It would be cool if you posted the tests you did and the results, so that others could join in. I have a socket 7 board with intel 430Tx chipset and a voodoo 3 2000 PCI too, and would like to compare it to your chipsets.

aha2940 wrote on 2020-05-02, 03:17:

It would be cool if you posted the tests you did and the results, so that others could join in. I have a socket 7 board with intel 430Tx chipset and a voodoo 3 2000 PCI too, and would like to compare it to your chipsets.

Here are some results:

PC Chips M599LMR - SIS 530

DOS benchmarks:

3DBench - 421 FPS
Chris's 3D BENCH SVGA - 27 FPS
VSPEED32 - LFB - 30 FPS
Quake 640x480 - 27 FPS

Windows benchmarks:

PC Player 1024x768 16 bit - 88 FPS
GLQuake 800x600 16 bit - 55 FPS
Quake 2 800x600 16 bit - 57 FPS
Quake 3 800x600 16 bit - 62 FPS

Shuttle HOT-579 - VIA Apollo MVP3

DOS benchmarks:

3DBench - 682 FPS
Chris's 3D BENCH SVGA - 52 FPS
VSPEED32 - LFB - 77 FPS
Quake 640x480 - 36 FPS

Windows benchmarks:

PC Player 1024x768 16 bit - 118 FPS
GLQuake 800x600 16 bit - 62 FPS
Quake 2 800x600 16 bit - 74 FPS
Quake 3 800x600 16 bit - 89 FPS

MSI MS-5169 - Ali Aladdin V

3DBench - 662 FPS
Chris's 3D BENCH SVGA - 50 FPS
VSPEED32 - LFB - 72 FPS
Quake 640x480 - 36 FPS

Windows benchmarks:

PC Player 1024x768 16 bit - 110 FPS
GLQuake 800x600 16 bit - 62 FPS
Quake 2 800x600 16 bit - 72 FPS
Quake 3 800x600 16 bit - 88 FPS

Just curious, what CPU are you using and all 3 systems have the same amount of cache?

Does the PC Chips have an onboard VGA using system memory, which is not truly disabled, thus eating memory bandwidth?

Those results are curios as I always found the Aladdin V chipset to be better than the MVP3 chipset when the Aladdin V board had 512KB cache and the MVP3 board had 1MB cache when both were run at the same speed.

Maybe it is the PCI bus as I always had an AGP video card.

The AGP Voodoo3 is way faster in DOS at least on an Aladdin V board (ASUS P5A-B) then a PCI Voodoo 3 - both the same model. I was using DOOM when I tested.

All 3 systems were using a K6-III+ clocked at 600 Mhz, so the cache on the motherboard would not have really affected the results. I disabled onboard VGA on the PC Chips board by selecting the PCI card as the primary video in the BIOS and disabling it the Windows 98 SE Device Manager.

I wonder how a non-PCChips board with SiS530 would hold up in this comparison...

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-05-02, 06:54:

The AGP Voodoo3 is way faster in DOS at least on an Aladdin V board (ASUS P5A-B) then a PCI Voodoo 3 - both the same model. I was using DOOM when I tested.

I have found the same with GF2MX400 PCI vs AGP - the AGP board is ~35% faster in DOS benchmarks on my Gigabyte GA-5AX (Aladdin V), but there's almost no difference between them on my MVP3 boards.

evasive wrote on 2020-05-02, 13:59:

I wonder how a non-PCChips board with SiS530 would hold up in this comparison...

It seems that Acer made SiS530 based boards (my IBM Aptiva has one and was manufactured by Acer) but I don't know if they would be much better.

Really like the Gigabyte GA-5AA baby AT ALi chipset

but also the MVP3+ although I've killed mine. R.I.P.