Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-06-20, 19:14

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by Skalabala

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In 3dmark 2001, the score is greater the faster the GPU is in nature test resulting in a higher score. I proved this with a 5950 Ultra. in the 3dmark game tests the FPS are within margin on Geforce 3 vs etc but in nature test the 5950 gets double the FPS.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-06, 08:43

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by Skalabala

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I've acquired a Voodoo3 1000. I can't believe these things were sold with no heatsinks. Even at stock, I couldn't touch the core for more than a fraction of a fraction of a millisecond. I applied a smallish heatsink and pointed a smallish fan at the chip and it overclocked stable at 157.5MHz …

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Re: Upgrading cache on Super 7 motherboards

Posted on 2022-05-10, 07:38

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by Skalabala

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Yes the TPX4 has slow cache vs the K6+ If your motherboard has 5ns or 4ns cache chips then you can adjust timings to be faster. I actually want to test L3 performance on win XP, I have seen that XP has superior memory bandwidth when testing with Sisoft Sandra.

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Re: Upgrading cache on Super 7 motherboards

Posted on 2022-05-09, 20:39

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by Skalabala

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Disabling L3 is always slower. In newer games older games synthetic benchmarks you name it. Especially if you have an ALi chipset with 1Mb cache. The performance gain is clear 😀

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-08, 12:06

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by Skalabala

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Well that IHS will save me some machining time 😀

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-05-08, 07:49

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by Skalabala

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I have been using the white stuff, branded "Unick" The thinner the better in my opinion. The thick stuff have their good points. Especially for this cpu mod.

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-04, 21:35

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by Skalabala

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-05-04, 18:16: Like I said shot in the dark I have a sync on the clock generator 😀

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-04, 07:12

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by Skalabala

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You did it! Congratulations! From 4832 to 5171 with only 16mhz extra 😁 So you are number 2 at the moment! that's so awesome!

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Re: AMD K6 Quake2 and Quake 3, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-04, 07:10

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by Skalabala

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I must test that game tweaks on my K6! Please share(blush)

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-02, 08:48

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by Skalabala

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That is a good result. What is your setup?

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-04-24, 08:26

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by Skalabala

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All of them do not have that resistor?

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-04-23, 08:23

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by Skalabala

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-04-22, 21:10: Re did one with kryonaut, no dice, dud. Thermal paste will not change the outcome.

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Re: Upgrade to 1 MiB L2 Cache on ALi Aladdin V (work in progress!)

Posted on 2022-04-15, 08:27

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by Skalabala

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Awesome stuff 😁 That graphics card can play Quake 3 :p AFAIK P5A never came in B1 south bridge 🙁

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-04-13, 12:47

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by Skalabala

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I had a bad 570 in my batch. It is stock and completely unstable.

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-04-12, 08:18

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by Skalabala

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2048KB L3 running at 124MHz? How?! Now that is an achievement by its own! Jealous on the Ti500!

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-04-07, 07:05

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by Skalabala

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Repo Man, try with a Geforce 2 and driver 7.76? I have yet to try Aquamark 🤣. Was one of my favorites at that time, used to bench the crap out of my AMD 1700+ 9800Pro 256

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-04-05, 09:19

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by Skalabala

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Finally got around to doing my first one the other night. Found moving the resistor much easier than anticipated, just my fat fingers made lining it up afterwards a bit difficult! Tested my Gigabyte GA 5AA (With dead on motherboard cache) and its stable at 130Mhz, but not at 135. This particular …

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Re: Upgrade to 1 MiB L2 Cache on ALi Aladdin V (work in progress!)

Posted on 2022-04-05, 09:12

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by Skalabala

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________________________________________________________________________ On my own account: Well, actually I didn't want to buy another Super Socket 7 board. However, one hour before I started my search on ebay some days ago this board was offered there: Asus P5A Rev. 1.06 1 MiBk.JPG An Asus P5A …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-03-22, 15:50

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by Skalabala

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Welcome to club 5000!! Thank you! But... I was already in the club for some years, since I bought my first Asus P5A board (which, to this day, is still my fastest). :-D However, this is the first time I'm seeing over 5000 points with a non-Asus board (TL;DR, not sure if anyone else in this thread …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-03-21, 19:05

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by Skalabala

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I did a K6-2+ to K6-3+ mod yesterday, and as I was testing the 'new & improved' CPU on a Gigabyte GA-5AA rev 3.2, I realized that this board got a pretty substantial boost in performance with those extra 128 KB of L2 cache that the CPU gained. The board's performance was pretty underwhelming with a …

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