Re: What's your favorite driver for what graphics card?

Posted on 2014-02-15, 22:24

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by Tetrium

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If you want, I could fire her up and check which driver I used butteh...how do I check which driver version I used in the first place? I suppose it can be found in control center? Ftr, it's a Windows XP rig. Put GPU-Z on an USB flash-drive :) http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2340/techpowerup- …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-15, 22:16

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@Tetrium and regarding the airflow - I'm no expert on these things but it seems to pump a lot of hot air out if that means anything! The cade has 2 80mm fans at the front, one at the back, the PSU fan, and of course the CPU and GPU fans. I've just assumed that's enough, but you're it's probably …

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Re: Cutting Room Floor

Posted on 2014-02-15, 22:09

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by Tetrium

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Hello BaronSFel001, I see you are new here? Welcome to Vogons :) I'm not sure what your question is though, could you please elaborate? I'll try to understand what your question is and I suppose it's mainly where my cutoff point was when it comes to collecting hardware? Well for me the cutoff point …

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Re: What's your favorite driver for what graphics card?

Posted on 2014-02-15, 21:09

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by Tetrium

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For my Radeon X850 XT PE, I've discovered through trial and error that Catalyst 8.2 is generally the best for both new and old games. I used 10.2 for a while (last available version), but it had some performance issues with a few games (Doom 3 and Quake 4 especially). Catalyst 8.2 has its share of …

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Re: My AMD Athlon Socket A system..

Posted on 2014-02-15, 20:01

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by Tetrium

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I think, iam going try windows xp on the first place. And then see which games couldnt work probably on XP.. Maybe there is nothing wrong to using winxp instead.. Win98SE would be struggeling to let a better AGP card working because of non support in drivers..(i really like to see a Pixel shader …

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What's your favorite driver for what graphics card?

Posted on 2014-02-15, 19:29

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by Tetrium

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So atm I'm busy downloading drivers from Nvidia (old drivers) and at the same time trying to google what drivers are good for which graphics cards and which drivers to avoid. And this got me wondering...which drivers do you use for which graphics cards and perhaps more important, why do you prefer …

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-15, 18:51

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by Tetrium

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As a P4 heretic myself all I can say is "nice build". And silver aluminum cases with clean minimalist lines like the Lian Li are simply the best for showing off gear IMO! I have a similar rig: P4-3.6/7900GTX running XP/W98se with modded drivers and the RLOEW patch. A CoolerMaster Hyper 101/FHS …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-15, 18:49

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by Tetrium

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133MHz wrote: Today's flea market haul: […] Show full quote Today's flea market haul: That's a nice haul! 😁 So what's inside the AT case? 😜

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Re: Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 GHz - more than just hot air

Posted on 2014-02-15, 10:08

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by Tetrium

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38V on the +5v line? Interesting! You could put that PSU to use in a super Athlon XP rig :P I wasn't aware there were actually mobo's that did support Cedar Mill and not the Cores..interesting! I was under the impression such motherboards didn't exist, though I never actually did any research on …

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Re: My latest Windows 98 Pentium 3 rig.

Posted on 2014-02-15, 01:42

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by Tetrium

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borgie83, thanks a lot for taking so much time to help me! :) I won't be starting that build very soon though (need to create an extra room for my slower systems first, will take some time), but it's better to have the files needed before they disappear from the internet forever. I think the new …

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Re: Pentium 4 boards won't power on at all

Posted on 2014-02-15, 00:17

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by Tetrium

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I got an Asus board that does this number but got the odd idea of just pulling the cmos battery while the machine was plugged in and the moment I did this it powered up. Behaved normally after for a few days but haven't bothered with it in more than a month. So give that a try, if the led does come …

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Re: AGP Aperture Size and video performance!

Posted on 2014-02-15, 00:15

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by Tetrium

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Welcome to Vogons! 😁 I'll try to keep this in mind. Frankly, I never gave AGP aperture size a good though, can't remember what I set it to 🤣

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-02-15, 00:13

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by Tetrium

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fantasma wrote: Glad you guys like it! I already ordered a CF-IDE reader so I get rid of the clunky zip drive. 😎 Noes! 😢 ZIP drives are cool 😜

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-14, 22:00

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Here are the pictures. I also put the jumper on P which means I/O 330. That was the same with the other 1 I bought. That 1 works. Without the P jumped it does not work. It may or may not be the scratches. Maybe the ROM is blown as well. Who knows. The scratch I saw doesn't look that serious to me …

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Re: My latest Windows 98 Pentium 3 rig.

Posted on 2014-02-14, 21:48

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by Tetrium

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borgie83 and Standard Def Steve, thanks so much for making me aware of this problem, though I never personally experienced it (that or I simply didn't notice). I wonder if certain BIOS settings like the one describing to put AGP to 2x mode will also help (extra settings in addition to putting AGP to …

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Re: Goldmine or old junk?

Posted on 2014-02-14, 16:57

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by Tetrium

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Trying the s478 board right now, had hoped it would make a nice replacement for my microATX board... But I can't get it to do anything more than BEEEEP indefinitely. I'm posting this from Arachne now which sucks, will reply to you guys once I get my P4 running again. What CPU did you test it with? …

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Re: "WANTED: vintage computers" - does this work?

Posted on 2014-02-14, 16:49

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Today I got someone's old "junk" which he gave to me for free (or better said, as exchange for my advice). I helped him, he helped me and next week he's probably gonna give me the rest of his stuff. I already wrote in the "What retro hardware did you get?" thread about what I exactly got today. Just …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-14, 16:38

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The PSU's weren't interesting whatsoever. Bummer again as I'm short on good P4 PSU's (so for now it's back to Athlon XP and below for me lol) You should use the bad and cheap power supplys with the boring hp and dell s478 boards. If you use a GF4 MX or some other $1 dollar card as Video Card the …

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Re: Alton M571

Posted on 2014-02-14, 16:33

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I see. OK, i guess Virge and voodoo will have to do :) I am currently using Cyrix 233MHz, but i will be switching to AMD K6-2. What does it mean to cache 128MB? I'm not that technical, but it goes something like this: Before Slot 1 and Slot A conquered the world, the motherboard would determine how …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-02-14, 14:01

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by Tetrium

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Well, today I got some stuff for free. A couple ATX computer cases (or what's left of them lol) all with Pentium 4 motherboards, one tiny s478 Dell which had a leaking cap (already took it apart) and one tiny s478 HP which I also took apart (the PCI slot directly beneath the AGP slot is bend, hope …

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