you use them without any ram at all? 😮 doesnt it slow down sometimes?

Pictures?

mrau wrote:

you use them without any ram at all? 😮 doesnt it slow down sometimes?

Whoops! Seems like I forgot to write the amount of RAM - 1GB for each. Amazingly,98SE works fine with 1GB without the need to do that MaxMemory patch.

ATI_Loyalist - soon,as today I'm gonna get some more PC stuff.

PcBytes wrote:

mrau wrote:

you use them without any ram at all? 😮 doesnt it slow down sometimes?

Whoops! Seems like I forgot to write the amount of RAM - 1GB for each. Amazingly,98SE works fine with 1GB without the need to do that MaxMemory patch.

ATI_Loyalist - soon,as today I'm gonna get some more PC stuff.

Cool!

For 1GB of ram under 98SE, highly recommend to use the Vcache patch by Xeno86, 3DMark2001 SE doesn't work without it for me.

Arch or Debian would work pretty well on your XP rig, if you want to monkey with it. So would one of the BSD variants.

On your 98se rig, you might want to see about tracking down a newer video card - a Rage 128 will bottleneck that Athlon XP pretty badly - but otherwise it looks pretty solid. The most classic might be a Voodoo3 or a Voodoo5, but you'd do well with a GeForce2, Quadro 2, G400 Max or classic Radeon DDR, too.

Yes, a V3 or V5 might be a better card... but then he needs to change the mainboard.

I have also the K7VT4A+ (with KT400A and 1.5V AGP), but i think i'll not use it anymore...

So, to max out the Barton, you go better with a GF4-Ti, or even a GF-FX (with nglide alternative).

Oh, shoot, I didn't even think about that. D'oh.

As I promised,here are some pictures.

Unfortunately the K7VT4A+ died (Super IO gets burning hot and will not spin any fan or anything) and the only KT400A replacement I have isn't POSTing. (Gigabyte GA-7VA)
For the time being,I put a Matsonic MS-8137C+ (ECS K7VTA2 rev2.0 (SDR+DDR)/Syntax SV266A - Syntax did a better job at rebranding ECS) along with a MX440 64MB.

MrMateczko wrote:

For 1GB of ram under 98SE, highly recommend to use the Vcache patch by Xeno86, 3DMark2001 SE doesn't work without it for me.

Any reason why he limited to 384MB? Why not 512MB or 1GB? 2GB might have been the max on most motherboards at the time. Was there a step by step write up on what Xeno86 did to patch it?

95DosBox wrote:

MrMateczko wrote:

For 1GB of ram under 98SE, highly recommend to use the Vcache patch by Xeno86, 3DMark2001 SE doesn't work without it for me.

Any reason why he limited to 384MB? Why not 512MB or 1GB? 2GB might have been the max on most motherboards at the time. Was there a step by step write up on what Xeno86 did to patch it?

I usually didn't need to do the [VCache] patch on my systems. There's rarely been the need of it. In fact,any system I've had more than 512MB of RAM in it ran 98SE fine without any patches.