Re: Settling the VIA C3 performance debate once and for all :-)

Posted on 2022-05-19, 08:35

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The VIA C3 dosnt work reliable for me at multi 3.0 below 100Mhz FSB. I also have to set it step by step, going instant to 3.0 ends up with freeze. 66*3.0 does not work for me, also freeze. Just 100/133 FSB works pain free for me on Samuel 2. So the slowest i can achieve is 300Mhz. Yes, this topic …

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Re: GA-5AX prices on Ebay are outrageous; why?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 18:51

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dormcat wrote on 2022-05-13, 16:12: I've never seen any VIA KT600 motherboard with ISA port -- something you'd like for an ISA sound card. I'd just stick with Socket 370 for this purpose. You don't need an ISA slot, you only need a Yamaha YMF7x4 PCI card, which is almost as compatible as an ISA …

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Re: GA-5AX prices on Ebay are outrageous; why?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 14:48

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by bloodem

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A good SS7 MB like GA-5AX with a late K6 CPU can deal with games of the first three eras quite nicely. There are methods of toggling cache on a Slot 1 system but it's trickier than most S7 / SS7 MB with this function readily available in BIOS. As mentioned earlier, toggling the cache on a slot 1 …

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Re: GA-5AX prices on Ebay are outrageous; why?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 10:49

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by bloodem

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Is there really a reason, other than nostalgia, to choose SS7 over a Slot 1 (BX)-based board? No logical reason, that's for sure. I mean, I love SS7 because of its quirks (I actually like debugging and solving stability and performance issues), and because of nostalgia. Some people like it because …

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Re: GA-5AX prices on Ebay are outrageous; why?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 09:48

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Why are they priced so high? It depends on which prices we're talking about. GA-5AX rev 4.1 boards typically sell for 50 - 100 euros . If on the other hand you look at listings instead of actual sold items, it's not uncommon to see some listed for 400 euros or more. Of course, most of those will …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-12, 12:11

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SteveC wrote on 2022-05-12, 10:02: I'd be interested to see also what the default install of Quake 3 performance is too for each of these builds 😀 Yeah. I think most of us would only be interested in that. 😁

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Re: Why is Gravis Ultrasound very expensive?

Posted on 2022-05-12, 07:30

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These are fancy prices, they're not necessarily based on demand/supply basis, I think. Of course it is! It all boils down to supply and demand... always! If people are willing to pay that amount of money for an item (no matter what the underlying reason is), then why would sellers decrease the …

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Re: Why is Gravis Ultrasound very expensive?

Posted on 2022-05-12, 06:22

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by bloodem

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Muz wrote on 2022-05-11, 21:55: Why is Gravis Ultrasound very expensive? Same reason why all expensive things are expensive: supply and demand. 😀

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-10, 13:52

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I played around with cable management a bit and updated the case interior picture in the first post. Really liking these rounded floppy and IDE cables. I'm thinking of getting some more for my other retro rigs, since I don't appreciate how standard ribbon cables restrict the airflow inside the case …

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Re: Would you go for any of these Socket 7 boards?

Posted on 2022-05-09, 15:32

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try running Terminal Velocity and Jazz Jackrabbit. This bug always triggers for me in those two games on fast Intel CPUs. Even their shareware versions are affected. With K6 CPUs, it doesn't manifest until higher clock speeds, due to their different architecture. The Turbo Pascal error can be …

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Re: K6-3+ 500 / Asus TX97-X / Voodoo3 / Orpheus + PCMIDI + WP32 / Win98

Posted on 2022-05-09, 13:47

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by bloodem

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Long story short: Asus P5A v1.06, modded with that pull up resistor to enable WB-cache mode. At first it worked "quite" nice with K6-2+/570MHz, some strange random rebooting when idling in Windows desktop. Then I put in K6-III+/570 and started to overclock it by higher multiplier so 633MHz. Kept …

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Re: K6-3+ 500 / Asus TX97-X / Voodoo3 / Orpheus + PCMIDI + WP32 / Win98

Posted on 2022-05-08, 15:37

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Lost my nerves with Asus P5A, the damn thing just isn't stable... So, got myself Asus TX97-XE rev.3.01! Runs K6-III+/500MHz nicely (83x6) and hopefully more stable than P5A... AGP-slot would be nice because I'm in shortage of Voodoo-cards for PCI but I have Geforce2MX PCI and go with that until I …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-08, 15:16

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by bloodem

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I talked to the owner of the 3:e unmodded 570 from the same batch and it refused 600@ 2.2V until Vcore was lowered. That is without a doubt a behavior specific to that particular chip (maybe because of the additional heat that comes with 2.2V, maybe due to other more low level quirks that it might …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-08, 10:09

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by bloodem

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There where 3x K6-2+ 570Mhz in the batch and one was unmodified and went to someone else and he reported 2.2V was unstable at 600Mhz but 2.0V worked fine so yea stock IHS is kind of garbage. I've modded five so far and only one of them was a dud (so I reverted it back to K6-2+). In my experience, …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-06, 17:42

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by bloodem

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OTOH, Anisotropic Filtering provides a noticeable benefit even in high resolutions, incurs a (usually) moderate performance penalty and can often be forced on older games through the drivers without any issues. Here's a screenshot from Quake 2 with AF turned off vs. AF 8x. At this distance, the …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-06, 11:00

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I suppose overclocking could also provide some gains when Anisotropic Filtering is at 8x. Usually, that shaves off around 10-15% from the normal FPS score, depending on the game and resolution. It would also be beneficial for Anti Aliasing, but I rarely turn that on here. I guess my main use case …

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Re: Slot 1 Pentium III 1000MHz registry loop issue in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2022-05-06, 07:58

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are even CPUID differences between different steppings of 1GHz P!!!s, might be pure luck that the slot1 part worked and the FCPGA didn't? @OP: What was the sSpecs of the CPUs in question? I've tested hundreds of these CPUs on more than a hundred motherboards... Never in my life have I seen a …

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Re: A graphics card I bought lasted only a few seconds before dying

Posted on 2022-05-06, 07:53

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by bloodem

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Freeze spray works the best, a good few seconds blasting the heatsink, and it will pop off with minimum effort. I've used the technique many times now, and it's the best for removing stuck on heatsinks, I reckon. I agree, it always worked for me as well, although I don't use a freeze spray, I just …

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Re: Slot 1 Pentium III 1000MHz registry loop issue in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2022-05-06, 07:17

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

[..]And since this is a Slot 1 board, I figured they might only consider Slot 1 CPUs. So, I decided I'd try the obvious, and fork out for an actual Slot 1 PIII 1GHz (which fortunately didn't break the bank even if it wasn't pennies heh, although I did have to replace a monstrously ugly Dell cooler …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-05-06, 06:47

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in Marvin \ System Specs

OTOH, here's what I usually do with a BIOS which allows me to manually assign IRQs. First, I disable the serial and parallel ports. Then, I manually force the GPU to use IRQ 3 and the on-board USB 1.1 controller to use IRQ 4. This usually frees up IRQs 5, 7, 10 and 11, of which the two sound cards …

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