I think after watching these videos and taking in all the other input, I may try three approaches instead of two: a 128-bit FX card, one of the better 64-bit Zotac offerings, as well as one of the in-between offerings, such as the 9500 GT with 128-bit bus, then benchmark them against games of …

Ah, this is getting interesting! Thanks as always to everyone for the continued input. What I'm taking away at this point are basically "duh" facts: performance from a PCI card is ultimately going to come down to its memory bandwidth and its architecture, in the context of which version of DirectX a …

Lots of good information here and in the supplied threads -- thanks, all! Interesting to see the 128bit lines of Quadro FX600 and the FX5200 / 5500 / 5600 have all been used for similar benchmarks and some gaming, which is on par with what I was looking for. ... My question for you is, do you want a …

...what I want to use this HP for: period-appropriate gaming (so no games past 2006 / Vista release date... 2006 might be pushing it a little, since DOOM 3 and Half-Life 2 were already old games, and most games were requiring pixel shader 2.0 or 3.0 support by then. I'm no expert on hardware, but …

I won't try to comment on the ATI cards, but for NVidia: ... Given how you've described the machine, does it have full height slots, or are they low profile? I suppose most if not all of these cards ought to support a low profile bracket, but remember to pay attention to that if you need it. If you …

mzry wrote: Here is a video of me removing the heat sinks off my v5 using freeze spray. It is surprisingly easy. https://youtu.be/5hB4jOCHLHc Actually, yours is the one I saved in my Watch Later list a couple weeks back, haha! If I go about doing it, it'll likely be this way. 😀

If you are after accelerated video decoding/rendering on your old system with the help of a PCI GPU, sure, you can find these modern PCI-E to PCI bridged ones to be pretty functional. However, don't try to game on them(just a friendly advice). I ended up wasting months trying something similar. If …

With the advent of AGP 8x and PCIe during Windows XP's lifespan, I can't imagine many good standard PCI graphics cards came out. But I've got an old Pentium 4 HP computer from the late XP era that's a horizontal form-factor and only has standard PCI slots that I'd like to modify for fun, and I …

Capacitor aging probably. They're passive components used for filtering and function based on a time constant. It's taking time for the noise to show up and grows worse. The time constants have changed from heat and component aging so the filter performs worse. The LVDS signal to the TFT panel is …

Basically like the title says, I have a Hyundai ImageQuest L90D+ LCD monitor that has an issue with artifacts. I've owned the monitor since 2006, love the snot out of it, and used it regularly until 2012, when the artifact issue came up. Specs can be found here . What happens is when the monitor is …

I know this thread is old, and there are others like it from the time, but I wanted to resurrect it (if that's okay) anyway. When I was single-digit age in the 90s, we had four computers I can remember fairly well: a Packard Bell (tower) with a Pentium 75 that came with Win95 out of the box, a …

I replaced the heatsinks and fans on my two Voodoo 5 cards. When I did so, I used thermal epoxy. Yeah, I know, it's a sin. But, these cards are for my personal enjoyment and I never plan to sell them. To me, keeping them running as long as possible is my goal, so I used high quality thermal epoxy, …

As far as i know 3dfx almost chose to passively cool them so that's probably why the coolers are so small, they don't need a lot of cooling. By fiddling with the coolers i'm always afraid that something goes wrong as the coolers are indeed glued on. I think by simply adding a good and big system …

I have a functioning Voodoo 5 5500 with the original HSFs. Both fans work, and the card still performs phenomenally with no apparent temperature issues. But the card is nearing twenty years old, and I know for fact the compound has never been changed out since the heatsinks are still attached with …