Re: GPU for a Compaq Deskpro EN

Posted on 2020-07-03, 13:32

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by darry

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I was never able to fix a stability issue with Geforce 6 6600GT and a Geforce 6 6600 on my 815 board under Windows 98 SE . Issue was a freeze or suddenly switch to incredibly slow screen updates when scrolling . Exact behaviour varied with driver version (tried a lot of those). I ended up with using …

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Re: virus on vogondrivers

Posted on 2020-07-03, 08:48

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In other words, it is someone who derives so much pleasure from being able to complain about a problem, that he or she will usually go to great lengths to avoid helping to fix the said problem . We had one such guy on a different tech forum once who took it to the extreme. He actually faked a …

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Re: virus on vogondrivers

Posted on 2020-07-03, 03:33

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by darry

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leileilol wrote on 2020-07-03, 00:53: From my experience with Savage4 and 2000 hardware, the instability can feel like a virus.... The first gen Savage3D I had in the 90s was not that stable in Unreal either .

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Re: Possibly crazy idea : using a Raspberry with Jack and something like JackMix to have "create" a software S/PDIF mixe

Posted on 2020-07-02, 22:53

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My goal is 3 or 4 inputs . That seems within reach of even USB 1.1, in theory . Assuming you're not restricting sampling rate or bit depth, you'll need 196608 /s sample rate * 24 b sample bit depth * 2 channels per I2S port for a grand total of 9437184 b/s per I2S port. Looking at Aliexpress, it …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-07-02, 20:34

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A long shot, but setting PnP OS to NO in BIOS might be worth a try .

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Re: Possibly crazy idea : using a Raspberry with Jack and something like JackMix to have "create" a software S/PDIF mixe

Posted on 2020-07-02, 17:33

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You can find cheap USB analog audio dongles on eBay. Even if they don't work for your final product, you'd be able to generate the kind of expected I/O load and prove the concept. You probably could capture additional channels of I2S directly through the GPIO pins instead of via the two I2S …

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Re: Riva TNT vs MX400

Posted on 2020-07-02, 16:53

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by darry

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According to the datasheet, ELIXIR N2DS25616CT-5T are 64Mx16 , which means that 4 of them would a 64-bit total bus width .

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Re: Poor performance on a 7900GS + Pentium D

Posted on 2020-07-02, 04:08

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by darry

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Hard to say from the photo, but to me the plastic looks warped . I don't feel any warping, and if there is I'm not 100% worried about it, I'm more worried about the copper heat pipes. Some of them look like they've broke off on the top. edit: nevermind, seems to be a common normal thing The heat …

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Re: Poor performance on a 7900GS + Pentium D

Posted on 2020-07-02, 04:00

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by darry

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Ok, check the memory tabs, and also run the bench test on the bench tab. 2020070122422286.png 2020070122430881.png Looks like HWMonitor is supposed to support temp monitoring on Pentium D... or at least that is what somebody said when another person asked about temp monitoring with CoreTemp. Nope. …

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Re: Resurrecting an old IBM Valuepoint 486 machine. How can I get it to contribute to World Community Grid?

Posted on 2020-07-02, 02:43

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Well, thanks for the tips so far. I'm just waiting on a PS/2 keyboard to get started. Even in the likely event WCG fails, I'll be able to relive the glory days of DOS games like Whiplash - I think there's even a 3dFX version that can use the Voodoo card. (If you haven't played Whiplash, you haven't …

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Re: Addonics A151-910 YMF718-S Card Resource Conflicts

Posted on 2020-07-02, 02:37

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by darry

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If you want, you could create another thread for your NIC issues . I did that a little while back, and it's sort of died down, but I don't feel a need to bump it when I can just use a PCI NIC (even though it's from very late 1998 instead of 97) that's easier and faster than the ISA NIC. The problem …

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Re: Poor performance on a 7900GS + Pentium D

Posted on 2020-07-01, 18:43

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Can not compare fps to a x1900 card.. The x1900 is a beast in comparison in some games. The point was not to compare a 7900GS to an X1900, but to see the performance difference between the D820 and the X6800 CPUs in an environment that was not bottlenecked by the video card which, in this case, …

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Re: Possibly crazy idea : using a Raspberry with Jack and something like JackMix to have "create" a software S/PDIF mixe

Posted on 2020-07-01, 17:58

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The RPi series is known to be problematic wrt heavy USB I/O, although there are workarounds which can help. The Pi 4 might be better. Probably a better solution is to use an inexpensive DSP chip for summation of multiple I2S sources with programmable gain. Scale the DSP according to the serial …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-07-01, 12:45

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I can't take anyone who says "A computer without touch is broken" seriously. Well, back in the 1980s we had light pens on real computers so. . The French TO7-70 had one by default, for example. Thomson-TO7-70-Lichtgriffel.jpg Digitizers like light pens, drawing boards or special touch grids (addons …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-01, 12:20

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As for Voodoo cards, I thought I would need a V5 to fully enjoy games from that time. Turns out, a V3 does the trick just fine, along with a 1.2GHz Tualeron (originally 400MHz P2, then 500MHz P3, then 800MHz P3 with a different M/B). Going strictly period-correct seems like a foolish concept to me. …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-01, 11:08

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Prices are in parts too high, albeit I have bought some semi-pricey stuff and it has joyed me so much that the dollars are quickly forgotten. I'm not interested in 3dfx hardware but I can, in parts, understand the giddy gold mining. Maybe a "fanatic" Quake3 player's urge is not fulfilled until his …

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Re: Modern sound cards that have MIDI synth?

Posted on 2020-07-01, 06:50

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Un Information, assuming you are still reading this thread, I just wanted to confirm we all understand what you want and need . To this end, I have tried to condense the questions asked by other posters and added a few . a) What are your use cases for this sound card with hardware synth (playing old …

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Re: 10GB drive + Award BIOS problems

Posted on 2020-07-01, 04:17

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by darry

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Hi again! Still looking for option on this issue, I found this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=855273 (coincidentially, made by @darry). And it got me thinking: what would I need to "embed" XT-IDE on the BIOS of my PC? so I tried the quick path: downloaded XT-IDE, got the 12kB file ( …

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Re: Poor performance on a 7900GS + Pentium D

Posted on 2020-07-01, 02:41

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by darry

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ENunn wrote on 2020-07-01, 02:32: darry wrote on 2020-07-01, 02:28: Extreme long shot : Does your BIOS allow disabling one of the CPU cores ? Yep, it does. Just disabled dual core, no difference. I'm stumped, at this point . I will post back if I have any other ideas . Sorry .

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Re: Poor performance on a 7900GS + Pentium D

Posted on 2020-07-01, 02:28

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i've had zero luck with real time temperature monitoring on my dell machine with a socket 775, dell intel 925x motherboard and a pentium 4. i doubt your dell intel 945p chipset board is any different in this respect. Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. Well, if it is somehow throttling, it …

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