Re: TNT2 Ultra faster than Geforce 2MX on Slot A?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 19:29

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paradigital wrote on 2023-05-29, 16:09: Garrett W wrote on 2023-05-29, 13:28: You haven't mentioned which drivers you used for each card. Also, are you sure the Dell OEM GF2 MX isn't using a narrower memory bus, say 64bit? 40.71 for both. I don’t believe the Dell card is cut down, just plain jane …

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Re: TNT2 Ultra faster than Geforce 2MX on Slot A?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 13:51

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geforce 2 mx with 64bits SDR is very slow, the ones with 128bits SDR should be better than tnt in general afaik.

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Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-08, 19:05

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windows 11 has worked well on my unsupported hardware, but it's one of those things, feels like they can break it with some update :/ so I'm mainly staying with 10 for now, I think people playing with old hardware (that can't run win10) are a very small minority, so in terms of business it probably …

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Re: Is 3Dfx Voodoo worth picking up in 2023 ?

Posted on 2023-04-02, 16:41

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I'll probably sell mine, prices make no sense,

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Re: Question about modern Radeon GFX

Posted on 2023-04-02, 16:35

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How much performance do you need and what's your budget? GeForce 1650 is the fastest option I think. But not the cheapest. Which CPU's do the 600 G3 machines have? Also take a potential bottleneck into consideration. I just need office/productivity/web-surfing/mail/home-banking use and then as a …

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Re: GTX 1060 with voodoo2?

Posted on 2023-03-10, 22:08

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I don't see why it would not work, but the only OS I think you can get both working with drivers (v2 only for glide) is maybe win 7 32bits? if you use those vesa drivers on the 1060 and use the V2 as the 3d accelerator on windows 98 it might work out also for the video out you would need to convert …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-28, 02:52

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The same thing goes for the BE and e core X2s though, my 5050e was only pulling 35W at the wall for the system on a GF6100 board, "95W" X2 were only showing 65W at the wall. I didn't believe the watt meter built into a UPS type thing so I used an amp clamp did the math and got the same numbers. …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-27, 21:37

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prime 95 numbers (so typical is much nicer) 4850e seems to be the sweet spot for 64 X2?

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-26, 22:09

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the power usage of the 6400 is not much different than one of the original Phenom II x4s so yeah, not good for ultra cheap boards, but fine for the better ones.

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Re: Another question about Windows XP videocard

Posted on 2023-02-15, 20:16

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8800GT sounds like it would be nice card for a XP era gaming rig, it's way faster than a 7900, it's not super rare or crazy on power, also it's just a more efficient evolution of the 8800GTX from late 2006. but, keep in mind, some games really push hardware on higher settings, with a HD 5850 I still …

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Re: Games that will run on more modern (old?) low performance systems

Posted on 2023-02-13, 16:52

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Fm1 CPUs can run XP afaik, they have up to a 320SPs GPU similar to the HD 5570.

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Re: Games that will run on more modern (old?) low performance systems

Posted on 2023-02-12, 16:00

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I've recently tried a couple of games in a n4020 laptop (5W chip or so from 2019) with the HD 600 graphics, I was fairly positive, played some Halo and Flatout very nicely, better than with high tier midrange hardware of the time I think.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-11, 01:08

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it's all about the board length I think

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 18:00

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the game (diablo 3) was on ps3 and xbox 360 a year after the PC, which are heavily pirated platforms, same for switch later on and as I said the PC launch was a mess because of the "DRM", definitely at the beginning the paying customer on PC lost more than gained with this server dependency You …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 17:30

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people did it on consoles or with switch emulators afaik, also afaik the PC diablo 3 was messy because of their "DRM" (keeping it very server dependent when not needed as the console versions show) When did they do it,years after D3 was released?Diablo 4 is also online only so it couldn't have been …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 17:17

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it does not affect people who pirate the game. Sorry but bs.How many people played Diablo 3 who didn't pay for it? people did it on consoles or with switch emulators afaik, also afaik the PC diablo 3 was messy because of their "DRM" (keeping it very server dependent when not needed as the console …

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Re: Would a GTX 1060 be a good card for DX9-DX10 games?

Posted on 2023-02-06, 20:30

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GTX 960 is excellent for this on XP. But for current games on Steam, not so much. My father recently (Jan 2023) got on a War of God and it is kicking the poor GTX 960, I had to drop to medium or low IIRC. Cheers, there have been some driver issues with the 900 series I think, I saw that on Halo …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2023-02-05, 18:15

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I would think you have some pretty low clocks on that 9550 but it should be capable of some OC.

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Re: Would a GTX 1060 be a good card for DX9-DX10 games?

Posted on 2023-02-05, 18:12

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the older cards with XP drivers I guess could have some advantages like, from the top of my mind, without modding Far Cry has wrong water reflections on anything newer than windows xp and it is a dx9 game.

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Re: Pentium 4 chipsets for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2023-01-28, 17:53

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I still don't understand a "fast" P4 for a Win98 only build. By that point almost everyone had moved on to XP. And any late 98 games can be played just fine (and likely better) in XP. Actually large numbers of late 98 games had issues on WinXP. Many were optimized and tested for Win98, and large …

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