Re: Software Compatibility on AMD K5 CPU
Posted on 2020-04-07, 15:09
Most K5s need 3.52V instead of the 3.3V of the classic Pentiums. From my experience, late AMD K5 and IDT Wihchip C6 does not require stated voltages to work stable.
Re: (Un)lucky Athlon XP-M
Posted on 2020-04-05, 11:22
As I just said, Intel had been investing heavily in their engineering research to prevent the CPUs from thermal damage. I had a PIII Coppermine 1GHz in 2002, but I used to wrong heatsink and the metal contact was floating above the CPU die (with some thermal paste). I could only run the CPU at …
Re: (Un)lucky Athlon XP-M
Posted on 2020-04-04, 11:23
BTW you can push Athlon XP-M much lower. Here's my result with normal Barton on KT7A: Filename Athlon XP Barton low voltage.png File size 17.74 KiB Views 318 views With beefy enough radiator it can work without active cooling.
Re: (Un)lucky Athlon XP-M
Posted on 2020-04-04, 09:03
Haven't you watched the Intel Pentium4 promo video by Intel at the time where they were hit hard by Athlon? The moment the fan were abruptly stopped, the Athlon just turned into fire. Nope. THG made very unlikable scenario, where they just yanked the whole cooler from the CPU. It's very risky for …
Re: What are some common failure modes for defective Voodoo2 cards?
Posted on 2020-04-03, 12:10
Some cards will refuse to work at default clock. Probably due to prolonged thermal stress.
Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?
Posted on 2020-04-03, 12:06
cause the stated resolutions and refresh rates don't change for 8MB and up, apart for 3D mode. You need more memory for CAD, so it make sense. vgamuseum also says "max. 16MB" Only with upgrade module. 8 Mb versions aren't that rare.
Re: VIA Apollo Pro 133A/133T poor DOS SVGA performance
Posted on 2020-04-03, 09:44
AGP implementation has little to no difference in DOS
Re: Choose between these two graphics cards
Posted on 2020-04-03, 09:40
ATI 9600 Pro.
Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434
Posted on 2020-04-03, 09:37
Would be quite interesting. Price is good.
Re: Video card for a PII/PIII (400 to 600Mhz)
Posted on 2020-04-03, 09:31
but has excellent S3 dos gaming support Eh, not really. Everything after S3 Virge GX2 was a mess. I was thinking and tried the good old Diamond Stealth Savage 4 16MB S3 Savage 4 is quite good for weak CPUs like K6-2, due to minimal driver overhead.
Re: Pentium III Coppermine 700MHz - 1 GHz voltage question
Posted on 2020-04-03, 09:20
From my observations, Coppermines can work between 1.5v and 2.0v. Some lucky 1Ghz Coppermines will work at 1.55v and almost everything below 750 Mhz.
Re: How is crossfire with two HD 3870?
Posted on 2020-04-03, 09:04
Crossfire used to have a mode called Supertiling that has considerable advantages over AFR Supertiling is supported only by old hardware Crossfire, i.e. Radeon X850/1800/1900/1950 Crossfire edition cards.
Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?
Posted on 2020-04-03, 08:51
No, it doesn't, but you can upgrade 8 Mb Millennium II with 8 Mb expansion card. Which is directrly stated in PDF: Memory upgrades - *MIL2/MOD4: 4 MB WRAM (for MIL2P/4MAC, MIL2P/4MACB, MIL2P/MAC4N, MIL2P/8MAC and MIL2P/MAC8N) *MIL2/MOD8: 8 MB WRAM (for MIL2P/4MAC, MIL2P/4MACB, MIL2P/MAC4N, MIL2P/ …
Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?
Posted on 2020-04-03, 07:17
No, Matrox Millenium II 16 Mb doesn't exist, nor 12 Mb. There's only 2, 4 and 8 Mb versions, each with RAM expansion card to double that amount.
Re: How is crossfire with two HD 3870?
Posted on 2020-04-01, 13:38
Intend to run at v-sync locked would that help with quality? In best case scenario you would need to limit AFR Crossfire frame rate with vsync and other methods. Because AFR rendering doesn't work good when both chip are 100% loaded. In such situations, driver can't manage workload between multiple …
Re: 386 motherboard recommendation
Posted on 2020-04-01, 13:30
https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/S/S … 86-386-AD3.html
Re: VIA Apollo Pro 133A/133T poor DOS SVGA performance
Posted on 2020-04-01, 12:04
Vid_wait will affect final score on any system if it's set to 1 or sometimes to 2. Vid_nopageflip set to 1 will most likely degrade Quake performance on P3 Intel chipsets, but you're free to try.
Re: VIA Apollo Pro 133A/133T poor DOS SVGA performance
Posted on 2020-03-29, 08:38
Set vid_wait 0 and vid_nopageflip 1.
Re: How is crossfire with two HD 3870?
Posted on 2020-03-29, 08:13
They barely work as two cards in crossfire. Four cards are just horrible.
Re: How is crossfire with two HD 3870?
Posted on 2020-03-29, 05:40
You shouldn't. Plain and simple.
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