Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-01, 13:09

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Maybe I should spend more time testing sound-cards. I mean the PCI128 was the fastest (or least restrictive) of the 3 I tested. But there's more options for sure. And potentially lots of performance to be had.

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-01, 12:37

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Got 261 fps with a P3 800@864, 140Mhz bus and ram on a Via 649x, crappy board tough cant control memory stuff as well as I want to and it wont go much higher if at all on FSB (it can do 166 fsb and 125Mhz ram in 4:3 but a few FPS slower instead but perfectly stable and faster in UT99 last I checked …

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Re: Socket 478 cooler recommendations

Posted on 2022-04-30, 22:42

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SETBLASTER wrote on 2022-04-30, 20:25: Be Quiet! Pure rock is something from 2014,not available anymore as now there is a Be Quiet! Pure rock 2, but i don't know if you can do the mod on that one. Mounting hardware looks almost identical. Tho there may be some small changes. We need a volunteer =)

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-04-30, 21:08

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So to help out my fellow competitors a bit: SB 128 PCI (my version is CT4810) seems to be really good for this. I see a FPS drop of about 10% with this card. It beats out SB-Live (SB060) and an ISA AWE64 (CT4520) with several percent. Also check your BIOS settings, PCI latency, Delayed Transaction, …

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Re: Socket 478 cooler recommendations

Posted on 2022-04-30, 17:48

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frankmonk wrote on 2022-04-30, 17:42: I would recommend the Thermaltake xp-120 That cooler is literally why I had to do the Be Quiet mod above =) For some reason the heat-pipes in my XP-120 does not work, making the cooler at best a shiny paperweight.

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Re: Socket 478 cooler recommendations

Posted on 2022-04-30, 15:37

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Hi there friends! I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on an aftermarket cooler to suit a socket 478. The motherboard is an Asus p4p800 and the CPU is a prescHOTT Pentium 4 3.4ghz. Unfortunately I'm unable to really find anything so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or if any …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-04-30, 13:23

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So to help out my fellow competitors a bit: SB 128 PCI (my version is CT4810) seems to be really good for this. I see a FPS drop of about 10% with this card. It beats out SB-Live (SB060) and an ISA AWE64 (CT4520) with several percent. Also check your BIOS settings, PCI latency, Delayed Transaction, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-29, 00:39

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These are twist mounted? O.o Never seen such a design with this late a heatsink. Last one I saw that had to be turned was an early Pentium one (without MMX :P) You sure these are twist mounted btw? The silver colored ones I have of similar design are not...or I really missed it somehow xD :P Not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-29, 00:27

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For more projects ^-^ IMG_20220428_225257_2.jpg Very nice, the early twist mounts! Just don't use them on Athlons =) But that's probably common knowledge nowadays. *crack* These are twist mounted? O.o Never seen such a design with this late a heatsink. Last one I saw that had to be turned was an …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-29, 00:14

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For more projects ^-^ IMG_20220428_225257_2.jpg Very nice, the early twist mounts! Just don't use them on Athlons =) But that's probably common knowledge nowadays. *crack* Sadly not just Athlons I remember seeing many mangled P3s with those twist lock heatsinks. Yea that also happened. But the P3's …

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Re: Remember The 8-Bit Guy's "Found at Computer Reset" Executive Workstation? I got one on the bench :)

Posted on 2022-04-28, 23:57

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Lovely channel. Nice combination of repairing and tweaking. Keep em detailed and keep em long =)

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-28, 23:48

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MadYoshi wrote on 2022-04-28, 21:15: For more projects ^-^ IMG_20220428_225257_2.jpg Very nice, the early twist mounts! Just don't use them on Athlons =) But that's probably common knowledge nowadays. *crack*

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-04-26, 18:11

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So after quite a lot of testing I have concluded that once you hit a certain GPU level and certain settings in the game the GPU type just will not matter anymore. Q3A seems to be 100% (or very near) CPU/mem speed limited. I noticed this when I was playing around with my stack of GF2 MX's (they …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-26, 04:23

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... Also, some games/apps will run better on a PPro 200 MHz 1MB cache than on low end PII (233, even 266). I know Quake 1 apparently runs slightly better on a PPro than on a Pentium MMX, but what other games are you referring to? More then slightly faster. I think the 200MHz PPro its something like …

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Re: Cache memory

Posted on 2022-04-25, 18:05

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Place it so the 4 missing pins are on the "notch" side. The opposite of what the last pic shows. Should work just fine then!

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Re: Custom slim tyan s15464 build

Posted on 2022-04-24, 14:28

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I’ve had this idea for a while to build a ultra slim build for a tyan s1564d More I think about it, more I think maybe it should be a custom acrylic case. P That reminded me of this pretty thing that circled the interwebs many moons ago: https://i.imgur.com/UyXiWPg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jc92QE5. …

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Re: ABIT BF6 Support CD

Posted on 2022-04-21, 12:59

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Correct me if I'm wrong. But I don't think ABIT did model specific CD's in this era. Just different versions that were shipped with all boards, well at least all boards of the same type. I have a few of them, and there's nothing on them that indicates to what motherboard they were included. And as …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2022-04-21, 12:51

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Chucked my Intel Advanced/AS motherboard into an nice case. Added a HDD which already had a W98 installation on it. Fine I thought, lets see if everything works (was planing on a DOS build). And imagine my surprise when I hear the windows logon sound from somewhere. I mean I didn't plug in any …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-21, 12:41

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A001 wrote on 2022-04-21, 12:37: I have no interest in PII but this was 3 units of money. 620.jpg Unless it was some enormously overvalued crypto units, I'd say that was a bargain. That mobo looks very funky, itching to play with it =)

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Re: Slot 1 Heatsinks and Cooling Options

Posted on 2022-04-20, 20:04

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i don't think there is any truly passive heatsinks for slot 1. OEMs like dell compaq ect back then would put on very large heatsinks but they would put there fan in the back of the case and use a plastic shroud that would direct the air over the cpu and out the back. I believe the ATX standard …

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