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You reminded me of Oldblivion, a mod made largely in response to lousy performance on GeForceFX hardware…

AMD underinvested in ROPs that generation, and tried to make up some of the shortfall by leaning heavily on shader power to perform AA. The problem below the high end 2900 series parts was that the video decoding block took up an appreciable amount of die space, roughly equal to a block of 40...

I don’t want to get into the thick of anything but I’ll confirm DXR raytracing runs Minecraft agreeably enough. DLSS is locked to Nvidia hardware but I had no issues playing around with RT on Intel Arc hardware, even if it was pretty pokey on an Arc A380 for anything north of 720p. Still...

Funny you mention that - one of the first things that came to mind for me was how quickly an abusive partner could wield this as a weapon against their spouse or children. On a sniff test there's no way this passes the GDPR, and I wouldn't let this onto any machine I use. Hell, I feel queasy...

I’ll second suggestions to snag an FX-8320, and suggest an 8320e could be a steal at the right price. Even an OEM FX-8300 might do the trick.

Not trying to be confrontational in saying this: why would you pay Microsoft full price for a Windows license when it has no impact on how infested the experience is with advertising, dark patterns, and dead-eyed encouragement to give Microsoft money for their services every year for the rest of...

Seems like few of these make it through [H]ardForum these days... If anyone's looking to sell one, let me know what shipping to 75080 would be. Looking to spend around $500. Thanks.

Bump for a really lovely deal.If only I could.

I love dry wit.

Weird thing is, looking back at my posting history on these forums I've gone off on the Volaris at least twice prior. Something about being promised a legitimate third contender in the GPU space back then and being handed trash that worked with heinously low reliability rubbed me wrong. Probably...

Well… other than the hallmark reputation of being Nvidia’s biggest faceplant release so far, the FX series did support a few things later cards didn't that were useful for specific legacy 3D tasks. It was the last line of cards that supported palettized textures, table fog, and other features...

Bump for a killer deal.

It’s somewhere between a 1050 Ti and an RX 570 in general, has a hell of a video encoder and generally modern feature set, and has the option of running without a PCIe connector, though the models that have one are certainly faster under sustained heavy load. The Linux drivers have shaped up...

Ah, yeah, I remember the Volaris. I was in touch with someone in their U.S. office and had the opportunity to beta test drivers on hardware they'd have provided me free of charge, but I passed on the opportunity after an extended family member passed away and I was trying to finish my undergrad...

If you run them all at once in the same room do your eardrums explode or does it herald the apocalypse

TRADED FOR A 16GB ARC A770. THANKS FOR LOOKING! What it says - I want to sell this immense slab of an RTX 3070. It is in good working order and a stalwart, capable performer. I’d like $290 shipped within the continental U.S. This was never mined on. I have positive Heat under FreonTrip. Let me...

I’m pulling for Intel at this point - AMD’s GPU development may have been intractably stunted by their starvation days, and their software team just hasn’t been able to scale to broad competitiveness. I’m not downplaying how good their hardware team has been or the improvements they’ve worked...

Quoting, because I had an MSI-manufactured one that I flat-out adored. Within its limits the card was rock solid, and I loved running all my old games with angle-independent anisotropic filtering and antialiasing forced on. I think I sold it around the time PCI Express became standard, but I...

Much respect for evangelizing your preferred filesystem, and if it works for your use case I'm happy to hear it. ZFS is an interesting choice here, and I'd like to hear about how its capabilities stack up versus NTFS on flash storage, especially since the latter's Master File Table is a...

I’m not sure the DX7 path used bump mapping either, but the DX6 path definitely didn’t. DX6 also forced downsampled textures and I’m pretty sure dynamic lights were borked. There are videos on YouTube of various older cards struggling to manage the game; the Kyro II and Voodoo5 6000 struggle for...

Yeah… Half-Life 2’s method of rendering was tied to the mat_dxlevel parameter, which dictated a number of parameters tied to the feature set associated with each tier of support. At release originally I believe it was “70,” for DirectX 7 hardware like the original Radeons and GeForce256-Geforce2...

Jesus, people really will pay through the nose to feel like it's the year 2000 again, even for a second. I remember a time when these were less valuable than the PCI model because so many AGP implementations of the time were trash.

This list is super approximate and doesn't factor in the various "well, that's cheap, guess I'll throw it into the spare rig" experiments I conducted over the years... Matrox Mystique (original 170MHz RAMDAC, 2MB RAM, later upgraded to 4MB! Shame it didn't have mipmapping, bilinear filtering...

Free bump - if I was in the market for any of this right now, I’d snap it up. Heck, that Threadripper is still tempting me.

Free bump - the A380 is a cute, capable little card within its limits.

OpenGL usually works rather well, and some older titles have gotten attention from Intel's driver maintainers, but by and large you're still better off targeting newer games unless you're keen on trying your hand with different wrappers. YMMV.

In a perfect world around $200 for both, but I’m open to offers. Spending a little more would future proof it a lot more, even for the ring-ding purposes I’m planning to set it to.

Bump! I hope to find an affordable ITX board/CPU with reBAR support!

Based on the images a NewEgg reviewer posted, your best bet might be 3D printing a mount to jerry-rig a fan to the 2U cooler and blasting air through its fins (and dealing with the resulting noise), or installing the board into a case intended to act as a wind tunnel with 140+mm fans on a fairly...

Nudgebump

Man, I don't even know any more. I see the future, and it's capitalism screaming at us to buy things, everywhere we go.

If the TV is impossibly cheap for what's on offer, you can assume that any or all of these things will be true: corners have been cut to arrive at that price point; it will harvest your data in the most ruthlessly expendent fashion possible to sell your viewing habits to whoever's willing to...

Bump with a price drop.

That’s honestly a hell of a price. GLWS

It’ll be interesting to see how the Xe driver on Linux starts to impact things starting with kernel 6.8. That’s the ostensibly architecture-agnostic driver that will work on ARM64, Power, and other platforms, and Intel’s signaled they’re keen to ensure OneAPI portability too. As someone running...

Bump! Added a Hewlett Packard Z440 workstation for sale.

Any chance I could ask you to hold that Silverstone for me until you’re back from vacation?

Welcome to my hardware sale thread. I have positive Heatware under the name FreonTrip, and have been generally engaged in computer bothering since 1995. Previously sold items are listed below the current post. II am looking for an ITX-sized board that supports resizable BAR, as a media server...

For the QXQ4, does that mean I’d need to run the machine off a SATA SSD rather than NVMe, and use a discrete GPU?

The silicon enabling SMT on contemporary Intel chips is around 5% of die size - north of trivial, but definitely not enough to toss it aside and suddenly find yourself with enough space to ramp up P-core count. There is a logic behind having some number of big cores for latency-sensitive...