I found this card in very bad condition,
but i want to try to revive it,
please if someone who has similar card drop here the BIOS image and the chip type if possible!
You're going to solder the missing RAM back onto this card too? That's a lot of work. This card is not known for being terribly fast, are you sure it's worth your time?
The pads on right side for the 256x8 chips still look okay, but it looks like somebody used a dremel to cut the SOJ chips off. They might have sliced some critical traces while doing so.
You're going to solder the missing RAM back onto this card too? That's a lot of work. This card is not known for being terribly fast, are you sure it's worth your time?
Old post, I know. I recently acquired and repaired one of these cards and it's actually remarkably fast. It falls just shy of the S3 Trio64 VLB.
You're going to solder the missing RAM back onto this card too? That's a lot of work. This card is not known for being terribly fast, are you sure it's worth your time?
Old post, I know. I recently acquired and repaired one of these cards and it's actually remarkably fast. It falls just shy of the S3 Trio64 VLB.
What do you mean exactly with remarkably fast?
Can you give some benchmarks? Assuming you speak of DOS performance, so then phil's benchmark suite would be great:
Doom (fast PC), Quake, PCP 640x480, Chris benchmark 640x480?
Or at least throughput value of speedsys?
CoffeeOnewrote on 2023-04-11, 17:47:What do you mean exactly with remarkably fast?
Can you give some benchmarks? Assuming you speak of DOS performance, so then phil […] Show full quote
You're going to solder the missing RAM back onto this card too? That's a lot of work. This card is not known for being terribly fast, are you sure it's worth your time?
Old post, I know. I recently acquired and repaired one of these cards and it's actually remarkably fast. It falls just shy of the S3 Trio64 VLB.
What do you mean exactly with remarkably fast?
Can you give some benchmarks? Assuming you speak of DOS performance, so then phil's benchmark suite would be great:
Doom (fast PC), Quake, PCP 640x480, Chris benchmark 640x480?
Or at least throughput value of speedsys?
Test system is a PC Chips M912 v1.7 with 512kb L2 cache and Award BIOS. CPU is Intel DX2-66 with 8MB 60ns FPM RAM. All timings are optimized and zero wait states enabled where possible. All test are default resolution because 640x480 is irrelevant on a 486 where these cards would be used.
techweeniewrote on 2023-04-11, 20:05:Test system is a PC Chips M912 v1.7 with 512kb L2 cache and Award BIOS. CPU is Intel DX2-66 with 8MB 60ns FPM RAM. All timings […] Show full quote
CoffeeOnewrote on 2023-04-11, 17:47:What do you mean exactly with remarkably fast?
Can you give some benchmarks? Assuming you speak of DOS performance, so then phil […] Show full quote
Old post, I know. I recently acquired and repaired one of these cards and it's actually remarkably fast. It falls just shy of the S3 Trio64 VLB.
What do you mean exactly with remarkably fast?
Can you give some benchmarks? Assuming you speak of DOS performance, so then phil's benchmark suite would be great:
Doom (fast PC), Quake, PCP 640x480, Chris benchmark 640x480?
Or at least throughput value of speedsys?
Test system is a PC Chips M912 v1.7 with 512kb L2 cache and Award BIOS. CPU is Intel DX2-66 with 8MB 60ns FPM RAM. All timings are optimized and zero wait states enabled where possible. All test are default resolution because 640x480 is irrelevant on a 486 where these cards would be used.
Hello,
Thank you!
The values look strange to me, because ......
I personally use a 486 (Am5x86) at 160MHz, and that seems to magnify the differences between lower performing cards and top cards.
The only benchmark that is really different seems to be Landmark, which I don't use.
Can you add speedsys 4.78 video throughput? It is not very accurate, so maybe do it 3 times for every card and take the average?
This thing is created at the start of speedsys, so it does not take much time!
EDIT: In case you don't know what I mean, here is a screenshot.
You don't need to wait for the memory test to be finished, please post only the graphics throughput.
It is here 27079 KB/s.