Re: Custom made, 50ns, FPM, Simm 30, memory modules with parity.
Posted on 2021-02-23, 19:49
Sounds good. Render me interested. 😀 Looks like at least 5-10 orders already.
Re: Fastest Tualatin Chipset / Best Pentium III Motherboard
Posted on 2021-02-23, 04:55
Small contribution to this excellent thread. 258 fps in Q3A on Asus P2B-D 1575/150 with Quadro FX4000 (details here).
Re: Pentium on a 386 motherboard ( sort of)
Posted on 2021-02-22, 17:08
This is what happens with cache sockets fully populated and SLX2 CPU:
Re: Pentium on a 386 motherboard ( sort of)
Posted on 2021-02-22, 08:54
For science and for the kids.
Re: Pentium on a 386 motherboard ( sort of)
Posted on 2021-02-22, 02:27
This is a hybrid 386/486 chipset, so anything that ever ran on 486 will work. XP will be too much trouble. NT4 may be a better fit.
Re: Pentium on a 386 motherboard ( sort of)
Posted on 2021-02-21, 16:50
Re: Pentium on a 386 motherboard ( sort of)
Posted on 2021-02-21, 15:15
Will attach the ami bios in a few, but this chipset and board implementation are not very fast, which contributes to the mediocre numbers.
Re: Pentium on a 386 motherboard ( sort of)
Posted on 2021-02-21, 02:55
Excelente +1 Not far ago I checked one of these boards too. Was not bad. It is still on top of the stack. Can share bios as well, but i think others already covered you.
Re: 286 dead, long live the 286! Sourcing and building a fast 286 replacement
Posted on 2021-02-18, 22:26
This is why these synthetic benchmarks mean exactly nothing. They are too misleading. 😀 Btw, when is the SCAMP guy coming ?
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2021-02-18, 21:30
A recent post by @mpe here reminded me of something i started before, but never finished properly - basically, try to find the best possible use of a slightly modified P24T (POD83) running at 100MHz. The reason i left the job for later was the overall instability of the CPU with most Socket 3 …
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2021-02-16, 17:44
Currently L1 is in WT mode. Noticed some instabilities with WB that i will look at soon. When in WB mode, Quake 1 hits 27+ fps. Not much into hybrids myself. I use this PC with 160mhz 486 AMD ADZ CPU, but since it has very fast DOS graphics, it was a good fit for the conversation here, with bolted …
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2021-02-16, 08:43
I also felt that this is more of a socket 3 competition than 486 one. And since @mpe shared his POD100 Quake3 achievement, i felt compelled to follow his example. https://www.petershipkov.com/temp/retro_pc_images/other/asus_vli-486sv2gx4_pod100_quake1.jpg Quick boot-to-Quake1-roll with full gear: …
Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II
Posted on 2021-02-13, 08:52
Apparently i forgot to turn-on SMP in my previous video - meh. Here is cool Quake3 roll at 244 fps with the same system and SMP: https://www.petershipkov.com/temp/retro_pc_im … est_run_150.mp4
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2021-02-12, 00:18
Unidentified Opti-495SLC 3406 rev 1.1 - one of the last remaining 386 motherboards on my to-examine list. Board is a looker with promising features: - late/hybrid 386/486 chipset - VLB slots - 10 cache banks Jumpers are scattered around and illogical to follow. Had to consistently check reference …
Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II
Posted on 2021-02-11, 17:45
Thanks for the info @feipoa. Good numbers Steve 😉
Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II
Posted on 2021-02-11, 03:35
@feipoa Do you have any metrics of your serverworks board(s) ? I was always curious about these, but never had the time to examine one.
Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II
Posted on 2021-02-11, 03:31
Apollo Pro 266T, on the stupid-fast QDI Advance 12T motherboard. Seriously, of all the PIII boards I've played with, this one is easily the fastest. Clock-for-clock, it's around 8% faster than a Gigabyte board based on the same chipset, and it smokes my 440BX, 815, and 694T boards as well. My retro …
Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II
Posted on 2021-02-10, 06:28
+4fps ! Moving the needle over there, eh ? 😁 1.63ghz is awesome. What are you running this on ? 800 something, sis ?
Re: Tualatin chipset competition pt. II
Posted on 2021-02-09, 20:00
@Standard Def Steve Offline Q3A (and all games from that time i can think of) when running on a P3 hardware with AGP video cards up to GF 6800# (last AGP compatible ?) is CPU limited. There is no difference if you use GF/Quadro 2, GF6800U/Quadro FX 4000, or anything in-between really. At least …
Re: 286 dead, long live the 286! Sourcing and building a fast 286 replacement
Posted on 2021-02-09, 07:55
Looks promising. Hope it works well.
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