Re: Looking for a suitable video card to go with Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2012-12-24, 14:36

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Are you driving a CRT? I guess you are :) But if you are driving a LCD monitor, just go with DVI. I use DVI in my Super Socket 7 machine and the image is perfect! Even if you don't. What about a DVI card + DVI>VGA dongle? I wouldn't worry about the video card being bottle necked. The newer, the …

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Re: Looking for a suitable video card to go with Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2012-12-24, 13:50

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There are a few things to consider when putting a PCI video card in a 486 class PC: 1. Matrox cards (and probably other newer PCI cards as well) don't like early PCI bus implementations. I encountered that on an ancient Pentium60 system with an OPTI chipset. It did not boot with a Matrox Millenium …

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Re: Looking for a suitable video card to go with Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2012-12-24, 03:20

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Why not use your G220 with a Voodoo 2 and get the best of both worlds? Matrox was the defacto for the highest quality 2D DACs so it will definitely give you the best picture quality over VGA. If you're not planning on using Windows 3.1 then you could probably go up to a G450 and still have Win 95/ …

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Looking for a suitable video card to go with Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2012-12-24, 02:30

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So I want a decent video card to put in a PCChips M919 with Cyrix 5x86 120mhz and was thinking of a Matrox Mystique 220. I'm primarily looking for something that would work in the early PCI slots, has really good 2D output and Windows acceleration and could play *some* early 3D games. The 2D output …

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 Register Enhancements Revealed

Posted on 2012-12-23, 13:45

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"It is a matter of moving the turbo button lead onto the FSB jumper, JP3C (M919)" So how do I do this? I have to have a jumper across that one to boot in 40mhz making the pins inaccessible. What are the jumper settings for 60 and 66mhz?

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Re: Well optimised PC games?

Posted on 2012-12-23, 02:29

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Assembly was key the 8088 era (and beyond), but high level languages weren't rare by any stretch. I believe Digger was written in C (the source is out there) Digger could not possibly have been written in C because there were no microcomputer C compilers before 1986 (it was still a mainframe/ …

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 Register Enhancements Revealed

Posted on 2012-12-23, 02:25

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I can see that easily turning into a disaster on the day I forget to change the multiplier before hitting the turbo button and end up frying the chip when it surges to 240mhz. How can you forget to change the multiplier if it happens automatically at boot? You would need to be totally wasted and …

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Wanna learn to levitate?

Posted on 2012-12-23, 02:10

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8saRttyZ_o Amazing! 😁

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 Register Enhancements Revealed

Posted on 2012-12-23, 01:52

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I can see that easily turning into a disaster on the day I forget to change the multiplier before hitting the turbo button and end up frying the chip when it surges to 240mhz.

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 Register Enhancements Revealed

Posted on 2012-12-22, 23:48

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Chrome is giving me a malware warning. Somewhere on that page someone is linking to a photohosting site that distributes malware. Are you refering to the Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison thread with the link to the Elpina M919 photo? Chrome loads it fine for me. Yeah, it did it three times then I …

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 Register Enhancements Revealed

Posted on 2012-12-22, 23:42

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I'm pretty sure G and Q are just packaging. The QP's I have seem to work the same as the GP's. For 4x-capable Cyrix 5x86 chips, 2x on motherboard = 4x on the CPU 3x on motherboard = 3x on the CPU For 3x-capable Cyrix 5x86 chips, 2x on motherboard = 2x on the CPU 3x on motherboard = 3x on the CPU …

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Re: Daggerfall Mouse Problem

Posted on 2012-12-22, 23:04

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Please don't keep posting the same message in multiple forums.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-22, 22:33

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Do you happen to know if there is a difference between a 5x86 GP and a 5x86 QP besides the packaging? Also, what motherboard multiplier is 4x mapped to? I'm pretty sure G and Q are just packaging. The QP's I have seem to work the same as the GP's. For 4x-capable Cyrix 5x86 chips, 2x on motherboard …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-22, 12:27

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Hey, is that a Cyrix 5x86 133? That should be quite a bit faster than a AMD 5x86 PR75, not to mention with overclocking involved! Also, Artex, I'm really loving your machines in there, great stuff! :D It's a 120GP/4X, the next best thing to a 133GP/4X. I think I probably have about as much chance …

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Re: Well optimised PC games?

Posted on 2012-12-22, 00:58

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I beg to differ. Of course the Pentium had a superior FPU, but iD exploited special properties. For example, on the Pentium you have to pair instructions. A FMUL or FADD might be paired with most integer instructions, but then you still need to wait for the whole execution time of the FMUL/FADD …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-22, 00:39

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Bought a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI for 20 pounds. Works like a charm :D Jealous!! I just bagged a boxed AGP version of the card for $15.00 shipped, but I cannot find a PCI version anywhere but in Europe which means $$$ shipping. Yes, I got really lucky with this one. I found it on amibay, a guy there was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-22, 00:20

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Hey, is that a Cyrix 5x86 133? That should be quite a bit faster than a AMD 5x86 PR75, not to mention with overclocking involved! Also, Artex, I'm really loving your machines in there, great stuff! :D It's a 120GP/4X, the next best thing to a 133GP/4X. I think I probably have about as much chance …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-22, 00:16

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Bought a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI for 20 pounds. Works like a charm :D Jealous!! I just bagged a boxed AGP version of the card for $15.00 shipped, but I cannot find a PCI version anywhere but in Europe which means $$$ shipping. I bought a PCI V5500 right after 3DFX went belly up and everyone was dumping …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-22, 00:13

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Yes, it's mine. it arrived today and as far as I know the seller has no more. All I have for photos is my mobile phone which only does 480 x 640 and it's a pain because then I have to email them to myself and upload them to Photobucket before linking them here. What did you need to see from the …

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Re: Well optimised PC games?

Posted on 2012-12-21, 23:56

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I'd even say Carmack optimized everything pretty well, and he was always pushing the technology. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were already mentioned. Quake I is (in)famous for being optimized for Intel's Pentium, especially its FPU. It ran much worse on other x86 CPUs clock-by-clock at the time (AMD K5/ …

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