Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 03:11

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@zyzzle For those of us who deal with seasonal hot and humid weather, a 200W monitor is not something I would want to have running when my AC can already barely keep up, regardless of energy costs.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-14, 01:50

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Floppies are missing, but everything else seems there. EDIT: I think I remember seeing those combo packs at Radio Shack back in the day. Filename IMG_20240513_210456575.jpg File size 1.52 MiB Views 433 views

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 04:52

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TBH, i felt sadder when Gravis gave up on sound cards than when 3dfx kicked the bucket. A few decades later, I see things a bit differently, but still sometimes wonder about what could (or at least might) have been, but wasn't. There are many such paths not taken. In retrospect, being happy knowing …

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Re: DOS software for post-ISA sound devices

Posted on 2024-05-11, 00:21

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SBEMU and VSBHDA Well, that would also include all the ISA SB emulation software bundled with many PCI sound cards... Almost all the ISA SB emulation software would not qualify as "supporting newer hardware" if the hardware in question (and its bundled software) is at least 20 years old, IMHO. To …

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Re: DOS software for post-ISA sound devices

Posted on 2024-05-10, 14:32

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Grzyb wrote on 2024-05-10, 14:06: Vast majority of DOS software only supports ISA sound cards... however, there's a few programs with native support for newer har […] Show full quote Vast majority of DOS software only supports ISA sound cards... however, there's a few programs with native support …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 03:25

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Apparent resolution isn't that important to me. I would rather watch Fawlty Towers at 50p run through a decent deinterlacer and reasonably scaled to whatever my screen needs. I don't care for upsampling that tries to increase apparent sharpness or "recover/(re)invent" detail. Or at least I have not …

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Re: At which point does pcie nvme become faster?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 22:19

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Keep in mind that for optimal NVME performance you need to connect it to a north bridge. It is worth mentioning that on a PCIE 1.x system, 4 lanes of PCIE gives a max of about 1 Gigabyte per second. 4 lanes PCIe 1.x can give 800 Megabytes per second tops. I was quoting the most commonly mentioned …

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Re: Full recap of Chieftec CFT-650-14C PSU - I need some info about its electrolytic capacitors

Posted on 2024-05-09, 12:29

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Another idea came to my mind. If I take a controller chip with a well documented circuit from another PSU (I have a couple of quite old working power supplies with lower power - up to 400 W), I can make an additional small PCB to be wired-in and which will be responsible only for monitoring the …

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Re: Full recap of Chieftec CFT-650-14C PSU - I need some info about its electrolytic capacitors

Posted on 2024-05-09, 10:49

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The "power good" signal to +5 V line dirty hack totally worked. Now I officially have a "100% chinese quality" ATX PSU of a respected brand. I hope the new Samxon GF caps will hold up well in +5 V lines at least for a couple of years. And for my surprise even in shi*ipedia this "power good" mod is …

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Re: At which point does pcie nvme become faster?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 04:53

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Do you mean you are asking at which hardware point, ie from which hardware specs on is an nvme drive faster ? I've had an nvme drive attached to a thunderbolt3 controller connected to an X58 mainboard attain 2Megabyte/s in linux. was even hot swappable. Pretty sure it's also possible in windows if …

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Re: At which point does pcie nvme become faster?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 00:09

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It is worth mentioning that on a PCIE 1.x system, 4 lanes of PCIE gives a max of about 1 Gigabyte per second. On such a system, a garden variety 2-lane SATA 3 controller will get about half that, but will be easier to boot from. On anything pre-PCIE, the difference beween SATA and NVME will be …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 12:33

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Upscaled DVD can look quite decent on my 55-inch 4K TV if a) it was properly mastered, not oversharpened and not overcompressed b) a decent upscaler is used. I actually like the one in my Sony UBP-X700 UHD Blu-ray player when it's own sharpening is toned down a notch. c) the DVD contains film-based …

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Re: Finding 4.25.00.37 BIOS for GF4 TI4600 / fixing DVI output

Posted on 2024-05-08, 11:14

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I suspect that an in-line EDID emulator programmed to look like a monitor that only supports modes that require 165MHz or less (single link DVI) might completely bypass the issue. I have had to do this the get reliable ooeration on an FX5900 and newer monitors that support (and advertise in their …

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Re: GDI Printer Driver for Windows 3.11

Posted on 2024-05-04, 04:09

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See Printing from DOS/Win3.1/WIn95 for a workaround . EDIT: https://web.archive.org/web/20160331022348/ht … SPSprinter.html As the original link is dead

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-29, 01:19

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Errius wrote on 2024-04-28, 01:33: It figures this place would have a bunch of industrial guys who wrangle old hardware for pay not fun. Getting paid for it doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. Job satisfaction is a thing for the luckier ones among us. I wish it to everyone.

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 13:54

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Is EBCDIC still a thing? I remember messing around with that a few years ago when I was learning about text encodings. EditPadLite can read EBCDIC files. Old tech almost never dies, it just gets more niche. While I have never encountered anything other than ASCII or UTF in my work, thankfully, but …

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 06:04

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TY for the punched card lore. I will now let non career IT folks continue to out themselves as such.

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-22, 05:59

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Hmmm, seems to have been user error though... The explosion is considered to have been caused by a direct connection being made between two phases of the 660volt incoming supply. This is thought to have occurred when the electro-technical officer chose to test the availability of the incoming …

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-22, 03:18

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This morning, I did not know I was buying another meter, but came across this one for a couple of bucks. Late 80s Micronta, made in Korea, clamshell digital autoranging unit, model 22-193 ... I liked how I could angle the display and it has that "stay the F there" kind of heft... if there's two …

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Re: Confused over Logitech USB receivers of recent years, anyone know them well?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 00:52

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Hi folks, I just grabbed a Mk320 desktop set yesterday for peanuts, less than a large coffee, I could see it had the mouse missing, but it had "a" USB receiver in there and the keyboard. I thought at the time it was worth it for another unifying receiver, because I have more other Logitech stuff …

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