Re: Choosing a GPU for a P4 build?

Posted on Today, 00:24

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by VivienM

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Windows 2000 is not equal to XP. It is simplier and more professional-oriented. By "stability" I mean "working without interruptions". I definitely remember lots of crashes and blue screens in XP pre-SP2 era. They gone with patches after a couple of years. Even Windows 2003 SP2 by default have high …

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Re: Pentium 60/66 are DOS Only?

Posted on Today, 00:17

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by VivienM

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I know that I can easily install Windows95 on it, but my question was that considering the performance they were CPUs that mainly targeted MS-DOS 6.22 and therefore would you recommend installing a maximum of 16MB of RAM? 16MB of RAM would have been a luxury back then... then again, so were the P60 …

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Re: Choosing a GPU for a P4 build?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:24

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by VivienM

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Well, you do also need to consider that there was a lot of shitty hardware back then too (think: cheap POS PSUs, motherboards and GPUs with crap caps, and etc.), which could be the reason why. All of my vanilla XP and SP0 builds were rock-stable software-wise. I did have lots of problems with one …

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Re: Choosing a GPU for a P4 build?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:13

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by VivienM

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In my memory, Windows XP was very buggy up until service pack 2. I wouldn’t even say that it was more stable than fully patched Windows 98, even despite the NT architecture. Not sure what your definition of "stable" is, but my last experience running 98SE on a desktop machine I foolishly ordered …

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Re: Choosing a GPU for a P4 build?

Posted on 2024-04-29, 22:06

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by VivienM

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SP2 is the lowest I would downgrade to - as someone who has used both vanilla and SP1 versions, they tend to crash on certain machines when running games. Agreed. SP1 fixed a number of annoying bugs, including one that I still remember about the taskbar freezing up in certain circumstances. …

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Re: Choosing a GPU for a P4 build?

Posted on 2024-04-29, 22:03

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by VivienM

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Put 2 GB on the P4 2.8 GHz system only if you're curious to see what it's like to browse online (yeah, I know, almost everyone here will scream lunatic for even suggesting this... but frankly, XP SP3 with some "tweaks", a modern retro browser, and an ad-blocker is about-OK for online use... if you …

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Re: Modern 486 Laptop

Posted on 2024-04-29, 00:18

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by VivienM

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Somebody could probably build this running 86box around a Raspberry Pi-type thing... (ignoring the fact that I don't think 86box supports ARM on platforms other than Mac...) Actually building this out of real hardware, though... the price tag would be insane... which is unfortunate because a retro …

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Re: PSU for a retro PC

Posted on 2024-04-28, 17:29

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by VivienM

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I'm going to play on 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480, also what did you mean by "Those cards would have screamed at 1024x768"? Okay, then the GF3 Ti200 will be plenty. By 'screamed', I meant... perform very well. Look at Anandtech's review - they're getting over 100 FPS in Unreal Tournament at …

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Re: PSU for a retro PC

Posted on 2024-04-28, 16:13

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by VivienM

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I'm going to play on 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480, also what did you mean by "Those cards would have screamed at 1024x768"? Okay, then the GF3 Ti200 will be plenty. By 'screamed', I meant... perform very well. Look at Anandtech's review - they're getting over 100 FPS in Unreal Tournament at …

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Re: PSU for a retro PC

Posted on 2024-04-28, 13:02

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by VivienM

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Yea, I'm aiming for a windows 98 PC, although all the points you gave are legitimate, would you say a Pentium 4 1.7 Willamette PC with DDR 266 RAM and a geforce3 TI 200 would be sufficient for an above 60 FPS gaming for games from around 2001 and before that, or should I upgrade some of the specs …

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Re: PSU for a retro PC

Posted on 2024-04-27, 18:21

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by VivienM

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Its a new old stock socket 478 Pentium 4 so I thought I would pick it up, I wanted to try and build a retro pc with mostly new old stock parts and I though that if its for socket 478 then it wont require any high 5V rail. also the games I'm going to play on this PC are from 2002 or earlier so I …

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Re: PSU for a retro PC

Posted on 2024-04-27, 13:46

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by VivienM

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Do you want to run a 6800 Ultra? For example, i am running a P4 2800 Mhz northwood and Geforce 4 Ti with only an Enermax 330W PSU: 5V rail: 32A , 160W 12V rail: 122A , 144W I'm just going to put the specs here: Pentium 4 1.7GHz Willamette (socket 478) Sound blaster live Nvidia Geforce4 TI (4200 x8/ …

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Re: 1997 period correct retro PC build

Posted on 2024-04-25, 16:55

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by VivienM

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I might be wrong about this, but I think it's not actually included with OSR 2.5 either It is, but the installation can be skipped by hitting Alt-F4 when the prompt to install pops up. Oh, sure, it's just that IIIRC 2.5 = 2.1 + IE4 update (no other differences). So it's a simpler recommendation Oh, …

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Re: 1997 period correct retro PC build

Posted on 2024-04-24, 22:24

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by VivienM

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IMO Win95 might be better as long as you use something like OSR2.1 — just needs less RAM, works faster because it doesn't have IE integration like OSR2.5 or Win98. The 'IE integration' is the 'Windows Desktop Update' which is included with IE4; I'm pretty sure it can be installed on any release of …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 17:43

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by VivienM

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I have a question, how fun are them G4/5 Power Macs to use ? The supply of both here in Australia is rather good and I have always loved the design of them especially the G5 with is sexy sleek Aluminium case. Im not a Mac person but owning a G5 is pretty tempting. In my opinion, the FW800 MDD G4 …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 00:48

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by VivienM

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I don't get the Voodoo-hype either. I get it, for a very simple reason - because the Voodoo was the last of something. It's one of those rare inflection points in (especially) DOS/Windows PC history where something just... ends... without a backwards-compatible replacement. Especially at a time …

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Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 20:59

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by VivienM

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my mistake i was thinking the QX9550 in my head. those processors can go for outrageous prices. the q9550 and or q9650 are still in the good books. lets hope these prices don't raise too high with the aging of windows XP and LGA 775 as more and more people set out to build their "dream windows XP …

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Re: generationally correct parts

Posted on 2024-04-19, 00:46

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by VivienM

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Now, my understanding is that those early AMD 64-bit chips are missing some instructions required for newer Windows OSes, so if you wanted to play with anything newer than XP/Vista, that might not be your best bet. No, you can do up to Windows 7 fine. Not sure about 8/8.1 or 10... though I think …

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Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 23:36

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by VivienM

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Hard to believe Core 2 Quads are already so old. I would argue that's because the C2D and C2Qs basically represent the end of a roughly-decade long insane trend of improvement in the desktop computer sphere. Personal computers were expensive and relatively slow-moving in the 1980s, then something …

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Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 23:23

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by VivienM

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I wonder how far the Q9550 would have gotten me compared to the 2500K. :) I jumped from Q9550 to Haswell Xeon E3-1230 v3 in 2014 which I'm still using as my main rig. I feel like I could have stayed with Q9550 far longer and been mostly fine, only recently opening multiple tabs at the same time in …

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