Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-10-02, 23:19

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hmm. USB audio sticks out to me. I'm not sure how much of an impact it makes, but I'd guess that it burns a few more CPU cycles than onboard audio or an internal sound card. How about your DRAM command rate, 1T or 2T? Setting to 1T will boost performance if your DIMMs can handle it.

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-10-02, 06:25

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Pentium M and Opteron Suicide Runs I was able to get the Opteron 185 running at 3.13GHz by bumping up the voltage. It took a scary amount of voltage to get there (1.6v, up from 1.35v), which is a little strange considering that this CPU has no problem running at 3GHz at stock voltage. This was …

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-10-02, 06:10

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Pentium III-S is a beast and the massive amount of cache plus high FSB / memory throughout helps a lot. Do run the memory at CL 2 though. Pretty much all PC133 modules have SPD setting of CL2 at 100 MHz. Memory timings do seem to matter with Pentium III. Unfortunately, the Intel-made board that the …

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-10-01, 08:59

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Coppermine is significantly slower than Tualatin in Doom 3 for some reason. PIII-850, 100MHz FSB, i440BX, 768MB SDRAM 3-3-3, Radeon 9800Pro (cat 7.3), SBLive, XP Pro SP3 640x480 Medium: 15.4 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 14.1 fps PIII-S at 1585MHz hits its brick wall at 42.6fps (at 640x480 with a 6800GT …

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-30, 07:49

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

My AGP 939 system: Athlon 64 3700 (2.2GHz), EVGA 6800GT AGP (307.83), 2GB DDR400, Gigabyte K8NSC-939 (NF3 250gb), Onboard audio, XP Pro SP3: 640x480 Medium: 115.0 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 98.5 fps 1280x1024 Ultra: 79.1 fps Its one of these newer 0.09 micron A64 I guess :) http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/ …

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-28, 22:52

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

My AGP 939 system: Athlon 64 3700 (2.2GHz), EVGA 6800GT AGP (307.83), 2GB DDR400, Gigabyte K8NSC-939 (NF3 250gb), Onboard audio, XP Pro SP3: 640x480 Medium: 115.0 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 98.5 fps 1280x1024 Ultra: 79.1 fps

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-28, 17:18

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Tualatin and 6800GT. PIII-S 1400@1585, 151MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM 2-2-2, EVGA 6800GT AGP (81.98), WinXP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music 640x480 Medium: 42.6 fps 1024x768 Ultra: 41.5 fps 1280x1024 Ultra: 40.7 fps

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-28, 06:26

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

My socket 939 SLI setup: Opteron 185 2.6GHz@3.0GHz, Geforce 8800GTS 640MB SLI, 4GB DDR400, Asus A8N32-SLI, X-Fi Titanium Fatality, XP Pro SP3 640x480 Medium, 175.4 fps 1024x768 Ultra, 174.3 fps 1280x1024 Ultra, 174.4 fps 1600x1200 Ultra, 173.7 fps Yup, thoroughly CPU bottlenecked! 😁

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-27, 06:00

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Pentium M (Dothan) 755 2.0GHz @ 2.66GHz, 533MHz FSB, GeForce 6800GT (Forceware 307.83), 2GB DDR2-533, MSI Speedster i915, onboard audio, XP Pro SP3 640x480, Medium: 133.6 fps 1024x768, Ultra: 104.2 fps 1280x1024, Ultra: 80.4 fps

---

Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-27, 00:53

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

My Tualatin beast didn't do half bad. 🤣 PIII-S 1400@1585, 151MHz FSB, 1.5GB SDRAM, Radeon 9800Pro (Catalyst 7.3), WinXP Pro SP3, VIA 694T, X-Fi Extreme Music 1024x768, Ultra: 33.1 fps 1024x768, High: 38.4 fps 640x480, Medium: 41.0 fps

---

Re: [Let's go wild] What is your dream computer speaker setup?

Posted on 2014-09-26, 20:19

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just found my dream workshop music setup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ShUVe-dtSM Dear god that setup just looks and sounds amazing. Imagine having all of the old consoles and a DOS rig hooked up to that. As well as laserdisc player, turntable, and of course a mini pc and DAC for FLAC playback …

---

Re: When does something become retro?

Posted on 2014-09-24, 08:45

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Milliways

in Milliways

My Scale of Oldness. Kind of Old, but good enough for most casual users: Core 2 Duo or newer Athlon 64 X2 or newer Totally Old, but still useable with some tweaking. Can still handle the modern internet. Can run Win7 well enough with enough RAM. Days of being useful (by modern standards) are …

---

Re: Your Mothership PC Components

Posted on 2014-09-18, 20:15

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I think it's also a reflection of hardware not making the strides it once did in terms of performance - between the early 1990s to the early 2000s improvements in CPU/GPU/etc performance were usually many orders of magnitude (consider a 486 vs a Pentium 4 for a moment), but from the early 2000s to …

---

Re: Testing AGP cards in a 133mhz FSB Intel 440BX system

Posted on 2014-09-17, 05:54

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not sure 3DMark01 is the best test for AGP/GPU stability. At least in my experience, AGP issues sometimes don't manifest themselves in synthetic benchmarks. My PIII box is a Tualatin-1585 on a VIA 694 board. The board is nice and stable in AGP 2X mode, but most of that stability goes out the …

---

Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-09, 17:07

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cybertroopers: Virtual On for PowerVR released mid 1997. Minimum: Pentium 166, 32MB of RAM Recommended: Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB of RAM, PowerVR card The software release of this game had similar requirements along with MMX. Even at the recommended specs the game does not run very well, you need a …

---

Re: Post your 486 Winamp benchmarks

Posted on 2014-09-09, 05:40

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I no longer have any 486s, but I do remember trying to play MP3s on a DX2-66 a few years ago. Damn near impossible, at least under Win 95. i486-DX2, 66MHz 16MB RAM no L2 (not sure how cache dependant MP3 playback is) SB AWE64 Win95 A running an early release of WinAmp, I think a 2.x version. All …

---

Re: new Athlon64 build with a crackling/static sound issue

Posted on 2014-08-22, 18:25

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The X1950 Pro is one of the better bridged cards I've used. It's been trouble-free in PIII, P4, and A64 systems--even the VIA based ones. I can't say the same thing about NV-based bridged cards, which seem to dislike VIA boards, as well as the newer Radeon HD AGP cards, which seem to dislike all …

---

Re: Pentium 4 1.8GHz, 1.6A GHz or Celeron 2.4Ghz?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 05:42

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Celeron would only be faster in specific workloads (media encoding, for example). When it comes to gaming though, the 128K Northwood Celeron is quite the slug. For example, in 3DMark01 the Celeron 2400 only hits 9302 with a Radeon 9800 Pro. P4 1.8 Willamette gets 9178, PIII-S at 1.59 scores …

---

Re: Fidelity vs Enhancements: Which One Do You Prefer?

Posted on 2014-07-30, 00:16

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Milliways

in Milliways

It's pretty much 50/50. -Down in the basement, I run an untouched audio signal out to whichever amp/speaker combination I have hooked up at the time. IMHO older equipment tends to sound best when you give them a flat audio signal to work with. -For home theater, the audio processing built into the …

---

Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2014-07-23, 04:45

by

by Standard Def Steve

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Yep, everything looked OK in 3dmark 99 and 2000. Most of 3DMark01 even looked normal. GT2 (Dragothic) had quite a bit of color banding, despite running in 32-bit color.

---