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Re: Help me compile a list of good, reliable 486 motherboards with PCI slots.

Posted on 2010-12-04, 12:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There were specific mice that would work with an adapter like this. Especially the Microsoft mice, have written underneath what type of connection they support. Some have serial, some ps/2, but there are some that support both. These are 100% compatible with that adapter. Edit : Some time ago, I was …

Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-12-03, 14:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mau1wurf1977 wrote: MMX Pentiums are a lot faster! […] Show full quote MMX Pentiums are a lot faster! I did a quick test on my SS7 Iwill board with a Pentium 200 (non MMX): 66 x 2 = 133 MHz: 114.9 66 x 2.5 = 166: 126.7 66 x 3 = 200: 136.2 100 x 2 = 200: 150 So, I suppose it is right what people say …

Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-12-03, 14:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeap, that's right, if you use a P54 cpu it works fine. I don't know if it's happening on all soyo boards, I guess it has to be on earlier models. I had another soyo with intel chipset, that worked fine with the 233 cpu, but it wasn't in good condition, due to battery leaking (very uncommon for a …

Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-12-03, 12:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recently when I tried to benchmark my 486 boards, I tested also a pentium to compare it. And while an 75MHz cpu scored about 79fps, and the 133MHz 124fps, later I thought to try my main pentium pc. It's pentium 233MMX with a soyo at board, having eteq chipset. I was very surprised to see that it …

Re: fastest chipset for 486?

Posted on 2010-12-01, 21:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If I remember well, except from disabling the Floppy controller, no other strange settings... I tried everything I could, and then loaded the default bios settings lots of times. The same always...

Re: fastest chipset for 486?

Posted on 2010-12-01, 20:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had some time today, and thought to try some things with the 486s I have. I have 2 PCI boards and both have the same chipset (sis 496/497). The first is model made by J-Mark or Jetboard I think , and the second is by Chaintech. The second had a lot of problems. At the beggining I run both without …

Re: fastest chipset for 486?

Posted on 2010-11-29, 01:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well I wasn't making anything up, NFS did run well. What doesn't run well is Interstate '76, Daytona USA, NASCAR Racing 2, and anything else after the year 1996. :) I'm not implying that you were making anything up. First of all, different setups may lead to different results concerning performance …

Re: Abit P2, P3 and Celery board photos

Posted on 2010-11-28, 19:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, I just realised that.... Never mind, I'm going to search... Thanks anyway!

Re: Abit P2, P3 and Celery board photos

Posted on 2010-11-28, 19:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, that's really great! I have lots of reset swithces witch are momentary type, but no more turbo-like latching ones and I could really use some... Thanks!

Re: Abit P2, P3 and Celery board photos

Posted on 2010-11-28, 18:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They look like case switches for turbo/reset, with shortened cables.. 😀

Re: fastest chipset for 486?

Posted on 2010-11-28, 18:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well NFS 1 is my all time favorite racing game, and I used to play it with my friends a lot back in 1995, and I remember some facts. First I remember I couldn't play it because I had a 386/40 with 4MB RAM. Then upgraded for a short while to 486/40, but it was almost the same. Meanwhile my best …

Re: fastest chipset for 486?

Posted on 2010-11-27, 14:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yes, I did. It was playable, and certainly way better than a dx2/66 with CL VL-BUS card I tried before, but the movement was worse compared to the pentium.

Re: fastest chipset for 486?

Posted on 2010-11-27, 14:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember experimenting with a 486/133, and using the need for speed 1, and having and s3 trio 64 pci card, it wouldn't run fast enough,even with the cpu overclocked to 160MHz. After that I tried with a pentium 75Mhz, and even with a simple Cirrus Logic 1MB card it would run great. So for me the " …

Re: 16meg sim on a 386?

Posted on 2010-11-25, 22:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I understand what you're saying, and it's right. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to get the best out of my machine. For me functionality on such old hardware is much more important than top speed. I was just curious to see if there would be any difference, and I had 6x60ns simms, and also …

Re: 16meg sim on a 386?

Posted on 2010-11-24, 20:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had no luck with memory benchmarks today... I had in mind to test the ram on my 386/40 using first 70ns simms and then replace them with 60ns and repeat the process. I tried first memtest86, which run ok, but displayed no memory speed info at all (as opposed to my pentium where it said many more …

386/40 board with slow option

Posted on 2010-11-24, 19:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I received today another set of simms, and took out my collection of boards to test them. I own a 386/40 board, which is very small , and whose main disadvantage is that it has only four simm sockets. The CPU is soldered on it, and the chipset is MX. So, while playing with it, I noticed two jumpers, …

Re: 16meg sim on a 386?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 23:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yes, I've heard that. If I remember well, memory interleaving was used in some low end 386sx motherboards to compensate for lack of cache memory? By the way, I have a board with an AMD386SX/SXL-25, with no cache at all. By looking it's specs, there is a block of jumpers that control "Pipeline Mode …

Re: 16meg sim on a 386?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 17:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

elianda I know that, but I want to have 8MB on that pc, plus that I really use it, and I want to have it fixed as soon as possible, so as not to open it every once in a while. Mostly because I have very limited space, and every time I need to open to fix something I have to move a lot of things. As …

Re: 16meg sim on a 386?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 15:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

well, I don't think it's going to be really that much difference, but... First I remember reading somewhere that 40mhz cpu should have 60ns otherwise it's working in wait states. But the most tempting reason to try it, is that I have already 6 60ns simms, and I need a couple of more to have 8 😀

Re: Windows 3.1/3.11 Drivers for the following Graphic Cards...?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 14:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GL1zdA wow thanks! Great collection of drivers! I didn't have too many hopes with win 3.1 drivers, but I thought I should give it a try just in case.. EDIT : Thanks to that link, I finally found win 3 drivers for that old trident card. As it described in the readme, you have to choose driver from …

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