First post, by F2bnp
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- l33t
Greetings! As of late, I've been experiencing performance that's just not up to snuff even by K6 standards. Fellow Vogons member Skyscraper also noticed the same thing on his K6-III+ 600 and only saw performance return to normal when he used GeForce cards. This seems to affect ALi Aladdin V boards, since I own a P5A-B and Skyscraper owns a GA-5AX and haven't seen any VIA board-owners having similar issues. I've attached an excel spreadsheet with benchmarks I did yesterday just to show you a clear picture of what I mean by performance issues. Here are my system specs:
-K6-III+ 550
-ASUS P5A-B Rev. 1.04 with BIOS 1011 Beta 005
-3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
-SoundBlaster AWE32
-Western Digital Caviar 80GB (limited to 32GB)
-Win98SE
Here are my BIOS settings as well:
You can easily compare these results with my previous attempts here and Phil's own results from a V2 SLI setup + MVP3. You can easily see the major difference in a lot of these games. Different drivers for either Voodoo 3 and/or ALi AGP GART don't really seem to affect things. So, this is a call to action! If you're feeling up to it, I request you grab your Voodoo 3 (2000,3000,3500 whatever works) or Voodoo4/5, hook it up to a K6-2+ or K6-III+ and ALi Aladdin V board and upload your own results so that we can maybe reach a conclusion on what seems to be the issue.
Selected software for the job:
-3DMark 99 Max & 3DMark 2000 -Incoming Demo
-Descent 3 v1.4 -MDK2 Demo
-Forsaken v1.1 -Turok 2 v1.04
-Dethkarz -Unreal v.225f
-Shogo v2.2 -Quake 2 v3.20 3DNow!
-Quake 3 v1.16n
All of these have included benchmarks that are really easy to run! I'll include a .rar archive which includes all the required patches and instructions on how to run each benchmark. If possible, run each benchmark at 640x480 (important!), 800x600 and 1024x768. Be sure to disable Vsync either through the overclocking panel in the Voodoo3/4/5 drivers or by using PowerStrip (included).
https://www.mediafire.com/?ql4fjsdn876l43j (Benchmark instructions and patches!)