Search \ VOGONS

Login

Login

Username

Password

2FA token (optional)

Remember me

Hide my online status this session

Lost password
Send activation email

or Create a new account
Create a new account

Common searches

Active topics

Search results

Display options

Re: Why 4K isn't a gimmick -- or why it really is.

Posted on 2019-01-24, 10:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

I find AMD's GPU Scaling option in the driver to be a more than satisfactory way of dealing with upscaling content below the resolution of a fixed resolution panel. That said, I still use a 1080p panel with antialiasing on my RX480 8GB. Given the chance, I would immediately jump ship to a 4K panel …

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-01-24, 07:47

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Kamerat wrote: If your main focus are Windows gaming I think you should go for the Vortex 2 if you only want one sound card. That was my go-to card as well, but CS4624 and CS4630 have replaced it as my single card solutions.. What's your opinion on these?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-24, 06:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice riser. I'm sure you can find a sound card bracket that will fit the breakout board. Speaking of risers.. The guy that sold me the 386 seems to have a Socket 7 motherboard and riser as well. Not sure what computer this one is from, and I sure don't have a horizontal AT/ATX case to house this in …

Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-24, 06:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That was definitely not the APU I was thinking of. At all. 🤣

Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-24, 05:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system.. Probably not a lot different than using an early dual core AMD APU... which, strangely isn't much different than the CPU cores used in current generation consoles. :) That would be amazing considering how much slower it is …

Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-24, 05:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does it have any FSB selection headers? You could wire the Turbo button to that and switch between 66Mhz and say 50MHz, that would let you slow it down from 233MHz to 175MHz, which considering the FSB difference would probably feel more like 133MHz to 150MHz..

Re: Favourite version of Windows?

Posted on 2019-01-24, 04:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

Anyone else fondly recall playing around with Windows Longhorn? I remember enjoying playing around with it a million times more than I enjoyed using Vista, which I used for an entirety of three days at most. I used pretty much every pre-release version of Windows 7 too, and somehow that one had a …

Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-24, 00:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system..

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-24, 00:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, that's the issue.. I already have a Pentium 133 for late DOS stuff and a 486 system that alternates between being a U5SX-33 and a i486DX2-66 (I can't seem to decide) for older DOS stuff, I don't see this system seeing much use for anything other than playing Wing Commander 1 & 2 but the price …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-23, 23:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well.. I never had intention of getting into pre-486 x86 stuff but a seller I bought from once messaged me with photos of new stuff he got hands on, and one of them was a Baby AT 386 motherboard with an AMD chip on it.. I bit.. Along with that I also got an Acer ISA IO controller, a PCI Virge/GX and …

Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-23, 22:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oeuvre wrote: dat deskpro doe As Master Yoda would say, there is another..

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

Posted on 2019-01-23, 14:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Congratulations, you are now in posession of the best Socket A motherboard as far as I am concerned.. (still looking for one myself)

Re: This is my Socket 754 Build

Posted on 2019-01-23, 06:45

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Loving the case! Thanks, it's an Elan Vital T10; one of the better premium cases of its time. The story of my acquisition of it is below, so read on :) ... I stuck to the X1950PRO regardless, as it is the fastest native AGP card there is ... ...Except it isn't. I can even see, in your photo, the …

Re: Voodoo 3 1000 (AGP), is it any good?

Posted on 2019-01-22, 13:45

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

They don't run cool but the passive cooler is adequate for what it does, contrary to popular belief.

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-01-22, 12:25

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

What games (or soundengines of games) do make use of WSS? I am currently thinking about a PCI soundcard for a 3dfx Gaming PC (V5-AGP). The focus is Win9x-Gaming and some dos-compatibilty. Perhaps an OLP3LPT addon possible. For what PCI-soundcard should I go? SBLive? Vortex1, Vortex2, YMH74x, SOlO1 …

Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-22, 12:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These are mine.. I also have a few more Compaq/Dell OEMs at home, but these were conveniently sitting together in a storage cupboard, so I thought why not snap a photo for this thread?

This is my Socket 754 Build

Posted on 2019-01-22, 12:18

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A bit of a backstory.. 2004-2006 is a strange period for me. In 2004 I was running an AthlonXP 2500+ Barton and a Radeon 9800PRO.. However in early 2005 I was drafted into the army, so I sold off my 9800PRO. By the time I was back home a year later I was a lot more interested in the XBOX 360 than I …

Re: Favourite version of Windows?

Posted on 2019-01-22, 11:34

in Milliways

in Milliways

cyclone3d wrote: Ehh, I used XP 64-bit back in the day. It was fine for games and home use once there were drivers for my hardware. I had an ATI card back then, and the driver experience was pretty terrible for me.

Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2019-01-22, 11:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

ALS4000 also supports it I think?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-22, 04:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A really cool DTK QUIN-55D Pentium 133MHz 16MB RAM desktop found in a thrift store. Cleaned it up inside and out... absolute mint condition. https://imgur.com/a/egMlTFd Ahh nice. Pentium 133MHz is such an awesome processor; fast enough for most DOS stuff at SVGA, slow enough for older DOS stuff at …

Page 315 of 450

Go to top of page Go to top of page