Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-26, 12:17

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Look what the postman delivered? Something very special, such a fancy box... http://i.imgur.com/Vq9G962h.jpg Oh, it's just a Pentium 4 :blush: http://i.imgur.com/TsiRQQnh.jpg But seriously, seller did a great job at packing this. Also, with so many people complaining about prices and chasing high …

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Re: IPS monitors with real 70 Hz support ?

Posted on 2016-07-26, 10:43

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Lotus III has similar issues. Slowed music when you play with DVI 😀

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2016-07-26, 10:42

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The caps are in terrible condition, I was very surprised that it completed all the tests. This was with a XP 3200+ and 7800GS. I will definitely re-cap this board as it's a keeper.

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Re: AMD DX2 vs Intel DX2 66mhz

Posted on 2016-07-26, 09:49

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Well when I played around with some 486 chips, taking AMDs latest and greatest Am5x86-P75, the IntelDX4 was a tiny bit faster clock for clock.

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2016-07-26, 09:43

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by PhilsComputerLab

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I've got a GA-7N400 Pro with busted caps all over the place. Only the 12V caps are Panasonic. Still, it was 100% stable doing all my benchmarks. The Abit NF7-S on the other hand wasn't 100% stable.

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Re: Floating point vs. integer math, 486 vs. Pentium

Posted on 2016-07-26, 03:16

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Pixelmusement talked about this in the Quake video. The Pentium floating point is much, much faster compared to the 486 😀 That's all I remember though 😊

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Re: Windows XP and ratio / resolution problem

Posted on 2016-07-25, 23:45

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by PhilsComputerLab

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I also ran into this problem. Don't use the latest drivers! The scaling option won't show up. Google some reviews of the graphics card, check what driver version they used, then add a year or two and you should be sweet 😀

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Re: IPS monitors with real 70 Hz support ?

Posted on 2016-07-25, 13:19

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Ah, got it 😀 My screen overclocks to 75 Hz, so that should work well.

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Re: IPS monitors with real 70 Hz support ?

Posted on 2016-07-25, 12:55

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jonnyjr wrote: I've used Nvidia custom resolution to set my refresh rate to these refresh rates, and when running DosBox in a window (I haven't found any way to force DosBox refresh rate in fullscreen) I get very smooth playback without stuttering. Nice! How do you configure DOSBox with the refresh …

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Re: Windows XP and ratio / resolution problem

Posted on 2016-07-25, 12:38

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by PhilsComputerLab

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^^ Yup that's the first thing to check. GPU scaling option in the driver.

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Re: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Posted on 2016-07-25, 12:36

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Yes the FX works most of the time. But not all the time. It's quite a shame as the FX is so much faster, especially the 5950 Ultra for example. I think I have video footage of a few scenes that work on the GF4 but have minor glitches on the FX.

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Re: Windows 10 on an old laptop. Impressive!

Posted on 2016-07-25, 10:36

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At work I recently put Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation on a basic Core 2 Duo (E4xxx) with 2 GB of memory. It worked great 😀 What I really like is how all the drivers were included and ready to go.

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Re: Possible to use Voodoo 5 (agp) and V2 SLI in same PC?

Posted on 2016-07-25, 09:26

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by PhilsComputerLab

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I'm sure people have done this! It's all got to do with the Glide files being used and installing it in the correct order. Do a search on this Forum and check out the Wiki, you will find some good info!

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Re: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Posted on 2016-07-25, 09:10

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On a GF4 performance is ok if you reduce both the detail options. The night vision max setting is just way too demanding anyway. Also reducing the resolution can help. Do you have a working system with a GF4? Not currently, but I built a dedicated machine once and made a few videos about the …

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Re: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Posted on 2016-07-25, 02:06

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On a GF4 performance is ok if you reduce both the detail options. The night vision max setting is just way too demanding anyway. Also reducing the resolution can help.

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Re: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Posted on 2016-07-24, 22:16

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http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce3.html Top right of the page: Shadow Buffers Part of the nfiniteFX II and nfiniteFX Engines, shadow buffers enable self-shadowing for characters and objects, and soften the edges of shadows for realistic effects, adding depth to scenes and highlighting spatial …

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2016-07-24, 13:57

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by PhilsComputerLab

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Yes, but not with 2 speakers, with headphones. I tested MB3 a while ago and it worked great with Realtek.

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Re: Digital DOS games (GOG, Steam...) Retro PC Compatibility Sheet: We need your input!

Posted on 2016-07-24, 12:39

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I think I have Privateer 2, haven't tried it yet though. EDIT: Added Police Quest 1, 2 and 3. None of the games have INSTALL.EXE, so editing of RESOURCE.CFG is needed to change sound. Nice that GOG also included the AGI and SCI version of the first game! Will continue working my down my purchase …

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Re: Windows 10 on an old laptop. Impressive!

Posted on 2016-07-24, 10:11

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It doesn't really surprise me, the Core 2 Duo is still a very capable processor and you have 4 GB of memory which is lots for such a machine. I remember bargain notebooks back in the day, sold with single core Celeron, 512 MB of RAM and Windows Vista. Now THAT was slow 😀

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2016-07-24, 06:53

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by PhilsComputerLab

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I'm pretty sure MS doesn't care 😀 For my projects I just use the 30 day trial period.

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