Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series

Posted on 2020-03-10, 12:26

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"Codenamed Cypress, the Radeon HD 5800 series was announced on September 23, 2009. Products included Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870. The launching model of Radeon HD 5870 can support three display outputs at most, and one of these has to support DisplayPort. In terms of overall performance, the …

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Re: Give me the cheapest Pentium MMX200 you've got!

Posted on 2020-03-10, 04:46

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by appiah4

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3x sounds right, set it to 1.5x and it should internally run at 3.5x. If it does then it is an MMX. Make certain L1 (internal) cache is enabled in BIOS for performance issues.

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Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series

Posted on 2020-03-09, 15:40

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by appiah4

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In talking performance not dollars earned or market share, I'm not rooting for a company. It's interesting though if their peak market share also occurred when they had undeniably the best product. In terms of performance they had the fastest GPU on the market with the Radeon HD5000 series, HD7000 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-09, 15:35

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devius wrote on 2020-03-09, 15:32: derSammler wrote on 2020-03-09, 12:14: More RAM... You can never have enough RAM 😎 Why can't we ever have 640K RAM? 🙁

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2020-03-06, 14:07

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by appiah4

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This thread is going to make me invest in an EEPROM flasher..

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Re: The Budget 1997 OS/2 Warp PC

Posted on 2020-03-06, 05:42

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This little chip came in the mail the other day and yesterday it went into my Budget 1997 OS/2 build. https://i.postimg.cc/HVn95vtz/Cyrix-6x86-P150-GP-01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/ZCQFLP7S/Cyrix-6x86-P150-GP-02.jpg I got some very noticable gains in DOS. Quake 320x200 went from 27,4fps to 34,1fps (+ …

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Re: CPU Cache disabling software?

Posted on 2020-03-06, 04:44

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by appiah4

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A lot of people try to use L1D argument as a switch ith a forward slash, it is just DOS muscle reflex.

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

Posted on 2020-03-05, 21:01

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by appiah4

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I upgraded the CPU in my DOS/Win95/OS2W3 Socket 7 PC from K5-PR166 to 6x86MX-PR233. Gains were noticable, Quake 320x200 went from 27,4fps to 34,1fps (+24,5%) and Doom went from 74,6fps to 85,4fps (+14,4%). Obviously nowhere near the +40% you'd expect from the PR ratings, but to be honest it has more …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-05, 12:29

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Got this underdog in return for fixing some bent and seperated legs on a friend's Voodoo 2's PPU..

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-05, 06:38

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Little purchase today: 15833610237950.jpg 4x 16MB FP to bump my UMC system up to 64MB so I can run Ultima 7 from ramdrive. Not entirely realistic in terms of what would have been available in the day, but back then had a 386-16 with 4MB RAM and slow ESDI drive and definitely do NOT want to recreate …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-03-05, 06:23

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CuPid wrote on 2020-03-04, 16:31: appiah4 wrote on 2020-03-04, 14:16: Do you need information on AMD K5 or Cyrix 6x86MX processors? in theory the K5 and the 6x86MX should be well supported, but if you have the opportunity to run a test and notice a problem, it is welcome. I will check with both …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-04, 15:42

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Bought this Vibra 16 last week, but it arrived today - https://i.imgur.com/0PwIeeFl.jpg To be honest it was originally a mistaken purchase. By the time I'd noticed my error, I'd already purchased it. But I'm not going to resell it as it will be a nice fit should I ever get around to building a DX4 …

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Re: The Terrible Teenager Vista Build

Posted on 2020-03-04, 14:20

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Almoststew1990 wrote on 2020-03-03, 20:00: I had a choice of a PC or a friggin' car for my 17th Birthday (the age from which people in the UK can learn to drive). I chose the car.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-03-04, 14:16

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by appiah4

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Do you need information on AMD K5 or Cyrix 6x86MX processors?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-03, 14:49

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liqmat wrote on 2020-03-03, 14:09: appiah4 wrote on 2020-03-03, 10:23: Got a few things in the mail today. […] Show full quote Got a few things in the mail today. First is a Quickshot QS201 in pretty good condition. You do realize your joystick is this little guy's cousin? Goose Neck.jpg That's so …

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2020-03-03, 10:24

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by appiah4

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A mint sealed copy of Encarta 98

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-03, 10:23

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by appiah4

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Got a few things in the mail today. First is a Quickshot QS201 in pretty good condition. Second is an IBM 6x86MX PR233 for my Socket 7 video source PC

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-02-29, 13:40

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by appiah4

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I have a PA-2013 so I would be interested indeed.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-28, 14:03

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by appiah4

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I got a QuickShot QS201 joystick in the mail today but it requires a thorough cleaning before I can present it. One of the finest Joystick Port joysticks of its time 😀

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Re: Builds general discussion

Posted on 2020-02-28, 13:47

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by appiah4

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LS245 is not an OPL3 clone it's a Bus Transceiver

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