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

Posted on 2014-02-20, 10:04

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Personally the Ultra or "best" cards will always command a premium. I like the "value" cards or cards "for the masses" like the GF4 Ti 4200, 6600GT, 7600GT, 9600GT. They are much cheaper and easier to find and not far behind the top models. Who knows if they also last longer because the top cards …

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

Posted on 2014-02-19, 14:08

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Wow it's been 9 years? 😒

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

Posted on 2014-02-19, 10:18

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The G92 appeared as: - 8800GS - 8800GT - 8800GTS 512MB - 9600GSO - 9800GT - 9800GT "Green Edition" - 9800GTX - 9800GTX+ - 9800GX2 - GTS 150 - GT 230 - GTS 240 - GTS 250 - GTS 250 "Green Edition" :lol: What a mess. The GTS 250 1GB is what I'm chasing. Great info there! I got some cheap coolers from …

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

Posted on 2014-02-18, 22:50

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On Swedish "Ebay" cards like the 7600 GT and 7800 GTX still sell for $7.50 - $15. And isn't that a bargain for cards that cost several hundred dollars back in the day? The 7800GT I had cost me roughly AU$ 600 and that was quite a bit of money back in the day. The 7800GTX 512 or 7900GTX are even …

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Re: Redundant collecting (AKA hoarding)

Posted on 2014-02-18, 13:17

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Postage will certainly keep getting more expensive. Exporting from Australia already costs so much I won't even bother trying to sell overseas if I ever decide to sell something. But I agree it is often more hassle to sell stuff compared to what they are worth. Apart from some Roland gear maybe.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2014-02-18, 12:34

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Got a few more games for my early 3D graphics mucking around: - G-Police - Grandprix racing - Messiah - Medal of honour (game with 2 expansions)

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Re: Redundant collecting (AKA hoarding)

Posted on 2014-02-18, 11:59

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I usually go for the "good stuff" only. Quite picky in what I want and therefore my collection is not that large. I do like to have backups like 2 Sound Blaster Pro cards and 3 AWE64 Gold. I try to buy in bulk to save shipping, so that's how I often end up with a few bits extra. I don't collect …

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

Posted on 2014-02-18, 09:38

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This thread made be look for some of the faster and newer PCIe (vintage :lol: ) video cards. I got all these cards with minimum bids: - 7800GT 256 - 7800GT 512 - 7800GTX 256 - 7600GT - Geforce 4 Ti (not sure which one) I then forgot about an auction and let a Radeon 9700Pro AIW slip through my …

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

Posted on 2014-02-16, 06:51

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I like that 8800GTX. What a best of c ard! For me the Core 2 Duo is THE DX9 / Windows XP platform. I remember how awesome my E6600 system was. Or a Phenom II / Athlon II Platform, they are also very good. Personally I would go for a P4 system when it comes to AGP cards. While AMD was a bit stronger …

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Re: Real mode DOS PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2014-02-16, 04:22

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Start with a Slot 1 BX440 first. They should be easy to find. I recommend going with a "package" that comes with board, RAM and CPU or a complete PC. Saves you a lot of money on shipping.

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Re: Real mode DOS PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2014-02-16, 04:07

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The boards I have are from AOpen and Gigabyte. And maybe it was a Celeron, I can't remember anymore :) But anything around 700 to 900 MHz will do the trick. Any more performance and you really need the 133 MHz FSB, but here it gets hard finding an ISA slot. I found the VIA chipset boards very weak …

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Re: Cutting Room Floor

Posted on 2014-02-16, 04:04

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Picking parts depend a lot on the game. For example to play old Sierra games, a LAPC-I or CM-32L is the wrong choice and needs a MT-32 (Old). Pinball games sound best with a GUS and later General MIDI games you want to have a SC-55. So it really depends on what you want to play. Every game is …

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Re: Real mode DOS PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2014-02-16, 03:34

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Most of the "newer" ones, duke3d, quake, R.O.T.T., BLOOD, Descent2, etc. Well Quake and Descent 2 can run on 3DFX Voodoo. Duke3D runs fine at 640 x 480 on a decent Pentium 3 machines. I would imagine the same goes for the other games. I really think you should build a P3 machine based on the BX440 …

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Re: what were the first games to use 16bit color?

Posted on 2014-02-16, 02:38

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Ok my mistake. Too many games I mucked around with lately...

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Re: Real mode DOS PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2014-02-16, 02:37

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The Vortex 2 cards have full wavetable support under DOS. Many can also drive an external MIDI module. For DOS games in 640 x 480 I would start with a Pentium 3 system and see how you go. Make sure you run FASTVID or other utilities to boost graphics performance. P3 boards pretty much always come …

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Re: what were the first games to use 16bit color?

Posted on 2014-02-16, 02:21

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I know that Screamer has an option for 8 and 16 bit colour. Terminal velocity I believe has a similar option as well.

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Re: Bin/Cue with OGG?

Posted on 2014-02-15, 11:01

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Are you mounting the same way GOG.com games do? Using the same command?

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Re: Bin/Cue with OGG?

Posted on 2014-02-13, 14:31

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Hey check out my thread: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37966 I show how to burn various GOG.com games onto disc :) You basically do the opposite of what I do in the video. Convert the tracks to OGG, but the files into an iso and rename to bin and then create the cue sheet. But there was …

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Re: Where do you get your PCs?

Posted on 2014-02-11, 10:55

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OMG I noticed that PC as well 🤣

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Re: Unverse (Core Design, 1994)

Posted on 2014-02-10, 15:29

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Haven't got the game, can't help out 😵

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