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I don't recall an X800 running the id Tech4 games poorly. Also remember in id tech 3 that r_primitives 2 is faster on ATI and the engine doesn't pick the best choice when dealing with that setting at 0. This also applies to modern AMD and Nvidia Geforce hardware not badly, but Doom 3 on an x800XT …

Re: MSI Master K7D problems

Posted on 2015-06-18, 13:56

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I do also own an Asus A7M266-D My board is boxed and brand new... and full of bloated caps. If a "new" Asus dual Socket-A board has bad caps I can only speculate that a used MSI dual Socket-A board... :D nah 2001-2004 was the ASUS Dark days, you could get a more reliable product from PC Chips or …

Re: Video card for Athlon XP?

Posted on 2015-06-18, 12:06

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There's another angle to consider for why ATI was slower in OpenGL. There were really just two OpenGL engines used to judge this - idTech4 and Riddick. Both use stencil shadowing. NVIDIA had an advantage on Z fillrate. So was it the OpenGL driver or the fact that ATI was behind on Z fill rate until …

Re: Video card for Athlon XP?

Posted on 2015-06-18, 04:36

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yea the 6800GT was a beast when it came out. It put Nvidia back into pole position after they struggled a little with the FX series. Radeon X850 is faster than any 6800 with AA/AF turned on high and at 1600x1200. The 6800 only barely edged out X800 without AA/AF and at resolutions lower than 1600 …

Re: Windows 98 on SSD - No DMA mode

Posted on 2015-06-17, 21:24

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well the one I got was a Maxtor ATA100 card with a promise controller, its been rock solid stable in my K6-3, also tested it with a modern system my now dead FX-6300 and it was again rock solid stable.

Re: Bootable CD to Format 40GB+ Drives with FAT32?

Posted on 2015-06-17, 21:23

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

because at times i plug it into linux and mac computers, it contains alot of stuff, and is a semi permanate, but is removeable easily make sense now? Well, no, not really. Why not use NTFS? OS X and Linux have both supported NTFS for a while now. Or maybe exFAT? it defrags monday-wednesday-friday. …

Re: Windows 98 on SSD - No DMA mode

Posted on 2015-06-17, 20:09

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

id still advise getting an ATA100/133 controller card they arn't expensive

Re: Bootable CD to Format 40GB+ Drives with FAT32?

Posted on 2015-06-17, 20:07

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll bite. Why do you need a 1.5 TB drive formatted as FAT32? There are perfectly suitable NTFS drivers for DOS and Windows 98. The whole reason the artificial 32 GB barrier is there in the first place is because performance suffers on large FAT32 partitions. Or at least, that's what they keep …

Re: Problems with SB live and Gravis Xterminator...

Posted on 2015-06-17, 17:45

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

well its a card from 1999, no telling

Re: A tale of two PSUs

Posted on 2015-06-17, 17:44

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

just get one of those 80mm deltas that pushes 200CFM at 80dba and do it like a boss

Re: Windows 98 on SSD - No DMA mode

Posted on 2015-06-17, 17:43

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

well the 440BX is ATA33 no 80pin cable needed, you need an ATA 100/133 controller ideally, for your system they should preform pretty much the same as your CPU wont keep up

Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-06-17, 17:33

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

well im gonna do it and put this other box up for now, might grab a Pentium 4/Pentium D for it to use in a retro box 🤣. This one will eventually get a 775 to 771 converter ordered wtih an x5460 🤣

Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-06-17, 15:46

by candle_86

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

well waiting to hear back but may have found a cheap 750i board and q6600 so I can overclock it to 3.3-3.8ish as its a G0, its just the 750i is the unknown 🤣.