By the way, it would be great if you could participate in Phil's benchmark with this board.

Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

RacoonRider wrote:

By the way, it would be great if you could participate in Phil's benchmark with this board.

Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

I would like to, however most of my gear is packed away in our unorganised house. I just moved early this year and the house has been undergoing renovations. I'm currently being raped by contractors, my wife just had our second child, and any waking moment I do have is being filled with infant wailing and the sweet aroma of baby shit. I have also been busy doing some research for a start-up terahertz technology company and am considering jumping on board. Suffice to say that pulling out my old computer gear is pretty low on my list of priorities. If/when I ever get my place setup with some benchtop space, I'll be sure to add some results to Phil's benchmark archive.

feipoa wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

By the way, it would be great if you could participate in Phil's benchmark with this board.

Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

I would like to, however most of my gear is packed away in our unorganised house. I just moved early this year and the house has been undergoing renovations. I'm currently being raped by contractors, my wife just had our second child, and any waking moment I do have is being filled with infant wailing and the sweet aroma of baby shit. I have also been busy doing some research for a start-up terahertz technology company and am considering jumping on board. Suffice to say that pulling out my old computer gear is pretty low on my list of priorities. If/when I ever get my place setup with some benchtop space, I'll be sure to add some results to Phil's benchmark archive.

You've got a lot of things going on, I wish you luck and mental power and patience to deal with them. No offence, I actually suggested this to smeezekitty, as

1) you are an old, very competent and active user on Vogons and I was sure you knew of this benchmark since it started
2) smeezekitty is TS and all the suggestions in this thread should corellate the objective - giving him advice on building a high end 486.

By the way, it would be great if you could participate in Phil's benchmark with this board.

Here are some results:
pcbench: 60.8 FPS
pc player bench: 17.3 FPS
doom 2134 gameticks in 2097 realtics (how many FPS is that?)
quake 10.4 FPS

Some weirdness. I tried loosening the cache timings and 98 will not boot. Right after the memory test finishes, it displays a screen full of garbage
I put them back to fastest and it works again

smeezekitty wrote:

Some weirdness. I tried loosening the cache timings and 98 will not boot. Right after the memory test finishes, it displays a screen full of garbage
I put them back to fastest and it works again

Well... things happen 🙁 Looks like you hit the hardware limit there. I don't use Windows on mine, yet it does not work with fastest cache timings at higher clocks. One setting in particular works only on 25MHz bus, I don't remember which one exactly.

Just for giggles: http://postimg.org/image/u8z0plgor/
But too slow to be used

I figured out that on Windows 2000, I can use the newest mplayer and youtube-dl to play 144p youtube videos fairly smoothly out of browser.
Not too bad for a 486.

Is there a way to make Windows 2000 lite? NT4 is blazing fast on a 486, so if we can tone down W2K, then it might be more usable.

feipoa wrote:

Is there a way to make Windows 2000 lite? NT4 is blazing fast on a 486, so if we can tone down W2K, then it might be more usable.

Someone suggested nlite, but I never tried it.
My only gripes with 2000 is RAM usage (but swapping isn't too bad on a CF) and boot time