Re: Choice of GFX-Cards?

Posted on 2014-06-17, 21:54

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Honestly I doubt the TNT2 "needs" the fan - neither of my TNT2s have fans, just large-ish heatsinks (by modern standards I guess they aren't that big). You may try just getting a passive cooler for the TNT2 if it's working for everything you've got thus far. :happy: I can sign for this. Back in …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2014-06-17, 21:07

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in Marvin \ Video

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Awesome! Back in the day with Compaq's of this era, the game would have had its own Compaq part number, which (over time) ended up looking like HP part numbers. Format: 106778-002 (etc.) In my mind, this disc would surely have had a part number printed on a barcode on its paper sleeve. Anyhow, …

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-06-17, 18:02

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never understood why people like the ET4000 at all. Now granted the ISA version was quite fast, but if you have a VLB of PCI system, there are much better cards. Ones that are equally fast or faster that have decent acceleration And 1MB video RAM? eww! It will limit your resolution or color depth …

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-06-17, 17:37

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since there is so much hype for the ET4000/W32P I want to present my benchmark results. I finally got my hands on a Et4000/W32p card without giving a kidney. They back up the ones done by Artex. Hardware: Pentium Overdrive 83@100mhz ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev. 2.0 32MB RAM (FPM) 1024kb L2 cache Samsung …

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Re: Socket 5 & 7 Motherboard VGA Benchmark comparison

Posted on 2014-06-17, 17:17

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ASUS P/I-P55TP4N 256kb PB and 512kb PB results added. Feipoa: Did you miss this thread?

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Re: Tomb Raider 1 + Voodoo 3 reseting

Posted on 2014-06-17, 14:35

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You should get an original release of Tomb Raider and not use mounted stuff and glidos stuff for that computer. It should work (on most computers) if you do it the old way.

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-06-17, 14:26

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Vetz, no, I do not believe so. I seem to recall FSB not considerably affecting the Speedsys score for the same internal CPU frequency. Or do you mean a POD at 125 MHz? If a POD at 125 MHz, then it will surely have a higher Speedsys score. Are you able to POST at 125 MHz? I meant POD at 125mhz. I …

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-06-17, 12:31

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is the IBM 5x86-100 at 150 MHz. I could not get it to run Quake. This is probably the best Speedsys score you'll find on a 486-class motherboard. All run on a Biostar MB8433-UUD. Impressive results :) Do you think a POD running at 50mhz FSB could beat that? It has 73 points in Speedsys at …

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Re: Tomb Raider 1 + Voodoo 3 reseting

Posted on 2014-06-17, 07:06

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3DFX.exe is the Voodoo Graphics patch and Voodoo.exe is the Voodoo Rush patch. Only the Voodoo Rush patch works on Voodoo3, but it is recommended to play it in a DOS window under Windows98 to avoid the inventory crash. You machine should not freeze like that anyway, sounds like another problem tbh, …

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-06-16, 21:19

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Will you test the Asus VL-i486SV2GX4 @ 160mhz? Could you post the gamebenches for the Biostar board @ 160mhz?

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2014-06-16, 17:02

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by vetz

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

After two years of searching I finally got my hands on the PowerVR version of Flight Unlimited through some epic epic Google skillz. This should be the last of the known OEM releases for PowerVR to be documented. Facts: - Locked to 640x480 - Works on Midas3 and PCX2 - Bilinear filtering needs to be …

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Re: Ultimate PowerVR SGL card/rig/games?

Posted on 2014-06-16, 11:47

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gona, can you try any of the games that VoodooMan tried which didn't work for you previously? Like Nightmare Creatures and MDK?

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Re: Unisys brand?

Posted on 2014-06-16, 11:30

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a FIC PT2003 motherboard with a custom Unisys BIOS. My favorite 430FX board 😀 The best quirk is that the bootup UNISYS logo is 320x240, so my capture card syncs immediately

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Re: Nerdly Pleasures - My Vintage Computer/Gaming Blog

Posted on 2014-06-16, 07:25

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I read every blog post you make, very nice work! Keep it up!

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-06-13, 16:56

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I took a break from that pain-in-the-ass SP3G board and threw the AMD X5-133 into my second SV2GX4 board (Rev 2.0). System 2 Benchmark Results: SpeedSys Overall Score: 50.25 DOOM: 2134 gametics in 1425 realtics Superscape: 80.1 fps PC Player Bench: 20.3 Quake: 969 Frames 76.1 seconds 12.7 FPS Your …

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Tell your story. What made you sign up to Vogons?

Posted on 2014-06-13, 09:35

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by vetz

in Milliways

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My story goes back to 2012 when I had finished my studies and were planning on upgrading my Compaq for some retro gaming. Almost whatever I searched for on Google it took me to a thread on Vogons where someone provided an answer. I was amazed to see people like Gerwin, Great Hierophant and Keropi be …

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Re: Cyrix 6x86 80GP (2x40mhz) Benchmarking

Posted on 2014-06-13, 09:26

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

lol, i think quake is the only fpu-related test of the four. Yes it is, but kept it nice and easy. Also by using Phil's Benchmark you can compare with several hundred results in his database. cyrix surely has very good integer performance, however its not 100% 586 compatible, so some tests like …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-12, 23:16

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Artex wrote: senrew wrote: Jesus Christ, Artex. Where do you keep finding these things. I should've said.. "In the dumpster." 😈

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Cyrix 6x86 80GP (2x40mhz) Benchmarking

Posted on 2014-06-12, 22:12

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Inspired by this thread , this one , and this last thread I decided to go a bit further with testing the infamous Cyrix 6x86 80GP , which is by many rumoured to be the slowest Socket 5/7 CPU you can get. It was also designed to be run at a low 40mhz FSB, which many motherboards did not support. …

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-06-12, 21:47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

feipoa wrote: I am not sure. I have never seen a TAG RAM socket spaced out over 4 DIPs like this. I suppose it is possible, but it wouldn't be a 32kx8 like the manual mentions. It's DIP-28 cache chips placed in DIP-32 sockets. It's common to see that on Socket 5/7 boards, might not be on 486s

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