Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-06, 14:46

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Here's the scores for the AMD K5 PR 166(real speed is 117 MHz, 66MHz x 1.75), DFi Intel 430TX, 32 MB SDRAM, Diamond stealth 64 DRAM(S3 TRIO 64 1MB), DOS 6.22. All caches on: 3D Bench2 143.9 PCP Bench 40.5 Doom Realtiks 1112 Speedsys 122.9 Now with Level 2 cache off: 3D bench2 132.5 PCP Bench 33.8 …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2016-04-06, 13:29

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Nice video Phil. I used to have a Sony Trinitron 21" CRT "back in the day". :) It had BNC inputs. I remember the first time it stopped working, I had to lug it out to a repair center 50 miles away in a car with very little interior room. LOL. It was just inside the warranty period. But about a year …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-06, 00:12

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This will probably be the last screengrab I post. I will soon start a new thread with a Google spreadsheet for people to add their own. This one has melbar's K6-2 results and my POD 200 results. melbar has a proper motherboard (unlike mine) that allows disabling L2 cache. Filename L1DBench.png File …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-06, 00:01

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For better compatibility with a few DOS games, clock speed can matter. Some games have issues at high clock speeds, even with cache disabled. My main DOS PC is basically a Pentium 100 MHz (200 MHz model clocked lower) for maximum compatibility. Thanks. I hope this processor works well when I check …

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-04-05, 21:02

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Okay, I made a Google Sheet of this. My hesitation was unfamiliarity with privacy/anonymity in Sheets (I'd never used it to share with before). I think I got all the privacy settings configured as to not show any of my personal info. It is set to share with those who have the link, and editing is …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-05, 18:18

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I'm a little excited...I had time at lunch to install the POD 200MMX and run a couple of tests. Doom results at full speed: just a hair slower than the Pentium II 233. Doom results with L1D: just a hair slower than the Cyrix 486SLC2-40. I will have to test with Wing Commander 1 and 2 tonight, but …

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Re: How do you Rate Ebay Sellers when...

Posted on 2016-04-05, 16:57

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The product you get is DOA, with obvious physical damage (missing SMT components), was advertised as a "Used" and "Working Unit", and when you contact the seller about the problem they quickly refund you and let you keep the product. Does the fact that they refund and don't ask for the part back …

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Re: What retro YouTubers do you subscribe to?

Posted on 2016-04-05, 16:42

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Awesome, you guys are giving me some new channels to try. 😀

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-05, 16:23

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I should have some time this evening to add your results, melbar. I've also got another member working on results for me. I'd like to have a couple of different users' results in the database before I start a new thread. I think having a few different examples besides my own will make things better/ …

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What retro YouTubers do you subscribe to?

Posted on 2016-04-05, 15:54

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My list includes PhilsComputerLab (of course), Lazy Game Reviews, Pixelmusement (Ancient DOS Games), HighTreason610, MetalJesusRocks, Gggmanlives, and mt32vault. Non-retro subscriptions: OMGcraft and ThinkerThunker.

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Re: Modern motherboards lifespan

Posted on 2016-04-05, 15:48

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It seems like modern motherboards should be more reliable. They almost always use all solid caps now, and many modern boards are now conformal coated. When we hear stories of boards being RMA'd we don't usually know the whole story behind it. It's possible that there was an ESD event that …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-05, 13:19

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Here are my results. The most interesting thing is, that my values of L1D (@500MHz and @170MHz) are really next to your values (@550/400MHz and @266MHz), but i have with these values L2 enabled, and you have said that your board has no L2. No, the BIOS tells me that there is 512KB of L2 on the …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-04, 20:25

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Ok. I've have benched now my K6-2 with all the benchmarks in your list. Because it's a lot of work and i'm mainly interested in the extreme values of this CPU (except overclocking), so i've clocked my CPU only with the minimum (170MHz) and maximum (500MHz). And then i've run all the tests with and …

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-04-04, 20:21

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swaaye, Nice...thanks! Not bad for an Atom. Looks like it falls in just behind the C2D E6550. A little slower on processing, but a little faster with chipset/memory subsystem. Added to the list. agent_x007, You just edged out rodarkone! Nice O/C. 7zipcpu.jpg PS-I keep having to shrink the view on …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-04, 18:29

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> :exclamation: Jeez at least put some newspaper inbetween ;) That would increase the risk of static electricity ;) I got this package today. The best ESD protection ever. Best_ESD_protection_ever.JPG Best_ESD_protection_ever2.JPG Oh, my Lord! Please, just shuffle your feet along the carpet really …

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Re: Old Conner Hard Drive having trouble spinning up

Posted on 2016-04-04, 16:32

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A few scandisk with check surface area scans from DOS will probably do as well. If you do decide to open it up and end up not being able to fix it, pull the rare earth magnets out and use them for fun things. 😀 They are extremely powerful (you can't pull them apart, you have to slide them apart).

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Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-04-04, 14:01

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rodarkone, you now occupy the top 3 spots on my list, as well as the 6th spot: Filename 7zipcpu.jpg File size 191.52 KiB Views 5656 views

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Re: How do you Rate Ebay Sellers when...

Posted on 2016-04-04, 13:21

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To the OP: that's a positive outcome no? Faulty product but full refund? You lose nothing. Correct, financially I lose nothing. But I do lose time. It takes time to search ebay and find what you want. It takes time to verify by reading through the listing that the product is advertised as fully …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-03, 20:10

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Since you have also DOOM values, i've made a re-bench of my K6-2 171Mhz, now with another VGA (Geforce2-MX400 AGP), including DOOM and also a investigation in SETK6. I have included results with "full caches" and "L1 on, L2 off" and 3 different runs: - standard setting, write allocation on, write …

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Re: Is there a benchmark list showing results with L1 disabled?

Posted on 2016-04-03, 19:28

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My head is spinning with all the combinations to run on this board WITHOUT the option to disable L2. Between 100Mhz, 95Mhz and 66Mhz, then multipliers between 2.5 and 5.5 for each...

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