First post, by trixster
TLDR: Is there any point getting a better VLB card than the 9400Cxi for my DX2-66?
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Hi all,
My 486 currently has:
486DX2-66 (WT, not WB)
Soyo SY-25P2 mobo, 256k 15ns cache
TGUI9400Cxi-VLB (1MB)
ESS 1868f
UM8672 VLB IO card
16MB 60ns ram
I’m pretty happy with the performance, it seems to do better in Doom for instance than the results Phil gets in his VLB round-up video using his DOSBENCH package for timedemo demo3 - I’m getting 24.6fps which seems pretty good. Quake timedemo demo1 is 7.8fps (both levels of hud showing, nosound).
However, reading up about the TGUI9400 VLB card here on vogons, and here (https://dependency-injection.com/vlb-vga-group-test/), the card seems to be the worst performing VLB card out there!
So is it worth the cost and effort to get a better card? Or with just a DX2-66 is it diminishing returns? Is the cpu a bottleneck and a ‘better’ VLB card won’t actually show any tangible improvement over this 9400 without a cpu upgrade too?
Thanks!