Re: Supermicro SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2/Dual PIII Coppermine T/Voodoo5 Build

Posted on 2023-03-25, 21:41

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It also seems to me that the Voodoo 5 spoils what a great computer it could be. It would make sense in the S370DL3 without AGP, but having AGP, the Voodoo 5 does not make sense since any other AGP graphics card of the time and price would surpass it, except in GLIDE and some very specific detail of …

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Re: Win xp games on Win 7 compatibility

Posted on 2023-03-23, 19:27

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Face the truth, although there is a high level of compatibility between Windows 7 and XP there are things that will only work on XP, just using Windows 7 64-bit or Windows 7 32-bit already makes a big difference. And using an ATI or Nvidia graphics card also makes a difference, such as the way to …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-13, 16:16

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If what you want is to preserve the software or hardware for future generations, it should be donations to museums and another organizations dedicated to that, not expensive prices that then end up in the hands of someone with enough money to pay those stupid prices, and it will not contribute …

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Re: IBM Model M Keyboard (1391401): 1990s or 1980's?

Posted on 2023-03-13, 14:39

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If you want it only to look at it, I guess it is almost free. I've seen a lot of those keyboards going to trash because of the cable and the lack of modern functionality. And the size, and a lot of people liked to take off the keycaps because it was easy and then key keycaps went to the ninth …

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Re: IBM Model M Keyboard (1391401): 1990s or 1980's?

Posted on 2023-03-12, 16:37

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If someone tells me that a Model M is worth $300 or even $100, I think I would ask what kind of drug was taken to believe that. I have two Model M, and they have two very serious problems for me, the first is the cable that is not easy to find, and they also ask a price for the cables that is an …

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Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-12, 14:16

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I have an Acer Aspire One Atom N270 1.6 1gb ram, and the best OS I've used on it was Android x86, Angry birds was fast on it and also another games, if you compare the Atom with a mobile phone CPU from that era, maybe even until the 2015 or so, because I think that the Android version I've tried …

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Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-12, 11:29

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The Broadcom card was fairly common for some time, Apple also used it, I don't know its power draw, but I remember that I couldn't touch the chip with my finger after some time, so I added a heatsink. But back on topic, maybe this idea https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=93119&p=1147541& …

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Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-11, 19:49

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Some years ago I did a test with a Zotac NM10 ITX Wifi, Atom D525, two miniPCIE ,one standard PCIE 1x, two SATA ports and 2gb DDR2 800 and Win 7 32. With a Radeon HD 5570 it was good for anything until 2007 at 1024x768, the low IPC of the atom CPU is a problem even with a better GPU and the dual- …

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Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-03-11, 16:42

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Some years ago I did a test with a Zotac NM10 ITX Wifi, Atom D525, two miniPCIE ,one standard PCIE 1x, two SATA ports and 2gb DDR2 800 and Win 7 32. With a Radeon HD 5570 it was good for anything until 2007 at 1024x768, the low IPC of the atom CPU is a problem even with a better GPU and the dual- …

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0/SUPER 370DE6 REV 1.2 Motherboard?

Posted on 2023-03-07, 18:57

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Well, From my point of view, that case has a big flaw for that board, and it is that it doesn't have a 5 1/4 bay for an SCSI optical drive or another SCSI drives. It's not a criticism, it's just an opinion.

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0 Motherboard

Posted on 2023-03-07, 17:12

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Looks a lot better than the 370DL3, PCI-X, AGP and integrated SCSI, what more you may ask for on a dual PIII.

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0 Motherboard

Posted on 2023-03-06, 22:30

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I have an old Supermicro server with the original Supermicro high tower case and that motherboard (S370DL3), two Pentium III 1000Mhz, 1.5gb Ram, a RageII PCI graphics card, a Gigabit Intel MT 1000 PCI-X card and a 3ware 9500s-4lp PCI-X card, a Maxtor 10K 80Gb SCSI hard drive and one of the two …

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Re: Identify me - unknown socket 7 board (probably PC-Chips?)

Posted on 2023-02-26, 19:45

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Maybe this one (https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchips-a101) Pcchips A101.

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-26, 11:03

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Regarding the GeForce 8800 series, they all had the same reference heatsink, even the 8800 ultra used the same one as the others, the only thing that changed was the position of the fan and the plastic for decoration. I can say this with total certainty because I disassembled the heatsink of an 8800 …

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-25, 11:54

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Now, pulling from memory, I can name a few that are typical for causing problems: iBook G3 (upside down video chip) and G4 (especially nvidia fx and ati 9xxx) Compaq Presario 1800 (video chip is upside down) Imac G4 Sunflower imac g5 with radeon any Thinkpad with ATI Radeon (which has memory on top …

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-24, 17:14

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General consensus: 90nm - (GeForce 7 refresh, some chipsets, etc.) 80nm - all GeForce 8 series, especially G80, which was expected to work at 90C for prolonged periods of time. 65nm - GeForce 8 refresh (G92), GeForce 9 series and original GTX2xx series. Some 55nm chips (apparently, "Bumpgate" was …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2023-02-24, 14:07

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A little bit of love. I prefer Core2Duo for most of my XP era builds, but I do have a AM2 build with a 45W Athlon X2, which come in E/B lower power classes. It allows for a compact HTPC style PC build , which is my most compact XP build. It does not produce much heat or require too much cooling, …

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-24, 11:47

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I don't think NVIDIA fixed the problem with the G96s because we had a customer who bought a Gigabyte GTX 550TI and started having random problems with his rendering programs after only three months. Since I already saw Nvidia with a bad eye, I told my boss "it's an Nvidia, the problem is the …

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Re: Nvidiagate: which models are affected?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 21:52

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On Desktop, any GPU starting with the 6xxxx series until the 2xx series. I think that even the FX5800 was already affected, or it was the very bad cooling it had. Chipsets, anything newer than nforce 3. On laptop gpus, 6xxx series until at least the 3xx series, I had a laptop with a Geforce 315m …

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Re: Games that will run on more modern (old?) low performance systems

Posted on 2023-02-13, 18:02

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The R7 has half the rops of the 8800gt, 8 vs 16, but the 7570M also has 16, so it's closer to a 8800GT I think. You can't compare these 3 GPUs 1:1 based on specs. They are three different atchitectures. It's difficult to find an official review which has all 3 of these GPUs. This has the R7-240 and …

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