predator_085 wrote on 2025-04-01, 06:36:

That is interesting. I was not aware of the technical details. […]
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Delerium wrote on 2025-03-30, 06:39:

The Athlon 700 was the last Athlon to feature a 1/2 L2 cache divider, which placed the processor's 512 KB of L2 cache running at 350 MHz, the highest L2 cache speed of the original Athlon.

The Athlon 750 – 850 featured a 2/5 L2 cache divider that resulted in L2 cache speeds ranging from 300 MHz to 340 MHz and the 900 – 1 GHz parts boast a 1/3 L2 cache divider that kept the L2 cache frequency between 300 MHz and 333 MHz.

That is interesting. I was not aware of the technical details.

@all I tested some more games and the athlon 700mhz is good enough for most of the windows 98 games I want to play and enjoy.

I will only upgrad the sound cards and get an ISA to cart to turn the rig into a windows 98SE/Dos system.

For the second planned rig (like I have mentioned above) I decided to lean more towards windows XP.

I use Windows 2000 Pro on my Slot A machine and it works great.

which driver you use for V5 on Win2k ?
(Altough, you might have more problems with SW (games) then drivers. )

stef80 wrote on 2025-04-01, 09:16:

which driver you use for V5 on Win2k ?
(Altough, you might have more problems with SW (games) then drivers. )

Latest 3dfx reference drivers 3dfx Voodoo4/5 V1.04.00.

https://3dfxarchive.com/vsa100.htm

Games like Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Half-Life, Quake II and Quake III works perfect. And the performance is the same as in Windows 98.

"We are proud to announce that in the case of 3dfx's Voodoo4 4500 there is no longer a performance loss when going from Windows 98 to Windows 2000. When we originally looked at the Voodoo4 4500, we were a bit disappointed with it's lack of Windows 2000 speed, as the card performed up to 33% slower under Windows 2000. With beta drivers version 1.01.01 in Windows 2000, there was absolutely no performance decrease over driver version 1.01.03 in Windows 98. This is great news for all Voodoo4 4500 owners currently running Windows 2000, as it means that your card's total speed can be fully realized in Windows 2000."

https://www.anandtech.com/show/671/14