Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-06-16, 20:03

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by swaaye

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I suggest finding a nForce4 board that uses passive cooling. So many of them use a nasty little fan that is not only annoying but also positioned in a way that it is blocked by a large video card. On the DFI NF4 Ultra-D/SLI-D, the fan can even touch the video card! It's ridiculous. I've used a few …

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Re: what are your favourite ps/2 mice?

Posted on 2015-06-16, 19:25

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by swaaye

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MX510 or MX518. MX510 is supported by Mouseware 9.80 on Win9x and that can be useful.

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2015-06-16, 03:29

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by swaaye

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I looked in the drawer and got out all of my S3 cards. Powered them up and looked at boot screen gamma. Correct (these all had black looking like black) Diamond Viper II Z200 (Savage 2000 AGP) Number Nine Reality 334 (Virge GX2 AGP) Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (Virge 4MB PCI) STB Nitro 3D (Virge GX 4MB …

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2015-06-16, 02:14

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by swaaye

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Perhaps there are drivers with a color control panel in display properties? Powerstrip may be able to handle that too.

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Re: GeForce4 artifacting --> recycle ?

Posted on 2015-06-16, 02:01

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by swaaye

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The oven trick might pop the electrolytic caps on the card. I had that happen with a FX 5600.

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2015-06-16, 01:25

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by swaaye

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I also got out my Aopen Savage3D card and it is indeed this way as well. It looks like the card is calibrated to a high gamma level for some reason.

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Re: Introducing the cool and quiet GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: The way FX is (really) meant to be played!

Posted on 2015-06-16, 01:14

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by swaaye

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I'm almost wondering if you aren't onto something with the blower too. There's a number of older cards like this that have blowers which make the card loud and bulky, and which are outperformed by more traditional-style coolers like VF700 (and I say more traditional because, in concept, VF700 isn't …

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Re: Introducing the cool and quiet GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: The way FX is (really) meant to be played!

Posted on 2015-06-15, 18:43

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by swaaye

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I ran a couple of Silencers. One on a Radeon 9700 and one on a X850. The problem was the fans wear out. There is a sleeve bearing (they call it ceramic) and it gets worn and becomes noisy. It takes quite some hours but I had it happen several times. I got free replacements from China once. Arctic …

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Re: Recreation of my original K6-2-500 (The "Zitech" Machine)

Posted on 2015-06-14, 22:39

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by swaaye

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Is the G400 running at AGP 1x rate?

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Re: Introducing the cool and quiet GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: The way FX is (really) meant to be played!

Posted on 2015-06-14, 18:06

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by swaaye

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They used anodized aluminum on FlowFX eh? Yuck. Not uncommon to see though. It fools a lot of people. It's probably entirely sufficient too but that airflow is just pathetic. Yeah the VF700 and similar coolers do outperform these old blowers pretty handily. I have seen the same on other high end …

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Re: EAX and old laptop

Posted on 2015-06-12, 21:27

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by swaaye

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I did open one up years ago. It's not using the full-size Audigy PCI card chip. That doesn't mean it's not another implementation of EMU10K2 though.

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Re: increase network speed on windows 98

Posted on 2015-06-12, 20:13

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by swaaye

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I've been messing with a Windows 98SE & K6-3+ 600 machine. A new transfer rate boosting trick I found is to disable interrupt moderation on the NIC. This feature is a CPU usage management setting. By disabling it, the NIC driver will use more CPU time. I saw a boost from 5MB/s to 11MB/s with a Intel …

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Re: K6-2 500 (2.2v) and K6-3 400 (2.4v)

Posted on 2015-06-12, 18:01

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by swaaye

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K6-3 has many more transistors because 256KB SRAM takes a large number of transistors. It is a K6-2 CXT aside from that on-die cache and its backside bus. K6-2 500 is quite bottlenecked by the memory subsystem and that's why the K6-3 400 can beat it. K6-2 is throwing away many CPU cycles waiting for …

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Re: Recommend some sound cards that are NOT the following:

Posted on 2015-06-09, 19:35

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by swaaye

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Philips Seismic Edge / Acoustic Edge which use the VLSI Thunderbird 128 or Thunderbird Avenger (newer chip). Excellent 3D audio via QSound hardware implementation, including an excellent headphone mode reminiscent of Audigy/X-Fi. EAX support is well done, unlike with various other chips (Crystal and …

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Re: Geforce FX under Windows 7 64x

Posted on 2015-06-09, 18:31

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by swaaye

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Official spec from Microsoft is 128MB, and that's what I'm quoting from. I'm actually kind of surprised it would enable with <128MB (it should fail the WEI check and refuse to start). EDIT A bit of searching and apparently there are some "odd duck" cases where it unofficially works on 64MB setups - …

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Re: Geforce FX under Windows 7 64x

Posted on 2015-06-09, 00:34

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by swaaye

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obobskivich wrote: Aero requires any DirectX 9 card with at least 128MB of memory. Aero works on 64MB cards. I've run Vista and 7 on a Mobility Radeon 9600 64MB. Seems to work without issue and perform fine. I'm sure there is some downside to having such little VRAM though.

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Re: Geforce FX under Windows 7 64x

Posted on 2015-06-08, 19:13

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by swaaye

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My point was that 7 May not like your old card since iirc 9.0c is the base minimum in Win7, anyway and 10 if you want Aero. Its not an Nvidia driver problem, it's the hardwares' ability to support DirectX. Win7 + Aero works on DirectX 9.0b cards. I've run it on various PS2.0 Radeons without issue. …

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Re: Geforce FX under Windows 7 64x

Posted on 2015-06-08, 18:18

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by swaaye

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Interesting. I've never run these cards on a 64-bit Windows as far as I can remember. The latest XP driver 175.19 works fine though with my AGP cards. Have you thoroughly tested it with a XP setup? Maybe there is something wrong with the card...

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Re: K6-3 and Cacheable Ram

Posted on 2015-06-08, 18:14

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by swaaye

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The K6 chips with on-die L2 cache up to 4GB RAM themselves.

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Re: Windows XP does not regonize correctly the CPU

Posted on 2015-06-06, 19:11

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by swaaye

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Thread locked.

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