Re: Low speedsys memory bandwith throughput on high end motherboards

Posted on 2019-09-06, 05:55

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by cyclone3d

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What happens when you enable "DRAM Slow Refresh"? Contrary to how it sounds, it should actually increase the throughput and lower the latency. The more time between the forced refreshes, the less wait their will be between reads and writes. It just depends on if your RAM will handle the longer time …

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-05, 23:47

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by cyclone3d

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It's a Quadro FX1300 seems about the same as a FX5900. It is a FX NV38 AGP GPU on a PCI-E bridge. Its a 256bit bus with SDRAM. The modded 82.69 for 98se should be the best drivers for it. Based on the specs it should be close if not faster than a geforce4 TI 4600. But again 8 dollars for comparable …

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Re: Low speedsys memory bandwith throughput on high end motherboards

Posted on 2019-09-05, 23:45

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by cyclone3d

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Yeah.. use two sticks and turn interleaving on. That should help quite a bit.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-05, 23:44

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by cyclone3d

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Maybe because all the newer stuff is already added and getting boring?

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Re: R.I.P. SoundBlaster AWE32

Posted on 2019-09-05, 23:27

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by cyclone3d

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Maybe it is not getting enough power with the PS/1 system. Maybe there is too much ISA bus noise on that system for it to work reliably. You could also try cleaning the ISA riser edge connector with an eraser as well as cleaning the slot on the motherboard and the ISA slots on the riser. Folded …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-05, 21:47

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by cyclone3d

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You can download the linux driver source code from here: https://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_page=23&v_code=26930 - 2009-12-29 version. https://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_page=23&v_code=28613&v_langue=en - 2010-07-03 version. http://web.archive.org/web/20111116171134/http://www. …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-05, 20:36

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by cyclone3d

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If you are interested, you can get the LGPL includes for development from the archived downloads page: http://web.archive.org/web/20161119003441/http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal-hd The newer version of the card is lower power, is faster, and supports more formats: https://kodi.wiki/view/ …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-05, 19:48

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by cyclone3d

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Ohhh.. that's hilarious. Pretty sure drivers for OS older than XP would not exist. Why would they?

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Re: Sony CD + 8Bit Interface Card - will it work on XT ?

Posted on 2019-09-05, 16:01

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by cyclone3d

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Not sure about 1.44MB FDDs being obsolete as you say. There is some old software that installation is required from a floppy drive. I've acquired a fair number of 1.44MB floppy drives. Quite a few of them were not working properly when I got them. The easiest fix I have found for both 5.25" and 3.5" …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-04, 22:36

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by cyclone3d

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Cool haul. I would take that trackball apart and see if you see anything obvious with the movement sensors / assembly. Could be something as simple as dust bunnies or cracked solder connections.

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-04, 20:55

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by cyclone3d

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^^ I don't recall a Quadro equivalent of a FX5950 Ultra. My card is a PCX 5950 PCI-e with equivalent specs to a FX5950 Ultra AGP. Ok, I misunderstood then. I thought the PCX 5950 was never actually released. When I was doing research I could never find anything that said it was. I found stuff that …

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Re: Could this be the best Retro PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2019-09-04, 20:23

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by cyclone3d

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I've got both an PCX 5300 and PCX 5750. What is the model in your pic? What PCIe Quadro card is the same as a 5950? There is the Quadro FX 1300, but the RAM is only 128MB and the clocks on the GPU and RAM are way lower. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-nv38.g708 The Quadro FX 3000 is …

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Re: Dos Menus

Posted on 2019-09-04, 15:44

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by cyclone3d

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I never knew any of these existed back in the day. I did use DOSSHELL and also have config.sys and autoexec.bat menus set up though. How much RAM do these menu programs use up? Do they affect the speed of other programs running? I am guessing they don't exit themselves when a program is run from …

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Re: Dosbox messed up my computer HELP

Posted on 2019-09-04, 15:39

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by cyclone3d

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None of you even tried to answer the question, you only mocked the person who asked. I registered an account on this forum just to tell you all you're worthless and can go to Hell. Nice thread necro for a thread whose last post was 9 years ago. And the answers did tell the poster what they needed …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-04, 15:26

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by cyclone3d

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appiah4 wrote: Predator99 wrote: ... SS7 ATX with bulging caps...not worth any repair IMG_2584r.jpg Eh.. It'd be very much worth the repair for me; I need an SS7 board with AGP 😒 And it has the ALI Aladdin V chipset. Only downside is the max FSB looks to be 100Mhz since there are only 3 jumpers for …

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Re: Roland MPU-401 technical reference manual

Posted on 2019-09-04, 15:22

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by cyclone3d

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I'm finding pdf files for: - MPU-401 technical reference manual - MPU-IPC-T documentation including schematic diagram Not seeing a copy of: - MT-32 Midi implementation High quality scans of all 3 would be very nice to have though. A lot of the older scans leave a lot to be desired.

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Re: no sound on HP T5710 win98se

Posted on 2019-09-03, 23:18

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by cyclone3d

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A different sound card I guess.

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Re: Which Soundcard for a Pentium 60 MHZ

Posted on 2019-09-03, 17:55

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by cyclone3d

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matze79 wrote: Hm i would not mix them. Why not? I would choose the CT3930 over the Waverider32 if they really won't work together.

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Re: Which Soundcard for a Pentium 60 MHZ

Posted on 2019-09-03, 14:57

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by cyclone3d

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CT3930 and the Waverider32.

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Re: no sound on HP T5710 win98se

Posted on 2019-09-03, 05:28

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by cyclone3d

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Is anything sharing an IRQ with it? If so, can you disable whatever is sharing the IRQ in BIOS?

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