Re: Which configuration would you recommend for older games until 2002?

Posted on 2014-11-21, 18:57

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by smeezekitty

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The rare BSOD during a video game can surely be tolerated for the sake of performance and compatibility. Personally I find a crash in game infuriating. I would happily trade performance for stability as long as you are not on the ragged edge in unplayability. Changing my vote to this. What I really …

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Re: Which configuration would you recommend for older games until 2002?

Posted on 2014-11-21, 03:52

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by smeezekitty

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By the way: I wouldn't recommend running XP with any of these configuration choices. It'll be a dog and any game that would run under XP with these specs would also run under Win98SE as well. There's no good reason to run XP with this system. Stability? I wouldn't run games on 98SE if they can run …

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Re: Black piant IBM inner casing.

Posted on 2014-11-21, 02:33

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by smeezekitty

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PeterLI wrote: Why not buy another case? There are plenty of non working machines out there. Where are there plenty of XT machines/cases?

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Re: Which configuration would you recommend for older games until 2002?

Posted on 2014-11-20, 18:56

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by smeezekitty

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My recommendation would be the P3 866 and the Geforce 4 It might be more stable and compatible with newer hardware, but it's going to run like crap on a P3. I know, because I dual-boot Win98SE and XP SP3 on my Coppermine P3 1ghz system. While it runs, it's horrible for web browsing with more than …

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-20, 08:15

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by smeezekitty

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Do those areas lack broadband, Sometimes. My area has limited cell coverage and the broadband frequently experiences severe speed drops. and would you normally use a 486 to watch that 144p youtube stream at about 8fps? That depends. A few months back my main system was down for maintenance so I …

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Re: If the world had to live with a single generation of PC, how far back could we go?

Posted on 2014-11-20, 08:10

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by smeezekitty

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But you can't play games or use apps that are highly dependent on multi-threading. Even a single core Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading isn't good enough for most of todays software. A Core2 Duo or Core2 Quad cpu can still handle a lot of modern apps. Most of the online games that I play REQUIRE a dual …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-20, 02:30

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by smeezekitty

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I'd been after a USB-to-SCSI converter for a few months now, in hopes of interfacing an Iomega Jaz drive with my laptop, from which every other removable media type used by my "retro" systems is currently accessible. For whatever reason, these converters are insanely overpriced - especially those …

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Re: What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards?

Posted on 2014-11-20, 01:08

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by smeezekitty

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I don't know what is best, but my machines have a Intel Etherexpress 16 in one and Dlink DE220 in the other

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-20, 00:54

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by smeezekitty

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While it's cool that a 486 can actually play Youtube videos, having to watch them in a window the size of a postage stamp make it's pretty pointless. What version of Flash player are you running with this? I'm actually surprised Youtube still allows any version that still works with a 486 and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-20, 00:53

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Oh man that thing is so cool!

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Re: Please help me with graphics card choices for a Windows 98 system

Posted on 2014-11-19, 22:40

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by smeezekitty

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Thanks for the tips on the GF2 and V2. JayCeeBee64: any reason not to start with something like 12.41 or whatnot? Or is there a big performance difference between those and newer drivers? (I don't know what the GF2 Ultra's "release" drivers are so I have no idea how new/old these versions are …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-19, 02:40

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by smeezekitty

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Posting from my new Thinkpad 770. 233mmx Pentium, 2mb Trident, some crystal based audio chip, 4.7gb hard drive running Windows2k on 228mb of ram. Currently using IE6 and trying to find the best version of Firefox to download. Spent all day yesterday scrubbing it with Simple Green, it was coated in …

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Re: Please help me with graphics card choices for a Windows 98 system

Posted on 2014-11-18, 22:38

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by smeezekitty

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The CPU is massively over-powered for what this build needs to do; pretend we're talking about a mid-grade Pentium 3 if it helps. Still wouldn't suggest the Matrox. Matrox is one of the most overrated cards in my opinion. They have next to no 3d support. Good image quality in 2d mode but otherwise …

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Re: Please help me with graphics card choices for a Windows 98 system

Posted on 2014-11-18, 21:13

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by smeezekitty

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For me, I have had really good results using Matrox G400 and Voodoo1 (yeah I know it's not V2) I would say, that you should try out the Matrox G400, as it has a good signal output. For 2d gfx, I allways go for G400, if the processor is fast enough. But for a Pee-4, those cards seem kind of dated/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-18, 18:50

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by smeezekitty

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Lukeno94 wrote: Quite why they'd use a Java app at all is beyond me, at this point in time. May as well move to HTML5. Agreed. I am very sick of Java. It constantly freezes/crashes my browsers and it is overall just buggy

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-18, 08:55

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by smeezekitty

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LunarG wrote: EDIT: Also, I've not seen youtube mobile default to 144p at any point while having a mobile phone capable of playing youtube videos. Even my android tablet does it on Wi-Fi Unless I select "HQ", it is 144p http://postimg.org/image/5alr8pp6j/

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-18, 08:02

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by smeezekitty

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When it hits you that there is a specific video you wanna check out on youtube, would you normally select to do so at 144p ? Occasionally youtube selects 144p by it self. The internet here is very iffy at times. Usually I can get 6MBP/s but sometimes it will drop down to 100K or slower causing …

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Re: Worth Keeping early socket 7 Motherboards?

Posted on 2014-11-18, 02:59

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by smeezekitty

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It actually felt good to give the virtual finger to someone like the scrappers Feel the same way here.

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Re: Worth Keeping early socket 7 Motherboards?

Posted on 2014-11-17, 20:10

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by smeezekitty

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Whenever I go to the recycling drop off there is always a few smashed TV's. :( The basic solid state CRT TVs are nothing worth saving. There is a pile of them at the thrift store for the scrappers every day. Unfortunately they used to pile the computers there as well but now they give me first dibs …

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Re: 486 Playing a youtube video

Posted on 2014-11-17, 19:20

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by smeezekitty

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Some things a 486 simply cannot do to an extent that is worthwhile. Worthwhile is subjective. The argument that it technically is able to play back a youtube video at highly reduced quality doesn't matter. If you wanted to watch a youtube video, you wouldn't do it this way unless this was your only …

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