Re: A gamer looking Pentium 1 Baby AT
Posted on 2021-11-16, 04:29
That case is delightful! Have fun.
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build - updated now to include some 430TX vs. 430VX benchmarks
Posted on 2021-11-16, 00:37
TXP4 128MB PC100 CL2 SDRAM 500MHZ CPU (6x83MHZ FSB) 3dmark 99 - 2446, 6435 cpumarks 3dmark 2k - 2199, 148 cpumarks 3dmark 2001SE - 1135 Quake timedemo - 84.1 fps Quake 3 (MX4000) - 30.6 fps (borderline playable territory, never thought I'd see that) Topbench - 331 3dbench 1.0c - 255.1 Chris's 3d …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-11-15, 23:00
I've run numerous K6-2+ and K6-3+ 450s @ 500 MHz in TXP4s and P55T2P4s over the years and have never had an issue. Might have to bump the voltage to 2.1 at worst. Awesome! I'll give it a go after I eat dinner tonight. EDIT - It seems to be working at 498mhz! On post the BIOS reports it's a K6-2+/ …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-11-15, 22:25
Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-11-15, 16:34: That memory bandwidth increase is massive. Yes indeed it is! I figured that's where all the performance gains came from. I'm going to try running that CPU at 83mhz fsb at some point, would be cool if it's stable near the 500mhz mark but I don't expect it to …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build - updated now to include some 430TX vs. 430VX benchmarks
Posted on 2021-11-15, 01:45
Trying to find my bag of small sdram modules right now and not having much luck so far, but when I do I'll do some 64mb testing. EDIT - Memory found, running some benchmarks now. TXP4 64MB PC100 CL2 SDRAM 3dmark 99 - 2356, 5952 cpumarks - higher than 256 3dmark 2k - 2200, 144 cpumarks - also higher …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-11-14, 16:46
Call of Duty, the first game on my Pentium 3. I'm sure I played it when it was new but I don't remember it at all.
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-11-13, 23:53
So I've had an Asus TXP4 sitting around for a while now and decided why not compare the speed of these parts in that board vs. this one. So I did some quick benchmarks after swapping over everything except the RAM. The RAM in the TXP4 is a single 256MB stick of PC100 CL2 Kingston memory. Results: …
Re: What phone do you use currently?
Posted on 2021-11-05, 01:10
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-30, 19:30
Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-10-30, 13:28: The lack of hardware T&L can also affect negatively the performance if that's the case. That's exactly what I was thinking. Looking at the wiki page on the 7000 series cards it would seem this is the "entry level" aka trash level card. https://en.wikipedia.org/ …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-30, 06:13
Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-10-29, 17:13: Dang. Is that Radeon a 32bit memory version or something weird? It seems crazy to me that it is THAT much slower than the Geforce card. 64 bit according to Everest. Interestingly 3dmark 2001 reports it as being "software T&L" though, so perhaps it's a " …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-28, 00:03
Decided to test an MX4000 in this PC now that it's got a screen with VGA input (no DVI on this card). 3dmark 99 - 1881, 4931 cpumarks 3dmark 2k - 1508, 107 cpu 3dmarks (first run after installing this card got 1809, 119 cpu 3dmarks for some reason)
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-27, 22:49
Your scores seem to be on the low side, although I can only compare the 3DMark2000 one. My similar system at 450MHz gets some ~1550 points currently, give or take. Are you running the benchmark in 32-bit color? I know you have a K6-II+ - but I doubt the difference can be explained by the difference …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-27, 04:38
So, a bit faster few places with 64 vs 128 megs? But as for what I can see, there is nothing being slower with 64 megs? It looks like then, that it might be that the L3 actually only can cache the first 64 megs .. 3dmark 99 scored highest in the CPU score section with 128MB and cache turned on. …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-27, 04:28
Here's a pic I took of the ports on the back of the PC. Very easy to get the PS/2 port and USB ports working I had a pair of each that matched with the pin layout of this board in my box o stuff. I have no need for a parallel port on this machine so it was very nice to see the USB ports fit in there …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-27, 01:04
Funny, I bought the same case on ebay, probably from the same seller. XD I also paid more for the case than I probably should have, but how often are you going to find a NOS AT case? Mine is still in the box, no idea what I'm going to use it for yet. I have an ASUS TX-97 mobo laying around not …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-26, 12:16
H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-10-26, 07:07: Maybe the same set of tests, with cache enabled and 64 vs 128 MiB - that would give us a clue? Will do tonight!
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-26, 05:05
Running Some benchmarks: MB Cache On: 3dmark 99 - 1388 3dmarks, 4906 cpumarks 3dmark 2k - 805 3dmarks, 42 cpumarks Quake 3 - 9.8 fps 3dbench 1.0c - 348.3 Chris's 3d Benchmark - 466.8 (280.0 fps) Chris's 3d Benchmark 640x480 - 103.1 (61.8 fps) Quake timedemo - 65.2 fps Landmark System Speed Test - …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-26, 04:36
As the VX chipset only caches 64 megabytes of RAM, you'll likely have better performance if you disable the motherboard's cache. This is a K6-2+ though so that L2 has now become L3 and the limited amount of cacheable ram is no longer an issue (or so I’ve read). I will go do some benchmarks to …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-26, 02:13
Did some more playing around with this machine today and decided to run Quake 3 for laughs. It runs the timedemo (640x480 16bit color) at a massive 9.8fps! :D Also took a screenshot with CPU-Z vintage edition of the CPU page. EDIT - I'm also looking for a decent K6-2 or 3 desktop wallpaper, if you …
Re: K6-2+ 450, Asus VX97 Build
Posted on 2021-10-25, 23:37
Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-10-25, 20:29: Driver overhead on that Radeon might prove a bit harsh on that K6/2+ But that is a cool build for sure. Thanks! That card is probably just temporary it was the first PCI card with DVI I found in my box old parts that actually posted in this board.
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