is 500mhz early? I couldn't run One Must Fall on that one. No, they were the among the latest. They had already relabled the lower multipliers for high values. I have a K6-2 300 AFR, which was one of the fastest K6-2 CPUs which would still clock at lower speeds. I can't drag myself to try if it …

Sure you see the difference in loop times. Just look at my post again: "Depending on what you do..." And when it comes to loop counting, the p2 wins. So where am I wrong?

Indeed. Depending on what you do, a P2-266 can beat a K6-2 500. Run a turbo Pascal game eith RT200 error. The p2 is fast enough to cause the error, the K6-2 is not.

I have a "dead one" too, but that one is far more cooperative. It even enters 3D on non-cloackspread systems but shows a broken mouse cursor in some games. I may bake it too. But the other is still doing fine.

What did it do to say "I am dead"?

That Dallas Clock chip spells trouble.

It certainly would have been nice if 3dfx had used slightly beefier heatsinks. There's not much surface area there. But my 80x15mm fan on 5v has worked fine. I set this up years ago. http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3906/voodoo580mm.th.jpg I cool mine the same way. Just that I have a much larger …

Interesting table. It confirms my own conclusion, that P1 and 486 remain much more responsive when you start to peel away the cache. With a P2 or P3 you basically drop back to a fast 286 once you turn off L1. And nothing else really matters there. Still, there is some good software to do to the …

When it comes to PnP vs fiddling around with settings until you get it right, then I'll go with PnP That is funny, because I'd see it exactly the opposite way. With pre-pnp YOU choose IRQ and DMA and are not at the mercy of your PC bios. I don't go out of my way to collect every single part number …

While we are at it: If you have a choice between CT3980 and CT2760, which one would you choose? Both have "opl inside" chips, both have a midi daughter board connector, and neither has the hexen plague. The CT2760 is configurable by software and has to have IRQ and DMA reserved in Bios, the other is …

Well, 3dfx chips are hot by default. I did this: I removed the two small fans (too loud) and replaced them with one 12 or 14 inch fan. I used a large cable binder to fix the fan on the card, running the binder round the long side of the card. Then I used hot glue to fix the fan to the cable binder. …

Privateer develops audio problems with 16 MB EMS. Limit EMS to 12 MB and it works.

I don't know... having 3 systems sounds more FUN! Personally I find that maintaining one system takes up enough time already. I have a working 486 stored away, and the parts for a working SS7 in some boxes. I just dismantled a retro-rocket (2000MHz & ISA), because I suddenly didn't need the rocket …

But that is exactly what you'll be doing in DOS. I'll install the stuff and then only read from it. The few safegames are not going to kill it. Aside from that, just push it into your USB card reader and back up to your 2 TB HDD in case of CF failure. Or you grab one of the earlier 30 GB SSDs and …

I'm thinking of a way to come up with a 3 way toggle switch for L1, L2 Cache enable disable. AFAIK, there is software to do L1 for pentiums. It even works for some P3 boards. How did you use your CF cards for DOS? IDE > CF adapter? How well do they run or how slow are they? :blush: For DOS, they …

Yes, I am using V1/V5 together. I have installed the V1 then the V5 so the drivers in Windows are of v5 type. If a game is to use V1, I copy the V1 files into the game directory, so the game starts on V1. With Dos, I copy the Dos drivers there, so the game also starts on V1. I checked and found that …

Same here.

From what I saw in your video, for DOS the card might just swap in for the AWE32. I wonder how to run the software for 2 soundblaster cards present at the same time? If I'd use the jumpered SB16, I would bypass that problem, but get the noise instead.

Since I've abandoned the KT133A approach, I am back to two ISA slots. I also have one of those 'cheapo' miracle cards (CMI8330) that gervin mentioned a while ago. I found it's signal too weak though. The 4.04 SB16 was thrown out for noise and noise only! Otherwise it would have been my choice: All …

That crippling is a real treat! Without it, many old games would not run on a P2.