Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-07-03, 08:12

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Nice, great results 💪💪 This shows that the CPU is always bottlenecking Windows 98. I wonder if a 3rd gen CPU/motherboard can be fully supported, maybe one i7-3770K overclocked core can push this even further with an overclocked 7900GTX. Z68 motherboards could be a good contender for 98 …

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Re: "Madness", One retro PC to rule them all :)

Posted on 2023-07-01, 13:24

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4) GTX 780 Ti will not work with 7900 GTX on Windows 98SE (if moded drivers are used). Reason : NV driver falls apart if it sees 512MB of VRAM and another card. Unplugging GTX 780 Ti solves this issue. Just noticed this, maybe you can apply the RLoew 512MB NVIDIA VGA BIOS patch, done that to my …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-07-01, 13:15

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Please break my record :) Okay. 5ghz_x58_3dmark99.png 5ghz_x58_3dmark01.png 5ghz_x58_3dmark03.png 4.89GHz E8600, meet my 5.00GHz X5690 with a surprisingly 98 friendly Asus P6T motherboard. Working SATA ports in AHCI mode (thanks to RLoew), Intel PCH chipset drivers ported to 9X (thanks to …

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Re: (NEW RECORD) "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build 7900GTX + 4.89GHz E8600 + 2GB DDR2 1066MHz + ASUS Maximus II For

Posted on 2022-10-16, 09:00

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Very impressive. A lot faster than my E6800+PT880 based build. I'm surprised that a P45/ICH10 motherboard is 98 friendly enough to be usable. What drivers did you use with it? Also how do DOS games handle it, if at all? I used the modded INF's (don't remember from which thread exactly) and some …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2022-10-15, 12:19

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And some CPU-Z details:

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2022-10-15, 12:18

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Here are the screenshots requested, directly from the Windows 98, not from my smartphone camera. And new benchmark record with some more tweaks:

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2022-10-13, 21:28

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Can you please post a screenshot of device manager? I tried an "ultimate" PCIe Intel-based Win98 computer with several different boards. I always had weird conflicts in Device manager and odd stuttering... Then I read somewhere that even the supposed official compatbility of i915 boards is …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2022-10-12, 23:22

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One year later we got some improvements, the E8600 had the same 4.86GHz overclock (seems to be the limit for this chip) but tried some different FSB/multiplier options and used other motherboard, an Asus Maximus II Formula with 2 sticks of 1GB 1066MHz DDR2 memory and overclocked the 7900GTX a bit ( …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.8GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-10-02, 11:18

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Do have measured the CPU temps and the NB temps especially? The NB and SB are cool to the touch, the case has 2 fans that do a great job, the CPU must be cool enough (can't check the temps in Windows 98), but that cooler was good enough for a Quad Core Xeon X5460 at around 3.8GHz on the same board, …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-10-02, 11:13

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My point of view: A Ultimate "something" Gaming PC is a computer that has that specific OS installed and that all the hardware is fully supported, fast or not. This PC has fully working SATA 2, USB 2.0, 7900GT, CMI8738, chipsets, etc... Some are standard drivers, others are modded, but at the end …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-09-15, 00:32

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Squeezed a little more but this time with a 7900GTX that I got for very cheap on eBay, can´t get anymore from this LGA 775 platform. Please break my record :) I also made a more "modest" setup with an ASUS P5G41T-M LX V2 motherboard, Core 2 Duo E8600 @4.0GHz, 4GB DDR3 @1227MHz, GeForce7900GT, …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.8GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-06-23, 17:39

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Interesting findings in 3D Mark 99 Max: - E8600 @ 4.00GHz and 7900GT @ stock clocks scores 53540 3DMarks and 105220 CPU 3DMarks. - E8600 @ 4.86GHz and 7900GT @ 532/784MHz scores 62869 3DMarks and 125672 CPU 3DMarks. It's around 19% more points, that equals the 19% overclock on the CPU. - E8600 @ 4. …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.8GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-06-23, 17:24

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-06-21, 20:09: Nice! Thanks 😁

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.8GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-06-21, 16:09

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Squeezed a bit more... 🤣 E8600 @ 4,86GHz and 7900GT @ 532/784MHz

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Re: Fastest pc you have win98 on? (besides emulation)

Posted on 2021-06-20, 10:16

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Core 2 Duo E8600 @4.8GHz ASUS P5Q3 motherboard 2x 2GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz 7900GT 256MB stock clocks CMI8738 based sound card 120GB SATA SSD Windows 98 SE with all updates, patches, fixes and drivers needed, everything works as expected (USB 2.0, SATA II, PCIe 1.1) Main thread about that system/benchmarks …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.8GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-06-19, 17:54

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Speed kills. Only if you stop suddenly :) Did you have the video card running at stock clocks or was it overclocked as well? This makes me want to set up my XEON 1680v2 (8 core - 16 thread LGA2011) stuff with a 7900GTX and see what kind of scores I can get. I can easily clock the CPU up to 4.6Ghz …

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Re: PS-PC Conector (PlayStation Accessories on PC)

Posted on 2021-06-19, 11:33

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Have you tried looking on archive.org ? Not that I have seen, but discovered something interesting opening the connectors, it seems to use a modified circuit of console controller converters that use DirectPad 5.0 drivers, don't have the PSX controllers with me at the moment but I will try these …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.6GHz Xeon + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-06-19, 11:15

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Installed a Core 2 Duo E8600 and overclocked it to 4.80GHz on a ASUS P5Q3 motherboard, seems to be hitting the limits of this system, here are the results: 3DMark 99 Max: https://youtu.be/9IU-usKmRV4 3DMark 2001 SE: https://youtu.be/nWHYWmEyQzY I think I will call this a day and move to other …

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PS-PC Conector (PlayStation Accessories on PC)

Posted on 2021-06-18, 14:51

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Hi guys, I have a PS-PC Connector to use PlayStation 1 accessories on PC but I lost the disquette with the drivers, does anyone have them laying around? Can't find anything online. It uses the game port, parallel port and a DC Jack for power with a 9V/850mA transformer. For Windows 95/98/NT.

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.6GHz Xeon + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2021-05-21, 13:55

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Now to reply to you guys: I think that I´ve read something about the GX2 not working properly on Windows 98, maybe the 7900GTX is the best Nvidia card that works on Windows 98. Yes, I was not limited by a GPU bottleneck but now I think it's starting to get a bit of GPU bottleneck, is there any …

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