What retro things have you done today?
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They have the articles and pages up, but most of the download links are dead if my recent endeavours to grab stuff from there are anything to go by (unless I was unlucky with the 5 or so drivers I tried to get), and unfortunately due to the way they handled their download slots, the wayback machine doesn’t have the downloads cached
Must be a bit hit or miss, had some modified 7500 mobility drivers from the site a few months back.
I'm tempted to download everything i find now and just archive it, only a matter of time before more stuff starts to vanish, be that drivers or reviews.
Does everyone know about this site: https://www.infania.net/misc/moboarchive/index.html
I only found it today whilst looking for a random motherboard.
We could do with a links sticky or something!
I’ve started doing that on my Mirrored Synology Rackstations, backed up to LTO6. Operating Systems, Software, Games, Drivers and tweaking documents. I can only see the situation deteriorating with mainstream websites.
Yeah that seems far too low to be working properly. What were your FPS results in game 1-4 and also your CPU scores?
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Good idea, Openreach are around atm installing fiber in the street, so happy to host stuff once i get that!
Well the game scores are all down by 25-30%, but I’d say your CPU score is down by 15% as well, so... chipset drivers?
But assuming you are running a Catalyst 6> release, they are mature for the 9x00 series, so should offer a decent performance gain over release day drivers.
I was using chipset driver 2.64 (newest from mobo website!). Now installing ver 5.1 from nvidia.
Also.
I am never going to own this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-IBM-T...83.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true
I went up to 40 before having to back down!!
Also.
I am never going to own this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-IBM-T...83.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true
I went up to 40 before having to back down!!
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lol £63.
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Nice improvement, haha!
Well with uplifts like that how can you complain! What did you change? I still think you could get closer to 4,000 but there could be many factors causing it.Up to 3000 now. Very close to what the original reviews got so I will call this as working
@Firestar_3x These look to be the right DRAM chips for my ViRGE/DX. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-MT4C16...549109&hash=item2ef368492f:g:424AAOSwHoFXu7eI These are the right 50NS rated (matching the ones that are on the card) chips.
Shame that the S3 Trio64 only uses 4 chips total (2 soldered, 2 expansion) as I've got a fully populated S3 Trio64 "Diamond Stealth 64" here that has the right RAM, but I'd have to desolder the two on-board chips to put on the ViRGE.
Not worth potentially killing the card as it's a nice bit of memorabilia.
Shame that the S3 Trio64 only uses 4 chips total (2 soldered, 2 expansion) as I've got a fully populated S3 Trio64 "Diamond Stealth 64" here that has the right RAM, but I'd have to desolder the two on-board chips to put on the ViRGE.
Not worth potentially killing the card as it's a nice bit of memorabilia.
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Nice, will pull my card out and have a look, iirc mine are also listed explicitly as 83mhz on the chips.