Re: Socket A or Pentium 4 for Voodoo 5500?

Posted on 2015-07-29, 02:29

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by swaaye

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I have not tried P4 with Voodoo5 but I don't think either config is especially better or worse. It's just nice in general to get up to that 2002 level of CPU perfomance for especially Unreal Engine games which can get quite demanding if a lot of action is on screen. Does your 8KHA+ have bad caps? …

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Re: List of 3D accelerated games that make direct hardware calls

Posted on 2015-07-29, 01:25

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by swaaye

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There are a few other games with AA on V1000. Grand Prix Legends and VQuake/VHexen come to mind.

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Re: 1.1Ghz Coppermine Cubx-E versus 1.4Ghz Tualatin TUSL2-C

Posted on 2015-07-28, 19:51

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by swaaye

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I'd think it's hard to say with certainty that BX@133 with AGP is ever 100% stable but it can be pretty solid.

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 18:43

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by swaaye

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The PSUs that I'm using lately are a 2008 420W PCP&C PPCS420X (Seasonic) with 5v/20A and a somewhat controversial 2006 OCZ OCZGXS600 (FSP) with 5v/30A. The smaller unit has never caused me problems on any 5v Athlon build. Even Slot A 1000 and KT333/Palomino2000+ with 6800 Ultra. I do have a smaller …

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Re: Will GeForce 7600GT work with 440BX?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 15:07

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by swaaye

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It's always "fun" to run Oblivion on a FX 5900 Ultra. You can literally feel the pain as the inductor whine surges with each frame. 🤣

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 05:33

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by swaaye

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That's easier said than done. I had to wait almost 4 months before I finally found NOS Soyo SY-KT600 boards, which come with horrible Evercon capacitors. You very seldom find high-end nForce 2 Ultra 400 boards on eBay and the ones you do find have been overclocked to hell and suffer from capacitor …

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-28, 05:16

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by swaaye

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I have two boards with KT600, and unfortunately neither of them have the 12V additional power connector :( I wasn't aware of the issue, but with a XP 3200+ it's quite noticeable, that CPU draws almost 80W I believe. Sounds like they went exceptionally cheap with those boards. Maybe the voltage regs …

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Re: My new favorite DirectX 7.0 video card

Posted on 2015-07-28, 01:28

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by swaaye

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philscomputerlab wrote: I guess Aureal A3D is one reason to stick with Windows 98. That's the conclusion I came to as well 🤣 Maybe ZanQuance will eventually eliminate this too.

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Re: Antec PSU. Good or bad?

Posted on 2015-07-27, 21:01

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by swaaye

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P4 systems introduced the 12v aux CPU power connection so you can guess where it draws from. Athlon systems implemented this new ATX standard in 2002. KT400/nforce2. Prior systems were using 5v for the CPU. When you get into 6th generation and older, these are such low power CPUs that it can be …

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Re: My new favorite DirectX 7.0 video card

Posted on 2015-07-27, 14:13

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by swaaye

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The problem is those late games were designed with both 9x and XP compatibility in mind.

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Re: BIOS Setting: "Write Cache Pipeline"

Posted on 2015-07-27, 03:50

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by swaaye

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Yeah there's no doubt that Super 7 can make you crazy at times. Voodoo3 does work very well by keeping fancy AGP features out of the equation. Though some of the Super 7 motherboards actually have problems with Voodoo3's power requirements. And indeed Voodoo3 isn't exactly exceptionally power …

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Re: Warez Question

Posted on 2015-07-27, 03:42

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by swaaye

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I've moved this topic to Milliways.

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Re: Is X-Fi actually practically superior to Audigy?

Posted on 2015-07-27, 02:19

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by swaaye

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philscomputerlab wrote: Ah, right, got confused with the X-Fi MB3. Do you happen to know of a game that makes the X-Fi elevation filter apparent?

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Re: BIOS Setting: "Write Cache Pipeline"

Posted on 2015-07-27, 02:13

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by swaaye

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Boxpressed, you might enjoy this old VA-503 page. That BIOS setting was discussed. https://web.archive.org/web/20030412183857/ht … aprok.net/dave/ I had a VA-503+ long ago... I tend to prefer the ASUS P5A though. My K6-3+ clocks higher on it for some reason.

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Re: Is X-Fi actually practically superior to Audigy?

Posted on 2015-07-27, 02:03

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by swaaye

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CMSS-3D on a X-Fi can sound pretty impressive, but it does depend on the game. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is quite a good one. FEAR is good, so is BF2142. It gave me quite an edge hearing the position of sounds. In FEAR, as I've said a few times now, I literally hear no difference between Audigy …

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Re: Is X-Fi actually practically superior to Audigy?

Posted on 2015-07-27, 01:45

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by swaaye

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What software were you testing with to come to these conclusions? And yeah CMSS must be enabled for 3D audio. I couldn't hear any headphone elevation filter effects in FEAR. I want to find a game that makes it apparent. Maybe something with more of a 3D world to it. I don't know if I play the right …

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Re: Best Fanless DX8-Capable Video Card

Posted on 2015-07-24, 21:19

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by swaaye

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You could make a Radeon X800 or GeForce 6800 fanless if you were motivated to do so. Install an Accelero S2 on one for example. That's for your Win9x needs. If we're talking XP, then you can go much faster. I mean a modern card is quite capable of DirectX 8.

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Re: Nvidia Quadro 2 Pro

Posted on 2015-07-24, 20:48

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by swaaye

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I got this Quadro 2 Pro (ELSA Gloria III) to output 1920x1200 on DVI. For some reason, you need to enable aspect ratio scaling in the NV control panel. The Silicon Image DVI chip on these cards is still quirky but it's better than the one used on the DVI GeForce 256 cards. The GeForce 256 card I …

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Re: AGP Voodoo 5500 replacement fans

Posted on 2015-07-24, 19:04

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by swaaye

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There are many Socket 8 coolers. Probably used 50-60mm fans.

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-23, 19:23

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by swaaye

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Here's a Socket 939 Opteron machine. Opteron 185 w@ 3GHz 4GB PC3200 CL2 Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe - nForce4 SLI x16 chipset SB X-Fi Titanium Fatality Win7 x64 SP1 The single 8800GTS came out slightly faster than the Opteron 180 + HD 2900 XT 1GB setup I ran a few pages back. http://www.vogons.org/ …

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