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Re: The coolest socket 7 motherboard that you’ve never heard of

Posted on 2022-01-23, 13:52

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Started this build finally! One of the first things that I noticed was in the bios, it told me that my vcore was 3.3v Ummm… no good!! After some investigation it turns out they mislabeled vI/O as core voltage in the bios…🙄 I had to be 100% sure though so I directly measured vcc2 to confirm. a bit …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-22, 15:06

by drosse1meyer

in Milliways

in Milliways

As mentioned above, the majority crypto Bitcoin isn't eating GPUs and hasn't been for most of a decade, it's all custom hardware. It could be more energy efficient, but how energy efficient is it already? Yes most large scale operations now utilize custom ASIC chips for mining (look at the stocks …

Re: Help needed troubleshooting a Compaq Deskpro EN series desktop

Posted on 2022-01-21, 15:53

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Replaced RAM? Prob should recap it anyway. i've seen many boards that 'looked good' but would give no post, until a recap.

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-20, 23:07

by drosse1meyer

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Funnily its only a certain segment of the GPU market that has seen stupid price hikes .. No. A Radeon RX6500XT retails for 270-300 USD today. This is a card that is roughly on par with an RZ480 4GB released in 2016 for 200 USD. 6 years old, same performance, almost 50% markup. The ENTIRE product …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-20, 23:01

by drosse1meyer

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm still holding onto my GTX 1080 (nonTI) for probably quite some time. As you should. The 1080 is a great performer. My wife uses a 1080 for 1080p gaming. All the latest games run smooth with full detail. Ray tracing excluded, but no tears being shed about that. Yep. Also I think that DLSS is a …

Re: ( 1995 ) i486DX4-100 “ budget Plug-n-Play build ”.

Posted on 2022-01-19, 22:36

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

So in conclusion. I would say this 1995 computer was painfully slow only because of the 4x CDROM. Installing Win95 from a. 2x or 4x CDROM drive is REALLY SLOW. So I ended up swapping that out for a 52x drive. But that is what users of a 1995 Win95 computer had to deal with. My first PC was a 486dx2 …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-19, 21:46

by drosse1meyer

in Milliways

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Heh, gave a kid in the fam a HD6870 for a build in 2018, he has stuck/been stuck with it since, still been doing okay for the 1080p stuffs, mostly he's been into stuff that's not super demanding. He might have some grumbles now it's been dropped out of driver updates if he gets any new new games …

Re: The end times are nigh, ours is a deserved damnation! MS Game Pass adds another studio : Activision / Blizzard

Posted on 2022-01-19, 19:53

by drosse1meyer

in Milliways

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I see this as a good thing. MS will more then likely eventually clean house of Activison higher ups due to all the scandals that have been going on. Hopefully this means some eventual improvements to games like COD Warzone and OW2. i see it more as them consolidating against Sony/PlayStation and …

Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-01-19, 18:28

by drosse1meyer

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-01-19, 18:17: Hanamichi wrote: Don't quite understand how retailers are allowed to scalp a graphics card but not a PS5/Xbox ? Who said that PS5/Xbox aren't scalped?

Re: What's the process for uninstalling video drivers on 9x?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 14:25

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Video drivers uninstaller (sweeper) for Windows 98 or you can try the basic delete device / remove drivers via control panel / use the vendor uninstaller / mess with various files, which is always fun in 9x...

Re: Is this Pentium 3 PC worth buying?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 14:21

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As others have already pointed out, this specific build may not be optimal for MSDOS gaming... the CPU could be too fast and the sound card may not work. PSU could be a future problem, I seem to recall that even with adapters+ generic atx style, some older Dells can be particular about PFC vs non …

Re: Is this Pentium 3 PC worth buying?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 13:33

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As others have already pointed out, this specific build may not be optimal for MSDOS gaming... the CPU could be too fast and the sound card may not work. PSU could be a future problem, I seem to recall that even with adapters+ generic atx style, some older Dells can be particular about PFC vs non …

Re: Is this Pentium 3 PC worth buying?

Posted on 2022-01-15, 14:49

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It has a dell psu? Those are usually proprietary... is this a Dell machine / motherboard?

Re: Advanced POST card

Posted on 2021-10-31, 13:07

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They are available on amazon and ebay. I would recommend getting one with both isa/pci and a speaker + wire lead.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-26, 12:00

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

TehGuy wrote on 2021-09-25, 22:17: Finally went to Computer Reset for the first time, the haul is as follows Nice! Is this the shuttered place in Texas that LGR etc did videos about? Are they now open or is it invite / by appointment only?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-26, 11:58

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Two recent purchases #1 - Avance ALS100+ Sound card I've read a lot about these cards being 'noisy' from electrical interference and a little finicky but overall they are good and have discrete OPL (clone) chips. I can confirm that when I first installed this, there was definitely a lot of high …

Re: Web browser market share over the years.

Posted on 2021-09-25, 14:09

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Bruninho wrote on 2021-09-19, 22:09: RIP Netscape, best browser I have ever used. Flippin' M$ Long Live Firefox

Re: Noise on pass-through of a Voodoo2 card

Posted on 2021-09-25, 13:56

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I know it's a pain but are you able to test this video set up in a completely different system? Also have you tried another display?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-25, 01:35

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Two recent purchases #1 - Avance ALS100+ Sound card I've read a lot about these cards being 'noisy' from electrical interference and a little finicky but overall they are good and have discrete OPL (clone) chips. I can confirm that when I first installed this, there was definitely a lot of high …

Re: Nirvana

Posted on 2021-09-25, 01:15

by drosse1meyer

in Milliways

in Milliways

Good recent article/retrospective about Cobain: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-time-with-kurt-cobain I wasn't quite a teenager when Nevermind came out, but I don't recall Teen Spirit making much of an impression on me... However one day I heard In Bloom and Lithium and it all …

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