Re: 3D Accelerators Compared

Posted on 2011-04-13, 22:49

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I don't know if it has already been discussed here, but Kyro II's performance in 3DMark99 always puzzled me. Not only it owns its main competitors of that time (GeForce2 and Voodoo5), but it also beats more advanced cards like Radeon 9000 or GeForce4 4200. 3DMark99 scores should be taken with a …

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Which motherboards support the Cyrix Media GX?

Posted on 2011-04-09, 11:43

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I was reading about these chips recently and it says that they were closely integrated with the chipset so you had to install them in a board that supported all the features. Which boards/chipsets would these be?? On a related note, do the Geode processors based on the MediaGX fit in the same …

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Re: 486SLC - how good is it?

Posted on 2011-04-09, 11:10

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I just got the chance and time to perform some brief testing: - with CPU cache disabled in BIOS, SpeedSys score is 6.87 and SysInfo score is 22.4 - with CPU cache enabled in BIOS, SpeedSys score is 16.56 and SysInfo score is 54.2 Looks like a real competitor for my 386DX-40 / 256K cache system... a …

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Re: 486SLC - how good is it?

Posted on 2011-04-08, 16:05

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My second PC was a 486 SLC 33 and it was absolutely abysmal. It cost almost as much as the 486 DX 33 but the man in the shop assured me that the SLC was almost as powerful. How he lied... My friends had a 486 DX 50 and a DX2 66 respectively. With my SLC I could only play Doom in low detail and by …

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Re: Is this a good 486 PCI board?

Posted on 2011-04-08, 14:10

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Look at this http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Biostar … manuals/uud.htm According to this, JP42 allows the connection of an external battery in addition to clearing the CMOS settings. Maybe you don't have to hack or replace the Odin/Dallas battery at all when it dies?

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Re: AWE64 PCI

Posted on 2011-04-06, 22:18

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Are there DOS drivers for a Sound Blaster Audigy and X-fi?

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Re: Cyrix 5x86-133 Testing

Posted on 2011-04-06, 21:41

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It might match up well to the Am5x86 at 160. The Cx chip has a better FPU too and this might even get close to the POD83 in that way unlike a Am @ 160. At stock clocks it might be better, but how much overclocking potential does it have? I would guess it's probably near it's stability limits at …

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Re: Is this a good 486 PCI board?

Posted on 2011-04-06, 21:09

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How did one of these land in your lap? There have been two of these on eBay for the past little while, but the prices were outrageous, $100-$200 USD. This is a Biostar MB-8433UUD v2.0. I had two of these boards in the past but toss 'em in favour for v3.0 and v3.1. I tried updating one to the latest …

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Re: AWE64 PCI

Posted on 2011-04-05, 20:21

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So if you have a motherboard with ISA slots, you should stick your sound card in one of those and not bother with a PCI card?

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Re: AWE64 PCI

Posted on 2011-04-05, 18:19

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Is it better than an Ensoniq Audio PCI or SB Live!?

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Re: The ultimate CF adapter for vintage computers?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 18:10

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Do you think one of these would work? http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Fi-Compact-Adapter-Professional-Digital/dp/B001JT708G Adapts SD cards to fit the CF slots of SLR cameras kind of like the adapters for fitting micro SD cards to full size SD slots. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M%2BCCQnjIL._ …

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Re: UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 17:58

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So has anyone tested a Pentium OD with these boards? What clock speeds, FSB and multipliers are doable? I'm guessing even 2.5 x 40 or 3 x 33 is going to be pushing it.

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Re: UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 14:00

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Relative to Pentium, how fast is a 200mhz 486? About a Pentium 100? If that's as fast as it goes, wouldn't a Pentium Overdrive 83 have more overclock potential on this motherboard since it's almost to 100mhz to start with?

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Re: 100MHz FSB... :-/

Posted on 2011-04-05, 13:37

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Hi-res photo of the mobo in this Compaq sucker: http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/GGF_SquallStrife/th_20110328-IMG_6247.jpg Click for high res image, 5.7MB. You have the memory expansion slot for the Rage Pro. My Dell GX1 machines also have this but I only have one of the memory cards to go …

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Re: 100MHz FSB... :-/

Posted on 2011-04-05, 13:32

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Deskpro? Ew. You can't even fit any worthy PCI video card in those such things. Forget about upgrading! If I remove the floppy drive, I can fit a Voodoo 2 PCI inside it! It has the Rage Pro onboard, so shouldn't need anything else, maybe an AWE64 Gold. For PIII era games a Voodoo 3 or Riva TNT2 …

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The ultimate CF adapter for vintage computers?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 13:23

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http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/images/ad4cfprj_diagram.jpg http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/images/ad4cfprj_diagram_rear.jpg http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/images/ …

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Re: Is this a good 486 PCI board?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 13:06

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BTW sliderider, how did you get on with your PC Chips UMC 486 mobo? Everything hobby related is on hold temporarily except for buying a few things here and there until I have time to clear some space and put some things into storage so I'll have room. I just wanted to grab this in case I never saw …

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Re: UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 07:09

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I've just found out something useful. When I ran those Win98 tests above, I was using 2 sticks of EDO RAM. Each stick was 32MB, total 64MB. I'm doing some more DOS testing now, and so I set the BIOS settings back to their original very aggressive settings. I noticed this caused a problem, which did …

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Re: Is this a good 486 PCI board?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 06:36

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I was planning to use it for overclocking experiments. i was hoping it wasn't another PC Chips design. I found one that looks very similar here: http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/486pci/pt432b.htm Diagram http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/486pci/pt432b.gif Photo http://motherboards.mbarron …

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Is this a good 486 PCI board?

Posted on 2011-04-05, 06:08

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