Re: Game to test old 3D cards - 1st generation (virge, rage...)

Posted on 2011-06-05, 17:04

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by noshutdown

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i used win98 and dx9c to run 3dmark99/2000/01, need for speed 3, glquake1/2/3 and glexcess on following 3d cards: g200 trident9880 riva128 i740 rage pro(3dmark01 crashes) permedia2(3dmark01 won't run) sis6326(quake3 crashes) rendition1000(3dmark01 won't run) to my standard, one must support both d3d …

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Re: World's Best PCI-based 486 System

Posted on 2011-06-05, 12:10

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by noshutdown

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some amd5x86-133 are capable of running at 200, although i believe running at 60*3 would be faster(if your mainboard and ram can cope with that). well those cpus may be hard to find today, but some may have a lot of them left from last century...

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Re: old nVidia detonator drivers - recommendation and where to get them?

Posted on 2011-06-04, 05:13

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by noshutdown

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maybe newer drivers are more optimized for your k7 processor. i tried 8.05 and 30.82 on my p3-s platform, with only ~1% improvement. versions between 40 and 60 do yield some improvements but they are also very unstable and must be avoided, so my preference are: tnt: 8.05 tnt2: 30.82 from gf256 to …

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Re: How useful or useless is a 386 SX machine?

Posted on 2011-05-31, 12:49

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by noshutdown

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its very useful in calculating superpi in ~600 hours!

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Re: My new extraordinary midi setup !!!

Posted on 2011-05-30, 01:35

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by noshutdown

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yeah man that's a really cool idea, unfortunately win2000 and later don't support customized config anymore.

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Re: P4 multiplier

Posted on 2011-05-27, 15:11

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by noshutdown

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i think you are right. the "p4-m" and "mobile-p4" are different things, i looked into this years ago but now have forgotten all about it.

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Re: 486 DX 2 66 What OS

Posted on 2011-05-24, 04:16

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by noshutdown

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i would recommend win95osr2, sometimes called windows97. its a re-release and much more mature than the initial win95, just like win98se to initial win98. it supports fat32 and usb, in case there is one on 486 boards, and better software compatibility. better have 32mb of ram, 16mb may be tight.

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Re: How's this for a future collectible?

Posted on 2011-05-23, 08:03

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by noshutdown

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The 6800Ultra Extreme is not an official product released by nvidia, but an overclocked version by a few manufacturers.

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Re: what's the fastest 3d card you can use on a 486?

Posted on 2011-05-21, 21:02

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by noshutdown

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i am talking about, more modern d3d and opengl benchmarks, like 3dmark and quake. s3virge hardly supports either d3d or opengl, so i really don't want to mention it when it comes to 3d cards. well, according to my tests it does 4~4.5fps in glquake/quake2(with third party wrapper) and ~200pts in …

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what's the fastest 3d card you can use on a 486?

Posted on 2011-05-21, 18:20

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by noshutdown

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of course we can only look into pci cards, but there are a few more things to be concerned with: 1.some graphics driver may require p5/p6/mmx cores and simple won't run on 486 systems. 2.even if it would run, the driver itself may draw too much fpu power, and make a newer card run even slower than …

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Re: How's this for a future collectible?

Posted on 2011-05-20, 01:30

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by noshutdown

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Being that only 175 were made makes it already collectible. No future needed ;) The rarity is somewhat offset by the fact that most regular 6800 Ultras and many 6800GT's can take a BIOS flash to get them to run at 6800 Ultra Extreme speeds and both of those cards are a helluva lot easier to get and …

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Re: Has anyone run Windows 98 on a Via C3 processor?

Posted on 2011-05-18, 11:46

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by noshutdown

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that's not reasonable, p55c has the best per-clock fpu performance of all socket7 cpus. i think i see a record of p55c overclocked to 112*3 taking only 6 minutes, almost on par with k6-3-500! cyrix on the other hand seems to have the slowest fpu in all socket7s, with idt and rise sitting between amd …

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Re: Has anyone run Windows 98 on a Via C3 processor?

Posted on 2011-05-18, 01:36

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by noshutdown

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Replacing a P3-550 with a VIA C3 600 is a true downgrade, unfortunately. The early C3's had an FPU that was running at half the speed of the rest of the CPU. And even the first C3 to feature full speed FPU was considerably slower then a similarly clocked Celeron . even the latest "nehemiah" core of …

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Re: Lowest CPU to play MP3s

Posted on 2011-05-17, 16:26

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by noshutdown

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at around 13 years ago i used winplay3 to play mp3s on my amd5x86-133 oc 150, and cpu usage is over 80%. dunno if a pci soundcard would be a bit faster than that old realtek isa soundcard. havn't tried mpxplay, on pentium or newer cpus winamp seems to be a lot more efficient than winplay3, maybe due …

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Re: 98SE and P4 EE

Posted on 2011-05-16, 18:27

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by noshutdown

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the fastest single core cpu in the netburst family is the 3.46EE, as its 3 level cache structure is more efficient, while prescott's 2mb l2 cache has higher latency. as for the 3.46ee, i consider it to be generally comparable to an overclocked athlon64-939-e6 running at 200*13 or 250*10. however, a …

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Re: any experience with ali5 boards?

Posted on 2011-05-15, 10:22

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by noshutdown

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"games go out of speed control" problem fixed, most likely caused by windows incorrectly detecting cpu frequency with acpi core.

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Re: Some questions about RAM in a 486 with MS-DOS.

Posted on 2011-05-15, 07:00

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by noshutdown

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how can i run dos games on a 256mb computer then? 😳

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Re: Collectible video cards

Posted on 2011-05-13, 01:53

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by noshutdown

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the superpi performance of viac3 is awesome! 🤣

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Re: two s3 virge/vx cards

Posted on 2011-05-12, 04:04

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by noshutdown

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^ I had a Kyro II card until earlier today. A kid came over to check out my old Micron P200 box and buy it from me and he spotted the Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 I had and he just had to have it so I just gave it to him. I give credit to that card because it tries so damn hard to impress but, …

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Re: two s3 virge/vx cards

Posted on 2011-05-12, 03:19

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by noshutdown

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downgraded DX7 cards group: savage2000 radeon7000ve matrox g550 powervr kyro2 😎

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