Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-05, 16:55

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Wondering if the new AMDs or an i7 4770 can crack the 1000 fps in Quake 😈 That sounds like a challange. I do not own an i7 4770 but I think a fast Core 2 Duo system will get a nice score. I will need to search through my mess to see if I can find a good CPU and some fast memory. …

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Re: Socket PPGA and FC-PGA Slot-1 Slotkets.

Posted on 2014-01-05, 16:30

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I tried an Asus PPGA slotket also with removed AM2 pin. The result is the same. The Celeron 566 works great but not 100 mhz FSB CPUs or 133 mhz FSB CPUs With the Asus slotket my motherboards fail to detect the voltage I set with jumpers on the slotket but it detects the Celerons default voltage …

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Re: my fast DOS PC

Posted on 2014-01-05, 16:11

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My experience is that a Pentium 200 mmx normally does not trigger the Borland Pascal thingy while a Pentium 233 mmx trigger the bug in most cases. Perhaps it depends on the chipset and memory speed aswell.

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-05, 13:38

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So if you are building a retro DOS system and want an avarage FPS of 37 you would need a Pentium 100 or a Pentium 3 850... Some information gets lost in that chart 😁

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Socket PPGA and FC-PGA Slot-1 Slotkets.

Posted on 2014-01-05, 12:49

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As we all know slotkets for PPGA dosnt work with Coppermine CPUs without modification. I have a MSI 6905 v1.1 that would only work with old PPGA Celerons. Coppermine CPUs would not even post. Here is a link that describes the mod. http://krick.3feetunder.com/370mod/ I removed the pin AM2. The other …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-04, 01:50

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Another total shock! The fastest PCI card I have tested so far is an ARK Logic ARK2000PV. Only the S3 Trio V2/DX comes close to the ARK Logic card performance wise. [Edit] Things are back to normal, the world is not going to end. Matrox Millenium II is the fastest PCI card I have tested so far :). …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-04, 00:38

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Haha I just benched a Hercules Dynamite ET4000 ISA 512kb or perhaps 1MB? It dosnt have any memory in the extra sockets. No Fastvid with the ISA card because Fastvid cant auto detect an ISA cards memory adress. But a P3 850 helps performance a bit anyhow. 42.7 FPS in quake! Smooth as butter but Doom …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-03, 23:57

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Voodoo Banshee and ATI Rage 128 Pro score more or less identical. Did 3DFX do some secret 2D engine deal with ATI? 😀 Perhaps both cards are very bottlenecked by the CPU.

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Re: my fast DOS PC

Posted on 2014-01-03, 15:57

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Nice system! I like the Zip-drive. I would also like a Zip-drive in my DOS 6.22 computer. I only have one Zip-drive though and that kind of defeats the purpose. I see that you and many other members use SCSI HDDs. in your Socket-7 systems. Is there real benefits of using a SCSI HDD compared to lets …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-03, 14:19

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You learn stuff from benching. I am pretty sure the 2D engine in the Riva TNT2 M64 is identical to the one in the Geforce2 MX 400. They score identical except in 3Dbench2 and that test seem to produce a bit strange results 😀

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-03, 12:30

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The Matrox Millenium G100 gets 9937 FPS in 3dbench2 but the G200 only gets 1034 FPS :D both have 8MB SDR It seems 3dbench2 is not the best tool to measure perfromance when it comes to Pentium 3 systems :P edit I ran 3Dbench2 again with the cards that got really strange scores. There was a dot that …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-03, 11:41

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I just tested a 4mb Ati Rage Pro Turbo card in a system with a P3 850 CPU It scores 3726 FPS in 3dbench2 but it does only get 154.8 FPS in PCPBench The Riva 128 ZX got 1009 FPS in 3DBench2 and 244.6 fps in PCPBench with the same settings Very strange! edit Not that strange, there was a dot in the …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2014-01-03, 11:04

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Everything works great. If you use a clean bootdisk without an autoexec.bat file you will probably get the message "OMPT=: cannot open" when you are trying to run the quake benchmark. Make an autoexec.bat with the line "PATH=C:\" and the problem goes away.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-01-03, 04:30

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Saw 4 of these for $5 each, no bids. Asked the seller if he'd post them combined, said yes, bid on all of them and got them all 😀 Now I need to learn how to remove the stock coolers on these slot 1 bastards... 1.5 mm Allen key if I remember correctly

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Re: I need help with identifying some hardware

Posted on 2014-01-02, 01:17

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Exciting! It's such a great CPU and changing the multiplier from 2x to 6x through SOFTWARE is really cool. I put that CPU back in my main time-machine after using a Pentium for a while and it's great. Without caches it basically gives you a 386DX-25 (with L1 and L2 disabled) and 486SX-25 (with L1 …

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Re: Abit BH6, Katmai 600, 768mb, GF3 ti200 Fulltower build

Posted on 2014-01-02, 00:02

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An over revved Cumine 1000 performs fairly good, not much worse than a Tually 1400-S. But we need the right assortment of components (RAM, GPU etc.) to make it work stably. Why to overclock? Well, because we can. Nice! I will have to update this build with the Aopen AX6BC or some other motherboard …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-01-01, 20:31

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This thread seems more fitting than the one I posted this in so I moved my post here. I found a good source for rare and not so rare audio drivers. Parhaps it would be good to create a mirror of this FTP or just download all drivers for future use in case it disapeers. http://download.solodrivers. …

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Re: I need help with identifying some hardware

Posted on 2014-01-01, 17:24

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The tinkering with this sound card ends here for now. I am very pleased with it but the system I am testing it in is not an ideal DOS 6.22 computer. I will probably use the sound card in the slow half of the Leviathan dual system build which will be a dedicated DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 system. The …

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Re: IDE plug - adding that little hole

Posted on 2014-01-01, 13:03

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It would be nice if they could at least agree on what side of the connector the connector keying (not the missing hole/pin) should be on.

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Re: Abit BH6, Katmai 600, 768mb, GF3 ti200 Fulltower build

Posted on 2014-01-01, 12:22

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Whilst I know the the BH6 was a decent overclocker, why bother with the risk of damaging it? Those boards are excruciatingly difficult to find & are expensive. Id be more comfortable with getting a 900, 1000 or 1100 Coppermine. I agree with mau1wurf on this one. But it is your system :) I think we …

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