Re: Why people still love XP
Posted on 2021-08-31, 17:53
"Keyboard error. Press F1 to continue" Ok that wasn't XP but still funny when happened. 😁
Re: Latest PCI vga with bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-08-31, 16:30
I also tried 3DMark2001 with the same Core2 system in the PCI-EX full lenght version of the GT610 1GB DDR3 on the same system and it basically "destroy" the PCI bridged version not necessary only for the final result but mostly for the detailed single values... just look at the Polygons/s result. …
Re: Why people still love XP
Posted on 2021-08-31, 12:27
Personally I usually use both o.s. Win 8.1 and 'Linux / Lxde / Lxqt' depending on the period. It's almost a decade I am learning/using linux without many regrets cause at the end it did "mostly" the same tasks with a similar level of speed than Win and older hardware did have the possibility to …
Re: Latest PCI vga with bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-08-31, 10:00
Some updates for anyone might be interested in these tests.. Cause I had random white horizontal short lines happening in the Win GUI/browser (while not in any games), I decided to test the GT610 PCI into a G41 based mainboard with the fast Core2 E8600 dual 3,33Ghz / 8GB DDR3 ram. Reinstalled …
Re: GUI interfaces horizontal lines problems
Posted on 2021-08-31, 08:39
I had to switch back to a Core2 platform to test the Geforce GT610 PCI cause I still can't understand why those horizontal white random lines seems to randomly appears in many GUIs even if ironically not in the games even heavy ones and benchmarks that really would stress the GPU. I changed the …
Re: Latest PCI vga with bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-08-30, 11:20
It will be interesting to see if the values should, as I expect, be more similar (even if probably still higher in the XP o.s. where Directx9 was a native API). The Atom is the 32nm Cedarview SoC series, no HT but dual x64 1,9Ghz in this low end version. It's not a powerful cpu still 'netbooks …
Re: Latest PCI vga with bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-08-29, 18:16
Thanks for the interesting test, I've read translated and they're also interesting cause also on low power cpu and the GT610 vga is the same model I am testing now. Incredible that 3DMark2001 high result, make me think imho Win XP on DIrectx7/8.1 apps probably does a better/native job with less …
Re: Why people still love XP
Posted on 2021-08-29, 09:32
Maybe XP might be remembered also for a nostalgic reason as one memorable period in computer market when pc was the common wanted main digital device. Some'd say computers sold well even later or lately but I suppose slowly more as an 'home furniture' for the average consumer once the portable …
[Solved] GUI interfaces horizontal lines problems
Posted on 2021-08-28, 09:44
Hello, lately I am trying a GT610 PCI by Zotac and only with this I find sometimes in the Win 8.1 accelerate gui or even the accelerated web browser showing the attached gfx artifacts, only rarely and once that part of the page or the entire page's refreshed those lines disappear. I've never seen …
Re: Latest PCI video cards and bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-08-26, 08:39
I post this system photo already in another thread then the other card too. ;) This is the GT610 PCI with its heavy heatsink I might change for the active cooling while temps with a case fan stays 45°C in idle, 20°C more on stress. Strangely clocks seems fixed to the maximun with no variation ( …
Re: Latest PCI video cards and bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-08-26, 08:07
Now here the GT610 PCI (PI7C9X) x64 results with skipped CPU tests that are the same: the different bridge ICs on the vga boards probably works in different ways and the faster GT610 (GF119 gpu) can't really find a way to be faster than the older GT218 of the Geforce 210 that beside where pixel …
Re: Latest PCI video cards and bridge chips opinions
Posted on 2021-08-25, 13:28
Some update (even if I doubt anyone's interested in these old but also modern tests :D): I am trying to expand the Atom system as much as I can just for testing and I now use the x64 Win 8.1 instead of the x86 for the 4GB ram and maybe some more cpu registers/optimization and run quite ok! Now x64 …
Re: Trident Blade AGP cards: opinions?
Posted on 2021-08-25, 10:36
Yeah it seems like prices even for these mostly forgotten vga are high as most retro stuff just cause they are old. The AGP version with SGRAM I think should be the best to test. But I'd like to test also the later AGP cards they did. After all the good thing about those times was that each card …
Re: Trident Blade AGP cards: opinions?
Posted on 2021-08-25, 07:31
I never read much about these Trident solutions and indeed like SiS they sort of survived those years with low end solutions but still real products (instead of modern times with cards like a GT730 or GT1030 sold for nosense prices..) for those who didn't want the fastest speed (most of the time on …
PicoPSU vs basic internal PSU reliability?
Posted on 2021-08-24, 11:34
Hello, I'd like to ask your opinion about PicoPSU with a cheap external 60W 12V power supply compared to a usual basic (in this case a CoolerMaster 500W MasterLite) PSU for a low power computer, from a reliability point of view on the possibility that something might fail at the power supply source …
Re: Trident Blade AGP cards: opinions?
Posted on 2021-08-23, 16:55
Thanks. I remember back in those time I had that Trio3D which I could not play any DX6 games at all beside without textures or whatever.. I soon upgraded to a V3 2000 once it was released but considering its price I always regret that choice. There were so many vga out there that could have played …
Trident Blade3D AGP: opinions?
Posted on 2021-08-23, 16:16
Hello, after watching some reviews about these last Trident solutions I'm quite impressed, considering the low end low price target, how good they worked the ones released after the quite bad 9750 chip. Considering when we bought our brand new K6-2 350Mhz system it came with a S3 Trio3D 4MB AGP and …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-21, 18:32
Still I like the old early Atom cpus, in their times netbooks were amazing. The N270 even if single core still had SSSE3 instructions and the external onboard GPU should have even more old DX6 retrogames compatibility compared to the later integrated gpus if I remember correctly. To solve the video …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-21, 18:06
A low power system like that is very practical for everyday stuff when you're not playing games. I wish my main desktop wasn't a power hungry gaming build from 2009. I've tried to retire it to WinXP gaming - but I can't seem to find a replacement for it that sticks. I have a rarely used "utility" …
Re: S3 Savage 4 Questions
Posted on 2021-08-21, 17:50
I remember back in those days the Savage3D for sure and probably also the the Savage4 could be bought in big supermarkets with unknown brands/boxes but at discount prices in the IT department. Those were the times where almost every generic store had a computer specific sector. I remember 3DMark99 …
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