Re: am5x86-p75 vs Pentium Overdrive 83

Posted on 2015-10-13, 12:08

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by feipoa

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Refer to this topic. Should provide you with the answers you're looking for. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=28470 It seems that it only does some synthetic ALU/FPU tests, which doesn't mean a whole lot for real-world performance. Aside from Doom and Quake, which games, or real-world …

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Re: Best motherboard chipset for Cyrix 6x86?

Posted on 2015-10-13, 11:52

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by feipoa

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FIC PA-2013 has a jumper for linear burst mode for Cyrix 6x86/MX/MII CPUs. Most VIA MVP3-based motherboards should work with Linear Burst. Intel boards will not. All Cyrix 5x86/6x86/MX/MII chips have Linear Burst as an option. On MediaGX chips, that register is reserved, so I'm not sure if Linear …

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Re: the 14.318 refference oscillator in the 486, a silly question

Posted on 2015-10-13, 11:33

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by feipoa

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I have tried this before. I even socketed my 14.318 MHz crystal. You can only go about 0.5-0.7 MHz faster before the timer gets messed up and the floppy disk controller won't function properly.

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Re: Can't Get 486 to Boot from HDD

Posted on 2015-10-13, 11:31

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by feipoa

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That is a very nice looking motherboard - SiS496, PS/2 mouse, PCI, 1024K cache potential. What are your plans for it?

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Re: CD burning on pre-Pentium systems?

Posted on 2015-10-09, 21:59

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by feipoa

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I regularly burned CD's on my Am5x86-133 back in early 1997 before anyone else on the block had burners. Everyone was coming to me. I had SCSI though. I beleive it was a Memorex 2x/4x-rewrite, 6x for CD-R. If I tried to browse the internet while it was burning, the disc would get messed up, so I …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2015-10-09, 13:45

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by feipoa

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Finally got my GA486AM/S working with AMD 5x86-P75 in WB mode. Config: GA486AM/S v2.21, 256KB 15ns cache AMD 5x86-P75 133MHz 2x4MB FPM RAM Tseng ET6000 2MB PCI BIOS set to fastest settings http://i.imgur.com/j910DYs.png With 512KB cache (AMD@160MHz-WB/133MHz-WB): 3DBench...98.8/84.7 PCPlayer...25. …

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Re: CD burning on pre-Pentium systems?

Posted on 2015-10-09, 11:05

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by feipoa

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A 486 can even burn DVDs. 486 DVD burner

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Voodoo2 + GLQuake image corruption

Posted on 2015-10-09, 07:01

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by feipoa

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After about 40 minutes of running GLQuake in autoplay mode (that is, enter the game and don't press any keys, the game plays by itself), I start to see some lack of detail in the background images. I am inclined to refer to this as image corruption, however this phenomenum might have a more …

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Re: Rare CPUs

Posted on 2015-10-08, 01:43

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by feipoa

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The chip in that photo works in a Socket 3 motherboard. The Cyrix 5x86-120GP with the green heatsink was less common, but not rare. What did your brother-in-law do for Cyrix? Which years?

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Re: Rare CPUs

Posted on 2015-10-08, 00:57

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by feipoa

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I don't think MediaGX CPUs are rare, nor are they particularly sought after, especially non-PGA chips. The MediaGX chip to have, which is very rare, is the GXm-300.

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Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2015-10-05, 21:53

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by feipoa

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falloutboy, from your results, you obtained a 20% increase on a Voodoo-based card. For my tests with a K6-III with non-Voodoo cards, I received a 0-10% increase, with the most benefit received from the GeForce2 MX400. The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison was run with a Matrox G200. As my results …

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Re: DVD player for Cyrix MII, Rage PRO on Windows ME

Posted on 2015-10-05, 05:51

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by feipoa

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MPC does not require DX9; K-lite requires DX9. If you don't install DX9, K-lite will not install using its own installer.

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Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2015-10-04, 21:13

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by feipoa

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I tried various minigl versions and picked the one with the best performance. Those charts are of little value because they do not show the results with and without the 3DNow! patch.

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Re: DVD player for Cyrix MII, Rage PRO on Windows ME

Posted on 2015-10-04, 21:08

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by feipoa

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Looks like that guy on the rage3d forum was really determined to find the best combination. PowerDVD -v3 (NT4) and PowerDVD -v4 (W2K/98SE) worked fine for me. I have the retail version of PowerDVD v3 somewhere, but it cannot be located. It came on some driver disc. BSA Starfire, if you locate these …

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Re: DVD player for Cyrix MII, Rage PRO on Windows ME

Posted on 2015-10-04, 08:09

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by feipoa

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This is the exact K-Lite Codec Pack that I used on 98SE to do some DVD tests on a K6-3 and Pentium 3. http://filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/3194/ I also used a version of Cinemaster 99 found here: http://www.cdrinfo.pl/download/1187044644 That version of Cinemaster would hang my MII system …

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Re: DVD player for Cyrix MII, Rage PRO on Windows ME

Posted on 2015-10-04, 07:26

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by feipoa

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BSA Starfire, could you also test PowerDVD trial versions 3 and 4? Note that version 1.5 requires 3DNow!, which the MII does not support. Version 2 is not on oldversion, and version 5 had some sound skipping in it. For these reasons, I think version 3 or 4 might work for you as they did for me. …

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Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2015-10-04, 06:30

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by feipoa

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When using a K6-III-450, I found the 3DNow! patch to be unremarkable. Did I do something wrong? For example, using Quake II (800x600x32) as the benchmark in Win98SE, I obtained ATI Rage 128 VR 32 MB 38.7 fps before 3DNow! patch 40.0 fps after 3DNow! patch 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 32 MB 29.2 fps before …

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Re: DVD player for Cyrix MII, Rage PRO on Windows ME

Posted on 2015-10-03, 13:10

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by feipoa

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I could not get Media Player Classic MPC Ver 6.4.9.1 to function in Windows 2000 for DVD playback. It reports, "Failed to query the needed interfaces for DVD playback". I tried a few suggestions found online, like regsvr32 qdvd.dll and to tick the MPEG-2 box in the options. Perhaps my Toshiba DVD- …

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Re: DVD player for Cyrix MII, Rage PRO on Windows ME

Posted on 2015-10-03, 11:41

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by feipoa

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I have begun testing software DVD playback on my Cyrix MII, however I am having the most difficult time finding a freeware DVD MPEG-2 decoder (or WMP 6.4 codec), for WinNT4, W2K, or Win98SE. It as if computers before WinXP didn't exist. Could someone recommend a DVD deocder codec or DVD Player …

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Re: P2/P3 VS K6-3+ - A Great Battle Commences

Posted on 2015-10-03, 08:03

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by feipoa

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Nobody done benches with that slot-celerons against slot PII's yet? Did you take a look at the Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison? The Celeron Mendocino at 300, 400, and 450 MHz was benchmarked. A few examples below, Quake 2 (openGL mode) Celeron Mendocino - 450 (4.5x100) = 35.9 fps Intel Pentium II …

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