Re: Software for checking AGP & PCI frequencies / AGP & PCI Dividers

Posted on 2022-09-01, 18:47

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I need to find out the same! I'm not sure, if my MSI motherboard sets the divider for AGP at 133 mhz FSB to 66 mhz (1:2), because it starts at 100 mhz FSB (autodetected) and overclocking is only through BIOS in 1mhz steps. I saw motherboards, that ignore setting dividers, when there is manual …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-09-01, 15:42

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the difference between agp and pci starts to open, up to like 20% typically. Of course there are no speed increase with some games, like, if the game doesn't uses the bus too much: for example, it uses immediate mode, but the poly count is too low. This.... I also have opinion, that there is …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-31, 20:34

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And i took the ram expansion card from the rage pro, to implant it on the permedia2. It seems the rage pro will dislike this more than i thought. I am doing intensive testing right now, I will publish results later, when finished. I've included also Rage XL, and Rage LT Pro for comparsion, so 6 …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-30, 22:30

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Ok, so new findings with rage pro. I've spent last 2 days playing with and testing Rage Pro Turbos. The core starts to be unstable past 79mhz. Sometimes, it handles 81 or 82, but on both rage pro turbos, I get strange mirroring vertical distortion. In every game I tested, GLquake, GLhexen2, MDK, and …

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Re: "ATIQuake" miniGL for Q1 & Q2 on Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-27, 20:01

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well, rage xl should be only die shrunk rage pro, with chip built in less nm, if original clocks 60/80 are pushed up 75/100, it should have similiar if not identical performance. But anyway , 36 fps in GLquake is impressive. Was it 640x480x16? Not 640x400x16 with windows size -2 (health bar, and …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-27, 18:59

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The situation was somehow similiar here too (in 1997). In review of gaming magazines of first 3d accelerators in july 1997, (i've bought that magazine in that time), there is mentioned only only Virge , Monster 3D, some Fire proffesional card, Matrox Mystique and Ati Xpertvision or something like …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-27, 18:37

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What are you using to overclock the Rage Pros? I've used Powerstrip, version 3 something (probably last one), downloaded from page last year I think it is no longer updated. HWinfo reports incorrectly clocks, (200 instead 75) but correctly memory. But I was using it under Windows XP. With generic …

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Re: "ATIQuake" miniGL for Q1 & Q2 on Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-27, 18:20

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In OpenGL and Quake maybe it is not possible to get 40fps with RagePro, but lets see. I get with my AMD K6-2+@350Mhz 30.2fps with glquake, also there is ppquake with 3dnow support, that i would like to get and try. 30fps@timedemo demo1 without any tweaks or overclock with resolution 640x480x16 is …

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Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro

Posted on 2022-08-27, 14:32

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I used to be a diehard ATi guy. The Rage Pro and Rage IIC really turned me off of their products. I would say the Rage Pro marks the point where ATi stopped focusing on professional products and started catering to "gamers". My previous card was a Rage II+, which I really liked as a 2D card. I …

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Re: Ati Rage LT Pro

Posted on 2022-08-08, 22:40

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It was common with Ati, S3 and Matrox, their drivers were mess in early stages. G200 was released in first stage without OpenGL driver support, they used wrapper (in Direct3D mode). Performance was terrible, also lots of problems. They stated, they will make OpenGL driver after some time after …

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Re: Issues with GA-6BXC Rev 2.0 and modded PIII-S 1.26GHz?

Posted on 2022-08-08, 22:35

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I have rev 1.5 of that board, and Celeron 1.4 Ghz in slotket works like the charm. I have powerleap adaptor. MSI Master slotket works with coppermine, but not sure with tualatins. Maybe after some modifications. With Powerleap adaptor, the board should work with Tualatins.

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-06, 13:06

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@H3nrik V! yes- 300 always ECC. 233/266 can have ECC. Toms advice in article was, to check ECC, if you don't have, and you have PII 300, you have fake (overclocked) CPU with switched cartrige. Toms archive is working 99%. Some pictures are missing. Some of them are reconstruced on thg.ru version. …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-05, 21:56

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IIRC I've read earlier somewhere, that cache timings were a bit looser on higher clocked models. Maybe that applied to some coppermine p3, though, but it seems plausible that even using higher speed cache, some latencies may have needed to be loosened? Yes, it's true. When clocked at same speed, …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-03, 13:08

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nice work wbc. Its cool to see old Pentium II 333 saved. Good work on finding that resistor. Had to be difficult, or time consuming. Or, did you manage to figure it somehow , that R15 is damaged? Or had to measure all of them randomly?

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Re: Help Gigabyte ga-5ax rev 4.1 + voodoo 3 2000.

Posted on 2022-08-01, 10:27

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My experience is different. You don't have to replace all capacitors. I agree with Necroware on youtube, he is also against it, to always at all costs to replace capacitors. If board is stable, you don't have to. Replace only buldging ones. For two years, I didnt replace any capacitors on socket 7 …

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Re: What old hardware you own is yet not found a better modern equivalent ?

Posted on 2022-07-01, 01:27

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Motherboards that looks normal without these "gaming" gimmicks are still found on industrial and server computers, usually going with a green PCB. Anyway, I agree with this as far as regular consumer desktop board goes as I miss the older aesthetics. I mean... I didnt have anything against black …

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Re: What old hardware you own is yet not found a better modern equivalent ?

Posted on 2022-06-30, 12:58

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Roccat Kone, first version. White/Beige new generic simplistic looking cases. CRT monitors , flat, high quality (SyncMaster 797MB), white/beige color, 4:3. Normaly looking motherboards (last one was Gigabyte Z77), non-dark, non-smoky black, disgusting filthy style looking (99% of modern motherboards …

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Re: Playing ON vs WITH retro hardware (and hardware preservation)

Posted on 2022-06-28, 00:35

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Just use cheap Pentium 4 build for that. 945 chipset is pretty cheap, because it's not very wanted, particulary one motherboards, that doesn't support Core 2 duo. Those motherboards almost noone wants, so just use it for "cheap" retro computer, so they are used up. Just install Windows XP and you …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155

Posted on 2022-06-13, 23:35

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This is correct. A Voodoo2 would likely deliver much better frame rates even on this MMX 166. However, I have a more powerful system with a Voodoo3 (see signature) for more demanding stuff. I mostly use this MMX rig for DOS games and a few, early Win9x titles. If you have more retro computers, not …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155

Posted on 2022-06-11, 21:02

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Just a note, voodoo2 is bottlenecked by slow CPU less, than Voodoo1 . In other words, when CPU is bottleneck, you get 12 fps on voodoo1, and 15 fps on voodoo2. I would choose voodoo2, maybe you lose compatibility in few titles, but you gain 800x600 and speed advantage. Also, it's better to use …

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