Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2025-06-15, 13:00

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by Mamba

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Hello, To my surprise I obtained the attached scores for 3dmark00 and 01 and a 4coredual-vsta… I was just testing it but from the chart it seems significant. 4Coredual-vsta Pentium 4 540 FSB 214Mhz 1024mb ddr1 Dual GeForce 6800LE unlocked default clocks Win2000 sp4 3dMark01: 17172 3dMark00: 16375

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Soltek SL-56G5 troubles… AGP texture acceleration disabled

Posted on 2025-06-13, 09:04

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by Mamba

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Hello all, I am troubleshooting from days this Soltek mvp3 card. It is a very good one, with ATA66 selectable FSB at 133mhz, all caps around socket and clockgen changed. Problem is that it seems to be incredible picky with video cards. No matter what OS (98, 2000 or xp), it seems that only those two …

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Re: Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-12, 07:23

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by Mamba

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Ok now it gets super weird. GeForce 2 GTS 32mb K6-III+ @ 616mhz (FSB 112) Win xp sp2 3dmark2000 12.90 1458 points 40.72 1570 points 56.73 2715 points (native drivers from XP).

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Re: Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-10, 14:37

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by Mamba

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I can try my GTS with XP and see if there are differences. 12.90 Or 40.72 But again, from you answers and sources online, I suspect it would all related to overhead.

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Re: Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-09, 08:12

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Best GPU what i like for AMD K6-III is Geforce3 + 7.76 and maybe 12.90 is also good driver for it, it should have all, Table fog, 8 bit palleted textures and EMBM. You have piqued my curiosity. Can you please run Quake 3 Demo001 at 1024x768x32bpp all options maxxed, first with 12.90 and then with …

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Re: Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-08, 20:40

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by Mamba

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For unknown reasons win98se is unstable with my motherboard

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Re: Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-08, 19:55

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by Mamba

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No. The whole point was to get the best from this SS7 platform.

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Re: Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-08, 19:27

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by Mamba

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So at the end of the day, all discussions related to 3Dnow and vga drivers are nonsense? https://phantom.sannata.org/viewtopic.php?p=685160#p685160 The fact that older drivers work better on ss7 is just because of less overhead? When developing the drivers, the slow operation of the memory …

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Re: Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-08, 15:22

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by Mamba

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3DNow! is a CPU extension explicitly used by applications for optimization. In most cases you won't even know it, like the jpeg loader in MAX-FX engine stuff (3DMark, Max Payne). There's also some that detect it to identify 3DNow but don't really use it, like Quake3. So at the end of the day, all …

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Windows XP and 3DNow! Support

Posted on 2025-06-08, 07:22

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by Mamba

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Hello, I am troubleshooting an old Super7 motherboard and I will stick to XP for flexibility. As far as I understand, to get the most from K6 chips, there should be support for 3DNow! Instructions both from OS and vga drivers. 3dfx and Nvidia had certain support, Nvidia just before 20.x detonators, …

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Re: Better video card options for this Super Socket 7 build

Posted on 2025-06-07, 21:26

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The GeForce 2 is a very good card for DX7 and earlier in combination with 3DNow! and suitable drivers (12.x or lower), and partly faster than some DX8 successors. It also does not put much load on the AGP, which actually makes it an ideal partner for SS7. The good benchmark results are also …

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Re: K6-III+ Rig, Ready for battle :)

Posted on 2025-06-07, 21:05

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I am going on to troubleshoot my mainboard. Reinstalled Windows XP, it gives me more flexibility, but kept SP2 and a pair of .net updates (1.1 and 2.0). I changed the sticks of ram and used two pc133 cas2 instead of cas3 (all kits are from Infineon). With cas2 sticks it seems far more stable. I can …

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Re: K6-III+ Rig, Ready for battle :)

Posted on 2025-06-06, 21:07

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Update. Was able to make a 9250 work, but still I do not see AGP acceleration enabled on dxdiag. Run 3dmark2000 and obtained this (k6-III+ 550) Latest omega drivers for 98. Not sure it is ok or not.

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Re: K6-III+ Rig, Ready for battle :)

Posted on 2025-06-06, 17:51

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Ok update. My friend recapped the board, even put some tantalium capacitors on key positions…. AGP isn’t working anymore…. Everything is fine but 3D apps just crash. This on XP. Funny thing is that it happens with PCI gpus also. Installed win98SE and from dxdiag I am not able to see 3d acceleration …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2025-06-05, 05:59

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by Mamba

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okay interesting, I had recalled incorrectly that the agp generations upped the frequency from 66 mhz to 133, that isn't the case. according to my google-fu the clock stayed at 66 mhz all the way to 8x but they did the whole DDR thing with it transmitting 2x, 4x, 8x per clock cycle. So my idea of …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2025-06-04, 05:08

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Sphere478 wrote on 2025-06-04, 03:13: Wasn’t the 9500 basically a 9700? Would any of the 9700 work? Yes. But again the agp frequency out of spec is not ok with ATI. See 440bx behaviour. Anyway, I see the same symptoms using a PCI card, so probably I really messed up the OS with all unwanted updates …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2025-06-03, 12:01

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by Mamba

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Oh ok. I have already a 9500 pro L shaped memory. My problems won’t be solved by this one.

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2025-06-03, 10:47

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The Medion R9600 TX is an exception. PCI was at 53MHz during tuning, AGP was also very high. The 9800Pro really couldn't handle this. 225621_lmirhh4x7kp9tddi_medion9600tx.jpg 225621_nphqm8xwg71mrjrg_1kkepv2sli.jpg 225621_qgbhh7wfy2ivkgud_p4v2sli_6.jpg Never heard of a 9600 capable of 3.3v Anyway, I …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2025-06-03, 10:36

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Maybe a radeon 9800 pro might be able to handle that agp port? Ati cards are known to be unstable with agp over 66mhz. The Medion R9600 TX is an exception. PCI was at 53MHz during tuning, AGP was also very high. The 9800Pro really couldn't handle this. 225621_lmirhh4x7kp9tddi_medion9600tx.jpg …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2025-06-03, 04:38

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Sphere478 wrote on 2025-06-02, 22:58: Maybe a radeon 9800 pro might be able to handle that agp port? Ati cards are known to be unstable with agp over 66mhz.

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