Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use
Posted on 2020-01-19, 14:50
Windows 95 OSR2 should be snappy enough with SSD.
Re: AMD AM486DX4-100SV8B and AM486DX2-66: Interesting observation
Posted on 2020-01-19, 14:43
I found another old thread with similar discussion, which never took off: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=34054 To summarize so far: All 25544 - 350nm, 16Kb WB L1 cache, 2x/3x or 3x/4x multiplier. All 25220 - the original N8VT, 700nm, hybrid 5v/3v core. All 25253 or higher - 486DX4 with 2x/3x …
Re: Pentium III-S 1400MHz cooling with no IHS
Posted on 2020-01-19, 13:04
cooling without a IHS is better than with an IHs It doesn't matter for Tualatin though. TDP is too low.
Re: Best video card to pair with a 133mhz system from 1996?
Posted on 2020-01-18, 20:47
Riva 128, Riva TNT/TNT2, GeForce 2 MX, S3 Savage 4.
Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?
Posted on 2020-01-18, 20:08
Used small capacity Transcend/Apacer/InnoDisk DOMs are perfectly fine. And there's plenty of those circulating as new old stock too.
Re: Should I Upgrade from Celeron to Pentium 3?
Posted on 2020-01-18, 20:01
Are Intel CPUs as fragile? If you worry about the damage, buy thin silicon pads or make pads from paper (multiple paper strips glued together). Place them around the crystal and you're good to go.
Re: Best video card to pair with a 133mhz system from 1996?
Posted on 2020-01-18, 19:45
Voodoo 1 is not a video card.
Re: Futuremark has released all their old benchmarks for free
Posted on 2020-01-18, 19:08
Well, I did not know that. Am I the only one? Well, pirated versions were circulating for decades now, so who cares =P
Re: Futuremark has released all their old benchmarks for free
Posted on 2020-01-18, 13:43
Actually most of these benchmarks were made free long before 2017. 3DMark Vantage was added to the legacy page in 2017.
Re: Colours problem ISA Graphics
Posted on 2020-01-18, 13:19
Apparently Acumos AVGA2/Cirrus Logic 5402 aren't very stable cards to begin with, because they had to rely on motherboard oscillator, which can cause problems. I think underclocking your system to 33 or 25 Mhz could help.
Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?
Posted on 2020-01-18, 11:34
I haven't found a single better option then those DOMs. They are reliable, fast enough for all machines from that age and cheap. 32Gb SSD DOM is not meant for 286/386 machine, they work absolutely fine with SD/CF cards or small DOMs from Transcend, InnoDisk and etc. And for late 486 and newer, …
Re: Best video card/cpu combo to play Blood (1997) in 800x600
Posted on 2020-01-17, 20:05
"Playable" probably means you got 20 fps or so You can't get only 20fps on high end Athlon XP or Pentium 4 3Ghz+, that's Pentium 3 Coppermine +/- 1Ghz level.
Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use
Posted on 2020-01-17, 18:53
Unless you put a PODP5V-133 in. But at that point you're better off with a common Socket 7 board. Which is also much easier on your wallet this days, compared to average PODP prices.
Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use
Posted on 2020-01-17, 15:25
I had a socket 4 system once upon a time and it would play anything a 486DX could. Yes, but 486DX4-160Mhz is better for stuff like Doom or Duke3D.
Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use
Posted on 2020-01-17, 15:14
Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use None. Socket 4 stuck in a weird limbo, where it's not useful for old stuff, like top-tier 486, but still suck for later 3D titles.
Re: LGA 775 CPU compatibility
Posted on 2020-01-17, 10:29
That's motherboard manufacturer specific quirks, not Nvidia.
Re: Is ebay the best place to get hardware?
Posted on 2020-01-17, 06:46
imi wrote: I have noticed that less and less people are offering paypal lately, apparently there has been some change that made this possible. That's probably due to that reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPXhzgC2ODs
Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?
Posted on 2020-01-17, 03:16
In conclusion: Speed difference between a full drive and an empty drive is measurable but not noticeable Sorry, but no. Your tests don't show anything specific. You need to torture SSD with small random writes, to measure how the TRIM works. And then again, you're heavily limited by ATA interface. …
Re: Best video card/cpu combo to play Blood (1997) in 800x600
Posted on 2020-01-17, 03:07
^^ are you running under pure DOS or Win9x? DOS mode from Windows 98 SE. Also, I was testing Duke3D but AFAIK Blood should be similar. Blood is noticeably heavier than Duke3D.
Re: Best video card/cpu combo to play Blood (1997) in 800x600
Posted on 2020-01-17, 02:40
I needed a 3GHz P4 just to get 30 FPS at 1280x1024 (and still sub-20 at 1600x1200.) There's something wrong with your setup. I can get Blood playable at 1600x1200 on overclocked Athlon XP + KT333. Although not 60fps stable.
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