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 10:52

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it's extremly simple! Count the memory chips. - 4 chips = 64 bit - 8 chips = 128 bit Most 5200 cards have chips on both sides. This is not 100% accurate, because theoretically, you can have low profile, 128-bit version, where the manufacturer used 32-bit memory chips. But it didn't happened very …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-02, 12:28

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Thankfully we have people like yourself who like collecting for the sake of collecting and appear to have unlimited space to store it all. dude. One GTX 260 takes space for about 10 rage II and rage pro cards. I have problems with space, but honestly, I would rather take whole collection of Rage II …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 19:27

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He has a syndrom of "all what is not high class is garbage". He knows only black and white. He is like Retro Hardware channel on youtrube, scrapping functional Ati Xpert 2000 (Rage 128) cards, just because "it's junk", according him, and he already have 1000x better stuff. It's kinda disrespectful …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-31, 16:52

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He has a syndrom of "all what is not high class is garbage". He knows only black and white. He is like Retro Hardware channel on youtrube, scrapping functional Ati Xpert 2000 (Rage 128) cards, just because "it's junk", according him, and he already have 1000x better stuff. It's kinda disrespectful …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-30, 12:39

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I hope I wont offend you when I ask WHY? This is extreme budget pcchips level garbage with worst socket 370 level of performance possible with bad AGP implementation, and listed as broken at that. Why buy something like that? I fully understand collecting old high end gear, but parts that went by …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-30, 10:45

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Bought 975X mobo. So after recent 955X, that I had luck for, I have both Intel chipset premium boards. I cannot believe it, they usually go expensive and are quite rare. Never thought, I will have them in my collection, I was thinking about it recently, that I'm not willing to spend like 2 or 3x …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-26, 00:04

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I got a CRT!! I'm glad it made so much joy to you, but I little bit don't understand. It's just a crappy CRT, pretty under-average, and 50$ is too much in my view, to be honest, even 20$. These dont have any value here, like every month there is like 10-20 offerings for free, when you stop …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 20:21

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An offer from a private seller will always be cheaper than from a commercial store. With that perspective 20E is a good price IMHO It was 16.50 euro with shipping. :) Also with P4 and Artctic cooling cooler. I rounded it for "20 bucks" as USD/EUR is changing. It's not from that shop, I've used only …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 12:18

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Got Intel 955X's Asus P5WD2 Premium for 20 bucks. https://www.phc.sk/p/13202/asus-p5wd2-premium Less than $4 at auctions in my country. https://allegrolokalnie.pl/oferta/plyta-glowna-asus-p5wd2-pentium-d-920?utm_feed=862ee648-9259-11ed-a1eb-0242ac120002 Does anyone know if this board is compatible …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 07:02

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That's a futile dream, a collection can never ever be complete. Museums care about milestones in history, not a huge and boring collection of cheap items made by Chinosium companies to get the biggest profits they can. The reality is that your collection is only valuable to you while you are still …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 06:10

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Got Intel 955X's Asus P5WD2 Premium for 20 bucks. https://www.phc.sk/p/13202/asus-p5wd2-premium Today, I've tested it. It works. Many see it as quite worthless chipset. But it's rare anyway, I'm very happy for every premium chipset board, including i975. It was first SLI/Crossfire solution from …

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Re: Seagate datecode prior to 2000

Posted on 2023-05-18, 03:08

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Well, I was kinda hoping, it will resolve this mystery, and someone will know, how exactly differenciate Seagate drives, if it is fiscal datecode, or classic YYWW datecode. 🙁

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Seagate datecode prior to 2000

Posted on 2023-05-17, 18:32

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What's manufactured date of this HDD? Datecode is 9941 The problem is, Seagate started to use fiscal 4-digis or 5-digit code, somewhere around 2000, but I don't know at which point. So it can be 41th week of 1999, or 1998-07-22 if it's fiscal year date code. Fiscal datecode: Date Code Shape: YYWD or …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-15, 07:03

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ATI Rage II/Pro/XL core cards produced until 2023, installed in billions of PC/Macs/notebooks, officially supported in Win 7 and i will not be surprised to see their drivers in Win 8-8.1-10-11 ;) Yeah, but that was because low price, when it went out of 3d mainstream, and because of its 2d …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-15, 04:06

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There were benchmark programs like Atitool and similiar/other programs, that renders in window. Which has nothing to do with crusty 3D accelerator that barely can do simple texturing with filtering. It's still home use. But for non-gaming applications. Which are practically none. Especially for …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-14, 12:56

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That's hardly beneficial for desktop cards of that era, due to performance penalty for already abysmal 3D capabilities. And Rage Pro was ill-suited for professional use cases anyway. There were benchmark programs like Atitool and similiar/other programs, that renders in window. Its advantage, to …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-12, 23:50

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I would guess it was already around $150, maybe even lower like $133. yes it got slightly cheaper in 1998, but not far enough to reflect its "performance". For contrast S3 quickly faced reality and price corrected hard. Well, first note, Rage Pro in its prime had one big disadvantage, they could …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-11, 23:19

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$200 Rage Pro could barely match Verite V1000 in middle of 1998 IF you paired it with top of the line $700 CPU Hmm, don't have feeling Rage Pro was so expensive in May 1998. Are you sure, you aren't looking on Ati All-in-Wonder version? In terms of gaming, you need to look at SGR-mem Ati Rage Pro …

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Re: Proprietary 3D API's

Posted on 2023-04-09, 10:32

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Gona wrote on 2023-04-09, 07:58: Actua Soccer: Semi-Finals works in Win9x DOS mode. Works only wirh Rage I/II/II+/IIc (not compatible with Rage Pro): https://gona.mactar.hu/ATI3DCIF/ Thank you. What about Tomb Raider. I saw someone playing it under DOS accelerated. It is only voodoo1 - Glide …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2023-04-09, 07:26

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Fantastic price lists, shows just how big of a scam S3 and ATI were running at the time :) Yeah, I also provide average month salary in Czech Republic in 1998, so you can calculate, how much money demanding those prices were. https://www.finance.cz/zpravy/finance/7910-vyvoj-prumerne-hrube-mzdy-v- …

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