Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2017-04-09, 17:22

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do yourself a favor and get rid of this unit. I had one, it never got to see a lot of action and still managed to blow up. At its peak, it was powering a Core2Duo 6550 (65W TDP) and a Radeon 4850, so maybe it was pulling something like 250-300W on full load. The same unit went to my dad's PC for a …

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Re: Blood lagging on MS-DOS 6.22 with Celeron Coppermine CPU

Posted on 2017-04-08, 15:36

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Does your motherboard use an integrated graphics card and if so are you using it?

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Re: Unreal engine 4 tech demos opinions?

Posted on 2017-04-08, 10:55

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by F2bnp

in Milliways

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The photorealistic houses are truly something to behold. I've tricked some people into thinking they are photos a couple of times. The look on their face when I move around the space in real time is truly something to behold 🤣

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Re: Blood lagging on MS-DOS 6.22 with Celeron Coppermine CPU

Posted on 2017-04-08, 10:52

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by F2bnp

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Yeah, Phil may be on to something here. I was thinking you were pushing much higher resolutions like 1024x768. Try it without sound or music like Phil suggests. Are you running the games through Windows? Maybe running them under DOS will help?

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Re: Blood lagging on MS-DOS 6.22 with Celeron Coppermine CPU

Posted on 2017-04-08, 00:10

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by F2bnp

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in Marvin \ Software

I have never really played Redneck Rampage, but Blood will chug pretty badly even on higher clocked CPUs. What resolution are you running it at?

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Re: Little Big Adventure 2 - LBA2

Posted on 2017-04-07, 17:20

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by F2bnp

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Love this game, but I am curious as well if there are any benefits to using the Windows version instead of the DOS executable.

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Re: Recommend me a mail forwarding service

Posted on 2017-04-06, 18:25

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by F2bnp

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Hi there badmojo! Thanks, I'll probably end up using them!

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Re: What sys specs for 640x480 DOS gaming?

Posted on 2017-04-06, 17:34

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just out of couriosity, what's needed to play Toonstruck with FMVs smoothly ? I guess you could do that even on a fast 486, let's say Pentium 75/90 to make sure. It's a 2D adventure game, not much of a stress for the CPU :). Try some 3D SVGA games though and poor old Pentium will have a very hard …

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Re: Monkey Island Intro on Dreamblaster X2

Posted on 2017-04-06, 15:46

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ Sound

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Yeah, I don't understand how Monkey Island could persuade you to look into a GM module. MT-32 games will almost never sound correct with a GM module. Monkey Island is somewhat of an exception, as it doesn't upload any samples to the MT-32, so you can achieve some pretty good results by using MT-32 …

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Re: Phenom II gpu and Unigine tech demo

Posted on 2017-04-06, 15:08

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, that integrated GPU is insanely slow. Should be similar in performance to an HD 2400 Pro actually.

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Recommend me a mail forwarding service

Posted on 2017-04-04, 22:36

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by F2bnp

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Greetings! I have a somewhat odd question, I've found a store in the US with some great deals on a few games. Thing is, I live in Europe and postage costs for big box games are quite insane to be honest. Now, I've come in contact with this store and they gave me the idea to use a mail forwarding …

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Re: Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi has died

Posted on 2017-04-04, 22:31

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by F2bnp

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May he rest in peace.

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Re: BitchinFast 3D 2000!!

Posted on 2017-04-01, 13:05

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Holy shit! Almost 20 years later and someone went ahead and did it. I can't believe he went through the lengths to even create a silly benchmark software 🤣 .

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Re: Microsoft to release 64-bit MS-DOS 9.0 after 17 years

Posted on 2017-04-01, 09:12

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by F2bnp

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Knew it as soon as I saw the thread, but I still had to open it to see the replies. Was not disappointed 🤣 !

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Re: Phenom 2 X3 720 info

Posted on 2017-03-29, 20:35

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Love this CPU. I have one and it's been in daily use since 2009. My brother bought it back then with an appropriate motherboard and easily unlocked the 4th core and raised the core clock slightly to reach 3GHz. 100% stable for us, never bluescreened, never caused us an issue. In the past few years, …

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Re: New DreamBlaster S2 !

Posted on 2017-03-29, 16:59

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ Sound

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Good points from all of you guys. However, I really agree with what Phil said right here: I help promote them because I get really annoyed at the prices of used wavetable boards and because anyone making new toys for us is awesome :blush: I had not thought of this angle, but I am certainly in …

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Re: New DreamBlaster S2 !

Posted on 2017-03-29, 13:39

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by F2bnp

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First off, I'd like to say that this is an amazing piece of hardware, much like your other daughterboards! The dimensions of the S2 are just amazing, to the point where I would be fearful of losing it somewhere in all the cluttered mess of hardware I own, if I were to store it :lol: . Seriously …

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Re: Thoughts on Win98' Unofficial Service Pack 3.6?

Posted on 2017-03-28, 12:36

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by F2bnp

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The go to Unofficial Service Pack is version 2.1a. Later versions became a little bloated, but I think 2.1a is a really nice starting point even for older PCs running Win98, such as a Pentium or Pentium MMX. You can always select what you want to install, I personally really like the fact that it …

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Re: PSU delayed start - is this normal?

Posted on 2017-03-20, 18:17

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by F2bnp

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Definitely looks like it should be fine, as you say. I have a Seasonic PSU (Seasonic X-660) and it does not exhibit this kind of behavior, you would have noticed it in reviews as well ;). Why don't you try googling it and see if you come with something similar for this specific PSU? Could it be a …

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Re: PSU delayed start - is this normal?

Posted on 2017-03-20, 13:03

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by F2bnp

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Could you tell us your complete system specs?

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