Re: Kenwood True-X 42x UDMA cannot be set.
Posted on 2011-06-29, 04:13
Well they all seem defective once you try a CDR. 😉
Re: Things you will never own, but want to.
Posted on 2011-06-28, 23:52
That's weird seeing a Slot 1 motherboard without an AGP slot. Google for pictures of the Shuttle HOT-623, the ABit AN6, AOpen AX6F and the Tyan S1682. Was 440FX a server chipset? 440FX is the desktop/workstation chipset for PPro and Klamath PII. It was primarily for Pentium Pro but was used for the …
Re: Geforce FX Super Thread
Posted on 2011-06-28, 21:42
Are you insulting the glorious NV35 again?! I just won't stand for that. 😁
Re: Geforce FX Super Thread
Posted on 2011-06-28, 20:13
Only a few mins left on a cheap 5900 U. http://cgi.ebay.com/MSI-NVIDIA-GeForce-FX-590 … =item3a67666dee
Re: [Solved] Windows 98SE vs. DMA mode
Posted on 2011-06-28, 20:01
http://www.techarp.com/freebog.aspx Beat that if u can. 😁
Re: Voodoo1 vs. Unreal/UnrealTournament (Windows 98)
Posted on 2011-06-28, 18:34
That's bizarre. Voodoo 1 really does work with Unreal and UT99. ;) The most obvious possibility is some sort of hardware conflict. Try pulling cards and even try a different primary graphics card. Also can try getting some other Glide game or demo to try. FalconFly has the 3dfx demos like Wizard's …
Re: Kenwood True-X 42x UDMA cannot be set.
Posted on 2011-06-28, 18:20
Reading some reviews show that the 42x and up are more reliable drives. Well I've had the chance to try the 42, 52 and 72x editions. I have one in my collection-o-retro (72x maybe?) Their problem isn't reliability/longevity so much as it is the inability to read CDR/RW well. But if you stick to …
Re: [Solved] Windows 98SE vs. DMA mode
Posted on 2011-06-28, 02:26
Nice. I once had that patch make a SBLive go from just screetching nasty noises to perfect functionality on a VIA Apollo Pro Slot 1 board. Some of those VIA boards really have their PCI bus programmed very wrong.
Re: Things you will never own, but want to.
Posted on 2011-06-28, 02:13
Yup the M2 hardware was finished but Matsushita decided not to turn it into a game console after all. Probably a good move considering it would have come out around when Dreamcast showed up and been completely blown away by it. There are a few arcade games that used it but otherwise it was only used …
Re: Things you will never own, but want to.
Posted on 2011-06-28, 00:05
SGI InfiniteReality. 😀 Voodoo 5 6000 Matrox G800 3DO M2
Re: Windows 98SE vs. DMA mode
Posted on 2011-06-27, 23:53
It could also be a compatibility problem between chipset/mobo and your specific hard disk. And you may want to try installing George Breese's PCI Latency patch for those VIA chipsets. Old VIA boards often have a shoddy BIOS that poorly sets PCI options.
Re: Kenwood True-X 42x UDMA cannot be set.
Posted on 2011-06-27, 03:47
Try this Kenwood site out. It's mostly Japanese but I see some model numbers. I believe you want the top file. http://www.kenwood.co.jp/j/products/component/download2.html
Re: Intel vs AMD? Or should I say Intel and AMD?
Posted on 2011-06-26, 20:26
Heatpipes use that evaporation mechanism (phase change) to do their really amazing magic. But yeah you aren't going below ambient with them. One of those laws of physics.
Re: AMD K5-200
Posted on 2011-06-26, 18:40
Another aspect to those days was that everyone underestimated the value of the FPU. You see, before 3D games, the FPU was barely used outside of scientific and engineering apps. Then in ~95, the 3D game revolution started. And since CPUs spend years in design, there was no way to react to this …
Re: Geforce FX Super Thread
Posted on 2011-06-26, 16:15
A few of the old MMOs used to run on Voodoo2 but don't anymore. Everquest and Ultima Online come to mind. But they were updated to more recent D3D standards probably for improved compatibility and performance overall.
Re: VIA vs. 2D speed
Posted on 2011-06-26, 15:51
Heh yeah maybe somewhere in their vault of ~18 Hyperion / 4-in-1 packages (post 2004) lies a VIA GART that is amazing. We certainly can't rely on VIA to put out quality software after 5 years of revisions. But as I said I tried the stock XP VIA AGP GART and the latest Hyperion pack and saw the same …
Re: VIA vs. 2D speed
Posted on 2011-06-26, 04:25
Dug out the Shuttle AN35N nForce 2 Ultra board that I have. Athlon XP 3200+ nForce 2 Ultra 400 1GB PC3200 dual channel Intel Pro 1000GT NIC Promise SATA150 TX2 Audigy 4 GeForce 3 (driver 56.72) K8M800 http://thumbnails49.imagebam.com/13804/e4549d138038584.jpg nForce 2 Ultra http://thumbnails51. …
Re: AMD K5-200
Posted on 2011-06-26, 03:07
Actually if you think about it P4 was more competitive against A64 than Phenom II is right now against i3-i7. 😉 And also modern quad / hexa cores are about as hot as Prescott but we have much better heatsinks now and the Cool'n'Quiet/Speedstep stuff really reigns in the off peak power.
Re: VIA vs. 2D speed
Posted on 2011-06-25, 22:09
I found a nice little Windows GDI benchmark at Tom's Hardware. Lets just say the results are illuminating. Don't take this as conclusive final judgment of these cards because I do think this VIA chipset is influencing the results. Test box DFI K8M800-MLV(F) / K8M800 Infinity 1GB PC3200 2.2 GHz …
Re: Geforce FX Super Thread
Posted on 2011-06-25, 19:07
Yeah I'm sure it's running OpenGL.
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