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Re: Old Videos Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)

Posted on 2021-06-05, 22:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a GTX 1080 (non-Ti) in my Ryzen 5600x. I purchased the 1080 back when I got my Ryzen 1600. So about 3 years old or so. If the 3070/3080 was available at RRP I would have upgraded, but no chance with these current prices, the 1080 still works great, and I'm mostly playing games from 2007 …

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-29, 01:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've done a video of my WinChip C6 benchmarks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEIX9NXRPk

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2021-05-27, 01:01

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Anyone else have a Lost Joker 2 card? (Voodoo 3 + PCX2). I am getting BSODs every time I shut down Windows. Also some odd behavior with the PowerVR part where a game will run extremely slow, but then disabling "PowerVR HAL" in settings will fix it and it will use the PowerVR part correctly. I have …

Rise iDragon mP6

Posted on 2021-05-24, 12:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi Guys, I picked up this Rise iDragon mP6 200MHz CPU. It is a socket 7 CPU. I believe it is 2.0volts. The MVP3 motherboard I have only goes down to 2.1volts. It seems like a pretty rare CPU so I want to be careful. I assume 2.1volt with good cooling will be okay. Does anyone think otherwise?

Re: Signal output quality difference S3 Virge vs Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2021-05-18, 11:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I love S3 but my Pentium MMX machine has a Matrox Millennium 2 and it is amazing 2d.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-17, 04:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've fixed up an old Osborne 486 running NT 4.0 https://youtu.be/6wPN8oge7hE

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-12, 12:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The MX is a lot better IMHO than the non-MX version. So yes I would expect the 6x86MX to be faster overall than the C6.

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-12, 12:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah the 6x86 (non-MX) CPU is pretty awful IMHO. Actually I feel one of the worst for socket 7. The MX version is a lot better. Lots of compatabilty problems, no MMX and smaller issues like needing 75MHz/2.9v volts etc. I was given a 6x86L PR200+ to upgrade my Pentium 133 back in the day and swapped …

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-12, 09:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've added my C6 results here (sorry getting a bit hard to read!) https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Super_So … et_7_Benchmarks The WinChip C6 looks faster than the Cyrix 6x86L PR200 (2x75MHz) in both int and fpu.

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-12, 04:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've done some testing on the C6 recently and actually not as bad as I thought. Slower than the Pentium 133 in most areas but I would think similar to a Pentium 90-100.

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-10, 09:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes I have benchmarks from Pentium 133 to K6-3, but yes when discussing it I am looking at similar MHz. I do compeletely agree that there were a lot faster options when it was out. The chip I have is a single voltage but a 2A so seems pretty good: https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Winchip2/IDT-W2A- …

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-10, 09:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kotu Koylu wrote on 2021-05-10, 09:27: Please add DOS BENCHMARKS! It is interesting, I see so many videos with DOS benchmarks I wanted to try something a bit different. Maybe the WinChip is more a DosChip? 😉 I'll try and do some in future!

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-10, 09:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow very nice. Did you notice it faster in anything you did or was the P133 just all around faster? Did you go back to the P133?

Re: WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-10, 08:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the reply! It is always interesting to read peoples experiences. I have read that the WinChip1 FPU was particularly bad and I wouldn't be surprised if a Pentium 90 was similar or even better than a 200! The WinChip2 at least in my testing seems significantly faster than the WinChip 1 ( …

WinChip appreciation thread

Posted on 2021-05-10, 06:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've just started benchmarking some WinChips and are interested to know if anyone had one back in the day and what they thought about them? I have a range of WinChip 2 (pretty fast!) results that I will post once I have together. Some very interesting things really, it's not a bad chip at all.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got a new CPU to benchmark! Winchip2 CPU Benchmarks

Re: Half-Life Performance Issues

Posted on 2021-05-08, 06:08

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hi Guys, I am trying to do some HL1 benchmarks without luck. Even if I record my own it just doesn't play afterwards. I have 1.0.0.9 GOTY currently but hoping I can try the benchmark from BeginnerGuy but cannot find HL1108.exe. Does anyone have a link?

Re: MMX vs K6 vs MX PR333 - Recommendations?

Posted on 2021-05-07, 04:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did a video comparing these chips and some more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueo8vfhFeM8 The K6-200 performed very well and almost at 233MMX level. So I would expect overall the K6-266 to be fastest. Otherwise you could pick up a cheap K6-2 300 at 4.5x66 and that will perform very nicely.

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2021-05-03, 11:16

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Should be possible. The custom card I'm getting has a switchable 66/80MHz option!

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2021-04-30, 10:05

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Wow that looks so weird!

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