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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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-14, 00:33

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I've been wanting to upgrade the GTX 1080 Ti that's been holding back my 5GHz Ryzen 9 5900X for years now. Perhaps with an RX 7900 XTX to make it an all AMD machine. So today, I finally, finally ... ...ordered an RTX 4070 for my crusty old Haswell HTPC. Which, admittedly, is akin to placing a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-28, 17:14

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So this is more like: "I discovered I had these (retro) hardware a mere four days ago." I was delighted to find a really nice, factory overclocked Asus GTX 750 Ti with two fans atop an oversized (for a 750 TI) heatsink. I don't remember where it came from, why or when I bought it, and how it ended …

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Re: What does it means when a motherboard is slow navigating the bios?

Posted on 2023-03-28, 16:44

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I always thought that kind of thing was video card related. Like, the BIOS uses some video mode that certain video cards happen to be slow at. I have an FX 5200 tester card that noticeably slows down BIOS redraws when used with certain motherboards. I mean, it's not slow slow, but definitely a step …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2023-03-18, 18:40

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It's been a while. Setting up my vintage PC area again. Systems are: XPS 8940 (RTX-3070) XPS 8500 (GTX970) XPS 720 H2C (No clue, plan for 2x GTX 290 GX2) XPS 600 (2x GTX 7800 + PhysX) Poweredge SP590-2 (It's a server, who cares) XPS 466v (Number NIne GXE VLB) XPS P60 (Empty slot, empty Socket4) XPS …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-15, 15:43

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Since we're on the topic of partially dead CPUs, let me tell you guys about a Pentium D 945 that's absolutely fine under XP, but will not run Windows 7, 10, or Ubuntu. It's the weirdest thing. Windows 7 and newer operating systems (Ubuntu 20 included) won't even install, usually rebooting before …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-14, 20:59

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Since we're on the topic of partially dead CPUs, let me tell you guys about a Pentium D 945 that's absolutely fine under XP, but will not run Windows 7, 10, or Ubuntu. It's the weirdest thing. Windows 7 and newer operating systems (Ubuntu 20 included) won't even install, usually rebooting before …

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Re: Windows XP systems, do you 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10?

Posted on 2023-02-28, 02:25

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Me? Why I consider 1600x1200 to be the perfect eXPerience. My monitor can actually do 1920x1440, but my aging eyes certainly aren't able to resolve the minor uptick in detail. But they sure do appreciate the higher refresh rates available at 16x12!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-20, 05:55

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I picked up an ATI built PCI Radeon 9250 for $3 today. This one has 256MB of VRAM and accesses it across a 128 bit memory bus to boot! So it's a bit of shame, then, that all of my PCs happen to be way too cool to be caught playing with a piece of unrelenting crud like the PCI 9250. In fact, I had to …

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Re: Pentium II 550mhz

Posted on 2023-02-14, 16:23

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For a while, Katmai was expected to be yet another Pentium II. Your manual was likely printed in late '98 or very early '99, when manufacturers were aware of Katmai's existence but before Intel decided to brand it Pentium III.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-25, 22:03

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-01-25, 19:52: H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-01-25, 19:12: [Edit]: Willeron? Willyron? Willery? Ok, ok, I'll stop now 🤣 Interesting, I didn't know they had a 1.5GHz/128K desktop variant! Must be an OEM part? I always thought that the 1.5 was a mobile-only CPU with 256KB! Yeah, that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-25, 17:08

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Awesome, the worst one! Are there socket 423 SD-RAM boards? lol Why would I want anything but RDRAM for a 1.3? To experience just HOW slow the slowest of NetBurst could be :lol: That title would belong to the 1.7GHz Celeron. The small cache *really* hurts Netburst, and it will be slower than a 1. …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-01-24, 19:13

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So, maybe it's possible to have a desktop motherboard of the year 2007 with 16gb ram, non server motherboards or workstation motherboards I mean. A lot of users, here, like to do that, maxing out the hardware to limits unthinkable back then. I have an old 2005 PowerMac G5 with 16GB of DDR2. Just …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2023-01-20, 04:28

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Boards with an Apollo Pro266(T) are realy rare. At that time Intel wanted to push the P4 and Sockel 423/478. So they gave the sockel 370 and the Apollo chipset with a Pentium III-S no attention. For my ASUS CUV266-DLS i can say, the AGP performance is normal. image108.jpg 3DMark2001SE_14239.JPG …

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Re: How many people run Plus! or Theme's on their retro rigs

Posted on 2023-01-19, 20:08

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My two fave XP machines run MCE 2005, which I believe adds some of the extras from XP's plus pack (I'm thinking of the dancers, aquarium screensaver, etc). That's about it though. Everything else -- 95 to 11 -- is bone stock.

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Re: Memories of Win 8.1 as it goes EOL

Posted on 2023-01-12, 06:14

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I guess I'm a bit of a Microsoft enthusiast, having used and even enjoyed, for the most part, everything from DOS 5 to Windows 11. I even remember firing up Vista Beta 2 for the first time and thinking: THIS , this right here, is the freakin' bomb -- a notion I still agree with to this day. So it …

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Re: failed memory channels in 486 motherboards

Posted on 2023-01-04, 16:42

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I've got a couple of systems with dead or failing slots. One, a Deskpro 6000 with a 440FX-based Slot 1 board. Two of the eight 72pin SIMM slots just won't recognize any memory modules that have been shoved into them. However, since the machine requires memory to be installed in pairs, it's possible …

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Re: Intel Core i7 3770 (Not 'K') and IHS problem?

Posted on 2022-12-29, 17:43

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I don't think you'll have any thermal issues with a 3770. You can't overclock it beyond its turbo multipliers, plus Ivy Bridge in general was cooler running than both Sandy Bridge before it and Haswell after it (at least, at stock speeds). Hell, I think the third gen was the coolest running of all …

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

Posted on 2022-12-29, 00:56

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I just started a 1080p h264 to 1080p, 20mb/s WMV-HD transcode on a PIII Katmai 550, the slowest CPU I have with SSE. I have absolutely no good reason for doing such a thing; morbid curiosity is the best excuse I can come up with at the moment. I have no idea if this thing will actually complete the …

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

Posted on 2022-12-28, 03:01

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by Standard Def Steve

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I just started a 1080p h264 to 1080p, 20mb/s WMV-HD transcode on a PIII Katmai 550, the slowest CPU I have with SSE. I have absolutely no good reason for doing such a thing; morbid curiosity is the best excuse I can come up with at the moment. I have no idea if this thing will actually complete the …

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