Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-21, 09:39

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by melbar

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Probably because this is a 128MB card. I believe LE came with 128MB and GT 256MB only! Have you seen my link which i've posted before. There is this data written: Leadtek WinFast A400 TDH AGP x8/x4 interface, 128 MB DDR SDRAM , allocated in 8 chips on the front side of the PCB. Hynix memory chips, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-21, 09:07

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by melbar

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6800LE AGP. The fan' guard / dust filter thing is missing... Oh yeah. The card runs at 350 / 700 - them' is GT clocks - except for the memory of course, witch I believe is GDDR1 and not GDDR3 like it would be on the GT / Ultra. The LE has 8 out of 16 pp's enabled, and the other 8 can be enabled …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-20, 12:48

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by melbar

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I've got this card today:

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-20, 11:32

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by melbar

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Yeah, I took another shot and then edited it twice. Total Capacitor List: I think you've forgot to mark the middle capacitor direct left to the CPU. Anyway, it's a nice board which should be worth to spend time and/or money for it (re-capping). I've already started to solder out the bad cap's from …

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-19, 20:24

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by melbar

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3DMark 03 Version 340 3DMark 05 AquaMark 3 Far Cry V 1.2 Unreal Tournament 2004 RtCW - Enemy Territory Tomb Raider - Angel of Darkness Half-Life 2 (Counter-Strike: Source, Build 2124) Doom 3

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Re: My new PIII system is in the post!

Posted on 2017-01-15, 12:11

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you use windows mode games only? Then PCI sound is OK. If you also want running games in DOS mode, then why not use an ISA sound card?

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-14, 09:17

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by melbar

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You could also find an unlocked Barton and simply run it the same clockspeed as a 3200+ or even possibly higher. For that, he needs to get an early Barton. If the manufacturing date after 43 calender week of 2003, it shall be locked. @FFXIhealer Try to get an Barton with manufacturing date < 43 …

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Re: Best GPU for a Pentium III 600?

Posted on 2017-01-07, 17:01

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by melbar

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Regarding TNT vs TNT2 M64, in my benchmarks the TNT is ~25% faster in 24bit 3dmarks, they are about equal in 16bit 3dmarks. Yes, this is also what you can see on havli's benches with 3dmark: http://hw-museum.cz/benchmark-2-2.php The values I've refered is his performance summary with "old games". …

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Re: Best GPU for a Pentium III 600?

Posted on 2017-01-07, 16:17

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by melbar

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The TNT2-M64 is slightly faster than the TNT1. Regarding the benchmarks from 'havli', he had tested with a XP1800+ DDR1 system, the performance differences to "slow" cards like the TNT's should not be quite different. 800x600 - 16bit: TNT1 [22.5%] TNT2-M64 [26.8%] - so TNT2-M64 is 19% faster than …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-07, 12:01

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by melbar

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Have got this card (mainly for pentium systems): S3 ViRGE (86C325) - with 4Mb edo ram onboard. Hope it will work fine.... have seen that the card is slightly bended, it's not straight anymore...

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Re: "SCSInator", my first project.

Posted on 2017-01-06, 23:02

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by melbar

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Max_tor wrote: 3D accellerators: Two STB Blackmagic 3D Voodoo 2 12MB REV. C in SLI The two V2 cards are looking like the 8Mb versions, or not?

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Re: How about this overclock?

Posted on 2017-01-06, 20:14

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by melbar

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look at this: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock … uide,15-10.html

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Re: Athlon 1400/133 vs Duron 1300/100

Posted on 2017-01-05, 20:17

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by melbar

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I suppose also by software? I'm not too keen about having to remove the northbridge heatsink just so I can take a look at it (though I suppose it's probably the best option if you want to be sure). Allright, but i've seen already that i've a KT333 as a backup. I thought it's useless cause I have …

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Re: Athlon 1400/133 vs Duron 1300/100

Posted on 2017-01-04, 17:32

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by melbar

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There's 3 revisions of the KT333 chipset - the early one that can't do 166 (rev CD), the later one that can - rev CE (both with 3,3V universal AGP) and a budget version witch is basically a cut down KT400 (rev CF) and only does agp 1.5v despite it having a physical universal AGP slot. The revisions …

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Re: Athlon 1400/133 vs Duron 1300/100

Posted on 2017-01-03, 22:30

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by melbar

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Hi, What do you think about the lack of SSE and hardware prefetch of the Palomino vs the Morgan core? Would be interesting how much each of technology (SSE / data prefech) result in better performace for the AMD cpu's. My research on 'tomshardware'-benchmarks has shown that, for example, the speed …

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Time classification of 6 soundcards

Posted on 2017-01-01, 13:25

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by melbar

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Have 6 ISA soundcards with these sound chip's. - Avance ALS100+ - Avance ALS007 - ESS ES688 - OPTi 928 + Crystal 4248 - OPTi 929 + AD1846 - AZT2316R + Crystal 4231 It would be interesting for me to know the correct release time of these cards / or these sound chip's. Maybe somebody here has more …

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Re: k6-2 compatibility

Posted on 2016-12-27, 11:28

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by melbar

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I have the K6-2 500MHz, actually running at lowest clock 166MHz. It's core voltage is 2.2V, and I/O voltage 3.3V (like kanecvr said, dual voltage). I' ve still set the voltage to default (auto) voltage. Personally, i would never set the voltage to high values, especially for descent old cpu's. Even …

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Re: Just moved found goodies (pics) + help me build a DOS PC + Hello

Posted on 2016-12-19, 12:29

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by melbar

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Here an overview of boards, for your socket 5/7 cpu's. socket 7: FIC PA-2007 (VIA Apollo VP2) FIC PA-2005 (VIA Apollo VPX) Gigabyte GA-586TX3 (Intel TX) ASUS TX97 (Intel TX) Soyo SY-5EAS (VIA Apollo VPX) Matsonic MS-5120 / PC-Chips M547 (VIA Apollo VPX) Gigabyte GA-586ATV (Intel VX) Intel AA 682294 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-19, 11:47

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by melbar

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boxpressed wrote: These beauties arrived today. They will soon be profiled in my wavetable sample thread. P1120675.JPG Have got also my deamblaster's last weekend. My version of the X2 is No. 016, directly the one after yours 🤣

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Re: NVIDIA TNT PCI Card Use

Posted on 2016-12-12, 20:47

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by melbar

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Don't forget Riva TNT PCI is slower than regular AGP. My tests show AGP is 40% faster... so PCI TNT lacks quite a lot to match V2 performance. Interesting!! Is this the average from your benchmarks? You have done a lot of benchmarks... even with a faster Athlon XP, you would never pair with a TNT …

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