Re: AMD K6-2 533MHz laptop fanless - possible/safe?
Posted on 2014-01-18, 21:06
Yeah you can't go passive because there will be almost no airflow in there and it will go thermal runaway. You would have to use like a 5W CPU.
Re: fastest isa video card in windows? (2d acceleration included)
Posted on 2014-01-18, 17:14
You should better ask, what about Win NT or NT4, since 2D is implemented there much faster than in Win9x. Typically a factor of 5 to 10. This is an important point. Win 9x relies on the CPU more for rendering the UI. Thus, CPU performance is very influential over UI performance, meaning a 486 …
Re: CL-GD5480 and 3D "acceleration"
Posted on 2014-01-18, 17:11
Yeah I think it's just advertising nonsense. Other companies like Neomagic also advertised their chips as supporting D3D software rendering.
Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?
Posted on 2014-01-18, 17:09
The Microdrive results are interesting. It looks like it could be bottlenecked by an interface. HDDs don't usually have such flat performance.
Re: Matrox Parnella?
Posted on 2014-01-18, 03:52
Their CRT image quality was unmatched by anyone except maybe Number Nine for a long time and G400 wasn't a bad card, it just had the misfortune of being released so close to the GeForce 256. And of course, they also had driver issues for a long time the same as ATi would have. They had similar …
Re: fastest isa video card in windows? (2d acceleration included)
Posted on 2014-01-18, 03:34
How about a PC Magazine ISA video card roundup from 1993! http://books.google.com/books?id=eX8w8B-OhIIC … epage&q&f=false S3 928 looks nice.
Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?
Posted on 2014-01-18, 02:02
I have an Upgradeware Slot T which lets you use Tualatin on any 440BX with the correct VRM. In my case, Abit BF6.
Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?
Posted on 2014-01-17, 21:13
Artex wrote: Yeah, I believe ATTO can only test writes on an empty drive right? No, it will run write tests on a drive with data on it. It won't harm the data either.
Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?
Posted on 2014-01-17, 20:11
I'd use ATTO Disk Benchmark and look for at small write performance because that is what causes problems. Might need to run it on a modern OS. If you see <1MB/s then not good.
Re: Matrox Parnella?
Posted on 2014-01-17, 19:38
Yeah quite simply, other than for Surround Gaming, there are much better cards to pick from. Matrox has a lot of urban legend surrounding them. They made capable GUI accelerators but the rest is unexceptional. Well, unless you need one of their niche products for a special use case. Parhelia was …
Re: Matrox Parnella?
Posted on 2014-01-17, 07:15
I have an AGP 4x 128MB Parhelia, which is the first release. It is an interesting card. It has a really annoying little fan though.
Re: Soundblaster PCI 128 CT4810
Posted on 2014-01-17, 01:27
We have all Vortex drivers up on VOGONSdrivers. You don't need the official Turtle Beach release but I think it is still on their site. FYI, Vortex 1 is AU8820.
Re: motherboard with AGP and ISA
Posted on 2014-01-17, 01:23
There were boards with VLB, ISA and PCI. And there are boards with AGP, PCI and PCIe. In these cases one of the buses is usually a poor imitation of the real thing, riding on some cheap bridge chip that has caveats.
Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?
Posted on 2014-01-16, 20:28
I've refreshed my memory a bit and remembered that fat32 actually uses only 512b clusters. That means that access would only occur with 512b blocks and that would certainly be slow. An interesting test would be to have a fat16 partition with larger clusters (perhaps 16 or 32k) and properly aligned …
Re: Soundblaster PCI 128 CT4810
Posted on 2014-01-16, 19:05
Montego does have one.
Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?
Posted on 2014-01-16, 04:14
The stuttering and pauses are caused by low write performance with small files, not interface bandwidth or sequential data rates. Cheap flash devices tend to drop to floppy-like speeds when doing numerous small writes. This even includes some older SSDs. A solution I've seen for getting around …
Re: Soundblaster PCI 128 CT4810
Posted on 2014-01-15, 19:47
Turtle Beach Montego A3DXStream. Dell used them. That is Vortex 1 which is a much nicer chip than AudioPCI (PCI 128).
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2014-01-14, 22:12
leileilol wrote: Sweeney's favorite renderer is SoftDrv 😀 He still wants CPU based rendering today AFAIK. He liked Larrabee. GPUs seem to be slowly heading in his desired direction.
Re: PowerVR Fun Thread
Posted on 2014-01-14, 19:42
DracoNihil wrote: I get this sinking feeling Tim Sweeny must of been disappointed with the PowerVR renderer. It is even more mystifying that a RRedline renderer wasn't written by Rendition or Epic. Though I suppose the lack of per pixel mip mapping may have been the nail in that coffin for Unreal.
Re: Wavy horizontal lines with Geforce2 Ultra
Posted on 2014-01-14, 19:38
The DVI and VGA ports are routed separately so maybe the DVI port's analog signal is superior.
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