I my benchmarks the Voodoo II will outperform the Banshee in Half-Life, Unreal and Quake III, but the Banshee is faster with the racing game Dethkarz.

Pulled the heatsink from a Voodoo3 3500, to see if I could replace it with something better. Found this: http://i.imgur.com/NIWQ5UR.jpg Look at that contact surface! The heatsink barely even touched the chip, only on the corners and those two bumps near the edge. No wonder these things run so hot. …

Darn, I also thought that the 6MB Voodoo 1 would always run 800x600 (or forgot that it couldn't do it). As stated out by obobskivich my miroMEDIA miroHISCORE 3D didn't run 6MB benchmarks. Even the story that goes along my miroHISCORE 3D states that 800x600 is not possible! It will only be possible …

I usually watch this guys auctions. He gets some incredible prices.. I mean _hi_ prices :exclamation: http://www.ebay.de/sch/diodenmann/m.html?item=371171572850&hash=item566b8cbc72&pt=DE_Elektronik_Computer_Mainboards&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Also look for sold items. Almost everything he sells …

I would say Tseng ET4000AX, indeed 😀. Fast and reliable.

Agree with the bogus MAC-address, it's weird. Perhaps your card is not working properly or configured incorrectly. Basically if you want networking you'd go for either IPX or TCP networking. The IPX-protocol has been used for DOS games but most games from that era run on a 486 or Pentium-class …

If you want to remember how much difference (an easy) overclock meant; try running the P75 at 90MHz or 100MHz and retry Quake. A lot of games run on the P75, but they run so much better on a P90 or P100.

DOS may be old, but using DOSBox they can (sort of) guarantee that Sim City 2000 will run on virtually any platform without reprogramming/porting the original game.

If I'm not mistaken I have a 'Megadoom 3'-CD somewhere. (see Add-on collector ). Drop me a line if you want a copy. http://www.addoncollector.spielepedia.de/cover/Megadoom3.jpg . In case you're interested in two Doom maps made in 2012; I created a two mix levels based upon the original Doom levels. …

Downloaded it. Didn't expect to see the DOS/4GW extender starting up! EA uses DOSBox to run the original Sim City 2000 SE game. Unfortunately it's quite bloated with a few megs of executables that go along with the Origin 'game-provider'/application.

For native 8-bit I think the cards based on the Paradise PVGA1K are pretty good in terms of performance and compatibility. Remember you can also use a lot of 16-bit cards in 8-bit slots.

A Voodoo 1 with more than 4MB (excuse me, 6MB!) will allow you to run games in 800x600 but games like Half-Life, Unreal and Quake 3 will run too slow in 800x600 mode. Games like Unreal will run slightly faster on 6MB (and 8MB) cards but it's only a matter of 2FPS in Unreal, 0.40FPS in Quake 3 and …

the 6x86mx/m2 is somewhat strange. its raw fpu performance(wetstone, linpack etc.) is less than half of the pmmx and also far from the k6, but in most actual game tests, it comes pretty close to the pmmx. The FPU of the Cyrix 6x86 is weak. In my benchmarks I found that a Pentium 100 will be pretty …

Perhaps you can flash the BIOS using a flasher or hot-flashing it using another motherboard?

The Soundblaster 16 (PCI) card I ordered doesn't seem to be detected by the BIOS, and the driver installer doesn't seem to notice it either. Any ideas? Can you test the card without drivers? In some cases I found that these sound cards can be detected without using drivers or any configuration at …

The Pentium MMX 200 looks normal, but like kixs mentioned, it's mounted on some kind of adapter. If you look careful you'll see the orignal pins of the Pentium MMX on the spot of the 'missing pins'. I never saw an adapter like this but the chips suggest the adapter does some things regarding …

I've only heard that term thrown around a few times; what exactly is a "serial null-modem cable"? Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_modem . It's a cross-cable for your COM-ports which allows you to connect two PC's together. Wait, what? I thought ethernet cards weren't really a "thing" …

The video card should be adequate speedwise. Define "adequate". While there might be faster video cards I doubt that would make a difference with your CPU and mainboard. How fast does Quake run? See the linked thread about how to benchmark. Correct. The Stealth 64 PCI (which exists in two versions, …