Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2015-02-27, 01:00

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by Standard Def Steve

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i7-4930k @ 4.3GHz (1.15v) Asus Rampage IV Gene (x79, mATX, LGA2011) Asus Strix Geforce GTX 970 32GB DDR3-2133 CL9 @ 1.55v (G.skill TridentX) 256GB 840 Pro SSD, 4TB 7200RPM/128MB Barracuda XT LG Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive Silverstone Temjin TJ08-E mATX case And all very easily powered by a 560w …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2015-02-26, 22:12

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by Standard Def Steve

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i7-4930k @ 4.3GHz (1.15v) Asus Rampage IV Gene (x79, mATX, LGA2011) Asus Strix Geforce GTX 970 32GB DDR3-2133 CL9 @ 1.55v (G.skill TridentX) 256GB 840 Pro SSD, 4TB 7200RPM/128MB Barracuda XT LG Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive Silverstone Temjin TJ08-E mATX case And all very easily powered by a 560w …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-02-17, 01:54

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by Standard Def Steve

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A recently acquired Celeron 1400 riding along on the same board, GPU and RAM I normally use with my PIII-S. Celeron 1400, 100MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, GF6800GT AGP (81.98), XP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music 640x480 Medium: 22.7 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 21.5 fps --Overclocked-- Celeron 1400 @ …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-02-15, 20:39

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by Standard Def Steve

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Now I'm really starting to wonder about these results. Pentium M at 2.70 should not be that close to your C2D at 2.66. And Opteron 185 at 3.0/3.13 GHz should not be 13/31 fps faster than C2D E6700. Bizarre stuff. Do you have all DX9C updates installed? I just noticed a slight mistake on the Anything …

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Re: PIII-powered 2000-2004 gaming box & video playback benchmarks.

Posted on 2015-02-15, 20:19

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by Standard Def Steve

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Didn't expect to see this old thread on the first page again :lol: It's probably ECC-correction effect caused by instability of L1 at too high clock. All on-die caches are sychronous. When L1 error occured, it can be detected by ECC-bit and processor will be stopped till error is fixing. So, you are …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-02-15, 06:36

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Core i5-2500K (3.3GHz), GTX-680, 16GB DDR3-1600, Windows 8.1

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Re: Where the heck did this 9800 XT come from?

Posted on 2015-02-12, 22:03

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by Standard Def Steve

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As far as the bridge situation goes, I guess the question becomes why the 3rd party PCI bridge chip manufacturer(s) didn't also come up with an AGP version of those chips. Was this the result of a significant complication compared to PCI , or just because for whatever reason, the card manufacturers …

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Re: cutting edge 1993 video/sound

Posted on 2015-02-12, 21:53

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by Standard Def Steve

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Wouldn't an MPEG decoder be a must for a cutting edge '93 multimedia rig? I remember being completely blown away by a computer playing Jurassic Park--in FULL SCREEN --at a computer show I went to in 93 or 94. Sure, the picture quality probably wasn't even up to VHS standards, but still, it was a …

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Re: Where the heck did this 9800 XT come from?

Posted on 2015-02-10, 05:31

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by Standard Def Steve

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Oh, I'm well aware of the bridge chips. I'm sure they're the reason my 7800GS refuses to work properly with VIA based boards. IIRC, the article I read mentioned that G80 and newer GPUs were not compatible with the nVidia AGP bridge chip used in earlier products, but were bridgeable to conventional …

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Re: Where the heck did this 9800 XT come from?

Posted on 2015-02-09, 05:40

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by Standard Def Steve

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If there's companies that have the time to make new 9800XT cards from whatever leftover chips are floating around, then I wish one of them would hook up a newer nVidia chip to an AGP bridge. Can't figure out why there's no market for that, but there is for several iterations of newer bridged PCI …

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Re: Retro components temperatures experiences

Posted on 2015-01-24, 02:13

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by Standard Def Steve

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-Radeon 9800 Pro. While the tiny heatsink does keep it cool enough (barely) in PIII and Athlon XP systems, it does show signs of heat-related stress when a 2.64GHz Athlon 64 is pumping data through it. -Mobile P4 524. This 88w CPU starts throttling after 10 minutes of use. -My old Palomino core …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-23, 22:11

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by Standard Def Steve

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Also note the lack of VC-1 support even for the 8600; G98 and beyond include full VC-1 decoding. If you just need to support Flash and more common formats, the 8400/8600 would be fine, but if you're also wanting full Blu-ray support and whatnot, I'd probably go with a newer card like GT 610. ATi …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-22, 17:58

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by Standard Def Steve

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It all comes down to whether you want to watch YouTube or not. My Athlon64 3000+ is useless in YouTube nowadays, even SD crawls and gives me horrendous CPU usage. You can get by using an old PC for browsing, but anything lower than a Pentium D will severely limit your ability to watch videos online …

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Re: Anyone Taking Advantage of Youtube's New 60FPS Support?

Posted on 2015-01-18, 21:02

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by Standard Def Steve

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I'm tempted to install Windows 8 on a temporary harddisk just to see what sort of performance I get with IE11 and 60FPS HTML5 video. 60FPS HTML5 performance is impressive with IE11 under Win8.1. I was watching 60fps video on an otherwise slow-as-molasses 1.5GHz A4 laptop the other night and the …

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Re: Latest Dumpster Find - 3GHz laptop in mint condition!

Posted on 2015-01-15, 19:13

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by Standard Def Steve

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Wow, that is an awesome find! I rarely use laptops, but when I do, mobility and battery life hardly matter, I just use them as semi-portable computers I can use while sitting on a couch or in bed. It really is amazing you found a Prescott in that good condition. I don't know what Toshiba P4s were …

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Re: Latest Dumpster Find - 3GHz laptop in mint condition!

Posted on 2015-01-08, 21:01

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by Standard Def Steve

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Neat. Any big plans for it, or just going to hang onto it as a novelty? And yes I would agree with your theory that the Radeon IGP is the problem - I vaguely remember the early ATi chipsets being derided for poor performance compared to Intel and even VIA counterparts. The Radeon 9000 itself, at …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2015-01-07, 08:04

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An older Toshiba laptop: Mobile P4 532 (3.06GHz w/ hyper-threading, 1MB L2, 533MHz FSB, 88w TDP) 1GB PC2700/DDR333 Radeon 9000 IGP

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-01-07, 08:00

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by Standard Def Steve

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An old Toshiba laptop I just found: Mobile P4 532 (3.06GHz w/ hyper-threading, 1MB L2, 533MHz FSB) 1GB DDR333 CL2.5, Radeon 9000 IGP, onboard audio, XP Pro SP3 640x480 Med: 10.3 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 5.3 fps

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-01-07, 07:56

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by Standard Def Steve

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An older Toshiba laptop: Mobile P4 532 (3.06GHz w/ hyper-threading, 1MB L2, 533MHz FSB, 88w TDP) 1GB PC2700/DDR333 Radeon 9000 IGP

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Latest Dumpster Find - 3GHz laptop in mint condition!

Posted on 2015-01-07, 07:37

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by Standard Def Steve

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I typically don't keep P4 based stuff, but this latest dumpster find was just too good to pass up. So here it is - a Mobile Prescott based Toshiba laptop in pristine condition. This machine was either taken very good care of, or barely used at all. I mean, it has a 88w Prescott in it! This thing …

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