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Re: Fastest CPU for a voodoo 1 while maintaining DOS glide compatibility

Posted on Today, 16:59

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Interesting findings, but man... I have a hard time understanding the usefulness of running a P4 with a... Voodoo 1, when even Pentium MMX CPUs are bottlenecked by this card :-D Even if you want to build the ultimate all-rounder, a Voodoo 2 would be much more versatile, with better image quality and …

Re: Socket 7 - Intel Ultimate

Posted on Today, 13:05

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It might be a bottleneck even for an MMX 166. I ran some benchmarks and compared them to this Anandtech review from 1998. Somehow, I'm getting similar frame rates as their Pentium II 266 system. Maybe some of the patches and drivers that weren't available at that time helped, but it's still evident …

Re: Socket 7 - Intel Ultimate

Posted on Today, 08:43

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Great build, except for that Voodoo 1, which is a severe bottleneck for the Tillamook, even more so when overclocked. 😀 I would save the Voodoo 1 for a Pentium MMX 166 build or something like that, and go with a Voodoo 2 (or even a Voodoo 3) for this one.

Re: My overkill Windows 9x build (period adjacent...ish)

Posted on Today, 05:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I actually tested this, on both socket 939 and LGA775 PCs, and can confirm that (at least in Windows 98 games and benchmarks) there is no performance difference between single and dual channel memory. PS: nice build, bZbZbZ 😀

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 12:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't thank me, thank Rudolph R. Loew for creating this amazing patch (may he rest in peace!), and his family for making it publicly available free of charge.

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-19, 12:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This one is quite unstable in 98. Mainly due to it having 1 gig of ram. Use patchmem and you'll be able to use even more RAM without any issues. I recently did some benchmarks on a similar socket A system with a KT880 & 2 GB RAM in dual channel: perfect stability, had no issues (with patchmem).

Re: Acceptable 3d accelerator for Pentium MMX era.

Posted on 2021-06-18, 03:52

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

what? It's worked fine in every PCI board I've tried it in. Slow for its time? Sure. But it's still faster than a voodoo2 Not the cards I have… which is why I said that it’s a hit & miss. Also, not sure what you mean by “faster than a Voodoo 2”. I think we all know that they are much faster than …

Re: Acceptable 3d accelerator for Pentium MMX era.

Posted on 2021-06-17, 17:45

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

A PCI Riva TNT/ Riva TNT2 M64 (in conjunction with VERY old nVIDIA drivers, like Detonator 2.xx), would be somewhat acceptable on a Pentium MMX 233. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out... such a PC screams for a Voodoo card. :-) You can forget about the GeForce FX 5200/5500 PCI. Not only would …

Re: PIII Tualatin 1.4GHz bottleneck?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 16:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It depends greatly on the games you play and the resolutions. For the most part, the Tualatin would be fine for games up to 2001, maybe even 2002 (although it won't be perfect in all extreme situations). Like, for example, in a busy Diablo 2 fight scene you will get stutters/framedrops. :) The …

Re: The best Motherboard for a Pentium II MMX.

Posted on 2021-06-15, 07:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also recommend one of the 440BX boards (although I never had one, the Soyo SY-6BA+ looks like a nice, solid board). Now, regarding DOS gaming... this is one deep rabbit hole :) Games that are not speed sensitive (especially late DOS games) will run fine on such a PC. However, there are some DOS …

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-14, 04:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As far as AoE is concerned, I remember playing AoE2 just fine back in the day, on a K6-2 500. With all due respect this is not true! I have done numerous tests in AoE2 and not even a Tualatin 1400s can play this game at this settings: highest difficulty; 7 enemy AI in 4 different teams; huge map; …

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-13, 08:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As far as AoE is concerned, I remember playing AoE2 just fine back in the day, on a K6-2 500.

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-13, 07:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today unfortunately I tested the famous asrock socketA and found that it is broken. I think I'll fall back to an ss7 card with k6-2 400mhz. I don't think I have any power issues as I am not interested in games after the year 2000/2001. In addition this card has ISA, PCI, AGP slots giving me more …

Re: Yet another 486 DX4-100 build

Posted on 2021-06-11, 17:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In my house it's against the law for kids to play games of the new millennium 😁 They must grow up with the same games I grew up with! Damn... I'm turning into my father 😁

Re: Yet another 486 DX4-100 build

Posted on 2021-06-11, 16:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, yeah! My 5-year-old daughter is actually playing Jazz Jackrabbit on it right now! It runs buttery-smooth with sound at ultra high quality 😁

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 12:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what do you think about this? https://www.ebay.it/itm/373516347339?hash=item56f74f27cb:g:O1YAAOSwQkNgX3bH i already have a very nice microatx case that i use with my asrock and i want to use also for this Asus. This model have DDMA feature right? tnks Seems like it's the smaller micro atx brother …

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 11:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yamaha YMF724/744/754: of these 3, since I have to get one, which is the best one to take and are there any differences? Thank you for the explanation. Do you think the socketA machine I have (asrock) is good for (as you say) using everything from 1985 to 2000? They all should be the same, however …

Re: GPU for 440BX machine with 133 MHz bus?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 10:02

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Sorry but 440BX is perfectly stable at 133MHz and in case there are instabilities first thing would be to try other graphics (MX440 is NOT good card for 89MHz unlike Ti4200, geforce3 etc) and secondly your RAM timings as in many cases RAM is not stable at 133MHz with toot itgh settings. You can try …

Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 09:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The absolute BEST PCI sound card for DOS (especially when used in conjunction with a Socket A PC) is the Yamaha YMF724/744/754. It's very compatible and also has great sound, better than most ISA cards out there (plus, it has a real OPL3 - to my knowledge, there's no other PCI sound card out there …

Re: About removing and replacing barrel batteries..

Posted on 2021-06-11, 09:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

appiah4 wrote on 2021-06-11, 08:56: tonata wrote on 2021-06-10, 20:49: If you are not heating or piercing a lithium-ion battery why it should be a problem? And also I do not intend to charge it. Dude, did you even read the links above? Don't bother. This is the point where the thread needs to die. …

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