Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 650Ti / X-Fi

Posted on 2023-06-13, 18:03

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I've been happy with Asus Strix GTX 960 fan noise, GTX 970 could be a bit noisier as it's faster but that's the model I'd give a try. Thanks, I'll check out some reviews of that one. That said, most reviewers appear to be more tolerant to noise than me. For example, they labeled the MSI GTX 970 4G …

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Re: i5-3570K / MSI Z77A-G43 / GTX 650Ti / X-Fi

Posted on 2023-06-13, 17:09

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Replaced the 3350P CPU with an 3570K. I wasn't really looking to upgrade, but the 3570K came bundled with some other parts that I bought, so I figured why not. The new CPU improved my benchmarks a bit, but I'm still GPU bound at the highest resolutions. Still, plenty of performance for most WinXP …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-06-13, 11:10

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MI2.JPG Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge I find it impossible to make any kind of absolute top lists of things I like, but if you were to put a gun to my head and force me to pick my all time favorite game this is the one I might choose. This has been the big box game I've wanted the most for …

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Re: Getting started with my first late dos and early win 98SE build

Posted on 2023-06-10, 11:38

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The PC Speaker header exists on SBLive and Audigy 1 cards. I don't know if it's still available on Audigy 2 and ZS models though. I took a look at my Audigy 2 SB0240 which I'm going to put up for sale soonish, there's no PC Speaker header on it. Safe to assume ZS doesn't have it either I imagine. …

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Re: rather peroid correct pc to play ps1 multi plattform titel in best possible quality?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 07:14

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As already mentioned a decent Pentium 3 System with Katamai vor Coppermine and a Geforce 2 sounds like a good idea. Price wise the higher clocked P3 seems to be cheaper than the lower clocked ones. Couple things about those in case you weren't aware: GeForce2 does have great compatibility for that …

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Re: rather peroid correct pc to play ps1 multi plattform titel in best possible quality?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 10:11

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Something like a Pentium 3 + GeForce2 - GeForce4 MX rig should do it otherwise but Resident Evil is extremely fussy about hardware and pretty much requires ~133MHz CPU and maybe possibly Windows 95, which is way too slow for the other games. You can get away with earlier video card but some of those …

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Re: Fastest graphics possible for a p2 400 mhz (Asus P2B mainboard)

Posted on 2023-06-07, 09:25

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And from 98 or 99 onwards (please correct me if am wrong) Direct3d and OpenGL started to catch up with glide quality-wise minus some expectations of course. I think Unreal is one of the most famous expectations. But again feel free to correct me if I am wrong. I don't know how many games there are …

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Re: Fastest graphics possible for a p2 400 mhz (Asus P2B mainboard)

Posted on 2023-06-07, 08:15

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Have to agree that getting a Voodoo 3 card would be a perfect match for a late 90s system. Unfortunately, the Voodoo 3 is too expensive to seriously consider it for a first build. Yeah on ebay prices have gone out of hand, but it is still possible to find them elsewhere at reasonable prices. Plenty …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 09:18

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So you can say that I am serious about my retro games. It's veeery common in this hobby to have your first "do-it-all" retro PC to go bunny and multiply by five in no time. There IS NO do-it-all PC, there's always something that it can't do perfectly. Just look at bloodem, guy has a retro PC for …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 08:48

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On the other hand, it might be a case of VBIOS corruption. I've seen a video by @vswitchzero where he brought two Voodoo 3 cards back to life by simply re-flashing the BIOS. Yep, tried that during troubleshooting, flasher couldn't recognize the card and aborted. I posted about the whole mess on the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 08:08

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Seems like I'm currently going through a period of planned obsolescence, all my stuff is breaking. First 6800 GT croaked, then Voodoo3 2000 and now Sound Blaster Z I had in my "modern" PC (that just had its 9th birthday) continued the streak. What's next in line, my apartment burns down and I get …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 06:56

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After feeling the need to play through TIE Fighter again, I finally moved my UMAX mac clone out of the way, and set up my DOS machine again. This, in turn, led me to figuring out why windows 3.11 wasn't happy with my sound setup, and figuring out that I had accidentally set both sound cards to …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 17:20

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Not only elitist it sounds crazy. As most of you guys should now by the many threads I have already made that i am also about the get my first win 98 gaming machine. During my research process I also checked the specs of he late 90s and early 2000 games I am in and for most of the games a 800mhz …

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Re: Voodoo. 2 Sli vs Voodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-06-02, 14:24

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PS/2 can sample the mouse at up to 200Hz, which is plenty. You just have to adjust the sampling rate in windows Right, I had actually completely forgotten that I had seen a tool to increase the sample rate in Win98 and I may have never used a PS/2 mouse on later OS's that I assume have a built in …

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Re: Voodoo. 2 Sli vs Voodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-06-01, 19:18

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However, mouse movement feels much more responsive with 60+ FPS, at least to me. Absolutely. Except when you use a PS/2 mouse, then you're screwed regardless 😁 That was actually one of the biggest surprises I ran into when I built my P3 machine, I'm not the biggest fps snob on the planet but laggy …

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Re: Voodoo. 2 Sli vs Voodoo3 ? Which configuration would be more flexible?

Posted on 2023-06-01, 15:30

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That's good to know becuse there some Unreal Engine games on my to play list. I want to play Unreal, UT, Klingon Honor Guard and Deus Ex on my upcoming rig. Cpu wise I should be ok with P3 800 MHZ for that era I guess.??? Have not seen the mainboard yet so I cannot confirm it but the owner also …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-01, 14:03

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Sometimes the surface mount capacitors get damaged on the front or back of the card while in storage. Inspect the card closely for damage. There may even be cracked capacitors too small to see without a microscope. I could't see any visible signs just by ogling it by naked eye, not that I could do …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-01, 05:24

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Yesterday I noticed the prices of 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 have only gone up on ebay since the last time I checked, some lunatic has even paid 200€ for one! As I own both V3 2000 and 3000 greed started to creep in and I figured I could sell the 3k and keep the other as in my use I don't need the extra …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 14:39

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Finished VTM:Bloodlines . All in all, I think the initial two thirds of the game (minus the sewer section) are pretty good, but the quality drops rapidly during the last third, i.e. after you finish Chinatown and the Giovanni Mansion. Basically, every area from that point onward consists only of …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-25, 16:08

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Anyway, Bloodlines looks pretty sweet at 1600x1200 with some AA and AF on top. This kinda amuses me, since I used to have huge performance issues with this game back in the day. But this time, I'm running it on an overpowered WinXP rig at a locked 60 FPS, and that should make this playthrough go …

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