Re: Voodoo graphics cards, what's so special?

Posted on 2014-07-31, 07:39

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by ODwilly

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From what I understand, one word: "Glide" everything looks amazing and works great in a lot of games under it. Also the drivers for the Rage128 might just not be optimized for Quake, whereas the Voodoo is. Just my understanding from a couple years now creeping on this forum, if im wrong or only …

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

Posted on 2014-07-31, 04:19

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by ODwilly

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Stripped a hp xw4400 case for a friend to put some 478 p4 goodies into, saving the motherboard for my upcoming 775 Preshott system. Fixed up it's 4600 brother with a HDD, PSU, an OS and pulled a bad chunk of ram. Then I setup an extra case with a 80gb drive, 1gb of DDR and a 2.7ghz Celeron to sell …

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Re: Neighbors

Posted on 2014-07-30, 06:13

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I live in a small wood stove room/closet at my parent's house right now. My COMPLETE pc stack was at 8+ down to 5ish right now, will be at a steady 3 once a few are sold. Main win7 990fx rig, Acer Pentium 166, and a dual p3 system. Maybe a netburst rig as well, but it will be matx I promise! This …

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Re: Leaked Windows 9 screenshot

Posted on 2014-07-29, 06:42

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by ODwilly

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Upgraded to Windows 7 pro at long last. If 9 proves to be good it might see my migration in another 5 years and a new build 😉

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Re: Neighbors

Posted on 2014-07-29, 06:36

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Still gathering parts from this adventure. Was handed 2 8mb Creative voodoo 2's in SLI, the mentioned V3 and a 12mb Creative voodoo 2 today. Along with a 550mhz 100fsb slotted pentium 3. Take a bit to really get some free time and such but there WILL be a wall of pics eventually x) oh almost forgot, …

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Re: Hard Disk Power ON time / Spin count

Posted on 2014-07-29, 04:45

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Most of mine tend to have 40,000+ hours on them. The longest running drive I have seen was a 1tb early sata1 WD Black with only 6 starts and 8 years of non-stop running in a server. It sounded like a freight train taking off and when held in my hand hooked up to an external power adapter it produced …

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Re: What is good monitor for retro PC?

Posted on 2014-07-25, 08:30

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by ODwilly

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Kahenraz, you just described EVERY CRT in my highschool. For some reason they decided that 6th grade through 9th that I had to take typing class every year. My eyes are terrible as well, but i contribute the constant headaches and pain from flickering florescent tubes mixed with crap CRT's to the …

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Re: Inbetween Build

Posted on 2014-07-19, 07:07

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by ODwilly

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The ti4600 paired with either the p4 or the athlon64 would be a pretty good match up for xp. Set it up while you are getting the replacement parts for the WTF build and see if it suits your needs, if it is to slow swap the WTF build parts in once you get that squared away 😀

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2014-07-19, 06:50

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zaq22, bunch of world cup spam posts. Also zaq21, hope this is not numerical and there are 22 spam zaq's running around! 😳

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Re: Voodoo3 Pentium4 project (Cancelled for now)

Posted on 2014-07-18, 04:48

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by ODwilly

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At times it does require the PSU to be unplugged to reset. Other times it will be unplugged/plugged back in and not even have a fan twitch. I think I will try out the alcohol, as our tap water is high in all sorts of minerals. Thank you for the advice, I had just about written this board off for …

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Re: fastest ISA display card?

Posted on 2014-07-17, 04:07

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by ODwilly

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Interesting, joined in 2011 and this is his first post. But ya, Stojke's suggestions are good for a fast ISA card

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

Posted on 2014-07-16, 23:08

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by ODwilly

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Bidding on some 478/775 parts, ordered up a CM Tx2 and two of these:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16835186072

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Re: Voodoo3 Pentium4 project (Cancelled for now)

Posted on 2014-07-16, 21:01

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by ODwilly

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Ah ok, makes sense. Would you happen to have any experience overclocking slocketed celerons? Will they run stably at 100mhz fsb speed? I think im going to end up giving my buddy the v3 to go with his BX rig. Along with an Aopen slocket w/533mhz celeron. At this point everything I have is agp 4x + or …

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Re: Voodoo3 Pentium4 project (Cancelled for now)

Posted on 2014-07-16, 05:51

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by ODwilly

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Thank you Mau1wurf! Interesting thread indeed. It seems to me from reading lots of posts around here that the 1.4ghz Tualatin is the ultimate Voodoo platform when paired with a slocketed BX board. shamino: Good suggestions! I lack a dishwasher, would just running it under water do fine? I have …

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Re: Voodoo3 Pentium4 project (Cancelled for now)

Posted on 2014-07-15, 05:44

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by ODwilly

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After a full month of battling this board, this project is not feasible. Will continue to build up a p4 cpu library and grab another P4S Dragon to finish this, for now I need to give up on it before the motherboard kills me. Sorry everybody

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-07-11, 12:07

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Hey Artex, is that a HP dc5700 on the bottom left? I have the same exact system waiting for a fresh install of XP and donation to a friend xD with a xw4600 sitting on top of it waiting for a power supply! Actually a dc7800 loaded up to the brim with memory and a Core2Quad, Windows 8.1 and a SSD. I …

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-07-11, 00:19

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by ODwilly

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Hey Artex, is that a HP dc5700 on the bottom left? I have the same exact system waiting for a fresh install of XP and donation to a friend xD with a xw4600 sitting on top of it waiting for a power supply!

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Re: Core 2 Duo confusion...

Posted on 2014-07-07, 23:44

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by ODwilly

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Hope it goes well! I was in the same spot with my grandpa's pc. He though he was running xp still so I went over and checked it out. Ended up with a 2.4ghz core2quad, 4gb of ram with Vista and intel graphics. Defraged the hard drive for the first time EVER and told him he was good for another 5 …

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Re: Core 2 Duo confusion...

Posted on 2014-07-02, 21:10

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by ODwilly

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Maybe not, but if you are upgrading her with 7 you might as well upgrade the cpu if it can be done cheaply right? It wont blow you're mind by any means if it is going to be used for another 6 years it might prove to be a wise investment. Or dont upgrade and put the money into a nice gpu and ram …

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Re: Core 2 Duo confusion...

Posted on 2014-07-02, 20:56

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by ODwilly

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^+1 on upgrading the ram. Also the difference might be in the amount of cache and/or fsb speed for the cpus. If she is running integrated intel graphics (which for Core2 era would be GMA of some model if i remember right) a Cheap nvidia or ati card would be an upgrade. I have noticed on websites …

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