Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite is broken. Can it be fixed?
Posted on 2011-06-18, 01:30
Have you changed anything about the system it's in? Also, double checked the card's jumper settings?
Re: Hardware you regret parting with, or you wish didn't die
Posted on 2011-06-17, 18:27
I managed to blow up my 865PE + 6800GT setup a few months back. I didn't screw in the AGP card because I had just swapped another out and was doing something that I can't recall. The card came halfway out of the slot and shorted. Grey magic smoke poof + BBQ traces + pretty orange illumination = Teh …
Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2011-06-15, 23:07
@feipoa i think that the "Ultimate Socket 7 Benchmark" should be with the processors: AMD K6 AMD K6-2 AMD K6-2+ AMD K6-3 Cyrix 6x86 Cyrix 6x86MX or MII Intel Pentium MMX Intel Pentium PRO but... first we must overclock this processors up to the highest frequency Pentium Pro is a Socket 8 CPU. Also, …
Re: Are there any games that are too fast for a 286 based PC?
Posted on 2011-06-15, 20:57
I don't remember ever using the "deturbo" mode on my old Tandy 1000 (286 8MHz). What I remember, compared to an 8088 XT, was that games ran better on the 286 and the XT simply ran them somewhat slow. These were mid-late '80s games. It didn't have a turbo button but you could do a key combo to switch …
Re: NFS4 (High Stakes) playability on Voodoo 3 3000
Posted on 2011-06-15, 20:55
He said in his post that he tried a Voodoo5 so he already has one. I am wondering why he's bothering with a Voodoo3 at all. 😉
Re: NFS4 (High Stakes) playability on Voodoo 3 3000
Posted on 2011-06-15, 18:32
Yup it's strange that you're having problems with NFS4 on a Voodoo3. It should run it well. It could be the mods from NFS5 that you're using. Try playing the game with just the stock game files. Though if you have a Voodoo5 then I don't know why you're bothering with the Voodoo3. ;) NFS4 + FSAA is …
Re: Why USB 2.0 is slower on AMD than on Intel
Posted on 2011-06-14, 21:36
USB 1.1 is about 1MB/s. That won't make things abysmally slow but it is annoying. The 780G and P35 Gigabyte boards that I have used are clearly not at USB 2.0 until some time later in the boot process when I assume the OS loads its USB drivers. This isn't the chipsets fault though because I have …
Re: Why USB 2.0 is slower on AMD than on Intel
Posted on 2011-06-14, 18:51
I have setup a number of 780G boxes and felt the slight sluggishness. I also have a GF8200 board and it has always seemed faster to me. About the USB boot though, some boards boot in USB 1.1. I have a P35 board that does that. Slow.
Re: Why USB 2.0 is slower on AMD than on Intel
Posted on 2011-06-14, 02:54
AMD might have mostly caught up with Intel and NV with their 800 series chipsets. Reviews look pretty good. The 700 and older chipsets though were behind on both SATA and USB compared to NV and Intel. If you go back to the SB450 things get really ugly.
Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?
Posted on 2011-06-12, 23:07
In my 133mhz Challenge thread I ran a PPro, PII and PMMX. See sig. Results include Speedsys and Quake. This was a performance per clock comparison.
Re: AMD 5K86??
Posted on 2011-06-12, 18:18
There are two cores. The older chips don't have a fully completed design and perform slower which is why the PR rating equals the clock speed. But they are mostly the same CPU. If they could have managed more clock speed they would have been excellent competition but they topped out quickly and were …
Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?
Posted on 2011-06-12, 00:39
Gosh thanks for the Doom port comments, leileilol. I think I'm after absolute maximum lens flare so Doomsday is for me. If the current version works, that is. 😉 Is there one with fake HDR megabloom too? eduke32 is neat, btw.
Re: SIIG controller card
Posted on 2011-06-11, 20:04
Nah just reading more than posting lately. 😉
Re: SIIG controller card
Posted on 2011-06-11, 20:00
luckybob wrote: Only scsi needed drivers. Any "software" that these cards have is usually just format / partitioning disk tools. nothing controller specific. WRONG! 😁 😁 I had a Promise EIDE2300 VLB card that used a driver to test & configure the VL IDE port speed modes and various other things.
Re: Glue a heatsink to a 486
Posted on 2011-06-10, 21:32
As I said, you need both pressure and heat to get the adhesive to grab really well. This is critical with ramsinks because they end up mounted with gravity pulling down on them. If the heatsink is mounted to the chip with gravity pulling them together, like with a desktop case say, then pressure …
Re: Glue a heatsink to a 486
Posted on 2011-06-10, 19:04
There's always Arctic Silver Alumina or Silver adhesive. But these are permanent. There are some tapes that work. Look up Chomerics Thermattach for example. Some of this stuff held ramsinks to my 8800GTX for over 3 years. An important step with tapes is to apply heat and pressure to activate the …
Re: Game demos that were not like there retail releases?
Posted on 2011-06-08, 21:59
The TIE Fighter demo is based on X-Wing and has different art, music and sound effects. The gameplay is one super long mission. It also has a neat interactive Dodge Neon showcase because apparently Dodge gave LucasArts some money? I got this with a magazine. Came on 2 floppies. The Dark Forces demo …
Re: K6-2 Blues
Posted on 2011-06-05, 19:03
Well you want a Super 7 board with 2mb L2 then. One of those Epox MVP3 boards perhaps. That's as neat as they come IMO. 😉 However one that I've always wanted to try is the Aladdin 7 chipset with the ArtX IGP.
Re: Any Aureal A3D fans?
Posted on 2011-06-05, 18:58
If you can find the filename of the download then you can search for that. A dead link can still give you that.
Re: Game to test old 3D cards - 1st generation (virge, rage...)
Posted on 2011-06-05, 18:51
Requiring OpenGL disqualifies a lot of cards. Almost all gaming cards from the 90s that aren't NV or 3dfx can't manage that to any reasonable degree. That includes even Rendition V2200 which can just barely play Half Life.
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