Re: Clock Speed + Memory Size vs. Memory Bus Width

Posted on 2019-01-10, 14:42

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by Baoran

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I think tnt2 m64 and rage 128 are quite close in actual performance. Both are only bit faster than original TNT. From what I can see online people generally didn't like rage 128 cards but it wasn't because of of performance, it was because many people seemed to have directx issues with the card. …

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Re: Removing windows xp boot menu.

Posted on 2019-01-10, 03:04

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by Baoran

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fdisk /mbr was the first thing I did try in win98 after the installation failed, but that did nothing to the boot menu. I'll try to check out if using sys command will work.

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Re: Best IDE/PATA DVD Burner Drive?

Posted on 2019-01-09, 21:46

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by Baoran

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I have px-708A in one my retro PCs and I have not noticed any problems with reading any disks I have burned with my main PC or any original games I have.

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Gpu ram thermal pads/thermal paste.

Posted on 2019-01-09, 15:58

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by Baoran

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I was thinking of putting some new thermal paste and get some thermal pads for one of my gpus and I took the backplate off to see what size thermal pads I would need. backplate1.jpg I was bit surprised. It looks like the ram chips have both thermal pads and thermal paste on them. Is this normal? Do …

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Re: Is this an interesting graphics card

Posted on 2019-01-09, 15:49

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by Baoran

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Do they even use any agp features or is the agp interface just for show like with voodoo 3 cards? They do. And even AGP "just for show" at the very least doubles the bandwidth over PCI. I guess that would make them bad even for slow super socket 7 platforms since you would be facing the agp bugs?

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Re: Randomly scanned old hardware ads from 1987-2002

Posted on 2019-01-09, 15:08

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by Baoran

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Main problem is that I have no idea about value of that specific currency from the time of these ads.

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Re: Is this an interesting graphics card

Posted on 2019-01-09, 12:45

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by Baoran

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In many reviews they were called workstation cards. They say things like: "3Dlabs reoriented new Permedia to a "workstation" product with gaming abilities and remained silent about consumer market ambitions ever since." Context please. I wrote that about Permedia 3. Sorry about that. I was doing …

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Re: Suitable NVidea card for Pentium 4 rig?

Posted on 2019-01-09, 12:41

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by Baoran

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6800gt or 6800xt with pci express seems to reasonably cheap on ebay. People often talk about the features 6000 series dropped that older games used, but there is very limited number of games that use those. You need pci express and want nvidia, so 6000 series is probably the way to go.

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI cooling situation.

Posted on 2019-01-08, 23:44

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by Baoran

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I wouldn't touch the stuff without having anti static wrist strap, so that is not a problem. I just wondered if there was real reason not to touch them like for example they don't like the finger prints that people leave behind or something. The oil from your skin can be adsorbed by the chip. How …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI cooling situation.

Posted on 2019-01-08, 23:15

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by Baoran

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Why not? It is bit difficult to try measuring temperature between cards otherwise when they don't have any temperature sensors. Laser Thermometer is what you want. Very cheap these days. I actually thought about buying one, but wouldn't it be difficult to aim at the chips in tight spaces between …

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Re: Suitable NVidea card for Pentium 4 rig?

Posted on 2019-01-08, 23:09

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by Baoran

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Last official win98 drivers are for the 6000 series on nvidia cards, but there are unofficial drivers that are for 7000 series of nvidia cards. If you want to run win98 those are the latest cards you can use. The optimal card would depend on what games you want to run. If you care about early win9x …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI cooling situation.

Posted on 2019-01-08, 22:52

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by Baoran

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I wouldn't touch the stuff without having anti static wrist strap, so that is not a problem. I just wondered if there was real reason not to touch them like for example they don't like the finger prints that people leave behind or something.

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Re: were/are the Voodoo 4 and 5 even worth owning?

Posted on 2019-01-08, 21:45

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by Baoran

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That is one question I have had for a while too. Do glide games even exist that would need faster voodoo card to run at good frame rates? What would be the fastest voodoo card you would actually need for a glide game? Depends on the game and resolution. But once you want to run higher than 1024x768 …

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Re: Randomly scanned old hardware ads from 1987-2002

Posted on 2019-01-08, 21:20

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by Baoran

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It kind of works other way around too. There isn't point putting text in an international forums that is in language that is only spoken by 0.3% of the people and you can't even copy/paste it to google translator. I would not try putting any Finnish stuff here either. I suppose there is some parts …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI cooling situation.

Posted on 2019-01-08, 21:06

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by Baoran

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The 2 case fans arrived today. I think they made a difference because I can hold my finger on the voodoo2 chips without burning my finger while running 3dmark01se. You shouldn't touch a chip, and definitely not wile its running. Why not? It is bit difficult to try measuring temperature between …

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Re: were/are the Voodoo 4 and 5 even worth owning?

Posted on 2019-01-08, 20:37

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by Baoran

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That is one question I have had for a while too. Do glide games even exist that would need faster voodoo card to run at good frame rates? What would be the fastest voodoo card you would actually need for a glide game?

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Re: Is this an interesting graphics card

Posted on 2019-01-08, 18:50

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by Baoran

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In many reviews they were called workstation cards. They say things like: "3Dlabs reoriented new Permedia to a "workstation" product with gaming abilities and remained silent about consumer market ambitions ever since."

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI cooling situation.

Posted on 2019-01-08, 18:15

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by Baoran

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The 2 case fans arrived today. I think they made a difference because I can hold my finger on the voodoo2 chips without burning my finger while running 3dmark01se.

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Re: "New" USB mouse vs. Every 90's PS/2 mouse I have ever owned.

Posted on 2019-01-08, 17:47

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by Baoran

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Interested in how does the USB mouse feel using a ps2 adapter? I'm not going anywhere with this, just curious to see if it seems like the lag returns or not. If you mean those basic usb/ps2 adapters. I don't think they change anything because they require that the usb mouse supports ps/2 protocol …

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Re: Is this an interesting graphics card

Posted on 2019-01-08, 14:33

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by Baoran

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I think I have that card. I have not tested it, but I think it is a standard 8mb permedia 2 card. You can find permedia 2 reviews online easily. Workstation card, but you could consider It a voodoo 1 competitor mostly and came out betweeen voodoo 1 and voodoo 2. http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/ …

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