Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-27, 19:52

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by LunarG

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got Q3 sorted today, had to find the right patch to make it run on Windows 98se. For some reason it won't let me swap from "default" rendering and to Voodoo. Not sure why. Going to get some benchmarks done tomorrow. I'll re-run the UT ones at 400MHz, which seems to be running completely stable.

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-27, 15:23

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by LunarG

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tried running it at 450MHz with stock voltage, and got no signal to the screen. Switched it back down to 400MHz and can't get beyond POST. Turn it off, unplug it, press power switch to discharge caps. Replug and switch on. Boots at 400MHz. I could try to turn the voltage up, but since this is old …

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-26, 12:28

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by LunarG

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If your K6-2 is up to it, may I suggest 450MHz? That way you can compare it at equal speeds to the fastest Pentium 2 and slowest Pentium 3, should you want to do that some time. I'm not sure my cooling is adequate. I also don't have any way of checking the temperature of the CPU, so I'm a bit …

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-26, 10:20

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by LunarG

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Here are some preliminary results from UT on stock speed K6-2 350MHz. It seems to be running happily on 400MHz though, so I might just go through these tests again to see if there is any notable improvement. http://s27.postimg.org/bm5x69jc3/UT_K6_2.png The 1024x768 tests can not, as most people …

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 23:41

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by LunarG

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I got some results for UT on Voodoo 2 12MB and Matrox Millennium G400MAX. I think the 350MHz CPU is bottlenecking them both quite severely though, but I'll post my results tomorrow. Going to see if I can do Q3A benchmarks as well tomorrow.

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 21:23

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by LunarG

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Been having some funny behavior from my K6-2 system, and it appears to be caused by using 80-lead UDMA66 ribbon cables. I just swapped to older style 40-lead ribbons, and the system appears to behave better. We'll see. Hopefully I'll be able to run some UTBench tonight.

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 15:46

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by LunarG

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Anyone know how stable the MVP3 chipsets run with 112MHz bus? Tempted to try 392MHz (3.5 x 112) on mine.

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 14:34

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by LunarG

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Mine is running at stock speeds at the moment. 3.5x 100MHz, will try overclocking it at some point though. Just did a quick 3DMark2000 and got 1135, so I guess the clock speed really holds the G400MAX back. It scored around 3.5k in my P3. My motherboard has a whopping 1MB cache on it, but only L1 …

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 13:50

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by LunarG

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Yay! I got my K6-2 3DNow! 350MHz up and running. Currently it's equipped with SB Live! sound card and Matrox Millennium G400MAX. I've put a PC133 128MB stick of RAM in it. Going to try to do some benchmarking later. Got a Voodoo 2 8MB and 12MB I could try out. Also got a Radeon 7000, 3650 (with …

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Re: Sharing my benchmark results on a AMD k6-2 with various AGP cards

Posted on 2014-03-25, 04:28

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by LunarG

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Just for fun I tried that Quake III demo on my Pentium III 800 with 512MB RAM and Matrox Parhelia. It gave me 4.4fps which seems surprisingly low, even though it was at 1280x1024 with everything at max. I'm putting together a K6-2 soon, and I've got a small selection of different AGP graphics cards, …

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Re: Favourite old school keyboard/mouse?

Posted on 2014-03-24, 19:17

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by LunarG

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I quite like the Mitsumi KPQ-E99ZC-12 that I have for my 486. It's a plain old AT keyboard, but it's the same type that I had back in the days, and it's got nostalgia value to me :) Also, the keyboard for my Compaq Deskpro is surprisingly nice. It's got a heavy metal plate in it, so it feels really …

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Re: Lucky find

Posted on 2014-03-24, 18:20

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by LunarG

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Sure, if that would work, I'd be happy to use a slower host adapter. Would still need to buy one of course 😁 I don't have anything even vaguely scsi'ish in any of my systems at the moment.

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Re: Lucky find

Posted on 2014-03-24, 18:05

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by LunarG

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Yeah, I kinda figured. I would've liked to see if the drive works, as it's a very nice HDD if it does. PCI express Ultra320 adapters are quite expensive though, and I can't afford to spend that kind of money at the moment. Oh well, perhaps in the future. Just done some testing of the IDE drives I …

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Re: Twoquickcapri's DiamondMonsterEgde3D64ProOverdrive Compy

Posted on 2014-03-24, 17:12

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by LunarG

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Sweet looking system. Very nice and clean. I'm sure you'll have lots of fun with it 😀

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Lucky find

Posted on 2014-03-24, 14:30

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by LunarG

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On what seemed to be any normal Monday, I stopped by the local electronics shop and asked if they would mind me rummaging a bit in their large container of "stuff people wanna throw away" old electronics. They didn't mind as usual (I've asked before), and as usual I didn't expect to find anything …

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Re: PC/PCI connector?

Posted on 2014-03-22, 23:37

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by LunarG

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Is the other sound card also PCI, and is it just sound in DOS games that isn't working, or are we talking no sound in Windows either? Ensoniq AudioPCI was rebranded as Creative Sound Blaster PCI 64 and Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 depending on which revision of the card it was. The drivers from …

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Re: Matrox G400 + Win 98 = Shutdown VXD error

Posted on 2014-03-22, 23:33

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by LunarG

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I ran a Matrox Millennium G400 MAX in my P3 under Windows 98SE for a couple of days. I downloaded ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/win_9x/2002/w9x_683.exe , and these drivers worked flawlessly. I expect those drivers to be the same for any version of the G400, "MAX" or otherwise. No error …

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Re: a humble 386

Posted on 2014-03-22, 23:01

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by LunarG

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Nice looking system. If I can afford to some day (and have the space) I'd like to get a 386 myself. I totally get why you went with that case 😁

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Re: Who Use's Laptops?

Posted on 2014-03-22, 22:55

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by LunarG

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I've never used a laptop for retro gaming (well, a bit of dosbox), at least not as in having a retro laptop. I do own a Dell XPS M1730 though, which I've upgraded with faster graphics cards. I've used that to play through Mass Effect 1 and 2, and endless hours of World of Warcraft back during …

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Re: PC/PCI connector?

Posted on 2014-03-22, 22:52

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by LunarG

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You got all the drivers for the motherboard chipset installed? I have had all kinds of problems with Windows 9x and getting PCI sounds cards to work in the past. For intel chipset motherboards there's the intel inf drivers and for Via chipsets there are the 4-in-1 drivers. I remember having a …

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