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Need advice on what to keep

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First post, by Karhu0

Posted on 2014-04-12, 22:32

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Hello everybody.

I decided to get rid some of my retro and old hardware but can't think what I should give away.
Have to say that it isn't so easy to let go of these but I need more space and I don't have enough time for these all so hope that these make someone happy.

Here's list of what I have:

Athlon Xp #1
3200+ Barton
Asus A7V600-X KT600 motherboard
3Gb DDR 400MHz CL3
128Mb Geforce 6600 DDR2

Athlon Xp #2
2200+ Tbred
Soltek SL75-KAV KT133A motherboard recapped with Rubycon caps and has ISA slot
1.5Gb SDRAM 133MHz CL3
16Mb 3dfx Voodoo 3 v3500

Pentium 4 #1
Pentium 4 2.4GHz HT 512kB L2 800MHz Northwood OR Pentium 4 2.8GHz 1Mb L2 533MHz Prescott
Asus P4P800 i865 Motherboard
4Gb DDR 400MHz CL3
128Mb Geforce 6600 DDR2

Pentium 4 #2
Pentium 4 630 3.0GHz HT
Abit IP35-E P35 motherboard
4Gb DDR2 800MHz CL5
256Mb GeForce 8600GT DDR3 or 256Mb Geforce 7600GT DDR2
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

and I have one system that I wont give away as base retro system

Pentium 3 500MHz Katmai OR Pentium 3 933MHz Coppermine Slotket
Aopen AX6BC
768Mb 133MHz SDRAM CL3
64Mb GeForce 4 TI4200
4Mb Voodoo 1
Sound Blaster 128 or Sound Blaster 16 ISA

So two systems should go atleast and their options also 😢 but I can change parts between setup ...

Reply 1 of 2, by Karhu0

Posted on 2014-04-23, 06:14

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Well I decided to get rid of the Pentium #1 but need to decide on the second system.

Reply 2 of 2, by obobskivich

Posted on 2014-04-23, 06:27

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I'd probably get rid of the AthlonXP 3200 system; my reasoning is that the T-bred is likely going to be a better "tweener" to sit between a Pentium 3 and the HT Pentium 4 for compatibility (I don't see any application where the XP 3200+ would have an advantage over the HT P4), especially if you "re-worked" a few builds - put the 3dfx card in the Pentium 3, put the Ti 4200 in the AthlonXP and let it serve up DirectX 7/8 titles with gusto, and let the HT 630 handle DX9 under XP. 😀

I'd go with the GeForce 8600 for the Pentium 4 too; it offers more complete video acceleration support and (if memory serves) will provide better shader performance and filtering quality as well (due to general improvements that went into G80).

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