Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-07-10, 19:15

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by Standard Def Steve

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How's about a first-gen i7 based laptop? Normal clock speed for the 720QM is 1.6GHz, but I saw it boosting to around 2.4GHz during the benchmark. HP Envy 17, Mobile i7-720QM (1.6GHZ w/ Turbo), 8GB DDR3-1333 9-9-9-24-1T, Mobility Radeon HD 5850, onboard audio, Win7 x64 http://i103.photobucket.com/ …

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Re: CPU Challenge - Windows 98

Posted on 2015-07-09, 03:42

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by Standard Def Steve

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That's really interesting. So a P2-400 is nearly 3x faster than a K6-III 400 in this game. 😲 I'll have to run this test on my own dedicated Win98 box, a Celeron-1400/BX.

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Re: make old PC useful on modern internet/windows 7

Posted on 2015-07-09, 03:14

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by Standard Def Steve

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It is pretty easy to determine if Flash is using the GPU. HTML5 is mysterious. If you have an nVidia graphics card, you can use GPU-Z to check the Video Engine load. If it shows 0% during playback, then your CPU is doing all of the work. You can also right click on the video window, select Stats …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-07-07, 01:56

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I doubled the 3DMark score without even having to double the clock speed. I love it when that happens. Mobile T5600 @ 2.93/1066, GTX 560, memory at 887MHz 4-4-4-12 Just as with Doom 3, the overclocked T5600 is now very close to the performance of the Q6700 @ 3.33/1333FSB, which scored 42889. http:// …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-07-07, 01:48

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Despite being an engineering sample, the mobile T5600 overclocks quite well. The performance scaling is just awesome, too. I nearly doubled the framerate by overclocking it to 2.93GHz. And despite only having 2MB of L2, IPC is much greater than the desktop e6600 with 4MB L2. In fact, this is …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-07-06, 19:01

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Among a lot of giants I'm here posting my result with my little brother, and I am really happy with that :happy: : K6-III+ 633MHz (115x5.5) GA5-AX Rev 5.2 bios F4 512Mbyte RAM PC133 Single stick Leadtek 5900XT @ 450Mhz/850MHz core/mem GAT2 Promise controller TX2 SATA150 WD Raptor HLFS 74Gbyte …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-07-06, 16:19

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Time for some mobile-on-desktop goodness! This T5600 actually punches pretty hard for a CPU running at only 1.83GHz/667FSB. I'm really liking the i975x chipset--the memory bandwidth is quite a bit higher than my nForce 650i board. It's too bad I can't use quad core CPUs with this board. Mobile C2D …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-07-06, 07:42

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Here's a mobile T5600 with a 9800GT on the AOpen i975xa-YDG board http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m139/Standard_Def_Steve/T5600%209800GT%203D01_zpsdgzjibyt.png I'm not sure how Win7-based 3DMark 2003/2005 scores compare with XP, but these look OK to me. The CPU score is excellent for this type of …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-07-06, 06:44

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by Standard Def Steve

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Time for some mobile-on-desktop goodness! This T5600 actually punches pretty hard for a CPU running at only 1.83GHz/667FSB. I'm really liking the i975x chipset--the memory bandwidth is quite a bit higher than my nForce 650i board. It's too bad I can't use quad core CPUs with this board. Mobile C2D …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-04, 07:59

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by Standard Def Steve

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Picked up a Radeon HD 4670 and GeForce 9800GT at a garage sale today for $15. Not exactly retro or special/rare hardware, but it's always nice to have overpowered spares.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-01, 21:55

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What better day than Canada Day to stay home and do some Laserdisc vs DVD comparisons? :-D When DVD was first introduced quite a few Laserdisc fanboys claimed that the LD format produced a nicer, more film-like picture. I can now say without a doubt that's an absolute lie. :happy: I compared five …

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Re: K6-III+ Rig, Ready for battle :)

Posted on 2015-07-01, 18:42

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by Standard Def Steve

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falloutboy wrote: It was DonPedro AFAIK Good lord, that's quite a score! When I tried to build an ultimate K6 system years ago (and failed miserably--thanks to the K6-2 500 I was using), I was happy to hit just half of that score with a GeForce3 TI500. Actually, I don't remember if I even cracked …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-29, 20:01

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And here's 3DMark 2003 and 2005. I used driver version 307.83 for these ones. 3DMark03 is so close to 10k it's infuriating. I'm sure with a mild GPU overclock it would easily hit 10k. Wings of Fury gained 25 fps from switching to DDR memory! And people say the PIII can't take advantage of DDR memory …

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Re: K6-III+ Rig, Ready for battle :)

Posted on 2015-06-29, 18:38

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XP is almost always faster than Win98 in CPU-bound situations. Well, unless you're using like a P120. :-D You might want to try Win2000 as well. It sometimes benches slightly higher than XP, not that that's going to fix your Morrowind performance issues. Still, I really like your setup. I've always …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-29, 07:23

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The combination of the somewhat "new" driver 92.91, the Geforce 6800GT and the lack of memory bandwidth seem to make a huge bottleneck even worse. I tested a Northwood Celeron aswell and its even slower. In fact the performance is so bad that I almost thought something was wrong so I installed a …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-06-29, 07:13

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The same CPU running with the same chipset but with PC133 memory is even worse :D 1024*768 Ultra: 19.3 FPS Celeron 2600 Northwood 128kb, Asus P4B i845 SDR,512MB PC133 CL2-2-2-6, Geforce 6800GT 92.21, onboard audio, XP-SP3 I...just...no words! They should've sent a poet! That's gotta be getting …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2015-06-28, 05:33

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Here is a Willamette P4 @2375 MHz with PC133 SDRAM @166 MHZ, its not as fast as the Tualatin system some posts above, not even close. 3dmark 2001. Slow but at least not a total failure. (The scaling is good, the system gets 6600 Points with a P4 1.7 and 133MHz CL2226 memory.) 3dmark 2000. A total …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-06-28, 05:25

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A Willamette P4 is not a good CPU for running Doom 3... 1024*768 Ultra: 31.3 FPS :D P4 Willamette 1900@2375MHz, Asus P4B i845, 512MB PC133@166MHz CL3-3-3-7, Geforce 6800GT 92.91, onboard audio. XP-SP3 You know what sucks even more than a Willy P4? A Northwood Celeron. 25.2 fps at 2.6GHz, and that's …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-06-26, 21:51

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by Standard Def Steve

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Early PCIe XP machine with 939, 754 or lga 775 p4 system perhaps? Always sell it on Ebay or keep it for a spare :happy: The thing is, I have quite a few DX10+ video cards lying around. They're significantly faster than the x1950XT, support WDDM1.1 under Win7, and can give older single-core PCs a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-06-26, 01:24

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by Standard Def Steve

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Found an HIS Radeon X1950XT video card I don't really know what to do with. It's the PCIe version which pretty much makes it useless. Also found a bunch of home theater magazines from 1995. Some interesting stuff in there. Articles about CRT projectors, subwoofers, Dolby AC3...neato! 😀

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