Re: Do Tualatin core CPUs burn out without a heatsink on?

Posted on 2021-01-01, 10:17

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by The Serpent Rider

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PIII overheat protection relies on how fast motherboard can react to temperature increase. Exposed cores have higher chance of frying, especially the ones with higher TDP. Tualatin has IHS combined with lower TDP, so motherboard has enough time to react.

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Re: When did you purchase your first 386 / 486 Computer? Availability vs the early 90's affordability norm.

Posted on 2020-12-31, 22:56

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by The Serpent Rider

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But I sometimes still like to think that my current modern rig is in some way still just an upgraded version of that old P100 grinning face Ship of Theseus much?

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Re: AWE64 or Audigy 2 ZS for 98/Pure DOS Mode?

Posted on 2020-12-31, 19:59

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by The Serpent Rider

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The Audigy 2 uses the 3rd generation EMU chip Not really. Audigy 2 is just a mild revision of 2rd gen EMU chip aka EMU10K2. Hence why Audigy DOS drivers can work fine on Audigy 2 family - it's the same chip.

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Re: AWE64 or Audigy 2 ZS for 98/Pure DOS Mode?

Posted on 2020-12-31, 09:10

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by The Serpent Rider

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Also is there something that the AWE64 offers that I would not get out of an Audigy 2 ZS? Better FM music, although not ideal too.

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Re: GDDR SDRAM vs DDR SGRAM mobile Radeon 9000 BGA memory replacement; Inspiron 8100 (edit: seems to be interchangeable)

Posted on 2020-12-31, 08:53

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by The Serpent Rider

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I set the preheater too high while replacing chips on the top layer and one of the bottom memory chips "desoldered" a bit, I gave it a quick reflow because I'm getting impatient with this board, and now I have good image in Windows... let's do some benchmarks Interesting. That probably means they …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2020-12-30, 10:07

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by The Serpent Rider

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Could be fake.

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2020-12-29, 20:37

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by The Serpent Rider

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Basically: trying to play SystemShock2 on a Nvidia GTX780Ti.... problems solvable or just forget it ? GOG release or fanmade patches. GOG release is preferable.

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Re: Do Geforce4 & Geforce FX cards support VBE 3.0 tools like UniRefresh & VBEHz?

Posted on 2020-12-28, 03:10

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by The Serpent Rider

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Never had problems with GeForce 4 and GeForce FX cards. Maybe some specific cards have problems due to non-standard Nvidia BIOS, but not in general.

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Re: MiniGL - when is it needed?

Posted on 2020-12-28, 01:10

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by The Serpent Rider

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Scan lines are irrelevant, because V2 is working with Vsyns on by default.

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Re: MiniGL - when is it needed?

Posted on 2020-12-27, 23:00

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by The Serpent Rider

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- Washed out gamma - Particle filtering - Mipmaps are more blurry

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2020-12-27, 22:49

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by The Serpent Rider

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Boils down to how many people are aware of them. And well, some Itanium CPUs are rare, but you don't see any noticeable hunt for them, since they all useless apart from servers.

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Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory

Posted on 2020-12-27, 22:44

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by The Serpent Rider

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P35 is strictly 16x PCI-E, while P45 can be configured as 8x/8x.

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Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory

Posted on 2020-12-27, 20:52

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by The Serpent Rider

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These are early pre-2010 chips DDR2 memory was mostly dropped after 2010, so there are no innovations or more mature revisions.

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Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory

Posted on 2020-12-27, 19:53

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by The Serpent Rider

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DDR2 800 6-6-6 memory Oh, can they work at 5-5-5-15 at least?

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Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory

Posted on 2020-12-27, 19:08

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by The Serpent Rider

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Which chips?

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Re: My Voodoo Conundrum, What Voodoo with what gear?

Posted on 2020-12-27, 16:35

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by The Serpent Rider

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- the Pentium Pro should go nicely with a Banshee (it's a nice pair IMO: the slowest CPU with the slowest 3dfx card out of the three). That would require AGP-to-PCI adapter.

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Re: My Voodoo Conundrum, What Voodoo with what gear?

Posted on 2020-12-27, 14:28

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by The Serpent Rider

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- I know the Pentium pro voodoo2 mix isn't right, And so what? Pentium Pro predates common desktop 3D acceleration solutions, including S3 Virge. Although Pentium Pro is anyway redundant with your options.

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Re: MiniGL - when is it needed?

Posted on 2020-12-27, 12:42

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by The Serpent Rider

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Are there other visual differences between the two options besides this? Particles are filtered differently.

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Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory

Posted on 2020-12-27, 09:09

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by The Serpent Rider

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If you want I'm happy to provide photo evidence... Which is not evidence of working 4 Gb modules though. I haven't tried overclocking though. ECC memory rarely used chips with good overclocking or low timings. So even if you can find cheap, available and compatible DDR2 ECC modules, which is …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2020-12-27, 08:58

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by The Serpent Rider

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As for the other claim, I think it's a bit of a stretch to call purchasing 20 year old CPUs with the intent of selling them Why not? Some guys did that with Voodoo 2 and Savage 4 new old stock and few other things, which were sold on ebay for ever growing price. They've scalped local store, which …

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