Re: Problems with CT2230
Posted on 2012-03-25, 21:32
is it a jumpered version? you may have to set the IRQ/IO/DMA manually in the sb16 driver, I've had to do that on my systems back when that was new.
Re: Problems with CT2230
Posted on 2012-03-25, 21:19
erm.... win9x has sb16 drivers built in... I have a system myself with an SB16 and win95c and win98se both detected it and use it on install.
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-25, 21:16
That is definitely a step in the right direction. I wonder if you may have missed my earlier statement about bandwidth and them increasing it a huge amount? I said once that happens I will change my tune. Perhaps what you are talking about is that path, I dunno at this point.
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-25, 19:50
That's part of my point, bandwidth isn't much of an issue for general desktop use now... but I understand the point of your post, I think. You don't see things going the way I do, our views differ. 😀
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-25, 11:15
but that's exactly why they are so useful for evaluating old machines. The industry grows in unexpected ways and at that exponential rate, and today's budget machines just won't be able to keep up, just like yesteryear's machines... partly because they cut corners to only meet current needs of basic …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2012-03-24, 19:22
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Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 16:25
But at least they are a bit more upgradeable than they were back then. Back then they gave you some pathetic onboard video like S3 Trio and no AGP slot. There aren't many cheap PC's these days that don't have at least one PCIe x16 slot that you can put a better video card in and disable the onboard …
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 16:20
. . . . If you don't call that playing well then I don't know what is. erk... that was hitching so bad it was near unplayable. didn't you notice the player kept wrecking and spinning out from the lack of control induced by the hitching? Budget stuff has made leaps and bounds. That much is …
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 07:30
I wonder if they are putting some sort of throttling or priority queuing in the hardware to accomplish that. Care to check prime95 blend FFT time to completion/benchmark while running GPU intensive tasks versus idle besides prime95?
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 06:48
That I would have to see to believe that it was running as well as a system with a discrete video card would. That's like sharing a 1 inch water main with 100 other residents and saying you always get the same amount of water flow out of your tap... sure, you would if nobody else is using water.... …
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 06:27
oh I believe it. that fits entirely in L2 cache so ram I/O is not even being used, defeating the whole point by not actually using a lot of RAM to CPU bandwidth. That's the same thing I had to do on those systems I was talking about in order to actually be able to test them instead of them going …
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 05:46
Not when you look at total system performance, as I have been saying the whole time. When do you run something that stresses only the video card, short of things like folding@home or bitcoin mining?
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 05:33
oh, I see. I misunderstood, sorry. I will always see any video without it's own dedicated RAM and the bandwidth that goes with that configuration as crap when someone talks about doing anything besides simple desktop work with said system. There is simply no getting around the bandwidth starving …
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 05:06
We are talking about 2-3 years ago. check the post... celeron dual core, means most likely an 800 fsb core 2 duo with almost all L2 disabled, meaning a g31 or g41 motherboard...
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 04:51
I use budget stuff everyday, my main laptop is a Acer Aspire One, and my desktop is a Celeron 2.6 dual core with Intel GMA. Both system do what I ask of them flawlessly. The desktop plays many of the newer games like NFS Undercover just fine. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS OS: Windows XP/Vista CPU: …
Re: Kmart Blue-light PC
Posted on 2012-03-24, 03:52
Today's budget stuff is so much better because RAM is so cheap now. I actually disagree. budget stuff isn't much better, mainly because it's still starving the system of ram bandwidth by the onboard video using system ram and bandwidth for it's tasks, to the point that even some things that are …
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2012-03-23, 17:50
Im sorry, but I have no idea where you are getting your information. VLB had absolutely nothing to do with PCI and VLB had horrible inherent limitations which made it INCREDIBLY ill suited to servers, many servers still had EISA along with PCI and I have never, ever seen a single server with VLB in …
Re: S3 Trio64V+ memory?
Posted on 2012-03-23, 17:11
back when that stuff was new, I only ever wanted more than 1MB when I started using win95 and wanted a higher resolution and color depth than 1MB could give me...
Re: Planning a rig with Voodoo graphics
Posted on 2012-03-23, 16:58
back in the day almost nothing had onboard ethernet. 3com etherlink II and III and intel pro/100 were the good ones, there were others out there too.
Re: Planning a rig with Voodoo graphics
Posted on 2012-03-23, 06:33
Don't forget the supermicro P3TDE6. 😀
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