Socket 775 - obsolete for modern games/SW or not?

Posted on 2015-04-14, 20:35

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by havli

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We have many members running socket 775 systems as their main rigs. Lately there have been lots of discussion concerning their viability as gaming rigs for modern Direct-X 11 games. I did a quick 3dmark 11 run (Preset: Performance) using a socket 775 system with two Geforce GTX 580 in SLI and the …

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Re: What's in your PCI/ISA slots?

Posted on 2015-04-13, 17:15

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by havli

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Pentium 233 MMX + Intel TC430HX + 4x 16MB EDO PCI -> Matrox Millennium II (4MB) + Rainbow Runner Studio PCI -> 3dfx Voodoo2 12MB PCI -> Intel Pro/100 LAN ISA -> Creative AWE32 CT3980 (8MB)

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Re: Going PRO!

Posted on 2015-04-13, 16:45

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by havli

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The Pentium Pro's weakness was anything 16-bit. A machine like this was born to run NT or your vintage UNIX of choice. Or OS/2, if you're one of those people. I've been playing DOS games on both PPro 233 and P MMX 233, performance is pretty much the same. When using true 32bit OS and applications …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-04-11, 20:08

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by havli

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Well, I got a different setup in mind when it comes to the period correct top score. :evil: Is this CPU ok for the period correct list? http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Opteron%20252%20-%20OSA252FAA5BL%20%28OSA252BLBOX%20-%20OSA252BLWOF%29.html It is 2005 hardware, however there are some San …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-04-11, 18:38

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http://abload.de/thumb/doom3_p4_631_x800xtpe4eb37.png 65.2 fps Pentium 4 631 HT (Cedar Mill) Radeon X800 XT PE AGP (cat 10.2) Asrock 775i65G R3.0 (i865G) 2x 512MB DDR 400 CL 2.5-3-3-8 Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic Windows XP SP3 No overclocking, stock settings, 1024x768 Ultra. Slower than Northwood 3. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-10, 19:47

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by havli

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I love the X800 series, vice city is my favorite game of 2003 :D Did you try smartshader effects yet? Smartshader - isn't that just a fancy marketing name for pixel&vertex shader 2.0 support? Perhaps you meant SmoothVision - antialiasing, anisotropic filtering and stuff like this. Yes, the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-10, 19:03

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by havli

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That's not a pentium duo, its a single-core pentium with hyperthreading. Yeah, thats why I say PD would do 30fps at best, which is almost double of the P4 640. ------------------ Anyway - back on the topic At the moment I'm testing Acer AL2021 - 20'' LCD 4:3 1600x1200 with both VGA and DVI input. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-10, 17:42

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by havli

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Crysis and Pentium D... it can't do more than 30fps according to this. http://www.hw-museum.cz/data/benchmark_CPU_1/CW.png Seems a bit ... extreme. I don't mind dips down into 30 fps range and I certainly don't see any need to get over 60 FPS. My monitor is only 60 FPS and I don't see the need for …

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Re: Cool POST screen

Posted on 2015-04-10, 15:59

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by havli

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It depends on the MB - I remember some hiend Epox boards reporting sensors values during POST. 8K5A3+ for example. If the actual board doesn't support this feature "by desigh", then I don't think you can easily add it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-10, 15:41

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by havli

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Crysis 3 and Cities Skylines were what I was referencing. I can max those out on a Core i3, so I have no idea where your framerate is going. Make sure you don't have a bunch of crap stealing your cycles and drive time. C3 really needs fast (quadcore or more) CPU... so there is no way you can have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-10, 09:43

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by havli

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Sorry, but I can't agree with that. More than 30 fps and medium details are far from acceptable for me. That is more like 60+ (preferably 100+) full details with antialiasing, HQAF and stuff. Not even Core i5 and Radeon R9 290 are fast enough to do that. Try playing games like Crysis 3, Watch Dogs, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-10, 09:25

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by havli

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Picked up a Core 2 Duo E8500 (can these be considered retro yet?) ... Sure, they are way to slow for current SW / games and the whole s775 platform is kinda obsolete (no USB 3.0, 8GB RAM limit, etc)... at least for me. :happy: Nehalem+ is in some cases twice as fast (single thread) and even faster …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-05, 21:22

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by havli

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The original 3dfx/STB Voodoo4 4500 AGP (on the photo above) is the only Voodoo reliably working in AGP 4/8x boards. I'm 100% sure of that. Voodoo4 cards made by Powercolor (and possibly other manufacturers) should be only used in AGP universal or AGP 2x boards though. Some of them may work in AGP 4/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-02, 21:38

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by havli

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Yes, this one is indeed 3300. The 3300 and 3700 are quite common. Here is a list of Voodoo revisions http://3dfx.cz/articles/rev.htm Not sure how much accurate is it though. Funny thing - the "3dfx Interactive, inc" writing on the front side (above the VSA chip) is misspelled :D This applies for all …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-02, 20:20

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by havli

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Adding another V4-4500 to the H0aRD - this time it's the US AGP version. Boxed Voodoo4 is always nice to have. :) I've noticed you have a ton of 3dfx stuff - just out of curiosity... is any of your V4 4500 AGP revision 3900 (board manufactured in 39th week of 2000)? I have one myself and it seems …

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Re: 5V/3.3V Rail Current

Posted on 2015-04-01, 22:52

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by havli

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The most demanding processor powered from the 5V line is probably Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz. I have measured 84W power consumption for that one (directly on the 5V line - 18,2A @ 4,6V). Athlon 1000 takes 53W, Pentium Pro 200/256 = 36W, Pentium Pro 200/1M = 48W, PIII Katmai 500 = 35W. So 20A @ 5V …

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Re: ATI 9000 64mb PCI or Geforce FX 5500 256MB PCI for Pentium 3 733Mhz

Posted on 2015-03-31, 21:03

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by havli

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I never had a Geforce 6200 but i would guess it should be able to play videos at 480p just fine, no? Maybe even 720p on the VLC player or MediaPlayer Classic? Or am i being too optimist about this? :) You need at least P4 2GHz / Pentium M 1.4GHz / AXP 2000+ / Dual PIII 900 MHz for smooth H264 720p …

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo 1 BSOD

Posted on 2015-03-28, 14:40

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by havli

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Voodoo graphics is kinda picky about CPU used... especially the non-Intel ones. I have never tried V1 on AMD K5, but K6 and Cyrix MII are problematic. Try this driver from Falconfly archive. 14 Nov 1998 3dfx Voodoo1 V3.00.01 842k ZIP DirectX5 Driver I've managed to run V1 on K6-2 400 and Windows 98 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-03-25, 18:28

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by havli

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AXP 1800+ (Palomino), Pentium D 820, AXP-M 2400+ (Barton). X-Fi XtremeMusic

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Re: Win 98, XP & 8.1 fully supported on one dual core PC? Here is my retro approach!

Posted on 2015-03-21, 14:41

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by havli

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Very nice, I have similar build myself - the same board but only with c2d e6400 and Radeon 8500 at the moment. 😀 I'm considering to buy faster cpu - how far does the e6500k overclock on this mb?

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