Re: Test Bench Info
Posted on 2016-08-19, 09:10
Motherboard box FTW 😀
Re: Yamaha Audacian 32 Plus - Mono?
Posted on 2016-08-19, 05:52
That Duke II thing is a known issue with the OPLSAx cards, nothing you can do about it. Ah, that explains it. You learn something new every day :happy: I admit that I haven't tried many games on this card. But the ones I did, I really liked how quiet the card is. FM sounds great and so do the …
Re: Yamaha Audacian 32 Plus - Mono?
Posted on 2016-08-19, 03:27
This is the second card you're having odd issues. Maybe something else is going on? Do you have another PC to try?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-08-19, 03:08
The V2 SLI sleeper PC? Haha, yes, that was the idea. A boring modern uATX case, but turn it on, and retro awesomeness is unleashed...
Re: Yamaha Audacian 32 Plus - Mono?
Posted on 2016-08-19, 02:56
When I used the X1 on the Audician 32 Plus, I just placed it in-between the slots. On some boards there might be a capacitor, but this worked for me. You can also just get a very cheap angled header (row of pins).
Re: Zen - I knew it would kick butt!
Posted on 2016-08-19, 01:36
I think Zen will be decent, but Intel is not just going to sit idle. Half of their current chips are GPU, so Intel could release a 8 core 16 thread chip very easily. But I think it will make things more competitive which is always a good thing.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-08-18, 12:13
stamasd wrote: It even has the pouch in the front as it should. 😁 Haha 🤣
Re: What is the fastest sound card for Super Socket 7?
Posted on 2016-08-18, 12:09
awgamer wrote: Surprised you didn't test an Ultrasound, with it supposed to be less taxing than a sound blaster. Yea, try buying one these days 😐
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-08-18, 07:20
DonutKing sent me a box of retro parts for cheap 😊 Here my commute / shopping mule 🤣 Australia post package at the front.
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-18, 02:20
Are the driver versions you test with helping or hindering the results for the Nvidia cards? It seemed back in the day they were making constant improvements each detonator release and then sudden broke everything in the later releases. The Nvidia drivers do have 3DNow! optimizations. I had to use …
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-18, 00:07
Ah yes. There are a few tools for VIA, like a PCI latency patch and of course the 4 in 1 chipset drivers. I compared the latest reference driver with the AmigaMerlin, and at least in the Quake games, the AmigaMerlin is a tiny tiny bit faster 😀
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-17, 15:14
The thing with the graphs is that they are part of a video with me talking about them. I reveal line, by line... Well, you'll see what I mean :lol: Next time try to keep the colors consistent between the graphs if you're posting a bunch of them in a row, provided that it makes sense? Yup, noted, …
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-17, 14:19
It usually was all about Write Combining, I had to fool around with that a lot, until I had a setting that worked optimally. That tweaking Super Socket 7 video sounds awesome! Got to check out this Write Combining stuff. What tool did you use? And I got the 3DNow! Quake 2 executable and MiniGL …
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-17, 14:04
The thing with the graphs is that they are part of a video with me talking about them. I reveal line, by line... Well, you'll see what I mean 🤣
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-17, 13:42
Thanks! I'm glad to see that even the slowest cards were producing playable framerates at up to 1024x768. Are there more graphs coming? I noticed the Ti4200 and Ti200 were not in the first 6 graphs. Yes these are the charts from the 3dfx video, which has a reduced range of NV cards to keep it …
Re: Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util-
Posted on 2016-08-17, 12:55
Well done!
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-17, 11:47
Done! First post updated with some graphs 😀
Re: Super Socket 7 3D performance bottleneck?
Posted on 2016-08-17, 11:33
From my SS7 Nvidia experiences, I found that the TNT / TNT2 cards, behave differently, than the GeForce cards. With different I had to do all sorts of things to get them to work well.
Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D
Posted on 2016-08-17, 10:15
Well it seems you already tweaked SS7 to the max :) Yea, none of my tests use any 3DNow! patches, MiniGL or anything performance boosting. Crikey that MiniGL is fast! With the AmigaMerlin drivers in GLQuake Demo 1 640x480x16 the score improved from around 117 to 176! And Quake II from around 66 to …
Re: CPU-Z supports Windows 98 again
Posted on 2016-08-17, 03:34
Well I tried and didn't have much luck. This was on the Super Socket 7. I'll try again and write down the error, if there was one, I can't remember anymore.
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