Re: Very unlucky collision on card insertion for my FX 5900

Posted on 2022-04-23, 06:57

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I've had a similar experience when trying to use later PCIe GPUs (2009 and onward) in some early PCIe motherboards. They are simply too long to physically fit, bumping into motherboard capacitors, heat sinks, battery holders, you name it.

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Re: Retired build - Athlon64 3700+ / DFI LanParty / 9600GT / X-Fi Titanium

Posted on 2022-04-22, 21:18

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I know for a fact, that original DFI coolers had soft protective frame to avoid any scuffs. I think I may still have that original cooler somewhere. Pretty sure the fan is dead though. As mentioned earlier, I was using a much heavier aftermarket cooler when I damaged the chipset. You can see it in …

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Re: Looking for advice on a dual boot 98 SE + XP on P4 + 865 chipset

Posted on 2022-04-22, 08:12

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by Joseph_Joestar

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bootloader (MBR) is usually not on OS partition, but on first sector of partitioned disk. You're right about that. From my experience, if you install Win98, then WinXP after that, everything works fine and the XP loader picks up Win98 correctly and allows you to boot that OS. However, if you then …

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Re: Looking for advice on a dual boot 98 SE + XP on P4 + 865 chipset

Posted on 2022-04-22, 07:31

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Put everything onto one disk. Splitting it up onto multiple disks just makes it messier. I disagree. If you have two operating systems on the same disk and need to reinstall Win98, it will overwrite the boot loader of WinXP. Using two separate disks and selecting which one I want to boot from using …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2022-04-21, 14:00

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by Joseph_Joestar

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bofh.fromhell wrote on 2022-04-21, 12:51: Turns out the on-board sound-card plays through the case speaker when nothing is attached, cool! Interesting! I knew that one could connect the PC speaker to a header on some sound cards, but I never thought the reverse would be possible too.

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2022-04-21, 13:56

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Indeed it does, it's a really snappy machine so far though half the time, the usb keyboard (tried 2 different ones) won't work until I either go into windows or I reboot the machine multiple times, strangely enough if I hit Del when attempting to go into bios, it does but I can't do anything. I …

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Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 07:07

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Metal Gear Solid 2: Well, this is the game that made me realize I don't really like games from Japan/Asia anymore. They just have this over the top way of making their games and writing their characters/plots I just don't like. I think that's mostly Kojima though. The writing in his games is a bit …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2022-04-21, 04:28

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Nice rig, I'm also putting together a fast Windows 98 rig with an Opteron 254, an Asus SK8V, 2gb of RDDR 400 using RLoew's patch, an Elsa Gladiac Ultra and a SB Live with working dos audio Cheers! It's rare to see an Opteron in a retro build. That one runs at 2.8 GHz right? I tried using RLoew's …

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Re: Digital game collection addiction

Posted on 2022-04-21, 04:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I didn't know they applied fan-made patches to MoO 2 and Thief. Those games are very old, especially MoO 2 which is DOS, and Thief I imagine they got the patches from System Shock 2 considering they use the same engines. What baffles me is that the fan patch they added to MOO2 is primarily a game …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-20, 20:10

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I mostly picked it up just to try out Tomb Raider, but it does pretty well in other games (just before) it's time, also. IIRC, the Rendition Verite version of Tomb Raider is the best one in terms of lighting and geometry. Compared to other early 3D accelerated versions I mean. Also vQuake is …

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Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?

Posted on 2022-04-20, 19:29

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by Joseph_Joestar

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My example: Quake 3. My reason: Everything (literally) was worse than not only Unreal Tournament, but also worse that the preceding game. I'm pretty much in the same boat with regards to Quake 3, and have recently posted my thoughts on it here . With regards to other popular games, I could never …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audugy2 ZS

Posted on 2022-04-20, 10:26

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by Joseph_Joestar

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A couple of benchmarks, all carried out under Windows ME. For the 3DMark entries, the standard benchmarks were utilized, in whatever resolution and color depth each one uses by default. CPU-Z.jpg GPU-Z.jpg Bench_Latest.jpg 3DMark.jpg All game benchmarks were carried out using 32-bit color depth. …

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Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy2

Posted on 2022-04-20, 10:25

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by Joseph_Joestar

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System specs Athlon 64 3400+ (NewCastle core) Asus K8V-MX (VIA K8M800 Socket754) 2GB Kingston DDR400 Leadtek GeForce FX 5900XT Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (SB0240) Kingston 120GB SSD (Windows ME + Security Update 2004 ) SanDisk 240GB SSD (Windows XP + SP3) Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM Sony 3.5" floppy drive …

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Re: What Voodoo graphic to buy?

Posted on 2022-04-19, 19:51

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by Joseph_Joestar

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My recommendation for GeForce 4 Ti cards (the AGP 4X versions) is the nVIDIA driver version 30.82. It's faster than Detonator 4x.xx and have had 0 issues with it, every game that I played / tested has worked flawlessly. While testing my socket 754 build, I noticed something interesting. The 40.72 …

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Re: Retired build - Athlon64 3700+ / DFI LanParty / 9600GT / X-Fi Titanium

Posted on 2022-04-19, 09:51

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Always include silicon pads for brittle FCPGA chipsets as cushion. Or even better - just use high performance thermal pad to avoid any damage. Yup, lesson definitively learned. I won't be mounting heavy coolers on a finicky chipset without using some sort of cushion. To be fair, the motherboard was …

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Re: Retired build - Athlon64 3700+ / DFI LanParty / 9600GT / X-Fi Titanium

Posted on 2022-04-19, 09:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Interesting, I will be retiring my Socket 754 Athlon64 3700+ soon myself.. And we have very, very different builds :) Heh, that's kinda similar to the socket 754 system that I'm currently building, though my components are somewhat lower specced. I will mainly use it as an overpowered Win98 rig, …

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Re: Athlon64 3700+ / DFI LanParty / 9600GT / X-Fi Titanium

Posted on 2022-04-19, 08:54

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Well, today my DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D motherboard unceremoniously kicked the bucket. I was re-pasting the (aftermarket) chipset cooler and my hand slipped while putting it back. Unfortunately, that seems to have damaged one of the surface mounted components on the chipset. As a result, the …

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Re: HELP! - GeForce FX5600 in win98se

Posted on 2022-04-18, 10:40

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by Joseph_Joestar

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AlexZ wrote on 2022-04-18, 09:55: 56.64 - missing OpenGL settings, 50FPS cap in 3D Mark 99 (vertical sync was off) - explains low score You can use RivaTuner to get around the missing OpenGL settings in 56.64. It's truly baffling that Nvidia released an official driver version in such a poor state. …

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Re: 4:3 vs. 5:4

Posted on 2022-04-16, 11:21

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Two things matter here: 1. What is the native resolution of your LCD monitor? 2. What is the resolution of the game that you're playing? Most LCD monitors from the mid 2000s were using 1280x1024 as their native resolution, meaning they had a 5:4 aspect ratio. If you're playing an older game at say …

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Re: Super Nintendo 30 year anniversary (EU)

Posted on 2022-04-16, 07:24

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by Joseph_Joestar

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What I remember most vividly about the SNES was the awesome pack-in game: Super Mario World. It remains my favorite Mario title to this day. And it really showcased how much better the SNES was compared to its 8-bit predecessor. Excellent graphics (for the time), catchy music and perfectly balanced …

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