Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-10-17, 14:41

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by elianda

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Could you please bench the 486SX25 with an ISA card? Most of the earlier 486er were ISA only, so this would fit well to the SX25. Although the Intel Saturn chipset might be a bit faster anyway.

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-10-15, 11:54

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by elianda

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I discovered that AWE32 can indeed play General MIDI mode in protected mode games if you are in Windows 9x! That means soundfonts no problem. This is not really a new fact ;-). It was always the way to go to get an AWE32 General Midi compatible (through Emulation) for DOS Games, since using AWEUtil …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-10-10, 11:54

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by elianda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So do you tell us what you have tweaked in the BIOS of your 386 or is it a secret? 😜 f.e. if I set the ISA BUS of my 386DX-40 to CLK/3 it still runs, but my ET4000 gives already some random pixels.

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-10-10, 00:18

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by elianda

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Well, this might be a bit overkill but DOS boots also on this machine (anyhow the result might be questionable): Intel-Core2 Quad-1333-8.5-2833-NVidia-unknown-nForce680SLI-12MB-PCIe-GTX260-768MB-Default-Elianda 3DBench 1.0c: 450.2

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-10-09, 23:02

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by elianda

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CPU Brand-CPU Type-Bus Clock-Multiplier-CPU Clock-Mainboard Brand-Mainboard Model-Chipset-Mainboard Cache-Graphics Bus-Graphics Card-Graphics Memory-BIOS-Tester AMD-K6-66-3.5-233-Gigabyte-GA586HX-i430HX-512kB-PCI-Voodoo3 3000-16 MB-Default-Elianda 3DBench 1.0c: 216.9 Intel-Pentium MMX-66-2.5-166- …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-10-09, 10:40

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by elianda

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I would awergh push to recheck his utterly slow 486DX2-66 (12.1 Score). There are so many things unknown, that there isn't much information gain. And it somehow doesn't fit the general performance curve anyway. So at least there should be some information why especially this system is way off.

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-10-06, 17:53

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by elianda

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AMD-386DX-40-1-40-ETEQ-ETEQ386-64kB-ISA-TSENG ET4000-1MB-AMI386BIOS-Elianda Result 3DBench 1.0: 15.3 Intel-386DX-16-1-16-IBM-IBM8580-None-onboard-IBM Original VGA-256kB-IBM-Elianda Result 3DBench 1.0: 4.0 AMD-486SX-66-2-33-Compaq-Presario CDS520-64kB-Local onboard-Cirrus Logic GD5424-512kB-Compaq- …

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Re: Two Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT AGP cards, different spec...

Posted on 2010-10-05, 00:33

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by elianda

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GeForce 6800 GS 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 425MHz 1000MHz GeForce 6800 GTO 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 350MHz 900MHz GeForce 6800 ULTRA Extreme 16 6 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 450MHz 1100MHz GeForce 6800 XT 8 4 256-bit GDDR/256MB 350MHz 600MHz though this one existed only as PCIe afaik. Also check this page: …

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Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

Posted on 2010-09-13, 17:57

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by elianda

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I use QEMM386 9.0 for alot of the old rigs. UMBPCI requires a compatible PCI-chipset and thats no option on boards without PCI. From my experience QEMM is more compatible with certain other programs as the Ultrasounds MegaEM in DOS 7. (it doesn't work with EMM386). On the other hand using of QEMM …

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Re: Why is a DX2-66 without Cache faster than a PIII without Cache?

Posted on 2010-09-08, 17:27

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by elianda

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Maybe you forgot to disable the L2 cache on the 486 motherboard? L2 cache isn't mentioned in this test: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=25232&highlight=cache It is mentioned as 'external Cache'. But how come the L2 cache on the P III does nothing? e.g. you disable L1 cache and the machine is …

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Re: Another one of the oddities - This time, System Bus Speed & Certain Dos Games

Posted on 2010-08-31, 15:55

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by elianda

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Maybe this is related: I got a P166MMX on a i430HX mainboard, ISA at PCI Clk/3 = 11 MHz, Maxisound 64 with DB60XG. In Monkey Island the DB60XG played wrong after setting it to MT32 mode. It seems to skip Midi messages... The behaviour was then like this: CPU cache off - still garbled Midi ISA to …

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Re: SC8500 sound card - what does it do?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 17:49

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by elianda

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Digging out this thread again, I got a hardware question for the Waveblaster connectors Line-In feature. As some might know, the Waveblaster connector features also a analog Line-In that some cards like Yamaha DB60XG can use to apply effects. The unclear point is, what signal is routed from the …

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Re: FPM RAM upgrade

Posted on 2010-08-17, 22:08

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by elianda

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The point with the HX is, that you need 8 SIMM Slots for 512 MB. (with the 64 MB SIMMs) The well known ASUS board has 4 and the GA586DX too. So you will have 256 MB max. The GA586HX has 6 -> 384 MB The Tyan Dual Board has 8 but (at least my) seems to be very sticky for memory modules between second …

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Re: Full height daughterboard on low profile card?

Posted on 2010-08-14, 04:10

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by elianda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Misplaced WB headers are quite common on third party soundcards. You can try to use a cable, like a floppy cable. Then fix the daughterboard somehow electrically safe.

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Re: Where to find a collection of old PC post screens?

Posted on 2010-08-09, 13:41

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by elianda

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

8514/A is no vga-card and has no bios, so there is no extra output on bootup.

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Re: Amiga vs Atari ST games

Posted on 2010-08-05, 12:15

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by elianda

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would like to add some home computers to my collection. I definitely want an Amiga 1000 and 1200 and Commoder 64 (C64C with 250466 motherboard for the genuine SID). Some notes to the SID. The 8580 have all similar filter characteristics. For the 6581 though each single SID will sound different. …

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Re: Finally building my gaming computers. Need suggestions and advice. No 56k

Posted on 2010-08-03, 07:13

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by elianda

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- I read somewhere that the SB16 connected to the DB can have some frozen/stuck notes? What's that all about? Should I be concerned? - On the rev 2.4 of the GUS, can I add more ram chips? Is there a point? Why? - and shoot, last question, where the hell can I get an SB-Link cable? From my …

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Re: Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

Posted on 2010-07-26, 23:42

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by elianda

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This looks very nice. Still, this reminds me, how slow todays routines are in Javascript. These are things that have worked very well on much slower hardware. Even if you don't do real colorcycling but repaint the relevant pixels, as the javascript does. Well, let's play Ladders in Windows …

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Re: "Look at you, Hacker..."

Posted on 2010-07-26, 19:26

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by elianda

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Well I haven't checked for a while, but as easy option: Exchange the DirectX Soundfont gm.dls in the system32/drivers directory with some better suited one. For example airfont 340. Then choose Microsoft SW Synth. It is this way still better than most Software Synths of integrated sound solutions.

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Re: "Look at you, Hacker..."

Posted on 2010-07-26, 14:41

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by elianda

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Yeah... this is because the system I'm doing this all on has an onboard audio chipset and its MIDI wavetable is awful. Have you considered installing Roland Virtual Sound Canvas? This is quite a good choice for modern Windows Systems if you can't plug the real hardware.

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