Video card upgrade today, ordered an ATI Rage Pro "Turbo" 8MB PCI card last week and it came in today. HUGE 2d image quality improvements over the S3 Virge that was in there and some gains in some of the DOS benchmarks I have. The last thing I need to address is the sound, still waiting for my …

Maybe I'm weird but today I ordered an FX5700 LE 256mb card on ebay. Hopefully it shows up soon.

Benchmark results with the CPU running at 1495 mhz: 3dmark2001SE (1024x768 - default settings) 2242 - Kyro II 64MB 4091 - Geforce FX5200 128MB 5225 - Geforce 6200 256MB 3dmark2000 (1024x768 - default settings) 4450 - Kyro II 64MB 6011 - Geforce FX5200 128MB 6621 - Geforce 6200 256MB Quake 3 ( …

Specs: Asus CUBX Intel Tualatin Celeron 1.3 running at 1495 mhz (used to run this at 1612 mhz but it was never quite stable enough) Geforce 6200 256MB PCI Video Card 1024MB PC-133 SD-RAM (4x256) Seagate 250GB HD Promise Ultra 133 (CMD ata66 controller on the MB is a turd) Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS …

Minor upgrade today, I replaced the Lite-On DVD drive that wasn't actually connected to anything with a 2x CD-ROM and an ISA controller card. Cost was $5. :cool: EDIT - To test the CD-ROM I threw in a Windows XP Home OEM SP2 disk and ran the system compatibility test. Seems this old dog isn't …

I received the ebay promise ultra 133 today and interestingly it does NOT work in my LS-486E motherboard, but it does work in my CUBX so I took that promise card out and put it back in here and both systems are up and running. Both cards have the same bios revision and look identical except for a …

I found an 8mb Matrox G200 locally for $20 and I was hoping it would work in this system but unfortunately it does not :dead: . So I've ordered up an ATI Rage Pro Turbo 8MB card from ebay. Also I found a thread on here with another guy that kept having ISA soundcard issues in this board so I've gone …

Intel486dx33 wrote: With Windows-95c I would use an S3-trio64 PCI video card or an Cirrus Logic PCI video card. WIll work vanilla with Windows 95c. Windows 95c should auto detect and load the drivers from the Win95c CDROM. Interesting suggestions, however I have none of those things.

If your board is a C2 revision then you can use EDO(not all later revisions allow EDO though - F does not for example). Just stick in the ram into an old 486 board which features 72 pin simms - if it starts up the ram is FPM. Another option is reading the numeric code on the modules - if it ends …

On a hunch, check to make sure the RAM you have in the system is FPM not EDO.. Is there a utility I can run to make sure? When I google part #'s from the chips I seem to get results saying fast page. I'll post pics of the ram sticks in a few minutes. EDIT - pics attached. I'm going to try just one …

One step forward and another back, S3 Virge is working well, big improvements in various DOS benchmarks from philscomputerlab.com But the machine randomly freezes in Windows after installing the AWE64. Freezing happens in all 3 ISA slots. EDIT - this is in Windows 98, same thing is happening with a …

Beginnings of a nice PC indeed. Good choice of video cards, you can also try out their own 3d Acceleration implementation, even though the 586 may be a bit slow, the games are more a curiosity to play round with then get back to the games you love anyway. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t= …

Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been looking at all the late model socket 3 stuff on here with envy for years and finally decided to jump in and bought some hardware on ebay. I found a combo of an LS-486, 32mb of fastpage ram and an AMD 5X86 133mhz. It took several months to arrive but I …