How much cache you got?

And nice video card. those ET6000's seem to be rare.

2Mourty wrote:

32mb edo ram

Are you sure it's EDO? I've always thought the 496/497 only supports FPM.

2Mourty wrote:

5-disc Nakamichi internal scsi cdrom drive

Nice! 😁

The board has 256k cache. I wish it was 512, but I go the board new and cheap so I won't complain. As far as the EDO memory I am pretty sure that the manual says that the board supports EDO. I will check it when I get home from work and let you know for sure.

edo doesn't work in my MSI 4414 that uses SiS 496/497...

I think there's only one 486 chipset that can use EDO and it's from ALI.

I have a UMC886B that supports EDO, and I know the M919 boar does too.

Have you seen if EDO has any benefits? Run any comparative benches? Can you run lower latencies?

Here is a picture from the manual showing that it supports EDO Ram. I do have some fpm ram so I could test to see if there are any benefits to the EDO ram. How exactly would I do it? I have never had a stable Socket 3 system so I don't know how to test this one very well. The BIOS does allow you to tweak memory timings etc. pretty extensively

5u3 I am glad that you appreciate the 5 disc scsi drive. I play lots of old adventure games on cd-rom and having to switch disks all the time was a pain. This was my solution.

Moogle! I have really liked the et6000 card so far. The 2D quality is stellar. I have not tested lots of vesa games yet to see if how fast it is. From what I hear this card should have pretty stellar performance. Also, Moogle! is your username a reference to Final Fantasy Moogles?

It kind of is, yes. It's just what I tend to use in places such as this.

I was suprised too to see it had EDO support....I have some "later" SiS 496/497 mobo's too..maybe they have EDO support also.

btw. I love these obscure brands that made these mobo's 😁 "Lucky Star" ha! there must have been an army of different motherboard manafacturers back then...I wonder if it was the huge OEM business that caused it.

btw. how did it go with that Shuttle HOT mobo you got before which also had EDO support?

would be nice to see a pic of the whole system you have here and also a benchmark result with pc player benchmark and speedsys

Lucky Star was a known brand in Greece, their stuff was OK AFAIR

Probably SIS 496 works with EDO RAM (after all, it just needs more efficient DRAM timing, right?), but the BIOS needs to support the new parameters.

When I insert EDO RAM into the RAM slots of my PVI-486SP3, I get a garbled textmode screen after bootup. 🙁

swaaye wrote:

Have you seen if EDO has any benefits? Run any comparative benches? Can you run lower latencies?

Amigaz wrote:

would be nice to see a pic of the whole system you have here and also a benchmark result with pc player benchmark and speedsys

Thirded!

2Mourty, bring on the benches! 😀

Links to the benchmark programs: PCPBench

EDIT: Uploaded newer SpeedSys version: SpeedSys 4.78

I will do the benchmarks when I get home from work. I'm interested in the results.

I have a mini-tower at case with a turbo button and the display that should show the speed of the processor, I have not figured out how to attach it to the motherboard correctly yet... I'll take a picture of the system and post it.

The PCBench had a score of 8.3

I am posting 2 pictures with the results of the speedsys tests. I am posting two because some might have an easier time seeing one or the other. You'll have to let me know if these score are good or pathetic. I ran the test with some fairly aggressive memory timings.

If you have ideas for how I can tweak the bios for better scores let me know. I had fun.

Amigaz, I never could get the shuttle board running stabily. I suspect some parts that I used so I might try again some day on that one....

Isn't there also some kind of benchmark for video performance?

I'm to tired to switch out the edo ram and put in FPM memory to make a comparison tonight. The ram I'm using is some pretty crappy edo I stole from an old fic pa2002 motherboard I fried by accident a while back. I wonder if some good 60n memory would get better scores.

I will get some pictures of the rig another night for you to see =) This test was at a 33 mhz system bus, I wonder what upping the bus to 40 would do for the numbers...

That looks about right for a 486 mobo.

The Pentioum Overdrive really shows it's muscles here but it seems like it's severly restricted as usual judging by your pcplayer benchmark result.

Is the cpu's L1 cache set to writeback?

Whoops, I just realized I uploaded an old version of SpeedSys. 😊

Latest version is 4.78, not 4.70. Get ver. 4.78 here.
I don't know if the results are comparable between versions (probably not). Sorry!

No problem. I will retest tonight.