Nice. I’m a pfSense guy too. The EPYC system is of particular interest to me though - how are you liking that?

Are you running hardware raid, zfs, etc for your storage array?

FIREWALL
Yes I was worried that this pfsense wouldn't be powerful enough but for home internet or small business it seems like it would be a pretty good fit. I've only had it for a couple of weeks so still getting the hang of it. First task was to setup the VPN and block all internet access once the VPN drops. Next task will be blocking ads and tightening the outbound firewall policy.

PROCESSOR
With my C2Q I'd see spikes when transcoding with plex or doing other tasks but with this EPYC I don't see the CPU utilization budge at all so it's definetly way overkill for 1 stream or file serving. I plan to setup alot VMs for lab usage and for hosting all the online services game downloads so should see the CPU get a workout.

STORAGE
When I built my C2Q years ago I used the onboard storage but the onboard Intel controller rain out of SATA ports so I had to use the other onboard controllers. As the amount of data increased and the flakiness of the other controllers I went through tons of troubleshooting with drives, cables, power and multiple controller cards and finally identified the issue as a controller issue (although SATA cable may have been a culprit once or twice). I then went with only using an SAS controller but had to go through a couple of those since some wouldn't work with the Gigabyte motherboard. Also the SAS controller wasn't used for RAID just for connectivity.

I've been using RAIDZFS3 with FreeNAS for about a decade now and it's been pretty solid. I can rearrange SATA cables, rearrange drives, take the drives out and stick them in another computer, etc and no issues. FreeNAS will just see it. When I want to upgrade the storage I just replace each drive and wait for it to resilver and I'm done.

DosFreak wrote:

FIREWALL
Yes I was worried that this pfsense wouldn't be powerful enough but for home internet or small business it seems like it would be a pretty good fit. I've only had it for a couple of weeks so still getting the hang of it. First task was to setup the VPN and block all internet access once the VPN drops. Next task will be blocking ads and tightening the outbound firewall policy.

I heard pfSense is a pretty great firewall. It seems to be rather an operating system designed just for being a firewall and kinda like a virtual router. I'd say it's quite powerful to use.

DosFreak wrote:

I've been using RAIDZFS3 with FreeNAS for about a decade now and it's been pretty solid. I can rearrange SATA cables, rearrange drives, take the drives out and stick them in another computer, etc and no issues. FreeNAS will just see it. When I want to upgrade the storage I just replace each drive and wait for it to resilver and I'm done.

That is really positive - I like the idea too of effectively triple-fault parity. I'm currently (still) running hardware RAID 6 on an LSI SAS2 controller, with 10TB drives. I keep threatening to do ZFS "next time" but it has yet to materialize. Back to reading up on FreeNAS then!

My edge has been pfSense for a few years now and I really love it. Relevant to this crowd: I have the retro systems completely segmented off on their own VLAN, firewalled by pfSense so that they can only harm themselves (overkill perhaps, since nobody really cares to pwn a 98SE machine these days, but still).

For compute at home I went to Docker and haven't looked back. It is awesome to move to a declarative model, tell the platform how you want things to look and watch it emerge from nothing. With young kids running around, anything that gets me spending less time on server maintenance has been a great investment.

Updated

Next need to the other desktop I built with the old C2Q from the server I upgraded. This will be used for 9x+ application and game compatibility testing.

Also of course pics or gtfo....

Finally finished my test desktop I slapped together from spare parts laying around for testing Windows 9x-Windows 10 and Linux.
For installing linux or at least Ubuntu I have to slap in an ATI PCI-E card otherwise X will never boot. Once booted and the Nvidia drivers are installed then all is good.
Can't leave the ATI card in there otherwise 9x will freak out due to memory.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHZ
Motherboard: Gigabyte X38-DQ6
Memory: 16GB DDR2 F2-6400CL5D-8GBPQ @ 800Mhz
GPU 1: Zotac Geforce GTX 980 Ti 6GB AMP! Extreme GDDR5 ZT-90507-10B Video Card GPU
GPU 2: GeForce FX 5200 128MB v45.23 VGA
NIC: Realtek RTL8111 PCI-E Gigabit
Audio: Audigy 2 Platinum 6.1 SB0240
Monitor Dell U2410 1920x1200
DVD 1: Bluray HL-DT-ST GGC-H20L
DVD 2: Plextor DVD-R PX-760A
SSD: Crucial M500
Case: CoolerMaster ATC-110
PSU: Corsair RM850x

Updated top post. Overclocked C2Q and added fan info

Well I can guarantee my test desktop is stable and I'm stopping there with the overclocking. If I dropped down to 8gb with faster memory or more likely 4GB in two slots could likely go higher but I like having 16gb of memory so it's staying where it is.

Should be receiving a YMF724 soon.

Now for DOSBox compilation and game testing. Woohoo.

Added Yamaha YMF724E-V to test desktop

Added a 10TB drive for Vista and above when testing games.

I've been using a plugged in mouse and keyboard instead of my KVM with the Q9650 since when this motherboard is overclocked it resets when you plug anything into the onboard USB port. When plugged into the USB3 card then no issue but I had assumed there were no USB3 Windows XP drivers. Well I found them a couple of days ago for this Fresco card and they work great. Will have to try them with Windows 2000 next.

Even when this computer is not overclocked the Corsair K95 keyboard doesn't work in the BIOS even when plugged directly into the computer, boot speed is vastly reduced. The LEDs light up so I know it's getting power but possibly not enough or mabye a BIOS/keyboard issue.

This Corsair K95 RGB Platinum not working in the BIOS or before Windows was rebooted annoyed me so looked into it today.

You can enable BIOS mode on the keyboard by holding down F1 and the "win lock" key for 3 seconds until the scroll lock key blinks. Everyone seemed to think you should know what a win lock key is so spend forever looking for that. It's the padlock key on the keyboard.

Once you do that the keyboard works!

Unfortunately when this computer is overclocked it's almost impossible to boot into the BIOS since the keyboard isn't recognized.

To boot into the BIOS:
Power off the computer
Power on the computer
When the POST gets to the memory check press the pause key and then delete. Reboot again if you don't make it.

Well that was fun.

Added living room equipment

Projector: Optoma UHD60 4K
Console:Nvidia Shield TV Pro
Console: Original XBOX Modded
Keyboard: Logitech K800
Mouse: Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless
Controller: XBox 360 Controller
Audio: Sonos Beam, Sonos Sub

14 Jan 2001

FMidTower Case w/ 300W PSU (Ordering New Case/PSU very soon)
2XP3-700E@933 133Mhz bus X 7 1/4
Abit VP6
4X128m=512M PC-150 Mushkin Rev3 @HCLK+PCICLK
Hercules 3D Prophet 2 GTS 64M 220C/360M Bios v3.15.00.12
PCI2/SoundBlaster Live! X-Gamer (Going to be 5.1)
PCI3/Hauppauge WinTV Theatre (Took out too little power)
PCI4/Creative Dxr3 Decoder (Going to be a H+)
PCI5/NetGear FA310TX (Took out too little power)
PMIDE1/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-105F
SMIDE2/Ricoh MP7040A@7060A CDRW (Soon to be Plextor 12/10/32A)
Floppy 3.5"
PMIDE3/Maxtor 27.2G DMA/66 92732U8 (Going to be IBM 3X45G Soon. Thinking about SCSI)
Windows 2000 Professional
Nvidia 7.17 Drivers
Directx 8
Via 4.27 AGP & INF (NO BUSMASTER!!!)

SISOFT SANDRA 2001

Single/Multi

CPU BENCHMARK

Drhystone=2533/4966
Whetstone=1260/2493

CPU MULTI-MEDIA BENCHMARK

Integer =5096/10185
Floating-Point=6244/12463

MEMORY BENCHMARK

Before WPCredit

Int ALU =357/390
Float FPU=434/405

After WPCredit

Int ALU =395/422
Float FPU=457/435

3DMARK 2000 v1.1

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

Before WPCredit

3DMARKS=5425/4780/3233

HELICOPTER
Low =107.9/90.1/57.2
Med = 78.8/63.6/36.7
High= 41.4/34.7/22.0

Adventure
Low =110.0/108.6/84.8
Med = 70.2/ 62.8/44.2
High= 43.7/ 38.4/24.6

After WPCredit

3DMARKS=5460/4738/3249

HELICOPTER
Low =108.6/87.6/55.8
Med = 79.1/62.4/37.3
High= 41.6/34.6/22.5

Adventure
Low =110.3/108.3/85.5
Med = 71.1/ 63.2/44.9
High= 44.3/ 38.7/24.8

QUAKE 3 v1.17
Demo001

q3config.cfg deleted. ONLY changed resolution on start of Quake 3.

Before WPCredit

R_SMP0/1

320X240 =124.3/147.7
400X300 =123.2/146.9
512X384 =123.8/146.0
640X480 =121.9/135.6
800X600 =118.0/119.5
1024X768= 99.3/ 87.8

After WPCredit

320X240 =125.9/149.6
400X300 =126.5/149.6
512X384 =126.2/148.1
640X480 =124.5/142.7
800X600 =120.1/123.5
1024X768= 99.9/ 87.9

Cpuidle does NOT work with Quake 3 in SMP. Interesting.....

Giants

Press T button. Type in FR. Hold FPS over Shelter on Beach.

D3D

640X480 =10/10
800X600 =10/10
1024X768=8/8

T&L HAL

640X480 =14/14
800X600 =13/13
1024X768=12/12

Also I have all AGP options enabled in the bios except for:

AGP Master 1WS Read
AGP Master 1WS Write

I've run TONS of benchmarks on this thing. COMPLETELY Stable.

Also I don't have any weird IDE/ATAPI errors in Event Viewer which I was afraid I was going to get with an HPT controller.

And if you use WPCREDIT you can surpass BX chipset mobos in your memory benchmarks. Just check out my scores!

21 January 2001

These cards can not be really compared because they are so many generations apart. This thread is to show the benefits of upgrading from a G400 to a Geforce 2 for gaming.

Coolercase "Extreme-XS" w/ 431W PSU
2XP3-700E@933 v1.75 133Mhz bus X 7 1/4
2X Alpha FC-PAL6035MUC Heatsinks
Abit VP6
4X128m=512M Mushkin Rev3 @HCLK+PCICLK
Hercules 3D Prophet 2 GTS 64M 220C/360M Bios v3.15.00.12
PCI2/SoundBlaster Live! DE 5.1
PCI3/Creative Dxr3 Decoder (Going to be a H+)
PCI4/Hauppauge WinTV Theatre
PCI5/NetGear FA310TX
Floppy 3.5"
PMIDE1/Maxtor 27.2G DMA/66 92732U8 (Thinking about 1 more 45GB HD!)
SMIDE2/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-105F
SSIDE2/Ricoh MP7040A@7060A 6X4X24 CDRW (Soon to be Plextor 12/10/32A)
PMIDE3/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100
PMIDE4/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100
Windows 2000 Professional Slipstreamed SP1
Nvidia 6.62 Drivers
Directx 8
Via 4.27 AGP & INF (NO BUSMASTER!!!)

Geforce 2 GTS 64M/Matrox G400

3DMARK 2000 v1.1

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz Triple Frame Buffer (32bz for G400)

P3

3DMARKS=4871/2272

Helicopter
Low =92.8/42.7
Med =64.9/30.4
High=35.3/13.4

Adventure
Low =`109.7/38.4
Med = 64.2/35.2
High= 39.1/29.3

SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=3670/2228

HELICOPTER
Low =66.9/42.9
Med =45.9/30.5
High=24.5/13.2

Adventure
Low =90.8/38.4
Med =49.2/35.0
High=28.4/25.7

Q3 v1.27h
Demo127

q3config.cfg deleted. ONLY changed resolution on start of Quake 3.

NO SMP

320X240 =110.1/85.7
400X300 =109.6/81.3
512X384 =109.2/83.1
640X480 =109.5/73.9
800X600 =105.5/53.0
1024X768= 92.8/34.1

SMP

320X240 =131.9/100.9
400X300 =130.5/ 90.8
512X384 =129.9/ 75.7
640X480 =126.9/ 59.8
800X600 =115.5/ 44.7
1024X768= 87.0/ 30.5

Everything in resolution menu MAXED out.

NO SMP

320X240 =110.0/85.7
400X300 =109.8/80.6
512X384 =109.4/77.3
640X480 =103.9/57.8
800X600 =103.1/39.8
1024X768= 82.4/25.6

SMP

320X240 =132.2/91.6
400X300 =130.7/78.7
512X384 =129.2/62.5
640X480 =123.7/48.0
800X600 =104.3/35.2
1024X768= 73.9/23.7

Geforce 2 GTS 64M in 2X FSAA/G400

2X FSAA

q3config.cfg deleted. ONLY changed resolution on start of Quake 3.

NO SMP

320X240 =109.8/85.7
400X300 =105.9/81.3
512X384 = 87.5/83.1
640X480 = 62.7/73.9
800X600 = 41.8/53.0
1024X768= 26.1/34.1

SMP

320X240 =129.0/100.9
400X300 =110.0/90.8
512X384 = 78.0/75.7
640X480 = 56.8/59.8
800X600 = 39.0/44.7
1024X768= 25.1/30.5

Everything in resolution menu MAXED out.

NO SMP

320X240 =110.5/85.7
400X300 =102.2/80.6
512X384 = 76.1/77.3
640X480 = 53.6/57.8
800X600 = 36.2/39.8
1024X768= 23.1/25.6

SMP

320X240 =123.2/91.6
400X300 = 94.8/78.7
512X384 = 67.5/62.5
640X480 = 49.1/48.0
800X600 = 34.2/35.2
1024X768= 22.3/23.7

1. Had to turn off 32b textures for G400. Rainbow textures. Weird slowdowns.

Unreal Tournament
Morpehus Practice Map. 16 bots.
57fps,29fpsFSAA/24fps

1. Could not use latest opengl from Epic or opengl from LOKI without problems. Went back to 4.36 opengl. Experien

Dec 1 2001

MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor:

------------------------------------------------------

* Dual Pentium III 1ghz (overclocked to 1166mhz solid & stable)

* Abit VP6-R SMP/Dual CPU motherboard with YT Modified bios HPT370 2.0.1024 BIOS

* HighPoint 370 onboard striping/mirroring ATA-100 capable

* 768mb CORSAIR SDRAM PC-150 CAS2 speed set Cas/3 & Turbo mode

* Asus v8200 T5 Deluxe (Geforce 3 Ti500) 240C/500M v3.20.00.18 Bios

* 21" Sony E500 75hz refresh rate @32-bit "True-Color" 1280x1024

Disks:

------------------------------------------------------

SCSI CONTROLLER Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 (ID7)

* 1 IBM Ultrastar 36LZX 18.3GB Ultra160 (C:,D:,E:,F:,G smile 1gb FAT16 partition for OS boot files, 2 4gb NTFS partitions for NT4 Workstation, 2 4GB FAT32 partitions for Windows 9x.

* 1 IBM Ultrastar 36LZX 18.3GB Ultra160 (H:,I:,J:.K 😀, 4 NTFS Partitions, Windows 2000 Professional/Windows XP Professional

* 1 Ol' Floppy 3.5"

* Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-106S DMA/66 1.22 Bios

* Plextor 24X10X40A ATAPI CDR DMA/33 1.01 Bios

* IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (GAMES) HPT370

* IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (IMAGES) HPT370

* IBM 42GB DMA/66 (BACKUP) Onboard mobo controller

Sound & Multimedia:

------------------------------------------------------

* Soundblaster Audigy Ex

* Creative Soundworks DTT3500 Digital

* Hauppauge WinTV Theatre (Currently out of system)

* Realmagic Hollywood Plus Decoder Card

Input Devices:

------------------------------------------------------

* Generic 104k Keyboard

* Microsoft Intellimouse Optical SE

* Microsoft Precision Pro Joystick

* Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad Original

Telecommunications & Networking:

------------------------------------------------------

* NetGear FA310TX

* 1394 Firewire on Audigy EX

* 4 USB ports

Cooling & Case + OS makeup:

------------------------------------------------------

* Coolercase "Extreme-XS" MidTower w/ 431W PSU (2 Fans on top of case, 2 fans on side of case, 2X Alpha FC-PAL6035MUC Heatsinks on processors, Outake fan on inside of case.

Windows 9x/Windows NT4 Workstation.Windows²ººº Pro Service Pack #2/XP QUAD

Nvidia 23.10 Reference Drivers

DirectX 8.1 Build 881 /Windows 2000

Directx 8.1 Build 810 /Windows XP

Via 4.35 AGP Drivers

Quake 3 1.30

demo four

Everything to the MAX

320X240 scores are set to the minimum.

R_SMP0/1

16b

320x240 =144.0/156.0

400x300 =128.1/148.8

512x384 =127.7/149.1

640x480 =127.1/148.4

800x600 =126.5/147.7

856x480 =130.7/151.0

960x720 =126.8/145.3

1024x768 =125.5/143.5

1152x864 =124.6/138.2

1280x1024=121.1/127.6

1600x1200=107.7/103.1

2048x1536= 74.1/ 67.3

32b

320x240 =144.0/156.0

400x300 =129.1/149.5

512x384 =129.1/149.5

640x480 =128.7/148.9

800x600 =127.9/147.4

856x480 =132.1/151.6

960x720 =128.0/143.8

1024x768 =126.1/140.1

1152x864 =124.1/131.6

1280x1024=116.5/116.9

1600x1200= 97.5/ 89.4

2048x1536= 70.1/ 64.3

May 8 2001

Sony 21" E500
Coolercase "Extreme-XS" w/ 431W PSU
2XP3-1000@1125Mhz v1.70 150Mhz bus X 7 1/4
2X Alpha FC-PAL6035MUC Heatsinks
Abit VP6
4X128m=512M Mushkin Rev3 @150mhz
Hercules 3D Prophet 2 GTS 64M 200C/333M Bios v3.15.00.13.01
PCI2/SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 with LiveDrive
PCI3/Creative DXR3 Decoder Card
PCI4/Hauppauge WinTV Theatre
PCI5/NetGear FA310TX
Floppy 3.5"
PMIDE1/Plextor 16X10X40A CDR
PSIDE1/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (BACKUP)
SMIDE2/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-105F
SSIDE2/NONE
PMIDE3/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (RAID0=OS/APPS/GAMES)
PMIDE4/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (RAID0=OS/APPS/GAMES)
Windows 2000 Professional slipstreamed SP1/Whistler ProfessionalBeta 2 Build 2462
Nvidia 12.10 Drivers
Beta 2 D3D drivers
Directx 8.1 Build 579
Via 4.30 Drivers (No Busmaster)

Feb 28 2001 to 3-2-2001?
POS Proview 15" Monitor
Coolercase "Extreme-XS" w/ 431W PSU
2XP3-700E@966 v1.85 138Mhz bus X 7 1/4
2X Alpha FC-PAL6035MUC Heatsinks
Abit VP6
4X128m=512M Mushkin Rev3 @133
Hercules 3D Prophet 2 GTS 64M 220C/360M Bios v3.15.00.12
PCI2/SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 with LiveDrive
PCI3/Hollywood Plus Decoder Card
PCI4/Hauppauge WinTV Theatre
PCI5/NetGear FA310TX
Floppy 3.5"
PMIDE1/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (OPS,Apps,Games)
SMIDE2/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-105F
SSIDE2/Plextor 12X10X32A CDR v1.08
PMIDE3/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (RAID,Video)
PMIDE4/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (RAID,Video)
Rounded 66 IDE Cables
Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 Digital Speakers
Windows 2000 Professional slipstreamed SP1
Service Pack 2, RC 2.52
Nvidia 7.52 Drivers w/6.50 cpl
Directx 8.0a
Via 4.29Beta Drivers (No Busmaster)

SISOFT SANDRA 2001

Single/Multi

CPU BENCHMARK

Drhystone=2603/5204
Whetstone=1305/2584

CPU MULTI-MEDIA BENCHMARK

Integer =5286/10557
Floating-Point=6476/12913

MEMORY BENCHMARK

Int ALU =411/450
Float FPU=476/458

DRAKAN

NO FSAA/2X /4X
72.1314/24.2979/24.2949

Quake 3

NO FSAA/2X
84.1 /23.2

GIANTS

D3D T&L

NO FSAA/2X/4X
13 /7 /7

D3D

NO FSAA/2X/4X
10 /6 /6

MDK 2

T&L

NO FSAA /2X
109.698375/28.541489

NO T&L

NO FSAA /2X
106.034593/28.626752

Sacrifice

T&L

NO FSAA/2X/4X
33 /15/15

NO T&L

NO FSAA/2X/4X
39 /19/19

Descent 3

OGL

NO FSAA /2X
AVG=146.03/111.48
MIN=90 / 53
MAX=302 /147

D3D

NO FSAA /2X /4X
AVG=92.61/50.65/23.81
MIN=56 /35 /19
MAX=217 /76 /33

Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens

NO FSAA
63.2
40.4 Min
119.1 Max

2X
15.6 DagothMoor v1.00
6.6 Min
46.6 Max

4X
15.6
6.9 Min
46.3 Max

Unreal Tournament

OGL
NO FSAA
84

2X FSAA
41

D3D

NO FSAA

2X
NA

4X
30

3DMARK 2000 v1.1

1024X768 16bc 16bt 16bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=7007/5388/3354

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=5576/5066/3099

2X FSAA

1024X768 16bc 16bt 16bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=2664/2726/2163

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=1591/1603/1416

4X FSAA

1024X768 16bc 16bt 16bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=2664/2726/2163

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=1591/1603/1416

***********

QUAKE 3 v1.27h
Q3BENCH
Demo127
Demo X 3

Normal/MAX

320x240 =111.97/
400x300 =111.47/
856x480 =112.67/
512x384 =110.90/
640x480 =110.30/
800x600 =109.53/
960x720 =108.17/
1024x768=107.10/
1152x864=104.07/

SMP

Normal/MAX

320X240 =136.93/132.07
400X300 =136.90/131.90
512X384 =136 /130.60
640X480 =135.67/124.27
800X600 =133.30/105.13
1024X768=121.83/74.10

2X HIGH FSAA

NORMAL/MAX

320x240 =117.47/111.17
400x300 =115.97/103.10
512x384 =112.87/ 76.30
640x480 =101.13/ 53.63
800x600 = 73.60/ 36.20
1024x768= 47.40/ 23.10

SMP

320X240 =138.47/122.90
400x300 =136.03/98.03
512x384 =120.63/67.60
640x480 = 94.13/49.10
800x600 = 65.50/34.10
1024x768= 43.80/22.20

Cinebench 2000 v1.0

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 8.61 CB
Shading (OpenGL) : 14.32 CB
Raytracing (Single CPU): 11.21 CB
Raytracing (Multiple CPU): 19.08 CB

OpenGL Shading is 1.66 times faster than CINEMA 4D Shading!
2 CPUs are 1.70 times faster than 1 CPU !

CliBench SMP 0.7.10

Disk Throughput
Drive C
Read max 18220 kB/sec
Read average 16886 kB/sec
Read min 14883 kB/sec
Write max 29767 kB/sec
Write average 22918 kB/sec
Write min 17239 kB/sec
CPU usage 1 percent

Drive G
Read max 55053 kB/sec
Read average 43686 kB/sec
Read min 29767 kB/sec
Write max 65641 kB/sec
Write average 56512 kB/sec
Write min 54468 kB/sec
CPU usage 1 percent

HDTACH v2.61

2X45G Raid 0 DMA/100

RAS=12.2ms
RBS=75.3
Read Speed
Max=58577.0kps
Min=24697.0kps
Avg=39174.5kps

CPU Utilization=2.5%

Geforce 2 GTS 64M/Matrox G400

3DMARK 2000 v1.1

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz Triple Frame Buffer (32bz for G400)

P3

3DMARKS=4871/2272

Helicopter
Low =92.8/42.7
Med =64.9/30.4
High=35.3/13.4

Adventure
Low =`109.7/38.4
Med = 64.2/35.2
High= 39.1/29.3

SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=3670/2228

HELICOPTER
Low =66.9/42.9
Med =45.9/30.5
High=24.5/13.2

Adventure
Low =90.8/38.4
Med =49.2/35.0
High=28.4/25.7

Q3 v1.27h
Demo127

q3config.cfg deleted. ONLY changed resolution on start of Quake 3.

NO SMP

320X240 =110.1/85.7
400X300 =109.6/81.3
512X384 =109.2/83.1
640X480 =109.5/73.9
800X600 =105.5/53.0
1024X768= 92.8/34.1

SMP

320X240 =131.9/100.9
400X300 =130.5/ 90.8
512X384 =129.9/ 75.7
640X480 =126.9/ 59.8
800X600 =115.5/ 44.7
1024X768= 87.0/ 30.5

Everything in resolution menu MAXED out.

NO SMP

320X240 =110.0/85.7
400X300 =109.8/80.6
512X384 =109.4/77.3
640X480 =103.9/57.8
800X600 =103.1/39.8
1024X768= 82.4/25.6

SMP

320X240 =132.2/91.6
400X300 =130.7/78.7
512X384 =129.2/62.5
640X480 =123.7/48.0
800X600 =104.3/35.2
1024X768= 73.9/23.7

Geforce 2 GTS 64M in 2X FSAA/G400

2X FSAA

q3config.cfg deleted. ONLY changed resolution on start of Quake 3.

NO SMP

320X240 =109.8/85.7
400X300 =105.9/81.3
512X384 = 87.5/83.1
640X480 = 62.7/73.9
800X600 = 41.8/53.0
1024X768= 26.1/34.1

SMP

320X240 =129.0/100.9
400X300 =110.0/90.8
512X384 = 78.0/75.7
640X480 = 56.8/59.8
800X600 = 39.0/44.7
1024X768= 25.1/30.5

Everything in resolution menu MAXED out.

NO SMP

320X240 =110.5/85.7
400X300 =102.2/80.6
512X384 = 76.1/77.3
640X480 = 53.6/57.8
800X600 = 36.2/39.8
1024X768= 23.1/25.6

SMP

320X240 =123.2/91.6
400X300 = 94.8/78.7
512X384 = 67.5/62.5
640X480 = 49.1/48.0
800X600 = 34.2/35.2
1024X768= 22.3/23.7

1. Had to turn off 32b textures for G400. Rainbow textures. Weird slowdowns.

Unreal Tournament
Morpehus Practice Map. 16 bots.
57fps,29fpsFSAA/24fps

1. Could not use latest opengl from Epic or opengl from LOKI without problems. Went back to 4.36 opengl. Experienced same rainbow textures as in Quake 3. Gave up and went to D3D.
Couldn't use Directx 8 D3D.dll from Epic. Went to alternate D3D for 4.36. Ran fine but stuttered and precached.

JUL 20 2001

Monitor =Sony E500 21"
Speakers =Creative Soundworks DTT3500 Digital
Mouse =Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2
Joystick =Microsoft Precision Pro
Gamepad =Microsoft Sidewinder Original
Keyboard =Generic 104k Keyboard
Case =Coolercase "Extreme-XS" MidTower w/ 431W PSU
Motherboard=Abit VP6
Processor =Dual P3-1000@1125Mhz v1.75 150Mhz bus X 7.5 1/4
Cooling =2X Alpha FC-PAL6035MUC Heatsinks
Memory =4X128m=512M Mushkin Rev3 @150mhz
Video =Hercules 3D Prophet 3 200C/460M Bios v3.20.00.10
Floppy =3.5"
MOBO CONTROLLER
PMIDE1/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-105F
PSIDE1/EMPTY
SMIDE2/Plextor 16X10X40A CDR
SSIDE2/EMPTY
HPT370 RAID CONTROLLER
PMIDE3/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (RAID0=GAMES/VIDEO)
PSIDE3/EMPTY
PMIDE4/IBM 75GXP 45GB DMA/100 (RAID0=GAMES/VIDEO)
PSIDE4/EMPTY
PCI1/Hauppauge WinTV Theatre
PCI2/Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI (ID7)
ID6 IBM Ultrastar 36LZX 18.3GB Ultra160 (2KAS,2KAPPS,WHAS,WHAPPS)
ID5 IBM Ultrastar 36LZX 18.3GB Ultra160 (BACKUP)
PCI3/SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 with LiveDrive
PCI4/Realmagic Hollywood +
PCI5/NetGear FA310TX
Windows 2000 Advanced Server slipstreamed SP2/Whistler Advanced Server Beta 2 Build 2462
Nvidia 14.20 Drivers
Directx 8.1 Built 648
Via 4.32 AGP Drivers