Re: Has anybody seen a RV360 chip specification on the net?

Posted on 2015-02-07, 14:13

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by obobskivich

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What do you mean "chip spec"? Like this: http://www.beyond3d.com/resources/chip/32 Or this: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/30/radeon-9600-xt.html Or something else?

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2015-02-07, 14:12

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I dig the Golden Orb, and the blue SLI cables.

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Re: What's the deal with the SVHS-out in vga cards?

Posted on 2015-02-03, 12:32

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by obobskivich

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What are you connecting to the TV out of the video card? As far as the "resolution changed" - what do you mean? Have you tried hooking straight into a compatible TV and seeing what you get? Is there a mis-set PAL/NTSC jumper on some of your equipment? As far as resolution and whatnot - there isn't a …

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Re: nVidia power consumption chart?

Posted on 2015-02-03, 09:59

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Well, you seem to be more interested in average consumption. I will make sure to mark mine as peak values. Yes and no. I think peak values are important in terms of picking a PSU, especially if you're going to stress the system, but with more modern cards average consumption is very important …

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Re: nVidia power consumption chart?

Posted on 2015-02-02, 15:41

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It is not they, it is just me, gathering information from the internet. Oh I see. :neutral: :blush: I try to go for peak consumption with real world software, problem with gaming apps is that they may not capture the worst case. Furmark or virus can do more, so I tend to factor it at least a bit. …

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Re: Wireless mouse / keyboard for belkin KVM

Posted on 2015-02-02, 14:02

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Oops, I meant USB->PS/2 EDIT: Regardless of the order, what I meant is a device in which you can connect USB mice and keyboard and connect it to two PS/2 ports on a PC or KVM. A quick look at ebay returned TONS of active adapters that do the oposite. Oh - I understand what you mean now. Yes, quite …

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Re: Wireless mouse / keyboard for belkin KVM

Posted on 2015-02-02, 12:47

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I think any USB device that identifies as a HID device is out with regards to working with PS/2 adapters. It has to identify as HID-class to be an HID (IOW: we want this, it means compatibility)... :blush: Being HID-class does not mean no passive PS/2 adapter either - it's just that many newer …

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Re: Building High-End PC 2001-2

Posted on 2015-02-02, 09:18

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For '01-'02 I'd probably go Pentium 4 or AthlonXP - specifically due to the bottleneck issues that Maximus points out. One advantage if you go AthlonXP is that most of the coolers will be inter-changable with S370 as well (they use very similar mounting). Some other things to think about: - Radeon …

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Re: nVidia power consumption chart?

Posted on 2015-02-02, 09:04

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Guaranteed power delivery is not a hard limit. Card like 290X can be pushed very far. 290X is an easy target - it's relatively new, and has been reviewed and measured quite a bit. Here's three examples: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290x-hawaii-review,3650-29.html (290W max/218W …

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Re: Wireless mouse / keyboard for belkin KVM

Posted on 2015-02-01, 15:22

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For PS/2 I have no real suggestions, but for USB I'd go with Logitech's Unifying receiver and not look back - I have one switched through a USB switch for my machines, and as long as they support USB it seems to show up as a basic USB HID. It does not require the Logitech software to be installed ( …

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Re: nVidia power consumption chart?

Posted on 2015-02-01, 15:19

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I wouldn't put too much faith in that chart - they've got some identical models listed multiple times with different values (e.g. 6800GT), and others listed with higher values than have been either provided by the manufacturer as max TDP (e.g. 7950GX2), than have been measured as max consumption in …

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Re: 3.5 bay floppy drives entirely usb powered?

Posted on 2015-02-01, 15:16

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Nothing I've ever seen, and I would imagine it could have compatibility problems since it would require the machine to have USB drivers and such (which may be a problem with older OS). For a modern computer it really doesn't matter though - they don't need anything that comes off of FDD. Of course …

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Re: Building High-End PC 2004

Posted on 2015-02-01, 15:05

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TestDrive Unlimited for ex. What is the maximum AA for 7000Series cards? 8X? I'm not really familiar with racing games, so I can't comment on performance there. Max AA for a single GeForce 7 is 8x, but that isn't guranteed to be playable in all situations. Two GPUs can do 16x, and 4 can do 32x. …

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Re: any cure for burnt electronics odour

Posted on 2015-02-01, 12:09

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Supposedly letting the components sit in baking soda or kitty litter can eliminate the smell, but then you've got the whole "my components are covered in baking soda or kitty litter" problem. If you're fine opening the PSU up, you may try cleaning the case with something strong smelling - I wouldn't …

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Re: Building High-End PC 2004

Posted on 2015-02-01, 12:05

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Which DX9c games? And at what settings? Of course the GeForce 7 isn't a total speed-demon for such - that's pretty cutting edge for it actually. It should be able to handle things like Half-Life 2 with HDR or Fallout 3, but asking it to do something like Skyrim or Mass Effect 3 is probably too much. …

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Re: nVidia power consumption chart?

Posted on 2015-02-01, 11:55

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sunaiac wrote: I do not understand your question. So I'll answer : watts of electric power. He/she likely means which voltage rail (5V or 12V) has to constitute the majority of the power draw. 😊

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Re: Building High-End PC 2004

Posted on 2015-01-30, 10:36

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Looks really solid; should be great for '01-'05, running XP, etc.

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Re: XP machine advice

Posted on 2015-01-29, 07:03

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obobskivich: The caps are not an issue on my Soyo board, freshly recapped with Sanyos and also LOL late night typo there, it is a 4670. I have both a 4670 and x1950 on the shelf right now so prices are not an issue. The Soyo boards seemed to be really good from the 486-Slot1 era, it seems that they …

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Re: XP machine advice

Posted on 2015-01-29, 01:56

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+1 on the ASRock/AMD system too. It offers PCIe, the 754 chip should be faster (especially if overclocked or upgraded (or both)), and I've had generally good experiences with ASRock over the years. On the other hand, every Soyo I've seen recently has leaking/blown caps and I never remember them …

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Re: Pentium 4 vs. Pentium D performance

Posted on 2015-01-29, 01:50

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Are there any production chipsets that can actually do multi-channel SDRAM? Or even stuff that just never made it to market? As far as P4 performance goes - I have an i845 S478 with PC-133 and it's no slouch (and it wasn't in 2001 either). I wouldn't say RDRAM is really "required" for Pentium 4 …

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