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The tech upgrade cycle is getting exhausting in Hobbies & Leisure ·
Is it just me, or does it feel like there's a "limited time" discount on every gadget the second a new version hits the shelves? I feel like I'm constantly playing this game of waiting for a deal only for the next model to make my current gear feel ancient. Does anyone actually wait for these windows, or do you just buy what you need when you need it?
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GPU Buying Guide - (Read first post) in Desktops ·
I need an AGP graphics card to give my PC a little boost up to $67, used is fine.
Right now I'm running an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, but my macOS graphics score is sitting at 3.4. I’d like something better if possible—ideally something that supports Metal and Vulkan... plus I need it to handle the macOS Aero effects without lagging.

Here are my system specs; let me know if you need anything else:
Code:
CPU-Z TXT Report
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Processors
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 2

APICs
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Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0 0
-- Thread 1 1

Timers
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ACPI timer 3.580 MHz
Perf timer 2.928 MHz
Sys timer 1.000 KHz
BCLK timer 199.88 MHz

Processors Information
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Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name AMD Athlon XP
Codename Prescott
Specification AMD Athlon XP CPU 3.00GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 478 mPGA (0x2)
CPUID F.4.1
Extended CPUID F.4
Core Stepping E0
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 3.0 GHz Multiplier x bus speed 100.0 x
Multiplier x Bus Speed 15.0 x 199.9 MHz
Rated Bus speed 799.5 MHz
Stock frequency 3000 MHz
Instructions sets SSE, AVX, SSE3
L1 Data cache 16 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache L1 Cache 12 KB, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 1024 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control no

Thread dumps
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CPU Thread 0
APIC ID 0
Topology Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 0
Type 01001003h
Max CPUID level 00000005h
Max CPUID ext. level 80000008h
Cache descriptor Level 1, D, 16 KB, 2 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 2, U, 1 MB, 2 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 1, T, 12 KB, 2 thread(s)

CPUID
0x00000000 0x00000005 0x756E6547 0x6C65746E 0x49656E69
0x00000001 0x00000F41 0x00020800 0x0000441D 0xBFEBFBFF
0x00000002 0x605B5001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x007C7040
0x00000003 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x00000004 0x00004121 0x01C0003F 0x0000001F 0x00000000
0x00000004 0x00004143 0x01C0103F 0x000003FF 0x00000000
0x00000005 0x00000040 0x00000040 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000000 0x80000008 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000002 0x20202020 0x20202020 0x20202020 0x6E492020
0x80000003 0x286C6574 0x50202952 0x69746E65 0x52286D75
0x80000004 0x20342029 0x20555043 0x30302E33 0x007A4847
0x80000005 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000006 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x04006040 0x00000000
0x80000007 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000008 0x00002024 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000

MSR 0x0000001B 0x00000000 0xFEE00900
MSR 0x00000017 0x000A0000 0x00000000
MSR 0x0000002C 0x00000000 0x0F12010F
MSR 0x000001A0 0x00000000 0x20840089

CPU Thread 1
APIC ID 1
Topology Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 1
Type 01001003h
Max CPUID level 00000005h
Max CPUID ext. level 80000008h
Cache descriptor Level 1, D, 16 KB, 2 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 2, U, 1 MB, 2 thread(s)
Cache descriptor Level 1, T, 12 KB, 2 thread(s)

CPUID
0x00000000 0x00000005 0x756E6547 0x6C65746E 0x49656E69
0x00000001 0x00000F41 0x01020800 0x0000441D 0xBFEBFBFF
0x00000002 0x605B5001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x007C7040
0x00000003 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x00000004 0x00004121 0x01C0003F 0x0000001F 0x00000000
0x00000004 0x00004143 0x01C0103F 0x000003FF 0x00000000
0x00000005 0x00000040 0x00000040 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000000 0x80000008 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000002 0x20202020 0x20202020 0x20202020 0x6E492020
0x80000003 0x286C6574 0x50202952 0x69746E65 0x52286D75
0x80000004 0x20342029 0x20555043 0x30302E33 0x007A4847
0x80000005 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000006 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x04006040 0x00000000
0x80000007 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000008 0x00002024 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000

MSR 0x0000001B 0x00000000 0xFEE00800
MSR 0x00000017 0x000A0000 0x00000000
MSR 0x0000002C 0x00000000 0x0F12010F
MSR 0x000001A0 0x00000000 0x20840089

Chipset
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Northbridge AMD i865P/PE/G/i848P rev. A2
Southbridge AMD 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 02
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 3.0
AGP Transfer Rate 8x
AGP SBA supported, enabled
Memory Type DDR
Memory Size 2 GBytes
Channels Dual
Memory Frequency 199.9 MHz (1:1)
CAS# latency (CL) 2.5
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 4
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4
Cycle Time (tRAS) 8
Performance Mode enabled
MCHBAR I/O Base address 0x0FECF0000
MCHBAR I/O Size 256
MCHBAR registers
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
00 08 10 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
10 22 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60 00 05 C0 D2 C6 42 14 00 71 42 20 20 05 80 00 00
70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
B0 24 08 00 00 24 08 00 00 24 08 00 00 24 08 00 00
C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Monitoring
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Mainboard Model P4P800SE (0x00000204 - 0x00B3CD30)

LPCIO
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LPCIO Vendor Winbond
LPCIO Model W83627THF
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Raspberry Pi projects in Programming ·
restlessdrifter692 said:Harold Jones5, I can't quite follow what you wrote there, but I assume they're just different variations on the same theme (I'm a total amateur when it comes to electronics and programming).

Arduino is built on Atmel AVR ATMega chips that come pre-loaded with a bootloader. It’s mostly for hobbyists and people just starting out in electronics. ARM and MIPS are a bit more "serious" processors, generally used for commercial products, though I've seen some hobbyists tackle them too—usually professionals playing around with gear in their spare time. Look, a chip by itself is useless; it has to be "connected" to something to be functional, running some kind of program. That is exactly what Arduino is: a bridge between the chip and the world. You have USB and GPIO pins where you plug in things Arduino calls "shields"—which are basically just daughterboards. It’s a very "Lego-like" system; for many projects, you won't even need a soldering iron. The basic principle is picking up a signal (analog), feeding it to a processor that processes it, and then sending a signal back out through an "output." Now, that signal could be a simple high-low toggle or various "protocols" that actually carry data (like serial TX/RX, interrupts, or SPI) which need to be interpreted. You start small, like turning on an LED via a digital output (I'm not entirely sure if there are analog outputs or just digital ones here), and from there, the possibilities slowly open up. First, you might want to fade an LED, and you'll quickly learn that simply lowering the voltage on an analog output won't give you the results you expect because an LED doesn't work like a tungsten filament bulb. That's when you discover PWM, which uses a digital output to simulate the effect, and that's how the learning curve starts.
Eventually, you'll move on to increasingly complex tasks. Depending on how fast you learn, within six months to six years, you'll find the memory is too small and the processing speed is too slow. You'll jump to a more powerful processor, then an even stronger one, perhaps one with specific capabilities like parallel processing (where you'll learn about vectorization and SIMD), or ultra-low power consumption. Eventually, you might even want a processor that handles certain tasks in hardware that you would otherwise have to program, which is where Intel enters the picture... and so on.
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Raspberry Pi projects in Programming ·
restlessdrifter692 said:Is anyone actually working with Arduino or anything in that vein?

Not really focusing on AVR. I'm more into MIPS, ARM, and various Chinese Intel chips with up to 100k gates that you can pick up for pennies.
It’s all essentially the same thing. 🙂
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