Re: What are your thoughts about the Matrox G450 for Win 98 Gaming (97 to late 2000)

Posted on 2023-06-03, 21:24

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I’d say you should go with plan C. Spend less now so you can start experimenting. You might find you change your mind on what you want after you get your hands on something. I know I have done that myself. Plus, an upgrade to a GF2 MX would be cheap and easy later on.

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Re: Card recommendations for windows 98 gaming rig

Posted on 2023-05-29, 23:32

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I'm sure other people will be more knowledgeable than me, but I think a GeForce MX card will be a little under-powered, but will be so much easier/cheaper to get your hands on. If you don't mind spending more, I think an socket 754 system should be able to take advantage of the extra power in a …

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Re: Help - did I fry my motherboard?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 15:25

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I would be most suspicious about the PSU. I know I'm only a sample size of one, but I had the exact same PSU in a system from similar era to yours. Last year I pulled that system out of the closet and after running it for a little while it started to get flakey. Swapping the PSU out with a spare I …

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Re: Help - did I fry my motherboard?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 23:24

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I would be most suspicious about the PSU. I know I'm only a sample size of one, but I had the exact same PSU in a system from similar era to yours. Last year I pulled that system out of the closet and after running it for a little while it started to get flakey. Swapping the PSU out with a spare I …

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Re: 8 vs 12mb Voodoo 2 performance

Posted on 2023-05-26, 00:06

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I’ve been umming and aahing about taking the plunge to mod my two 8MB cards to 12MB. I’ve got the chips, I’ve got the hot air station, but have I got the stones… not sure. I only have a moderate amount of soldering skill and I was surprised with how easy the upgrade was. I just used an iron and I …

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Re: What's your absolute favorite piece of retro hardware?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 18:25

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Voodoo Rush.JPEG For some reason I can't quite explain, I have the pick the terrible Voodoo Rush. I've also got a V1, V2 and V3, but I find something so much more compelling about bad/difficult hardware. Which probably also explains my runner up: gus.JPEG The GUS also has the added personal value …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-17, 17:19

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Got two nice cases - both containing Pentium era hardware(S7 & SS7). Nice! I’d love to find an InWin A500 again. I remember I bored out the tiny vent holes on the bottom front edge to improve airflow. I think that was around the time that we all collectively started to worry about those sorts of …

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Re: Diagnosing a broken Voodoo 2

Posted on 2023-05-15, 00:28

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I'm certainly not an expert, but based on how it looks I'd think that it's related to the framebuffer. Whether it's a bad RAM chip or the FBI itself, that's certainly what I'd be looking at first.

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Re: Trouble with Gigabyte 5Ax 4.1

Posted on 2023-05-06, 21:12

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I think I remember having some resource conflict issues with this board. I have no idea if that could be causing this problem though. I would try to remove/disable everything that isn't necessary. Take that PCI card out, disable the serial, parallel, and USB ports in the BIOS. Then I'd enable the " …

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Re: AGP for Super S7 with weak VRMS?

Posted on 2023-05-05, 18:14

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I don't think I've ever used a VIA MVP3 or Aladdin V board that liked a GeForce, Radeon, or G200/G400. Most of them force AGP 1x in the driver if they detect Super 7 and some later things like VIA KX133 or nForce1. But yeah you see people post about how they find them to be rock solid. When you say …

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Re: AGP for Super S7 with weak VRMS?

Posted on 2023-05-01, 03:19

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I also have a VA-503+ 1.2A and I've tested it with a Voodoo3 3000, as well as a TNT2 among others, and I haven't seen a problem. Have I just experienced a lot of dumb luck? I had heard of problems with other boards but not this one, so I hadn't thought to be careful. Yikes. Is there a primary source …

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Re: Running DOS games in a real hardware. What issues am I going to encounter?

Posted on 2023-04-23, 16:00

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Check this out for slowing down a faster computer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xcBmEjXg2ME It’s a good starting point to understand what’s involved.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-22, 23:20

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This wasn't exactly cheap, but it was still way better than eBay prices and I couldn't pass it up. misc.JPEG This was all the extra stuff that came along with the good stuff. :) Should be useful to have some IDE and SCSI adapters, but not what I'm really excited about. ati vlb.JPEG This is my first …

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Re: Help with P5PE-VM and CPU for HD 3850 build

Posted on 2023-04-12, 16:17

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This modded bios looks like a simple cpu microcode update, I would go with E7600, it runs faster and cooler than E6600 and they both have 1066 FSB. I was reading this Russian article and they were running quad core xeon processor on this board, that's just insane. https://ideafix.name/?p=2851 Oh no …

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Re: Help with P5PE-VM and CPU for HD 3850 build

Posted on 2023-04-11, 17:33

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2. I'd honestly stick to E6xxx tops. Yeah, you probably could go E7600 but since it's unofficial, you might run into issues. I haven't personally tested this (despite owning a semi-broken E7600) but I figure the FSB would be quite a problem, especially when AGP is into play and not PCI-E. 3. IIRC …

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Help with P5PE-VM and CPU for HD 3850 build

Posted on 2023-04-11, 07:18

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Hey all, I got my hands on an ASUS P5PE-VM. It needs a recap, but once that's done I'm hoping to pair it with my Radeon HD 3850 AGP. The board came with a Pentium D installed, but obviously we've got to do better than that for the 3850. I've got a few questions that I'm hoping you fine folks can …

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Re: The curious case of the artifacting Geforce 2 MX

Posted on 2023-04-05, 19:18

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Have you tried sitting in the BIOS again for a couple minutes to see if the problem still happens? The drivers won't be loaded, so you can see if the problem still exists or if it magically fixed itself. If the problem is still there, I wonder if there's some corruption in the VBIOS that has clocks …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-05, 00:54

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I don't remember what it was exactly. It was a second hand Compaq Deskpro with Windows 95, a floppy drive, and CD-ROM. It must have been at least a Pentium, because I think I played Quake on it. So maybe a very early Pentium. I never used it for the Internet, and all of the games I bought worked …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-04, 16:49

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For me it was upgrading from 20MB to 60MB. How could someone ever fill that much space?!

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Re: Pentium MMX 233 aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2023-04-02, 04:13

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Soooo... I think I'm winning... :) edit: for 3DMark 99, obviously. I got excited and forgot to do 2000. 1835.png Just picked up a Geforce 2 Pro, and I had it on my mind that I wanted to use it to try for the record. This was actually my first attempt and there's only an overclock on the CPU. I might …

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