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

Posted on 2013-01-20, 03:13

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by Standard Def Steve

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how do you get the video card hardware rendering? is it possible to do with newer cards on Pentium 4? Not too sure about NVidia, but all DX9 ATI cards (Radeon 9500 and up) can help with Flash video rendering starting with catalyst 6.2. I'd recommend Cat7.3 for Radeon 9500-9800 and X300-800 cards. …

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Re: Calling 440BX (and LX) users...

Posted on 2013-01-19, 01:14

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by Standard Def Steve

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Used to run an Asus FX5200 on a Dell T550, which uses a custom Intel SE440BX board. It ran just fine, even when overclocked via Coolbits. Its DOS performance wasn't great, so I replaced it with a PCI Radeon 9250.

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2013-01-18, 02:27

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by Standard Def Steve

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Nothing too fancy, even by 1999 standards. Compaq Presario 4824 PII-233 32MB of RAM, later upgraded to 64MB 6.5GB Quantum Bigfoot hard drive Onboard Rage Pro with a whopping 2MB of video memory Integrated ESS(?) audio with a built-in 10w amplifier Proprietary 440LX motherboard 56K ISA modem Windows …

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

Posted on 2013-01-17, 11:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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WMV-HD playback ATI's Pixel Shader 2.0 assisted WMV-HD playback is just incredible. With this kind of performance, I'm sure that even a 1GHz Coppermine would be able to handle 720p WMV-HD. I use PowerDVD XP for WMV playback because it's a little more efficient than MPC-HC and WMP11. http:// …

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

Posted on 2013-01-17, 11:43

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720p H.264 (DirectShow) performance: Playing a 720p, x264 encoded episode of the big bang theory. I missed it on cable that day and I'm too cheap to buy a DVR. CPU usage hit 100% a few times, but I didn't notice any frames being dropped. Again, MS Paint does not capture video overlay under WinXP. …

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

Posted on 2013-01-17, 11:36

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YouTube performance With hardware accelerated rendering provided by the Radeon 9800 Pro, it's entirely possible to enjoy full screen 480p YouTube video on a PIII system: http://imageshack.us/a/img835/5616/p31600480pyt.jpg Even 720p runs at 16fps! http://imageshack.us/a/img850/8305/p31600720pyt.jpg

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

Posted on 2013-01-17, 11:31

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Standard DVD-Video playback under PowerDVD XP/4.0, which is easily the fastest version of the software. Because most video playback under WinXP is done with a video overlay, PrintScreen does not capture the video window, so I also took pictures of the system with a camera. http://imageshack.us/a/ …

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

Posted on 2013-01-17, 11:26

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by Standard Def Steve

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Another week, another PC thread. :happy: I built this machine around a year ago to replace an Athlon XP 2000+ system based on a crappy (and now dead) ECS board. At first I thought it would be a slight downgrade in CPU performance, but a PIII-S on a hopped up FSB actually outperforms an Athlon XP …

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Re: My souped-up Dimension T550 DOS/Win9x gaming machine

Posted on 2013-01-13, 03:06

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by Standard Def Steve

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Out of curiosity what does your post test say? After upgrading the CPU mine correctly identifies CPU as P3 1000 Mhz but then the next line comes up with” XPS T@00” which makes me smile Even with the latest BIOS installed, the CPU is detected as a "Pentium Pro 900B MHz". The machine itself is …

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Re: My souped-up Dimension T550 DOS/Win9x gaming machine

Posted on 2013-01-12, 04:32

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by Standard Def Steve

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It's a 17" E771. Has great image quality for a CRT that was considered an entry-level model in 2002. Still nice and bright after thousands of hours of use.

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My souped-up Dimension T550 DOS/Win9x gaming machine

Posted on 2013-01-11, 10:45

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by Standard Def Steve

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Thought I'd show off the souped-up Dimension T550 I found in the trash a few months ago. I use it as a DOS and early Win9x gaming machine. As found in the garbage: Katmai P3 - 550MHz Voodoo3 3000 AGP - 16MB 37.5GB IBM DeskStar Turtle Beach Montego PCI sound card 56K modem and SOHOware 10/100 NIC …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2013-01-03, 09:32

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by Standard Def Steve

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The write speed seems quite high. Do you have a screenshot image for this? Is your PC133 memory stick capable of CL2 or CL3 at 133 MHz? It will say on the chip specification sheet. I would even be surprised if a CL2 stick can be run at 152 MHz (in CL2) for an error-free system. I'd feel safer with …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2013-01-02, 02:49

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by Standard Def Steve

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P3-S at 1.6GHz (152MHz FSB) on Asus TUV4x (Apollo Pro 133T): 1.5GB of generic PC133 @ 152MHz Memory read: 851.4MB/s (1.2ns/byte) (7.5 clks) Memory write: 575.1MB/s (1.8ns/byte) (11.1 clks) Effective RAM access time (read) is 9ns Effective RAM access time (write) is 12ns L2 cache write: 7644MB/s (0. …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2012-12-31, 00:55

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by Standard Def Steve

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Do you really get much benefit out of overclocking a Tualatin board from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz? Made a big difference in my system. The overclock made many of my games run noticeably faster, and it even made 720p AVC playback completely smooth. I think the increased bus speed is what did it; P3's SDR FSB …

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Re: DVD accelerators compared

Posted on 2012-12-23, 19:05

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by Standard Def Steve

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I use a Radeon 7000 PCI for MPEG2 acceleration on my old Deskpro 4000. Specs are P2-300, 440FX, 192MB EDO, WinME. With PowerDVD XP (4.0), the Radeon 7000 handles most DVDs just fine. Fast motion doesn't appear to be a problem, but slow-moving scenes with lots of fine detail sometimes lag just a bit. …

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Re: Socket 370 to Tualatin Converter!?

Posted on 2012-12-23, 05:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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I couldn't get it to work in any MSI 6905, some other boards it ran fine but didn't achieve my targeted o/c. Finally I achieved a rock solid 1.6ghz in my Jetway 618AF ! Do you really get much benefit out of overclocking a Tualatin board from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz? Made a big difference in my system. The …

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Re: Introducing my socket 2 system: Dell Optiplex 4100/LE

Posted on 2012-12-08, 05:09

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by Standard Def Steve

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That's an interesting machine. Definitely the first 486 I've heard of with a 20-pin power connector. Does it support soft-off and WOL, or is it mechanically controlled like an AT PS?

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Re: My CPU History last 20 years

Posted on 2012-12-02, 22:24

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The CPUs in computers I purchased or built for personal use: AMD 286-16 Pentium II 233MHz Pentium 4 1.8GHz Athlon 64 3500 Core 2 Duo T5600 (laptop) Opteron 185 Core i7-2700K other CPUs I've collected over the years: Intel: 286-10 with 287 FPU 486SX-25 (soldered--all-in-one Compaq) 486DX-33 486DX2-50 …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-11-25, 00:41

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by Standard Def Steve

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Voodoo3 3000D AGP on Dell 440BX board, Tualatin-1200 @ 900, 512MB, Win98SE, Amigamerlin 2.9 driver

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2012-11-08, 19:32

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Thought I'd post a single 3DMark 2000 shot just because of the insanely high CPU score. This is 3DMark2k on a PIII-S at 1575MHz with a Radeon 9800Pro. 732 is BY FAR the best 3D'00 CPU score I've ever seen from a P3. In fact, my Athlon 64 3500+ only scores 817 on this test. 3DMark00 was one of the …

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