Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-14, 20:30

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by obobskivich

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whats the big deal with lead solder anyway, where kids eating video cards and getting sick? I mean really cmon It's not really about "kids eating it" - it's about downstream processing of the equipment end-of-life. In other words, someone actually thinking about what happens to your GeForce or …

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Re: Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. Any had experience with it?

Posted on 2015-07-14, 16:54

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by obobskivich

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Can't say I've ever owned one, but it looks very nice - dual CPU with universal AGP and PCI/PCI-X. Just from general experience with AthlonXP, it would probably be slower (for gaming) than an XP 3000/3200 system due to the lower FSB (AthlonMP only support up to 266 FSB, so the MP 2600/2800 will be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-14, 16:44

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by obobskivich

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HighTreason: that thing looks sweet! I tried to look up the "Quadro FX 880" and didn't get very far :blush: ; is it similar to the GeForce 880? Or something else? Any-which-way, very nice looking machine there. I have the HP Folio13 from a few years ago and it's very nicely put together from what …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-14, 16:32

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by obobskivich

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I've got quite a few 8800 type cards. 8800 GT, 9600GT, 9800 GTS, GTX+. They all work fine. I do remember an issue with notebook chips, but I believe it was 7 series that was affected. But 100% sure. I think you're right on the GeForce 7 (maybe others?) in mobile computers/devices being a problem …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-14, 10:21

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by obobskivich

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except during the actual time when the card mattered you had no real SM2.0 games, you had Splitner Cell and Halo, that was kind of it, and both where more DX8 games than DX9 games. By the time the SM2 shader was actually needed it didn't matter the 2nd generation was out. I remember these days …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-14, 01:01

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by obobskivich

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Remember when RAGE was released and basically didn't run on Radeons for the first 2 weeks? It took about 3 months for them to iron out the problems with it. It was as if they had done no OpenGL development for it until it was released. D'oh! You meant the game RAGE. :blush: I was thinking of "Rage" …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-14, 00:51

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To be honest back in 2003, Half Life 2 wasn't being looked at. It was Call of Duty, Halo, Spinter Cell, Serious Sam 2, and Jedi Outcast that really got paid attention to and to be honest except for Halo 2 it was pretty much a tie race, by 2004 the NV40 and R420 where out. Exactly. I'd add Tomb …

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Re: Video Game University

Posted on 2015-07-13, 23:51

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If I understand the idea correctly, I think Phil's response is most apt, and that what you (Yasashii) are proposing probably exists in some form already, but the kind of campy (again, if I understand the idea correctly) way you're intending to approach it could be a somewhat unique "hook" that would …

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Re: NV3x, R3x0, and pixel shader 2.0

Posted on 2015-07-13, 23:37

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The OpenGL.org forum had some people who really liked the 5200 as a cheap D3D9 development experimentation platform. An interesting angle on that chip. For OS X too - the FX 5200 supports CoreImage and in some cases this means significant performance improvements over the GF4/Radeon 9000 that …

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Re: My XP box!

Posted on 2015-07-13, 19:04

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by obobskivich

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Neat build and a neat board - I remember playing around with one of them years ago, and had a PT880-based board (AGP only though) for a few years that was fantastic. Out of curiosity, have you tried AGP + PCIe together in that board? I've often wondered if that'd work on those kind of boards, but …

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Re: Still much old hardware available?

Posted on 2015-07-13, 19:00

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by obobskivich

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Very nice finds, and very interesting approach to getting hardware. I would not have expected such a robust turn-out, honestly. Do you have any plans for this stuff currently? E.g. are you going to grab hardware from multiple boxes to build a single machine, or are you restoring these for friends, …

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Re: HD 2900XT

Posted on 2015-07-13, 16:50

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by obobskivich

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I agree with Putas and GeorgeMan - Scali's posts in this thread are cherry-picked and very biased towards nVidia. I would go as far as saying he's shilling for the GeForce 900 series. He has also cherry-picked numbers and data to create various strawman and other fallacious arguments (e.g. "people …

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Re: HD 2900XT

Posted on 2015-07-12, 21:03

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We'll see how the D3D 12 thing goes down when the first game comes along with support for it. What I'm more interested in seeing is DX11.3 vs DX12 real world in-game - given that Mantle tends not to be an overwhelming performance improvement despite all of its purported advantages, call me …

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Re: HD 2900XT

Posted on 2015-07-12, 20:54

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Yes, shortly before these cards came on the market, ATi was bought out by AMD. I think ATi sold out to AMD because they knew the 2000-series was going to be a failure. ATi might not have survived long enough to recover if it wasn't for AMD. I've never heard this interpretation of the ATi/AMD merger …

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Re: Steam Killed My XP Install

Posted on 2015-07-12, 20:45

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Why? Cause Aureal. Ah, I remember there being a thread here on Vogons about that for Counter-Strike. As far as I know my box set for Half-Life/Counter-Strike/etc predates that "upgrade" but I don't have an Aureal soundcard to test with. When I get the machine with Half-Life setup again I can check, …

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Re: HD 2900XT

Posted on 2015-07-12, 20:17

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by obobskivich

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I bought a 1GB GDDR4-equipped HD 2900XT for $30 the other day. I have played around with it quite a bit on a nForce4 setup. It's an interesting card. The mystery as to why it has 128GB/s memory bandwidth, needs an 8-pin+6-pin power setup, and yet can't match an 8800GTS tickles my brain. Very cool …

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Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-12, 19:47

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by obobskivich

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Obobskivich, I'd just like to say that I find your post always impressive, I always learn something :) Thank you for kind words. :happy: So Quadro cards have super sampling support? What series are we talking here? Even AGP cards? The older AGP cards (in the GF3/7 range as swaaye pointed out) will …

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Re: WinXP Ultimate Legacy Video Cards

Posted on 2015-07-12, 13:06

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by obobskivich

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I know we like to be nostalgic about older cards, but I haven't seen any real evidence outside of the talked-to-death splinter cell games of real graphical incompatibility in the XP era. There are plenty of "modern" graphics cards that work perfectly fine in WXP 32bit. Agreed with some …

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Re: Logitech Rebranding itself as "Logi" with a very early 90's / late 80's feeling commercial

Posted on 2015-07-09, 09:23

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by obobskivich

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From what their website shows, it looks like they're not changing their name so much as re-branding themselves (like when Intel dumped Pentium and "Intel Inside" a few years back) - honestly as long as the few products they make that I still use (primarily their universal remotes) don't change or …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2015-07-08, 15:18

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by obobskivich

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I decided to re-case my new-ish (I built it at Christmas) into my Lian-Li PC-777 (which has been otherwise gathering dust, as you can see in a picture or two - I did a better job cleaning it AFTER flash photography showed me the spots I missed :lol: ), and it qualifies as a "current" machine …

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