Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?
Posted on 2020-08-04, 12:25
The lost Vikings was a fantastic looking game that ran well even on a 386(IF I remember correctly).
Re: Fastest sdram system?
Posted on 2020-07-28, 11:15
Yeah but when was it ever confused when DDR ram came along? Thats the point im getting at, ram was always SD OR DDR in the early days in the consumer market anyway, their was no confusion about the abbreviation "SD" "RAM" So if you want to be really technical in response to dionb, you should always …
Re: Fastest sdram system?
Posted on 2020-07-28, 10:59
dionb wrote on 2020-07-28, 10:13: If you mean SDR-SDRAM, you should say so. Why? Since when did it matter ? AS long as I can remember their was NEVER any confusion when someone said sd-ram it was interpreted as single data rate. DDR = Double data rate DDR2 DDR3 DDR4 And so on.
Re: Were CD-ROMs common on 386 computers?
Posted on 2020-07-26, 05:13
In 1993 you started seeing CD-ROM drives being offered in new PCs (but it was more of a gimmick than a necessity). In 1994 it became fairly common for 386s and 486s to get CD-ROM drives through multimedia upgrade kits, particularly 2X kits from Creative and Mediavision. I personally knew a bunch of …
Re: Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. Any had experience with it?
Posted on 2020-07-13, 11:13
My interest in this board(chipset) is to run a Voodoo 5500 PCI in the 33bit/66mhz slot with windows 98SE, I saw an asus(?) Version With windows 98 drivers. Guess it's a curiosity as to whether this card would be faster in an MPX platform compared to an N-Force 2 or pentium 4 type platform but …
Re: Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. Any had experience with it?
Posted on 2020-07-11, 05:13
Well, the performance is bad in general, not only for new games. Q3A = 118.2 vs 182.3 or UT = 44.1 vs 61 fps. I don't know how good it will perform in windows 98, all these numbers are measured in XP... still it shouldn't be that much different. I guess for older games this board wil do just fine. …
Re: ISA video cards in DOS - where is the cap?
Posted on 2020-07-05, 21:59
https://youtu.be/laMzPYhFSHE I'm going to sound like a broken record because I've posted this a few times now.... That's my 386DX-40 with a 2meg Cirrus Logic 5434. Basically their is no real difference if you just play dos games even 256kb is enough for gaming if you have that kind of system with an …
Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?
Posted on 2020-07-04, 22:42
I think it's easier to forget about FM midi if you want a PCI sound card, better off buying a PCI sound card for general midi and have an earlier system for FM synthesis. That's the conclusion Ive come too.
Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434
Posted on 2020-06-30, 23:52
For what its worth I've got driver disks for the Diamond Speedstar 64 & STB Nitro 64 (5434, windows 3.1 maybe dos?), if anyone wants a copy let me know.
Re: FX 5500 on old Mainboard
Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:52
My geforce FX5500 is an Axel branded 128bit 256meg card. So maybe thats the difference its not a chinese one?
Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434
Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:52
After testing my 486sx/16 with a GD5422, I found it to be particularly slow. Do you think that an accelerated cirrus chip like the GD5434 would be a better choice for such a machine? Possibly but thats a slow CPU For what its worth in my testing their is no performance disadvantage in any situation …
Re: FX 5500 on old Mainboard
Posted on 2020-06-27, 14:46
I run a FX5500 in my Intel PR440FX socket 8 motherboard its a 1996 vintage, works perfect.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-06-27, 14:45
So glad to see Artex got that Evergreen 5x86-133!
Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434
Posted on 2020-06-27, 14:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laMzPYhFSHE&t=5s Thats a video I made 8 years ago with 2meg Diamond Speedstar64 on my 386DX-40, Dell U2412M monitor, the picture is bloody good on the lcd. Also have the STB Nitro 64 2meg. Would be a good card to recreate.
Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2020-06-20, 21:36
Yeah as cool as the POD83 is or even the Cyrix 5x86-120 the overclocked AMD really is the best compramise, faster than the Cyrix in Quake a bit slower vs POD83 but would do better for most games of the era. Kind of sucks I really liked the Cyrix chip but AMD @ 160mhz is better.
Re: Modern graphics on a 486
Posted on 2020-06-18, 23:42
Yeah im not sure alot of 486 motherboards have PCI 2.1 but the modern cards dont work, could be a power issue not sure.
Re: A TNT2 32MB is apparently better than a 16MB Voodoo 3 3000?
Posted on 2020-06-17, 11:53
One thing about the Voodoo3 vs TNT2 debate was the fact their was no high end TNT2 card for the PCI bus, with 3DFX you had the 3000 PCI and if a PCI slot was all you had their was no other option, 3DFX was a no brainer. Thats why I bought a 3000 back in the day, being a teenager and whatever cheap …
Re: Rant: please stop linking to "Stason .org" for Total Hardware 1999 (TH99) pages
Posted on 2020-05-21, 12:05
I dont understand this at all........ SO whenever I look to google a motherboard, I go to google, I search and Stason.org is often the first site and I will ALWAYS go their when I see the result pop up? Because it works, the information is their and Ive used it for years, No B.S..... Now If I look …
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2020-05-21, 10:54
Yeah I saw that evergreen CPU I was outbid at $520 but didn't realistically expect to win it...... It came up on my search listings and when I saw the evergreen package with a cyrix CPU I thought "Could it be"? And it was on closer inspection. Does anyone know much about the boxes of these evergreen …
Hunting down a powerful, PCI-X motherboard with windows 98SE compatibility?
Posted on 2020-05-14, 00:23
OR a 66mhz capable, 32 bit PCI slot? I think I've narrowed down to the AMD 760MP/MPXX chipset. Motherboards like MSI K7D Asus A7M266-D Tyan Tiger MPX Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P Iwill MPX2 SO basically my needs are windows 98SE & 66mhz PCI support, do I even need drivers or can I just slap a pentium 4 or …
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