Re: Gigabyte GA-5AX is very stable at high FSB without onboard cache.

Posted on 2014-09-21, 16:06

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by noshutdown

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this is not too impressive, maybe you are not very good at optimizing your system. i got 5:45 with the ga-5ax and k6-2+@100*5.5, onboard cache disabled. enabling onboard cache gives only 4 seconds improvement. and i have put the ga-5ax in stockpile due to bad agp compatibility experience, and the …

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Re: Post your 486 Winamp benchmarks

Posted on 2014-09-10, 09:32

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by noshutdown

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I pulled the PCI sound card out of my 486 after comparing GLQuake results. IBM 5x86c-100-HF at 100 MHz / Voodoo3 / Win95c GLQuake results with: AWE64Gold (ISA) = 19.2 fps Aureal Vortex2 (PCI) = 18.8 fps Yamaha 718 w/XR385 (ISA) = 18.0 fps guess quake is not very good at making use of directsound, …

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Re: Post your 486 Winamp benchmarks

Posted on 2014-09-10, 04:57

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by noshutdown

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OP updated to show results with Win95c vs. NT4. There was no reduction in CPU usage except when using DirectSound. directsound won't do any good unless you use a pci soundcard with hardware audio acceleration. i always wanted to try playing mp3 with pci soundcard on a 486 rig, but its still on the …

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Re: Fast Single Core vs Low-end Dual Core on Old Games

Posted on 2014-09-10, 01:13

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by noshutdown

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in all, for a pentium4 to match the core2's single core performance, it must be running at over 2.5 times the clock of the latter, that is, 4ghz vs 1.6ghz. but if you are talking about the amd apu e350 then, its surely no match for the core2. also unreal is among those old games well optimized for …

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Re: Rage 128 vs TNT2 line compared?

Posted on 2014-09-09, 03:18

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by noshutdown

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rage128 is the same generation as tnt, so no match for tnt2. the equivalent of tnt2 is rage128pro, however its clock couldn't scale well, so it could only match the standard tnt2 and no tnt2ultra. performance of both the rage128 and rage128pro drop significantly in win2000/xp, probably due to poor …

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Re: Post your 486 Winamp benchmarks

Posted on 2014-09-09, 02:36

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by noshutdown

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i am rather interested in this, especially improving mp3 playback performance on 486 rigs, but i can't bother installing winnt4 on a 486 rig. i have the following test platform: mvp3 board with 2mb cache 256mb sdram geforce2ultra ymf724 soundcard win2000sp4 winamp 2.95 192kbps mp3 file for test …

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Re: Socket 370 - VIA Apollo Pro 133 vs Intel 440BX

Posted on 2014-09-05, 03:49

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by noshutdown

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is the "pro133" actually refering to 693a or 694? i would go with via if its a 694 AND the cpu is 133fsb. 694 is far better than 693a in all aspects, although still not remotely as fast as bx. if its 693a, all i can suggest is trash it.

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Re: AM5x86 @160 / @200 Stability Testing

Posted on 2014-09-02, 03:25

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by noshutdown

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Mau1wurf1977, which desolder station do you have? JaNoZ, which hot air rework station do you recommend? JanoZ, why do you want the AM5x86 to run at 2x? I do not see much value in running such a chip at even 2x66 when 4x40 has better performance. At 160 MHz using a 27 MHz PCI bus, the 160 scores 17 …

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Re: Best / latest AGP motherboard?

Posted on 2014-09-02, 02:15

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by noshutdown

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The 775dual-vsta asrock is the best desktop mobo. There's a quad core version and I believe after bios flash wolfdale CPUs work fine (these are best for lower volts and more cache). It has agp and pcie but it's primarily agp (pcie slot is like agp with half bandwidth). I used to have one and it …

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Re: Best / latest AGP motherboard?

Posted on 2014-09-02, 02:09

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by noshutdown

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The problem with 1066 MT/s CPUs on those boards is the DDR memory. ASRock specifically says you have to run DDR800 CL2.5 DIMMs in order for them to work. I'm still amazed they got that ol' 865 running Wolfdale core CPUs! Actually now that I think about it more, I think it's more unfortunate than …

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Re: Best / latest AGP motherboard?

Posted on 2014-08-29, 04:19

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by noshutdown

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best/latest agp motherboard: intel 865/875 for pentium4 via pt880 for core2 nforce3 for k8

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Re: converting ps/2 mouse to serial port

Posted on 2014-08-26, 15:21

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by noshutdown

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PeterLI wrote: Buy a PS/2 mouse. Those are really cheap. Especially in CN. yeah, i mean, that i want to plug a ps/2 mouse into old boards with only serial ports, not plugging a serial mouse into ps/2 port.

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converting ps/2 mouse to serial port

Posted on 2014-08-26, 09:52

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by noshutdown

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i searched the web a bit, with different results that i dunno which is correct. wikipedia says that ps/2 port uses only 4 pins: 1.data 2.unused 3.ground 4.+5v power 5.clock 6.unused how shall i connect each pin to the serial port? especially, from which pin of serial port can i get +5v power supply …

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Re: Has anyone tried using a Matrox Parhelia with a Voodoo 2?

Posted on 2014-08-20, 01:02

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by noshutdown

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I got a 550 incoming. However the 550 was a (gaming) disaster. Barely better than the 400. Not sure against the 400 max. I got the 450, the 400 is faster and the 400 max even faster. So the 400 max would be nice. the g550 has 2*2 texture mapping units. at low to medium resolution(which is what they …

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Re: Has anyone tried using a Matrox Parhelia with a Voodoo 2?

Posted on 2014-08-19, 08:55

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by noshutdown

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this appears to be an awkard configuration for me, because parhelia has only win2000/xp drivers and no support for 98/me, so you have to run your glide games in win2000/xp.

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Re: Cacheable ram?

Posted on 2014-08-15, 01:25

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by noshutdown

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Ok, more messing around today. I stopped by a couple of local computer shops, and one of them gave me a couple of sticks of 64mb, 100mhz SDRAM for free. Can't argue with that. So, I throw it in to see if it's a cache tag issue. No dice, exactly the same frame rate of 32.2. So, mad, I go into the …

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Re: Socket 7 Motherboards - Keepers or not?

Posted on 2014-08-07, 01:11

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by noshutdown

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i am not a big fan of at boards, but you can keep them all as others said, they are getting rarer to find these days. if you got to trash some of them for some reason, i suggest to trash in this order: ecs mvp3 soyo vpx epox tx luckystar vx freetech ali5 dtk hx fic mvp3.

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Re: Pentium 4 1.8GHz, 1.6A GHz or Celeron 2.4Ghz?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 06:21

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by noshutdown

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i am sure that the overall performance is celeron2.4>p4-1.6a>p4-1.8g the celeron does have only 128kb cache and about 70% the performance of the northwood p4, but higher clock makes up for it.

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Re: AM5x86 @160 / @200 Stability Testing

Posted on 2014-07-28, 16:16

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by noshutdown

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Good 15ns cache should allow you to run at 40MHz at the fastest timings. In theory the 10ns cache could provide advantages if you run 50MHz or faster, but I am not totally convinced the 10ns cache is legit. I have a feeling it could be fake. well, actually most 486 boards i can find here would …

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Re: AM5x86 @160 / @200 Stability Testing

Posted on 2014-07-28, 10:33

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by noshutdown

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hello guyz, i am also on my long haul of putting together a 486 rig, and i would like to know: assume that i have -60 dram and -10 cache, with their rated standard timing, would 50*3 or 40*4 be faster in 3d game tests(not synthetic benchmarks)?

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