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Reply 180 of 182, by feipoa

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It didn't like 250/200 MHz. Artifacts on the screen and I couldn't shutdown without pressing the power button. I suspect the memory timings were too much for it.

240/190 MHz worked, but the results for Half-Life actually dropped after overclocking, that is, from 15.33 fps to 15.07 fps. Not sure why this happened, but I assume it didn't overclock properly.

Here's a photo of the two PCI GF2's.

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At any rate, I've put Savage 4 Pro+ back in the case. Powerstrip says it is running at 125/125 MHz. I added a 30 mm fan to it and will see if it can handle 130/143 MHz. The Savage Pro+ contains Winbond W986416CH-7 memory chips, which according to the datasheet, can run up to 143 MHz.

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Reply 181 of 182, by dj_pirtu

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Well this was really interesting! Just put together VS440FX+Pentium Pro 233MHz machine with 128MB EDO. Now using Matrox Millenium II 4MB and Voodoo 1. Sound cards are GUS MAX and SB32 with 28MB memory.

I have somewhere GF2MX PCI -card, didnt expect that Pentium Pro will benefit from that.

Reply 182 of 182, by Sphere478

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feipoa wrote on 2019-10-18, 18:22:
I'm in the mist of a Pentium Pro build. I plan to run a 512K or 1M chip at 233 MHz. The board is PCI/ISA only, no AGP. I'm fre […]
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I'm in the mist of a Pentium Pro build. I plan to run a 512K or 1M chip at 233 MHz. The board is PCI/ISA only, no AGP. I'm fresh out of working Voodoo cards and was hoping to use some unused 3D card from my drawer. Here is a list of what I have. Emphasis is pre-millennium 3D games, Could you let me know which card you'd pick any why? Thanks!

ATI 3D Rage Pro
ATI 3D Rage II + DVD
ATI Rage128 VR
ATI Rage128 Pro 16 MB (original)
ATI Rage128 Pro 32 MB (chinese replica)
ATI Radeon 7000 32 MB DDR
ATI Radeon 9250 (1 vote)
ATI Radeon 9000
S3 Savage4 Pro+ (Diamond Stealth III S540)
ATI FireMV 2260
Matrox G450 (3 votes)
Matrox G200 (1 vote)
PNY GeForce2 MX400 128-bit memory, IIRC (3 votes)
Jaton GeForce2 MX400 64-bit memory, IIRC
eVGA GeForce 6200
PNY GeForce 6200
GeFroce FX5500 (1 vote)
TNT2 64/Vanta (2 votes)
Nvidia Riva TNT (one from Creative, one from Diamond) (3 votes)
Nvidia Riva 128 (1 vote)
Permedia 2
3D Labs Oxygen VX1 (4 votes)

EDIT: This chart has been copied from page 9 of this thread for convenience.
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I’d be really interested to see radeon 7500 pci added to this list because it ends up being like twice as fast as a 7000 in some things. Which may beat out that geforce 2 🤔

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