Re: Athlon MP vs Athlon XP

Posted on 2014-05-09, 13:34

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Its the same. Btw mobile athlon is same as Athlon MP. Tried to do bridge fix on Athlon XP - it works, but cpu is still not stable in dual cpu config. If you use single cpu mobo, there should be no difference.

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Re: Art of PCB photography

Posted on 2014-03-27, 15:16

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Slaventus86 wrote: I use Canon EOS 550D + Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II + Lightbox and four 500W light sources. You got best photos of cards i ever seen online. I wonder about no distortions even at very long cards (thats mine plague). What are you using for baground? (i standart white paper A3, but it …

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Re: GL_EXT_paletted_texture

Posted on 2014-03-21, 22:58

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From cards i tested and archived results these support it: 3Dlabs PERMEDIA, Oxygen GMX, PERMEDIA2, Oxygen GVX1, (Oxygen VX1 has no support) Intel740 Diamond Fire GL 3000 (GLINT 500TX + GLINT Delta), ELSA GLoria-L/MX 816 (GLINT MX + GLINT Delta) S3 Savage 4, Savage/IX, ProSavageDDR (VIA P4M266), …

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Re: GL_EXT_paletted_texture

Posted on 2014-03-21, 11:29

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Download opengl extensions viewer and check database of their results integrated in sw. They have plenty of cards in there...But xp only - http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/index.html

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-03-18, 23:17

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SiS Xabre 200 32MB

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-03-15, 22:31

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by vlask

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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 - a little overclocked GF 6800

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Re: Matrox VGA PCI performance benchmarks (Impression, Millennium, Mystique, G200)

Posted on 2014-03-15, 22:06

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From this table I found, G200 should be substantially faster. Well they are on just a little faster cpu :wink: (Athlon XP 2200+) Impression Plus - 3,3fps Mystique, Millennium, Millennium II (PCI) - 161,5-165,1fps G100 - 210,1fps Millennium II (AGP) - 227,6fps G200/G200A - 231,4fps G450 - 238,9fps …

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Re: Matrox VGA PCI performance benchmarks (Impression, Millennium, Mystique, G200)

Posted on 2014-03-15, 21:52

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Why Matrox? They are uniform. They didn't come in 10.000 different versions as the S3 Virge's, or other chipset which had several different manufactures. Have Millenium cards with 2 revisions that differ by clocks - Rev.2 - 50,113MHz, Rev.3 - 59,99MHz (MGA-2064W / IS-STORM chips). Dont know if ever …

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Re: ATI VGA Wonder XL24

Posted on 2014-03-13, 20:06

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Does ATI/AMD host legacy stuff? Nah, ofc not. Thats too much space on their servers. It could take space of one modern driver, they all need it for fancy graphics and animations...... Few years ago they had there Rage drivers, but these are gone too since merging with AMD. Any web redesign = delete …

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Re: Videocard identification.

Posted on 2014-03-12, 18:16

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Also yours 315E seems to be 32bit, poor bastard. Thats quite possible and its also only PCI, but i was talking about 305 and not 315e. Ofc these are main reasons for slower fps on mine 315e vs 305. Another fact is poor quality of sis drivers a bad support of games, any geforce 2mx will be better …

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Re: S3/VIA UniChrome good for non-DOS retrogaming?

Posted on 2014-03-12, 18:08

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Ok, so first thing tomorrow morning I'm gonna benchmark instead of testing some games. Anything else beside 3DMark2000? Great battle tomorrow night: UniChrome DDR 333 Versus UniChrome Pro DDR2 533. I'm a sucker for the underdogs, and these they both are. I'm very curious about this, very …

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Re: S3/VIA UniChrome good for non-DOS retrogaming?

Posted on 2014-03-11, 21:43

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I remember reading that it uses some parts of Savage 2000, but the 3D is based on Savage4 for some reason. Thats prosavage and prosavageDDR - DX7 previous versions used in KM133, PM133 and KM266/P4M266. They had 2d core from savage2000 and 3d core from Savage 4. He have unichrome, thats somehow …

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Re: Videocard identification.

Posted on 2014-03-11, 21:24

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SiS305 AGP 32MB i tested have 69,9FPS in glquake 640x480 - see http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks/310-glquake Thats right between Savage 3D and Savage 4. For example Ati rage 128vr 8MB have 81FPS and vanta LT have 100FPS. So its comparable to slowest 2nd gen 1998 3D cards, but this one came …

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Re: Who else is pumped for VR?

Posted on 2014-03-06, 22:09

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Waiting for oculus as possible way to get 3D. Tried old glasses (packed to geforce 2) few years ago, when i had fx5900xt and 21 eizo. It had few disadvantages, that i hope oculus will solve. Have no interest in recent 3d at this time, cause it has serious flaws. Hope that oculus will have these …

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Re: Old Hdd drives benchmarks?

Posted on 2014-03-03, 18:41

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Test finished, in the end i found 66 hdd to test, so mine little test grow a bit. Oldest drive is 200mb conner from 1990. Think that now i finnaly have idea about relative hdd speeds. http://extrahardware.cnews.cz/sites/default/files/styles/ehw-galerie-original/public/pictures/clanky/ehw/2014/02unor …

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Re: Minimalist VGA Card

Posted on 2014-02-05, 11:58

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Realtek had even smaller, heard that they used them for servers (no need there for anything else than cursor). They even integrated bios into main chip, so they can save cost of bios chip :cool: http://www.vgamuseum.info/images/stories/vlask/realtek/rtg3105iehpt505f.jpg http://www.vgamuseum.info/ …

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Re: Harddisk diagnostic tools manufacturer..

Posted on 2014-01-05, 19:30

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Victoria has dos and windows too version - its universal tool - works at all drives... http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.03-Victoria/ I like more mhdd which is pure dos software, but its not sometimes so effective at remaping bad sectors (seagate drives) and dont work at some modes (dont like ahci …

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Old Hdd drives benchmarks?

Posted on 2013-11-17, 21:36

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Started working on small benchmark of various old hard drives i got by dissasemling old computers at work. Never seen any benchmark covering old and new drives and comparing speed on 386 era vs today. Might be interesting to see how speed varied in years. Anyone anywhere seen some similar tests? …

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Re: Game suggestions to try with an Audigy 2

Posted on 2013-11-12, 15:21

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Think that i was suprised by sound in Mafia (1) game, when i got mine Audigy 1. It was really different from integrated audio codec. But not sure about supported eax version.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-10-13, 11:20

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Rage Mobility, probably C (detected by win, cant check without destroying card) 8MB.

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