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Re: Something Modern: PCI soundcards with PCI-to-PCIe bridge chips?

Posted on 2014-10-15, 00:27

in Milliways

in Milliways

The EMU20k X-Fi boards are actually better than the Recon3D and Z series. They still have a hardware MIDI synth, ASIO, and hardware EAX effects. Whats interesting is the Audigy Rx is technically the best card in their current lineup. What I don't like about the PCIe X-Fis is that they omit coaxial …

Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-14, 21:28

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The Xeon E3-1230v3 is a decent cheap alternative to the i7. Similar in performance to an i5 but supports hyperthreading. Not sure what one would use hyperthreading for tho, or how much of a difference it makes. In the Pentium 4 days it (HT) tended to show the biggest gains in multimedia/ …

Re: Something Modern: PCI soundcards with PCI-to-PCIe bridge chips?

Posted on 2014-10-14, 21:20

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in Milliways

FWIW I had no issues with X-Fi Prelude (the Auzen PCI X-Fi card) with X38 or X48 (I have one of each). I'd agree with Phil on going PCIe if possible - I like my Recon3D (but I have no idea how it would fare for ancient stuff), and the X-Fi Ti boards don't look terribly expensive on ebay if you want/ …

Re: Questions about Voodoo cards.

Posted on 2014-10-12, 03:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

philscomputerlab wrote: 512 x 384 was also available before 3dfx. . Well before. Old Apple computers supported/used it (like Mac II); that's as far back as I've ever tracked it. 😊 EDIT: Typo - "Mac II" not "Apple II" 🤣

Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)

Posted on 2014-10-11, 22:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah GX2 can do weird stuff on boards that don't have 100% SBIOS compatibility with them.

Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-11, 14:50

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

oerk wrote: How is that one working out for you? Mine failed three times in the warranty span and has developed nasty green stripes afterwards. I'm still using it as a secondary monitor though. Had it since 2009 with nary a problem. I like it. 😀

Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)

Posted on 2014-10-10, 23:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Didn't the GF7 family have issues with the ball solder-something joints though? If so, then that could be the reason why nobody wants them I've heard this over the years - none of my 3 cards (5 GPUs - 2 boards are dual-chip) have had problems, nor have other GF7s I've owned or seen (everything from …

Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)

Posted on 2014-10-10, 21:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I do have a Athlon II rig (it's from my parents). I BIOS flashed it a while ago, worked fine (I experienced problems with certain headphones not being detected). It has a GT 610, which is an OK DX11 low-end card. They don't let me near the PC hardware-wise though. As for GPU, it doesn't really …

Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-09, 19:52

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

My current/day-to-day PC for the last ~6 years: - Core 2 Quad Q9550 - Intel DX48BT2 - 8GB DDR3 1333 (originally was 4GB, G.Skill Pi Series - added-on another 4GB of Ripjaws when the pricing crashed a few years ago) - GeForce GTX 660 2GB SC+ (originally was Radeon HD 4870X2, and later 4870X2+4890 in …

Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)

Posted on 2014-10-09, 19:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm planning on just jumping straight to a PCIe system, preferably a Core 2 Duo or maybe a Athlon II system. Easier to work with and so many more graphics card options. I haven't seen a decent 6800GT on eBay for anything close to reasonable so I will just pass and go with something like a 9600GT …

Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)

Posted on 2014-10-09, 19:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for all the replies. I'll try to spend a bit of my weekend trying to get the BIOS flash utility + BIOS ROM on the flash drive and in a working state. I used Rufus 1.4.10 to create the bootdisk. NOTE: I wanted to flash my BIOS, because of: - Newer supported CPUs including various Pentium 4s …

Re: Problems with my Pentium 4 rig (warning, big images)

Posted on 2014-10-09, 07:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just a random thought, since this is a 6600: have you tried it in another system by chance? Does it have any problems there? Why I'm asking: it's a bridged card. People in the past have reported issues with bridged cards. Now, I've never heard of it with a 6600 with the original nVidia bridge, but …

Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-10-07, 21:37

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in Milliways

DDR and dual AGP on a slot 2 board? :o How does that even work? From that diagram it looks like you have two individual computers on a single mainboard. It's using the Micron Samurai chipset. It's a DDR chipset for P3 (I don't know if it was ever released for wide production), Tom's benchmarked it …

Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-10-07, 05:31

in Milliways

in Milliways

That's pretty cool! I know SGI had some systems with multiple AGP slots too, but afaik nothing that you could load up Windows on, and I think they used somewhat customized cards (at least with flashed BIOS for SGI, if not modified hardware) from ATi. I just wish it could work like PCIe or PCI - I …

Re: Did I get a good deal?

Posted on 2014-10-07, 05:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My motherboard supports both AGP 2x and 4x, does this make a difference? EDIT: The card is AGP x2 so wouldn't it work? The board has to support 3.3V AGP in order for the card to work. Look at how the card is keyed - does that match with your board? If it will not physically fit, it isn't supported; …

Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-06, 22:37

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in Milliways

Some clever friends of me got Windows 10 running in a VMWare machine. However, you need to enable Intel VT-x in your BIOS if you have it. The requirements look like a lucky Pentium III could still run it, but the requirements are too "blurry", because I think it'd need newer instructions. In VMware …

Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2014-10-06, 12:49

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I don't think this guy's being serious with the $9,999 asking price for this P4 Dell computer, but it's still a hilarious read nonetheless. http://nashville.craigslist.org/sys/4654689715.html hahahah. "$25 would be a reasonable offer" :lol: I wonder if his sense of humor would extend to being paid …

Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2014-10-06, 11:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

Unless I'm missing something, this is nuts: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261614903628

Re: Windows 10 Technical Preview

Posted on 2014-10-06, 10:48

in Milliways

in Milliways

I was hoping all that collection fear would deter 'brag testers' (those who flaunt their personalized desktop screenshots of an unreleased OS for a superiority complex, instead of.... you know, testing and evaluating ) From where i've seen, it didn't. I think it would have to take things a few …

Re: Portal "Still Alive" on EGA mono

Posted on 2014-10-06, 08:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ha, that's awesome! 😎 Can't imagine how long this took you though... 😲

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