Re: The Pentium III build log

Posted on 2014-04-06, 05:26

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by Standard Def Steve

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Kimberly wrote: New specs! 😀 Intel Pentium III 1 GHZ @ 1.2GHZ (160 FSB) Aopen MS3X i815 Holy smoke...160MHz FSB. Does that board allow you to lock the PCI/AGP bus while overclocking? If it does, I just may have to revisit i815.

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Re: 1.4ghz p3 or 1.8ghz p4 for win 98

Posted on 2014-04-05, 02:45

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I always have issues mounting coolers on Tualatin chips because they are a little bit taller. For benchmarking I just put the cooler on top and don't fasten it. Works well enough :lol: Got this board underway: http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/motherboards_d/AOpen/MX3S-T/ Because I need to include …

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Re: 1.4ghz p3 or 1.8ghz p4 for win 98

Posted on 2014-04-04, 20:04

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I'd call it a tie. Hate to bring up 3DMark01 yet again, but it's the only benchmark I've run on a wide variety of machines and it's a great basic CPU gaming performance indicator (I believe only the original SSE is used--same as most games from 1999-2001). With a 9800Pro, Catalyst 7.3 and WinXP SP3: …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-03-30, 07:17

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Latest item rescued from the alley. Also the first non-VIA chipsetted Athlon XP that's ever made it into the Cave. This thing might be a keeper. Came with an Athlon XP 2800+ Barton, Asus nForce2 board, 2GB of memory, and a surprisingly nice case. Gonna have to see what this thing can do with a …

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Re: my modern pci graphics card's (with onboard pci to pci-e reverse bridge) poor performance in P3 rig

Posted on 2014-03-29, 19:33

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Expendable timedemo1 Radeon 9800 Pro: Expendable Timedemo Report -------------------------- Running at - 640 x 480 x 32 Total Time - 84 Seconds Gameframes - 11226 Lowest FPS - 95 fps Highest FPS - 193 fps Average FPS - 132.940476 fps Radeon 9250PCI: Expendable Timedemo Report …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2014-03-29, 18:33

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I'm working on a Dual Tualatin 1.4 and came across this thread.. A few people were curious if a dual would help 3Dmark2001se and it doesn't look like it does, or if it does it's very little. My numbers are in line with Single 1.4's.. However it looks like 3dmark 03 is multi-threaded, since a search …

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Re: my modern pci graphics card's (with onboard pci to pci-e reverse bridge) poor performance in P3 rig

Posted on 2014-03-28, 07:02

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by Standard Def Steve

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Half Life doesn't work at default settings, either. I'm in the process of downloading Expendable from an extremely slow site (5KB/s :exclamation: ). Will bench it later on. I ran a few other benchmarks on this system as well. All benches were run on a TUV4X at 1585MHz (151x10.5), 1.5GB of memory at …

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Re: my modern pci graphics card's (with onboard pci to pci-e reverse bridge) poor performance in P3 rig

Posted on 2014-03-25, 18:32

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Hmm, doesn't work in windowed mode either. It also doesn't work with the 9250 PCI, using older Cat 5.6 drivers.

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Re: my modern pci graphics card's (with onboard pci to pci-e reverse bridge) poor performance in P3 rig

Posted on 2014-03-25, 05:11

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by Standard Def Steve

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I'm having trouble getting it to run. It just crashes to the desktop when I try to load a new game. I've tried Win98 compatibilty mode. This happens with the software renderer and OpenGL. Running Catalyst 7.3 (9800 Pro).

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Re: Your Mothership PC Components

Posted on 2014-03-24, 06:20

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by Standard Def Steve

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All main systems. Still have them except for a temporary i7-2600k system. CPU AMD 286-16 (1991-1997) Pentium II 233MHz (1997-2002) Pentium 4 1.8GHz (2002-2005) Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2.5GHz (2005-2007) Opteron 185 @ 3.0GHz (2007-2012) Core i7-2600K (2012-2014) (this was just a temporary machine, as I'd …

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Re: Good board for P3 866 w/ ISA and ideally AGP?

Posted on 2014-03-23, 18:39

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Memory performance on VIA Apollo Pro is less then one would expect. I suppose it needs 133MHz FSB just to be near a BX on 100MHz FSB. Many older VIA boards had memory interleaving disabled by default. On some of these boards, the only way to enable it is with a software patch. Most newer (Tualatin- …

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Re: my modern pci graphics card's poor performance in P3 rig

Posted on 2014-03-23, 05:55

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by Standard Def Steve

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I don't have the original Half-Life. Any other benchmark or game?

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Re: my modern pci graphics card's poor performance in P3 rig

Posted on 2014-03-22, 18:37

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If I remember correctly the 3dm06 CPU test is compeltely different, while the 03 and 05 is similar, but as I said, with a PCIE8400GS and the same CPU it should be getting 10x higher score on 3dm03 CPU test, while the GPU part of it seems acceptable, so there is something going on I noticed that …

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Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-21, 01:44

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I agree, Standard Def Steve...you're a legend! Thanks for that :) The 9800 Pro is basically around the same performance as the FX5950 so it's really given a good indication of what can be expected from this combination. I think games made after 2002 are going to be quite limited by the 1ghz Pentium …

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Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-19, 01:41

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I don't have much experience with Slot 1 stuff, so I don't know exactly how much slower a Coppermine @ 1000/100 is than a Tualatin @ 1585/151, but assuming that my bottleneck was my 9800 Pro, Doom III would probably run okay on a PIII-1000 with an FX5950. IIRC that game heavily favored NVIDIA cards …

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Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-18, 04:45

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how could the above combination handle for instance UT2003 or Doom 3 Short answer: It won't. Doom 3 ran ok on an Athlon 64 with a Geforce 6600GT. As always people have different meanings of "it runs a game" :) I finished Doom III on my PIII. It was more than a year ago, but I remember it playing …

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Re: P3 1ghz + FX5950 + 512mb SDRam Games Limit!

Posted on 2014-03-17, 20:58

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So far I've played these newish games on my 1.59GHz PIII-S/9800Pro/1.5GB system. So the CPU is faster, but the 9800 Pro is fairly similar in performance to the FX5950. And I doubt that having 1.5GB of RAM actually improves the performance of these old games, but I run XP SP3 on this thing. I ran …

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Re: Testing CPUs and Motherboards

Posted on 2014-03-09, 05:34

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I actually had the same problem (with Security Center) a few years ago with my VIA-based P3-S system. Turned out to be a video-related problem. The X800XT I was using at the time did not like running @ AGP 4X on my TUV4X board. As soon as I reduced it to AGP 2X mode, it was 100% stable. Try opening …

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Re: Recommended amount of graphics memory for today's web browsing

Posted on 2014-03-04, 06:27

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Chrome is not very fun to use on a P3. Plus, Google Update will hog all of your CPU's time for a good 5 minutes on anythlng less than a very fast P4. I use Firefox (latest version) on my 1.59GHz P3--it's much faster than Chrome. Then again, Chrome seems to suck on Windows XP, period. Scrolling is so …

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Re: Anyone collecting older SLI/crossfire cards?

Posted on 2014-02-25, 05:51

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by Standard Def Steve

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I wouldn't bother with the 9800gx2 due to the low overall quality and thermals but the gtx295 is better built. The 2900xt to me is one of those cards that I still desire. I liked how that after a lot of work SLI would prove its worth but was never easy like it is now and scaling along with the …

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