Re: 440(BX/LX, etc.) AGP GPUs compatibility or rather should I say incompatibility?

Posted on Today, 00:21

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Those motherboards are bad with the AGP GPUs compatibility and I don't know why people like them so much and consider them best of all time. When it comes to AGP compatibility they are bad. I tested 3 motherboards: 2 440BX (Siemens Nixdorf D1107 and ECS P6BXT-A+ Rev.: 2.2E) and 1 440LX (VL-601). …

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Re: Best games for rush

Posted on Yesterday, 07:51

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Rush was a bit of an odd duck. The performance was well below the original Voodoo so even something like a Rage Pro is roughly comparable (if lacking in features/image quality). You can't really expect 30 fps at 640x480 in many titles. Dropping to 512x384 brought nice gains on a Voodoo, it might …

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Re: P3 1.4-S @ 1700MHZ

Posted on Yesterday, 05:44

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So before I throw out this turdburger of a motherboard here are the promised pics. I have also tested this same wire trick on MSI and Gigabyte socket 370 boards and it works on all of the ones I have. I cut a section of wire from an 80 wire ide cable to bridge the pins in the socket and laid a …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on Yesterday, 05:26

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Yes that "choose your OS" was a bit common during certain years with workstation class machines. Certain mid 2000's Dell Vostro's were that way, either XP or Win2k3 iirc.. Win2k3? As in Windows Server 2003? I've seen plenty of Dell machines that were XP/Vista but never in my life have I seen a …

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Re: P3 1.4-S @ 1700MHZ

Posted on 2024-05-18, 07:27

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OMG I just jumped out of bed to post this, I completely forgot about this stupid motherboard! It was an ebay purchase a few years ago and it has NEVER worked right with any of my PCI expansion cards! 🤣 I feel so dumb right now, my god.

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Re: P3 1.4-S @ 1700MHZ

Posted on 2024-05-18, 05:12

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Got some nice improvements in all benchmark results when I run the memory at the same speed as the FSB. However for some reason this board doesn't let you choose 162 if you're running FSB and memory 1:1, the closest is 160 and then there is a gap until 166. Anyway I have the ram at more relaxed …

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P3 1.4-S @ 1700MHZ

Posted on 2024-05-17, 09:57

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I can never just leave well enough alone and always end up playing around with and tweaking my old hardware. Anyway for a while now I've wanted to see what the best speed I could get out of this 1.4 is and with a small wire mod to the socket on an Asus TUSL2-C to give it some extra voltage I think …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-12, 01:29

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Found another Dell Pentium 2 233 today. Its bios password protected so I need to reset it. Anyone have advice on that? Is the riva 128 a good card? Is the awe 64 good? Thanks https://i.imgur.com/0k09BZ6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oY0cMMq.jpg https://i.imgur.com/cBTImNy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/i5K4yCQ. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-27, 09:05

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I'm sorta, kinda, maybe considering buying this old mystery PC as a project. Anyone care to venture what the motherboard looks like from this very limited eBay listing? Seller has no info about the PC. I can see it's ATX, 4 dimms EDIT: Actually, looks like 2x2 different RAM kinds. (1 AGP?) 1 AMR. 5 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-18, 10:52

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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-04-18, 04:39: Hey us Amiga fans are not a cult, we wear perfectly normal underwear.... probably. You guys wear underwear?

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-01, 04:31

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I just tried out Heroes of Might and Magic 4 on my P4 and boy does it ever suck! After about 5 minutes I closed it. I'll probably give it a go again in a few days but for now it's back to HOMM 2 and 3 for me.

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Re: Sandra 2003 - Can't find online

Posted on 2024-03-18, 07:39

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What I usually do is to use archive.org and go to the manufacturer's website at the time where the version I'm looking for was released. And even if the download links are broken because the file hasn't been archived, it will often reveal the filename of the download which you can then google. I …

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Sandra 2003 - Can't find online

Posted on 2024-03-18, 07:13

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I'm looking to download the free version of Sisoft Sandra 2002 or 2003 but I'm not having any luck. Are there any mirrors for these old versions? Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask.

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Re: Another Voodoo 2 SLI bridge

Posted on 2024-03-10, 22:54

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Like many I made my own cable many years ago from a floppy cable and I wouldn't mind having a PCB but the actual SLI connectors aren't perfectly aligned on my two cards. Both are the same model too.

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Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 19:47

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Does the GPU core temp move when you stress the card? Does it get to 80? There's no way it's hot if the heatsink isn't hot. Paste looks fine OK, so I applied some new thermal paste and now it shows 66 degrees on the desktop. Apparently, the contact between the heatsink and the chip got better? 🤨 I …

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Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 00:11

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Yea, 134 is set by default, I can't change the temperature threshold, but 150°C sounds crazy. I've attached a photo. Still maybe the issue is with the bad contact? Because there's barely any thermal paste on heatsink.. If that's how little contact there is you should add more paste. Air is far …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2024-03-04, 00:07

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Norton Commander wrote on 2024-03-03, 18:34: You have a high end XP machine (gaming). My XP PC is a Compaq from 2004. […] Show full quote You have a high end XP machine (gaming). My XP PC is a Compaq from 2004. Intel Pentium M715 1.5 GHz 2 GB RAM DDR 133MHz Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME graphics 55 GB …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2024-03-03, 01:18

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I've tested Supermium on XP Sp3 x86 and Windows 7 SP1 x64. My Windows XP machine is single core with 3 GB RAM. It runs miserably slow. My Windows 7 PC is dual core with 8 GB RAM and it runs fine. Supermium is based on Chromium 121 so no suprise that early XP era machines will have trouble running …

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-02-23, 23:51

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but I would love to find an affordable Asus board to use this CPU and RAM in. Unfortunately the ebay prices are way too much these days though. According to comments on the recent Core2 thread, they're hitting a die off point. So I don't know if it's wise to invest in one at any price. Even if you …

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Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2024-02-23, 22:20

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Scores updated! Your 2K score was decent. Cool! I did a bit of video card overclocking. Default clockspeeds according to the Nvidia control panel are 400mhz core and 800mhz memory. This Quadro card is rock stable with a 50mhz overclock on core and 100mhz on memory so here are the results with those …

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