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@Geri · 1 month ago

IDE (or PATA, ATA) hard drives were the common standard for hard disks and optical drives, before the SATA standard arrived in the mid 2000s. In this article, i will showcase the last common specimen...

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@Geri · 3 months ago

Homosexuality is a mental illness?

The IT forums and the homosexual-problem This is a very hard topic, and i was wondered for a while, how to write about this issue. Today, a funny incident in a chat-room gave the inspiration to proce...

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@Geri · 3 months ago

Zhaoxin KX-5000 test: the Chinese x86 CPU

This article will introduce the Zhaoxin KX-5000 chip family to the readers. Specifications, and speed tests will be featured here, and background informations will be shared about the Zhaoxin CPU line...

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@Geri · 4 months ago

Gaming without an AGP port after 2000

The AGP port was introduced in 1997. Before this, most 3D cards used the PCI port, but most of the graphics card manufacturers decided to switch to AGP. Even the existing products got an AGP version,...

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@Geri · 8 months ago

The Autistic Manchildren Gamer

The Autistic Manchild Gamer got very excited. His noVideo PooForce 9998GTX finally arrived. Despite he is less useful to the economy than a hailstorm, he was able to save the money (2999 American...

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@Geri · 1 year ago

Upgrading a Pentium 4

The LGA775 platform was one of the most famous platforms by Intel. Its still widely used today. Right now, if you see a random computer, this will be the architecture it was built around. In this arti...

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@Geri · 1 year ago

Final Matrox GPU: the M9120

In this test, the final GPU of Matrox will be showcased. When someone talks about graphics cards and chips for personal computers, most people are aware of the solutions by nVidia, AMD and Intel. Ther...

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@Geri · 1 year ago

Tutorial: Reflowing a graphics card

When the video card starts to die, strange thing will occur on the system. Your video card maybe produces garbled screen on desktop. Maybe pixels are jumping around on the screen. Maybe lines appear o...

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@Geri · 1 year ago

Was the GeForce2MX a scam?

When the year 2000 has arrived, nVidia increased its advertisement campaign to new levels. The new, upcoming GeForce2 line graphics cards were arriving the market. All of the gamemags and pc magazines...

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@Geri · 1 year ago

Gamer graphics cards for $10

I decided to compare 10$ gamer graphics cards. The point of this test is, to see the potential of cheap second-hand graphics cards. Observe, if they can run relatively modern games, and to measure, wh...

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@Geri · 1 year ago

Computer chip sanctions against Russia

Last year i already have written an article about the situation in Ukraine. I thought there will be no point to discuss this issue further, but i have decided to write a small analyzis on the chip san...

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@Geri · 1 year ago

AGP vs PCI - the final battle

The AGP port was introduced in 1997, and it promised bigger bandwidth for graphics cards. Motherboard manufacturers started to add AGP port on motherboards after 1998-1999. Before that, graphics cards...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Overview of the Slot-1/Socket 370 motherboards

Nowadays, motherboards are designed to be compatible with only one generation of processors. After one or two generation, manufacturers are switching to another processor sockets. Back then, this was...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

The truth about the 5G technology

Recently, a lot of friends contacted me about rumors with the new 5G cell phone technology. Various rumors floating around, such as, it causes cancer, or other illness, causes problems with airplanes...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Budget gaming PC from 2004

This article will showcase how it felt to build a low-end gaming PC in 2004. It also contains benchmarks from 11 popular video cards from that era, and explains the problems and hardships that occured...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

nVidia is slowing down old video cards? Or not.

I was curious to see if nVidia is slowing down older video cards with newer drivers, such as the GeForce 8800 era cards. In the late 90s, nVidia indeed slowed down TNT1 and TNT2 card with the newer dr...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Floppies and SD cards: The history of data storage

In this article, i will explain and showcase how computer data storage was developed. Instead of merely quoting raw data, i will explain the phases of each era, and the reasons, pros, cons for each da...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

SMR: The future of hard disk technology

Hard disk technology failed to increase storage capacity in the past decade. By 2010 a typical high-end and mid-range PC had 1-2TB hard drives, and this was the case till recently. With SMR technology...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Explaining the West European energy crisis for dummies

West Europe was controlled by socialist, feminist, liberal statists for decades. This elite lost the connection with reality long time ago. They farted their own ideological bubble around themself, wh...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

GeForce video card panic buying

The price of obsolete, 10-15 year old nVidia graphics cards started to suddenly skyrocket in Europe. As its a wide known phenomenon, the new generations of graphics cards became pretty expensive last...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Retroshare: a new/old replacement for torrent and DC++

Platforms like Facebook, Reddit, and Discord are dangerous. These platforms violate freedom of speech, they are a threat to the national security. Facebook were banning users and asking for their ID c...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Testing the first dual-core processors

The appearance of the first desktop dual core processors reshaped the whole IT industry. Compared to the previous generations, this was a new paradigm in computing, and also required the programmers t...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Pentium3 computer from the hell

In the early 2000s, computer technology continued to develop rapidly. The Socket7 based computers became old, and they got exiled to the entry level, after significant upgrades. Most of the office pro...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Long distance WiFi: how (not) to build one

Recently i started to prepare against internet outage. My goal was to keep in touch with my friends from my area. The most logical step was to create a WiFi based network. Therefore, i have decided to...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Viktor Orban, the feminazi state-god of Hungary

Orbán Viktor (or as some foreigners know him, Victor Orban) is well known in world politics for his anti-immigrant rhetoric. His right-wing supporters hail him for stopping the migration wave, and app...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

Computers in East Europe in the 90s

After the soviets occupied East Europe, the region was the colony of the Soviet Union. Under the years of oppression, everyone who was against the system, were either killed by the secret police, or w...

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@Geri · 2 years ago

The story of my HODL

When more than a decade ago they first mentioned cryptocurrency to me, i rejected the usage of it. Early Bitcoinists failed to explain what Bitcoin is, they didn't even understood the mining itself, s...

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@Geri · 3 years ago

Tragedy of Gaming in early 2000s

In my previous vintage low end gaming system test, i have benchmarked the cheap graphics cards till the end of 1999. In this test, i am going to build the typical low end gaming rig of the early 2000s...

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@Geri · 3 years ago

Software rendering is better than DirectX or OpenGL

I have published this article two years ago, but it got lost from the internet. I got a request to re-upload it. The illustrations in this article lost as well, so i tried to gather them again. Parts...

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@Geri · 3 years ago

Low end processors from the 1990s

I planned to make a test about low-end computers from the late 90s. Actually, more a processor test than a computer test. Instead of gathering various computers, i will use the same Socket7 based comp...

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