Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2013-09-02, 10:01

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Explains what? Comparing P-233MMX @ 233MHz VX : Ali5 - my system has higher score with older VX chipset and a PCI card. I wanted to get a Ali5 board to get higher FSB for OC, but I guess in the end its not much difference for Pentiums.

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Re: Pentium MMX SL27S undervolting

Posted on 2013-09-01, 23:16

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I'm interested in undervolting because I think I don't have good enough cooling for the cpu. I'd like to do some OC with it as it seems I might have a nice sample. I don't have a multimeter. But I'm thinking on getting one - to salvage a 386DX board that had a battery leakage - now the cache doesn't …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2013-09-01, 23:12

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I find the results varies quite a bit with different graphics card. These are with P-233MMX @ 292MHz (3.5x83) @ 2.8V ATI Rage Pro 4MB PCI... 185.0 S3 Virge 86c325 2MB PCI... 205.6 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16MB PCI... 206.8 Nvidia TNT2 M64 16MB PCI... 218.9 Motherboard: QDI VX Explorer IV, Triton 82430VX, …

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Re: Pentium MMX SL27S undervolting

Posted on 2013-09-01, 20:38

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It gets so hot you can barely keep a finger on a cooler (its a really small cooler without a fan). Anyways... I dig the computer up to try and do some overclocking, checked the settings and this 233MMX was set to 2.1V and ran Win98 just fine. Changed the FSB to 75MHz == 266MHz and I had to raise the …

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Pentium MMX SL27S undervolting

Posted on 2013-09-01, 00:02

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I'm wondering if anyone has done any undervolting and what are the experiences? I've tried with 166MMX and 233MMX and they both go down to 2.0V and run stable. The 166MMX even overclocks to 208MHz at that voltage. And this gets me guessing if this is normal or the jumpers on my QDI Explorer IV board …

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Re: My new baby - 486 DX4 100MHz with GUS.

Posted on 2013-08-24, 23:40

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Before MSCDEX you need to load some device driver from config.sys - you can use any "generic" driver for ATAPI CD-ROMs (Mitsumi, Oak, ...). You can get this one as it has the smallest memory footprint (5kb) - VIDE-CDD.ZIP I have an ISA ATA controller from 1993 that loads CD-ROM just fine. For those …

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Re: What Voodoo?

Posted on 2013-06-30, 09:01

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I've been looking at this matrix: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix I'd like EF2000 to work.

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Re: What Voodoo?

Posted on 2013-06-30, 00:17

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So Banshee is not an option... also 8MB V2 is no good even in SLI. I'll try to find some V2 12MB. Thx

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Re: got a new card , vlb card.

Posted on 2013-06-30, 00:15

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Depends what you want. For DOS almost all VLB video cards should be OK. For Windows acceleration ET4000AX is not good. CirrusLogic and S3 were quite popular on VLB as they were quite fast and had quite good Windows acceleration. ET4000 W32 & revisions were on ISA, VLB and PCI buses... good for DOS & …

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2013-06-29, 21:12

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When I commit, then I go ALL in 😉 But seriously... I'm still on the hunt for 486slc, that I used to have back then. It was 33MHz and from my memory, it's speed was between a 386DX-40 and 486DLC-40.

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What Voodoo?

Posted on 2013-06-29, 21:02

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What do you guys recommend... I currently use Voodoo3 AGP and PCI versions - AGP on P-3 833 and PCI on P-1 233MMX. I was thinking on getting a Voodoo2 or maybe Voodoo Banshee. What is more compatible with glide titles: V2 8MB, V2 8MB SLI, V2 12MB, V2 12MB SLI, Banshee 16MB? Can someone rate these …

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2013-06-29, 20:42

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I must admit, that these are all hidden in a closet. What shows are only PC's that I currently use - Phenom X6 (mostly switched off) with 26" & 22" LCD and IBM X61s that I use for surfing the web (on 26" LCD vga port). But I hope, that in some, not too distant future, I'll have a room dedicated to …

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2013-06-28, 20:04

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Too much... but still looking for more ;-) - 286 12mhz, 4mb, 42mb hdd, cl5422, sb16 - 386SX-33mhz, 4mb, 260mb hdd, Tseng 4000ax, sb16 - 386DX-40mhz, 387, 8mb, 1gb hdd, cl5429 2mb isa, sb16 - 486DLC-40mhz, 487, 8mb, 4gb hdd, s3 805 vlb, sb16 - 486DX2-66mhz - 486DX4-100mhz, 16mb, 512mb hdd, cl5428 vlb …

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Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2013-05-30, 20:38

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@archsan: About pipelining... true "tight" pipelining (as in RISC processors) was 1st introduced by i486 in x86 family. Pentium has double-pipelined architecture. The 386, 286, and even the 8086 was already somewhat pipelined, i.e. they all had somewhat overlapping fetch, decode, execution ( …

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Re: Installing PnP Soundblaster in 286/386 system?

Posted on 2013-04-15, 00:54

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FGB: tried again on one 486DLC VLB and 486DX2 VLB. On DLC it works. On DX2 works too, but if you soft-reset it beeps three times while posting. But it works anyway. It's good to know that it is possible to get PnP card working. I think I previously tried this on a 286 and it also locked the machine …

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Re: Installing PnP Soundblaster in 286/386 system?

Posted on 2013-04-14, 19:15

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FGB: I think I already tried with CTCM and CTCU... but let me try again... I have several different Soundblasters... mainly Vibra ones.

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Re: Retro Benchmark Recommendations?

Posted on 2013-04-14, 11:11

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I use: Synthetic: - Checkit 3.0 - PMIPS - Sysinfo - Speedsys - 3DBench Game: - F1GP game (Adelaide track - everything ON, press O for processor occupacy before the start of the race - its consistent real world CPU benchmark) - Quake 1 v1.08 Timedemo Windows 3.10/3.11: - Winbench 3.1 - Wintach

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Installing PnP Soundblaster in 286/386 system?

Posted on 2013-04-14, 01:28

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I want to add a Soundblaster to 286 and 386 based system. I only have PnP cards... is there any way to configure them to work? If I use the Diagnose program it says the base address is in use for all addresses (220-280). Or should I get me a non-pnp card?

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Re: 286 Total Conversion

Posted on 2013-04-09, 19:31

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I need help wih configuring Siemens PCD-2. Its a Am286-12MHz with 4x256kb simms. Motherboard version: W26361-D458-Z4-06-05. It looks almost the same as the one in this thread. I would like to expand memory with 2x1MB or more but then it recognizes only 512KB!? There are some dip switches but I can't …

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AMI Super Voyager PCI II S724 - 486 motherboard

Posted on 2013-04-06, 13:55

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I have two of these mb with different 486 CPUs. Both CPUs have heatsinks glued on them, so I don't know exectly what they are. One post as 486DX/2-66MHz. Other as Am486plDX2WT. I looked for the manual for the MB and checked the settings: http://www.ami.com/support/doc/Super_VoyagerII_mb_man.pdf …

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