Re: Anyone collecting older SLI/crossfire cards?

Posted on 2014-02-25, 05:51

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by Standard Def Steve

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I wouldn't bother with the 9800gx2 due to the low overall quality and thermals but the gtx295 is better built. The 2900xt to me is one of those cards that I still desire. I liked how that after a lot of work SLI would prove its worth but was never easy like it is now and scaling along with the …

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Re: Anyone collecting older SLI/crossfire cards?

Posted on 2014-02-22, 01:35

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I don't collect them, but I still use my old S939 SLI system as a sort of backup rig. It's an Opteron 185 @ 3GHz sitting on an A8N32-SLI, 4GB of CL2 memory, and two 8800GTS 640MB video cards. One card is an XFX and the other is an Asus, but I copied my overclocked ASUS BIOS over to the XFX card. …

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Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage

Posted on 2014-02-21, 18:44

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To give you something of an analogy, NFS MW (2005) has a minimum requirement of a 1.4 GHz CPU, but it can actually start on a P233 MMX, believe it or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9X6JcUn0TY That game is one of the few "blockbusters" from 2005 that my PIII-S at 1.59GHz can completely max out …

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Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage

Posted on 2014-02-20, 20:46

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by Standard Def Steve

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To give you something of an analogy, NFS MW (2005) has a minimum requirement of a 1.4 GHz CPU, but it can actually start on a P233 MMX, believe it or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9X6JcUn0TY That game is one of the few "blockbusters" from 2005 that my PIII-S at 1.59GHz can completely max out …

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Re: My latest Windows 98 Pentium 3 rig.

Posted on 2014-02-14, 21:07

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by Standard Def Steve

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hi standard def steve, can you please elaborate on "One weakness that I've found all VIA P3 (and many Athlon) chipsets have is their inability to play nicely with certain nvidia cards"? i have a similar setup. do you have any advice or suggestion for me? The VIA+NVIDIA bug only rears its ugly head …

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-02-12, 02:57

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by Standard Def Steve

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I guess my favourite vintage CPU would have to be the one that got me started with computers, the 286-16

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Re: My latest Windows 98 Pentium 3 rig.

Posted on 2014-02-08, 00:48

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by Standard Def Steve

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I completely agree with you about VIA chipsets. I run a 694X board myself, and the ability to use 1.5GB of RAM with XP is great. The memory performance of VIA chipsets can be just as good as i815, so long as you enable memory interleaving and use CL2 modules. I run a SB X-Fi and Radeon 9800 Pro on …

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Re: Tualatin PIII 1400-S + Geforce FX5900 Ultra Windows 98 build

Posted on 2014-02-04, 05:53

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by Standard Def Steve

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Skyscraper wrote: I got 772 CPU score @ 1607 mhz Are you running Windows 98 or Windows XP ? Dang that's nice. I'm running XP SP3.

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Re: Tualatin PIII 1400-S + Geforce FX5900 Ultra Windows 98 build

Posted on 2014-02-03, 06:18

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Very nice setup. I get similar 3DMark scores on my Tualatin/9800 Pro/VIA 694x machine. 3DMark2000: 11185 3DMark2001: 11544 What's your 3DMark2000 CPU score? I get 735 at 1585MHz.

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Re: Show off your servers!

Posted on 2014-01-30, 21:08

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by Standard Def Steve

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Here's my server, made of some not very server-oriented components: Pentium M 745 @ 2.4GHz, 2MB MSI Speedster i915 based mainboard 2GB DDR2-533, CL3, dual-channel Antec 300 case, Enermax Liberty 400 PSU. Radeon X600SE driving a crappy old LG 17" TFT 11.25TB of storage: Two 4TB Baracuda XTs, a 2TB WD …

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Re: Wavy horizontal lines with Geforce2 Ultra

Posted on 2014-01-14, 20:01

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by Standard Def Steve

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I've noticed the same thing with both my Radeon 7000 and Radeon 9800Pro. On the 7000, it's really bad. Anytime I move the mouse or drag a windows the lines appear. With the 9800 Pro, I only see the lines when a game or benchmark is running at above ~225fps. As mentioned a few posts above, the lines …

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Re: Let's tinker with pre Core 2 Duo Windows XP era platforms

Posted on 2013-12-19, 15:29

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by Standard Def Steve

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So it takes a 4.7GHz Pentium D to match a 2.4/533 Pentium M in 3DMark01. 🤣 PM 745 @ 2.4 on i915GM with 2GB dual-channel DDR2-533 and GeForce GTX260 = 37102 (win XP) and 26490 (win7) Can't wait to see your S939 results!

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Re: Athlon XP really retro?

Posted on 2013-11-30, 19:49

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by Standard Def Steve

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I consider anything without SSE2 support to be retro (or at the very least, not fit for today's basic workloads). A while back I was playing with YT's HTML5 player on an AXP based machine. When I tried full screen mode, the player actually warned me about the processor's lack of SSE2. It did work, …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2013-11-28, 22:31

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by Standard Def Steve

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bushwack wrote: Nice looking areas, but why is the good chair with the laptop? 🤣 Because it's not as comfortable as it looks. A toilet is a better office chair than that thing. 😲

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Re: Your speaker and headphone system(s)

Posted on 2013-11-28, 04:09

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Swans M10s. Marantz SR5008 driving Klipsch RF82 towers, RC62 center speaker, RB61 bookshelves, and an SVS PB12-NSD sub.

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2013-11-28, 03:43

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Main computer http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/15/c5sh.jpg The main computer also serves as an HTPC. The slim HDMI cable running through the hole in the wall... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/713/8qn8.jpg ...connects to the AV receiver in the living room. The color on the …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2013-11-15, 06:51

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by Standard Def Steve

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I think I may have set some sort of record here. I had to cheat a little by overclocking the 9800 Pro, and I also used an older driver (5.8 instead of my usual 7.3) but there it is. Over 12K on a P3!

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2013-11-12, 05:08

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Ran it on a friend's system that I was repairing: i7-3770, GTX-650 (vanilla; 384 core), 8GB RAM, and a freshly installed Windows 8.1 http://imageshack.us/a/img812/7475/fbzk.jpg Same graphics card and Ram in a BX440 system with a PIII 500. Quite a bit faster compared to the K6-2+ Is that a Katmai?

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Re: jwt27's Retro Laptops

Posted on 2013-11-11, 06:06

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Athlon 64 3700+, 2.2GHz, 1MB L2

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Re: jwt27's Retro Laptops

Posted on 2013-11-07, 08:09

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P4s are a variable bunch. The weakest are destroyed by Tulatins, the best ones are 6-7x more powerful than Tulatins. That's the weakness of using the same brand name to 4 generations of an architecture. I don't have a 3.4+ GHz P4 to play with at the moment, but I do have an A64 3700+ which kicks …

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