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Re: What year did Dual Core become inadequate for PC Gaming?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 14:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After being content with using a dual core Athlon X2 5000+ between 2005-2008 I moved onto a Phenom X3 8750 in 2009 but I also vaguely remember that the move did not really help much with gaming at all . I then moved on to an Athlon II X4 640 in 2011 and I remember that actually was a worthwhile CPU …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 14:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Abused you say you know Dallas likes it when you abuse them with that Dremel 😉

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-01, 03:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Va 503+ arrived today with a K6-3 400AHX so ill be setting that up a bit later to test it out and see if its fully working, board came with all the accessory cables and 512mb of ram too which is pretty nice.

Re: Can I use this CPU in a Motherboard ?

Posted on 2022-01-31, 19:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

debs3759 wrote on 2022-01-31, 19:26: It's not x86 compatible, and would require a compatible board. Not even sure what OS you could run. If you get no help here, you might on the CPU-World forums (https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/) A RISC based OS should work . .so a RISC version of Unix.

Re: sound card for a windows xp build

Posted on 2022-01-31, 19:24

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

thank you,will consider it for a mid period 2004-2009 xp build. you know how it is with the period correct thing... must be in that time interval. Sounds cards are in a weird spot since they hardly if ever get upgraded so a sound card from 2006 would likely be reused in a 2009 build especially a XI …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-31, 19:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

I would personally grab the Haswell Xeon, I had a 4790k and it was quite the CPU, its still going strong today in my brothers gaming setup and I have a feeling itll out live the motherboard its currently on. Ive used the 2200g and while its a nice SFF CPU its not that powerful nor is its APU that …

Re: Can I use this CPU in a Motherboard ?

Posted on 2022-01-31, 18:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 I doubt you can use this on its own, its more of a co processor and finding a motherboard to use it on its own might be exceptionally difficult, its a cool little processor however and makes a great collectors item.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-31, 17:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just bought a lot of 5 NIB Maxtor PATA hard drives on fleabay. Paid $85 shipped for the lot which is actually pretty good considering individual drives of this type have been selling for $20-$30 each (bought a few myself), so $17 per drive roughly. [/img] Yah, pretty good deal, I've been eyeing a …

Re: Updating the BIOS on a Zida Tomato TX98-3D REV 1.20?

Posted on 2022-01-31, 17:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i bought a few weeks ago the above motherboard and yesterday i did the mistake to upgrade bios (1.09) to the latest 1.16 with no success. When i tried for 1.14 rom, procedure lasted for 20 seconds and then all black (screen). I thought to wait maybe for 1 min to see if screen show something and …

Re: Advice on part selection for Win98 gaming build

Posted on 2022-01-31, 17:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One note, the GF 4 MX is a DirectX 7 card, while GF4 TIs are 8, GF5 aka FX had DirectX9 You g´have to be aware of the FSB of the P4. It had 3 versions 400, 533 and 800Mhz FSB. So you need to know which FSb does your board support So in this case the CPU has 800 Mhz FSB but he Board has support only …

Re: Hello! I am new. Here is my Retro PC story

Posted on 2022-01-31, 01:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

G'day and welcome to Vogons !

Re: Quake 2 OpenGL super low FPS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 23:05

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Come join us over in the General Old Hardware area, plenty of us over there enjoying the nostalgia. General Old Hardware

Re: Quake 2 OpenGL super low FPS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 20:30

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Thanks, are you suggesting that the AIW 9800 is too new? I have an ATI Rage Fury on the way. Do you think that might work better? Super 7 has issues AGP cards in general mostly due to being the first to use the AGP bus and really doesnt like AGP cards designed to run on a 4x/8x bus, the drivers for …

Re: Quake 2 OpenGL super low FPS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 20:23

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Welcome to the forum!😃 First thing that comes to mind is the graphics card. All avaliable drivers will run suboptimal on your CPU. I don't know wether frames should drop to ~1fps but slowdowns are to be expected. Do you have a different 3D card (up to ca. 2001-2002) to try this with? Also I asked …

Re: Cannot believe I bought this "time capsule" PC, wondering what's inside !!

Posted on 2022-01-30, 20:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Imagine if its a Willamette P4 and Rambus ... TO THE BIN IT GOES ! actually, no. I have found socket423 to be among the last/fastest platforms to have DOS sound support through PC/PCI so I have a number of those systems kicking around. :) Did you ever do a build with that NOS P-III 1.13 CPU from a …

Re: Quake 2 OpenGL super low FPS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 19:54

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Check your OpenGl library make sure you have the one for your GPU in the Quake2 directory and that its not using the basic windows one.

Re: Cannot believe I bought this "time capsule" PC, wondering what's inside !!

Posted on 2022-01-30, 19:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-01-30, 19:23: Celly 400 and bang the bus up to 100 you mean 😁 Imagine if its a Willamette P4 and Rambus ... TO THE BIN IT GOES !

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-30, 19:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh wow, that's getting a bit beyond battery corrosion and into an X-files episode of some all consuming fungus released from ancient grave or something. I think maybe that is fungus growing all over the traces near the CPU there, its all white and looks a little fluffy, but it could be electrolyte …

Re: Black Box Mystery Build

Posted on 2022-01-30, 08:35

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-01-30, 08:23: Do you know the final config yet?😉 Are you suggesting there is an entire PC in that little black box ? if so .. its possibly a single board computer ..perhaps one of the Pi variants.

Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-30, 08:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

Chuckle if you want but I'm finding the GTX 745 4GB GDDR3 I paid US $40 for awhile back surprisingly capable. I game on a 1366x768 32" TV (I love the low resolution on the big screen with big text as my eyes are terrible) and on a 1st gen Core i7 870, 12GB DDR3, Win10 LTSB 2015 system I am …

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