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Re: Fastest/Best Pentium 4?

Posted on 2023-01-13, 07:24

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even simpler - Pentium 4 Extreme. Good luck finding it for a decent price =P

Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-12, 11:36

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

ZIPTIES 🤣

Re: Voodoo 5 Horizontal Banding

Posted on 2023-01-12, 00:01

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Interesting, so it seems different approach to SLI is not exclusive to 1600x1200 resolution and relies on how VSA100 can efficiently divide vertical resolution.

Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-11, 20:06

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

dr.zeissler wrote on 2023-01-11, 18:26: This is how it looks like. You'll just ruin it eventually.

Re: Memories of Win 8.1 as it goes EOL

Posted on 2023-01-11, 17:22

by The Serpent Rider

in Milliways

Just use Everything.

Re: Memories of Win 8.1 as it goes EOL

Posted on 2023-01-11, 16:59

by The Serpent Rider

in Milliways

Windows 7/8.1 support from Steam will most likely end very soon, due to Chromium integration, which will end support in February.

Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-11, 16:43

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Passive GF3 Ti200 is a bad idea, unless it's a large third party heatsink.

Re: Voodoo 5 Horizontal Banding

Posted on 2023-01-11, 09:32

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

It is interesting though. You literally can see how VSA100 renders the image in SLI mode. Might be worth to document it. Can you test if 1600x1200 looks any different?

Re: Voodoo 5 Horizontal Banding

Posted on 2023-01-09, 08:20

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ Video

Yep, that's a SLI issue.

Re: What's Would Be the Best RAM (MAKE/MODEL) For a WinXP System?

Posted on 2023-01-07, 14:21

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never went for brand names, only for specs. And when it comes to overclocking (RAM) I remember reviews in magazines from the DDR-era where the 'overclocker-modules' where no better than NoName. Today DDR-modules are so cheap that you can buy a box full and test them "NoName" usually used bottom …

Re: What's Would Be the Best RAM (MAKE/MODEL) For a WinXP System?

Posted on 2023-01-07, 09:45

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If it works stable 2.5-3-2-6 - 100% Infineon CE.

Re: What's Would Be the Best RAM (MAKE/MODEL) For a WinXP System?

Posted on 2023-01-06, 15:44

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you need 2 Gb - any brand that made overclocking modules on Infineon BE/CE chips and explicitly state that it works with CL2 timings. If you want high FSB overclocking - consider Samsung UCCC/LCCC (original modules).

Re: Voodoo 1 on very fast machine?

Posted on 2023-01-05, 15:14

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think it boils down to inherent instability of Voodooo 1 on default clock which cannot be triggered on slow system. If you lower Voodoo clocks speed, it may potentially fix this issue.

Re: Quad Pentium III computer, what can it do in 2022

Posted on 2023-01-05, 03:00

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also, how transparent and responsive a dual system felt, compared to a faster single cpu system was awesome. That's mostly not because dual system was better, but due to lack of limiters for CPU usage. Well, games had Vsync at least.

Re: Compact Flash Longevity

Posted on 2023-01-05, 02:26

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone ever verify that they got TRIM to work on their CF? Anyone ever see UDMA Mode 7 on a PC? TRIM is a part of ATA commands and can be initiated in DOS (Rudolph R. Loew utility). UDMA Mode 7 can be replicated by SATAII in compatible mode. Why would you need to use slow as fungus CF card on …

Re: Fastest/Best Pentium 4?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 16:22

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There was a speculation, that P4 always had SMP in mind and Willamette is also a crippled HT CPU, because surprize-suprize - 180nm Xeon Foster MP has HT! And regular Foster Xeon is 1-to-1 Willamette with different PGA.

Re: Fastest/Best Pentium 4?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 14:35

by The Serpent Rider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium 4 671/Pentium D 960. Both HT and multi-core can be disabled by many motherboards. Trying to find one without these features is pointless due to that.