I think I will just leave this SiS motherboard for DOS games and buy a separate pentium 3 or even p-4 box for my Voodoo3 card. Should be easier and cheaper. Hi ahtoh, Just was wondering what you ultimately did this machine. I have been tuning a very similar CPU/Motherboard combo, with a PCI …

I tried one stick of 64 MB of RAM, and I can't say definitively that it is better based on just "eyeballing" it. If it is, then it might be a touch smoother in the sense the hitching seems to be in shorter intervals. I actually upgraded the processor to an AMD K6-2 500, and I am mostly getting the …

Second the dropping RAM to 64MB. It's not going to make a massive difference but definitely will help. That amount of cacheable RAM depends on the amount of cache on the motherboard. You can try to detect the amount of L2 cache with the tool SpeedSys 4.78 from dosbench suite. You can try to detect …

That stuttering makes me think of issues I've had with 2 IDE devices sharing same cable, so take when one is being accesses, it clearly affects the other, IIRC I've experienced some stutter from that ... I checked, and my SD-Card adapter is the only device on the two connector IDE cable. It is …

Are you running the SiS chipset drivers? https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-5SMM/support#support-dl-driver the UDMA modes will speed up HDD access and stop the drives from robbing CPU cycles, which may speed things up a lot. This actually helped with the stuttering a little but. Frames will …

normal K6 doesn't have L2 cache so it relies on external L2 cache to cache ram. Plus version have L2 cache and can cache ram without the exernal L2 cache that becomes L3 cache. That site says nothing about a normal K6, everything Phil is saying is about Plus versions so its irrelevant to the …

It could perhaps help to reduce the amount of RAM? I don't think your motherboard can cache that much. If you had a K6-2+ then that's not an issue from what I understand - more details here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=40359 And it might be worth trying some of the K6-2 optimisation …

Thank you for your answers. I don't have any other sound cards installed in that machine and I don't want to install any other. Maybe I should try one for test, but I think it'll be alright, as is in the other machine. I also don't have another gameport gamepad, so I can't really test the …

I have tried multiple Nvidia drivers ranging from 52.X to 81.X (latest). Performance remains the same. I would use 45.23 drivers with that card. It would help. I have seen that 45.23 drivers are widely considered the best, but when I go to install the driver it does not detect a Nvidia graphics …

Hello, I have a Compaq Presario 5441 that I have been trying to optimize for Windows gaming, and need help with either optimizing it further or setting realistic expectations. So far, I’ve seen considerable gains from your commonly seen BIOS tweaks and disabling the PCI sound card I had installed. …

Thank you for your answers. I don't have any other sound cards installed in that machine and I don't want to install any other. Maybe I should try one for test, but I think it'll be alright, as is in the other machine. I also don't have another gameport gamepad, so I can't really test the …

Bought a 2000 Compaq MV720 off ebay that has been having this same issue. Click paired with the screen image expanding with some color distortion and dimming. Then, image contracting and color and brightness restoring entirely. At first, the click was pretty violent and the image distortion …