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Re: Quake III timedemo scores on a Tualatin PIII-S 1400

Posted on 2014-02-27, 13:06

Quake 3 is slightly multithreaded afaik. It did help a bit on dual 400MHz celeron systems, but since the render thread is monothread, not sure it's possible to see a difference on 1400MHz monsters.

Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-02-18, 21:45

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, just added my Gateway P5-133 results 😀 117.5 3DBench 36.8 PCBench 1264 (59.1 FPS) Ticks Doom 30.9 FPS Quake

Re: POLL: What is your favorite vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-02-14, 19:40

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ System Specs

Very hard to answer ... I'd put the DX4 100 Intel Write Back on the first spot. Then probably The Athlon Classic Slot A, any of the 500-700MHz range. And I'd close the podium with the FX Athlon line, socket 940 and 939. runner ups : 1MB ppro, the Pentium 2 line, the P3S.

Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2014-02-12, 18:40

by sunaiac

in Milliways

I think mine is a CPU. Now I have to understand what a CPU is.

Re: my fast DOS PC

Posted on 2014-01-09, 22:36

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ System Specs

I think the pentium 200 is actually 199.99MHz 😁

Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2014-01-05, 11:41

by sunaiac

in Milliways

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& … 984.m1423.l2649

Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-05, 11:17

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very nice topic Mau1wurf, good to compare our oldies to spot a tuning problem quickly 😀

Re: VLB EIDE cache controller

Posted on 2013-12-16, 13:10

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NJRoadfan wrote: Apparently the writeback L1 cache issues has to do with all VLBus cards that do busmastering. If that is the case I guess I should havec problems with the DC-680T then. I'll soon know.

Re: VLB EIDE cache controller

Posted on 2013-12-16, 13:10

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

vetz wrote: sunaiac wrote: Since SCSI + WriteBack are not really friends Is this only with Adaptec controllers, or all brands? Can't say, tried only an Adaptec 2842. With writeback, DOS 6.22 installation hangs quickly. Without, no problem finishing installation.

Re: VLB EIDE cache controller

Posted on 2013-12-15, 22:14

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok thanks for all the input. I really wonder how close to SCSI performances/low CPU usage it will get. And also if the 286 on the 680C really brings something above the 186 on the 680T. (even lower main CPU usage ?) Well if it doesn't work with write back, I can still revert to write through CPU and …

Re: VLB EIDE cache controller

Posted on 2013-12-15, 20:51

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can it go beyond 540MB ?

VLB EIDE cache controller

Posted on 2013-12-15, 18:01

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi guys, Still working on my 486s ... like 1 day every 6 month, but hey, time is expensive. Since SCSI + WriteBack are not really friends, I have a few questions about the slow side of the moon :) - Is write Back compatible with EIDE VLB controllers ? - Is a DC-680C much better than a DC-680T ? …

Re: Which OS on a faster 486 system.

Posted on 2013-12-15, 17:38

by sunaiac

in Milliways

There are no gameplay differences (buildings, etc...) between the DOS and Win9x versions of red alert. I played red alert pretty well on my SX33 @40MHz back in the days under DOS 6.22, but the DX2 @ 80 was much better. The Win9X starts to be acceptable on a pentium (or a really fast DX4, but I …

Re: A theoretical Socket 3 PCI or SS7 build

Posted on 2013-09-09, 21:52

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unless winamp is lying to me I am playing 256kbps and 320kbps without issues on my 5x86. Possibly downsampling is selected? Dosamp is pickier with what it can and cant play. I don't know about the 5x86, that might be possible without downsampling at 133MHz with improvements, since its FPU is buffed …

Re: Just an important heads up

Posted on 2013-09-08, 17:38

by sunaiac

in Milliways

Sorry if that has already been asked, but could links default to new tab ? Right now i keep on clicking a link, reading the stuff, closing the tab, cursing, reopening the tab and going back to vogons. I'd like to avoid step 4, 5 and 6 😀

Re: A theoretical Socket 3 PCI or SS7 build

Posted on 2013-09-08, 11:11

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unless you actually want to use a 486 to play MP3 (where a DX4-100 would be enough for 128kbps anyway), early glide games and quake (the three being more academic than useful, since any pentium starting at 90-100MHz will be much cheaper and easier, but I can understand the fun behind it ;)), the DX5 …

Re: Are fake cache PCI 486 boards really that horrible?

Posted on 2013-09-07, 08:00

by sunaiac

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, they are not. It's about a 5-10% performance loss with both the AMD X5 5x86 and the Pentium Overdrive (probably the same on slower CPU's) See this thread/post. Compare my fake L2 cache board with Feipoa's Ultimate 486 benchmark results. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=35609#p306075 Wouch, …