Re: Strange Radeon 9x card

Posted on 2016-12-03, 03:41

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Well, just after I made this post I removed the cooler, cleaned the thermal grease and took a look to the actual chip and, surprise, surprise, it's a R300, so it's totally logical that windows sees a 9700 card because it's what it is. The mistery remains, though, on why a 9700 chip is in a 9800 …

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Re: Crysis 1 lag with 7950GT

Posted on 2016-12-01, 06:37

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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My experience with Crysis through the first couple of years of its release were like this: - Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8GHz, 1.5GB RAM, GeForce 7600GT AGP 1024x768 - Low I was getting ~30FPS, many drops obviously. - Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB RAM, 7800GTX 256MB 1280x1024 - Medium I was getting ~30FPS, again …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-01, 04:46

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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This Australian eBay shop has been selling a ton of NIB graphics cards. They are dirt cheap, I got these 3 for A$ 50 shipped! I've gotten some GTS 250 cards from them previously, but it turned out that they are some sort of underclocked versions, especially with the memory. These ones are proper …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-01, 04:43

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I'd drop the X-Fi in my main if I were you unless your running a Xonar DGX or something good like that. Pretty much anything north of the Audigy2ZS from Creative makes a good modern sound card. The GT 440 still makes a nice HTPC GPU (Hell, I use a GT520 inside a decade old 1st gen Quad Core dell as …

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Re: How rare is the non-ultra FX5800?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 19:52

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Jade Falcon wrote: Make sure its not a flashed Quadro FX 1000 or 2000 with a different heatsink and what not. It's not. The only reason it hasn't sold I'm 95 percent sure is because it's listed by its manufacturer module number and not as a FX5800

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How rare is the non-ultra FX5800?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 16:37

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I know these cards are rare in general. Basically it comes down to me having found a non-ultra 128MB FX5800 for $50 or so USD. Are these cards rare enough to justify the price? (keeping in mind I get pretty much all my hardware online)

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Re: Is worth trying to fix a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver?

Posted on 2016-11-30, 12:56

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I'd try to save it. If you can't though keep the HDD, optical drive, and RAM as those are industry standard as far as I know and could be re used for other builds.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-30, 02:00

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Today I received mi latest (and biggest to date) eBay haul: All left to right, top to bottom: IMG_20161130_002006.jpg - MSI GeForce GT 440 1GB, nice card with better than usual cooling, small but 1.5 slots wide, it's supposedly silent and cool (two, only one pictured). - Asus GeForce 8500GT 512MB …

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Re: Crysis 1 lag with 7950GT

Posted on 2016-11-29, 16:48

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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My 9800GX2 can handle Crysis maxed without AA @ 25-30FPS fairly consitantly at 1600x900 or lower. Keep in mind Crysis scales well with SLI in my experience.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-11-28, 17:29

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Set up my newly acquired Asus Crosshair 590 SLI system from 2006. Flashed community modified bios and then got my 2010 AMD Athlon II x3 445 CPU running natively in it. Then set about installing XP-32 and then tuned and overclocked the CPU and ram and then set it up with my pair of 6800 Ultra PCI- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-28, 14:04

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Also, almost bought a dual-socket370 motherboard, originally from a Silicon Graphics 330 workstation. Found its manual here: https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/hdwr/enduser/330_UG/sgi_html/front.html (see chapter 3 "system board") and went through it, then decided it would be too much of a hassle …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2016-11-27, 18:57

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Went back to the place today and quickly saw nothing is salvageable. The motherboard's got a few destroyed slots and is covered in dirt, and the only thing looking mildly salvageable is that CD drive which is welded in the case. Even the SCSI hard drive's board is rusted. Sad, honestly. :depressed: …

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Re: A good use for an S3 Virge ?

Posted on 2016-11-26, 05:23

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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And in case you can't come up with anymore uses, here's the old standby: *no video cards were harmed in the making of this photo Similarly, a Virge makes a decent fan to cool yourself on hot days. This will actually work :). A Voodoo 2 is a bit too heavy on the wrists for prolonged usage :depressed …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 02:54

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Received the Thinkpad 380XD I had ordered a few days ago.. It was listed as "unknown condition, does not power up" so there was a bit of uneasiness of my part. But once I hooked it to a power supply, it fired right up. :) Gave me the errors 00161, 00163 and 00192 at boot. Entered setup and set the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 01:02

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I'm just saying, if you sell at well known places, you're going to find bad eggs. I try to sell at specialized forums. E.G. if I were selling a Voodoo card, I'd sell at a Voodoo forum.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-26, 00:35

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Do we have a marketplace area on the forum where we can advertise old hardware we want to sell? I have a number of graphics cards that I want to advertise. I would rather them go to users who will use them and take care of them and would like to advertise these to fellow VOGONS members first. If …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-25, 22:34

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Well finally got my crosshair board here. And it's -CLEAN- and nice. Unfortunately my one 3-core chip ain't supported, too new. Had to buy a $5.50 dual core am2 chip off ebay just to get it running so I can flash the bios into it. Well here it is anyway: http://www.outfoxed.net/crosshair/DSC06959. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-24, 03:28

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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gdjacobs wrote: An R 9800 Pro will easily saturate a P3. This card belongs in a high clock Northwood or Barton setup, minimum. And the 5950U won't? I only have 2 working AGP systems atm. One is my Windows 98 machine and the other XP. The 98 machine will get the slower of the two cards.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-23, 16:34

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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http://i.imgur.com/9d2KjHf.jpg Got a Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb 128-bit for roughly $20 shipped. Not sure if this will go in my PentiumIII or Pentium4, it depends on if it can outperform my 5950U or not. Note hopeful if the 256MB versions are actually SLOWER than the normal ones like I've been reading. …

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Re: Replace 8800GTS 512 with GTX 480?

Posted on 2016-11-23, 00:27

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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ASUS M2N-E SLI Nforce 500 aka Nforce 4 SLI AM2 Full Specs AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 2x1MB L2 (89W) 4gb DDR2 800 Samsung ASUS M2N-E SLI EVGA Geforce 8800GTS 512 1tb Hard Drive DVD-RW 650W Seasonic PSU Then it's an SLI Capable board. Why not run those 7900s in SLI? Or if you MUST have 20x the power you …

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