Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-01-30, 20:46

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It's a no brand no boxed... I bought it just as casual replacement but I had very bad experiences too with no branded psu (in the past I bought a new one that (casually tested) gave 17 volts on the 12v rail and 7 volts on the 5V rail, something like that...result, destroyed hd and almost the vga …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-01-30, 20:20

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Thank. I have found some v2.1 psu with 48A on 5V, new but very cheap and very very light (with thin cables too...). I don't know if it's more dangerous to use an older one or these one...

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-01-30, 19:40

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But even new high end, high power psu, don't have enough 5V wattage? I mean I've seen some 20A capable 650W psu when old 300W had more so I was thinking if you buy a 1000W psu they usually have or not enough 5V anyway?

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Re: DVD accelerators compared

Posted on 2016-01-28, 15:02

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Trying the Dxr3 on Athlon 1000 / KT133 / Win9x/ME and for vga strenght and quality with the G400. I am using a CRT (17"), a must for these cards. Everything is compatible and no crash or problems I had with other configs. Now through the analog pass cable and overlay chip/own filters, you could …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-01-27, 20:33

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moral of the story; get a quality unit, and forget about it. Well, unless you are building a high end Athlon machine. Then you gotta be way more careful. With an ATX2.3 600W good quality and heavy psu on an XP 3200+ and a Radeon 9000 in fact I had really really low 5V measured and I would say …

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2016-01-25, 21:39

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Interesting, with the branded older drivers on 3dmark2000 I get higher values: Athlon option: ~ 3400 D3D software T&L: ~3300 D3D hardware t&L: ~2100 It seems that the T&L option in the driver is in facts using the internal seems slower hw unit, but with Opengl t&l things are different: Treemark t&l …

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2016-01-25, 21:21

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Edit: next post

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Re: Win 9x/ME and ram

Posted on 2016-01-25, 16:20

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And with the Athlon 1000 Tbird, does make sense to have 100Mhz FSB and 133Mhz of ram? Or they must be the same freq as I remember? They don't have to be the same speed, faster memory will work. But you won't be able to get the maximum performance from the memory, because the FSB will become a …

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Re: Voodoo3 geometry assist

Posted on 2016-01-25, 16:17

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It's really interesting considering at that time more T&L games were released and probably supported by this feature improving a bit the frame rate. There were even some games that wouldn't work at all if they didn't detect 'hardware' T&L, so it also gave better compatibility. Maybe in the same way …

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Re: Voodoo3 geometry assist

Posted on 2016-01-25, 14:06

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Sounds like it is indeed a software T&L pipeline, but optimized for the specific video card, as opposed to D3D's built-in generic pipeline. D3D also uses SSE and 3DNow! optimizations where possible, but it doesn't know anything about the underlying hardware. If you perform hardware-specific …

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Voodoo3 geometry assist

Posted on 2016-01-25, 13:55

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Hi, I am trying a Voodoo3 3000 AGP with latest drivers on WinME and I didn't know they included this "Geometry assist" feature to "help" geometry and lightning thank to the Pentium 3 or K7 architectures. I was curious to understand more about this, if it actually is the same D3D software T&L of the …

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Re: Win 9x/ME and ram

Posted on 2016-01-24, 16:30

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I did the Vcache ini add line and now running with 1GB (2x512PC133) at 100Mhz. everything seems just like before no crash or whatever. By the way probably WinME usually will not benefit from such amount of ram anyway so I'll see if let it in or not. Actually 3dmark2000 give me 2707 marks with this …

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Re: Best cpu for 3dfx on a 486?

Posted on 2016-01-24, 13:01

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Tetrium wrote: You guys make me want to build a Kyro II rig right now 🤣! Yeah I was thinking to the Kyro 2 I have too. But does exist generic powervr drivers over the usual branded?

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Re: Best cpu for 3dfx on a 486?

Posted on 2016-01-24, 12:16

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Time correct configurations are always better to me; on a very fast 486 I would choice up to a Voodoo1. I understand your point of view but even voodoo1 is more correct on a p1 system. But since a v2 feels like it makes a difference and i need all the speed i can get i prefer the v2 in this build, …

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Re: Win 9x/ME and ram

Posted on 2016-01-24, 12:15

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Thanks, any crash or instability using this amount of ram?

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Re: Best cpu for 3dfx on a 486?

Posted on 2016-01-24, 11:09

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Time correct configurations are always better to me; on a very fast 486 I would choice up to a Voodoo1.

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Win 9x/ME and ram

Posted on 2016-01-24, 11:02

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Hi, I have this A7Pro supporting up to 1,5 GB of PC133 simms. Does WinME support 1GB or more of ram or as read online it seems to not use more than 512MB? And with the Athlon 1000 Tbird, does make sense to have 100Mhz FSB and 133Mhz of ram? Or they must be the same freq as I remember? Thank

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2016-01-23, 20:00

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Edit: result next post

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2016-01-23, 18:21

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This card was made by Diamond. I've used a Viper 550 (TNT) for years and a friend of mine used a Viper 770 (TNT2) for years also. Both were passively cooled and seemed to at least not have too much serious thermal issues. But about your worry about frying your Viper 2: If you rig a fan to the …

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2016-01-23, 12:59

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Is the viper 2 card a card safe to use for a everyday pc or it usually overheat or as read somewhere here they will not last long as other savage 2k? And what about the on board jumpers to set agp4x, must they be all closed or i risk to fry it? i have an athlon 1000 and i an deciding what card to …

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