I really think putting such a new card in a P3 makes for a bizarre combination... my guess is that the drivers expect SSE3 as that is the lowest common denominator for quite some time (or just a lot more general CPU performance than what your P3 offers), which may be why you are getting such bad …

hi idspispopd, i'm afraid i can't get old pci based graphics cards near my place. i have already spent a good amount on this graphics card and want to find out what the issue is. if it is a driver issue then i'm doomed. i have to keep trying till the p3 rig lives(already did a complete recap). hi …

@gandhig, thanks! The GT520 is definitely much too modern for a retro build and I'd recommend against it if you're ever planning to run Windows 98 as I highly doubt you'll find drivers available. Speaking of that, I'd recommend Windows 98 SE over Windows XP just because of its real mode dos. …

your score seems reasonable, there is not much you can do to improve it except changing your hardware. 1. your cpu is the bottleneck. even a p3s-1.4g+gf6800/r9800 combination can only score around 10000pts, and your p3-850 is just about 60% as fast as the p3s, so the highest score possible for your …

it could be the same problem, the 8400GS works the same way (PCIE 1x to PCI bridge chip), I've tested the PCI 8400GS on a "modern" (2007 Athlon) PC, 3dmark 2001se score was around 10k if I'm not mistaken, but the PCI bus was a real problem even for "basic" tasks, like "youtube" which worked fine on …

But the OP already said they're not using Glide games, they're trying to run Dues Ex 1, half-life 1, and other 2011 Direct3D/DirectX games, which are most likely not going to do well with PCI cards. Not the best p3 rig for such games, those are very old titles that do run as glide. http://en. …

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but no matter what you do to that thing, and no matter how much you tweak it, you're just flat out not going to get good Direct3D / 3D-Accelerated game performance out of a PCI video card. All PCI video cards pretty much are going to have really, really poor …

You got the Zotac right? I did the same thing a year or two ago (only I got the gt420). You know, thinking "lol, holy crap, I'm gonna have a Pentium 3 with HDMI!" Anyway, long story short, it wouldn't install right, it would say it's installed, then I'd restart, and then nothing and back to the …

hi idspispopd, i'm afraid i can't get old pci based graphics cards near my place. i have already spent a good amount on this graphics card and want to find out what the issue is. if it is a driver issue then i'm doomed. i have to keep trying till the p3 rig lives(already did a complete recap). hi …

i bought a modern graphics card (NVidia GT 520) with PCI interface for my old P3 system(in my signature) to play classic games upto 2001. unfortunately i didn't do much research on compatibility and paid the price. the card was not getting detected during boot. after a lot of struggle for an year, i …

I completely agree with you about VIA chipsets. I run a 694X board myself, and the ability to use 1.5GB of RAM with XP is great. The memory performance of VIA chipsets can be just as good as i815, so long as you enable memory interleaving and use CL2 modules. I run a SB X-Fi and Radeon 9800 Pro on …

hi borgie83, very nice build. unfortunately i found this forum only after i bought my mismatched pci graphics card for my old pc. mine is also based on a via chipset and i have a nvidia gt520 pci card. though initial memory performance of the via chipset was relatively poor, a lot improved after …

hi idspispopd, yeah that is my system in the signature. it took me almost an year to get this modern gpu automatically detected by retro mainboard bios. i had to modify my bios to introduce a delay before pci bus enumeration during boot. apparently the pci-e to pci reverse bridge onboard the gpu …

Joined this amazing forum for retro pc's today. SuperPi 1M time 3m 03.163s - PIII Coppermine 850 MHz (8.5 x 100) / MSI MS-6368 ver 2.0(VIA Apollo PLE 133)/ 512MB PC133 SDRAM (3-3-3-6)/ WinXPSP3

my retro P3 system is almost half that of yours in performance except for the graphics card maybe. i get very low fps in almost all the games (upto 2000)!!! can you share your miniumum fps in games like half life1, expendable and others?