Re: Getting hold of a K6-2+/K6-3+

Posted on 2013-03-29, 11:53

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by elfuego

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Hi guys I'm new here! Happy to find people with a K6III+ working today... One of my champions is a K6III+ that is running RocK SoliD @633!!! It runs Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS with Compiz and full visual effects enabled. CPU runs at 380 (Power Now! active and full supported by kernel) while moving cube …

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Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2013-03-29, 11:39

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1st and foremost: Chaintech 5AGM2 - don't touch this piece of junk even with a pointy stick. 2nd on the list - PC Chips M810L (SiS 730s). It had everything integrated, but also an AGP slot. I inserted GF2MX and used for a while until the board went dead. I received a replacement - and whoopsala: the …

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Re: Sisoft Sandra 99 weird results

Posted on 2013-03-26, 14:02

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by elfuego

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The old sandra had a time-based bug. You could just slow down the system clock and get incredible results. Maybe it has also something to do with that.

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2013-03-26, 13:40

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I know the issue you are describing: It looks like scanlines shifting horizontally. It is most noticeable with text and vertical lines. This "interference" issue happens on all my Voodoo 5 cards and seems to have crept up over time. I suspect it's caused by ageing electronic components ( …

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Re: Game skills you really suck at?

Posted on 2013-03-26, 13:35

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by elfuego

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Angry birds. 😜

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Re: Best PCI VGA for a K6-III+

Posted on 2013-03-24, 04:23

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by elfuego

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i got to admit that mvp3 actually has less agp compatibility issues than ali5, at least in win2000. I find this somehow hard to believe, as I used Chaintech 5AGM2 (MVP3) and it sucked at AGP performance. Totally. I also happily used Asus P5A with no issues whatsoever. But to be honest, I did only …

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Re: Morrowind is sloooow!

Posted on 2013-03-22, 14:14

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by elfuego

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jwt27 wrote: My experience with wine is that Diablo 2 runs OK. Not much else. Don't give up on wine so fast 😀 I played a bunch of games on wine, even the modern ones usually work satisfactory. Just make sure you get the right DX-components and it will (usually) work just fine. 😉

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Re: SB16 vs DBs (hanging / stuck / wrong notes in MIDI)

Posted on 2013-03-17, 23:31

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by elfuego

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senrew wrote: Is there a way around the issue of not being able to use a joystick when you have a daughtercard plugged in? Yup - plug in another card 😊

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Re: Morrowind is sloooow!

Posted on 2013-03-15, 02:30

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by elfuego

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Try compatibility mode! It cant hurt and it takes only a few seconds of your testing time. Its a shot in the dark, but who knows?

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Re: Comparing the Roland SC-55 vs Yamaha DB50XG

Posted on 2013-03-14, 08:46

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by elfuego

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I had both and I must admit, at least in Duke3D I liked yamaha more. As a rule of thumb, if the game music is 'rock-style' or something dynamic with lots of drums and similar - it may sound better on yamaha. Everything else (like soft background music of RPG games, or Settlers and virtually all MT32 …

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Re: Morrowind is sloooow!

Posted on 2013-03-13, 12:59

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by elfuego

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The CPU is somewhat of a bottleneck believe it or not. But you should be more in the 30s for frame rate. I never used P4, but I do know that I played and finished Morrowind on athlon XP 1700+ witd DDR 266 and there was no stuttering even with Radeon 8500. It must be some kind of a bug or …

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Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-07, 14:11

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by elfuego

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I'm a sniper myself for other, more personal reasons: I cannot control myself when bidding. If someone bids a few cents more, I'll usually match it, even if the price is too high. I dislike having to regret that I paid for something more then I really wanted to, so I just place my maximum bid (the …

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Re: Absolute minimum rig for browsing and such; what do you guys think?

Posted on 2013-03-06, 18:30

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by elfuego

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... The limiting factor was Youtube videos and Flash-based web players. It is only a matter of time before web bloat overpowers the dual Tualatin 1.4 GHz ... I agree, my single Tually still provides a quite decent browsing experience, but feels on the edge of being defeated by the contemporary (as …

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Re: Games that don't run properly on faster CPUs

Posted on 2013-03-04, 13:58

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by elfuego

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Syndicate crashes for me with a fast CPU (P75 133 and Pentium 166 MMX tested) when using a sound blaster (tried various creative cards). Anyone else every had that issue? It makes a loud sound like breaking glass and then freezes - quite scary the first time it happened! Hmm... I think I used to …

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2013-03-04, 11:40

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by elfuego

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About power consumption of that era: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/dis … 600gt-oc_3.html GF 6800 (vanilla) - 39 W GF FX 5700 - 24 W Radeon 9600 xt - 22 W

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2013-03-04, 11:31

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by elfuego

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I admit I am becoming irritated reading your posts. You obviously don't understand the point of this forum let alone this thread. He doesn't want a modernized rig for retrogaming, he wants a restomod rig with era-correct hardware, optimized to play old games . I am sorry to get anyone irritated. …

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Re: What motherboard/CPU? For Retro Glide Rig with 98se/XP on SATA SSD

Posted on 2013-03-02, 10:33

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by elfuego

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Can't you extent the options to KT133A too? I'd bet that a mobile barton on an Abit KT7a would perform better then the PIII alternative. It doesnt have the 512MB RAM limitation of tualatin boards and features an ISA slot. I'd also bet that its a better alternative than finding a BX-PIII board with …

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2013-03-01, 10:14

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by elfuego

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Do they have Windows 98 drivers? can you get an AGP 560Ti? The answer is obviously no. OK let me rephrase it. My GF 6800 Ultra AGP totally OWNS ... bla bla - you get the idea. :wink: Or, just use Windows XP instead (the games you mentioned will work perfectly on XP). Oh and, please, if possible, do …

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2013-02-28, 23:25

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the GF cards work better with both D3D and OpenGL games... ... I can most old games smoothly with 4x FSAA and anisotropic filtering using a 64MB Geforce 4 MX440... I can't do that with the V5 without it turning into a slideshow and looking like someone smeared vaseline on my screen :disapproving:. …

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Re: Voodoo II headache!

Posted on 2013-02-28, 23:07

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by elfuego

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PowerPie5000 wrote: Was it possible to flash the Voodoo2 bios back then? Did it even have a video bios?? No, and no. The problem that you have is, as ratfing pointed out, a common one and driver related. If everything else fails, reinstall Win98 and it will work.

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