Re: nVidia power consumption chart?

Posted on 2015-01-29, 01:34

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xbitlabs has some very good power measurements for some cards. Roughly starting around the 5000 or 6000 series I think. They have (had?) a much more sophisticated testing method than any other site I've seen. In many cases they even were able to break down the consumption by voltage rail, and how …

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Re: Building High-End PC 2004

Posted on 2015-01-29, 01:32

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How is it possible that Northwood is faster than Prescott? Check here: http://hothardware.com/reviews/Intel-Prescott-P4-34GHz--Northwood-P4-34GHz?page=1 It's worth noting that the Prescott has SSE3, and outside of a few cases in that review, performs on-par with or slightly better than the …

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Re: Pentium 4 vs. Pentium D performance

Posted on 2015-01-25, 04:25

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They are terrible processors. We will just have to agree to disagree on this one. :happy: Honestly it's perfectly fine to irrationally hate a piece of computer hardware, but "fast" vs "slow" is a very relative thing. I wouldn't want a Celeron D (or a Pentium D, or a Pentium 4, or an Athlon64, or …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-24, 19:52

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Also, when blocking things with hosts, I find 0.0.0.0 seems to have less performance hit than 127.0.0.1 for some reason There should be no discernible difference - it's essentially routing to a local null that returns nothing, and it checks hosts before it goes to DNS, so unless your hosts list is …

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Re: Pentium 4 vs. Pentium D performance

Posted on 2015-01-24, 19:48

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The Pentium D is basically 2 Pentium 4 on the same package whithout HyperThreading Not entirely true; there are Pentium Ds with HyperThreading and Pentium 4s without. :blush: Pentium D is Intel's first attempt at a dual-core, but unlike the Core * series and later developments, the Pentium D isn't …

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Re: Retro main pc: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-24, 05:00

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This is what I've heard as well. I haven't looked into hosts file-based blocking on my PC, but I have a utility for it on my phone called AdAway. Found it on F-Droid, but you need a rooted phone to use it. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm No substantial performance hit overall, and on many …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-23, 22:50

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Even though it's not fully supported, the 8600GT does give VC-1 a considerable boost, at least when used with LAV Video Decoder built into MPC-HC. Win7's built-in VC-1 decoder completely ignores the 8600's unofficial VC-1 support and falls back to software. With the 8600GT and MPC-HC, a 28 mb/s VC …

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Re: Retro components temperatures experiences

Posted on 2015-01-23, 22:31

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Have you tried measuring it during a stress test? Intel probably went full throttle on power saving measures like SpeedStep on the P4 EE to counter some of NetBurst shortcomings. Regardless, though, my C2D ran hotter than that. I bet the P4 Extreme Edition comes with a good heatsink and cooler. …

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Re: Retro components temperatures experiences

Posted on 2015-01-23, 22:01

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The VRMs on my STB GLyder get alarmingly hot - not even something I'd want to try touching while it's on. I'm sure the part is rated to something outstanding like 95* C or 105* C or somesuch though, and the card seems to have no issues with it. While not retro, Radeon HD 4870X2 probably takes the " …

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Re: Video cards and 2d acceleration

Posted on 2015-01-23, 19:13

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R300 cards got complaints about VGA interference patterns. I remember seeing it myself. Sometimes you could see faint scrolling lines. R300 boards also tended to die, or needed to be underclocked to remain stable, after years of use. We had a thread a few months ago about VGA interference on …

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Re: Exploring the possibility of using HDTV for retro systems

Posted on 2015-01-23, 18:58

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I wouldn't say "many". I've never even seen bad input lag in person. I even use 3 TVs at home for computers/HTPCs. Ive never even heard complaints in real life. I think some people are far more sensitive to even the slightest lag than many other people. :) Some specific console ports of games (GTA, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-23, 18:16

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The Voodoo 2 cards you are using are from different manufacturers. The top one is a Creative 3D Blaster and the bottom one is a Diamond Monster 3D 2. You will need a "mis-matched SLI voodoo 2 driver" http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/news/3dfx/voodoo2_2kxp_mismatched_beta_0.22/ I have never tried …

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Re: E6300 made of spare parts

Posted on 2015-01-23, 18:13

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If the board does not support the CPU, it likely won't POST, but if you have everything available on-hand it should only take a few minutes to find out whether or not it works. I'd also be a little concerned about it having a fit over the RAM likely having different timings (it *should* just default …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-23, 16:38

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Good to know. It's really a matter of which version of PureVideo the card itself has for Nvidia and which version of UVD the card has for AMD cards. UVD2 and higher is where you get hardware acceleration for modern Flash, which is Radeon HD 4xxxx series or higher and it's PureVideo 2 and higher for …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-23, 14:52

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With YouTube running on HTML5 now, you don't even really need Flash IMO. If you do need Flash and want hardware acceleration though, an older computer can get a HUGE boost by giving it an GeForce 8xxx series GPU, which is the earliest GPU to support modern Flash hardware acceleration. Just to point …

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Re: Building a 90s Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-01-23, 14:50

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Darkman wrote: 486 systems might be a bit tough for a first PC, even a socket 7 machine with a P75/90 would be easier, and should be easy enough to slow down for speed sensitive games. Didn't catch the "first PC" part. 😊 Good call. 😀

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Re: Building a 90s Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-01-23, 14:00

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I think "90s games" is too broad. You should better define what exactly you need to run, or you're likely going to end up with two systems. Games that fit into the "early 90s" criteria I would absolutely agree with brostenen - a 486 or similarly older machine would probably be the best idea (you may …

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Re: Building High-End PC 2004

Posted on 2015-01-23, 13:46

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Dual channel on Socket A isn't really all that important either (especially if not using IGP). Give this a perusal: http://techreport.com/review/5285/dfi-lanpart … ra-motherboards http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/nforce2-1vs2channels/

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Re: My almost 3GHZ Athlon 64 beast

Posted on 2015-01-23, 02:51

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According to wiki the fastest single a64/k8 is the FX-57 at 2.8 GHz, but the absolute fastest is the x2 6400+ be at 3.2, same core, just two of them. I don't know about overclocking records of these. X2 6400+ is AM2. That's irrelevant/incompatible for a 939 system. The Opteron that Kithlyn pointed …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-23, 02:37

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You don't need Flash, HD video, latest Chrome or any such crap to consider a PC web capable. Anything that is actually useful can be viewed with such things turned off. I think also that "CPU matters more" because a.) people are spoiled and consider minute delays "unusable", b.) people are noticing …

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