Re: matrox to use amd gpu's

Posted on 2016-08-19, 21:05

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by nforce4max

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Yea and I have seen a few of their newer AMD based cards pop up on eBay, the only difference is that they are gimped performance wise (cheaper gddr3) and that there could be some improvements on image quality.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-19, 21:02

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Bought a 2920XM for $140 today. :lol: Will upgrade my W520 with it. Nice score! Just be warned that proc puts out a lot of heat and it will peg all 4 cores to 3.2ghz turbo until you load it down regardless of temps. Had to turn the turbo off on mine to keep the thermals in check because it would go …

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Re: What gpu for 604 setup.

Posted on 2016-08-19, 20:55

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X1950 are still sometimes cheap and even got mine for like $8, I wouldn't go chasing after a 7800 gs since they are not all that much faster than a 6800 anyway. The Radeon 2k agp was infamous for driver issues for a while but not sure how they have improved. 7600 is ok and low cost when people don't …

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Re: 386 CPU/Motherboard suggestions needed

Posted on 2016-08-19, 20:50

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by nforce4max

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If you really want to do this just really be sure to shop around so you don't end up over paying or getting ripped off by some of the assholes out there these days. If you are paying top dollar for a board be sure that the barrel of cancer has been removed and that there is no acid damage before you …

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Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Posted on 2016-08-19, 20:44

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by nforce4max

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People these days are dumb as rocks and most just don't care, I am even cutting back on my purchases because of crap like this.

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Re: 604 heat sink that's not a screamer or for a rack mount.

Posted on 2016-08-17, 13:57

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by nforce4max

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You might have to resort to rigging something up, if you can work with metal and have the supplies on hand you could try to make a pair of backplates then try to mount a pair of more common ear friendly coolers. Just don't expect it to be easy if you do this for the first time if all else use the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-08-16, 04:36

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by nforce4max

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Cleaned up and tinkered with some more boards but as usual some are picky with the cards I have 😒

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-16, 04:33

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by nforce4max

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Recently i bought a couple of socket 478 boards for 1€ each. Unlike i stated earlier the ecs p4vxasd2+ has an universal agp slot, the other one is a matsonic ms-9147c which is a clone board. These are counterfeit boards with a fake chipset, i already suspected that since they support sdr ram. …

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Re: 486 DX4 100Mhz - which brand to buy

Posted on 2016-08-16, 04:28

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by nforce4max

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AMD for raw clocks, Cyrix 5x86 for performance per clock, Intel because it is Intel, and Ti because it is different. All the above are worth collecting and are a lot of fun to play with. The AMD and the Ti are the cheapest while the Intel can get pricey but you can kinda cheat on the Cyrix but …

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Re: Opinions on Perfect XP Machine

Posted on 2016-08-14, 17:17

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by nforce4max

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First or second gen i5 4gb of ddr3 1866 or 1600 with tight timings, some cheap mlc SSDs, and a pair of 5970s or a single GTX 590. GTX 280s are also really good for the job provided the coils (vrm) haven't burned out yet.

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Re: ISA 16-bit graphics card comparative performance and ranking

Posted on 2016-08-13, 23:57

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by nforce4max

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I think it's more to do with the motherboard, but the CPU could also play a role, since the Ti486SXL-40 has 8 KB of L1 cache, as opposed to 1 KB of L1 cache on the Cyrix 486DLC-40 (would be interesting to see how these two CPU's stack up against each other in benchmark tests like NSSI 0.60, Norton …

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"Pick one" eBay rant

Posted on 2016-08-13, 23:50

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by nforce4max

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Like most here I have been seeing more and more auctions where a lot of items is pictured but you only get the choice of "one" out of the lot vs how 99.995% of how everyone else does it where what you see is what you get. I have avoided these bull shit auctions until bidding on one by accident and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-13, 20:24

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by nforce4max

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Well seems today was a good day,in flea market i got: TEKRAM DC-680C Cache Controller with ram http://i.imgur.com/GTdb27Pl.jpg WOW! So these -DO- Exist? I've been trying to hunt one down for years.. and all I've seen were photos online and tech articles about it. I guess they actually were a mass …

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Re: Venturing through a pentium MMX

Posted on 2016-08-13, 20:21

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by nforce4max

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around 260 should be near the limit anyway (near the rare 266 mmx) also I remember when I overclocked a 166 MMX not all the combinations of fsb and multiplier worked properly, but the max I could do some basic tests was around 266 and it seemed to have decent stability at 250 but I did the test …

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Re: Building a Super 7 for 'Younger' gaming, suggestions, and new to site.

Posted on 2016-08-13, 00:12

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by nforce4max

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Just use the Voodoo 3 hands down and what games that system is too slow for is better off on a newer pentium 3 or athlon xp system. SS7 is great as it has a very wide range of support from 386 era dos games all the way to 1999 or so win 9x. Just to warm you though you need a power supply with the - …

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Re: My Pentium with Voodoo 3 & Voodoo 2

Posted on 2016-08-11, 00:39

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by nforce4max

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I don't see why you need both a Voodoo2 and a Voodoo3. Is there a specific game you actually want to run that is known to have compatibility problems with a Voodoo3? With 384 MB RAM i decided to use 65MB for ramdrive and configured Windows and dos to use the ramdrive for swap and temp files. It …

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Re: 486 Motherboards and components

Posted on 2016-08-11, 00:34

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by nforce4max

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My advice is to take your time and research so you don't yolo into something you end up regretting like overpaying or ending up with something that isn't usable. Also it does help to buy extra parts as spares in case something is doa or goes bad later plus it will save a little money wise by having …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-11, 00:23

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by nforce4max

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It is some kind of a wonder that there are any of those single slot 8800GT and 9800GT cards alive, since they seem to collect all of the dust in the world in their heatsinks and as a result run around 100 degrees celsius :P Pulled the fan cable on one of my old 9800GT by accident and didn't realize …

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Re: Custom Pentium Pro cooler

Posted on 2016-08-11, 00:17

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by nforce4max

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They really dont need anything fancy. A better fan would be beneficial, but the chips don't get very warm anyway. I thought Pentium Pro chips were known for running hot. Then again, I'm probably getting them mixed up with Socket 4 Pentiums. :P Socket 4 was hot for the time but it is only a candle …

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Re: Retro items that you regret throwing away

Posted on 2016-08-10, 23:04

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by nforce4max

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I threw away a full tower AT server case once, feel bad about it to this day. Had two 300w hotswap power supplies (one was already bricked).

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