Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-29, 18:31
Yes.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-29, 16:56
That's too slow. Pentium Pro can do better even in DOS Quake.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-28, 07:11
It serves to connect one PCI bus to another PCI bus. Fairly common on PCI cards with multiple chips (designed for MMS). Also used on Voodoo 5 6000.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-28, 05:36
It's a PCI-to-PCI bridge, not an AGP-to-PCI bridge.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-28, 02:23
There're potentially quite a lot of problems with the PCI G450 performance, because it's using third-party PCI-to-PCI bridge. So not only it's a PCI video card, but it also needs to transfer data between two PCI buses.
Re: anything interesting in this card?
Posted on 2019-10-27, 18:01
Early VGA card, very slow. Absolutely not worth it.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-27, 15:09
No idea. Never tried 3DMark99, but I had performance increase in Quake 3 after overclocking.
Re: Hardware experts, are we ever going to see replica 3D GPU's?
Posted on 2019-10-27, 03:32
People is spending big money on old Voodoo cards And the most expensive * and sought after cards are Voodoo 4 and 5, which can do next things: 1. Forced 32-bit color in Glide aps. 2. Full scene anti-aliasing. 3. Better mipmapping and filtering. 4. Crisp VGA image quality and even optional DVI. So …
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-26, 22:03
Maybe G450 has forced vsync, which will drop performance even if CPU can't fully load the card.
Re: Is there anybody left on this forum that still has an AM5x86 that will do 200mhz?
Posted on 2019-10-26, 19:16
200mhz is somewhat easy to obtain with temperatures below zero. Good enough for benchmarks.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-26, 14:23
What software do you all use to adjust the clock rate of the G450 PCI? Powerstrip 3.x for example. Matrox G400+ has complicated multiplier ratio between GPU and RAM, which tend to go crazy with many utilities. It's a whole new can of worms.
Re: Hardware experts, are we ever going to see replica 3D GPU's?
Posted on 2019-10-26, 14:16
It's not that valuable to replicate. Glide API can be adequately emulated/wrapped even on really old 3D hardware and I doubt most people miss dithered and blurry IQ of early 3dfx cards.
Re: Is there anybody left on this forum that still has an AM5x86 that will do 200mhz?
Posted on 2019-10-26, 03:22
A 1ghz 486 chip using 20 year old fabs would be possible and cost a couple bucks a chip in volume That would still require major redesign. You can't just die shrink the original design indefinitely.
Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?
Posted on 2019-10-26, 03:18
If stuff fits in cache, the K6-2+ wins hard, if not the P3 wins. It's not that simple. Also it's not necessarily 2x cache speed advantage, when it comes to K6.
Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?
Posted on 2019-10-25, 17:35
Depends what you want to achieve with that. Obviously PIII will be more responsive, especially if paired with 440BX chipset.
Re: S939 Athlon 64 3200 vs S478 Prescott 3.4GHz
Posted on 2019-10-25, 17:32
Indeed.
Re: S939 Athlon 64 3200 vs S478 Prescott 3.4GHz
Posted on 2019-10-25, 11:35
What's wrong with nForce 4? Prone to die often due to manufacturing quirks of that time. Also bad for legacy support.
Re: Pentium 2 VS 3 for period accurate win98 build?
Posted on 2019-10-25, 11:30
how about Slot A? Cewl stuff, but rare and pricy nowadays (mostly working motherboards). Not very flexible for older games though.
Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build
Posted on 2019-10-25, 08:03
I would to try to test original drivers from Radeon 7500 and 8500 release (win 9x driver version 7.184) or any other before Radeon 9700 release date. Tried some late Catalyst drivers, but they were quite slow on Pentium MMX.
Re: Pentium 2 VS 3 for period accurate win98 build?
Posted on 2019-10-25, 06:14
and not the early 2000s that a high end P3 would entail. Coppermine 800mhz was released in 1999, so it's absolutely pointless endevour. But if you want to build real authentic machine of a mere mortal in late 90s, you'll end up with AMD K6-2 or Celeron Mendocino at best, paired with ATI Rage Pro or …
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