Re: Entirely questionable Digital Trends article: "The 5 worst Nvidia GPUs, ranked".
Posted on 2022-12-01, 17:50
Where is the entire FX line?
Re: Best Windows 95 Version For 486 66MHz
Posted on 2022-12-01, 14:45
I would stick with DOS/WFW 3.11 as well. I run Win95 on my Cyrix 5x86 system with 32MB of ram, and 256k of cache. This is my only 486 atm. I previously had a DX4-100 CPU in there, it was acceptable for Wind0ws 95 but that would probably be my limit.
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-18, 14:09
appiah4 wrote on 2022-11-18, 06:00: Jasin Natael wrote on 2022-11-17, 14:52: Kind of funny as that is exactly what 3dfx set out to do with the VSA, wildly different technology of course. But still interesting to note. It's not even remotely the same thing IMO.. It certainly isn't technically …
Re: Your ultimate retro system
Posted on 2022-11-17, 22:15
Probably my Super 7 system. It's basically what I wished my PC Chips socket 7 system was when I was a teenager. Pretty middling even then, but I was poor and didn't care, lol. Tekram P5MVP-B4 512MB PC133 Cl2 AMD K6-3+ 450mhz @616mhz SB16 - ISA/Aureal Vortex2 PCI Voodoo 3 3000 usually(Currently a …
Re: Rise CPU Aiming For The Stars!
Posted on 2022-11-17, 22:01
lukas12p wrote on 2022-11-11, 23:19: Rise 200 MHz (2x100), MVP3 2MB, GF2GTS Awesome. Requisite: "it has begun...."
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-17, 15:47
Is a 1000W space heater much more likely to fail than a 500W space heater? In theory - no. In practice, corner cutting is bound to happen, that's why VRM failures with severe damage on modern video cards occur much more often. Kind of funny as that is exactly what 3dfx set out to do with the VSA, …
Re: Games don't feel as exciting as they used to
Posted on 2022-11-17, 14:56
I don't like the hand holding that modern games have. The "click this button when enemy x does 'this' attack" I takes me out of the real time experience for some reason. it is much the same reason that I can't stand turn based combat games. I just don't enjoy them. I find it to be an abstraction to …
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-17, 14:52
If their non monolithic chiplet design proves as fruitful as it has with their Zen chips.....it is more than possible. Maybe even probable. Monolithic chiplet design?.. "non-monolithic" chiplet design :-) Yes, NON monolithic. If they can make their future chips "scalable" by simpling adding more …
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-17, 02:19
I dont blame anyone who is willing to pay the asking price. I spent most of my early life unable to afford ANY computer parts and everything I had were hand me downs from friends. I got my first sound blaster in 94 for christmas which was a huge deal for me and ran that 386DX-25 all the way until …
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-17, 02:13
I.e.: nVIDIA had a 6-month product cycle back then, which is probably impossible to do now with modern GPUs It is impossible due to very simple thing - back then Nvidia were as fast as die-shrinking of their successful chips could be physically possible. TNT2 was not a new chip. GeForce 2 was not a …
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-16, 14:06
In what world does 4080 and reasonable go in the same sentence? the 3090Ti is basically a travesty of a card that had no appeal whatsoever at its absurd price point for any buyer with an ounce of common sense. Being slightly better than pure shit is hardly anything to write home about. 7900XTX will …
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-15, 21:45
But hey, 4080 is a solid 3090 Ti killer... for a small fee of 1200$ (actually 150-250$ higher due to demand). Yeah 4080 appears to be way more reasonable. Also doesn't appear to be nearly as power hungry or hot. I am guessing that they are leaving themselves plenty of room to slot in a 4080ti …
Re: Rarest CPUs?
Posted on 2022-11-15, 18:33
It would be so cool to one day get a new cpu for socket 7. I suspect that with advances in fpga we may one day get just that. Technically the last socket 7 cpu was a intel product though. It was never sold, more of a science experiment. And it ran at 50mhz I believe, but it was a modified intel …
Re: Rarest CPUs?
Posted on 2022-11-15, 17:17
There was a lot of life left in architecture, CPU wise anyway. But Intel wanted to get off the Socket 7 platform. Which is a shame.
Re: Should I get a Pentium 1 laptop?
Posted on 2022-11-15, 14:29
I like retro laptops. I have like 11 of them, ranging from the Pentium MMX to Pentium M. But maybe I am the odd man out in this regard. You are not alone, mate. For reasons of space saving I collect almost exclusively laptops. In my humble opinion collection of desktops simply doesn't fit a human …
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-15, 14:08
No, no! Don't blame the engineers! This has "Jensen" written all over it. :) He just wanted to ensure that Ada Lovelace comes out on top no matter what. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that pushing these cards to their absolute limit will inevitably have unpredictable consequences …
Re: your last purchased retro graphics card or any of your collection
Posted on 2022-11-14, 22:42
A Cyrix MII 266GP , an nVidia Geforce 2 GTS, and a Athlon Thunderbird 1400c The last retro stuff that I bought.
Re: AMD K6-2/450 Fan?
Posted on 2022-11-14, 22:03
Some OEMs did use the "power supply with shroud as fan" method with some of the K6 line. It was adequately if barely. I would suggest a regular heatsink/fan if possible. It won't even require a large one. I usually opt for positive pressure airflow, intake front and exhaust at the rear. But …
Re: Nvidia adaptergate
Posted on 2022-11-14, 21:59
[...] it is obvious that there was neglect in the development on the part of some engineers who should be much more capable than the users who are encountering the problem [...] No, no! Don't blame the engineers! This has "Jensen" written all over it. :) He just wanted to ensure that Ada Lovelace …
Re: AMD K6-2 (not +) - any real difference between 400-550MHz?
Posted on 2022-11-14, 21:54
I upgraded from a k6-2 500 to a Duron 700? 750? I can't recall, but it was from a mega cheap PC Chips board with the K6, to another mega cheap Biostar board for the Duron. It was a night and day difference. K6-2 chips by my experience were great for what they were, but did not scale well past about …
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