Re: Benchmarking & Testing a Voodoo 1

Posted on 2015-11-22, 13:17

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by meljor

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a real one will not get you any better results, upping the fsb will so 3x 75mhz or 3x 83mhz would be much better if your board can do that. Also a voodoo2 should be a little quicker as it is a little easier on the cpu.

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Re: What to do with old broken HDDs?

Posted on 2015-11-22, 13:10

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by meljor

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Get creative...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-21, 11:44

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by meljor

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It will take some time to get here but i made a very nice deal. I wanted a 486 pci board for some time now and finally got one, i made a package deal so i will get a big box with some nice parts soon: Sis based 486 vlb board with dx2 66mhz cpu Sis based 486 pci board with amd dx4 120mhz cpu (acer …

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Re: K6-3 400 vs K6-2+ 500

Posted on 2015-11-03, 21:45

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by meljor

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Revision G on the asus p5a/p5a-b runs very Slow with a + CPU. Normal k6-2 and k6-3 work fine. This is a bug and there is no fix. Ali rev. G is used on p5a/p5a-b 1.05 and 1.06. Older revisions work fine as they use older Ali v chipset revisions. Don't know about boards from other brands.

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Re: System constantly forgetting I have a Voodoo2 installed

Posted on 2015-11-01, 10:56

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by meljor

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Even when it works in another computer, make sure all the legs on the 3dfx chips are straight. i have had cards where these touched or almost touched and it gave some very strange behaviour and they sometimes worked, and sometimes were missing in hardware. I saw this on v1 and v2 cards. Also clean …

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Re: Phil’s massive Windows 98 SE graphics benchmarks project

Posted on 2015-10-26, 22:10

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by meljor

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OMG.....That will be A LOT of benchmarking! I hope you'll get old enough to finish it :lol: I did it with only 2 benchmarks on 3 platforms (5 cpu speeds in total) and only 2 resolutions and 22 cards....it is a lot of work. Amazed how you always get yourself to this big projects and actually finish …

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Re: Permanently unlocking 6800LE pipelines by flashing bios?

Posted on 2015-10-26, 21:42

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by meljor

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Unfortunately it is in dutch and it is too technical for me to translate and (most of all) explain it. But here is al the info you need to modify your bios. Try a good translater i guess :lol: It is stated that it is NOT needed to remove resistors and doesn't involve any soldering. Just changing …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2015-10-25, 22:11

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by meljor

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1990 vw corrado g60 tuned 200hp

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Re: Permanently unlocking 6800LE pipelines by flashing bios?

Posted on 2015-10-24, 11:06

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by meljor

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Good luck, let us know if it works.

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Re: Permanently unlocking 6800LE pipelines by flashing bios?

Posted on 2015-10-23, 19:59

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by meljor

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I have the Asus version that has the gddr but also does have the full 16 pipelines. Maybe you can use a bios of that card for comparison or maybe even flash it. I think it is the v9999gt gamers edition. Don't know how many shaders but i believe it is a full fledged 6800gt but with 128mb gddr to make …

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Re: K6-3+ 550 vs early Athlon/Duron

Posted on 2015-10-23, 10:48

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by meljor

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I love my k6-3+, and i really liked the redhill pages about old cpu's (i've read them all). But i don't really find their stories usefull when it comes to performance... They PRAISED the cyrix well into the p2 era and dismissed that same p2 as a real option. Same goes for the k6-3 and saying their …

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Re: K6-3+ 550 vs early Athlon/Duron

Posted on 2015-10-21, 20:05

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by meljor

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No, no way in hell. A K6-III+ 550 is roughly as fast as a Pentium II 350 (sometimes faster, sometimes slower). A Pentium III Katmai 550 will annihilate the poor K6, so imagine what an Athlon/Duron can do which are even faster than the Katmais. If we are talking about gaming that is, in some tasks …

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Re: What is your favorite chipset for socket 7 + Pentium 1 + DOS games?

Posted on 2015-10-21, 19:33

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by meljor

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for non socket 7: intel chipset for super socket 7: i prefer the Ali V chipset Performance: HX->TX->VX for the intel chipsets but in real life i can't notice a big difference. VX and TX can cache 64mb max, HX can do 512mb with the right amount of Cache/TAG. I have lots of Asus s7 boards and they all …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-21, 19:06

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by meljor

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I'm sure to a lot of folks on here, seeing these things boxed is old hat, but it's always wild to me seeing this old hardware in its original packaging. :happy: The guy I bought this couple from had also a bunch of brand new in box Intel D810emo , but not only I think the mobo is pretty bad also it …

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Re: Nvidia TNT2 M64 clocks?

Posted on 2015-10-20, 21:15

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by meljor

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Mine is 143mhz as well, performs exactly like my TNT1 viper 330 :lol: TNT2 ultra is a beast compared to the m64. TNT1 was Viper V550. The V330 was Riva128. The TNT2 M64 is actually a good chip. Some cards come with memory which easily can exceed the poor 14xMHz stock clock and can be rised to a …

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Re: Nvidia TNT2 M64 clocks?

Posted on 2015-10-20, 19:47

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by meljor

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Mine is 143mhz as well, performs exactly like my TNT1 viper 330 🤣 TNT2 ultra is a beast compared to the m64.

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Re: CF Card Through IDE - SLOW!

Posted on 2015-10-20, 19:34

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by meljor

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To make things worse.... According to some sources that fic board is not recommended with a voodoo3 agp. Could be that they fixed it with some revisions (don't know) but some boards had a lot of trouble with the voodoo3 agp cards as they couldn't provide enough power for it and could burn out. And …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-20, 19:17

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by meljor

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5. I only bought used PC parts and NOT the very nice Black Widow sized and looking spider the package also included. Brilliant! How far did you jump? Now I need to test if any of these items work. Don't pretend you don't enjoy every minute ;) Actually spiders dosnt bother me but as it really was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-18, 20:02

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by meljor

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a visit at a thriftstore got me: 440LX mobo with p2-300 (no use for it but okay) medion 3000 mobo s478 sdram and p4-1800 (no use for this either) medion geforce3 ti200 (nice, works perfectly fine) very tiny amd 386sx 33mhz board (NICE! leaking battery removed and starts right up. Just need to …

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Re: DirectX 9.0c Build, Stealth - Large Pics

Posted on 2015-10-17, 08:55

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by meljor

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Never had a problem with ''older'' games that work with windows 7, never tried it with windows xp. Could be so, in that case the gtx580 is your best bet? Still think for dx9 games the gtx285 is more than enough. HD5870 is a screamer as well, but don't know if that one plays nice in xp either.

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