Re: USB mouse lags when opening program

Posted on 2024-03-27, 21:26

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by asdf53

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Wait, you disabled sound and your 3dmark score went up from 3000 to 3400? That shouldn't happen. Did you change anything else? In any case, that's a very nice score, it must have been satisfying to see the much higher scores after tweaking everything. Was that without any WPCREDIT tweaks so far? …

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Re: Best CPU for limiting Socket 370 performance.

Posted on 2024-03-19, 19:53

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by asdf53

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Interesting, thank you; I did read about that last night - some seem to have had great results, and 5MHz from a P75 is outstanding! Others have reported audio issues and choppiness, so I guess mileage will vary. I did not have these problems on my Pentium 1 system, but I decided to test it just now …

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Re: Best CPU for limiting Socket 370 performance.

Posted on 2024-03-19, 12:39

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by asdf53

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May I also suggest "Throttle": http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle/DOS/ An awesome little tool that allows you to use power saving registers of your chipset to slow down the CPU. Even without multiplier adjustment, this would at least allow you to get down to 54 MHz (6.25% of the original speed), …

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-18, 17:24

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Here's how the Savage4 stacks up against a Voodoo 3 and a GF2 MX on a faster system (Athlon 1000, KT133A): Savage4 125/143 (default): 4600 Savage4 154/160 (max oc): 5785 Voodoo 3 170/170: 6890 GF2 MX 200/143 (default): 6584 GF2 MX 200/205 (max oc): 7268 I did this test a while ago to see if an …

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Re: Slow 3D video card on super socket 7 shootout (sis 305, savage4, trident blade3d, riva tnt, etc)

Posted on 2024-03-18, 09:54

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by asdf53

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Thanks a lot for these interesting benchmarks. I love that you only tested budget cards, to me SS7 is a budget platform so using these feels very appropriate. I wouldn't have thought that the Savage4 performs so well and even beats a GF2 MX, especially at these low clock rates. It's also very …

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Re: USB mouse lags when opening program

Posted on 2024-03-18, 08:26

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That's pretty good already! This is what I'm getting on a Gigabyte GA-5AX with 128 MB RAM and a K6-2+ at 550 MHz: 326 136 202.6 Here are some WPCREDIT settings that you can try: 48 and 72: This is where you can set the RAM timings, best I could do was 2-2-2-4-7. Not all boards will run at these …

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Re: Sandra 2003 - Can't find online

Posted on 2024-03-18, 07:29

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by asdf53

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What I usually do is to use archive.org and go to the manufacturer's website at the time where the version I'm looking for was released. And even if the download links are broken because the file hasn't been archived, it will often reveal the filename of the download which you can then google. I …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2024-03-17, 19:31

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It really does look like a dream come true, I can tell you put a lot of love into this.

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Re: USB mouse lags when opening program

Posted on 2024-03-17, 15:49

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Here's an example how newer driver versions have a negative impact on performance, these are some 3dmark99 scores on a K6-2+ at 600 MHz: Geforce 3 21.83: 3525 Geforce 3 7.76: 4453 Voodoo 3: 3615 I believe Geforce 3 is the fastest card that still supports driver 7.76, Geforce 4 already needs 29.xx. …

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Re: USB mouse lags when opening program

Posted on 2024-03-17, 06:19

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by asdf53

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Glad to hear that it's running smoothly now! As already mentioned by another user, you could be getting more FPS by using an older Nvidia card - newer cards require newer drivers and these do not run well on a K6-2 system. Driver 7.76 is the fastest, particularly for OpenGL games. Driver 21.83 has …

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Re: Asus VX97 and AMD-K6-2/300 AFR-66

Posted on 2024-03-16, 19:52

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Edit: though if some thin hairlike stuff is all you can find, you might be better off tying the pin on the CPU itself, take a long strand of it and wind it in a figure 8 round those 2 pins on the CPU, remembering that it will be a mirror image of the socket, and pack it down on there good with …

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Re: windows 98 wont detect my sound blaster 5.1 live dev_0006

Posted on 2024-03-16, 06:21

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by asdf53

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Could it be that this is the same ID that was used for later onboard sound chip? These are newer and might just not have drivers for Windows 98. You can try to trick the driver by adding your device ID to the driver's inf file, but it probably won't work. Does your card look like a regular SB live …

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Re: Help with system

Posted on 2024-03-15, 19:29

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by asdf53

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For the time being, you could run it at 200 MHz FSB so you'll get at least 1000 MHz. You could also wire mod the CPU pins or the socket to force it to a higher multiplier: https://www.ocinside.de/workshop/amd_pinmod_d/ Yes, any half-decent sized copper core heatsink is good enough for a Barton. You …

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Re: Help with system

Posted on 2024-03-15, 14:31

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by asdf53

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No, the multiplier is unlocked (all L1 bridges are closed). https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=94031 2. Regarding Athlon XP-M in general: With older motherboards like mine, Athlon XP-M would run at boot-up multiplier (x6) by default and a tool is required to set the multiplier you want it …

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Re: Help with system

Posted on 2024-03-15, 14:17

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I don't know anything about these mobile CPUs, so I'm just guessing - could it be that they boot up with the lowest possible multiplier (5 x 100 = 500 MHz) and then expect the motherboard to set it to their full operating speed when necessary? That would mean you'd have to set the multiplier to 12x …

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Re: [Question] Pentium III 450 + Geforce 2 MX400 + 128mb ram Performance

Posted on 2024-03-14, 20:13

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by asdf53

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Thank you for testing for me, I appreciate it. Gonna return and get an FX card from a known manufacturer. I also found this: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/geforce-2-mx-64mb-400.2964/ I bought Apollo Gf2 Mx 64m and had 1200 on 3dMark2001. Took off heatsink and found Mx200 on chip. ;( Should be …

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Re: CPU cooler for old Pentium

Posted on 2024-03-14, 09:24

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by asdf53

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Yes, you need at least thermal paste and heatsink. They were usually actively cooled in computers from that time. You can probably get away with a large enough passive heatsink and good case ventilation. I had tried to run mine without a heatsink, it got extremely hot after a minute or so and I had …

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Re: [Question] Pentium III 450 + Geforce 2 MX400 + 128mb ram Performance

Posted on 2024-03-14, 08:14

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by asdf53

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I halved the memory clock of my Geforce 2 MX 128-bit to 62 MHz and benchmarked it, and I'm getting the same result (2100 points in 3dmark99). So I really think that's what you have here, a 64-bit card with SDRAM clocked at at 125 MHz. With regular Geforce 2 MX clocks (200/166 MHz) I'm getting 3900 …

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Re: [Question] Pentium III 450 + Geforce 2 MX400 + 128mb ram Performance

Posted on 2024-03-13, 22:10

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by asdf53

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Oh, haha. That card seems really sketchy. They could have even manipulated the BIOS to say "MX 400", who knows. In any case, if you overclock only the card's memory and leave everything else alone, and then you get several hundred points more in 3DMark, it clearly shows that the card's memory or …

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Re: [Question] Pentium III 450 + Geforce 2 MX400 + 128mb ram Performance

Posted on 2024-03-13, 21:54

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by asdf53

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Something else just came to my mind - Driver 45.23 is from mid-2003, and at that point, Nvidia was exclusively selling DDR memory cards. It could be that the driver simply assumes DDR memory speeds for any card. If that's true, the card could also have regular SDRAM clocked at 125 MHz and have a 64- …

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