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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-21, 18:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Purchased another full tower, what I have been able to tell from the photos until it arrives: ◙ 486DX ◙ AMI BIOS ◙ 1992 Octek motherboard with Headland chipset ◙ ISA slots ◙ 8 x 30 pin simms ◙ Pro Audio Spectrum (PAS16SL) sound card ◙ IDE Tape /IDE CD-ROM /3.5" and 5 1/4" drives ◙ HDD removed Funky …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-18, 08:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

True. Cyrix 5x86 120MHz CPU ( S0 R5 ) are not too hard to come by but have you found a source for Cyrix 5x86 120MHz ( S1 R3 ) CPU? Do you own any ( S1 R3 ) Cyrix 5x86 marked above 100MHz?

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-18, 07:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hehe damn typo :) I haven't played with the 60/66 MHz fsb for some time. I was too scared to do anything other than speedsys and cachechk for fear of damage to the CPU or motherboard. It might turn out to be difficult to replace either of my Cyrix 5x86 CPU. After 66MHz FSB operation I was able to …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-18, 04:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For comparison, an IBM 5x86-133/2x gets these cachechk results: L1 = 274 MB/s (read) L2 = 96 MB/s (read) I thought your L2 reported 96MB and mine is reporting 101.6MB in Cachechk. Am I mistaken? Not just mine, many people who post speedsys results with there Cyrix 5x86 seem to get substantially …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-18, 03:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

feipoa: I don't think anyone is going to get close to your benchmarked cache/RAM/Quake speeds without running there FSB @ 66MHz on their socket 3 system. When I was experimenting with the 66MHz FSB on the Biostar MB-8433 my cache speeds came tantalizingly close to yours :-P Cachechk reported my L2 …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-18, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I didn't get any takers on the sound card recommendation so I decided to go with the Yamaha YMF718-S. That should give me good external midi module support without the hanging note bug + Sound Blaster + Adlib + Softmpu support....cant go wrong! I installed a Waveblaster daughterboard to play around …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-18, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks Stiletto!

Re: Bitchin' dual p-pro setup

Posted on 2016-05-17, 12:28

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Is that DOS Quake using the onboard S3 Trio64? Do you have plans to install a different video card? Did you end up sticking with Windows NT 4.0 ?

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-16, 18:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tables courtesy of Kresimir @ http://www.512bit.net --------> what an amazing resource! Thank you Kresimir

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-16, 17:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does anyone know why some Matrox Millenium (IS-STORM)'s have this electrical component and others don't? It looks not dissimilar to the voltage regulator on my motherboard. (IS-STORM REV B) http://i.imgur.com/Z9K7srn.jpg (IS-STORM REV A) http://i.imgur.com/EOPLGG8.png Also can someone please …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-16, 10:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Redneck Rampage needs to be run in straight DOS/DOS 7.10 and it doesn't appear to support 3DFX. The game is made using the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D. Strangely the fps rate is very similar to Duke3d (4-18) but the game feels terribly unresponsive in SVGA mode even with sound off, another game …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-16, 10:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I still have a couple more Matrox cards to dig out and I'll add to the list above. I had wished the Quad card had worked in either of my systems. It would be an interesting card to benchmark! My monitor + motherboard turned on but went to a black screen. Nothing more. I played a bit of Warcraft II, …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2016-05-16, 06:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not quite hardware but worthy of a retro dumpster dive none the less. I found this book dumped in the bin a couple of days ago. Published 1998 - 2000

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-16, 06:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tested and catalogued the PCI Matrox video cards I have with the Cyrix 5x86 120MHz + UM8810P-AIO. DOS 7.10 Himem.sys loaded DOS Quake with -nosound -nomouse -nojoy -nonet -nocdaudio +timedemo demo1 BTB_EN=ON, FP_FAST=ON, LSSER=OFF for Cyrix enhancement gains and all else OFF in the Peter Moss …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-16, 06:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Only way to be sure is to remove the modules from the Biostar board and test them in the UM8810P. True, without the SRAM tester I'm unable to determine with 100% accuracy which ones are dead and I'm not willing to strip my other board of cache. I do remember reading your thread stating 10% failure …

Re: Matrox G200 running very hot?

Posted on 2016-05-16, 05:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My PCI Matrox G200 seems to run hot too and its not just the heat-sink, heat radiates through the whole card. Even though I didn't experience any stability issues I installed a fan for good measure.

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-15, 12:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Where is there a red light which turns on when you install the Samsung KM44C16100AK-6 module? I mean the red light on the monitor that changes when it receives a signal from the video card. With that RAM module in the light stays red and the mobo doesn't turn on. Did you ensure that the same …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-15, 10:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

◙ Cyrix 5x86 120MHz ◙ 512K Cache ◙ 64MB FPM RAM ◙ ECS UM8810P-AIO ◙ Matrox Millenium-2MB ◙ 10GB IDE Hard Disk ◙ IDE CDROM So I'm not sure which sound card to use. I need a sound card that will play well with different MIDI devices and I would like it to work well in GLQuake/Warcraft 2/Doom 2/Hexen/ …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-15, 07:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This hardware does not work with my ECS UM8810P-AIO motherboard but works fine with the Biostar MB-8433UUD. [PCI Video Card] Rendition Verite 2200 : red light, wont turn on. ATI RAGE 128 VR : red light, wont turn on. ATI RAGE 128 PRO : red light, wont turn on. Matrox MGA-G200A Quad : green light, …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-13, 23:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cyrix 5x86 120MHz @ 40MHz FSB + Matrox Mystique 220 (MGA-1164SG) (Quake.SW.106) 300x200: 16.2 fps Cyrix 5x86 120MHz @ 40MHz FSB + Matrox Millenium II(MGA-IS Storm R2) (Quake.SW.106) 300x200: 17.1 fps Cyrix 5x86 133MHz @ 33MHz FSB + Matrox Millenium G200(MGA-G200) (Quake.SW.106) 300x200: 17.1 fps …

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