First post, by 386SX
Hi,
cause I can't get my only 486 mobo to run I was thinking to build a 1995 early Pentium machine with the components I've got.
Using an ATX case with an ATX to AT adapter for a Enermax P4 ready psu, I've used these parts:
-Pentium 75 (CPUID 525) I can't remember the exact stepping I think is C2 - SX969
- i430VX mobo model 35-8332-01 Socket 7
- 2 x 16MB FPM simm 70ns
- Matrox Millennium 4MB WRAM
- ESS 1868 ISA
- AT2000 NE2000 PnP ethernet card
- 8GB Maxtor disk
Here some bench numbers:
Syspeed: CPU 56,24 - HD 412,47 - Cache L1 142MB/s L2 69Mb/s Memory 39Mb/s
3DBench 1.0: 83 - v1.0c: 79
Quake: 21 fps
PCPlayer 320x240: 22 fps
Some questions:
1)Syspeed and others tools tells me the cpu is a 0,35nm one, how is that possible? Does that production size came with the Pentium 133 or did they still build P-75 with this new process? I've noticed that I can use it without a fan with a big S7 heatsink but I wanted to use a time correct 0,60nm and I thought only 0,60nm P75 existed.
2)The vga is impressive almost too fast, reading old reviews I saw it costed something like 900$ or more I understand why back then, Windows seems to benefit a lot really of this card but it sound a bit too much maybe more like a late Pentium MMX card than a P75 right? Should I go for a S3 Vision968 or something like that in PCI? I only have this, a Mystique, a Riva 128 PCi and other faster cards (3dfx ones..).
3)Would you install W95 or W98 (FE) on it or simply stay to msdos?
4)I had an Opti-16 82c295 audio card with a nice Analog Devices AD1845JP chip on it that seems more time correct and better pcb quality but only W95 drivers seems to exist and even if they install correctly the card stays mute on the output (but the mixer equalizer seems to work..). Could it be a compatibility problem or the card has probably problems itself? Is it a good sound card?
Thanks