Re: Fake GTX 960s?
Posted on 2016-06-14, 09:48
Yes, both are fake... seems to be some kind of GF104/114 board. So most likely GTX 460/560/560Ti.
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-08, 23:28
Nice, a modern motherboard with a P4-era cooler :lol: . Yeah, this Zalman is great for quick testing, fits any IHS-equipped CPU... also no need for retention mechanism - it is heavy enough to just stay in place where I put it. :cool: The only downside is cooling performance, everything over 100W …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-07, 13:45
Asus A88XM-Plus FM2+ board, should support everything starting with Trinity and up to Excavator (Athlon X4 845).
Re: Modded Voodoo4
Posted on 2016-06-05, 23:15
64MB is pretty much useless for voodoo4. For most games performance increase is exactly zero. And if you can find a game where 64MB brings more fps, it will be unplayable anyway. With 5ns (or less) SDRAM, you probably can run it @ 200/200 MHz... which is 20% increase from default and once again …
Re: Best DX9 VGA period correct for a 940 system
Posted on 2016-06-04, 13:02
SLI suffers from frame synchronisation problems, which results in microstuttering. So the second GPU will double you fps (when not CPU limited) but the actual gameplay smoothness will remain pretty much the same. http://techreport.com/news/21625/multi-gpu-micro-stuttering-captured-on-video Opteron …
Re: Best DX9 VGA period correct for a 940 system
Posted on 2016-06-04, 12:47
And what CPU are you planning to use? Choice of GPU depends on that. Anyway - SLI (of any kind) will not work very well.
Re: Best DX9 VGA period correct for a 940 system
Posted on 2016-06-04, 11:03
2006-2007 sounds really weird for true socket 940 system. At that time socket F (and AM2 of course) was already around...
Re: Duplicate Hardware in Your Collection
Posted on 2016-06-03, 11:30
Interesting thread... lets see what duplicates I have here. :happy: Plenty of various ISA Tridents, PCI S3, early Matrox, TNT2 M64, GF2 MX and other mostly useless stuff, which I lost count of. Still better to have them here, than let them get scrapped. :evil: Now something I have in my hardware …
Re: AMD FX-53 2.4Ghz vs Intel P4 3.4GHz EE?
Posted on 2016-05-31, 19:18
Yes, exactly. GeForce 7 should work better in that system.
Re: AMD FX-53 2.4Ghz vs Intel P4 3.4GHz EE?
Posted on 2016-05-31, 19:10
Two things: 1. VIA chipset, I'm quite sure nForce4 board (or nForce Pro 2200 as we are talking about s940) would be faster. But of course not period correct. 2. your video card choice. GF7 / Radeon X (and older) are using different driver core, which is optimized for older CPUs - worse multithread …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-05-25, 23:24
More CPUs arrived... :) https://abload.de/img/cpu-may1jpr0f.jpg 2x Xeon X5450... pretty much xeon equivalent of C2Q Q9650, with SMP support of course. Will be interesting to compare these two with 8-core AMD FX. :evil: https://abload.de/img/cpu-may218pso.jpg Xeon W3520 - same as i7 920... but much …
Re: Voodoo 5500 AGP vs PCI Benchmarks
Posted on 2016-05-24, 14:37
mzry wrote: ... we all know the voodoo 5 in AGP ran in PCI mode and did not take advantage of any AGP features. Actually V5 AGP is using "AGP 1x", which is twice as fast compared to regular 33MHz PCI. And because of that V5 AGP is faster in 3dmark and some games as well.
Re: RANT...Pay more for I/O shield then for the motherboard...
Posted on 2016-05-21, 20:07
Exactly, I never use I/O shields. When MB comes with one... I just throw it to a box (for very unlikely future use) and done. 😀
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-05-16, 22:29
This board is pre-production revision and I was told by the previous owner that regular BIOS update is not possible. My intention is to run i5 750... and that one should work regardless of BIOS version. 1156 boards are quite expensive here and I'm not going to try my luck... and possibly brick it by …
Re: Prototype GPU worth anything?
Posted on 2016-05-06, 15:55
Sure, there are plenty of GPU collectors, who would love to get their hands on this. Definitely more valuable than regular HD 6990.
Re: Win9x Driver for Connect3D Rage 128 PRO/ULTRA
Posted on 2016-05-04, 10:50
They exist, mostly those OEM low-profile Rage 128 Ultra. These things have different device ID than regular R128p. Installing driver manually via device manager works fine, the tricky part is to choose right name that represents Rage 128 Pro - something like "Xpert 2000...." ATi names for these …
Re: Hardware requirements for burning a Blu-Ray disc
Posted on 2016-05-01, 15:34
Yeah, I'm using bluray for backups as well. Regular 25GB disc takes ~20 min to burn at 4x and another 20 to verify. Price per GB is quite good... the question is long term reliability...
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-27, 22:57
Ok then. No official support for win 7 on next-gen HW is no big deal imho, 8+ year old OS is simply too old for that kind of hardware. Just like trying to instal win2000 on Nehalem PC. Yes, it might work, but whats the point. I'm sure there will be a way to get it working... just like you can run XP …
Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.
Posted on 2016-04-27, 19:06
I'm surprised there are no SLI results in the "Less strict somewhat period correct toplist"... so here is first. :evil: Yes, that MB is really using AMD 790FX chipset. SLI working well after applying this patch http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/sli-with-different-cards.158907/ 130.9 FPS, …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-27, 17:58
Just so you know, next year Microsoft is forcing everyone on skylake in to windows 10, even they're currently today on windows 7. It's already been announced microsoft will de-activate their win7 installs and not let them use their machines unless they upgrade it to win10. Also microsoft is pushing …
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