Re: advice for mid-2000s winXP build

Posted on 2021-01-13, 00:55

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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The XP era is pretty accommodating. You can go overkill with sandy bridge/haswell system (or even faster) and later era graphics. You can do period correct which seems to be where you are going. You can also aim for early XP which has its own set of considerations. An XP build makes a lot of sense. …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-12, 21:55

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@mockingbird: AMD has some severe ups and downs. I was extremely happy with my Athlon XP and Athlon 64 back in the day. But their Phenom processors shit the bed so horribly, I didn't even think about AMD as a purchasing option until the goodwill towards the Ryzen 3's became too overwhelming to …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-12, 18:15

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just amd sells their doubled cores at the price of xeons AMD abandoned the two ALUs for one FPU design with Zen. The weakness of Zen processors is the infinity fabric which connects each of the chiplets. When properly fed they are stronger than intel xeon in IPC and roughly similar in clock speed, …

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Re: Intel smashes Ryzen

Posted on 2021-01-12, 16:58

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That isn't very impressive, honestly. Gaming performance is highly thread bound. A marginal victory in gaming might be enough to get gamers to buy the CPU, but it won't help their HEDT or enterprise segments at all.

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Re: 440BX AGP experts, let's settle this once and for all.

Posted on 2021-01-11, 19:04

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by mothergoose729

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Agreed. We can find many scenarios that don't fit my generalization. I also find this thread a bit irrational, but considering the spirit of VOGONS, which is all about irrationality (the most positive meaning of it), then irrational + irrational = irrational, everything fits right in. :D If I need …

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Re: VRAM Win98

Posted on 2021-01-11, 04:52

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If you are going to dual boot windows XP than the extra 128mb of graphics RAM might help for some later games. Certainly the higher core clock and memory clock in the 5950 ultra will help as well. For any game you run in windows 98 it just won't matter at all. 5950 ultra and a 4200ti are going to …

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Re: What video card should I pair with a Pentium MMX?

Posted on 2021-01-09, 07:46

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I got about 185 fps in quake III 1024x768 on the AMD machine, and I think I got about 220fps on the Intel machine. Both your scores in Quake 3 are low, so you are probably facing a bottleneck / driver issue. With a fast video card you should see 400+ FPS in Quake 3 at lower resolutions. As for heat …

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Re: What video card should I pair with a Pentium MMX?

Posted on 2021-01-09, 06:37

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I have a socket 754 machine and a socket 478 machine. Both are completely overkill, and work great in windows 98, but my intel machine performs better and it was a lot easier to find drivers. What are the actual specs of the two PCs? In my experience, unless we are talking about an apples to …

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Re: What video card should I pair with a Pentium MMX?

Posted on 2021-01-09, 06:03

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Looks like I'm stuck with one of those options. Voodoo prices make me uneasy though. I don't want to put up that much money, at least not right now. On top of that I could easily get a new motherboard, faster CPU, and a decent video card for around the same price some of these things are going. I …

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Re: Increased view distance games list

Posted on 2021-01-07, 18:13

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Elderscrolls III: Morrowind - OpenMW or Code Patch + MGXE https://openmw.org/downloads/ https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/41102

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Re: Need advice on Hard Drive for Pentium 3 Build

Posted on 2021-01-07, 18:10

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kolderman wrote on 2021-01-06, 21:17: 120GB SSD is the gold standard for Win98 builds IMO, using an IDE/SATA adapter. That is what I use! With DMA and proper alignment you can fully saturate whatever bus you have.

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Re: A good cheap no frills handheld emulator with SD slot.

Posted on 2021-01-06, 18:30

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Any smart phone on a controller mount will probably work. You aren't asking for a whole lot. I have a GPD X D and I like it quite a bit.

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Re: Motherboard for Coppermine Pentium III 600MHz

Posted on 2021-01-06, 17:36

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Coppermine CPUs are not compatible with slot 1 without a slotket adapter. I don't really see the point in getting a pricier slot 1 board if you know for sure you are going to use that particular CPU. A socket 370 board with an ISA slot will work just as well. A pentium III can be made to run at …

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Re: What video card should I pair with a Pentium MMX?

Posted on 2021-01-06, 05:11

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A voodoo 1 or voodoo 2 is easily the best match for such a system. If you are more interested in early 3d games then I would recommend just getting a faster platform. A pentium MMX is good for DOS because it has so many degrees of speed stepping. For early 3d, it will do ok up through maybe 1997, …

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Re: I overclocked my monitor from 60 Hz to 80 Hz, but can't tell the difference in games

Posted on 2021-01-06, 04:52

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I don't think high refresh rate is all that important. I can see the difference between 60 frames and 120 frames on my TV, sure, and there is not reason not to use a higher refresh rate if it doesn't cost you anything. That said, I think a lot of modern gamers get high refresh rate confused with low …

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Re: Which old x86 config would compete with the PS2?

Posted on 2021-01-05, 19:16

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If you want to read more, he has several other articles about the PS2, how some games utilized the hardware, and stuff like that. Most of what I kinda of know about the PS2 I learned from reading his posts.

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Re: Which old x86 config would compete with the PS2?

Posted on 2021-01-05, 18:00

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Emulation devs have the best explanations, being that they intimately understand the hardware and are examining it from a modern perspective. This article is great: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43184038 Because of the way that memory access worked on the PS2, a lot of games ran at 60fps because it …

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Re: Which old x86 config would compete with the PS2?

Posted on 2021-01-05, 17:46

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Comparing things to the PS2 is pretty hard because it is so weird in it's design choices. It has crazy high bandwidth and it can theoretically draw a mess of polygons, but then it has a weak MIPS processor, not much memory, and not much in the way of shader performance. From what I have read about …

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Re: New PSU for a Pentium III/440BX machine

Posted on 2021-01-05, 01:35

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Old motherboards used primarily 5v power, while newer systems use mostly 12v. If you buy a new power supply most of the rated wattage will go to waste because it won't be on the 5v rails . Fortunately, PIII CPUs don't use that much power. Something like 35 watts typically. I would get a new power …

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Re: Tandy 2000 emulator

Posted on 2021-01-04, 20:26

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Status: Not working This is misleading, it runs most stuff including Windows 1.0. Dosbox X can emulate the 80186 and a bunch of different kinds of graphics and sound chips.. I don't know about the special version of DOS it ran though. You could probably get it to load it from a floppy as a booter. …

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