First post, by blakespot
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I want to put together a fast 486 system utilizing a Gravis UltraSound at a Tseng ETx00 gfx chipset for early-mid '90s demoscene fun.
I had a system during this time consisting of:
- ASUS PVI486SP3 mobo
- AMD 5x86 133 CPU
- GUS (ISA)
- Hercules Dynamite Power VLB (Tseng ET4000 W32p)
This machine had extremely high speed DOS graphics at the time. The ET4000 W32p was at or near the DOS performance top.
Now...the Tseng ET6x00 came along on PCI and I believe it had better DOS performance than the ET4000 W32p. Are there PCI + ISA motherboards (I want to use the (orig) GUS - ISA) that one could recommend that would perform well with the GUS and demos of that period? I realize that this would be a Pentium architecture vs. 486.
I have heard reports of the ET6000 showing glitchy displays with some DOS games of the eras, while the ET4000 ran them well. And I know some of the PCI + ISA boards had strange performance. The PVI486SP3 with its VLB, ISA, and PCI did its job across busses very well.
Also of note: The GUS is at the center of this. I am fond of it and am aware of alternatives that, in ways most people value, are superior. But, it's the GUS I want to use (and the one piece of this system that I currently have in-hand).
Thanks, guys! Glad to have found these forums!
bp
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