Re: How good is this? (New PC)

Posted on 2011-03-02, 02:19

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by Tetrium

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No, it's not the boot disk, I had one of the disks he is talking about but it won't work for some reason. It came with a oem cd marked as for a dell. Ugh...I stay clear of any Dell/HP/Compaq cdrom stuff. Better is to install the normal OEM or Retail software. I'm not touching those lol! The only …

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Re: How good is this? (New PC)

Posted on 2011-03-01, 19:24

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by Tetrium

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No, it's not the boot disk, I had one of the disks he is talking about but it won't work for some reason. It came with a oem cd marked as for a dell. Ugh...I stay clear of any Dell/HP/Compaq cdrom stuff. Better is to install the normal OEM or Retail software. I'm not touching those lol! The only …

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Re: Windows 2000, what can it be used for?

Posted on 2011-03-01, 19:21

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by Tetrium

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Yup ;) Btw, I just remembered 2k can do one other thing that XP can't: XP needs a Pentium to install and afaik, 2k doesn't. So basically if you want an OS based on NT5 and want to use any pre-Pentium1 or some other older hardware like the LS-120, then 2k is the way to go instead of XP. Well, at …

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Re: Reference Retro Benchmark Database - Discussion

Posted on 2011-03-01, 19:15

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by Tetrium

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SuperPI for DOS does not much sense. Do you want to use this as FPU/memory bench? SuperPI runs in Win 3.x though but it takes ages on an older CPU (days to weeks). Also for a missing FPU it uses the Win 3.x fallback x87 emulation dll that calculates the commands in integer and is much much slower …

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Re: How good is this? (New PC)

Posted on 2011-03-01, 19:06

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by Tetrium

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Anybody has the Windows 98SE Boot Setup Floppy? (The one that redirects to the installation CD-ROM) Redirects to the CD? Not sure what you mean. Check out boot disk for the Win98SE floppy. From there, you can FDISK, FORMAT then run the Win98SE's setup.exe on the CD. Is that what you mean? I think …

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Re: Reference Retro Benchmark Database - Discussion

Posted on 2011-03-01, 14:59

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by Tetrium

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Good idea! I have one question though, is it really necessary to use 2 different versions of the program? What happens if we use just one for 486 and post-486? I've been looking for a DOS version of SuperPi forever, but I just think it doesn't exist 🙁

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Re: Game Suggestion to Test Voodoo 1

Posted on 2011-03-01, 14:58

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by Tetrium

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Interstate 76 was Voodoo 1 iirc

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Re: Fast DOS box: 1 ISA + Athlon XP

Posted on 2011-03-01, 14:54

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by Tetrium

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the Thoroughbreds get very unstable once you overclocked the shit out of it... I have an XP 2100, but I made it run at 2.1ghz real speed.. so that was basically "XP 2600"... I up'd the FSB but lowered the multiplier... it was a bit faster but overtime the system got more and more unstable I used it …

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Re: Motherboard + case advice

Posted on 2011-03-01, 00:17

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by Tetrium

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I think that's rather expensive. Also this board is ATX. About the case, it's PSU looks like one of those El Cheapo PSU's. If you want a good ATX case with good PSU for a good price, try one of the older AOpen cases. They (should) come with FSP PSU's. If you're getting a new case with PSU, you …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-02-28, 20:35

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by Tetrium

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Ok, but I'll need to upgrade the harddrive in my working computer if I'd want to go further. "400GB, you'll NEVER be able to fill it all up!"...lmao haha! 😜

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Re: How good is this? (New PC)

Posted on 2011-02-28, 20:33

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by Tetrium

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Basically all Socket 7 CPU's will need a HSF. There are rare exceptions involving certain chips and underclocking, but that's about it.

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Re: Basis For My Next Retro System

Posted on 2011-02-28, 20:26

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by Tetrium

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retro games 100 wrote: Don't you need a + chip, in order to avoid the cache bug? Nope 😉 The ones that circumvent the cache limit thingy are the K6-III, K6-2+ and K6-III+. All 3 of these will do 😉 Any of the other ones (Intel, Cyrix and the little obscure bunch) will not help in this regard.

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-02-28, 12:44

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by Tetrium

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If you guys can live without the "fancy lines", it would be much easier / faster for me, despite me using auto format... I do like the idea of google docs however. Think of excel, just on a webpage. But if everyone has to sign up for google (which I guess is the case), that might be an issue... …

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Re: Windows 2000, what can it be used for?

Posted on 2011-02-28, 12:33

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by Tetrium

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I never used the sysprep thingy, but have moved 9x installs around many times, and it failed only once. XP (which is similar to 2k in that respect) never worked except for once, which quite surprised me! Hardware was totally different also?

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Re: Sexual Contents in (Serious) Video Games

Posted on 2011-02-28, 05:53

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by Tetrium

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I think the pixels were always there. They only got more detailed 😜

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-02-28, 05:52

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by Tetrium

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The thing is, Maulwurf used a system that made it very easy to insert data into the database and it's easy to manage. I don't know the 1st thing about google docs. Having to insert 10 different words/numbers is 10 times as much work as being able to insert the entire text string at once.

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-02-28, 00:30

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by Tetrium

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For us it's easy to churn out one result after the other and posting them here, but for Maulwurf it means editing the table, as well as converting and uploading it each time. What we really need is a wiki or a shared database. That would be a good idea! Thing is, someone will need to maintain it. …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2011-02-27, 23:15

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by Tetrium

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Lol k. Maybe I'll create my own private database using the same info. What I like about this system is the sheer ease of adding new info into the table.

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-02-27, 23:14

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by Tetrium

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Yes, I still have it. I put it aside but don't know exactly where it is. Actually, I once bought a board and the seller had a pic of the boards and a couple cards laying on the board. I was annoyed of the cards covering part of the board. Anyway, I won the set cheaply...low and behold, exactly where …

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Re: Formerly Windows 3.1 trouble, now windows 98 trouble.

Posted on 2011-02-27, 23:10

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by Tetrium

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On the top right of your posts, theres this very tiny 'c'. Press it so you can edit your old post. You don't need 3 separate posts to post 3 lines of text.

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