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Re: Regionally common hardware

Posted on 2014-11-17, 21:03

Optiplex GX260, 270, and 280? Those have BAD capacitors. The later 520, 620, 745, 755 are QUITE good by comparison. And they have that amazingly cool Dell BTX form factor with the huge 120mm front case exhaust. The 520s and on are not necessarily better. They've also got capacitor problems. I've …

Re: Regionally common hardware

Posted on 2014-11-17, 03:59

Optiplex GX260, 270, and 280? Those have BAD capacitors. The later 520, 620, 745, 755 are QUITE good by comparison. And they have that amazingly cool Dell BTX form factor with the huge 120mm front case exhaust.

Re: Regionally common hardware

Posted on 2014-11-17, 02:48

I think Netburst is all over the place because of enterprise applications. At work probably 80+ percent of our machines are Pentium D, and a few Pentium 4HT. I salvage every C2D I can to upgrade those machines when they start feeling slow. I'm from Oregon, you're from Washington. Intel's backyard. …

Re: Test Bench vs Cardboard Box

Posted on 2014-11-11, 22:09

Looks good! And it matches your custom hand-made Sim City case. 😀 Repurposing a small shelf or drawer could be a good way to go about it. It'd be extra cool to have plastic standoff pegs with one normal one so you can quickly lock it down.

Re: Deus Ex Invisible War and GPUs

Posted on 2014-11-11, 02:40

I always wondered what the possibly had to do with it. But when playing Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood the load times were literally SEVERAL minutes, until I turned off V-sync and they dropped to about 10 seconds. What the heck?

Re: Deus Ex Invisible War and GPUs

Posted on 2014-11-09, 23:54

Or you know, try some Ocarina of Time on a TV with a composite cable. I absolutely hate the fog and murky image quality... Yeah. I have it on S-Video on a plasma TV. SVideo just lets you see the blocky dithering and funky low-precision bilinear filtering better. :) My N64's TV encoder also puts out …

Re: Deus Ex Invisible War and GPUs

Posted on 2014-11-09, 08:40

I'm always trying to get my friend to play N64 games with me. He complains about framerate a LOT. I don't remember it chugging so bad, but all I had to compare it to in the 90s was a family computer built for spreadsheet processing. Nowadays it's all 60 FPS this, and V-sync that.

Re: Do you keep all your really retro machines set up?

Posted on 2014-11-09, 07:39

I only have one retro PC "bay" on my desk. The others have to get rotated in based on what I need to do. If I had a massive workshop and could set up a ring of computers, that would be incredibly cool, but of course I don't. In the console world, the only system that isn't set up is the Gamecube. …

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