First post, by ratfink
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Continuing a debate starting in the 3d benchmark thread.
I have an Asus ISA386C motherboard with 2mb ram and a 386dx33.
The 3dbench results are well below what others report for this processor, including for the same board. I get 7.2 up to 7.4 compared to what looks like an expected result of somewhere around 12-15.
I am using a Tseng ET4000AX ISA graphics card.
The bios reports 64kb cache memory, and external cache is enabled. There are no jumpers relating to cache - the board has only 4 jumpers and these serve other purposes. The manual confirms this.
cachechk however reports there appears to be no cache.
There are a couple of socketed chips near the cache, which do not appear on the diagrams in the manual. There are the same sort of size as the cache chips and have some stickers on them including the word "64kb" as I recall. They don't seem to want to seat properly - I've had the system apart lately to rebuild it into a different case, and pushing these chips down results in some movement and a crunch or click. Done that twice now, made no difference. Weird they don't appear to be cache chips [as in: the manual says specifically something like "the cache is 16 chips at location X on the board"].
Any ideas?