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Re: How good is this? (New PC)

Posted on 2011-02-20, 11:54

I've got 2 cards with DSP v4.13 . A ct2800 sb16 and a ct3980 awe32. I've heard that they are buggy, but so far I had no problems. I've not tried the hexen demo though... I also use a nec xr385 db, connected to the ct 2800 in my pentium 1 pc. Up to now I had no problems with that, until 2 days ago, …

Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?

Posted on 2011-02-19, 14:34

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Never mind. I'm going to have a voodoo 1 instead. It's going to be fine. btw, I've just connected it to internet by sharing the wifi connection of my laptop through the lan port, and it feels great to be posting on vogons on that old Pentium PC!

Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-02-19, 11:41

by Markk

in Marvin \ System Specs

Of course RG 100. Just tell me how to change it, as when I try to increase the size it gets me to the game menu. edit : don't bother, I found how to set the cfg file. I'll be back in a few minutes with the results. So with screenblocks set to 11, I have 8,18 in high detail and 14,18 in low detail. …

Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-02-19, 11:27

by Markk

in Marvin \ System Specs

I think I've got the magic motherboard for a 386! :P In high detail I get 14420 realticks (~9,37 fps) and in low detail it does 9219 realticks (~14,66fps) My system configuration is the usual 386dx-40 cpu with 16mb 70ns ram, 128kb 15ns cache memory, cirrus logic 5422 1mb vga and my old 240mb maxtor …

Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-02-19, 10:23

by Markk

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thanks a lot!

Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-02-19, 09:29

by Markk

in Marvin \ System Specs

Guys excuse me for a perhaps silly question. Is there a specific version of Doom for the use of the timedemo command? And also would it work on Doom 2?

Re: Trident VGA performance

Posted on 2011-02-19, 09:26

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think that they were cheap cards with no 2d acceleration for windows, while in their time (1990-1992/3) there were other faster cards.

Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?

Posted on 2011-02-19, 09:19

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

P55C @ 300 is pretty sweet. 100x3 really clears up the 'ol bus bottleneck that's for sure. What do you think, is there any chance that a voodoo2 would run at a decent framerate on a system like that? I'm wondering because I have 2 voodoo2s in SLI on my pentium 3 1GHz, along with a geforce2MX, and …

Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?

Posted on 2011-02-16, 14:09

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was able to run my cpu at 250 (83x3) and 225 (75*3) . So I guess it doesn't have a locked multiplier. Now I'm thinking that it would be interesting to benchmark it to compare 233(66x3.5) vs 225 (75x3). 😀

Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?

Posted on 2011-02-16, 11:24

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yesterday I decided to play a little with a motherboard I found at the basement, which I thought was dead. To my surprise it worked. It is an ECS P5TX-BPRO, on AT form. It has Intel 430TX chipset. I liked the fact that besides the 4 simm sockets, it also has 2 dimm sockets, and works successfully …

Re: 387 Co-Processor, where can I find one?

Posted on 2011-02-12, 00:00

by Markk

in PC Emulation

I don't think it is going to be easy to find an intel 387sx-25. But if you don't mind using a non-intel fpu, you can find one here : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … e=STRK:MEWAX:IT , as also posted on another thread.

Re: How useful or useless is a 386 SX machine?

Posted on 2011-02-11, 23:45

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, I have experience with my 286/16 and my 386/40 PCs that both have fpus. If you run a benchmark that is capable of measuring fpu speed, yes it is the only thing that will seem different when running that. Using any other program, there is no speed increase at all. I guess it would be different …

Re: How useful or useless is a 386 SX machine?

Posted on 2011-02-11, 23:21

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

retro games 100 wrote: I wish I could find a chip to go in to that brown socket on the bottom right. That might give the board a boost. You can find one here : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … e=STRK:MEWAX:IT . But I really doubt that it would give it any boost... 😈

Re: help with identifing a motherboard

Posted on 2011-02-10, 00:44

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I suppose it came out by several manufacturers. First I thought it looks like this : http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/K/KADATCO-CO-LTD-Pentium-AM-535.html Notice that the model has the same name as the one Old Thrashbarg found. Also by googling some of the numbers you mention I found this …

Re: CGa monitor how to' Use with modern pc..?

Posted on 2011-02-07, 09:02

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, in my opinion, if you have a vga card/monitor, there is no such a great difference, as it is compatible with ega/cga modes. I wouldn't mind using dosbox also. I don't think you're missing much compared to the original cga monitor, and certainly it would be less harm to your eyes.

Re: CGa monitor how to' Use with modern pc..?

Posted on 2011-02-06, 16:58

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

But I think dosbox has a cga option, doesn't it?

Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-02-06, 12:25

by Markk

in Marvin \ System Specs

I just use a finger to first pull 1 clip to the side until it snaps free, then the other one. When the second one snaps free, the simm will come out by itself. You don't really need a screwdriver, just need a little force for the 2 tabs. I wouldn't use a screwdriver on a simm slot unless the clip …

Re: 486 temperature

Posted on 2011-02-06, 11:54

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, I'm sure it's not fake! And that's because I had two of them. The other one didn't work. It was a little strange, that when I started the system, it would power up the monitor, but then it would show nothing(as opposed to other cases where sth faulty causes the system not to start, and the …

Re: 486 temperature

Posted on 2011-02-06, 00:18

by Markk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one. On the board I have ( a soyo VL-BUS 486), it gave me a very good impression when I first tested it. Both cpu and video card performance seemed very good in the Landmark speed test and I thought it would be close to the dx2/66. I run also 3dbench and then I replaced it with one of my 66s, …

Re: 386DX40 build

Posted on 2011-02-05, 23:29

by Markk

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'm really sorry about that :( Usually I manage to remove them fine using a screwdriver, or any other similar object. I press with my finger the simm right in the middle towards the direction where it "falls", and using the screwdriver I press the first clip and then the second. If you do it quickly …

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