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  @armandobardo68615 күн бұрын

  Centaur Hauls porcessor were a really sh1t LOL

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  @GordonTechno5 күн бұрын

  Excellent! I have an old EPIA-M mobo with Samuel 2 600MHz Eden. Not a gaming platform for sure. It was really intended for multimedia. The UniChrome graphics has MPEG-2 accelerator so it plays DVD disks nicely. Good with AVI files as well. It was often used for Kiosks running PowerPoint presentations and the like.

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  @dabombinablemi61889 күн бұрын

  With a different utility you should be able to easily run the core at 125MHz. The 16MB Fastware Vanta (currently in use with my K6-II/III+, is also AGP 1.5V capable) has 125MHz core and memory clocks from the factory. Has a very thin cooler however with a 40mm fan, and still gets too hot in an enclosed case without air directed at it. Using the drivers for my Viper V550 the card is seen as a Diamond Vanta (aka the V730 I think) - despite the card being limited to AGP 2x. At worst it matches the Viper V550 in performance BTW (paired with a Celeron 500 in slotket).

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  @ashleybreadgirls122811 күн бұрын

  I remember reading the s3 wikipedia page and hearing abt a "fixed" savage 2000, im certain theyre extremely rare and drivers even rarer (let alone any good). Wish someone would document those

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  @franksmith727123 күн бұрын

  Idk much about Australia, but what I can tell you is this. I worked damn hard wearing the top of my unit, and I’d do it all again… 28 seconds at a time! 😂

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  @faketek509524 күн бұрын

  Nice video! I spent some time before with the SiS Mirage iGPU (which is based on SiS 315) and didn't know you could turn off VSync in Windows 98 using registry tweaks.

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  @techdistractions23 күн бұрын

  Give it a shot! I have found it can be a bit of hit-or-miss as SIS were a little random with the IGP implementations

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  @TheKsax25 күн бұрын

  How does it compare to Toshiba Libretto? They seem similar size, but to my eye it seems that Librettos better specked, and got impressive expand-ability, especially in later models.

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  @techdistractions25 күн бұрын

  The Libretto 100CT is a good comparison, released around the same time. I concur with your statement above, all around the Toshiba was the better unit, at-least in my memory. The Casio keyboard, screen resolution and quality is a bit better (scale-to-fit issue aside). I’ll need to circle back later regarding battery life but I remember my 100CT lasting about an hour and a half - just under my daily commute. That was on the standard battery. One last thing about Libretto, many were sold in Australia and I barely saw any in the workshop (we were one of 2 authorised repair depots in sydney) when we did it was usually due to customer damage

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  @arizonapalms26 күн бұрын

  I wonder if there's a secret button combination that will let you expand to full screen scaling, might be worth trying different combinations as this has worked for me before!

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  @techdistractions26 күн бұрын

  Yep have tried the lot :-) I even looked for potential register settings but I dont believe there’s a way to do it. I noted on the later models they also had no ability to “scale to fit” either

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  @gentuxable12 күн бұрын

  Yeah I think on Compaq it was Fn+T (yeah the letter T) which was never shown that it was to stretch the panel.

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  @infinity2z3r0726 күн бұрын

  Really cool! Almost never saw sub-notebooks in the wild back then. It's apparent how janky the touchpad/button combo would be for everyday use and probably even the engineers knew too. But it didn't matter. These products were all about how small you could build a "real" PC. Nobody else in the world could do this at the time. Japan showing off a bit!

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  @techdistractions26 күн бұрын

  The manual explains how to “roll” on the touchpad, like I do in Virtual Pool to create enough runway to move the mouse cursor. It reminds me of how you pick up and drop a mouse if you run out of room.. I remember being absolutely gobsmacked when this japanese businesswoman brought a Toshiba Libretto FF1100 in to the workshop in late 1999. It has this translucent case and a wired remote to control music and it could text to speech email. I remember swapping a motherboard on it and just being amazed on what they could cram jn there. It looked almost fake

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  @GigAHerZ6426 күн бұрын

  Hey! It has scaling! Windows logo on boot is at 320x200, but it shows it similar to MS DOS display size. That means it does integer scaling! When you can double the pixels, it will do it. For many, this is exactly the ideal behavior of scaling on lcd. ;) Edit: later dos software also shows integer scaling. They are 2x scaled.

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  @techdistractions26 күн бұрын

  Yes, in some resolutions it will double but not all. For example 400x300 (HSVGA) does not double and fill the screen. My point (perhaps not well made) was I’d actually prefer the chunky “stretch to fit” that was common with laptops. Yes, it’s not the ideal way to do it but it sure beats squinting :-) I’d like the option to have been there in some way.

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  @MotownBatman26 күн бұрын

  I would Love to find a Small Pentium 90 or 486 100 like I used to carry around, but smaller like this. I had a small P2 or 3 VIO years ago, but Its been lost to the trash over time The Book 386 is cool, but so limited, this is a major upgrade lol

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  @techdistractions26 күн бұрын

  they're becoming a bit harder to find thesedays thats for sure!

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  @cocoe68Ай бұрын

  It is a nice candidate to document this board and BIOS upload at The Retro Web site. 😊 It will be nice for all retrocomputer community.

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  @techdistractionsАй бұрын

  from recall this one's already there.. but will double check and add it along with the bios :-) I've been contemplating doing a few very high resolution board shots for another project

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  @rafanowacki2260Ай бұрын

  Atari turbo Blizzard and loading games from a cassette tape 😉🕹👍 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKGZu9GYaaSXadY.html

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  @rafanowacki2260Ай бұрын

  In 1987, I played this game for the first time at a friend's house, and in 1988 I bought an Atari 65XE with an XC12 tape recorder and I had this game in the XL and XE versions on the first cassette. Greetings from Poland🕹😉👍

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  @techdistractionsАй бұрын

  hello and thank you for sharing your memories - such a cool game!

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  @Jo30136Ай бұрын

  Very nice video with great graphs and history. Thank you for this video!

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  @armorgeddonАй бұрын

  McLaren MP4/4 aus 1988. Fast schon zu modern ;-)

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  @mirific87Ай бұрын

  I've got a Pine Phantom XP Sis 315e with 32mb DDR memory (PCI), I wonder if it's faster. The full SiS 315 was a TNT2 with T&L for the masses. It was really interesting how it did the bilinear approximation which resulted in some strange textures in Quake 3 for example. It always applied the bilinear filtering to transparent textures correctly. The press at the time praised its FSAA but it wasn't without issues and some drivers disabled it. It was a strange card, plagued by drivers slightly better than S3 Savage but not by much.

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  @techdistractionsАй бұрын

  I reckon the full 315 was not that much faster but needed more expensive parts. I would like to see one with a proper T&L unit but everything I’ve seen either has it disabled or enabled, but not effective.

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  @mirific87Ай бұрын

  main issues that I find with retro laptops is poor screen quality. SBEMU sorted a lot of the sound issues if you have a supported chipset, but the screen bleeding or poor refresh/ghosting is horrid to deal with. Ofc you can use external display.

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  @gfunkster2 ай бұрын

  I have one and it has many positives for retro, definitely. I had one issue which I’m wondering if you did. When the CPU goes idle on mine there’s a high pitched noise that drives me absolutely nuts. Just moving the mouse makes the CPU usage go up enough to make it stop but sure enough, stop for a second and it’s back

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  @techdistractionsАй бұрын

  ouch yes that would be annoying! the idle power whine sounds a bit more like the fault of power circuitry on the mainboard have you tried disabling any power management features in windows? it might give some relief but it does sound like you potentially have some investigation to do on the motherboard

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  @infinity2z3r072 ай бұрын

  Make sure to try the final driver (Phil has it on his site). It's from 2002 for Windows ME but installs fine on 98se. Definitely much better than the included Rage Pro driver on Windows.

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  @whollenbeck82 ай бұрын

  How do I get this to run in Windows 10? I already tried compatibility mode window 95 and 98 with no luck.

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  Yeah i dont think it’ll work on 10 If i recall the latest i could get it in was xp

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  @dabombinablemi61882 ай бұрын

  I wonder if it'd take a K6-II+/III+.

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  @gfunkster2 ай бұрын

  It does indeed

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  @IAmTheStiv2 ай бұрын

  i love including the green guide add to get some context of the time. Great video.

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  @hugogarro2 ай бұрын

  Siempre quise una pero no podia comprarla en la epoca en que salió :(

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  @techdistractionsАй бұрын

  yes, unaffordable when new - I even had staff discount and still couldnt afford it!

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  @siliconinsect2 ай бұрын

  Active matrix LCD and thumping JBL speakers! In school I found a Presario 1210 with dim backlight and, once replaced, the passive LCD was terrible. Thing was still a champion for abuse. By the time it was retired for the second time it had 40GB HDD, CD burner, and most of the letters had worn off the keyboard. $5 mix CDs funded a Thinkpad 600x pretty quickly ;-)

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  @foobar-9k2 ай бұрын

  For Quake II, there was an AMD 3DNow! optimized version that helped quite a bit (IIRC) on those K6-2 CPUs.

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  @Blackadder752 ай бұрын

  Of course not, laptops were terribad in the past, and even worse for gaming. Nobody used them unless it was really necessary for travel Even today laptops are still not great for gaming, although they are now good for business work.

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  @krauterz2 ай бұрын

  we used to use laptops for playing WoW and CSS at lan parties all the time in early 2000's, I can think of several great examples. Yes, generally speaking they werent/arent as good at gaming than desktops of similar value but there is something to be said for not having to carry a CRT monitor around with you to your mates place.

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  @Blackadder752 ай бұрын

  @@krauterz yes this illustrates my point, they were crap, so every gamer had a decent desktop at home, but if necessary, (travel) people would occasionally use the laptop for some multiplayer fun, trading performance for human opponents. also Wow CS:S was 2004 or more likely 2005 or 2006, so that's already a different world compared to this 1999 example

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  @FlyingDutchman198012 ай бұрын

  @@Blackadder75 you're forgetting the realities of vintage gaming. Many vintage gamers now have a wife and children, and limited space in their home. Their spouse would frown upon a full desktop and CRT setup that would only be occasionally used. So laptops are a good alternative.

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  @Blackadder752 ай бұрын

  @@FlyingDutchman19801 hmm, not convinced, that scenario is very unlikely. If your hobby is vintage gaming on original hardware , you can make some space for it, you don't need a dedicated man cave just for a vintage PC..... you wouldn't handicap yourself on trash hardware. Spending a few hours working out a nice storage system that the whole family can life with would be more than worth it. And if you are not that dedicated to the original hardware, you could just use dosbox on a newer system.

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  @techdistractionsАй бұрын

  it's an interesting topic - I reckon there is a use case for the old laptop, but it's far from the ultimate retro experience. I used to repair a lot of these units back in the day (for a living) so for me there's a bit of extra nostalgia, maybe I am biased :-)

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  @fra44552 ай бұрын

  Great👍

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  @madalinbetea98712 ай бұрын

  What about hd video playback ?.

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  @developerfriendly2 ай бұрын

  great video, thank you!

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  @mesterak2 ай бұрын

  I have a couple EPIA NX motherboards I’m gonna install into some unusual “containers”, so it was good to see how Unichrome games. Thanks for sharing!

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  Awesome - would love to see any completed projects. If you check out my mini itx documentary video you will see some interesting mini itx community projects made back in the day - Via even produced a celebration book about it :-)

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  @mesterak2 ай бұрын

  @@techdistractions oh I will definitely go check that out. When I finish this first project, I will let you know. I generally will post whatever builds I make on Reddit, so you will be able to see what I did. I admit this first one is definitely unique, and I have never seen it done before, so hopefully others enjoy it and perhaps get inspired to do something interesting themselves. Thanks for replying. I appreciate your content and will continue to hunt through your videos for additional inspiration for my own ideas. 👍

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  @haysoos1232 ай бұрын

  Love Dosbox Pure! Really makes old dos games easier to set up like the platform was a console. Great choice of games here to showcase.

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  @AlamoOriginal2 ай бұрын

  Cool that means with DOSBox pure you can run Windows 95/98 too lol

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  @oldschooldriver2 ай бұрын

  hi! just saw at 1:24 that m64 has agp, pci, does that mean i can insert it to any of these slots? I have M64 vanta and it fits agp, didn’t try to insert it to pci, afraid of some blow. i’ll confused is m64 vanta is twice cutted tnt2? or m64=vanta? don’t you know is m64 vanta 16 mb much faster than sis630et integrated video card? sorry for my poor English, i’m penguin.

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  Hello :-) M64 was available in AGP and PCI versions AGP and PCI slots are physically different Vanta LT from this video was only available as AGP. There are other Vanta versions that were PCI and AGP as essentially they are otherwise similar to M64. Vanta is a M64 with reduced speeds, Vanta LT is a Vanta with reduced speeds. Only difference is Vanta LT is physically a smaller chip perhaps with some small changes I would say the M64/Vanta in PCI form would be significantly faster than the SIS 300 in IGP form (630 chipset).

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  @oldschooldriver2 ай бұрын

  @@techdistractions huge thank you bro!

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  @oldschooldriver2 ай бұрын

  my first pc was on intel i810 i failed to find it and bought sis630et don’t you know are they similar by power? also can’t figure out the vram of this sus630et, i’m bios i have option up to 128 vram but when loading pc i see message xxx of ram with 8 mb shared memory, so this video card uses no more than 8 mb from sdram?

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  I did a video on the 810 and in my experience the performance is similar to the SIS 300 IGP inside the 630 chipset. Regarding your VRAM issue I would suggest finding the exact motherboard make and model and look it up on retroweb. Being a cheaper board you might find its a simple setting to enable a higher VRAM count. I would expect to see atleast 16 megabytes as an option on a 300 IGP.

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  @mtunayucer2 ай бұрын

  What a timing, i just saw vanta lt 16mb card on listing for 6 dollars. Thinking about should i buy it for pentium 2 era pcs?

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  if it's cheap enough sure why not, but you're asking a guy who impulse buys a lot! .. so I am not sure you should take my advice ;-)

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  @mtunayucer2 ай бұрын

  @@techdistractions yeah i do that too! Ended up with so many parts

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  @modlabs2 ай бұрын

  On your screens i see that NVIDIA works in PCI mode. Why?

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  that's a really good question - i don't have a strong explanation I am afraid i've had a few situations where I've had the reverse (PCI card being detected as AGP). Everest still saw it as AGP so I put it down to the driver I guess..

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  @modlabs2 ай бұрын

  @@techdistractions please, try to reinstall chipset drivers before you installing VGA drivers. For sure it should show AGP insted of PCI

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  @FoxMulder782 ай бұрын

  To counter the mixer clipping issue with games that reset the mixer you can try with a third party utility. There's a little TSR mixer program on the VOGONS Vintage Driver Library under the Sound Devices -> Creative Labs category with the Sound Blaster Pro Volume Control TSR file title; it's a very useful piece of software for every SB Pro owner actually called SBPVOL Ver. 4.01 written by a spanish programmer back in the late 90's. It's description reads "SBPVOL, the SB Pro remote control is a resident program to adjust the volume of all the channels of the SB Pro. It only takes 1056 bytes of memory and works under nearly every single program (even under Windows in protected mode)". It can also turn the lowpass output filter on/off and Stereo/Mono switches of the SB Pro by a simple keyboard shortcut and uses the keyboard 3 leds as indicators when you switch settings.

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  Will give this one a go cheers!

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  @justinc42612 ай бұрын

  Interesting! I found a little "kiosk PC" based on a Celeron M with IEG2 and was surprised how well it was handling 3D games in Win98, so its really interesting to see this integrated graphics solution in a direct comparison. In a lot of ways systems built around this platform seem to make a better Win98 gaming PC than many more 'fancy' solutions - plenty capable for the vast majority of stuff, and can also be small and quiet! (just less exciting!)

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  @bondjovi45952 ай бұрын

  Tech hoarders, lol.

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  Totally guilty

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  @ebridgewater2 ай бұрын

  03:10 Oh my, I have not heard 'cache' pronounced that way before.

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  Commonly pronounced that way by Australians :-) i’ll try to break the habit but it’s unlikely haha..

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  @thegeforce66252 ай бұрын

  That machine looks very similar to my HP Compaq NC6000.

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  @ScientificZoom2 ай бұрын

  do older igps have direct agp also🤔

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  Some do, some were still connected to the PCI Bus - but in Intels case they were pushing their AGP standard so putting it on all sorts.. :-)

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  @ScientificZoom2 ай бұрын

  @@techdistractions i see, well sometimes ago with my old pentium lll processor i found this absolutely true, Underlying so many things were there, just wow

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  @evandrochaves95962 ай бұрын

  Very interesting, I have an Asus P5PE-VM with that same chipset and IGP that just needs a recapping, but still works, I bought a bunch of AGP cards a coffee's worth but none of them worked reliably, guess I'll just use the IGP then since it seems really capable It's actually much more powerful than my first pc which had a Asus k8v-vm ultra that had a horrible via/s3g IGP, with a sempron 2600+ and Geforce 7200gs, all the way back in 2007

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  @zarkeh30132 ай бұрын

  i740 was okay-ish... I can only image later iterations in IGP form would be better as yeah, as those buses improved. It's jus' .... it's not as ego fulfilling as other cards. lol, <3 all (egobusters)

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  So true.. I always wanted the higher end cards back in the day but the wallet would say otherwise lol

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  @squeeeb2 ай бұрын

  My family had a similar Aptiva in 1999. K6-2 350 with ATi rage pro onboard. Oh and a Quantum Bigfoot hard drive lol.

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  @elektronischermeister2 ай бұрын

  To all people who still has a Voodoo graphics card, please, please, active cool the chip. It will last longer.

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  @ViperBenchmarks2 ай бұрын

  3:53 Celeron 2600 same price as AXP 2600, buying C2600 its like a scam lol

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  @RetroLaptopy2 ай бұрын

  I have same feelings using integrated intel graphics (Extreme graphics 2, GMA 900/950) combined with Pentium M at Windows 98 laptops. Decent gaming performance without extra power need and heat generation.

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  @attel20912 ай бұрын

  Well based just by specs intel should have lost to MX400 but my guess is that it is just memory bandwith limited to heck as IGP has more than double the bandwith. TnL games might be just broken with Intel that the GF2 might try to play though not very well and note that time there was also ATI 9100 IGP available as a competition

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  @techdistractions2 ай бұрын

  I’d love to get my hands on the early ATI IGP boards. It would be interesting to compare.