Re: Best socket 775 CPU for Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Posted on Yesterday, 21:47

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by bloodem

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There might be some E5800 ‘golden chips’ out there that can hit 4.0 GHz without needing a vcore bump, but I would imagine they are quite rare. 😀 All in all, not needed... The E5800 is still very fast for WinXP even at stock speed (and it’s insanely fast for Win98).

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Re: Best socket 775 CPU for Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Posted on Yesterday, 20:23

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235 is already almost 3.8 GHz. It's very possible that you are now running into a chip limitation. I have various E5800 CPUs, and only some of them are stable at 3.8 GHz without a voltage bump. And as far as I can remember, a few of them don't even post at this frequency. That's why I mentioned that …

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Re: Best socket 775 CPU for Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Posted on 2021-02-23, 13:15

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by bloodem

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It is normal to have a delayed post of about 5 - 10 seconds if you go beyond 200 MHz FSB (which is quad pumped to 800 MHz). This is the native FSB frequency. Anything above that, is considered to be an "overclocked FSB", and, as mentioned, the board can exhibit this behavior. Now, what is NOT normal …

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Re: Best socket 775 CPU for Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Posted on 2021-02-23, 12:27

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I'm not sure what you mean by "delay of the bios screen to appear". Do you mean a delay until POST starts? Yes, it's normal behavior for this board, when the FSB is overclocked. However, this does not affect the functionality in any way - it just adds 5 - 10 seconds to the initial boot.

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Re: Voodoo for DOS/W98SE gaming ?

Posted on 2021-02-22, 11:49

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by bloodem

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It all depends on your specific build. My choice would be: - Pentium MMX 166 or slower: Voodoo 1 - Pentium MMX 233: Voodoo Banshee PCI/Voodoo 2 (even a Voodoo 3 PCI would be a surprisingly good fit, particularly at higher resolutions with an overclocked Pentium MMX @ 266 / 290 MHz) - AMD K6-2/3+ @ …

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Re: Audigy 2 zs problem on windows 98se

Posted on 2021-02-22, 08:38

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by bloodem

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The Audigy 2 ZS driver installation also installs DirectX 9.0 as a prerequisite. Never tried it myself, but it's very possible that the Voodoo 5 driver has issues with this version of DirectX (which was released two years after 3dfx went bankrupt). What I do know, is that some time ago I tried the …

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Re: My Asus P5A SS7 K6 3+ watercooled Project - Midi DOS6.22 / Win98SE

Posted on 2021-02-18, 09:11

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by bloodem

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Looking very good! :) As another advice, you might want to ditch the SD card approach. You'll find that overall it's much slower than a real disk (and it has frequent hiccups/stutters). If you're looking for ultimate speed, a 128 GB SSD + SATA to IDE adapter is probably the best approach (although, …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 12:14

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Looking forward to that. In the meantime i have some results for the k6-iii+ using a Geforce ddr for the T&L-Boost as well. Still no sound, everything maxed except for textures @ second highest. -TNT2 Ultra Guillemont 175/183 using Det 3.68 -V3 3500 final referance driver -GF 256 ddr 32mb Asus …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 10:52

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I just tested Quake 3 (v1.11 / demo001) on the Katmai 504 MHz + Voodoo 3 2000 PCI: Resolution: 640 x 480 / Color depth: 16 bit / Lighting: Lightmap / Geometric detail: High / Texture Detail: step 3 out of 4 / Texture quality: 16 bit / Texture filter: Bilinear I got 63.8 FPS (no sound card) EDIT: On …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 10:41

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No sound. T&L cards make a huge difference indeed. But my point was not to compare with other results using a T&L-cards, but to show how much Quake 3 depends on a fast L2-Cache. I understand that, but if for some unforeseen reason your Q3 results on the Katmai would be too low, the conclusion would …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 09:53

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Not sure about a Coppermine, but your Katmai results are on the low side. Is that with or without sound? EDIT: Never mind, just saw that you tested with Voodoo 2 SLI. I guess the results are normal (Quake 3 benefits from cards with Hardware T&L). Out of curiosity, I will try later today and see what …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-16, 20:23

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Are you using any peripherals such as a PCI USB adapter, maybe? USB keyboard, USB mouse? To debug further, I would remove everything and only leave the motherboard, CPU, RAM and VGA + PS/2 mouse & keyboard. The GeForce 2 MX does not require newer drivers. It works fine with driver version 7.76.

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Re: Keep GeForce 4 to cards from dying

Posted on 2021-02-16, 18:49

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Can't take a joke, huh? Also the name calling was... uncalled for.

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Re: Keep GeForce 4 to cards from dying

Posted on 2021-02-16, 18:09

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by bloodem

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I discharged into parallel port blowing the super i/o chip on the FX chipset pentium Asus motherboard back in the day. Later on repaired the motherboard by replacing the chip. Hard way. I made a fine wire with tiny L hook tool and heat each leg slide the hook between legs and turn 90, then gently …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-16, 16:03

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Not sure what you mean by that. Sound adds some overhead, particularly on slower CPUs - that's perfectly normal (Quake 3 sound seems to add quite a bit of overhead). However, I've never had issues with High FPS and timedemos with sound (even on a Core i5 at 1000 FPS). It always scales accordingly …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-16, 12:47

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OK, mystery partly solved: the results above were without a sound card. As soon as I threw in a Yamaha YMF724 (which actually has DirectSound hardware acceleration), the FPS for Details A dropped from 80+ down to 65. That's a huge drop in performance (25%)! I'm pretty sure Anand's tests were also …

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Re: Poor Q3 Arena performance on Pentium III 550MHz ?

Posted on 2021-02-16, 12:13

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Well... have to say, I really don't understand what's happening with Quake 3. I don't have a Coppermine 550MHz, but I had the next best thing, a Pentium 3 Katmai 450 MHz, which I overclocked to 504 MHz (FSB 112) on an Amptron 440BX motherboard. I also threw in a GeForce 2 Ti in the mix. I tested two …

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Re: Keep GeForce 4 to cards from dying

Posted on 2021-02-16, 11:19

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Miphee wrote on 2021-02-16, 11:12: How did you confirm it was due to ESD? I guess ---> *SPARK* ---> was his first clue 😀

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Re: Best socket 775 CPU for Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Posted on 2021-02-16, 10:36

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Yes, for sure that compatibility list is incomplete. It's very possible that most CPUs from that era with a bus speed of up to 1066MHz will work OK (but not 100% sure). What I am sure is that, with the latest BIOS revision: - Pentium Dual core E5800 works great (and it has the advantage that it does …

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Re: Keep GeForce 4 to cards from dying

Posted on 2021-02-16, 10:19

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Or do you all handle your equipment with ESD gloves all the time and have ESD grounding and flooring in your work area? Can't speak for everyone else, but no, I don't wear gloves (I used to wear them when I was an employee in a laptop service center more than a decade ago), however in recent years …

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