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Why is the Asus P5A so fast?

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Reply 40 of 45, by bracecomputerlab

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A month or so ago, I purchased on eBay unused ALi Aladdin V north bridge (M1541) from an electronics component seller named top-chips located in Shenzhen, China.
I bought 2 of them for around $15 or so each.
The picture shown in the eBay listing had a 9845 date code marking, but I got 9911 date code marking parts (nothing wrong here since the part might be newer or older than shown in the picture).
I got Rev. E parts since the last alphabet code known with ALi's revision naming convention ended with a letter E.
The eBay listing picture part also indicated Rev. E (the 9845 data code marking part).
I also ordered bunch of other ICs like VIA Technologies VT82C694T (Apollo Pro 133T), 2023 manufactured VT82C586B (PIPC or S7-SB) and VT82C686B, and other relevant ICs like clock generator ICs from an eBay seller named top-chips.
top-chips did indeed pack the ICs well along with making sure the right parts and quantities were included in the order.
Some people might be hesitant to buy ICs from China, but at least I had good experience with this seller.

Reply 41 of 45, by Nemo1985

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Actually the ali Aladdin V revision also uses G and H.
There was an amazing website years ago which explained the difference between the revisions but I can't find it anymore.

Reply 42 of 45, by cyclone3d

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Nemo1985 wrote on 2025-03-02, 04:53:

Actually the ali Aladdin V revision also uses G and H.
There was an amazing website years ago which explained the difference between the revisions but I can't find it anymore.

Any recollection of what it was called?

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Reply 43 of 45, by zuldan

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In Quake 2 demo1 I’m getting 101 fps on a AOpen AX59Pro (K6-2+ 550) with 2x Voodoo 2’s in SLI / 800x600. Phil is getting only 67.7fps with the same CPU. https://www.philscomputerlab.com/uploads/3/7/ … ing_project.pdf

Curious to know what the 5AX and the P5A get with a similar CPU on a Voodoo 2 SLI setup?

Reply 44 of 45, by Skalabala

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Nemo1985 wrote on 2025-03-02, 04:53:

Actually the ali Aladdin V revision also uses G and H.
There was an amazing website years ago which explained the difference between the revisions but I can't find it anymore.

I saved a screen shot of it!!

Reply 45 of 45, by Skalabala

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zuldan wrote on 2025-03-02, 09:06:

In Quake 2 demo1 I’m getting 101 fps on a AOpen AX59Pro (K6-2+ 550) with 2x Voodoo 2’s in SLI / 800x600. Phil is getting only 67.7fps with the same CPU. https://www.philscomputerlab.com/uploads/3/7/ … ing_project.pdf

Curious to know what the 5AX and the P5A get with a similar CPU on a Voodoo 2 SLI setup?

Those are some great results! My P5A is a bench queen 🤣! I am not too sure if it is faster than VIA in games.
I only have single V2 tests at the moment. Quake 2 518x384 gets 129FPS, 640x480 gets 95FPS and cant remember 800x600 but it will be faster than what Intel does so I guess 61FPS
On Unreal 512x384 I get 80FPS 640x480 gets 70FPS and 800x600 gets 47FPS.
3DMARK99 640x480 gets 4083 and 800x600 gets 3007
3DMARK2000 640x480 gets 2226
I cant get Turok to bench, I am super sad, I need to find a CD iso, the ones I get for download are weirdly packed 😒