Re: best mb from epox, qdi, abit and dfi

Posted on 2019-11-12, 12:23

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NF7-S v2.0 can monitor Thunderbird core temperatures. I like EpoX's boards but in general I don't think their quality was quite as good as ABit's Depends. Epox has one of the best late 440BX motherboards in my opinion - EPOX EP-BX7+100: http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/epox/EP-BX7+100.jpg Also let's not …

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Re: P4 Prescott - fitting mobo for legacy win98/v5 5500 agp machine

Posted on 2019-11-12, 11:09

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Too problematic. Easier to get Athlon XP 3000+ with KT333. Alternatively you can just buy AGP-to-PCI adapter and use any Pentium 4 board you like.

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Re: Ati Radeon - 128X Anisotropic Filtering

Posted on 2019-11-09, 08:57

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

128mb radeon 8500 exists but they are expensive. Radeon 9100 - cheap 8500LE, sometimes comes with 128mb FireGL 8800 - Radeon 8500 128mb, easily obtainable from ebay, but problematic with 9x drivers.

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Re: Ati Radeon - 128X Anisotropic Filtering

Posted on 2019-11-09, 04:43

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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What the driver is doing though I don't know So it's really forced negative LOD.

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Re: Ati Radeon - 128X Anisotropic Filtering

Posted on 2019-11-09, 04:38

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by The Serpent Rider

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Blood rendering is just a game bug most likely. From what I see, "128x АF" just forces negative LOD with 16x filtering, which can be tweaked on any card via game settings.

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Re: Why does PhilsComputerLab disables all but 1 core on his XP gaming builds?

Posted on 2019-11-07, 22:52

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are ways to force application to work on one thread, so there's no point in disabling cores.

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-11-05, 16:59

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ Sound

Interesting project. Looking forward to buy one, if it's affordable.

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Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-11-05, 11:04

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ Video

S3Tweak 1.16.

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Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-11-05, 02:35

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

For example, GLQuake drops from 71.1 fps to 59.9; Quake III drops from 19.6 fps to 17.5 fps; Unreal drops from 20.7 fps to 17.4 fps; Turok2 from 29.3 fps to 23.1 fps; the Quake 2 score did not drop. Good to know that at least early Radeon 7500/8500 drivers are somewhat decent. Now I need to test …

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Re: NexGen NX586 PF110 PCI Motherboard, Video card post issues

Posted on 2019-11-03, 08:49

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would like to add that the 6200 PCI and especially the 6200A (NV44) PCI variants are - even if you get the "max" out of them - heavily limited by the PCI bus and only reach about the same performance as a GF4MX440. That's not true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_T6bSoclM

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Re: Asus P/I-P55 - How many versions are there and which one is best?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 08:35

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Personally I'd say that applies particularly to their P4 boards. Both P4C800 and P4P800 are considered overclocking standards. Overall, ASUS socket 7 had good quality and feature set for it's time.

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-01, 10:58

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by The Serpent Rider

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What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time? Panic, lots of panic. Drink heavily.

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Re: NexGen NX586 PF110 PCI Motherboard, Video card post issues

Posted on 2019-11-01, 03:14

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gainward Dragon. 110mhz memory does not guarantee that chips will work on such high frequency, even with sufficient cooling.

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Re: best mb from epox, qdi, abit and dfi

Posted on 2019-10-31, 18:21

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nforce 2 has Windows 98 support, but not DOS friendly.

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Re: best mb from epox, qdi, abit and dfi

Posted on 2019-10-31, 18:14

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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That vacuum tube amplifier looks ridiculous Even more ridiculous is the fact that it's used on a cheap Realtek codec. It seems DFI it's not really liked around here. DFI had a few interesting boards in the 90s, but their real fame was started with the LanParty series based on Nforce 2 and i875P …

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Re: best mb from epox, qdi, abit and dfi

Posted on 2019-10-31, 16:50

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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AOpen had many interesting boards. Quite a lot of them are considered top tier.

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Re: Is there anybody left on this forum that still has an AM5x86 that will do 200mhz?

Posted on 2019-10-30, 18:33

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Overall it's pointless to recreate 486 CPUs, because they are not very flexible and has many much better alternatives. And technically we still have stuff like IDT WinChip, which is the beefed up 486DX, performance wise.

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Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-10-30, 12:42

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ Video

If you want to see my adventure with testing PCI graphics cards and settling on the Radeon 7000, Your system is beefy enough to bypass driver bottlenecks. Which isn't the case here. Final legacy driver is also horrible idea for pre-Pentium II processor.

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Re: Overheating Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2019-10-30, 08:28

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by The Serpent Rider

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in Marvin \ Video

All Voodoo 3 should work with original passive cooling. Including Voodoo 3 3500.

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Re: Pentium 2 VS 3 for period accurate win98 build?

Posted on 2019-10-29, 18:37

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by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Oh, I have this inverted case too. They sure didn't cut corners on thickness of metal parts.

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