Re: Best PCI GFX for P-III?

Posted on 2015-07-24, 06:43

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by dirkmirk

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Good discussion. I've been looking into a replacement for my Pentium pro system, at the time when I bought my 6200 pci I thought I'd go for the latest pci card that supported windows 98, big mistake! ALL PCI 6200s are 64 bit cards, interestingly enough, most FX5200s aren't gimped with a 64 bit bus! …

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Re: AWE 32 price spike on E-bay?

Posted on 2015-07-01, 08:43

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by dirkmirk

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Theirs no perfect EMU8000 card but they're close enough, for choice of genuine OPL3 or Bug free General MIDI its one or the other but not both, I think of the SB/AWE32/AWE64 as a general midi era tech so going without the real yamaha chip is no big deal, I cant tell the difference on my SB32 3670.

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Re: CRT vs LCD?

Posted on 2015-06-22, 02:01

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by dirkmirk

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I would never advocate the regular use of a CRT monitor except for Retro purposes and even then you'd want to limit your exposure, from an OH&S issue the prevalence of LCD screens is probably the best thing to happen for office workers over the past 30 years, it must have been torturous for many …

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Re: CRT vs LCD?

Posted on 2015-06-22, 00:22

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by dirkmirk

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LCDS have garbage black levels perhaps game designers adjusted their games to suit the LCD display, case in point, fire up doom or any first person shooter side by side against any lcd and their is no comparison, CRTs eat those displays for breakfast, I thought buying an IPS Dell would have been a …

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Re: Intel PR440FX Dual Pentium Pro 200

Posted on 2015-06-18, 09:29

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by dirkmirk

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How did you get 245mhz? I set the FSB to 70 MHz and the multi to 3.5x 70mhz fsb? Does it have those settings silk screened to the motherboard or did you experiment to get 70mhz? I would love to overclock my system but as far as I can tell I can only select 60 or 66mhz and the P2 Overdrives have a …

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Re: Intel PR440FX Dual Pentium Pro 200

Posted on 2015-06-18, 05:57

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by dirkmirk

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How did you get 245mhz?

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Re: Showing-off my 486 :-)

Posted on 2015-06-11, 03:52

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by dirkmirk

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I'd be throwing in a AM5x86-133 into that system would be a better match for the capabilities of the S3 TRIO64, its pretty much the best of the video cards of that era for that system.

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Re: Can I put a 33MHz on a 486DX2 system?

Posted on 2015-06-07, 02:12

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by dirkmirk

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Did you change the Voltage jumper on the motherboard? chances are it wil be 3.3/5V doubt it will have 4 as well, Like the others have said it may not support 5V if its one of the later oem systems. If it doesn't support 5V CPUS it might have a silver square on the motherboard that's blank with the …

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Re: Can I put a 33MHz on a 486DX2 system?

Posted on 2015-06-05, 23:37

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by dirkmirk

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It probably doesn't matter with that CPU as the internal clock is not doubled or tripled it will run at 33mhz regardless, A DX2 is internally clocked doubled and the DX4 is clock tripled, just have it set for DX2 if that doesn't work try DX4 otherwise its probably the write back/write through jumper …

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Re: Anyone tried most powerful/upgraded 80386 system?

Posted on 2015-06-05, 06:38

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by dirkmirk

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SCSI doesn't matter for games though does it? I found a big difference in load times between my future domain enhanced IDE controller and a generic controller, that's why I don't see the value in SCSI because I have a good controller might be a different story if you don't have a good controller as …

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Re: Anyone tried most powerful/upgraded 80386 system?

Posted on 2015-06-04, 07:37

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by dirkmirk

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I agree with a with a Cirrus Logic GD-5434(Orchid Kelvin 64, Diamond Speedstar 64, STB Nitro 64 amoungst others). I'd say 16meg of ram is overkill, 8meg is probably good enough for most windows applications designed for the DX40 Enhanced ISA IDE Controllers to access up to 8.4gig drives, some …

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Re: DOS Gaming video card benchmarks on 486 and Pentium platforms

Posted on 2015-05-30, 08:17

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by dirkmirk

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I tested a PCI VIA board also with the Cyrix 5x86-120 and also got poor results, the highest results I saw for the Cyrix chip was 10.1fps 640x480 pcpbench in a umc board, the sis manages around 9fps, Quake scores should be around 14-15fps from what I remember, unfortunately the VIA chipset is no …

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Re: If you could play any game for the first time ever again...

Posted on 2015-04-27, 02:55

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by dirkmirk

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Wolfenstein 3D: The game was so Evil, pointing guns and shooting people gave an unbelievable kick, I was blown away for a long time after discovering it.

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Re: These are nice monitors for retro systems

Posted on 2015-04-09, 11:40

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by dirkmirk

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LCD Design has barely improved over the past 5 years as LEDs were a bit of a scam and not much improvement on TFT monitors, Once we see OLED and newer technology roll out we might find the ideal monitor for retro systems, due to space constraints I've had to sacrifice my computer area for a childs …

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Re: Issues with Red Alert on FreeDOS

Posted on 2015-04-08, 07:56

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by dirkmirk

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Are you sure you want to play dos version of Red Alert its only 320X200.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-03, 00:33

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by dirkmirk

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You bastard! Just sell anything you dont need you'll get a nice amount of money just for Spear of Destiny alone.

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Re: A brief comparison of Voodoo-Quake results on a 486

Posted on 2015-04-02, 02:03

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by dirkmirk

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leileilol wrote: it's more about fighting the bus. Texture uploads and swapping will be magnitudes nastier on a 486 so you want that reduced as much as possible. That's not true as the tests show the difference between 33/66mhz is almost non-existent between the cyrix chips.

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Re: A brief comparison of Voodoo-Quake results on a 486

Posted on 2015-04-02, 00:58

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by dirkmirk

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No worries Feiopa Don't take your systems apart its not worth the heartache. The question about the gaming experience was more to do with the framerates/slowdowns, was their any noticeable difference between the AMD/Cyrix? In the timedemo tests when it goes into the wide open room with that flying …

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Re: p150 - good choice?

Posted on 2015-04-01, 22:31

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by dirkmirk

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Swayye makes a good point if you want to run games at SVGA resolution otherwise you could easily upgrade it to a Pentium 233mmx and that should iron out any performance issues for dos games at standard resolutions, it might be too little for Carmageddon at 640x480.

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Re: A brief comparison of Voodoo-Quake results on a 486

Posted on 2015-04-01, 22:27

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by dirkmirk

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Interesting, are you able to test the Cyrix 5x86 @120mhz? Would like to see how that compares to the 133mhz version. Are you able to tell which CPU gives a better gaming experience between the AMD/Cyrix as benchmarks don't always paint the full picture.

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