Re: More fun and games with VIA's KT133/A chipset

Posted on 2010-04-05, 18:54

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by swaaye

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Voltage readings from the mobo are not worth attention most of the time because their accuracy can be incredibly poor. You may have a motherboard or VIA chipset AGP compliance/driver problem there. It could also be an inadequate PSU. Radeon 9800 Pro is a fairly demanding card. The vid card itself …

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Re: FREE* Intel VS440FX mobo + CPU + RAM

Posted on 2010-04-02, 17:05

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by swaaye

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Good to hear you got it. It should be ready to go as I tested it for ya. Let me know how everything goes.

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Re: 386DX40 - Not as fast, as it used to be

Posted on 2010-04-01, 18:47

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by swaaye

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Here's some info about system and video BIOS shadowing... http://www.pcguide.com/ref/ram/logic_Shadowing.htm http://www.techarp.com/showFreeBOG.aspx?lang=0&bogno=187 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/92766 ROM BIOS shadowing is the process of copying the BIOS from ROM into RAM and using either …

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Re: kernelex any good?

Posted on 2010-03-31, 18:44

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by swaaye

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Opera still runs on 9x. I haven't tried 10.5 yet, but the earlier 10.x version did. It is the fastest full-featured browser out there. I've actually found 2k/XP to run smoother on some old computers than 9x does, as long as you have at least 192MB of RAM. I've seen this with Pentium II and K6-2 or …

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Re: what is the BEST driver for a voodoo 5500 on win98SE?

Posted on 2010-03-30, 22:35

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by swaaye

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I really don't consider Croc, Alice, Unreal 1, Undying, Pandemoniums, Die by the Sword, Deathtrap Dungeon etc that new :) Yeah those games are good on V5, I'm sure. I've enjoyed Voodoo5 with NFS3, Jedi Knight and Shadows of the Empire as well. Even some DOS Glide games work, like Carmageddon, and …

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Re: what is the BEST driver for a voodoo 5500 on win98SE?

Posted on 2010-03-30, 21:02

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by swaaye

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What I meant is that there's not much point in trying to play DirectX 8 level games on a Voodoo 5. Like 5u3 said, it probably won't be fast enough to handle AA at the same time and then there's no point in using a V5. You are better off with any semi-modern card as they usually are compatible with …

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Re: what is the BEST driver for a voodoo 5500 on win98SE?

Posted on 2010-03-30, 19:38

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by swaaye

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I stick with 3dfx's reference drivers too. Only if I'm on XP do I try others, because there aren't any good ones from 3dfx for XP. There are some homebrew drivers that are more than just reworked INFs though. The 3DHQ drivers are recompilations with changes (ie DirectX8 compatibility). Somehow they …

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Re: Yamaha WaveForce 192XG infos and drivers

Posted on 2010-03-28, 02:50

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by swaaye

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Coolness. 😁 BTW, I think that you can get the fancy MIDI capabilities coimpletely in software with the mysterious, hard-to-find Yamaha S-YXG100 soft synth that only works in 9x. It has that Sondius stuff ( waveguide synthesis or some such).

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Re: KT133 Kinetiz 7E-A and Duron 1800

Posted on 2010-03-26, 17:40

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by swaaye

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If you drop in a more powerful PSU and it still isn't stable, I'd suspect that the mobo isn't fully compatible with the 130nm CPUs. Those CPUs didn't exist for years after that mobo was designed. If the CPU is unlocked, try underclocking it via multi. Also, regarding performance, the Durons were …

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Re: Radeon 8500, with unusual heatsink

Posted on 2010-03-23, 18:24

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by swaaye

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Yeah, that heatsink on the 8500 is a Zalman chipset cooler. I've bought one before. I think that is adequate to passively cool a Radeon 8500 GPU. They don't put out that much heat. http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2236 The Voodoo5 photo is just stupid. That is more than simple …

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Re: Geforce 2 recommendation request

Posted on 2010-03-22, 21:44

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by swaaye

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I wouldn't be surprised if it was at half that clock then as that's ~200 MHz. Tis a shame that Everest is all messed up! 😀

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Re: Geforce 2 recommendation request

Posted on 2010-03-22, 21:25

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by swaaye

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It's certainly not running 393MHz core so something funky yup. :D Halving that sounds plausible. On the RAM chips, you can figure out what the likely clock is by their timing rating. Usually the model number ends with a "- #" (the # being the inverse of the frequency (period in ms)). ms max …

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Re: Geforce 2 recommendation request

Posted on 2010-03-22, 20:01

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by swaaye

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I'm not sure how you fubarred Everest, but I think you just need to resize the column widths.

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Re: Geforce 2 recommendation request

Posted on 2010-03-21, 18:39

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by swaaye

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That's really interesting. Is it possible to spot a real Radeon 7500 from a cheap knockoff, just by looking at a photo on ebay for example? The retail Radeon 7500 cards built by ATI look like this (this is my card). It comes clocked at 290MHz core, 230MHz RAM. I tried overclocking it and I remember …

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Re: What are good socket370 pentiumIII 1ghz temperatures?

Posted on 2010-03-21, 02:30

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by swaaye

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_III_microprocessors#.22Coppermine.22_.28180_nm.29 It looks like Coppermine @ 1GHz is still a sub-30W CPU. They did bump the voltage very slightly but it doesn't appear to have done much. Compared to Athlon Thunderbird, these are cool CPUs for sure. …

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Re: Geforce 2 recommendation request

Posted on 2010-03-21, 02:22

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by swaaye

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Yeah the GF4MX is simply much more efficient. GF2 threw away a lot of performance because of how inefficient it was at using memory bandwidth and managing hidden surface removal (I don't think it did this at all). LMA is similar to ATI's HyperZ. Just another marketing name for hidden surface removal …

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Re: Geforce 2 recommendation request

Posted on 2010-03-20, 17:55

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by swaaye

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_2_series clock speed info. GeForce2 Ultra is the top of the heap, even compared to the later Pro and Ti cards. The GeForce4MX is much more efficient than the 2. They really improved their architecture. The GF4MX 440 …

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Re: got an old lap top today

Posted on 2010-03-19, 01:01

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by swaaye

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Around 1997 or so, active matrix screens (what we use now) became much more commonplace and they have decent response times. But they are still considerably slower and have much lower color quality than anything relatively modern. LCDs don't age well, either, as the CFLs for the backlight wear out …

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Re: got an old lap top today

Posted on 2010-03-18, 21:17

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by swaaye

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The response time on those old screens is terrible and are not very good for gaming unless your playing Myst or maybe some old text adventures :happyhappy: I post about this every time I see somebody say they want a "retro notebook for retro gaming". :) Not many people remember what those old …

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Re: FREE* Intel VS440FX mobo + CPU + RAM

Posted on 2010-03-17, 23:28

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by swaaye

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well if you want it Tetrium, PM me an address and I'll mail the mobo.

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