Re: Best drivers for GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Posted on 2014-02-09, 03:02

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by swaaye

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I noticed you used 93.71 in your YouTube videos of the 5950U (Far Cry, Doom 3, etc.). Any particular reason? I have a feeling that version still has the old control panel available? I think it also has working custom resolutions whereas later drivers may not with the old cards. It has been awhile …

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Re: Best drivers for GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Posted on 2014-02-08, 21:38

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by swaaye

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It really can't handle PS 2.0 games regardless of driver version. Newer drivers do fix problems in newer games though. I tried Guild Wars on my 5900U once and needed newer drivers to get rid of visual problems even at the main login screen. That game evolved over the years from a DirectX 8 title to …

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Re: Is the GeForce 256 rare?

Posted on 2014-02-07, 01:21

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by swaaye

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There are at least two Creative Annihilator Pro cards on ebay right now. That is GF256 DDR. I see NV10 cards pretty often really. They certainly aren't rare.

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Re: Recommendations for a VLB card?

Posted on 2014-02-06, 19:34

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by swaaye

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Weitek Power series was one of the early GUI coprocessors. It is a ~ 1993 chip that was fast for the time. Mainly a Windows 3.x accelerator. P9000 cards use a separate chip for DOS support. The original Diamond Viper was one of the more common cards using them. http://books.google.com/books?id=7k7q- …

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Re: Recommendations for a VLB card?

Posted on 2014-02-05, 19:00

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by swaaye

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until Quake came along and everyone saw how much faster the games could run with an FPU. Even with a FPU, fixed point arithmetic is faster. But more complex 3D games basically require some floating point in order to work well. Quake is mostly an example of extremely Pentium optimized programming. …

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Re: Recommendations for a VLB card?

Posted on 2014-02-04, 18:46

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by swaaye

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>= 2MB RAM enables memory performance benefits on some cards. The VLB card to get is perhaps a S3 Trio64 based card. That is one of the most advanced GUI accelerators on VLB, and you get top DOS compatibility. Diamond made one if that matters to ya. There aren't any VLB 3D cards that are of …

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Re: SSD in s478 P4 Preshott system

Posted on 2014-02-03, 03:47

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by swaaye

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TELVM wrote: swaaye wrote: ... AHCI is not much of a loss ... May be not on ancients, but I'd better enable AHCI on moderns: Oh yeah it does bring improvements. But it is difficult to notice in actual usage. I just mean that if you don't have AHCI support you can still get a lot from a SSD.

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-02-02, 21:21

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by swaaye

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SI-97 is a good heatsink; I've seen them on graphics cards before, but never a Slot 1... :exclamation: Here is something I whipped up for quiet cooling and to workaround DIMM clearance problems. It is a Thermalright HR05 SLI chipset cooler. The 80mm was on only 5v and so essentially silent. http:// …

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-02-02, 21:00

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by swaaye

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If you go passive, keep in mind that the motherboard relies somewhat on CPU cooler airflow too. The VRMs are the main concern. Tower CPU heatsinks can be trouble here too. I have a Gigabyte P35-DS3R mobo that I overclocked a Q6600 on and didn't think about how the my tower heatsink had removed VRM …

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-02-01, 23:57

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by swaaye

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I need to say this, the heatsink came off a dead motherboard containing an AMD Duron 700MHz CPU. The fan was added because of the old one failing. I understand that this heat-sink looks very shitty because of the tape. I'm going to get a fatter heatsink to help cool this hot potato. Hey if that …

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-02-01, 23:56

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by swaaye

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fyy wrote: Completely fake. This is what really happens Yeah I was going to post that one but forgot. Thanks for putting it up.

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-02-01, 21:51

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by swaaye

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Uhhh, the die can detach?!! Holy fuck better get some crazy water cooling stuff going :lol:! My pcchips board does have heat protection, and my new athlon 1.33GHz cpu is coming, with my old and crazy Duron heatsink. :cool: I've seen photos of a die that came off with the heatsink because the fan …

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Re: SSD in s478 P4 Preshott system

Posted on 2014-02-01, 19:19

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by swaaye

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I've run an Intel 320 and OCZ Vertex 2 SSD on ICH5. My neato Asrock 775i65G board. It works very well indeed. I also have put SSDs onto plain ICH7 without trouble. AHCI is not much of a loss. TRIM still works on the MS IDE driver too, with Win7 and newer. Nforce chipsets are troublesome though. …

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-02-01, 03:34

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by swaaye

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Yeah the problem with AMD CPUs before Athlon 64 was they had no internal thermal protection and the BIOS's thermal protection (if even enabled) was far too slow at reacting to a situation where the die has no cooling at all. The die can actually detach from the CPU package. It gets extremely hot …

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Re: Athlon Problems

Posted on 2014-02-01, 03:23

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by swaaye

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I believe Athlon CPUs are stable up to about 75C. But they get unstable above that. I had a friend in college with one in a small case that had the PSU blocking the CPU fan and games started crashing at >80C. They don't die unless much hotter though. 120C seems to be a common death zone for silicon. …

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Re: Older PC games on Win8 tablets

Posted on 2014-01-29, 21:59

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by swaaye

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It does seem like a Radeon 8500 or 9600 in say DirectX 7 level games like Unreal 2. On the other hand if you run something with more complex D3D 8/9 effects, it pulls ahead of those quite a bit, which is what the shader results are showing. Deux Ex Invisible War runs well, and that was a very …

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Re: Older PC games on Win8 tablets

Posted on 2014-01-29, 04:41

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by swaaye

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Here is 3DMark01SE

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Re: TNT2-M64 or Radeon 7200 SDR for Win98?

Posted on 2014-01-19, 03:59

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by swaaye

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Of course the Radeon SDR is much faster. Similar to a GeForce 256. And Radeon has its fast anisotropic filtering. It's also faster at GUI, and has much better video playback hardware.

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Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?

Posted on 2014-01-18, 21:15

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by swaaye

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The Microdrive results are interesting. It looks like it could be bottlenecked by an interface. HDDs don't usually have such flat performance. Same drive, including a Hitachi, are featured in one of my YT videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWCDusmLxg They are only like 3000 rpm. Looks like the …

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Re: CL-GD5480 and 3D "acceleration"

Posted on 2014-01-18, 21:12

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by swaaye

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I think Neomagic was a different story. They had real 3D accelerator, but they have some problems with drivers and hardware stability so they had enabled D3D driver only in early revisions of their drivers (and only ones for OEMs). I heard about people running hardware 3D with NeoMagic 256XD on …

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