noshutdown wrote:810 is comparable to TNT? are you joking or something?
i have a 815eb mainboard and a TNT SGRAM. 815eb scores ~900 in 3dmark2000, and TNT scores ~2200. resolution is 1024*768*16, and cpu is p3-s 1.4ghz.
but anyway, the i810/815e is undoubtly a lot faster than i740.
Some of the 810 boards have a dedicated bit of video RAM to speed them up a little more too. I remember benching one years ago and thinking it was similar to a TNT. Not a big enough difference to matter.
But if you want higher resolutions the 810/815 will probably implode because they have less than half of the memory bandwidth of a TNT.
Mau1wurf1977 wrote:
Wow I really like this board! Sound Blaster PCI 64 = Ensoniq chip which should work awesome for all the later SB16 / General Midi DOS VGA/SVGA games...
It's certainly better than plain Intel AC97. 440BX doesn't have that feature though so undoubtedly that's why they outsourced for audio too. They had a history of using Creative chips on their mobos before AC97.