Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-11-23, 17:35

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by Gopher666

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First link is a very useful interactive guide. The second link explains it a lot better but only has the mods looking at the CPU pin side. https://www.ocinside.de/workshop_en/amd_pinmod/ http://www.emboss.co.nz/amdmults/ Edit: Which 3000+ CPUs are you running? The MPs look like they only go up to …

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-11-22, 20:41

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So you say that these CPUs are actually running on 800Mhz for real? 😦 Can you please share that wire hack if I kill the cpus then I try that Palomino version I don't really want to buy additional hardware for this box but I'm all open for ideas.

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-11-22, 19:29

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https://i.ibb.co/TL20KCt/cpuid.png https://i.ibb.co/P4vDNGr/cachemem.png Why is this crap saying that the cpus are like 800Mhz? Also with this board a lot of readouts in aida are weird like it says somewhere that the second cpu is intel :D Either way with this board there is no way to do any …

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-11-22, 14:33

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Hmm I give a shot to: 93.71_forceware_winxp2k_international_whql.exe Its pretty much the same results, 3dmark crashes, fps in games not improved and even worse some games like Cod2 now randomly crash. I not just uninstalled the old driver and reinstalled the new driver btw. I restored the system …

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-11-21, 11:59

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-11-20, 21:54: You're running it on blatantly unefficient driver version. 7800GS is performance is on par with 6800 Ultra. So any suggestions for driver version then ? 😀

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Re: Keyboard Mouse Sharing with Windows 95/98 & Win7

Posted on 2021-11-21, 10:13

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I bumping this up because I was just looking for a solution for a similar situation. Once you have 3-4 pcs and 1 single desk having so many keyboards and mouses being a pain in the ass. I was not looking for a full KVM solution because for the monitors I can easily switch the inputs I was also …

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-11-20, 20:53

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Thanks for the suggestion, I chose the 7800GS even tho my research shows there would've been still better AGP cards like: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-7950-gt-agp.c754 But probably wouldn't matter as the CPUs being a bottleneck in many games. Here are my results with the rig …

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-10-23, 14:47

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Thanks for the suggestions. This is not about pimping out this build by replacing the motherboard lololo. It is about finding the BEST graphic card for this board. I have other retro builds as well and as a last resort I can always just play on my Core i7 Asus ROG gaming laptop ;) This board is …

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Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-10-22, 08:25

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Ok folks so I considering getting some badboy for this boxen. This is a Tyan S2466 board with 2x Athlon MPs so it's a perfect Windows XP retro gaming. As the manual says: 4x AGP graphics card I had a Geforce 4200Ti in this. Some game benchmarks on XPSP3 with 4200ti: Dungeon Siege 15FPS COD2 30 FPS …

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Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-08-08, 18:16

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Ok guys I actually fixed this, here is the solution for those who will have the same card, same issue: Use forceware 81.98 instead of the unofficial 82.69 This solved everything, driver works with the 256 MB limiter patch in both Win98SE and WinME. Thats a lie that the patch can only patch the 82.69 …

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Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-26, 13:48

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This is what I love about this community that there are some folks always trying to help. As I have said without that 256MB patch I can't even get any driver to work and that is locks you in using the 82.69. Anyway I have figured out that much that the problem is that I cannot set the resolution. I …

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Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-15, 17:26

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It looks like 77.72 might work better Might? :) Like I get nothing black screen, nada, machine freezes in both Win98SE and WinME with both drivers. I can boot to safe mode that's about it. I have tried to adjust the AGP gart no success. I have downloaded this 512MB patch: "PTCHNVSZ - Win9x patch …

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Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-13, 17:03

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GeForce 6200 in pci and low profile is pretty common, but going past the FX series makes for sacrifices in compatibility from what people around here have tested and posted. Worth a try, and has fully functioning DX9 unlike the FX 5200. I got the AGP version of this card with 512MB ram. It works …

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Re: Looking for the best Sound Blaster Live! model for DOS that I own

Posted on 2021-07-05, 17:57

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Let's keep this discussion Sound Blaster related only. I have just checked Phil's YT video about the ESS Solo and not bad actually game wise but I remember having these cards in the past and they counted as low profile alternatives in the age of Sound Blasters. As I have said the machine does NOT …

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Re: Looking for the best Sound Blaster Live! model for DOS that I own

Posted on 2021-07-05, 07:50

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Sorry for bumping such an old topic up but my question is exactly the same so I felt it's a waste to open another one for it. The SB0200 is an oem garbage that doesn't even play well in Win9X, throw that to the trash right away. I have got an SB0100 as it was recommended in other threads as it …

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Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-02, 06:53

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Yeah I know it's always a tradeoff I used to have a separate XP box... 9400GT looks cuteee, also its like 10 bucks however as someone mentioned: " I don't think there are any. I can't find support for WIN9X past the 6XXX series cards, some say there are 7XXX WIN9X drivers but I couldn't find them. I …

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FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-01, 18:47

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https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=113574 Hello Folks, I got this Geforce FX 5200 128 MB ram 4x AGP in my retro gaming box but the poor thing is dieing slowly. This was a garbage card even in it's own days. For old DOS games and majority of the Win98 games it's usable however when …

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Re: Lost Vikings General MIDI port changer

Posted on 2021-06-22, 08:34

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Sorry to bump such an old topic up but does this game using MIDI at all? During the setup there is just the sound driver so I assumed that it is not using MIDI. Either way I have a Sound Blaster 5.1 SB0600 and it sounds absolutely terrible for some reason in both DOS and Win98SE. I'm using Phils …

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Re: Dialup pool with fake PSTN (ISP SETUP)

Posted on 2021-06-20, 20:46

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Yeah that's why I opened this topic I don't want to rush with this project. There is this Siemens Octopus later they renamed to UNIFY series of PBXes: https://www.phone-distribution.de/?language=en&info=p5931_openscape-business-v2-x5r-l30251-u600-g654-new.html You can get them dirt cheap like 50 EUR …

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Re: What you got for your money in the late '80s early '90s

Posted on 2021-06-10, 06:37

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by Gopher666

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And what you get for your money Today is daemon tools, ccleaner with built in adware and windoz 10 which is a malware by itself 😀

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