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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 AGP under performing?

Posted on 2021-05-01, 12:24

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I've seen many bugs and inexplicable behaviors affecting 3DMark99 scores over the years. Although is nice to run it for nostalgic reasons, I never trust it's scores and would highly discourage using it as only tool to test the 3Dperformance of a system. For voodoo3 cards I'd use Q2/Q3/UT timedemo …

Re: My boxed CPU's!

Posted on 2021-04-30, 09:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

nice stuff! I have various sealed Athlon 64 939/AM2, and some Pentium III/Celeron/Pentium4 but none Athlon XP, they are awesome Same for Pentium/Pentium Pro!

Re: My Windows XP Machines

Posted on 2021-04-30, 09:12

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Nice systems! The MSI Neo2 Platinum (along withe the ASUS P3B-F) is my most loved mainboard of all times Also had the same Chieftec Dragon Midi Tower (black, in my case ) for many, many years... The only thing that I would change is the 9600, I'd replace it with a GeForce3-4-FX in order to have one …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-30, 08:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-04-29, 20:41: @Framebuffer All of those projects sound super fun! Especially the Gtx590 quad sli thanks, hopefully at some point I will share them in a post on the forum 😉

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-29, 20:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bet. Any plans for all this fun stuff? Uhm, some GeForce 7800GS AGP - No specific plans atm but will end up in some late AGP build/compare at some point GeForce 9500GS 512MB - Was very cheap and a nice little card to have. Want to compare it (possibly overclocked) vs a 9700M GT (from an ASUS ROG …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-29, 19:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-04-29, 19:26: Wow nice haul! was an intense week 😁

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-29, 19:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- POW GeForce GTX 590 (2x)

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-29, 19:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- GeForce 7800GS AGP - GeForce 9500GS 512MB - Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT) - Radeon HD5450 PCI edition - ASUS P5A-B w/ K6-2 450 and accessories - Crucial BallistiX Tracer 800 4-4-4-12 - XFX GeForce GTX 260 - ASUS 8800 GTS - DELL Latitude (Pentium4 'Northwood' 1.40GHz / GeForce4 440Go)

Re: Unlocking the hidden potential of the GeForce 6800LE and Radeon X800SE

Posted on 2021-04-26, 18:26

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Uhm, you sure? Can not find any info about X800SE AGP with R430, which is also a PCIe native variant, so it would have required the use of a "Rialto" bridge/chip, increasing production costs, I guess The native PCIe version of the X800SE instead is based on R423 from what I can see

Re: My AGP/PCI-E test system

Posted on 2021-04-26, 12:45

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Nice board, has some annoying things but still one of the best options if you need a fast CPU for AGP. anyway, if " test my retro graphics cards AGP or PCI-E" means testing cards you already know are good and you want to check performances etc. that's fine, on the other hand, if you mean testing …

Re: Unlocking the hidden potential of the GeForce 6800LE and Radeon X800SE

Posted on 2021-04-26, 10:05

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

my X800SE has a R420 core, with printed "SE" on it and should be like this for all the X800SE, no?

Re: Another ultra modern not exactly retro yet build

Posted on 2021-04-25, 18:59

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Wow nice job! How did you measured performance in Doom III? I used MSI Afterburner's benchmark function. I didn't use timedemo instead opted for a longer game play. It would have helped with consistency, but I just now realized because of your question I could have done that :D hehe ok, the …

Unlocking the hidden potential of the GeForce 6800LE and Radeon X800SE

Posted on 2021-04-25, 18:51

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hi Falks, Lately I worked on a little project where I decided to test my GeForce 6800LE card to see how many pp/vp can be unlocked and how far the card can be overclocked. I then decided to add the Radeon X800SE to the project; it has no unlockable pipelines but it can clock very well and it's from …

Re: Another ultra modern not exactly retro yet build

Posted on 2021-04-20, 21:54

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Wow nice job! How did you measured performance in Doom III?

Re: These aren't the results you're looking for

Posted on 2021-04-15, 14:04

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Sure this was just a quick test, later I will run Q3A, UT and Serious Sam (FE)

Re: These aren't the results you're looking for

Posted on 2021-04-15, 09:06

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Oh wow, what a blast from the past. Pretty sure that was the laptop I was sent off to college with in 2002. When the Doom 3 tech demo was leaked, I made a valiant attempt to play it on that thing. Oh I remember, I had a GeForce3 Ti200 and didn't went much better on it, was an early and very heavy …

These aren't the results you're looking for

Posted on 2021-04-14, 15:26

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

OK silly title apart... :D I got this nice DELL C840 with a Pentium 4m 1.40GHz and a GeForce4 MX440 Go https://framebuffer.io/images/upload/dell-c840.jpg And yesterday I clean installed Windows XP SP3 and drivers and did a quick 3DMark 2001SE, but the result surprised me https://framebuffer.io/ …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-04, 08:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had to sell off most of my high end AGP cards at the beginning of the pandemic. Found this posted on Craigslist earlier this week and snatched it up. Works perfectly. The original owner kept it for as long as he did because he liked the artwork. well, along with few Radeon cards with Ruby on it, …

Re: My 'new' Windows 98SE Pentium 200 MMX.

Posted on 2021-03-22, 11:08

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yes probably at some point they needed a new VGA and bought the cheapest one they could find, or something like that I guess 😀

Re: My 'new' Windows 98SE Pentium 200 MMX.

Posted on 2021-03-21, 23:53

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hi Guy! That's a nice little system, Pentium 166MMX (1997) and GF2 MX200 (2001) are a strange couple, but if this is what you have on hand at the moment that's fine and still enough for lot of games 😀 It also makes you one of the few people in the world with a CPU limited MX200 hehe 😉

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