Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2023-07-19, 21:16

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Might have just set the Win98SE 3DMark01 world record. Setup: VM in QEMU with: 1 core from a Ryzen 5 5600x @ 4.8GHz 16GB of RAM (2GB of which is usable even with patchmem... yay) NVIDIA 7900 GTX PCIe @ 695/875MHz (core/mem) what I've learned from this is that 3DMark 01 is insanely CPU bottlenecked. …

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Re: Pentium 3 1 GHz Tualatin or P3 1 GHZ Coppermine for Voodoo 3 200 agp card

Posted on 2023-07-18, 21:00

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Actually, you could get by with far less than a 1GHz Coppermine to feed a V3-2000. But Coppermine PIIIs are cheap, so yeah, just go for the top 1 GHz version. :) I use a V3-3500 slightly overclocked to 193MHz with a Celeron-1400, and I'm completely GPU-limited--at all times--even at low resolutions. …

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Re: Were you ever hurt by a computer?

Posted on 2023-07-13, 15:40

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It was a dark and stormy evening. I was trying to plug a computer into a power strip I could barely reach behind the desk, using nothing but the late evening's cloud filtered light. My finger slipped, and bzzzt! Luckily the breaker tripped almost instantly, saving me from death and ghostification. …

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Re: Voodoo 3 with P3 933?

Posted on 2023-07-09, 22:02

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Probably just needs a good repasting then. Think I used some of the (probably cheap) paste that came with a Hyper 212 CPU heatsink. It’s been running nice and cool since. Voodoo3s don’t really get hot as CPU clock increases.

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Re: Voodoo 3 with P3 933?

Posted on 2023-07-09, 16:37

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I use a Voodoo3 @ 192MHz with a Celeron 1400 and haven’t had any trouble with overheating. It does have a small fan strapped to its heat sink though, which I understand is a good thing to have even on stock clocked models. Edit: Sorry, I read your post, walked away for 10 minutes, then totally …

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

Posted on 2023-07-05, 23:14

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Today, after a particularly geeky argument with a coworker, I loaded up an AAC encoded audio file and realized, for the very first time, that lossy audio compression is actually Good Enough. Perhaps it's because a part of me is still stuck in 1999, but I honestly didn't think that lossy compression …

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

Posted on 2023-07-05, 04:38

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by Standard Def Steve

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Today, after a particularly geeky argument with a coworker, I loaded up an AAC encoded audio file and realized, for the very first time, that lossy audio compression is actually Good Enough. Perhaps it's because a part of me is still stuck in 1999, but I honestly didn't think that lossy compression …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-03, 07:29

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OK, but Nvidia GPUs released in 2016 also support HEVC. The 980Ti launched a year earlier, and is based on an architecture that originally launched in 2014.

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Re: CPU with highest range of Mhz?

Posted on 2023-06-29, 15:48

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I know it's far too new, but I've seen the 11th gen i7 in my work laptop idle at 498 MHz and boost to 4.8 GHz - now that's range! Haven't tried, but it could probably be locked to 498MHz by modifying the power plan. It would still be too fast for Wing Commander. If you want something a little older, …

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Re: socket 370 i815 pentium 3 1 ghz coppermine or Athlon Xp 1600 for windows 98 gaming system

Posted on 2023-06-28, 15:21

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by Standard Def Steve

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I remember Ti4200 + Barton 2500 being the classic bang-for-your-buck gaming combination back in the day. Or Radeon 9600 Pro, if you were able to stretch your budget and spend an extra $50 or so. Funnily enough, Radeon 9600 Pros are now much cheaper than Ti4200s.

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Re: Return to the Sandy Bridge (with a vengeance)

Posted on 2023-06-26, 05:40

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Jesus, I love that. It's so neat and spiffy. I can't cable manage worth a quarter of a damn. Tell you what, when it starts getting chilly out, you should run some flexi-duct from your tri-SLI GPU exhaust to a return grill somewhere in your home. 😜

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-22, 23:33

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Ricimer wrote on 2023-06-22, 18:19: Finally gave in and got a Pentium Pro board bundle from ebay. It was quite expensive, although import, tax and shipping from US to UK didn't help! That board makes me feel like dancing. The quad socket Xeon board a few posts above does, too. Dancin', dancin', …

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Re: SFF Ultimate Windows XP Machine (<10 liters, 4790k, 980 Ti, X-Fi Titanium)

Posted on 2023-06-16, 16:14

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by Standard Def Steve

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OMG, I think I love your computer. You've absolutely nailed it in every way, from Devil's Canyon to the 980 Ti driving that awesome CRT. Even the SSD is right up there at MBR's maximum 2TB capacity limit. And you even have the Classic theme going so that XP's intense visuals don't bog down your …

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Re: Abit Ic7-G ssd compatibility, what drives work?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 03:43

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by Standard Def Steve

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You may want to try an older Samsung, like an 840 or 850. Though I haven't tried them on i875, I can say that both 840 Pro and 850 Evo work with my PowerMac G5, a machine that's even more selective about the SDDs it'll accept than most PCs of the era. That G5 absolutely won't work with my MX500, WD …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-26, 18:24

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by Standard Def Steve

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You know, this thread made me check my main PC (Zen 3) for MMX support, and it's indeed still there! Along with MMX+, whatever the heck that is. My work laptop (11th gen Intel) also supports it. I could've sworn I read that one of the two big CPU makers had axed MMX support because of how irrelevant …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2023-05-20, 02:48

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On the way home from work this fine Friday evening: Matt Bianco - Yeh Yeh Girls Aloud - Love Machine Mason Williams - Greensleeves Amerie - 1 Thing The Stranglers - Golden Brown Spoon - Stay Don't Go

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-14, 04:46

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I picked up this adorable little Lenovo desktop today. IMG_0543.jpg $200 CDN got me: -i7-7700 processor -16GB of DDR-2666 -A freakin' low-profile GTX 1650 -512GB M.2/PCIe SSD -I was more than a little surprised to find this all running off of a 220w proprietary PSU. Crikey, how does it even manage?! …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-30, 19:20

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by Standard Def Steve

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Yay, it's garage sale season again! Picked up two boxes of promotional flash drives today. They range in size from 512MB - 2GB, and with write speeds barely hitting 2 MB/s, they are pretty much useless these days. But hey, $3/box, plus the fun shapes and colours totally won me over. 😜

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Re: What GPU for P3s 1.4GHz

Posted on 2023-04-25, 15:59

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by Standard Def Steve

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GeForce 4 Ti 4200 release date: Feb 6th, 2002 Pentium III-S 1400 release date: January 8th 2002 I do believe that's all you need to know. 😉

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-14, 02:23

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That 1080ti will handle pretty much everything you want to do on the HTPC aside from AV1, once you get your 7900XTX swap them over. The one big thing that everything pre RTX 3000 series is lacking is HDMI 2.1 support, so if you want to run at 4k @ 120Hz with Full RGB or 4:4:4 chroma, you'd need at …

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